SAP Advisory Services

An effective, well-managed SAP solution is one of the most valuable business advantages an organization can have. Through effective leadership and management your SAP solution can lead to significant gains in growth and efficiency.

I provide advice and guidance to my clients so that they can make smart business decisions associated with their SAP implementations. I engage with my clients by understanding their business goals and objectives, gain an understanding on how they operate, and help establish the operating environment their staff requires to achieve these goals and objectives. I work with my clients to map out their SAP implementation strategy. I provide sound business advice to ensure that SAP implementation risks are properly managed. I provide quality reviews to ensure that your SAP implementation is adhering to proper implementation standards and that the benefits originally sought from your SAP implementation are realized.

We achieve this through my SAP Advisory Services:

General Counsel

One of the biggest challenges facing SAP implementations are the number of consulting and integration partners that exist on an implementation. The pros of this approach is that the client can get “the best of the best” talent by reaching out to many different vendors. The major downside of this approach is that these organizations may have different agendas and cultures which may increase the likelihood of disagreement and lack of trust amongst the vendors.

With my general counsel services I engage on your program to provide independent recommendations, based on your goals and objectives, when these disagreements come about.

Additionally, provide end-to-end oversight to your project while overseeing all aspects of program management and execution to minimize failure and delivery risks. This role complements your existing SAP Project Leadership and work with your multiple partners in ensuring the success of your project.

Quality Review

I recognize that quality is critical to the success of every engagement. I also realize that the quality review approach I use must consider the need for speed-to-value without subjecting your organization to any unnecessary risks or excessive costs.

I provide an independent and objective review intended to help make sure that all risk factors that might jeopardize quality are identified, quantified, mitigated and controlled.

My key quality review responsibilities include:

• Conducting scheduled (planned in accordance with specific phases, gates and milestones within the project} and ad hoc reviews of standards, policies, procedures and deliverables in accordance to an objective set of criteria.
• Review of project execution plans, phases that were completed and analysis of PMO reports. Artifacts produced during each phase may be reviewed for individual project work streams.
• Socializing input from your team and your integration partners in the ongoing leadership management and operation of the engagement.
• Producing independent and candid reports on the health of the engagement that include a set of clearly stated findings and recommended actions.
• Reviewing and discussing key findings and recommendations from the quality reviews with the Program/Project management team and the client senior management

The key benefit of my quality reviews is to drive quality to the source thereby enabling speed and reducing cost of your overall implementation. Through these reviews your Program/Project Management team will learn the key components to monitor throughout the implementation to avoid costly re-work and improve efficiencies.

Risk Assessment & Recommendation

Risk is inherent in the undertaking of an SAP implementation. There are a variety of risks associated with implementing new business processes and technologies-risks that can impair your ability to meet your overall project goals and objectives.

I specialize in risk management methodology, mitigation and control. These skills enable me to develop controls to support your efforts to achieve your objectives throughout the lifecycle of your engagement.

I can identify and manage up-front the potential risks associated with your SAP engagement. I will work with your team to assure that all risks are identified, monitored, and mitigated throughout the life of the project. I will then work to categorize risk and then monitor them through the life of the project as appropriate. Common risk areas we manage are:

• Financial risk – funding availability, chance of project overrun, chance of benefits not being achieved
• Organizational risk – executive alignment, appropriate skills, organizational capacity to change
• External risk – change required and ability/willingness of suppliers/customers to change,
• Business risk – fundamental changes to business direction, ability to accommodate business development actions
• Technology risk – ability of technology to fulfill stated functionality, degree of change to technologies planned/deployed

The benefits of risk management in projects are huge. Your organization can capitalize on significant cost savings and revenue opportunities if your project teams deal with uncertain project events in a proactive manner. The result will be that you minimize the impact of project threats and seize the opportunities that occur. This allows you to deliver your project on time, on budget and with the quality results your project demands. Also your team members will be much happier if they do not enter a “fire-fighting” mode needed to repair the failures that could have been prevented