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Green field implementation – crossover from legacy to SAP Suite

Re-implementation – Re-implementing existing SAP design due to company acquisitions and splits.

Challenges:

  • One of the key challenges in Implementation project / business transformation is meeting the business requirements with minimal change management issues without sacrificing existing IT functionalities.

Highlights on execution model:

  1. MindShare will deploy business process consultants to bring domain and industry specific flavor on transformation project.

  2. Integrated project plan with inter and intra module task dependencies using Microsoft project tool.

  3. Deploy modified ASAP methodology focusing more conference room pilots with users and robust testing.

  4. Solution walkthrough at the end of blue print phase gives an opportunity to the stakeholders to understand To-be process and change management associated with each process. This helps the stakeholders to plan change management well ahead of time.

  5. Strong program governance coupled with stringent quality process to track and minimize the errors in documentation and project deliverables throughout project life cycle

  6. MindShare’s traceability metrics during realization phase ensures all business requirements are addressed.

  7. MindShare’s business process matrix tool provides excellent coverage on all possible business scenarios and process variations.

  8. MindShare’s world class project deliverables and artifacts ensures better communication and transparency throughout project lifecycle

 

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Rollout:  SAP rollout projects are aimed to rollout / migrate existing SAP design to newer locations / business entities.

Based on its nature SAP rollout projects are termed as geographical rollouts / business rollouts.

Challenge:

  • Key challenge associated with any rollout project is striking balance between the business process needs of rollout entity and global template design. The objective of the team is to carry out minimal deviations and design changes.

Highlights on execution model:

  1. MindShare will deploy resources who understands the localization aspect like taxes, language and business practices in specific region

  2. Deploy modified ASAP methodology focusing more design deviations from global template standpoint, joint IT and business forums and regression testing

  3. Solution walkthrough at the end of blue print phase gives an opportunity to the stakeholders of both IT and business to understand gap analysis and global template design deviations including change management

  4. MindShare’s business process matrix tool provides excellent coverage on all possible business scenarios and process variations.

  5. Strong program governance coupled with stringent quality process to track and minimize the errors in documentation and project deliverables throughout project life cycle

  6. MindShare’s traceability metrics during realization phase ensures all business requirements are addressed.

  7. MindShare’s world class project deliverables and artifacts ensures better communication and transparency throughout project lifecycle

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New dimensional projects: SAP has come up with newer web enabled mySAP products those sit on top of SAP and provide excellent enhanced functionalities.

Examples:

mySAP CRM is customer relationship management and provides wide range of marketing and sales business functionalities like promotion management, sales rep management, campaign management etc

mySAP APO is Advanced planning and optimization, this tool provides excellent planning and optimization of resources across Industry sector.

Challenge:

  • Key challenge with mySAP product implementation is seamless integration between mySAP product and SAP R/3 without deviating

Highlights on execution model:

  1. MindShare will deploy resources having expertise on both mySAP product and dependant module in SAP R/3

  2. Deploy modified ASAP methodology focusing more on process enhancement through mySAP product, joint IT and business forums and regression testing

  3. Solution walkthrough at the end of blue print phase gives an opportunity to the stakeholders of both IT and business to understand gap analysis and process improvements through mySAP initiative

  4. Strong program governance coupled with stringent quality process to track and minimize the errors in documentation and project deliverables throughout project life cycle

  5. MindShare’s traceability metrics during realization phase ensures all business requirements are addressed.

  6. MindShare’s business process matrix tool provides excellent coverage on all possible business scenarios and process variations.

  7. MindShare’s world class project deliverables and artifacts ensures better communication and transparency throughout project lifecycle

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Point projects: Point projects are small project with smaller duration and very niche application / scope.

Implementation of module that is not implanted / implementation of local taxation on global implementation are examples of point projects.

Same as that of Integration projects.

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Upgrade Projects: SAP aims at continuous improvement coupled with leading edge technology comes up with newer versions on SAP incorporating never best practices and features.

Challenge:

  • Key challenge with SAP upgrade project is to identify custom developments and system modifications and migrate them as-is from current production environment to target upgraded production environment.

Highlights on execution model: 

  1. MindShare will deploy experienced basis resources having expertise on upgrade project

  2. Deploy modified ASAP quick upgrade methodology to suit clients needs on technical / functional upgrade

  3. MindShare’s upgrade tool will identify all customized / enhanced objects, this will significantly reduce upgrade project lead time

  4. Strong program governance coupled with stringent quality process to track and minimize the errors in documentation and project deliverables throughout project life cycle

  5. MindShare’s business process matrix tool provides excellent coverage on all possible business scenarios and process variations.

  6. MindShare’s world class project deliverables and artifacts ensures better communication and transparency throughout project lifecycle

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Reporting suite: Reports in SAP can be classified as operational / analytical / strategy

Operational reports are normally developed using ABAP directly in SAP

Analytical / Strategy reports require lot of data processing and what it analysis. These are normally developed using SAP BI and Business Objects combination.

Challenge:

  • Key challenge on reporting is to classify reporting requirement and provide IT solution inline with business need

Highlights on execution model:

  1. MindShare will deploy experienced and domain specific resources with necessary reporting tool skill set.

  2. Deploy robust RICEF development methodology to meet reporting requirements

  3. Strong program governance coupled with stringent quality process to track and minimize the errors in documentation and project deliverables throughout project life cycle

  4. MindShare’s artifacts and deliverables ensures all tiny details on report requirements are documented and deployed

  5. UAT with real time data coupled by reports output increase success ratio on reports

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AMS: Application Maintenance Support is post implementation support for clients who are live on SAP.

Based on the maturity level of SAP implementations AMS can be further classified as client specific dedicated team / FLEX model – shared services across the client.

Challenge:

  • Key challenge on post go-live support is resolution of tickets / issues ahead of SLA norms thus ensuring zero system downtime

Highlights on execution model: 

  1. MindShare ticket tracking tool and metrics based ticket tracking analysis followed by continuous process improvement will ensure tickets are always under control.

  2. Based on the SAP maturity level MindShare can offer dedicated team support / shared services (flexible team approach)

  3. MindShare COE and mindmeets will ensure continuous process improvement

  4. Tickets will be aligned and prioritized based on business priority

  5. Our resolution of tickets also focuses on training end users based on train the trainer approach

  6. Resolution of tickets is though through from all the perspective followed by regression test as appropriate

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Outsourcing: MindShare can work with System Integrators and Clients IT team on both strategic resourcing and strategic outsourcing model leveraging its proven onsite / offshore model.

Challenge:

  • Delivering work packages from offshore is uphill task and the key achieve success towards it is to have good project communication and artifacts.

Highlights on execution model: 

  1. MindShare’s leadership team has many years of experience in implementing various SAP projects leveraging onsite / offsite model. This rich experience will help the clients big way

  2. MindShare has stringent quality process to track and minimize the errors in documentation and project deliverables throughout project life cycle

  3. MindShare’s project methodology is best suited for all types of project using onsite / offshore model thus giving direct cost benefits

  4. Strong project governance approach based out of offshore to ensure smooth execution of project

  5. Integrated program plan covering both onsite / offsite tasks with dependencies

  6. Offsite centric testing suite to ensure quality testing provides great cost savings

 
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