ASAP well known as Accelerated SAP. This
rapidly used in sap implement project
The roadmap is composed of five
well-known consecutive phases:-
1.
Phase
1 - Project Preparation
2.
Phase
2 - Business Blueprint
3.
Phase
3 – Realization
4.
Phase
4 - Final Preparation
Phase 1 -
Project Preparation
Basically one kick off meeting has been
schedule with senior management & stakeholder.
Based on the MOM
·
Identifying
clear project objectives.
·
Architecting
an efficient decision-making process.
·
Creating
an environment suitable for change and re-engineering.
·
Building
a qualified and capable project team.
Project implementation team basically consistent
of Below Member
·
Project
Manager (Leader)
·
Executive
Steering Committee
·
SAP
·
Professionals
·
Support
·
SAP
Alliance
·
Partners
·
Functional
Team Leaders
·
Functional
Analysts
·
Technical
Team Leaders
·
Technical
Analysts
·
System
Administrators
Phase 2 - Business Blueprint:
To extract pertinent information about
your company that is necessary for the implementation. These blueprints are in
the form of questionnaires that are designed to probe for information that uncovers
how your company does business. As such, they also serve to document the
implementation.
There are several way to collect
information about current project blocker, challenges,
Legacy system archicture, current user
base & their role in business operation
There are two type of technique used for
identify client requirement as below
Question
and Answer Database:
Q & A a simple tool designed to facilitate the creation and maintenance of
your business blueprint.
Issues
Database:
Another tool used in the blueprinting phase to track all the issues in the current
project.
3. Phase
3 - Realization:
Functional experts are now ready to
begin configuring SAP. The realization phase is broken into two parts:
·
SAP
consulting team helps you configure your baseline system, called the Baseline Configuration.
·
Implementation
project team fine-tunes that system to meet all your business and process
requirements as part of the Fine
Tuning Configuration (around 20%).
Configuration Testing: With the help of
SAP consulting team, Segregate business processes into cycles of related
business flows. The cycles serve as independent units that enable you to test
specific parts of the business process.
During this process, it becomes
necessary to send key users to level 3 SAP training/ operational training
Knowledge Transfer: As configuration
phase comes to close, it becomes necessary for the project team to be
self-sufficient in their knowledge of the configuration of SAP support system.
They will takes care in all issue after hyper care phase
4.Phase 4 - Final Preparation:
As phase 3 merges into phase 4, you
should find yourselves not only in the midst of SAP training, but also in the
midst of rigorous functional and stress testing.
·
Phase
4 also concentrates on the fine-tuning of your configuration before Go-live and
more importantly, the migration of data from your old system or systems to SAP.
·
At
the conclusion of phase 4, take time to plan and document a Go-live strategy.
Preparing for Go-live means preparing for your end users questions as they
start actively working on the new SAP system.
5.Phase 5 - Go-Live and Bubble Support:
In this phase, SAP successfully implemented,
if any additional issue come up during day to day operation, support team will
there to help you out .This can be 3 month /6 month, Based on the agreement
.
