Approach and Methodology

Overview of ASAP Methodology

This section provides a general overview of the ASAP methodology, which Levergent will follow during the mySAP implementation.

The ASAP implementation roadmap has five general phases:

Phase 1: Project Preparation

• During this phase the team goes through initial planning and preparation for SAP project, including:
• Defining project goals and objectives.
• Clarifying the scope of implementation.
• Defining project schedule, budget plan, and implementation sequence.
• Establishing the project organization and relevant committees, and assigning resources.

Phase 2: Business Blueprint

The purpose of this phase is to achieve a common understanding of how the company intends to run SAP to support its business. In addition, the original project goals and objectives will be refined and the project schedule will be revised in this phase. The result is the Business Blueprint, a detailed documentation of the results gathered during requirements workshops.

Phase 3: Realization

The purpose of this phase is to implement all the business process requirements based on the Business Blueprint. The system configuration methodology is provided in two work packages: Baseline (major scope) and Final configuration (remaining scope). Integration testing is conducted and end-user document is prepared during this phase.

Phase 4: Final Preparation

The purpose of this phase is to complete the final preparation (including testing, end user training, system management, and cutover activities) to finalize your readiness to go live. The Final Preparation phase also serves to resolve all critical open issues.

Phase 5: Go Live & Support

The purpose of this phase is to move from a project-oriented, pre-production environment to live production operation. The most important elements include setting up production support, monitoring system transactions, and optimizing overall system performance.

Global Delivery

Levergent has SAP functional and technical specialists at its offices worldwide, which gives us the flexibility to offer both onsite and off-shore solutions. We have had great success implementing SAP applications using a combined onsite/off-shore delivery model where the functional work occurs at the client's site, but much of the technical work is handled from our off-shore facilities. The off-shore component allows us to significantly reduce the costs of the project and to accelerate the timeline by having the onsite and off-shore teams work in parallel.