SAP Planning: Best Practices in Implementation
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Everything a company needs to know to plan, organize, and perform an SAP implementation in one book!
This is the only book available that shows the reader how to actually plan an SAP Data Center, install mySAP components, and set up the tools and processes necessary to monitor and manage a productive SAP system. It covers how to perform a Total Cost of Ownership analysis to help refine your SAP Solution Vision, and then how to leverage SAP's technology partners to work through the SAP system landscape sizing process. Staffing the project, from the SAP Steering Committee all the way down to the primary SAP basis and computer operations teams, is covered as well. It also covers building high availability and disaster recoverability into your solutions, addressing critical training required by the SAP support team as well as end users, and how to use SAP-provided and a host of other 3rd party tools to manage your mySAP landscape. Finally, this is the only book that covers in detail how to address both functional and stress testing of your solution prior to going live.
Throughout the book, knowledge and processes are provided that will help you hit the ground running and help you save money. The book is written by an SAP Technical Certified Consultant with seven years of experience in SAP design and implementation who offers tried and proven approaches, scripts, and tools similar to those used by new and existing SAP customer sites. The accompanying CD of documents, presentations, scripts, checklists, and various tools valued at $50,000 saves time and makes the reader productive fast.
Coverage includes notated screen shots of real productive systems; custom checklists, how-to procedures, organization charts that can be leveraged immediately for staffing teams; PowerPoint presentations that can be used by management to sell, present, and provide status updates on their mySAP projects internally; tools, utilities, and XLS spreadsheets used to design, size, and understand SAP system architectures; actual Microsoft Project plans and implementation schedules to get the customer and 3rd party Project Manager's started quickly; and documentation templates and approaches that may be used at once.
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Spotlight customer reviews:
Customer Rating:
Summary: NOT A Production Planning Book.
Comment: I was looking for PP-MRP book with strategy/configuration/integration instructions/advice. My mistake, this is not a functional book. I agree with other buyers regarding the poor title selection. The title "R3 Implementation Planning" would more accurately describe the book. As a PP-APO consultant it does not help very much. Perhaps if Amazon would have allowed us to browse inside the book, the table of contents would have saved some of us some time and money. SAP Planning: Best Practices in Implementation
Customer Rating:
Summary: Love at First sight
Comment: If you want to know more about SAP Implementation best practices. Just go ahead and GRAB it ! Well written and lucidly explained.
Easy to understand, good look and feel of the content layout.
Looking forward to the next edition.
Customer Rating:
Summary: For SAP techies only
Comment: This book focuses almost exclusiveley on the technical side of an SAP implementation. Not much regarding all the other aspects of an SAP implementation.
Customer Rating:
Summary: It is an IT planning Book not really for Functional consultants or Project Managers
Comment: I got this book and I was dissapointed to find that it is mostly talking about the technology part of the implementation ( landscape, High Availability, system HW,....) but it almost did not go through the functional (business) part of SAP, i.e. IMG activities are not discussed, building a company oraganizational chart and structure is not discussed, financial and controlling Baseline configuration is not discussed and so on.
Although I am a certified SAP basis and XI consultants I do not find this book reflecting it's title, it can be very good for an IT / IS manager from the customer side.
Regards.
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Summary: Implementation from an IT organization perspective only
Comment: Whilst an excellent book for its broad treatment of the IT related issues in planning and implementing SAP this book does not address "Best Practices" - in particular the stage of ASAP titled 2.Blue Printing.
Yes, in the TOC you will find Blueprinting mentioned but in this title these topics are addressed from an IT sizing perspective and not the business process oriented planning or implementation perspective; the latter is required to address alignment with strategic goals and to realize ROI.
Why do organizations role out SAP? In fact why do organizations expend on IT? For the same reason they invest in any of their shared service; to support their business objective of course. In order to plan and implement major IT infrastructure then it is an imperative that it is done through IT and organizational strategy alignment and the most obvious route to alignment is via support for structured business processes management. Companies arguably role out SAP for (customer driven) process oriented reasons with IT & cost benefits a supplemental or bi-product outcome. To successfully plan and implement in the absence of business process management structure is to miss this key imperative. SAP realise this, they have it in ASAP, but its absent from this book.
So if you are looking for a book that treats the entire planning and implementation process this is not the book but it does provide the most comprehensive IT treatment I've come across. My rating of three stars therefore reflects this deficiency.
Technical Details
Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 650.028557585
EAN: 9780789728753
ISBN: 0789728753
Label: Sams
Manufacturer: Sams
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 720
Publication Date: 2003-05-29
Publisher: Sams
Studio: Sams
