Many companies today face the need to transit seamlessly from a production-driven company to a customer-driven one. They find themselves operating as individual islands of information amidst technology that has outlived its lifetime and has become completely obsolete. The employees and management face a cumbersome task at such a stage in exchanging and retrieving information from the existing systems.

Further the reliability of information obtained becomes questionable because of inconsistency and duplication of data from different departments. Also the system lacks integrity checks for various data sources.

At such as stage a company starts thinking about an integrated environment and there comes SAP, the question that the company has to answer is how much can it chew in one go?

Whether to go in for phased approach or a big bang, Core SAP according to us comprises of all the basic modules without which a company cannot run itself such as Sales and Distribution, Materials Management, Finance and Controlling and Production Planning, these modules form the building blocks for the companies ERP foundation. But based on a companies business practices core SAP can also extend to modules like Quality Management, Plant Maintenance and Project Systems and Customer Service modules. In Toto they all form the core modules.

Phased or big bang an initial SAP implementation should provide a company with the ability to update their customers on a daily basis and provide seamless services across their business landscape improving customer management and partner relations.

The availability of online information should facilitate quicker and reliable trend analysis for efficient transaction processing and better decision-making.

Besides the streamlined business processes will reduce the number of legacy systems and also provide consistent business practices across locations and provide excellent audit trail for transactions.

Such an implementation is possible only with good functional and technical resources.

We stress the importance of domain experience in the individual modules for all our consultants and stipulate a minimum of 5 yrs functional exposure with at least two SAP implementations under their belt.

It is our belief that the quality of consultants can make or break SAP projects and hence we give utmost importance to their selection and also deployment in projects.

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