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ASAP stands for Accelerated SAP. Its purpose is to help design SAP
implementation in the most efficient manner possible. Its goal is to effectively
optimize time, people, quality and other resources, using a proven
methodology to implementation.ASAP focuses on tools and training, wrapped
up in a five-phase process oriented road map for guiding implementation.The
road map is composed of five well-known consecutive phases:
• Phase 1 Project Preparation
• Phase 2 Business Blueprint
• Phase 3 Realization
• Phase 4 Final Preparation
• Phase 5 Go-Live and supportIn today's post we will discuss the first phase.
Environment suitable for change and re engineering: Your team must be willing
to accept that, along with new SAP software, things are going to change, the
business will change, and information technology enabling the business will
change as well. By implementing SAP, you will essentially redesign your current
practices to model more efficient or predefined best business practices as
espoused by SAP. Resistance to this change will impede the progress of your
implementation.
The initial configuration completed during the base line configuration is based
on the information that you provided in your blueprint document. The
remaining approximately 20% of your configuration that was not tackled during
the baseline configuration is completed during the fine tuning configuration.
Fine tuning usually deals with the exceptions that are not covered in baseline
configuration. This final bit of tweaking represents the work necessary to fit
your special needs.
Configuration Testing:
With the help of your SAP consulting team, you segregate your 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. You can
also work through configuring the SAP implementation guide (IMG). A tool used
to assist you in configuring your SAP system in a step by step manner.
Knowledge Transfer:
As the configuration phase comes to a close, it becomes necessary for the
Project team to be self-sufficient in their knowledge of the configuration of
your SAP system. Knowledge transfer to the configuration team tasked with
system maintenance (that is, maintenance of the business processes after Go-
live) needs to be completed at this time.In addition, the end users tasked with
actually using the system for day-to-day business purposes must be trained.