Roles And Responsibility of Consultant

As a consultant, we will be placed into either an implementation project, support project, Rollout Project, or Upgrade Project. In this article we will discuss Roles And Responsibility of Consultant

Implementation Project

Configuring client business processes newly into SAP.

Whenever the implementation partner receives the order from the client to implement SAP, then they start using the ASAP methodology (ASAP stands for accelerated SAP). ASAP methodology consists of guidelines to implement SAP that is the step-by-step implementation of SAP.

 

ASAP Methodology consists 5 Phases:-

1. Project Preparation

 

2. Business blueprint (BBP)

 

3. Realization

 

4. Final Preparation

 

5. Go-Live & Support

 

As a consultant, we will be involved in the business blueprint phase.

Project Preparation Phase: – In the project preparation phase the management from the implementation partner and management from the client will be involved. Gain in-depth knowledge of SAP systems and become a Consultant with SevenMentor’s Best SAP Classes in Pune

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  Project Preparation Phase

Activities:

• User Licenses: – Any client if they want to implement SAP they need to purchase user licenses from SAP. Based on the number of end users they decide on how many user licenses to be purchased from SAP. Eg:- Total no of end users is 1000, and each user license costs around Rs. 80000/- The client has to pay this money to SAP and get the user licenses. 1000 user licenses x Rs. 80000 = Rs. 8 cr. This is not a one-time payment to SAP. Every year the client has to pay 22% license cost to SAP in the form of AMC .i.e 22% of Rs 8 cr. as AMC (Annual Maintenance cost) Sharing of licenses can be done in manufacturing plants if they have a shift-wise work system.

 

• Landscape:- A landscape is an arrangement of servers. Any client if they want to implement SAP they need to purchase servers. SAP Suggest to go for 3 Servers:- Development Server, Quality Server, Production Server

 Development Server:- will be used to configure the client business process into SAP. The development server will be used by the consultant.

Quality Server:- will be used to test the scenario. Quality servers will be used by the consultant and core user. Core User is an employee of the company who has good experience & exposure in the client business process.

Production Server:- It is a live server where end users will do day-to-day transactions in SAP. The production server will be used by end users and core users. A consultant does not have access to the production server. The user does not have an access development server.

After deciding how many servers to purchase, then they decide on the sizing of the server.

 Ex – Hard disk, RAM, etc. On the basis of the number of Pc‟s Where to purchase the servers? Popular Manufacturers of servers in the market are HP, IBM, HCL, and DELL . 

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• Infrastructure:-
  A). How many new pc‟s to be purchased for the implementation of SAP. Ex. – 1000 licenses means 1000 pc‟s required Present pc‟s – 400 nos. (Out of 400, 200 pc‟s don‟t support SAP) Total no. of pc‟s needed 800+200= 1000 no
  B). Server Environment: –Decide where to place the servers.
  Server room security
  Temperature requirement

 

• Implementation Partner: – will list out all the consultants who are going to be involved in this implementation Project. On average, the team size for the implementation of SAP to Domestic or Unknown clients is 15. The team size for the implementation of SAP to foreign clients or known clients is 60. The team will list out all the core users. They will pick one core user from each module, and the core user will be in touch with the consultant. Throughout the implementation project whatever the consultant requires, we need to consult only core users. Join SAP Training in Pune and take your skills to the next level.

 

• Consultant Facilities: – If it is a domestic project all the consultants will go to the client’s place for implementing SAP. If it is a foreign project, from each module one consultant will go to the client’s place (On-Site) and the rest of the team will work from Offshore (it means the Implementation Partner office). If it’s a domestic project and all consultants are moving to a client’s place for implementing SAP, then they will decide the responsibilities of each consultant. Ex- Accommodation, food expenses, travel expenses, work environment, etc. The Average project tenure for domestic projects is 9 months. For foreign projects 18 months

 

• Go-Live Date: – It is the date from which the client will start using SAP or the date the client will start entering day-to-day transactions in SAP.

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• Scope for the project: – This is not possible in standard SAP. Also called as GAP‟s, will not be considered.

After completion of the project preparation phase, the implementation partner management will come back to the office and conduct a kick-off meeting. Kick-off: – It means starting off. For the kick–off meeting they will invite all the consultants across all the modules that are going to be involved in this implementation project. Kick-off meeting agenda:-

• Introduction about client
• Rules & regulations of client
• Role & Responsibilities of Consultant
• Core users list.
• Go to a live date.
• Starting date.

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 After the kick–off meeting all the consultants will move to the client’s place for implementing SAP. When all the consultants move to the client place to implement SAP then we start the 2nd phase of ASAP methodology which is Business Blueprint (BBP). 

Author:-

Saurabh Bapat

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