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Re: SAP Resourcing

grantsforce — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:52:43 GMT

Pravin,

I am sure you realize that you will be competing with the likes of Fujitsu Consulting (and maybe IBM) in the segment that you appear to be targeting. Some of the major players in Rapidigm SAP (which is now Fujitsu Consulting - SAP Practice) now have small businesses of their own. It may help you to work these players into your marketing strategy since they know the market and I consider them to be the best in their business. Their consulting business and your training expertise will complement each other.

Feel free to contact me at sap@grantsforce.com if you wish to talk sometime.

Good Luck

Re: SAP Resourcing

DomainDiva — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:46:35 GMT

Lighthouse..thanks for the 'inside info'. Applications that bill themselves as off the shelf should be that...install and go.

Re: SAP Resourcing

Lighthouse24 — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:37:56 GMT

The "problem" with SAP, or with any maintenance management software that's fully integrated with other applications (document management, inventory, purchasing, etc.), is that a successful implementation requires an extremely well-managed combination of business process modifications, software module customizations, and technology enhancements. It also demands a fairly labor-intensive effort to get the "right" data in the system to begin with (even in highly-regulated industries, it's common to find drawings that don't match physical configurations, design requirements that don't match buyer or vendor specs, inventory lists that don't match the parts in stock, written procedures that don't match the way the people actually perform a maintenance task, etc.). To complicate all that, most organizations have a lot of little "empires" that an integrated system threatens to eliminate -- so the very people who could initiate a simple change to make the system successful are often the ones working hardest to ensure that it fails.

SAP and similar offerings are often marketed like off-the-shelf solutions, but implementing them can easily cost two to three times the purchase price or license fee. (I'm not sure that most senior executives understand or believe that going in.) As such, it's a lucrative product on which to leverage a consulting practice, but it's not one that necessarily leaves your clients with a good taste in their mouths (especially if the ROI is several years out).

Re: SAP Resourcing

DomainDiva — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:08:50 GMT

Not to be contentious here but I am not an SAP fan. An aircraft maintenance repair station installed the software and it (SAP) backed up the parts ordering because only one person could log onto the parts system at one time and there were six aircraft in check at once in six bays. That particular repair station was not able to keep up the production schedule for completed maintenance and ended up losing customers. They are now closed.

Re: SAP Resourcing

LUCKIEST — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 12:25:39 GMT

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Would you please guide me or refer me any SAP resourcing handbook.
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SAP Resourcing

kardepravin — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 05:49:21 GMT

Dear All,

I represent Delphi India(www.delphicomputech.com) and we are into SAP Training, Consulting and Resourcing. We are currently in the final stages setting up our operations in USA and UK.

We recently completed 10 years in SAP business and our strong point is more than 500 qualified SAP consultants worked with us in last 10 years. We wanted to leverage this in USA and UK market and we are studying different SAP recruitment business models. I was checking various Resourcing models(Business models for SAP Contracting).

Would you please guide me or refer me any SAP resourcing handbook to learn the finer points of contract recruitment.

Many thanks for your help

Best regards
Pravin Karde
Asst. General Manager
Delphi Computech
pravin@delphicomputech.com