SAP Consulting and Project Methodology
We Are Your SAP Partner for Digital Transformation
For a long time, IT referred only to a company’s electronic infrastructure—today, however, it is crucial to a company’s long-term success in the context of digital transformation. This is, of course, especially true for company-wide, strategically important systems such as SAP S/4HANA and SAP Customer Experience.
What is SAP Consulting?
SAP’s highly complex software offers companies a wide range of possibilities, but for outsiders, it can be challenging to tailor it to the company’s specific needs. Without experience and SAP-specific expertise, it’s rarely possible to find an efficient path to achieving your goals. This is where our professional SAP consulting services for Germany come into play. Our experienced consultants will help you design a system that’s perfectly tailored to your business.
IT Expertise Combined with Industry Know-How
As a global IT specialist, Arvato Systems supports companies in their digital transformation. Approximately 3,400 employees at over 20 locations provide in-depth SAP expertise combined with broad knowledge across a wide variety of industries. As a team, we develop innovative IT solutions, migrate our customers’ systems to the cloud, integrate digital processes, and manage the operation and support of IT systems. Your requirements and needs are always our top priority.
SAP Consulting at Arvato Systems - An Overview of Our Services
As an SAP consulting firm, we offer comprehensive services as part of our SAP Basis Consulting Services. We analyze all business processes and work with your process experts to develop a strategy for your customized SAP system. If needed, your SAP consultant will also assist you with integrating the system into your company’s internal IT infrastructure. This ensures you receive comprehensive guidance and end up with a high-performance software system that maps your business processes in a detailed and well-thought-out manner. Whether your system is relatively simple or highly complex, our SAP consultants bring many years of experience to the table and will guide you reliably through the project. We also have expertise in various industries and fields. This understanding enables us to provide optimized technical and strategic planning for your SAP system.
Our services include, among others, the following areas:
- Consulting with a focus on SAP and IT
- Planning and Implementation of New SAP Systems
- Modernization and Expansion of Existing SAP Systems
- Migration of SAP systems to a different SAP version (e.g., SAP HANA, SAP S/4HANA)
- Integrating Third-Party Systems with Your SAP Solution
Have you been using an SAP system for some time and want to ensure that it continues to support your processes securely and efficiently? As part of our SAP Consulting Services, we offer analysis of existing SAP systems. During the SAP Security Audit, we examine, for example, whether your legacy system can still meet the ever-increasing demands of digital security. And if we identify opportunities for optimization during our audit, we’ll be happy to develop a customized strategy for your company and assist with the associated requests for proposals.
A Driving Force on Your Path into the Future
As your partner, we track developments in information technology as well as industry-specific trends in digital transformation. By combining comprehensive technical and industry expertise, we are able to continuously provide you with new inspiration for digital business processes and potential solutions – even beyond the portfolio of SAP solutions. We contribute a high level of innovative power and extensive technical expertise as we support you on your path into the digital future.
The Benefits of Our SAP Consulting Services
Professional SAP consulting from Arvato Systems offers many benefits for your company.
Minimize Costs and Effort
Where many processes and data sources converge, there is great potential for simplification. With a system that integrates seamlessly, you can reduce effort and costs. This frees up resources that you can invest in your core business.
Easy Management of Large Amounts of Data
Advancing digitalization means that ever-larger volumes of data are being generated. We develop a robust SAP system that allows you to comprehensively map and efficiently manage the information relevant to your business.
Highly Available Systems and Virtualization
Your SAP system should be available anytime, anywhere in your day-to-day business operations. We design a solution that supports you whenever and wherever you need it.
Optimized Processes
SAP software is designed to significantly optimize your internal business processes and thereby improve efficiency within your company. Our experienced consultants take the time to thoroughly analyze all processes within your company. This is the only way to identify the full potential for optimization. What’s more, an independent outside perspective often reveals opportunities that can’t be identified from within due to established patterns. This allows your processes to be optimized even further.
High-Performance, State-of-the-Art Solutions
Modern technology is now incredibly powerful, even when it’s not high-end hardware. Especially when it comes to processors, impressive performance is possible today even without expensive servers. As part of our SAP Consulting Services, we develop strategies that deliver significantly improved performance for you on modern hardware. Our consultants undergo continuous professional development and participate in training courses so that they can deliver the best possible results to you at all times.
Specialized consultants
Our SAP consultants are not only highly knowledgeable about the SAP ecosystem, but also bring extensive expertise from various industries and sectors. For example, if you’d like to implement an SAP system in the retail sector, we’ll assign you a consultant with the relevant expertise. This way, you’ll have a point of contact who is already familiar with the specific processes in your industry and can understand your needs on an equal footing.
Clearly Defined Project Approach Creates Certainty
Project Team
The Arvato Systems project team serves as a link between your operational departments and the internal team for digital transformation. The insight required for the concept and implementation of your project is gleaned as part of this collaboration. The change management guidelines are developed here as well; they will become part of the road map for implementing your new IT environment.
Project management
The project excellence approach forms the foundation for our project management process. It is based on the methods recommended in the IPMA standard developed by the International Project Management Association. They are complemented by our own guidelines on effective project management, which we based on our comprehensive experience.
This combined set of guidelines describes phases, tasks, and deliverables for the project, defines roles and responsibilities, and includes checklists and templates. It ensures that we always have a firm handle on even our clients’ most complex projects.
Project Approach
We use a multi-step agile project approach with clearly defined decision points to structure your project: Initialization and commitment, process road map and focus processes, target architecture and road to transformation, analysis and planning of the business transformation. The results required for each following step are special milestones.
Each phase comprises the steps for defining the processes and the necessary documentation for decision-making, which are then used for the development of the strategic IT road map for the digital transformation of your company.
Our project team uses these phases – the completion of which is managed and monitored via effective project management – to rapidly make your project a success.
5 Phases to Success
Preparation phase
In a kickoff workshop, we set up the project, analyze the current status, and coordinate all the details of your company’s strategic transformation. After hammering out the details of the project processes and making the required resources available, we work with you to prepare this important workshop.
In this workshop, we draw up strategic guidelines such as the project approach, determine relevant business factors, and explain the digital framework and strategic objectives for your future IT architecture.
Extensive requirements analysis
As part of our partnership and participation in the SAP Adoption Starter Program, we conduct an extensive analysis of the requirements at hand. In addition to evaluating the results of the analysis, we provide your IT team with extensive consulting at this point. We will also offer additional SAP workshops and help you with the technical aspects of connecting your systems, if required.
Definition phase
During this phase, we work with you to define the process model and the options for the application design. We take your requirements into account as we analyze your existing process environment, particularly in terms of its potential for optimization. We will then apply the results to the target applications and important processes. This is all ensured by a ‘design thinking’ workshop that the process experts in the operational departments of your company (such as finance/controlling, reporting/analysis, etc.) will participate in. The workshop format provides an ideal framework for developing ideas and defining processes at the application level.
Each process is defined at the functional and technical level. Additionally, we will work together to define KPIs to measure the future viability and performance of your processes, including taking into account any potential organizational changes and the necessary budget.
Evaluation phase
We coordinate with you to establish a complete, reliable foundation for decision-making that facilitates the assessment of target scenarios and the future orientation of the company and IT environment. Based on insights from the previous phase, we develop high-caliber business case options that identify and classify potential risks. All processes are designed in line with the road map for your transformation, taking into account the target scenarios and technical alternatives. We will also hold a workshop on this subject for the process experts from your operational departments.
Based on the results, we will draw up a decision paper for you that includes our recommendations for the next steps.
Start of implementation
In this step, we compare the results achieved with the strategic IT road map. In this final phase, we define the strategic IT road map, taking into account the relevant results from the preliminary study. It also forms the basis for the required RfP documents. This road map also includes the potential improvements and benefits. Additionally, we lay out the issues that need to be addressed in the next steps that will be handled either internally or by an external service provider. An estimate of the costs and the skills required for specific processes is also included. Additionally, we go into detail on the required change management and the IT service concept and lay out the prospects for implementation.
Frequently Asked Questions About SAP Consulting
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Why is SAP consulting becoming increasingly important for companies?
Advancing digitalization and modern processes mean that companies must manage ever-growing data sets and a constant stream of new data to remain competitive. As a result, your IT landscape must be adapted to these requirements in order to effectively support you in your work. With software professionally planned through SAP consulting, you can create a powerful, efficient system even without high-end hardware.
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What are the benefits of comprehensive SAP consulting?
SAP consulting from a knowledgeable expert saves you a great deal of effort and costs that you would otherwise have to invest in poorly integrated processes. A trained consultant will design a system for you that delivers improved performance on modern hardware and optimizes your business processes. This, too, will help you save time and money in the future.
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What does an SAP consultant do?
An SAP consultant is a specialist in all aspects of SAP’s highly complex Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software. Your SAP consultant has in-depth knowledge of the entire software suite and can therefore provide you with optimal support in tailoring this comprehensive tool to your specific needs. In addition, the SAP consultant will support you in implementing your finalized solution within your company.
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How does SAP consulting with Arvato Systems work?
First, we get to know you, your project, and your strategic goals. This is followed by an in-depth requirements analysis and, subsequently, a detailed definition of the process model and application design. We then work closely with your process experts to prepare a decision paper for your future strategic direction. By the end of the consulting engagement, you will have all the documentation, strategies, and information needed for the successful implementation of your SAP IT system.
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