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SAP Planning: Best Practices in Implementation
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SAP Planning: Best Practices in Implementation |
Author: George W. Anderson
Published: 2003-05-29 |
List price: $69.99
Our price: $44.09
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Customer comments on this selection.
 NOT A Production Planning Book.
I was looking for PP-MRP book with strategy/configuration/integration instructions/advice. My mistake, this is not a functional book. I agree with other buyers regarding the poor title selection. The title "R3 Implementation Planning" would more accurately describe the book. As a PP-APO consultant it does not help very much. Perhaps if Amazon would have allowed us to browse inside the book, the table of contents would have saved some of us some time and money. SAP Planning: Best Practices in Implementation
 Love at First sight
If you want to know more about SAP Implementation best practices. Just go ahead and GRAB it ! Well written and lucidly explained.
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br /Easy to understand, good look and feel of the content layout.
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br /Looking forward to the next edition.
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 For SAP techies only
This book focuses almost exclusiveley on the technical side of an SAP implementation. Not much regarding all the other aspects of an SAP implementation.
It is an IT planning Book not really for Functional consultants or Project Managers
I got this book and I was dissapointed to find that it is mostly talking about the technology part of the implementation ( landscape, High Availability, system HW,....) but it almost did not go through the functional (business) part of SAP, i.e. IMG activities are not discussed, building a company oraganizational chart and structure is not discussed, financial and controlling Baseline configuration is not discussed and so on.
br /Although I am a certified SAP basis and XI consultants I do not find this book reflecting it's title, it can be very good for an IT / IS manager from the customer side.
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Implementation from an IT organization perspective only
Whilst an excellent book for its broad treatment of the IT related issues in planning and implementing SAP this book does not address "Best Practices" - in particular the stage of ASAP titled 2.Blue Printing.
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br /Yes, in the TOC you will find Blueprinting mentioned but in this title these topics are addressed from an IT sizing perspective and not the business process oriented planning or implementation perspective; the latter is required to address alignment with strategic goals and to realize ROI.
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br /Why do organizations role out SAP? In fact why do organizations expend on IT? For the same reason they invest in any of their shared service; to support their business objective of course. In order to plan and implement major IT infrastructure then it is an imperative that it is done through IT and organizational strategy alignment and the most obvious route to alignment is via support for structured business processes management. Companies arguably role out SAP for (customer driven) process oriented reasons with IT cost benefits a supplemental or bi-product outcome. To successfully plan and implement in the absence of business process management structure is to miss this key imperative. SAP realise this, they have it in ASAP, but its absent from this book.
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br /So if you are looking for a book that treats the entire planning and implementation process this is not the book but it does provide the most comprehensive IT treatment I've come across. My rating of three stars therefore reflects this deficiency.
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