Wednesday, November 23, 2011

SAP Best Practises - Frequently Asked Questions

01. What are SAP Best Practices?
SAP Best Practices offerings provide detailed implementation documentation and a preconfigured system specifically tailored to support end-to-end business processes for specific industry and market needs. They are based on a building block methodology, providing enhanced flexibility for unique business needs, while simultaneously addressing key business operations and specific industry functionality.

02. How do SAP business partners and solution providers utilize SAP Best Practices?

SAP Partners can use SAP Best Practices as a standardized, industry-compliant solution development platform that allows additional virtualization (industry-specific and country-specific adaptation in configuration). SAP Best Practices can also serve as a basis for an SAP Partners' own SAP All-in-One offering. Partners can select what they need out of the SAP Best Practices package and add supplemental deliverables, such as consulting services, additional configuration or SAP application scope, training, or outsourcing, to create their unique SAP All-in-One solution.

03. How much do SAP Best Practices cost?
Customers and SAP partners can utilize SAP Best Practices at no additional charge. The underlying SAP software must be licensed and installed prior to utilization.

04. What are the main benefits of SAP Best Practices over a traditional implementation project?

SAP Best Practices incorporate vast expertise from over 36 SAP partners, and over 30 years of experience helping many thousands of customers implement SAP applications in their business. Recent studies have shown significant benefits in time and cost savings. Customers surveyed reported reduction of as much as 32% in implementation time, and a reduction in consulting and in-house resources of up to 50%. Other benefits are lower Total Cost of Ownership (11% decrease on average over a 3-year period) through use SAP Best Practices. This also results in lower maintenance costs (up to 22%) and reduced project risks (average of 71%) by using SAP’s Best Practices methodology.
05. Is SAP Best Practices a software solution?
SAP Best Practices offerings are preconfigured templates with documentation guides that are designed to be used with SAP applications. The preconfigured settings and guides are used in an existing system landscape and a specific SAP application release (SAP ERP, SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence, SAP CRM, etc.). It pre-configures numerous industry-specific business scenarios, baseline scenarios and cross-industry scenarios.

06. Who can benefit from SAP Best Practices?
SAP Best Practices have been designed to support SAP customer implementations and to enable SAP Partners to create high quality SAP All-in-One solutions. Also, large enterprises can use SAP Best Practices as a basis for their SAP implementation or prototyping projects and for creating global templates for a worldwide roll out of an SAP Business Suite solution.

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  1. Thanks for posting all these questions that are frequently asked by people. All these queries helped me to understand about SAP best practices in a clear way.
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