SAI rolls-out SAP® to harmonize business processes across geographies for a global technology leader in life and analytical sciences.
The client is a global technology leader in life and analytical sciences and is focused in the following businesses - Life and Analytical Sciences, and Opto electronics. The Company is a leading provider of scientific instruments, consumables, and services to the pharmaceutical, biomedical, environmental testing and general industrial markets.
The client was using legacy systems for managing its operations in Finance, Manufacturing, Sales, Distribution and Production Planning across its global offices in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. The client had implemented SAP software footprint at their headquarters with their facilities in North America. There was an equal processing need of integrating legacy systems running across locations with SAP applications, which improved the bottom-line and gave a positive impact on the company’s procurement, delivery, and financial performance. The client wanted to continue with the exercise by incorporating extensive implementation, enhancements and customizations of PP, MM, SD, and QM modules at their headquarters. The client wanted to deploy the system multilingual across different continents with compliance to local rules and regulations. This will provide the platform for a total integration and amalgamation of the company’s business via SAP in turn leading to cost efficiencies across its business units.
SAI Systems partnered in realizing client’s objective of enabling quick and efficient decisions making across all the geographies by integrating them over a common platform.
SAI Systems is following a three-pronged approach for SAP integration. These include the following:
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Enterprise objectives and vision |
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Business Transformation |
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Integrated Business and Technical Architecture |
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Knowledge sharing
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| Implementation |
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End-to-End Implementations |
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Integration |
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Transformation & Change Management |
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Set up Center of Excellence |
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Business Benefit Assessment |
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Post-Implementation Audit |
As part of this model, SAI Systems will follow standard SAP methodologies, including ASAP, based on proven Project Management Methodology and SEI CMM–Level 3 assessed software engineering and delivery processes.
SAI Systems is implementing SAP software for its customer and has successfully deployed its SAP talent across US, UK, Australia, and Singapore. SAI’s agile organization structure and pro-active participation of functional, technical and techno-functional expert resource help clients implement agile business strategies and processes. SAI’s SAP team have significant industry experience and are trained to provide the best in class service committed to customers’ success.
The client will be able to achieve the following remarkable benefits of SAP services from SAI Systems:
SAI Systems will use its on-shore/offshore delivery mechanism to offer the client flexible and cost- effective solutions.
SAI Systems strong team of SAP consultants in SAP® R/3® and mySAP™ will give the client the flexibility to adapt quickly to the unique project requirements.
SAI Systems will deploy proprietary Project Management Methodology called the 5-D’s i.e. Discover, Define, Design, Develop, and Deploy for the client. SAI Systems will also utilize several project management and issue tracking tools to track project progress and provide transparency to the client about the state of the project.
SAI Systems past track record of successful SAP implementations and in-depth understanding of business domains will give the client a highly customized SAP Rollout.
SAI Systems provides the client the flexibility to ramp up or ramp down the project team size depending on the project plan requirements without any risks. SAI Systems also provides a dynamic mix of teams comprising of uni and multi lingual skills.
SAI Systems will work collaboratively with the client to deliver a robust system complete with all functionalities within a tight schedule to enable the client realize the multifaceted benefits of SAP.
Process quality improvement and with real time information transition between business units, the client can now perform quick decision, maintain consistent and standardized understanding across all locations and streamline reporting capabilities on profitability of specific business units.
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