As the final step to the implementation process, go-live/post-implementation is an essential step to business success. So long as you have conducted the project planning and construction process properly, go-live should be fairly straightforward. However, a successful post-implementation can be more involved. Preparing for the Go-Live Along with monitoring the systems to ensure everything is going according to plan, the team needs to prepare for the go-live event. Before the go-live, the team s [...]

ERP systems have revolutionized the internal structure of not only large organizations, but also SMEs (small & medium enterprises). The demand for ERP continues to grow because of the cost advantages the software offers. For example, the systems provide data security, enable easier compliance, offer scalability, and improve workflows (among other things)—all on one centralized system.1 While an ERP application such as SAP’s ECC and the newer S/4HANA offers many advantages, it also presents [...]

Even in systems outside of SAP, automation techniques – often involving AI – play a large role in landscape simplification now and in the future. They allow for speedy processing that also ensures accuracy, all while freeing up the team to focus on more thought-centric tasks. To ensure continued agility, businesses need to keep up-to-date with the current strategies to automating the SAP landscape simplification process. At the same time, they need to keep in tune with their own business needs [...]