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Please refer to the official ASAP Methodology for Implementation page on BPX for official information
while this page gets revised.
ASAP Methodology
ASAP stands for Accelerated SAP. Its purpose is to help design SAP implementation in the most efficient manner
possible. Its goal is to effectively optimize time, people, quality and other resources, using a proven methodology to
implementation. ASAP focuses on tools and training, wrapped up in a five-phase process oriented road map for
guiding implementation.
The road map is composed of five well-known consecutive phases:
Phase 3 Realization
on this venture, individuals need to be clearly identified. Decide now who is responsible for different decisions along
the way. From day one, the implementation decision makers and project leaders from each area must be aware of
the onus placed on them to return good decisions quickly.
Environment suitable for change and re engineering:
Your team must be willing to accept that, along with new SAP software, things are going to change, the business will
change, and information technology enabling the business will change as well. By implementing SAP, you will
essentially redesign your current practices to model more efficient or predefined best business practices as
espoused by SAP. Resistance to this change will impede the progress of your implementation.
Configuration Testing:
With the help of your SAP consulting team, you segregate your business processes into cycles of related business
flows. The cycles serve as independent units that enable you to test specific parts of the business process. You can
also work through configuring the SAP implementation guide (IMG). A tool used to assist you in configuring your
SAP system in a step by step manner.
Knowledge Transfer:
As the configuration phase comes to a close, it becomes necessary for the Project team to be self-sufficient in their
knowledge of the configuration of your SAP system. Knowledge transfer to the configuration team tasked with
system maintenance (that is, maintenance of the business processes after Go-live) needs to be completed at this
time.In addition, the end users tasked with actually using the system for day-to-day business purposes must be
trained.