SAP.

At CVRC, we pride ourselves on being able to deliver quality SAP solutions that meet the needs of our customers. We offer a full suite of SAP services including:

  • Project Management
  • Applications Consulting (Functional Design and implementation across all the SAP functional areas) including:
    SAP ECC (FI/CO, MM, WM, PP, SD, CS, QM, SM, PM, HR and Payroll)
  • Data Migration
  • Training
  • Testing
  • Organisational Change Management
  • Quality Assurance
  • Ongoing Application support
  • Future enhancements after go live

In our experience, there are a number of critical success factors that determine the success of a SAP implementation project. These include:

  • Consultant Knowledge and Experience - The key to any SAP implementation is to use people who really know what they are doing. All of our consultants have extensive SAP experience, some have worked on Sap R/3 since 2.1D release in 1994. They also have real business experience, which allows them to develop solutions that are both pragmatic and effective, working in user departments of large companies.
  • Business Buy-in and Ownership - This is key to any new implementation or major amendment to SAP systems. Our experienced project manager works with the customer project teams to ensure effective mamagement of the project and resourcing by the business. We also promote active organisational change management in our project approach.
  • Management of Scope - Control of the scope of a SAP project is a major factor in whether the SAP implementation meets its objectives, budgets and timescales. Simply put, if the scope of a project changes all the time, project costs and timescales will increase dramatically. The key to controlling scope is to get it right at the beginning of the project and then to stick to that goal. Our consultants all have experience of determining project scope - which is often a key process - helping the customer project team to decide what is really necessary for their business, rather than what would be nice to have. Of course, things do change during the life cycle of any project; but effective project controls ensure no scope creep to impact on live dates.
  • Use of SAP Best Practice Processes - SAP software products are extremely functionally rich and are very flexible in the ways in which they can be configured, allowing then to be customised to meet the needs of most businesses. SAP also provides guidelines as to the best practice processes for a variety of industries. At CVRC, we endeavour to use standard functionality and these best practice processes wherever possible, avoiding the need (and expense) of developing custom code. This has major benefits in terms of the efficiency of operation of the SAP solution and also in terms of cost of ownership (the amount of custom development is a major factor in the cost of such things as software upgrades). There will, however, be occasions when custom development is required. Our consultants have the necessary experience to ensure that this development works effectively and performs well.
  • No job too small - We can offer short systems support to cover holidays, maternity, illness and staff departures prior to new recruitment. We offer specialist ad hoc support as well as longer term project and development management. We are based in the North West and cover the north of England for any short term requirements, even one day assignments, and will undertake more detailed projects across the UK and Ireland.