Siemens Power Corporation: Surviving R/31

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Topic: SAP Tutorial

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... to assess the fit and features of the SAP R/3 ... with the customer, and to produce a reduced R/3 implementation guide ... of major modules implemented by SPC R/3 module Description Finance (FI) Collects ...

 

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Siemens Power Corporation: Surviving R/3 1 Siemens Power Corporation: Surviving R/31 Several months before SPC2s executive committee made its final decision concerning the adoption of R/3, the information systems management team stood up and urged them to transform it into a user-led initiative. One of the recommendations that we made to the executive committee before they gave their final approval was that we thought that it should be headed by a user project leader because I think it is important that it is not run out of IS. - Carol Meath3, IS manager, January 1997 This triggered a search for the right individual - an individual that executives could trust to pull off the effort. It did not take long until two suitable candidates were identified. Both candidates were well known throughout the company, had extensive business expertise, and a considerable tenure with the firm. Top management finally chose Gerry Robertson, SPCs purchasing manager, because he was also a veteran of an earlier software implementation. That package was now to be replaced and knowledge about its functionality and implementation could prove valuable during the R/3 project. When Gerry was named R/3 project manager in June 1995, he knew that he was about to embark on the most challenging project of his entire career. From top management down to shipping clerks, everybody was counting on him and he certainly did not want to let them down. He just hoped that he would be able to count on others in the same way that they would be able to count on him. It is not in my psyche or chemistry that we can fail. I think the only think that can fail us is that management gets so hung up in politics that they will wind up not wanting to make any changes or alternatively that they want to make substantial changes that affect all of the benefits of SAP. Anyone reading the literature on ERP  will understand you just cant do that. If you dont, then you ...

 

 

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