Welcome to SAP Planning!

The core of the material you are about to read stems from seven years of SAP implementation experience across more than a hundred mid-size and global SAP customers. My goal is to bridge the gap between making the decision to purchase a mySAP software solution, and actually pulling the lever for “Go-Live,” which, in essence, makes the new system available to your end users on the Production system. It is my hope that you will use this text as both a reference tool and an informed guide, steering clear of the hazards common to so many SAP implementations.

The rapid changes in information technology hardware, software, and in particular SAP AG’s umbrella of ever-growing solutions, have had a profound influence on the way companies today access and manage their data. The role SAP has played in this regard, especially in the last few years, has been pivotal to say the least. When faced with dot-com’s to the left of them, and hot best-of-breed applications to the right, SAP sought to embrace the best of all worlds and evolved so as to continue to meet its customers’ and stakeholders’ needs.