Implementation
Customers can have a partner, like us, run the implementation or let us coach you.
Go-Live Execution
The Go-Live Execution Service is the ideal choice for customers who:
- Want to take maximum advantage of CN’s expertise drive the majority of the project activities including project management
- Limit the project workload for the employees
- Leverage best practices for business processes and project management
Go-Live Assistance
The Go-Live Assistance Service is the ideal choice for customers who:
- Want to reduce the overall project costs by executing the majority of the project activity including project management
- Prefer SAP / partner to act as a trusted advisor, provide guidance through oversight and ensure that the critical project milestones are achieved
| Go-Live Execution | Go-Live Assistance | |
|---|---|---|
| CN will provide | Project management, product and business expertise, power workshops, tools, accelerators and deliverables | Assistance workshops, verification checkpoints, tools and accelerators |
| Proven implementation methodology | Proven implementation methodology | |
| Experienced service advisers, led by a project manager | Dedicated CN go-live adviser | |
| You will provide | Project contact coordinating your resources | Project manager to drive your implementation |
| Key users for business decisions | Key users for business decisions and go-live activities | |
| CN delivery mode | On-site and remote | Mostly remote |
| Your required skills | Solid knowledge of your business process | Solid knowledge of your business process |
| In-house project management skills | ||
| Your benefits | Minimise time to value by leveraging reliable expertise | Control total implementation cost by managin the project with internal resources |
| Limit staff workload by outsourcing to an experienced team of service advisers | Minimise project risks by having SAP subject matter experts verify project deliverables |
Go-Live Execution vs. Go-Live Assistance Activities Per Subject Area
| Activities Per Subject Area | Go-Live Execution Activities | Go-Live Assistance Activities |
|---|---|---|
| Project Management | Execution and monitoring of project management activities from planning to go-live, including scope verification, risk and resource management | Assistance in project management activities from project setup to go-live, including scope verification |
| Fine – Tuning | Scheduling, execution, and verification of fine-tuning activities with the customer, mapping of organisational structure; monitoring and tracking of completion status | Assistance in planning and performing fine-tuning activities, including guidance on how best to fine-tune the solution; check of organisational structure setup and fine-tuning results |
| Data Migration | Delivery of the Data Migration Workshop to explain the overall approach, the data migration tool and the related documentation. Instruction on how to fill source data into the SAP excel templates, or how to perform manual data entry. Assistance to the customer as they perform validation, simulation and actual import steps. | Delivery of the Data Migration Workshop to explain the overall approach, the data migration tool and the related documentation. Instruction on how to fill source data into the SAP excel templates, or how to perform manual data entry. Assistance to the customer as they perform validation, simulation and actual import steps. |
| Testing | Organisation of test phase; assistance and monitoring of integration and acceptance test activities; support for issue resolution | Assistance in planning and performing testing activities; check of testing status and defined actions for identified problems; support for issue resolution when required |
| Going Live (Cutover) | Monitoring and support of go-live activities, planning and execution of cutover process and final go-live verification | Assistance in planning and preparing cutover phase; support of go-live readiness check |
