Increases the business' managers awareness of common industry issues that are resolved by SAP.

Minimizing the time to deployment by reducing the amount of configuration and customisation.

It creates a mentality that customers should develop all functionality by themselves.

Increases the project team's awareness of the best practice processes for the industry so that these can be deployed within the organisation.

Ensuring that each team member is aware of their role and responsibilities on the project.

Project team and super users

End users and super users

Project team members and implementation consultants

End users and project team members

Super users and implementation consultants

A Learning and Development Strategy needs to be completed.

Training managers must be identified for every end user location.

Implementation scope and requirements must be completed.

All end user needs, preferences and habits must be considered.

Myers-Briggs personality test results should be included in the analysis.

Increases the probability that the project will finish on time, on budget.

Reduces project cost and risk by ensuring that team members have the necessary knowledge and skills to perform their roles.

Reduces the complexity of the system by ensuring that existing functionality is fully utilised rather than being customised.

Increases the likelihood that the organisation will value SAP training classes and SAP Certification.

Reduces the likelihood that project team members will find high-paying jobs with other SAP implementations.

In order to configure the core customer business process requirements, Baseline configuration is broken down into smaller chunks known within ASAP as cycles.

ASAP recommends what components are included in a customer's Baseline configuration. These can be adapted to the customer's specific requirements.

Functional and technical development specifications are deliverables of this phase.

End user documentation and training material should be completed by the end of the Realisation phase.

Business Process Procedures provide the basis for end-user training and end-user training documentation.

it sets project team expectations and blueprint deliverables.

It provides guidance for blueprinting workshops and relevant enabling tools.

It introduces blueprint quality assurance and acceptance criteria.

It prepares for essential blueprinting skills such as workshop facilitation, requirements gathering and process modelling.

It fosters teamwork within project teams.