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Risk Management Plan ERP WW Implementation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andrei.nestorov@gmail.com)
Fri Jan 12 15:14:26 2007
To: sapr3-news@mit.edu
Date: 12 Jan 2007 12:14:01 -0800
From: andrei.nestorov@gmail.com
Message-ID: <1168632841.877460.146040@51g2000cwl.googlegroups.com>
Hello All
I=B4m developing a Risk Management Plan and need to identify risks
related to ERP implementation in multiple geographies. The
implementations will be based on the same template and the template, a
base model, will be managed in a centralized way by the corporation,
both from a process and from an IT perspective, e.g., process changes
that impact the base model will be approved by a centralized group
responsible for the integrity of the base model. These changes, if
approved, will be incorporated to the base model under a strict
versioning and configuration management policy. The Business and IT
organizations will have to manage both the integrity of the base model
(and its versions) and the rollout of specific versions to the
geographies. Geographies include Latin America, North America, Africa.
I=B4m willing to identify risks of the strategy to the business itself
(the strategy I described above) and it=B4s impact on the IT
organization/processes that will need to support it. This company
already runs SAP on it=B4s biggest business unit, now it will be
expanding the solution to smaller BUs in other countries. The base
model currently used by the corporation is different than the base
model (template) that will be implemented in the smaller BUs, for
historical reasons.
A good start could be a Risk Assessment (part of a typical Risk
Management Plan) of an ERP implementation project with similar
characteristics, e.g.: multiple geographies, different Business Units
in these geographies, having to ensure integrity of the base model
(template), etc...
Does anyone have anything similar to this that I could use as a start?
Thanks.
