Difference between roll out and implementation

Question

Dear sapians,
What is the major difference between roll out and ene to end implementation ?
Is it  possible to rollout to N no of plants?
Gururajan .A

Answer 1

The most important thing to do if you are planning to carry out an implementation followed by several roll-outs, is to do the analysis of the business processes across all potential future sites and not just try to use one central example.
In one implementation I joined they had used a small site as the blueprint because this site was easier to manage and it used most of the areas of SAP. But when it came to rolling out the solution, the first few roll outs went well (because the sites were of a similar size to the original site), but then when a major site was to be rolled out to there were MAJOR problems. In the small initial site some users were carrying out many roles / tasks, but in the large site that we were rolling out to there were several users to each role / task and this meant a redesign of most of the processes and different configuration.
So design for as many sites as you can and then you can roll out, don't just do the design for the initial sites then try to roll out.
Steve B