Implementation Phases in ASAP Method

Hi Gurus,
Can anybody explain me the following.
a) Implementation phases in ASAP method
b) Detailed activities in each phase.
Please forward me documentation, if any.
Regards,
Santosh

When you open ASAP it will show you all phases and activities you have to do.
You can follow the method ASAP or only use some part out it.
The phases are the same as all project methods only the names are different
ASAP is now replaced by solution manager. When you don't have ASAP it is better to use solution manager

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Out of 5 phases of ASAP Methodology, which phase is considered as the most Challenging phase in SAP-HR Implementation?

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Although all five phases have their own difficulties, I do attach the greatest importance to business blueprint phase in my projects. This is because, in this phase you determine the backbone of your system and all subsequent phases are built upon this backbone structure. Any error in the backbone would require a great deal of re-work.
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Please go through
ASAP methodology is traditional methodology, which follows certain steps & documentation is a manual activity.
Five Phases of ASAP methodlogy.
Phase 1: Project Preparation - The purpose of this phase is to provide initial planning and preparation for your SAP project.
Phase 2: Business Blueprint - The purpose of this phase is to achieve a common understanding of how the company intends to run its business within the SAP System. The result is the Business Blueprint, a detailed documentation of the results gathered during requirements workshops. The Business Blueprint document represents the business process requirements of the company. It is the agreed statement of how the company intends to run its business within the SAP System.
Phase 3: Realization - The purpose of this phase is to implement all the business process requirements based on the Business Blueprint. The system configuration methodology is provided in two work packages: Baseline (major scope); and Final configuration (remaining scope).
Phase 4: Final Preparation - The purpose of this phase is to complete the final preparation (including testing, end user training, system management and cutover activities) to finalize your readiness to go live. The Final Preparation phase also serves to resolve all critical open issues. On successful completion of this phase, you are ready to run your business in your live SAP System.
Phase 5: Go Live & Support - The purpose of this phase is to move from a project-oriented, pre-production environment to live production operation.
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Some additional Infomation on ASAP methodology:
Phase 1 - Project Preparation
Change Charter - Goals and objectives of Organizational Change Management
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Scope - Sets the initial definition of the project; input from sales cycle.
Project Team Organization - Sets the who of the project: Standards & Procedures - Sets the why and how of the project.
Phase 2 - Business Blueprint - Requirements reviewed for each SAP Reference Structure item and defined using CI Templates (in the Q&Adb). Business Blueprint - This is the output of the Q&Adb and is the key document for Phase 3.
Phase 3 - Realization - Master Lists - Define business scenarios and R/3 transactions to be realized in the system. BPP - Business Process Procedures representing R/3 transactions; used for unit testing & documentation. Planning - Defines how the configuration will be done and how it will be tested. Development Programs - Provides details of the external programming requirements. EU Training Material - End User training material and process documentation.
Phase 4 - Final Preparation Stress & Volume Tests - Plans for confirming the production hardwares capabilities
Cutover Plan - The details of how to move to the production environment and go live
Conduct End User Training - Delivery of the necessary levels of R/3 End User training prior to going live
Phase 5 - Go Live & Support: Ensuring system performance through SAP monitoring and feedback.
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Dear Gopala Rao,
It actually depends on various factors, such as :
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2. Team Size.
3. Organizational Structure (Volume of data)
4. Legacy System
5. Business Complexity etc.
There is no hard and fast rule that every project should be completed in a particular duration of time. Depending on the above factors, it may vary any where from 6 months to 18 months or so. (Approximately, it may be less than 6 months or more than 18 months in some exceptional cases).
Usually it is divided into phases:
1. Project Preparation : Project team, infrastructure, Software, Steering committe etc will be identified in this phase.
2. Business Blue Print : Re-engineering of Business process and BBP sign off.
3. Realization : Analysing Gap and Realization of possible customization and development effort
4. Final Preparation and Go Live : Development and Configuration
5. Post Go Live support : Support after go live
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Design
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Testing
Implementation
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Charter tells you the purpose of the project,for example,to eliminate an expensive Transmission process by implementing EDI.
Scope tells what all you will be doing in the project.In SAP,this is Blue printing.
planning:Here you plan the capital Expenditure - capital budgeting,Expenses,Revenue,Resources and other elements that go in to the project.
projectExecution : Actual execution of the planned activities
Control:Here you steer the project towards the intended goals-variance analysis,cost Reduction,Value engineering,budget,standards,fast tracking,crashing,Resource allocation etc etc ,....all find a role here.Here Time,Cost and the other resources are controlled so as to complete the project in time and within the cost baselines.
Testing also comes here-unit test,integration test,UAT........
Closure:The project sign off takes place here.
In the support Environment the "project" will cover a]incident management,b] problem management,c]change management,d]configuration management e] Release management and f] help desk.
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We are in the project preperation phase, can any body let me know how can i use the Implementation Assistant and ASAP Road Map in defining the scope of the BW project and to prepare the Bluprint.
Or can anobody tell me is there any other tool which can be used to prepare the scope the project and blueprint based on the requirements.
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Vijay,
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B.Patel

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Very interesting! Though, I didn't get the answer. Think it would be very favorable for everybody, if you explain in more details.
AFAIK, data is stored in BCS periodically. So, do you imply that it's possible to create cash flow for any set of data in the system (because of periodicity)?
Talk about ttypes and breakdown categories are also not very clear for me.
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having different local currencies (and a different group currency), with some intergroup activities?
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