Roles in Project preparation phase ?

Question

hii
Some body explain me on their real time exeperiance of 1st phase implementation.??
What will be the major roles and reponsibilities of MM consultant in 1st and second phase ???
How we should do the AS-IS study in client place ????
Some body explain me in depth and detailed of their own experiance in implementation project.
And additionally ,as MM consultant where we shlould not be lack of knowledge for any implementationss??
Thanks

Answer 1

In project preparation phase, all the details of the projects are set, who will be the project manager from implementors side and from client side, then the whole team is selected of both sides, some times there are interviews of consultants as well from the client, where client desides which consultants they want for there implementation.
Then usually sign up of the project is done and sometimes presentation on every module is given as well if sign up and project start has big difference in dates.
Then in blueprint phase, for AS-IS, you MM consultant and powerusers from client sit down and you jott down all the current settings of the client, here its decides and researched how there current system is configured, and what necessary settings are required for SAP i.e. how many plants, how many purchase  organisations,groups, how many material groups, what number ranges master record will follow, how many document types for PR,PO,contract, which additional processes are required i.e. Framework order, source lists, which type of mrp, subcontract, consigment process etc.
Once you get all the data in AS-IS, you create blueprint based on this information which will contain every info, i.e. how many plants will be created, what numbers, how many storage locations with names and numbers for each plant, how many purchase organisation with details, purchase groups, document types of prs, pos, with number ranges, release strategy, and total process flow in this documentation and what can and what cant be configured in SAP, thus the TO BE stage. Here client views your document and if there are any reservations they are pointed out, if any deletion addition is needed to the document they are notified to the consultants, necessary changes are made to the blueprint and this up/down in changes keeps on going, until the blueprint is signed.
Same above described process happens for all other modules as well, and once all module blueprints are signed, then begins the realization phase. Usually the blueprint phase in 6 months implementation last for 2 months.
Edited by: Afshad Irani on Aug 30, 2010 3:55 PM