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This book provides the necessary knowledge and tools to facilitate the successful implementation of an Enterprise Resource planning Package, such as SAP R/3, Baan or PeopleSoft. Based on a case study of a large SAP R/3 implementation, it presents a wealth of practical advice, delivering essential factors for successful project management, along with many practical tools and accelerators.
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Foreword
This book is on implementing Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP) packages with standardized software (SAP R/3) in a relatively complex (multi-site, multi-country) environment.
As a manager in industry and later as a consultant partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers, I specialized in supply-chain management, and have the experience of many projects to draw on for comparisons. The project that forms the focus for the case study in this book was very well managed by the company management, especially the CEO of ALVEO, Dr Jean-Pierre Sormani, and the overall project manager, Norbert Welti. The project was remarkable in three senses:
-It met its objectives -It finished on schedule - earlier, even
-It stayed within budget Norbert Welti draws on this experience - and his further extensive experience with project management and business process reorganization, including 10 years within SAP implementation - and shares it with you in this book.
This book will help professionals in sales and marketing, manufacturing, supply-chain management, finance and accounting that come across an ERP implementation. It will be especially useful to project managers and leaders of ERP projects, ERP software teams and such like. It will help these professionals and project managers to:
Avoid pitfalls in a project
Organize, manage, and lead a project effectively and efficiently
Implement an ERP project and its standard software on schedule and within budget
For me it was a pleasure and an honor to be close to the birth of this practical and down-to-earth book. It is a great book and I hope that my colleagues in industry, in consulting and in universities will harvest effectively the many fruits of this work.
Professor Dr Arno de Schepper Waalre, The Netherlands
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