Sandip Pradhan, Chief-IT, Exide Industries Limited

“A successful SAP S4 HANA implementation is about the powerful next generation applications and analytics brought by organization. This will choose the game changing in-memory platform with advanced analytical processing. Every project manager wants to be successful. The implementation failure may be fatal to the organization. Here are some mantras to keep in mind when one is starting the high-impact S4 HANA project -

Experienced and Right Implementation Partner: SAP systems are difficult and costly to implement. A large portion of the overall implementation cost attributes to consulting fees. Therefore, it becomes crucial to select the right partner and use consultants effectively to keep the overall costs low. 

 Formation of right minded Core Team: Core Team is the pillar and is crucial to start-up the project. The formation of core team begins with selecting the right project manager and staffing the rest of the team. Right team means the right minded people not like-minded people for example a group of negative minded individuals are also like-minded. 

Work Collaboratively: Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. One has to establish a partnership among Core Team members, IT Team, related service providers and implementation partner. At the end of the day, project team will speak in the same language then only will get fruitful output otherwise not.”