SAP Implementations - DO's and DON'Ts

Small and Medium Sized Businesses (SMB) and organizations that have outgrown their home-grown ERP's and spreadsheets should undertake the ERP journey sooner than later for various reasons such as process optimization, scaling their business processes, etc... The imperative for maintaining a lean IT team, competing IT projects and other factors require an organizations to engage with an implementation partner that can stay with them through the ERP leap. In this article, I am going to address a few Do's and Dont's when engaging with implementation partners (most of these suggestions stay valid even if the implementation is done with internal/contract staff).