All Consultants Are Not The Same
There is an often held view that all business and IT consultancies operate in a manner akin to borrowing your watch to tell you the time, and then charging you for it. This view is held for a reason, and that reason is that collectively there are many examples of where consultants are high cost and low value.
However, we believe that we can change this view by offering something different; something that will allow you to believe that there is such a thing as a collaborative relationship between a consultancy and a customer.
We know that not all consulting partners are the same. Indeed we feel our ability to provide business process focused consultants who can deliver the technological solution, backed up by documented business maturity collateral is unique in this arena.
Our approach of achieving specific, targeted benefits has been refined through years of experience of implementing SAP-based solutions, including SCM, SRM and BI (as well as ECC) and achieved what we believe to be the right balance between risk, cost and derived benefits, whilst recognising the organisational constraints that exist.
This approach prevents the pitfalls often seen in many SAP projects that result in high cost, high risk, over-engineered and lengthy implementations that have characterised many SAP implementations to date, or the over-simplistic, pre-configured, template solutions which need considerable additional effort to achieve the required objectives.
We believe that selecting SEVEN as your strategic partner has a distinct advantage over other consultancy contractor options for the following reasons:
- We understand that ROI comes from the system enabling more efficient business processes and better informed decision making, and not from the SAP software itself
- ERP software alone, no matter how good, makes little impact on improving business performance
- Following the same pre-ERP business processes after implementation will lead to the same, or worse performance
All SEVEN's consultants are renowned for being;
KNOWLEDGEABLE
- Deep, proven knowledge and experience of how to extract the true value out of SAP tools
- Extensive knowledge of supply chain issues and how to solve them Good understanding of both business process and SAP
- Understand where SAP's capabilities are not being maximised
- Able to talk business language as well as IT to achieve maximum knowledge extraction and transfer
- Extensive knowledge of how to structure processes, behaviours and measures to support a continuous improvement model
- Know how to develop solutions appropriate to the customer's capabilities
- Trained in methodologies such as Supply Chain Excellence and SCOR
EXPERIENCED
- Average of 13 years SAP experience
- Cross-process knowledge and experience
- Global, regional and single country implementation experience
- Extensive experience in different business sizes and routes to markets, from immature to leading edge
- Been through multiple SAP 'crisis situations' and is well experienced in resolving supply and service issues
- Maturity to challenge you appropriately and give you a good roadmap to improve the return from your SAP system
- We have a robust methodology that can be tailored to your situation
- Significant skills and experience of getting to the root cause of issues quickly, and knowing the correct course of action to take
This allows us to be;
LEAN
- Small, focused, cost effective teams that have successfully worked together for 10 years over multiple, global projects implementing best practice business processes in SAP
- Broad skill base means we can cover technical, process, training and change management issues without bringing in lots of specialist resources
- Primary focus is on helping businesses exploit their existing investments
- Minimal overheads means you we are cost effective
- Lean and experienced = no internal drain on resources to manage us
Please call to discuss your issues and how your company can benefit from the SEVEN advantage.
