SAP Implementation Case Study
Solution
Visiting the GFL office, the Client met potential project team members and was confident after interviewing and assessing their competencies that GFL was the right partner. During the visit, we discussed two possible options: Extended Team and Managed Team models. The customer chose Extended Team to reach the human talent resources unavailable in a local market. Afterward, the Client could unload current professionals and focus more on global tasks and strategy while GeeksForLess covered all the SAP-related tasks.
Summary
During the three years of collaboration, we could cover all the primary SAP services, such as:
- Building the architecture of complex program solutions, including integration between standard and custom developments, SAP, and third-party systems.
- Integration between SAP and non-SAP systems through Web services, SAP Java Connector, XML-RPC, RFC, and file integration.
- Generating reports: SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe, Smart Forms, SAP Query, SAPscript, exporting to Excel, Word, OLE servers, Zebra barcode printing.
- Full stack ABAP development for SAP ECC, CRM, SRM, APO, Banking, Netweaver Gateway, PI: creating reports, user interfaces, enhancements, background, parallel processors, mass documents’ creators and handlers (BDC, BAPI, FM), optimizing performance and refactoring of existing programs.
- SAP PI/PO integration.
- SAP BW administration for the custom-created client system.
Today, the Client has a cost-efficient Extended Team responsible for maintenance and new functionality. The following steps include making the Client`s platform scalable and manageable to accept the challenges of further expansion.
Benefits
Access to top talented resources
The client has access to top experienced SAP consultants
Shared responsibility
The Client’s extended and local teams are both responsible for success and failures because collaborative work encourages engineers to reach out for clarifications when requirements are unclear. The client saves massive headaches and development hours due to that.
Knowledge stays in-house
Due to the low attrition rate inside GFL (4+ years average), our Client knowledgebase stays in-house for a very long time which helps
to keep the same estimates and be reliable on GFL as a sufficient partner.
Growth opportunities without distracting the home team
The client can increase or decrease team size without seriously impacting his local team.