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Patni’s Expertise in SAP Solution Manager Helps a Leading Consumer Products Company Reduce
TCO and Improve Efficiency |
A leading consumer products company engaged Patni to re-invent its SAP implementation program and reduce its cost/timeline/efforts by 50% using
SAP tools (mainly the Solution Manager)
The Client
The client is a Fortune 50 consumer products company having operations
in over 80 countries worldwide.
The Challenge
Being a global organization, the client has operations spread across more
than 80 countries. The client expectation was reduction in the total
ownership cost of its IT applications. Re-invention of its SAP implementation program
was one of the main initiatives towards this goal. Additionally, the client desired overall productivity improvement in the entire project lifecycle across the SAP landscape by re-engineering and streamlining the project management processes across diverse organizations.
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The client wanted to reduce its reliance on a few people based on their expertise and make the operations more process centric by building repeatable, proven, and structured methodology. Besides, the client
desired to support it with tools and templates enhancing the global
project management and complex SAP project implementations. |
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Global presence of the client counted for extremely high re-usability
and repeatability of processes. Reusable project templates resolved
this requirement. The client wanted to harmonize and standardize
various project deliverables providing an advanced knowledge
management warehouse to the project-host templates, checklists,
and guidelines. |
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Another need of the client was conducting systematic scope analysis
for all its projects across the globe. |
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Further, to decrease the total cost of ownership (TCO) the client planned
to cut down on the training costs by enabling end-user training that
could be offered to users across the globe. |
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The Solution
Patni Consultants got engaged with the client leadership team and program management team.
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The Benefits
Incorporating Patni recommendations, the client was able to achieve:
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50% reduction in the overall project implementation timeline, and costs and efforts |
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75% reduction in the non-negative impact Test efforts |
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50% reduction in the production incidents caused by the SAP application releases. |
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