what is mean bu SMM methodology.What are the steps involved
in this methodology.How to use this methodology.When do we
prefer this methodology.How differ it from ASAP
Methodology.what are the advantages of this methodology over
ASAP Methodology.



what is mean bu SMM methodology.What are the steps involved in this methodology.How to use this met..

Answer / channakesavareddreddy.g

ASAP: Accelerated Systems Application and Products in Data
Processing

All implementation projects have the the following phases:

Scoping - What is to be implemented i.e. which submodules
are to be implemented some clients may not require credit
management for example. Look at the project scope document
carefully it will tell you what SAP sub-modules in SAP you
should be prepared for. Usually the sales people along with
project manager do it.

As is - Here you understand the existing business processes
of the client . Your BPOcollect all the ISO-documentation
(if client is ISO certified), reports and forms at this
stage and you analyse how and when the reports/forms are
generated, where the data is coming from. You also do a
Level -2 training for your BPO so he is made aware of all
the required transactions in SAP.

Once this is over BPO can start learning with the
consultants help more about SAP. This is crucial because if
you miss out any transactions the BPO may forget about some
of his Business processes which may come up later. It is a
good practice to ask the BPO to make flow charts to explain
business processes.

To-Be - Parallely you map these processes to SAP. Processes
that you are not sure of as to whether they are present in
SAP or not you try to do a configuration of those
processes, and along with the BPO(Business process owner he
is the clients employee who knows about the clients
business processes probably a middle management guy, ther
can more than one), BPO involvement is required as he may
be able to tell you his requirements better. Once you do
the business modelling you
will also be made aware of the gaps between as-is and to-
be , here decisons have to be made as to wether a ABAP
development/system modification is required or not and so
on. Involve the BPO as much as possible and document
everything it is good practice do not be lazy about it.

Business blueprint: Here the as-is and to-be and gap
analysis is explained. This is the document that you will
be using to do your configuration in the realization phase.

Realization phase: Here you do the configuration in the
development server (there are three clients -
development,quality, production). You also decide on the
master data format, so that BPO can go collect the master
data. You also gove ABAP specifications for forms, reports
etc, system modifications etc. Unit testing: Your BPOs and
a few key users sit down and test your configuration in
your module only. It is good to test the BDCs that you need
for uploading data at this stage so you have more realistic
data and your BDCs are tested.

Integration testing:
Once all modules unit testing is over then the
configuration is trasported to the Quality server, where
testing for all the modules is done by BPOs and end user,
this is to check if any problems are there in integration
between various modules. Once all is okay from the QA
server config is transported to the production server.

Go live preparation
Data uploading: The collected master data is checked and
the uploaded into production server(sever and client I have
used interchangeably). Now you are ready for go live i.e.
users can now use the production server.

Thirumallasetty

ASAP methodoligy means nothing but standard process for
implementation of SAP, It consists of 5 phases.

1. Project preperation - consists of identifying team
members and developing strategy as how to go.

2. Business Blue print - consists of identifying the client
current process, reqeirement and how SAP provides solution.
Consists of detailed documentaion

3. Realization -The purpose of this phase is to implement
all the business and process requirements based on the
Business Blueprint.

4. Final Preparation - The purpose of this phase is to
complete testing, end-user training,

5. Go Live and Support

All the functinal consultatns need good rapo with Abapers.
right from uploading of legacy data, devoloping customised
reports, BDC's, Forms etc, here functinal consultatns need
to give guidence as to get the requried data for reports
and all.. like the table name, fields etc

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