Impact Assessment

A strong impact assessment strategy addresses all parts of an organisation. It helps you determine reporting structures and the high level framework for a SAP business case.

It also clearly quantifies areas of business benefit and can provide a costed timeline for delivering a project across an enterprise. 

Impact assessment investigates these areas to clarify or confirm your understanding of their capabilities and vulnerabilities.

A detailed impact assessment includes a business case and considers software and hardware, use case testing, deployment and reporting and - importantly - people and skill levels.

The business case should detail what and why. Typically for SAP implementations, there are three drivers: business, process and technical. Business drivers are almost always major changes to the business in response to competition or regulatory changes. They usually need to be supported by additional information systems.

Process drivers are based on the need for improvement whether better access to more information or better targeting of customer sets. They can also be driven by initiatives to reduce spend by consolidating suppliers or to shrink manufacturing costs. Either way, the list of possible ways and areas to improve is long and all share a BI imperative.

Technical drivers focus on efficiency, time-benefits and user autonomy. Reducing report generation time and backlogs are both high on the list of ways to improve resourcing and removing the load on your ERP system . Often, projects can be cost justified on these reasons alone.

Innogence can help you plan ahead to ensure rigorous, stringent and timely assessment no matter the scope of your SAP project.