Gartner research has found out that globally up to 55% of all ERP projects fail or result into dissatisfaction of management at the end. The definition of ‘failure‘ is a bit fluid but certainly means the projects did not reach their objectives. his level of failure must be daunting to any organisation planning to renew or replace its ERP systems.

What are the major contributors towards the failure or an implementation which doesn’t satisfy the business needs or stakeholder expectations?

Among tons of reasons i believe there are three key elements that play vital role in the success of any ERP Implementation:

Commitment from Management Team:

I found the management team often engaged till the project is kicked off, they show deep concern and put immense efforts in providing input in budgeting and high level company mission of accomplishment of successful ERP Implementation. They really dont understand the key factor that this implementation will bring into the organization is “Change Management” and to manage the resentment from process owners as nobody wants to get out from their comfort zone.  Think of change management as a “change triangle” that includes technology/systems, processes, and people. You need to focus on all three parts of that triangle.

They also need to understand ERP Implementation is not the IT project, If the project will be led by business teams the chances of success as more often.

Key Process Owners engagement:

Most companies know that an ERP project requires a considerable amount of commitment and sometimes overtime work from employees, in addition to maintaining the day-to-day operations. but nobody really show concern on how to facilitate employees in achieving expected results. Management has to think how they can keep employees motivated otherwise this can lead to cost overruns, incomplete process mapping in enterprise software or adoption of best industry practices.

The ERP Implementation Partner capability:

To me even the customer has aligned everything to make a project successful it can be easily destroyed by incompetent ERP Implementation partner and I have experienced this couple of times as well. The project team allocated by the consulting play vital role in the right implementation to benchmark best industry practices as well as correct configuration and customization of the enterprise software.

“In a nutshell its not the product issue, the issue lies with the people who take part in ERP Implementation either from customer side or consulting”

This configuration guide provides the information you need to set up the configuration of the Travel management system for sample client GIS. We have kept the scenarios simple and basic for better understanding. It further helps us to comprehend the entire process in sequential and logical manner in order to replicate the client Travel Management requirements into SAP system.

GIS Travel Management (Basic Setting) Part-I

GIS Travel Management part 2

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By providing the right information to the right users in the right context, they can get more done in less time with greater accuracy. With more intuitive SAP screens, organizations can enhance user satisfaction, minimize training time, and spend less money on screen modifications.

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Creating Infotype and configuring Subtypes for that Infotype:

Here is a step by step procedure of Creating the Infotype and Configuring the Subtypes for the newly created Infotype.

Go to Transaction PM01.
Enter the custom Infotype number which you want to create (Should be a 4 digit number, start with 9).
Select the ‘Employee Infotype’ radio button.
Select the ‘PS Structure Infotype’.
Click on Create, a separate table maintenance window appears…
Create a PS structure with all the fields you want on the Infotype
Save and Activate the PS structure
Go back to the initial screen of PM01.
Click on ‘All’ push button.

Click on ‘Technical Characteristics’. Infotype list screen appears
Click on ‘Change'(pencil) button
Select your Infotype and click on ‘Detail’ (magnifying glass) button
Give ‘T591A’ as subtype table
Give ‘T591S’ as subtype txt tab
Give your subtype field as subtype field
Save and come back to PM01 initial screen
Click on ‘Infotype Characteristics’, Infotype list screen appears
Click on ‘Change’ (pencil) button
Click on ‘New Entries’
Enter your Infotype number and short text
Here you have to set different Infotype Characteristics as per the requirement.
Save your entries.
Now the Infotype is created and ready to use.
If you want to change the layout of the Infotype as per your requirement…
In the PM01 initial screen…Select ‘Screen’ radio button and give 2000 as the screen name, then click on edit.
In the next screen, select ‘Layout Editor’ and click ‘Change’.
Screen default layout appears, here you can design/modify the screen; change the attributes of the fields, etc.
Save and activate. (Don’t forget to ‘Activate at every level).

Please click on the link below to get the steps:

Step by Step guide to create features

Please click on the link below to open word file for steps to be followed!!!!

Enhancement of Standard Infotype

Payroll – Base Configuration
•Employee Subgroup Grouping for Personnel Calculation Rule ( PCR) and Collective Agreement Provision (CAP)
•Check Pay Scale Type
•Check Pay Scale Area
•Check Assignment of Pay Scale Structure to Enterprise Structure
•Determine Default for Pay Scale Data (TARIF)
•Create Wage Type Catalog
•Check Wage Type Group “ Basic Pay”
•Check Wage Type Text
•Check Entry Permissibility per Info Type
•Employee Subgroups for Primary Wage Type
•Personnel Subarea for Primary Wage Type
•Define Wage Type Permissibility for each PS and ESG
•Check Wage Type Characteristics
•Revise Pay Scale Groups and Levels
•Revise Default Wage Type
•Enterprise structure to wage type model – LGMST
•Create Payroll Area
•Check default payroll area – ABKRS

Prerequisite of Payroll Run
•Overview of Payroll
•Period Parameter
•Date modifier
•Check Payroll Area
•Generate Payroll period
•Create Control record
•Hire an employee