Whitaker-Taylor

We approach all implementations with a focus on our customer’s objectives, both operational and financial. Our team of dedicated Whitaker-Taylor consultants will partner with you to ensure that we deliver a cost-effective and efficient SAP solution that balances your company-specific needs with SAP best practices. Whitaker-Taylor uses standard methodologies that have been built over numerous SAP HR projects that allow us to deliver lasting operational results.

What makes Whitaker-Taylor different?

We blend best practices with each customer’s project methodology
Our approach blends years of successful implementation experience combined with SAP’s ASAP methodology. Our experienced consultants work with each customer to align the SAP ASAP methodology with client project management requirements, ensuring that the project approach will meet your standards without comprising our proven practices.

A properly managed solution implemented with the SAP ASAP methodology ensures a cost-effective and efficient implementation. The advantages of using this methodology for an SAP implementation are as follows:

A project road map designed to achieve a faster system implementation
Use of industry standard upload tools, conversion templates and validation tools.
Questionnaires and ready-made documentation that allows customers to save costs and accomplish certain tasks before our consultants arrive on-site.
Knowledge transfer throughout the course of implementation

Flexible Consulting Model

Travel costs and associated living expenses for on-site consultants can contribute up to a 20% additional cost to the project. We realize that these additional costs, while often necessary, further reduce your business case and subsequent return on investment (ROI). We will work with you to better understand your company culture and preferred project approach to determine the appropriate balance between working on-site and off-site. When working off-site, our consultants will work as a team out of our Atlanta Consulting office, under the direction of a Team Lead or Project Manager.

We also are happy to work with customers who choose to integrate their own technical resources into the project team. Understanding that many organizations seek to retain a high level of SAP expertise in-house, our flexible delivery model allows us to share our consulting team’s expertise using a collaborative approach with the customer team.

Disciplined Project Management

Delivering a successful project requires the use of proven procedures and tools balanced with deep subject matter expertise. Our project management approach focuses on a few key questions:

How will the project be delivered on time and under-budget?
Our leadership will work with your project team members to ensure clear buy-in and alignment from all parties, including respective project roles and responsibilities. This understanding helps guide the creation of the project charter, governance, and project plan and the organization of project teams.

How do we follow-up on the delivery?
Our Project Manager’s are seasoned SAP HCM professionals, allowing them to take a hands-on approach to day to day management of the project activities. We stress frequent and regular communication, status reporting, risk and issue management, and Quality Assurance.

How do we manage interactions within the team and with other initiatives?
We understand projects and teams cannot be managed within a vacuum. We focus on maintaining strong communication channels within the project team to manage the interdependencies. We will also work with you to synchronize project activities with other corporate initiatives to obtain commitment and support as needed.

Whitaker-Taylor’s project management methodology is based on the standards outlined by the Project Management Institute (PMI).