SAP Center of Excellence
An SAP Centre of Excellence (CoE) serves as a central hub for SAP expertise, governance, and innovation, ensuring alignment with business objectives. It encompasses a structured team, potentially centralised, federated, or a hybrid of both, with roles spanning leadership, functional and technical expertise, project management, business analysis, data management, and training. Key functions include managing the entire SAP lifecycle—from implementation and upgrades to maintenance and disaster recovery—providing operational support through help desks and issue resolution, overseeing project management and change control, developing and enforcing best practices, ensuring security and compliance, and driving innovation through new technologies. Operational nuances involve establishing clear governance frameworks, defining Service Level Agreements (SLAs), managing communication, handling vendor relationships, controlling budgets, and fostering talent development. Ultimately, a well-executed SAP CoE optimises SAP investments, enhances efficiency, and facilitates strategic growth.
Our Objective
“To maximise the potential of our existing assets, work with our partners to bring exciting new developments on stream and maintain an absolute commitment to safety in everything we do”.
SAP Center of Excellence Overview
Improvement Areas
For every assessment focus area e.g., work planning, task lists, etc. we have developed a list of criteria which we benchmark our assessment findings against. Also, we provide a detailed list of improvement areas about the specific topic in focus area.
Data Extract Statistics
For every assessment focus area e.g., work planning, task lists, etc., we provide statistics to support areas of concern using data extracted from the customer SAP system.
Activity Impact Rating
For every assessment focus area, e.g., work planning, task lists, etc., we provide an impact rating (HIGH, MEDIUM, LOW) to benchmark the problem areas' impact on compromising SAP PM's ability to support critical maintenance processes.
Improvement Plan
As part of the assessment, we also provide a comprehensive improvement roadmap specifically tailored each organisation's unique problems and journey. This roadmap also provides customer with the ability to choose which areas they want to focus on to drive quick wins within their organisation
Key Benefits
Detailed analysis supports the data-driven business case
For every assessment focus area e.g., work planning, task lists, etc., we provide statistics to support areas of concern using data extracted from the customer SAP system.
Strong understanding of problem areas
As part of the assessment, we also provide a comprehensive improvement roadmap tailored to each organisation's unique problems and journey. This roadmap also provides the customer with the ability to choose which areas they want to focus on to drive quick wins within their organisation
Some of our customers
EAM WorkMate Implementation Process
1) Assessment
AG product implementation approach starts with a free readiness assessment. Here we usually assess the Business Process around planning, execution and reporting/analysis.
This will allow us to advice on potential 'process refinements needed', which usually take place in parallel to the rest of the project activities.
2) Implementation
Here at AG we follow SAP's proven 'Activate Methodology' and AG's proven governance model, designed to get all the necessary stakeholders involved at the right time.
The model involved weekly progress calls with progress reports and monthly steer-co meetings with project sponsors/owners.
3) Embedding/Adoption
The mentioned stakeholder engagement approach has proven to ensure successful project delivery and go-live and successful user adoption to derive the intended RIOs.
The implementation also includes a well-structured training program targetting all user groups, such as Maintenance Technicians, Team Lead, Master Data Maintainers and Management (for analytics).
Partner Ecosystem
SAP Gold Partner & Value-added Reseller
Recognised by SAP to have the in-house expertise to maintain exceptional levels of customer satisfaction, solution quality, and service delivery.
SRCN Solutions
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Oil Plus
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Metanax
Metanax Asset Management are an international consultancy and service provider offering bespoke asset lifecycle management services across all energy & industry sectors. Based in the U.K, with active representation in Europe and the Middle East.
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