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Implementing Sap R/3 : How to Introduce a Large System into a Large Organization, 2nd Edition

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This book will serve well for managers who are planning to or going through their first R/3 implementation project. However, you probably would not need it any further after you have succeeded in your first project. Realistic people and organisational issues for project management are presented with limited technical detail.

I think this is still one of the best reference books for implementing SAP, particularly the change management aspects. The 2nd edition had many updates that should negate older, more negative comments.

If you can read only one book on R/3 implementation, this is the one. Clear, to the point and well organized, Bancroft describes the classic SAP implementation. Good insights into choosing the implementation team. Even with the advent of ASAP, this is the best on the subject.

This book is more geared to an executive that is fairly new to Information Technology. Much of the information & challenges outlined in this book is generic to the implementation of any large scale technology and not just SAP

Wish I had picked this up earlier in my consulting career. The last 1/2 of the text could be applied to every ERP / MRP implementation I've ever been on. The authors do a great job documenting the "people issues" that often get left out. They discuss managing change, expectation setting, training, top management support. All those diffucult , often ignored , subjective "soft" stuff, that kills the spirit of the implementation team. You probably won't like the book if you're a die hard programmer. There's little technical programming here. But that's great if you're new to SAP, and want a non technical , yet detailed discussion of the set up and data requirements. I also used it to understand where the integration points would be - tables and data types - when implementing JDE, and had to bring SAP manufacuring data over to JDE financials. Most recently, skimmed highlighted areas to prepare for an interview. If I never install SAP, it was still an excellent investment in methodology.

I bought several SAP R/3 books, but this is by far the best. It addresses the organizational changes and the issues of change management which are vital for the successfull implementation of R/3. I am currently working on my second R/3 project, and I wish I had had this book earlier!

This book is actually a methodology for implementing a new system, no matter which one. So, main points covered are change process issues, pitfalls in the implementation process and ways to ensure the success from a organizational point of view. So, little technical or programming stuff is supplied apart from some generic structure of SAP. If that is what your are looking for, this is a good book. Don't come here for technical/programming stuff or even for an end-user manual.

I enjoyed reading this book, it has an easy reading style, and I keep a copy of it on my desk to refer back too. It is a good introduction to the organizational issues that can arise when SAP R/3 is implemented in a company. If you read this book and want to know more about what the individual modules in SAP R/3 can do, I recommend getting the latest copy of "Using SAP R/3", published by QUE.

Well, here we are; a well-chosen and promising title, a catchy Web-Site, one of the first SAP Implementation books on the market, I have no doubt this book is a huge marketing success. But does it really keep the title's promise in explaining how to implement SAP R/3, a system that is about to revolutionize the business and IT world, and with it the way we work? NO. What is even worse, it confuses the reader in hiding the crucial, mission-critical aspects of SAP implementations in a rather obscure mixture of regurgitated reengineering catchphrases (they're better books around for that!), and of long-winded anecdotal explanations of the organizational and change issues surrounding SAP implementations. Furthermore, the books gets almost every technical detail either completely wrong (watch out for their explanation of how the check and the save functions work, it's just plainly not true!), or it confuses terms and details to the point where these passages might just as well not have been written. Don't get me wrong, there are a couple of good ideas and collected experiences from companies implementing SAP in there. But the writing is in my opinion extremely poor, and the stuff that you need to know to successfully implement SAP R/3 is not depicted clearly at all. In its defense, it must be said that it is one of the first, if not _the_ first book that tries to tackle the complex subject of implementing the revolutionary integrated business solution SAP R/3. If you're able to tell the good from the bad in this book (i.e. you already have some non-trivial experience with SAP and its implementation), this book can be of some value, because you can isolate and use some of the better parts. If not, you are likely to be confused. If you read this and you have implementation responsibility, watch out, relying on this book alone will not work! I suspect that this book was published in a rush and look forward to reviewing the completely reworked second edition, if there is one. If anyone wants to discuss my purely personal thoughts on this, please feel free to contact me a my Email address.