SAP Planning: Best Practices in Implementation

Purpose of This Chapter

This chapter takes a closer look at total cost of ownership analysis, or TCO analysis. The idea at this stage in your SAP project is not to justify the project so much as to determine where and when the costs are incurred within the context of the SAP Solution Stack and ongoing operations. You also need to be able to compare various solution stack options and alternatives from a holistic cost perspective. By calculating rough costs before embarking upon major technology purchases, or before fleshing out the SAP Technical Support Organization with incremental and expensive human resources, the composition of the solution stack you eventually go “live” with will not only meet your business needs, but also reflect your budget ...