SAP Planning: Best Practices in Implementation

Overview—The Sizing and Blueprinting Process

If you have been diligent in following the processes outlined up to this point, all of the information collected with regard to your SAP project’s requirements, assumptions, constraints, and so on should be documented in your Knowledge Repository. The Knowledge Repository serves as your plan-of-record, and feeds either creating your Request for Information (RFI), or capturing your solution requirements via a hardware vendor’s Sizing Questionnaire (sometimes called a survey). From this information, any number of SAP technology partners can fashion a custom solution for you, a process collectively known as sizing. From a big-picture perspective, the sizing process is nothing more than a workflow of sorts, ...