Unbeatable: The DEFINITIVE Guide on How to Deliver Your SAP S/4HANA Transformation without Breaking the Business

By Paul Coetser

2027 is coming ready or not. Are you?
Do you relate to any of these:
•The Board or Stakeholders got you having sleepless nights trying to come up with that elusive business case that just will not stack up?
•Can’t convince your peers why this is the right thing to do? Can’t see how this won’t cost you millions that you don’t have?
•Looking around at your peers and you only see stories of cost and time overruns, disgruntled users and unrealised functionality?
•Got more pressing issues?
•Need a way to do this at low risk and with controlled costs?
•Not sure where to start?
•How to deploy - Green/Brown/Bluefield, Big Bang, Phased, by Region, by Function?
•How to optimise your contracts – what’s important, what you can change and what is fixed?
•Get rid of shelf ware but do not know how?
•Need a roadmap but all the vendors do is confuse you and the business?
The answer is in your hands. This book will guide you from where you are today and answer your most pressing questions. Move to S/4HANA – let’s get this done.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tellwell Talent
• Release date: Apr 3, 2022
• ISBN: 9781922812254

Paul Coetser

About the AuthorPaul Coetser is a multi-award winning Advisor. He is experienced in six different ERP solutions but specialises in SAP. He has risen from junior BA doing documentation through to Programme Director and Chief Architect to his current role – CxO & Board Advisor. At the time of print he has advised on over thirteen (13) SAP S/4/HANA projects in the Oceania, European, US, China, Africa, and South American continents.His value lies in guiding clients to successfully implement their solution while avoiding many of the bear traps and hidden issues that only years of experience can bring. He provides Board Assurance to Programmes and can always get the truth on the exact state of a Programme. He also provides remediation services to projects that have slipped off the planned roadmap.When not slaying corporate dragons, he may be found on some idyllic beach, in the water or chasing Piscean foes. He also makes for a passable cook.

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UNBEATABLE

The DEFINITIVE Guide on How to Deliver Your SAP S/4HANA Transformation without Breaking the Business

by

Paul Coetser

(The SAP Whisperer)

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Dedication

This book is dedicated to a wide audience.

To the clients, thanks for all the challenges, tough and easy times, they are what makes experience what it is. Your long-suffering patience and desire to implement change for the better despite truly staggering and frankly at times terrifying challenges are a testament to your mindsets and validate your existence in that market in which you ply your trade.

My family, who by now know well what a toll ERP projects exact on all who touch them. Thanks for the patience, support, amazing love and grace. God bless you all.

To my circle of friends, fellow consultants and those who work this crazy but adrenalin filled world of ERP implementations, thanks for your wisdom, contributions, creativity and awesome solutions.

Special shout out to Tony de Thomasis, the godfather of SAP. I have lost count of the times Tony has ridden in to the rescue. He has been a beacon of light along this journey and is certainly a gentlemen and pure Aussie Italian! If you need Tony or TdT to his mates, I can reliably inform you that he may be lured with offers of genuine gelato.

Others who have enriched my journey and experiences – Etienne Prowse (Thanks to this man that I can count past three and to this day still use hash counts, EP, you da man old friend), Derek Galt, Vijay Singh, Kulbir Plaha, Michael Rouse, Craig Armstrong, Paul Brito, Paul Bowman, Paul Maree, Carlo Terribile, Roelof Lubbe, Dennis Norgard (He who started me on my Aus journey, no words can thank you enough), Ezedin Mahmoud, Peter Seddon, Helen Lynn, Norah Pepper (wow what an amazing person – scones, jam and coffee milady?), Dave Thomas, John Dwyer (The grandmaster of EAM and all round bloody good bloke), Claire Wildekamp, Jan Musil, Simon Lewis (That’s Mr. Data to you all), Stacey Sleeman (comfortably one of the sharpest CFOs I have ever worked with), Dennis Moncrieff (So many talents!), Matt Levy OAM, Neville Haigh, Gerda Becker, (your support is never forgotten and will always have pride of place), Brendan Hardy (Man you just keep going, respect), Beth Gillard, Andy Lloyd, Chris John (Someone teach that man Physics 101), Laura Howe, Stuart Hassell (The Grandmaster of SAP Security), Shushanth Shantaram, Chris Shroefl, Alan Wilson, Chris Ford, Cameron Webb, Chris Crozier, Andrew Bettenay (foghorn leghorn and yes I still have that handwritten note, Pay attention son, you may learn something.), Martin Costello and all my SAP mates etc. If your name is not here – the list could be longer than the book. Thank you all for your amazing contribution, skills, experience and above all, support and friendship.

And to my Creator, thanks for the curiosity, innate drive to solve and fix things and the chance to improve someone’s fate, somewhere even in the smallest way imaginable. To God be the Glory. All of it.

About the Author

Paul Coetser is a multi-award winning Advisor. He is experienced in six different ERP solutions but specialises in SAP. He has risen from junior BA doing documentation through to Programme Director and Chief Architect to his current role – CxO