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Aptelis ERP Practice
Plan for the future with SAP’s ERP solution

Experience counts. With the Aptelis team deployed on your projects, you can count on our consultants’ average of 12 years SAP experience and over 15 years of experience in business. We know the business processes and have industry specific expertise to help customers fine-tune software tools to meet the demands of their business.

With our intimate knowledge of SAP technology, Aptelis provides companies a competitive edge by allowing them to have visibility across the business frontlines. Having an integrated view of financials, supply chain, sales and distribution, human resources, and warehouse management, Aptelis is able to provide the tools to make competitive decisions that keep companies flexible and adaptive in an ever-changing economy. Through the use of reporting and analytical tools, customers are never more than a click away from a real-time view enabling them to make strategic decisions at the speed of commerce.

Key benefits realized by SAP ERP are:

  • Ensures visibility over your entire organization allowing you to make informed decisions
  • Integrates company-wide business processes such as financials, human resources, sales, and inventory that give you a single view of your business and its current state
  • Provides a platform for long-term growth allowing for easier global deployments, standardization of both processes and systems, and improved operational efficiencies.

When you integrate SAP into your company, you introduce unequaled efficiency to your business processes. At Aptelis, we understand the demands to improve all aspects of your company while minimizing costs. We make technology your tool to meet these demands and become more competitive, efficient, and effective.

Strategic Planning
Our strategic advisory services offer expert advice in finding the solutions that can help your business achieve its goals. At Aptelis, we listen to you first - making sure we understand your views and direction for the project or organization. This tailored offering fully captures your business objectives and supports your short-term and long-term business strategies. Our understanding of enterprise systems and how they can support your business growth is second to none. With our “bottom-up” approach, we can help you with the following:
  • Defining the infrastructure that you will need, now and in the future, to support your ERP systems
  • Creating an application roadmap to ensure efficiency and effective use of SAP within your budget constraints
  • Working with you and SAP America to obtain necessary software licenses
  • Identifying the best approach for using SAP software to meet your needs
  • Working together with your team, to develop an implementation plan that maximizes your return on investment
Our team includes effective CIO advisors that will focus on what’s best for you and your organization, as well as an implementation team that consistently delivers successful projects.
Program / Project Management
Aptelis provides leadership and guidance to ensure adherence to proven project management principles and best practices. Through our disciplined and effective project management approach, we help to reduce the risk of your projects by maintaining a disciplined focus on project scope, resources, and timelines. With this focus we are able to better resolve critical issues and keep projects on track.

We maximize your investment by leveraging SAP’s proven methodology and tools. We couple these tools with our experienced and PMP certified project managers to provide the following:
  • Project Assessment – to help you determine the project scope, timeline and budget planning
  • Project Charter – to ensure consistent understanding of project scope, objectives, business risks, mitigation plans and implementation strategy
  • Best Practices – to maximize the benefits of using SAP and minimize the time, effort and cost of the implementation
  • Business Blueprint – to ensure the proper design of the SAP supported processes and the new system that will support your business plan
  • Detailed Project Plan – to ensure all required activities for the project are captured, assigned, and managed properly
  • Roadmap – to provide a clear view of the current project and future phases to ensure continuous improvement of your SAP solution to meet your future needs
Our program management services provide you with the following key factors:
  • Governance Structure – Our approach provides for a crucial balance of both the client and Aptelis resources. Information travels up from the project team with decisions traveling down keeping the project team focused on execution and the program sponsors focused on decision-making. This structure provides for risk mitigation, status updates, and project integrity through its detailed and contextual visibility of budget, scope and schedule.
  • Assessment, Planning and Deployment – Our approach provides a detailed project plan to ensure all aspects of the project and program are tracked and managed with the focus on driving tasks to deliverables. Includes integration plan, quality assurance, testing, security, data migration, cutover and production support.
  • Enablement Program – Our approach helps to ensure that after you enable your IT solution, your organization can fully support it. This includes an assessment of your organizations readiness, and the creation of a plan to make sure there is an effective and efficient adoption of the new technology. Additionally, we work to ensure that the support and operations teams are comfortable with the new systems and technology by providing training and knowledge transfer programs.
Implementation / Upgrades
Aptelis has been implementing SAP for more than 10 years. Our ERP practice has delivered many successful projects for our clients, ranging from small companies with limited budgets, to large multi-national companies with lots of complexity. We leverage SAP’s proven ASAP methodology tailored to the needs of our customer’s business and objectives. Our team of experienced consultants has successfully delivered SAP ERP solutions in the following areas for our clients:
  • Sales and Distribution (SD)
  • Materials Management (MM)
  • Finance (FI)
  • Controlling (CO)
  • Human Capital Management (HCM)
  • Production Planning (PP & P/PI)
  • Quality Management (QM)
  • Service Management (SM)
  • NetWeaver
  • ECC Upgrades (from R/3 4.6C to the current release)
  • Global templates rollouts
We maintain our own in-house SAP ERP system that we keep current with the latest releases of SAP’s software. This system is readily available to demonstrate any SAP functionality that you may be considering. If you are interested in a demonstration, please contact us at sales@aptelis.com or (949) 752-0560.
Support
Aptelis provides both onsite and offsite production support services for our clients. These services can be used to cover short-term needs after a recent “Go-Live” and long-term Application Management Services. With our experience and expertise, customers can leverage our services to provide effective onsite support as needed or to augment your IT staff for the long term.

SAP production support is becoming increasingly complex, with factors such as 24X7 support, global locations, multiple time zones, employee turnover, ongoing upgrades, etc, each factor poses a unique challenge. With our partnership network of dedicated consultants and support staff, we are able to provide off Application Management Services that greatly reduce the impact of these requirements. Aptelis’ support offerings include:
  • 24X7 support
  • Incident Management
  • Application Management Services
  • Help desk support
  • System monitoring and management
  • Process support