End-to-End SAP Project Delivery: A Head of Services' Playbook

Delivering a successful SAP project demands more than technical expertise; it requires a strategic blend of presales insight, architectural design, implementation discipline, and long-term support planning. Drawing on the delivery of SAP initiatives across more than sixty customers, this playbook sets out a practical, lifecycle view of SAP project delivery for service leaders. It walks through four phases, presales and client engagement, architecture and planning, implementation and go-live, and hypercare and support, and distils field-tested leadership principles for owning the full arc of value from discovery through stabilization.

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Published
2026-06-25
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20854083
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ERP Systems Implementation and Impact
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End-to-End SAP Project Delivery: A Head of Services' Playbook

Puneet Khatri
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
ERP Systems Implementation and Impact
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End-to-End SAP Project Delivery: A Head of Services' Playbook

Puneet Khatri
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Abstract

Delivering a successful SAP project demands more than technical expertise; it requires a strategic blend of presales insight, architectural design, implementation discipline, and long-term support planning. Drawing on the delivery of SAP initiatives across more than sixty customers, this playbook sets out a practical, lifecycle view of SAP project delivery for service leaders. It walks through four phases, presales and client engagement, architecture and planning, implementation and go-live, and hypercare and support, and distils field-tested leadership principles for owning the full arc of value from discovery through stabilization.

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Industry, innovation and infrastructure
ERP Systems Implementation and Impact
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