Best Practice

Assurance PLUS™

Assurance PLUS™ provides SAP® customers with independent, evidence-based assurance at critical points in the SAP® Activate lifecycle. It strengthens delivery quality, reduces risk, and improves confidence that an implementation can safely progress through each SAP® Activate delivery phase. The Assurance PLUS™ practice combines SAP® ActivateClean Core principles and global assurance best practice methods into a simple, repeatable, customer-centred assurance framework.

What we do.

Assurance PLUS™ reviews provides customer centric assurance with a sense of purpose – providing measurable benefits across the SAP® solution full implementation.

Most ERP transformations are complex and high-risk. SAP® customers are expected to deliver faster, adopt SAP® best practices, keep their systems clean, and minimise cost and disruption. PM Solutions uses Assurance PLUS™ to support these expectations by providing:

  • independent oversight of the SAP® Activate delivery;
  • early visibility of risks and design weaknesses;
  • confirmation that phase-entry criteria are met;
  • assurance that Clean Core principles are applied;
  • validation that the organisation is ready for the next phase; and
  • increased confidence that outcomes, value and timelines are achievable.

The Assurance PLUS™ methods and processes sit alongside and enhance the SAP® Activate Quality Gates, RISE governance, and enhances, not replaces, the existing SAP® Activate controls.

The Assurance PLUS™ principles.

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Customer centred

The sponsor’s and organisation’s outcomes, capability and readiness are central to every Assurance PLUS™ review.

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Aligned to SAP® Activate

The Assurance PLUS™ method uses SAP® Activate artefacts, quality gates and ways-of-working as the baseline.

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Evidence-based assurance

Assurance PLUS™ reviews are based on mutually agreed and approved artefacts, traceability, interviews and objective key-criteria.

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Clean Core focused assurance

Assurance PLUS™ ensures that all design decisions follow SAP®-supported patterns: configuration, in-app extensibility, key-user extensions and BTP side-by-side extensions.

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Low disruption assurance

Assurance PLUS™ reviews are fast, structured and designed to add value without slowing delivery.

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High value assurance

The Assurance PLUS™ methodology emphasis is on identifying the risks that ‘matter most’ and supporting decisive action.

Capability insights.

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accredited Assurance PLUS™ professionals

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assurance partner for award winning SAP® Solution implementation

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SAP® solution implementations where Assurance PLUS™ was applied

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years of combined SAP® solutions implementation experience

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Australian governments that we have hands-on SAP® solutions implementation experience

Learn more about our Assurance PLUS™ capability and delivery.