Imagine the following situation: Your SAP project has started, the roadmap has been defined, the budget has been approved, and the team is motivated. Everything is running smoothly – until suddenly, nothing works anymore. Your key developer is out for the long term, the departments urgently need support in their day-to-day business, and external dependencies are causing delays. Instead of celebrating progress, you find yourself discussing postponed milestones and rising costs in the steering committee. What remains is an unpleasant feeling of stagnation. And it is precisely this stagnation that is expensive – financially, organizationally, and emotionally.
There are various reasons that can lead to delays and disruptions in an SAP project. Often, the causes seem relatively unspectacular on their own, but taken together, they can have enormous consequences:
Staff shortages
People who were actually scheduled to work on the project are unable to do so due to illness, resignation, or unforeseen circumstances.
Daily business vs. project work
Departments focus their attention on urgent operational tasks, leaving no capacity for the project.
Lack of specialist knowledge
Certain topics and issues require experts with specialized knowledge that is simply not available internally.
Budget uncertainty
When milestones are pushed back, concerns about additional costs grow – and some projects are put on hold indefinitely.
Any one of these factors is enough to take the momentum out of a project. However, if several of them occur at the same time, the entire project is suddenly put on hold and faces an uncertain future.
But it doesn’t have to come to that. Flexible SAP Application Management Services (AMS) provide a remedy and offer an effective tool for preventing project downtime. They are a safety net that prevents a project from falling into an abyss.
Ad hoc help
External experts take on operational tasks at short notice, giving your core team the freedom to focus on what matters most.
Targeted expertise
When specialized SAP know-how is needed, it is immediately available – without lengthy recruitment processes.
Stable foundation
Day-to-day business continues as usual, while the project can pick up speed without any restrictions on routine tasks.
Scalable support
You decide when you want to scale up or down capacity.
With SAP AMS, you remain in control – and gain the security of knowing that you can act at any time.
Project interruptions are not only stressful, they also cost money. Budgets are blocked without any visible progress. The go-live date is pushed further and further back – and with it the hoped-for efficiency gains that the project was supposed to bring. This reduces motivation within the team and causes frustration among employees.
SAP AMS also offers a decisive counterbalance in financial terms by ensuring predictable, transparent costs. Companies only pay for what they actually need – while ensuring continuous project progress.
As a decision-maker, you are constantly faced with the same question: wait or act? While waiting only leads to frustration and costs in SAP projects, acting offers the better alternative thanks to professional SAP Application Management Services: Projects remain on track and can be implemented as planned, even when internal resources are scarce. Ultimately, it is not the bottleneck that determines success, but the ability to respond flexibly to it.