CASE STUDY

About the Client
° Global manufacturer of mining equipment
° Annual sales of $1,900,000,000
° Employs 7,200 associates

Project Statistics

Mining machinery division
° Upgrade from SAP R/3 version 3.1i to mySAP Enterprise (FI/CO, HR/Payroll, MM, PP, SD, SM, QM, PM, and Workflow)
° Duration: November 2004 to March 31,2005
° Number of resources: 1 curricula developer (part time), 1 working project manager (part time), 7 instructors
° Tools: Microsoft Word and PowerPoint, and Snag-it.

Mining equipment division

° Duration: July 2005 to March 31, 2006
° Number of resources: 6 developers (FTE), 1 working project manager (full time), 12 instructors
° New Implementation of mySAP Enterprise (FI/CO, HR/Payroll, MM, PP, SD, SM, QM, PM, and Workflow)

Delivered Services
° Delivered project team training (both functional and technical)
° Developed and managed an SAP End User Education Strategy, including class schedule and attendance mapping
° Developed end user curricula, including delta materials for their upgrade
° Knowledge transfer to client’s team of internal curricula developers
° Delivery of end user education (approx 140 days) at client locations in the United States, UK, South Africa, Australia and Chile:
   • Traditional classroom sessions
   • WebEX sessions
° HR & Payroll Consulting along with various other spot consulting services
° teksoft Resource Library (tRL)

The teksoft Difference
° Leadership and subject matter expertise on end user education is sues
° Ability to establish credibility and cooperation with the client’s team members and management
° Embraced the client’s challenging goals and timelines as their own, including the assignment of instructors in 4 different countries
° Helped client reduce time/cost to train in the midst of record level sales production

Results
° On time!
° Below budget (actual costs were approximately 30% lower than projected costs for the  upgrade)
° 99% class attendance
° teksoft instructors averaged 6.8 out of a possible 7.0 rating scale
° Teksoft developed curricula averaged 6.4 out of a possible 7.0 rating scale
° Production and shipping levels achieved pre go-live levels within 2 days


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