Snell Consultancy Director – Guest Speaker at the SAP Magic Circle
March 14, 2013 by Ivan Snell
Today, Thursday 14th March 2013, in a session on programme implementation best practice Ivan Snell, Snell Consultancy Director, and Matt Dobbins, Head of SAP (UK) Consulting Services, spoke to an audience of over 100 SAP customers and partners on the benefits of programme quality gates, adopting a thorough testing approach and utilising early planning for testing entry and exit meetings. The venue was the Magic Circle’s infamous London headquarters close to Euston train station.
Ivan and Matt drew on their experience of recently delivering one of the largest ever global forecasting and planning implementations, utilising SAP’s Business Planning & Consolidation (BPC) software application, to a UK based oil and gas UK based major.
Ivan described the critical decisions that were made to choose his clients implementation partner. “There was no way this strategic project for the Group Finance Head of Planning and Group Financial Controller could fail” he said. He continued: “Why would you not choose the company that wrote the software, as your implementation partner, provided you had the highest confidence it could deliver? The outcome was highly successful with the project being delivered on time, to budget, with the expected levels of data accuracy in the financial consolidated statements achieved”. He closed off the session saying: “The project has been highly acclaimed with industry recogn14thition and, of course, Matt and I have been rewarded with promotions in our respective organisations”.