February 2025 – Make F.I.T. Your Purpose

C-suite

Overcoming AI Adoption Resistance

📚 Education transforms AI fear into understanding, empowering employees to embrace change.

🔒 Transparency in data governance builds trust, reducing privacy and security concerns.

🛠️ Proactive job redesign reassures teams, turning automation anxiety into career opportunities.

💬 Open conversations address AI misconceptions, fostering a confident, collaborative workplace culture.

🚀 Celebrating early AI successes reinforces enthusiasm, driving long-term organisational resilience.

C-suite

AI-Driven Net Zero Transformation

The Boardroom Imperative to Commit

📊 AI accelerates Net Zero goals – AI pinpoints emissions, optimises processes, and tracks sustainability progress.

👨‍💼 Executive commitment is essential – Leadership must allocate resources and drive cultural change.

💡 Align AI with business strategy – Sustainability efforts must support financial and regulatory goals.

🚀 Governance ensures success – AI-driven sustainability needs clear oversight, accountability, and compliance.

🎯 Fast Implementation Track – COMMIT – Leadership backing turns AI sustainability plans into real impact.

Consultants

Streamlining Post‑Brexit Trade in Northern Ireland

✅ Bonded warehouses delay duty payments until goods leave for local market sales.

🚛 SAP EWM tracks bonded stock, ensuring compliance with customs and tax regulations.

🌍 Northern Ireland offers dual-market access, simplifying UK and EU post-Brexit trade.

📦 Goods in bonded warehouses avoid immediate import VAT, improving cash flow.

📊 SAP S/4HANA automates customs processes, reducing paperwork and manual reconciliation.

Managers

Overcoming challenges in SAP implementation using AI

Key Takeaways 🚀

AI in project management is moving from hype to reality, automating busywork and augmenting decision.
Microsoft Copilot for SAP and SAP Joule are powerful allies in SAP implementations, simplifying work by bridging systems and surfacing insight.
Embracing AI requires more than just tech – it needs people buy-in, training, and a clear strategy (technology alone isn’t a silver bullet!).
The Fast Implementation Track (F.I.T.) offers SAP implementation best practices for AI adoption: Focus on value, Communicate openly, Simplify processes, Commit early, and Educate teams.
Simplify, simplify, simplify – avoid over-complicating your AI integration. Doing a few things really well beats trying to do it all at once.
When used smartly, AI copilots reduce administrative load and provide actionable insights, letting project managers spend time on what truly matters – driving project success.

EDUCATE

SAP “Plants Abroad” Functionality

A Project Manager’s Guide

✅ Plants Abroad simplifies VAT for multi-country operations in one company code.

🌍 It was designed for EU transactions, automating tax and Intrastat reporting.

⚠️ Applying it outside the EU requires custom coding, adding complexity.

🔄 SAP ECC supports multi-country plants, but S/4HANA integrates it efficiently.

🇬🇧 Brexit complicates UK-EU movements; Plants Abroad no longer applies there.

C-suite

AI adoption needs strategy, not just tech

✅ AI adoption needs strategy, not just technology, to drive real value.

📊 Companies struggle without clear goals, governance, and structured execution.

🚀 SAP Preferred Success provides expert guidance for scaling AI effectively.

🔍 F.I.T. methodology simplifies AI adoption with focus and early decisions.

📈 Strategic AI implementation boosts efficiency, ROI, and competitive advantage.

This guide examines challenges and how SAP Preferred Success and the Fast Implementation Track methodology enable AI-driven transformation.

COMMUNICATE

The First AI Agent Every Project Manager Should Try

How Otter.ai Instantly Makes You a More Efficient Project Manager.

Imagine you’re leading a project meeting, juggling a heated discussion and scribbling notes as fast as humanly possible. Action items are flying left and right, decisions are made in the moment, and you’re tasked with capturing every detail. By the end, your hand hurts, your notes are scattered, and you still worry you missed something crucial. Sound familiar? For many project managers – especially in complex SAP implementation projects – this is a daily reality.

Managers

The Fast Implementation Track Approach to Data Migration

Migrating to SAP S/4HANA is more than a technical upgrade – it’s a strategic business move. This next-generation ERP offers the chance to reimagine how your business runs, streamline outdated processes, and unlock new capabilities. It’s also becoming unavoidable: SAP will end mainstream support for ECC, making the move to S/4HANA essential for stability and compliance. After that date, companies sticking with legacy systems will be left without official support – “in the dust,” as Iftekhar Hossain puts it. Beyond support, SAP is focusing all innovation on S/4HANA, meaning new features (especially around AI and analytics) will only be available to S/4HANA users. Delaying migration could put your organisation at a competitive disadvantage as others leap ahead with modern capabilities.

C-suite

Implementing S/4HANA Without A Vision

📌 A Common Mistake When Implementing S/4HANA

Picture this. You approve a major project to upgrade your company’s ERP system to SAP S/4HANA. The budget is signed off. The consultants are on board. The IT team is ready. Everything seems set for a smooth transition.

Then, reality hits.

Six months in, no one can agree on the project’s direction. The IT team wants to rebuild the old system in the new one. The finance team expects automation, but they still see manual workarounds. The warehouse staff struggle with new screens that slow them down instead of speeding things up. Meetings turn into battles over priorities. Delays mount. Costs rise.

What went wrong?

You didn’t have a clear vision.

C-suite

SAP Activate vs ITIL 4

What They Do and Why You Need Both

Many businesses struggle with SAP projects. Some systems never go live. Others launch but cause problems later. IT teams often inherit systems they didn’t help design. Users complain. Costs rise. Nobody wins.

This happens when SAP projects and IT service management don’t connect.