S Company’s SAP Software Project Risk Management Research

In the implementation and application of ERP system in Chinese enterprises as well as global enterprises, SAP system is currently the world’s first ERP software.Since entering China in1995, SAP has been promoted in China very quickly.In less than20years, SAP projects have been implemented in CNPC, SINOPEC, Haier, ChangHong, DongFeng Motor and many large enterprises as well as thousands of small and medium-sized enterprises. Moreover, many enterprises which have implemented SAP project have still ongoing system upgrades and process optimization until now.Risk management is always an important and difficult problem in the SAP implementation project management. Risk management in SAP implementation project is considered to be important means to reduce project’s failure.However, there are few researches about SAP implementation project risk management inside and outside of china. The articles which I can find mainly are for risk management in IT software implementation projects and the articles on risk management in the SAP implementation project arefew. However, SAP software is not ordinary IT software for it contains a lot of enterprise management ideas and management processes, and these will cause major impacts on the implementation of the project.It has important significance to reduce project risk, improve the success rate of the SAP implementation project for domestic SAP implementation project.From risk planning, risk identification, risk assessment, risk response and risk monitoring parts in the SAP implementation project, this article takes a SAP implementation project which the author takes part in as the example and uses the method of combining the theories with practices, to explore the project risks which often happen during the implementation of SAP project and how to make practical risk response according to the project risk. So we can propose operation methods and management processes of project risk management which are suitable to SAP implementation project characters in S company and provide a reference example of project risk management for demotic enterprises implementing their SAP projects.