when to start implementing workflow ?

[Aydin, Kemal (Kemal)** CTR **]

Ronen,
 
Here are some words from the SAP Help files:
 
SAP Business Workflow can be used to define business processes that are not yet mapped in the R/3 System. These may be simple release or approval procedures, or more complex business processes such as creating a material master and the associated coordination of the departments involved.
 
And, my experience tells me if it's a simple process you can wait till the end of the project. But, if it's a complex business process you might want to start with the blueprint phase, so that both can evolve together.
 
Thanks,
Kemal Aydin
 
 
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ronen Fox [SMTP:Ronen.Fox at ness.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 1:23 AM
> To:   SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject:      when to start implementing workflow ?
>
> Dear workflow experts,
>
> One of our clients, a very large manufacturing enterprise, is beginning to
> prepare the implementation of mysap.com.
> It would be a large project, and they are also interested in workflow,
> although they have a fear that workflow is complex to implement.
>
> The question I would like to ask this group on their behalf is what
> recommendations you may have as to the phase of the ERP project that
> workflow should be introduced ? right from the beginning of the conceptual
> design ? after going live and letting the processes become more mature ?
> I guess there is more that one answer, and I would really appreciate getting
> various answers to this question that represent different methodologies.
>
> Thank you all in advance for your kind help.
> Best regards,
> Ronen Fox
> Workflow product manager
> Ness Technologies