Project Management and business consultancy

Project management for SAP and LIMS — from first decision to a supported system

A system implementation does not fail in the coding. It fails earlier — in a tool that was chosen too quickly, a supplier that was never properly assessed, or a start-up that skipped the conversations that later turn out to be essential. Or it fails later, at the moment the project team goes home and support is expected to take over a system nobody has really handed over.

Blanchard Management GmbH works on exactly those two ends of the project: the preparation that determines whether the project can succeed, and the execution that determines whether it actually does. From tool and supplier selection to project start-up, delivery and the handover to support.

Preparation: the decisions that set the outcome

Tool selection — SAP and LIMS. We help you determine what the system actually has to do before anyone demonstrates software. Together with your business and IT stakeholders we translate processes and requirements into selection criteria, weigh the realistic options against them, and document the choice so that it still holds up a year later. In SAP environments that means being clear about scope, modules and integration early; in LIMS environments it means being clear about laboratory workflows, data integrity and regulatory requirements.

Supplier selection.

We run a transparent selection process: a requirements package suppliers can genuinely respond to, structured proposals, comparable evaluation, reference checks, and a contracting phase in which scope, responsibilities, service levels and exit terms are settled before the work starts. Vendor-independent — we have no stake in which supplier wins, only in whether the choice is defensible.

Project start-up. A project that starts well stays manageable. We establish the governance: project plan and phasing, roles and decision rights, a workable steering structure, budget and risk approach, and the working agreements between your organisation and the supplier. On international rollouts we also settle the practical side early — sites, languages, local key users, validation and data migration — because that is where the surprises otherwise appear in month eight.

Execution: delivering it

During delivery we manage the project on your side of the table. Planning and progress, scope control, risk and issue management, coordination between business, IT and the supplier, testing and acceptance, and clear reporting to steering committee and management. We keep the business objective visible when the technical detail starts to dominate, and we raise problems while they are still small enough to solve.

For SAP programmes this typically means coordinating across modules, interfaces and legacy systems; for LIMS implementations it means keeping laboratory practice, validation and regulatory compliance in the same conversation as the technical build.

Handover to support: where we finish

A project is not finished when the system goes live. It is finished when support can run it. We prepare the handover deliberately: documentation and knowledge transfer, trained key users and administrators, agreed support processes and escalation paths, and a defined period in which the project team remains available while support takes responsibility. Only then do we consider our role complete.

Who we have done this for

Our project managers have worked with large, internationally operating organisations, including Philips, Vodafone, Syngenta, Roche and LabVantage — environments with multiple sites, multiple countries, strict regulatory requirements and long supplier chains. That experience is what lets us recognise a weak project plan early and act on it.

Where we can help

• Tool selection for SAP and LIMS

• Supplier selection and contracting

• Project start-up and governance design

• Project and programme management during delivery

• Testing, acceptance and go-live coordination

• Handover to support and post-go-live transition

Our project managers have worked on SAP and LIMS programmes for organisations such as Philips, Vodafone, Syngenta, Roche and LabVantage — multi-site, multi-country environments with strict regulatory requirements and long supplier chains.