Most SAP programmes don’t fail in the build — they fail in the decisions around it.
Processes copied from the legacy system, fit-to-standard gaps left unresolved, a go-live the business never truly adopts. Altivate’s SAP Forward Deployed Consultants are senior functional and process consultants who embed inside your team — in the workshops, in the steering room — to shape what the system should do and get your business to run it.
Where our Forward Deployed Engineers build the system, our consultants decide and design what it should be — and own the adoption that turns it into value.
Decisions de-risked · the standard adopted · value realised
What SAP FDCs decide and deliver
Senior functional and process consulting, delivered from inside your team.
Process design and optimisation
End-to-end processes — record-to-report, order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, plan-to-produce — redesigned against the SAP standard rather than copied from the legacy system. The output is a process the business actually agreed to, not a configuration that mirrors old habits.
Fit-to-standard and clean-core decisions
Every gap gets an explicit call: adopt the standard, change the process, or extend deliberately — with the upgrade cost of each choice on the table. That decision discipline is what keeps an S/4HANA estate clean; our engineers then build only what survived it.
Functional configuration across modules
Senior configuration expertise across Finance & Controlling, supply chain, manufacturing, sales and service, procurement with SAP Ariba, and HR on SAP SuccessFactors. One embedded team that speaks every module your processes cross.
S/4HANA and RISE functional delivery
The functional workstreams of a conversion, a RISE with SAP transition or a GROW with SAP adoption — process scope, workshops, testing with the business, go-live readiness — run to the SAP Activate methodology. Delivery that answers to business sign-off, not just a cutover date.
Business case and roadmap
A sequenced path from ECC to SAP S/4HANA / SAP Cloud ERP that your board can sign: what moves, in what order, what it costs and what it returns. Built with the 2027 mainstream-maintenance deadline in view, not a template timeline.
Change and user adoption
Key-user enablement, training and adoption measurement treated as core delivery, not an afterthought at go-live. A system only returns value when the business runs it — so adoption is the outcome we hold ourselves accountable for.
Senior consultants inside your programme
One embedded team, advising across every SAP process domain your business runs.
How a consulting engagement runs
Consultants embedded from first workshop to adoption.
Immerse and assess
Weeks 0–2. Consultants join your programme and walk the business — processes, pain points, prior decisions — and baseline where you stand against the SAP standard.
Design and decide
Weeks 2–6. Fit-to-standard workshops with your process owners: adopt the standard, change the process, or extend deliberately — every gap gets a decision and an owner.
Configure and prove
Week 6 onwards. Functional configuration in short cycles, each process walked through and signed off with the people who will run it — as it takes shape, not at UAT.
Adopt and transfer
Through go-live. Key-user enablement, training and adoption follow-through until the business runs the process as its own — and your team can carry the decisions forward.
Where an SAP FDC team lands first
The situations where an embedded consulting team pays back first.
Proven on complex SAP programmes
Altivate delivered a full SAP S/4HANA rollout for DAL AG using the SAP Activate methodology — a complex, multi-phase programme carried end to end, the kind where embedded senior consultants make the difference. As an SAP Gold Partner with a certified Partner Center of Expertise and ISO/IEC 27001-certified delivery, this is the calibre of consulting every FDC team draws on.
Put senior SAP consultants inside your programme. Tell us which decisions are stuck. We’ll scope an embedded SAP FDC team and a first cadence.
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