How Clients Perceive VAS
A global Fortune 500 company abandoned its current staff augmentation model and awarded BearingPoint a significant, multi-year VAS contract. This company was in the process of implementing its Global SAP design across divisions worldwide and faced a number of business challenges:

Inability of the implementation contractors to source resources in the countries where the company operates.
Lack of a single implementation contractor. Working with a number of implementation contractors, there was no single point of contact for the consultants from different companies working on the project.
Lack of integration between the contractors on the project and the client.
Inability to communicate the client's values and needs to the implementation contractors without repeating the message several times.
Difficulty of maintaining consistency of staff across the multiple implementation contractors. Different companies supplied different levels of SAP and industry knowledge.
Inability to measure implementation contractors' performance because resources were spread over the teams.
The lack of uniform feedback from the implementation contractors. Different companies supplied conflicting or negligible feedback to the client.
The inability to easily shift resources from one location to another.

BearingPoint was engaged to provide value-added sourcing services to divisions worldwide over a multi-year period. BearingPoint provided seasoned SAP professionals with specific industry knowledge to work alongside the clients' experienced team members in support of their global program. The company benefited from BearingPoint's dedication to the program's objectives. The consultants' industry knowledge, technical and business knowledge, flexibility to respond to the client's needs, and ongoing commitment to providing knowledge transfer created a significant improvement to the client's Global SAP design implementation. BearingPoint was able to bring experienced SAP professionals on board at the right place, at the right price, at the right time—and used the client's template and methodology to achieve a uniform, global result.

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