Statement of Work Variant Configuration Training Complete

Federal Prison Industries, Inc.

UNICOR

Statement of Work
SAP S4 Hana
Variant
Configuration
Training and Support

FEDERAL PRISON INDUSTRIES, INC. (UNICOR)

1.

PROJECT OVERVIEW

1.1 Introduction

Federal Prison Industries, Inc. (FPI), known by the trade name of UNICOR, is a government owned corporation operating prison industries within the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). FPI was established to provide incarcerated individuals with skill sets for use upon their re-entry into society in order to reduce recidivism and provide for public safety. The Bureau of Prisons administers federal correctional facilities and protects public safety by ensuring that federal offenders serve their sentences of imprisonment in facilities that are safe, humane, cost-efficient, and appropriately secure, and provide reentry programming to ensure their successful return to the community. SAP S4 HANA Business Suite is FPI’s financial system of record. Currently FPI utilizes the following modules for our SAP S4 HANA on premise solution:

1. Financial Management/Controlling

2. Materials Management to include Variant Configurator

3. Production Planning

4. Sales and Distribution

5. Human Capital Management for Inmate payroll
FPI currently has one business group that utilizes Variant Configurator items, that is our Office Furniture Business Group. The Variant Configurator is utilized with object dependencies as well as 200 Class material selection via CL02N material assignment for widely utilized product line materials.

1.2 Project Goals

FPI is seeking training to include an executive level overview to management staff, new transport process between Development, Quaility and Production environment configured and trained on, and development of a transition process in the current and future states of the SAP system. FPI wishes to explore new advanced Variant Configuration capabilities and review the FPI built eComm site for VC products and suggestion of any possible changes that are currently needed and will be needed for potential utilization.

1.3 Project Objectives

Currently FPI utilizes VC in many product lines in our Office Furniture Business Group. We aim to enhance staff expertise and increase the number of team members with in-depth knowledge of Variant Configuration.
1. Executive level overview of the VC process at Central Office, Washington DC. a. Sales and marketing strategic vision. - How products are marketed and sold. Design features of new products.
b. New product development and implementation (NPDI) process and project management