In this paper a 20 year veteran in the chemical manufacturing sector provides Best Practices for BPLM enabled SAP implementations. It examines what companies engaged in an ERP implementation should demand of their implementation partners:

• The implementation partner enter an engagement with pre-modeled, SAP-configured, best practices to accelerate requirements definition and implementation
  
• The implementation partner applies a structured methodology to leverage these pre-defined models not only for ERP configuration, but also across the full lifecycle of change management, test management and training
  
• The implementation partner "leaves behind" a true business process asset for continued leverage and change management by the client