Statement of Work Variant Configuration Training Complete.pdf

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

2. Variant Configurator Training to be held at a location to be determined. A training document must be provided to FPI for use in the hands on training as well as future reference by FPI staff.

a. Intro to VC Training – 2 days

b. Intermediate VC Training 2 days

c. Expert VC Training – 1 day

3. Configuration assistance and training on creating a QAS ALE transport system so VC items can be created and tested in the QAS client before impacting the PRD client.

4. Explore new AVC capabilities including replacement viewer for ECL Viewer

5. Review FPI built eComm site for VC products at Central Office Washington DC

1.4 Project Timeline

The period of performance for this contract will be the duration of one week or 40 hours of hands on training but will include a preparation, coordination and presentation period not to exceed six months from contract award.

1.5 Equipment

No specific equipment will be needed to facilitate the presentations and/or training. A prepared presentation should be sent to FPI staff to be displayed for the Executive Overview as well as a training/reference document for the hands on training. The presentation of these can be coordinated by FPI staff. The training portion will be conducted in one of FPI ERP developmental ERP Sandbox environments.

1.6 Project Contact

Please direct questions concerning the content of this document to:

Aaron Mitchell, Supervisory Contracting Office Aaron.Mitchell2@usdoj.gov

2. Operating Environment

2.1 Overview

SAP S4 HANA Business Suite is FPI’s financial system of record. FPI follows the SAP methodology in system transport landscapes of DEV, QAS, and PRD. FPI has one PRD instance that utilizes the MM, SD, PP, FI/CO, and HCM modules of the Business Suite. Access to the current SAP system is via the version 8 GUI frontend.

3 Requirements

FPI seeks expertise and training assistance in the area of Variant Configuration.

3.1 Travel and Training

1. Vendor shall provide to FPI only consultants who are US citizens.

2. All consultants must pass a security background check (NCIC) to enter FPI/Bureau of Prisons facilities.

3. All consultants shall be willing to enter FPI facilities to complete work, where applicable.

4. Vendor shall provide a methodology for a strong knowledge transfer for FPI’s project team.

Training should be “hands on” that is compatible with FPI’s network infrastructure

5. Vendor shall monitor travel expenses to keep them to a minimum. FPI will only reimburse the maximum allowed in accordance with GSA per diem guidelines

Travel locations:

Executive level overview - FPI Central Office 400 First Street NW Washington DC, 20534 Variant Configurator Training to be determined:

FPI Central Office 400 First Street NW Washington DC, 20534 FMC Lexington, 3301 Leestown Road, Lexington, KY 40511 FCC Allenwood, Route 15 2 miles north of Allenwood, White Deer, PA 17887 FCC Forest City, 1400 Dale Bumpers Road, Forrest City, AR 72335 FCI Ashland, State Route 716, Ashland, KY 41105 FCI Beckley, PO Box 1280 1600 Industrial Park Road, Beaver, WV 25813 FCC Coleman, 846 N.E. 54th Ter., Coleman, FL 33521

Location Addresses are available at https://www.bop.gov/locations/ https://www.bop.gov/locations/