How useful is BPM when implementing a SAP system

Abstract

An enterprise resource planning (ERP) system has as purpose to facilitate the flow of information between all business functions inside the organization. Over the last years companies are depending more and more on ERP systems to compete with others and stay in business. Because the implementation is crucial, business process modeling (BPM) models will be used by the implementation team when the organization needs to implement the system. Now the question is, how useful this BPM step is. If BPM models are useless then eliminating the BPM steps can optimize the whole implementation phase, which would lead to faster and better implementation of the SAP system.