SAP Migration Project Team Cost Calculator
Most S/4HANA budgets undercount internal effort and schedule slip. This calculator builds the people cost from the ground up and shows how fast the total grows with every added month.
Your numbers
Average across onshore, nearshore and offshore mix.
Business process owners, key users, IT and testers allocated to the program.
Proportion of released staff whose normal work must be covered by contractors or overtime.
Your results
Excludes software licences, subscription fees and hardware. Rates and effort are inputs; use your own contracts and quotes.
Total cost vs program duration
Sweeps Program duration from 6 to 48, holding your other inputs fixed.
Budget benchmark chat
Optional: compare your team and duration assumptions with typical patterns.
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How to use it
Enter the partner team size and blended day rate, the internal team and their loaded monthly cost, the share of internal time that needs backfill, and the program duration. Add tooling, environments and training. Choose a contingency. The tool outputs partner, internal and backfill cost, a subtotal, the contingency and the total, plus the average monthly cost. The chart shows how total cost changes if the duration slips.
- Use a blended rate, not the headline rate
- Count business time, not just IT
- Be explicit about backfill
- Test a six month slip on the chart
The math
Partner cost is FTE times day rate times 21 billable days times months. Internal cost is FTE times monthly loaded cost times months. Backfill is a share of internal cost. The subtotal adds tooling and environments. Contingency is a percentage of the subtotal. All terms scale linearly with duration, which is why a six month slip on a team of this size costs far more than most steering committees expect. The chart makes this visible.
Common mistakes
Budgets often exclude business users, testing effort, data cleansing, training and post go-live support. They also assume constant team size, while real programs peak during testing and cutover. If you use fixed-price contracts, put the change-request allowance in contingency. For a rough range, run the calculator with low, medium and high team sizes rather than relying on a single scenario.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why 21 days a month?
It is a common planning value for billable days after weekends and typical holidays. Change the day rate or FTE to reflect your contract, for example if you pay for fewer days during holidays.
Does this include licences?
No. It covers people, tooling, environments and training. Software licences, subscriptions and hosting differ by contract and belong in a separate line of the business case.
How much contingency is sensible?
Many programs hold 10 to 20 percent, and higher where data quality or custom code is unknown. Use the PERT calculator to tie contingency to schedule uncertainty.
How do I treat part-time internal staff?
Convert to full-time equivalents. Ten people at 50 percent allocation is five FTE. Also decide how much of that time needs backfill.
Netray can help automate parts of the effort, such as analysing custom code or documenting current processes, using private AI over your own systems.
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