Maximizing Business Impact with SAP and End-to-End Enterprise Automation
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Key Takeaways
⇨ Organizations need a fit-for-purpose automation strategy that aligns with their industry, goals, and existing SAP solutions to effectively transform their processes.
⇨ Automation should focus on value-chain, event-driven processes to minimize operational effort and maximize efficiency, enabling fewer resources to accomplish more work.
⇨ Collaboration between business and technical users, along with a strategic partnership with a workload automation provider, is crucial for successful implementation and continuous improvement of automation processes.
An automation framework is needed for a complete process transformation, one that enables organizations to reach their business targets and adapt to updates in business model. While automation tech is available everywhere, organizations need a fit-for-purpose automation strategy that matches their industry, organization setup, goals, and existing SAP solution landscape, along with a workload automation provider who ensures a comprehensive, end-to-end solution that continually enhances business processes and optimizes performance.
Redwood Software prescribes five focus areas for organizations so that they can drive value using SAP and enterprise automation.
Keep a clean core: While customize tech development can offer many advantages, it might create challenges related to updates and cloud migration. Legacy job schedulers and on-premises automation tools capable of creating custom scripts are not fit for SAP solutions. Any automation technology should seamlessly integrate with SaaS environments and the perfect solution is to align with SAP’s roadmap, having built-in connectors that offer out-of-box upgrades, and support cloud connectivity including AI models within SAP.
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Minimize operational effort: Not all applications will benefit from automation, although it can make processes more efficient. For best results, organizations should focus on automating value-chain, event-driven processes like billing, invoicing or supply chain management. Automation targeting these areas increases resource usage, with fewer people required to do more work.
Integrate tech and business users: Any successful large-scale workload automation should consider business users along with technical users. Frequent collaboration between IT and business users not only leads to greater adoption, but better automation that can be continually reviewed and improved.
Scalable Platform: Fragmented automation approach or siloed tools can limit an organization’s adaptability to new business needs, eventually increasing complexities and cost and disrupting operations. While SAP solutions serve as the core of operations, it is important for other software to integrate seamlessly and remain flexible for long-term efficiency. By using an SAP-partnered, extensible platform with native, agentless connectors, organizations can enhance automation, reduce errors, and minimize resource expenditure.
Use a strategic automation partner: A strategic partnership with an experienced workload automation software provider can deliver continuous value after implementation is complete, such as updates and available global 24/7 technical support. Working proactively with such a vendor provides an opportunity to understand product roadmaps and advise on cutting-edge configurations.
To know more about how organizations can maximize value from SAP investments, read Redwood Software’s actionable guide here.
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