S/4HANA Assessment

Transition to SAP S/4HANA

Before embarking on your transformational journey, you need to answer fundamental questions. Do you stay on ECC and make process improvements until 2027? Do you migrate (upgrade) your current system to S/4 or do you start new with a fresh new S/4 implementation (greenfield)?

When embarking on this journey, you must understand all the strategic elements involved in making this decision and realizing you may need help. What is the value? What is the cost? How long will this take? The impact to your business? What is our organization’s business and IT roadmap?

In order to maximize the benefits from your transformation initiatives, it is important to leverage Value Added Partnerships with knowledgeable partners who can act both as your guides throughout the process and provide Application Management Support for your S/4HANA implementation.

As we have worked with numerous clients to chart out their S/4HANA journeys, we’ve established a structured assessment approach for surfacing and addressing all of these and other key issues.

Knowing your starting point.

Defining what constitutes your destination goal and how you’ll know when you reach it.

Mapping out the path forward, while considering available time, resources and obstacles.

Knowing your starting point is critical because it helps define the considerations and constraints regarding what needs to change and helps prioritize the various aspects of the implementation process. For example, a “Green Field” implementation that proceeds from scratch with no existing legacy systems will have a very different path from a “Brown Field” project where various existing processes and applications must be transitioned and decommissioned – without disrupting operations.

The S/4 Assessment approach is a process where we work with your business and IT teams to determine the approach for your S/4 Journey. During the assessment, we will address the questions below and much more.

• Should we Migrate our current ECC environment to S/4HANA? (Brownfield)

• Do we implement a new S/4HANA systems? (Greenfield)

• What portions of the SAP S/4HANA platform do I need?

• Are my add-ons and business functions compatible with SAP S/4HANA?

• Which SAP Fiori roles and apps are relevant to me and how to improve Fiori adoption in projects?

• Which SAP S/4HANA simplification items are relevant?

• Will my custom code work with SAP S/4HANA, and if not, what do I do?

• How do I remediate my configuration and Custom code?

• What is the health state of my Business Process KPI’s?

• Can I take advantages of new business models, such as subscription based?

• What are my options? How long, how many resource and what is the cost?

Following a Design Thinking discipline, our team leads the client’s key stakeholders through an analysis and planning process to define the path forward.