Lessons Learned from Versum Materials’ 15-Month Greenfield SAP S/4HANA Implementation
How the Guiding Principles of Standardize, Harmonize, Simplify, and Scalable Led to a “Ghostly Quiet” Go-Live
When Versum Materials was divested in 2016, it took the opportunity not only to make a fresh IT start with a greenfield SAP S/4HANA implementation, but also to do it with a big-bang approach. The newly independent business accomplished the massive change in 15 months with a painless go-live. Along the way, it discovered some major differences between its original SAP ERP system and SAP S/4HANA, including security and data models, and passes along several lessons learned.
