Process Mining for SAP S/4HANA Migration
Process Mining as a Strategic Tool
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⇨ At a high level, process mining combines data mining and advanced analytics to discover, validate, and improve business process workflows. Combining these two aspects, companies mine log data from their systems and leverage analytics on this data to understand their process, identify process bottlenecks and generate additional insights.
⇨ This value aspect has several components, ranging from seamless migration to post-implementation adoption and optimal usage. A key aspect of all of these components, however, is the underlying business processes. SAPinsider S/4HANA Migration Benchmark Report 2021 highlights that 48% of respondents believe that adopting best practice business process models is the most important strategy to address drivers for S/4HANA migration.
⇨ The key to any successful transformation always starts with understanding the current state. And process mining solutions start playing their role at this stage itself. Since best-of-breed process mining tools have the capability of real-time, multi-system data processing, they allow you to gain a detailed understanding of the current state of your IT systems. This is foundational and has value across the SAP S/4HANA life cycle, from roadmaps and strategic planning to installation, management, and monitoring.
Methods like Six Sigma and lean have for decades illustrated how eliminating inefficiencies in business processes help reduce operating cost and improve Return on Investment (ROI). The advent of process mining, which sits at the intersection of Business Process Management (BPM) and data mining, is a powerful technology leveraged by companies to find process inefficiencies...
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