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Process Automation as a Strategic Tool in the SAP S/4HANA Environment
Business processes form the backbone of how enterprises run and their level of efficiency. Efficiently managing these processes has many different aspects, and these aspects include improving process efficiency, quality, and design. The advent of process automation tools, which often encompass all three key aspects mentioned above, are increasingly popular and becoming an integral part of the portfolio of digital transformation tools that organizations leverage.
Process Automation as a Strategic Tool in the SAP S/4HANA Environment
Business processes form the backbone of how enterprises run and their level of efficiency. Efficiently managing these processes has many different aspects, and these aspects include improving process efficiency, quality, and design. The advent of process automation tools, which often encompass all three key aspects mentioned above, are increasingly popular and becoming an integral part of the portfolio of digital transformation tools that organizations leverage.
What Is Process Automation?
At a high level, process automation combines data mining, process intelligence, workflow automation, and advanced analytics to discover, validate, and improve business process workflows and tasks. Combining these into a process automation platform, companies mine log data from their systems and leverage analytics on this data to understand their processes, identify process bottlenecks, and generate additional insights. This latter part is process intelligence. Business applications, like ERP, generate an audit log of processes within their various modules. Process mining leverages these logs to build a model or flow of the process. This model can then be analyzed further for insights. Best-of-breed tools have algorithms and visualizations that not only allow users to see what happened, but also provide the tools to optimize these processes.
Criticality of SAP S/4HANA Investment
One top of mind question of technology executives, irrespective of where they are in their SAP S/4HANA journey, is how to maximize the value from their SAP S/4HANA investment? 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 SAP S/4HANA migration.
How Tools Like Process Mining and Intelligence Can Help in SAP 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, allowing you to gain a detailed understanding of the current state of your IT systems.
These insights can help organizations not only decrease their SAP S/4HANA implementation cycle, but also help manage their processes in a more optimal way post-implementation. Overall, they help minimize implementation risks as well. Benefits that these solutions generate within the SAP S/4HANA migration context include:
- Generate an accurate business value assessment for SAP S/4HANA migration through 360-degree process visibility and often artificial intelligence-enabled fit-gap analysis.
- Mitigate project risk and cost by supporting the SAP S/4HANA migration journey across all phases. This includes safeguarding the transformation post-migration through continuous process improvement.
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From Technical Debt to Optimized Execution: EWEB’s Automation AdoptionJan 21 — Watch how Eugene Water and Electric Board modernized operations and reduced institutional overhead by orchestrating complex processes with RISE with SAP, SAP BTP, and RunMyJobs by Redwood. This session focuses on the business challenge of automating a complex process like meter to cash and shows how EWEB worked to eliminate technical debt and institutional overhead while modernizing operations. SAP and Redwood experts demonstrate how RISE with SAP, SAP BTP, and RunMyJobs work together to innovate, integrate, and extend automation, which enables high-performing autonomous execution of even the most complex processes.
You will also hear directly from EWEB on how these capabilities automated their utility-specific meter-to-cash process and strengthened the core backend operations that enterprises across nearly every industry depend on. The session will highlight patterns to automate complex and high-value processes across the enterprise, including meter-to-cash, treasury and finance, file transfer, and more, without brittle scripts or manual handoffs. Whether you are consolidating legacy systems, accelerating SAP modernization, or building resilient automation across business and IT, you will walk away with practical learnings you can apply immediately.
Watch now to learn:
- How to reduce technical debt from outdated automation systems
- How to identify patterns and business processes to automate
- How to optimize workload automation systems for reliability, observability, and scalability
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Process Automation and Enterprise VisibilityApr 29, 2022 — Enterprise visibility has become a key imperative to build organizational ability in the digital era. As process automation technologies increasingly evolve into strategic solutions, they have the capability to play a key role in building enterprise visibility. While the focus in the initial years of process automation adoption was primarily on achieving cost reduction, the key objectives for deploying process automation these days are more strategic in nature, like employee productivity, process visibility and subsequent enterprise visibility.
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Change the Way you Work with SAP Through AutomationFeb 17, 2022 — Businesses face multiple challenges to survive and thrive in today’s dynamic business environment. The ability to adapt to sudden changes in the economy, meet the demands of well-informed customers and compete against highly agile competitors all drive the need for new ways of doing business. Complicating matters is an explosion of data, legacy systems that […]
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Video: Impact20: Closed-Loop Automation: Different by DesignJan 6, 2022 — Today’s enterprise landscape is a labyrinth of complex, disparate, and distributed assets, all contributing to the execution of mission-critical business processes. As organizations increasingly depend on these systems for delivery, digital transformation is no longer aspirational, it’s reality. With this new reality comes a heightened need to maximize cost and resource efficiencies, optimizing processes to ensure they remain lean and efficient, deploying resources where they’re needed most, and delivering an optimal end user experience. Engaging automation has the potential to achieve all these objectives, but traditional automation that isn’t built for change or complexity has some distinct barriers to success.
In this session, we’ll explore how a closed-loop approach to automation yields faster time to value with reduced risk and rework. When automation assets are no longer siloed between disparate systems and solutions, automation can be created, shared, and repurposed to understand, refine and run your business processes—all from a single platform.
Join us to explore how Connective Automation creates a common context for IT and business to collaborate and prioritize and hear how this closed-loop automation approach empowers enterprises to:
● Understand the “as-is” state of any given business process
● Identify efficiency gaps and automation opportunities
● De-risk changes before they impact end users
● Optimize processes across applications
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Process Automation as a Strategic ToolApr 22, 2022 — As organizations grapple with increasing business complexities and disruptions, the importance of business processes that form the core of how enterprises run, has increased as well. Executives have realized that to build an agile enterprise, they need to run best-in-class processes and have robust visibility and control over these processes. In our recently published SAPinsider CIO agenda report, process efficiency and visibility emerged as the number one imperative on the agenda of CIOs, as shown in figure 1 . And that translates into a need to invest in tools and solutions that can help build best-in-class processes and process visibility. This article discusses the trends from previous years' SAPinsider process automation benchmark research that highlights how process automation is evolving into a strategic tool.
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Drivers for Process Automation in Supply ChainSep 15, 2022 — Process automation technologies have increasingly evolved into strategic solutions during the last few years. While the focus in the initial years of process automation adoption was primarily on achieving cost reduction, process visibility and employee productivity have increasingly become important objectives for deploying process automation solutions. The need for supply chain resiliency and agility have emerged as prominent drivers in many of SAPinsider’s recent research reports like Supply Chain Planning in The Cloud. In the same report, SAPinsiders highlighted supply chain visibility and data integration as key foundational aspects of supply chain agility and resiliency. Supply chain process automation emerged prominently among the top focus area processes for process automation in our Process Automation and SAP S/4HANA research report. We are therefore publishing a focused research report, Process Automation in Supply Chain, in September 2022. As the survey results start coming in, we see that themes identified in our previous supply chain research are also emerging here. Specifically when it comes to process automation in the supply chain. Watch this video to learn what are the top three business drivers that is making SAPinsiders look at tools and technologies in process automation in the supply chain.
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Verbella Announces Robotic Process Automation Partnership with UiPathNov 15, 2023 — Leading SAP digital solutions provider Verbella recently announced a partnership with UiPath that will allow it to deliver Robotic Process Automation (RPA) to SAP users. As companies contend with a rapidly-changing technology landscape, automation is a key tool that helps bolster innovation and efficiency. Verbella also offers a suite of SAP-focused solutions including Accounts Payable, Content Migration, Document Imaging, and more. With a majority of companies now leveraging RPA in some manner, those without any automation capabilities risk falling behind. Companies without these tools are not just at risk of working through essential processes more slowly, they may also lose out on employees who opt to work for enterprises where these tools minimize their repetitive manual tasks and allow them to spend time on value-add work.
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Evolving Business and IT Processes in the Era of SAP S/4HANA and CloudJan 6, 2022 — Changes in business and technical processes are at the heart of the transformation that many companies are initiating. Supply chain disruption, growing regulation, the need for visibility, and the Great Resignation are among the macro issues that are driving change. This keynote session will examine some of these trends as well as the core automation, intelligence, and testing capabilities that are becoming critical to both IT and business.
You will hear from thought leaders about:
• How IT and business leaders are prioritizing process change
• What are key automation approaches and solutions organizations need to evaluate and why
• Navigating the challenges and ROI of core financial processes such as tax and reporting
• Why companies need to build an integrated testing approach to accelerate process innovation
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