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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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Process Automation and Enterprise Visibility
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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… -
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Intelligent Automation and Employee Productivity
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In the third year of the SAPinsider benchmark research report, enhancing employee productivity again emerged as a key strategy. Reducing manual touchpoints was the most important strategy requirement highlighted by SAPinsiders, followed by increasing employee productivity and process transformation.On the technology side, we see that process mining and intelligent automation are key technologies on the… -
Process Automation and SAP S/4HANA Benchmark Research
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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 now for deploying process automation solutions. This highlights that process automation has evolved into… -
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Process Automation as a Strategic Tool
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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… -
How to Develop and Implement an Automation Strategy
To help SAP customers navigate their automation journey, SAPinsider recently held an Executive Roundtable with Brenton O’Callaghan, Chief Customer Officer at Avantra, and Robert MacDonald, Innovation and Technology Manager at Absoft. In this roundtable, O’Callaghan and MacDonald share their experiences implementing automation and developing a robust automation strategy. Watch this roundtable and learn: – How… -
Change the Way you Work with SAP Through Automation
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 Design
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… -
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Evolving Business and IT Processes in the Era of SAP S/4HANA and Cloud
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,… -
New Automation Needed for Modern IT Environments
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Today’s IT landscapes are becoming more diverse as IT leaders adopt new applications to better support their business requirements, and as the infrastructure itself becomes a hybrid blend of cloud and on-premise infrastructure. These changes impact the types of processes that run, where they run, and how they interface with the SAP ecosystem. This growing… -
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3 Pillars for long-term automation success
Automation is not a short-term project, but a long-term strategy. Ensuring consistent success and benefits requires that companies establish solid institutional foundations to drive automation governance, criteria for measuring success, and continuous improvement. To make the path ahead clear, 3 Pillars for Long Term Automation Success helps participants unlock their organization’s potential and turn automation… -
Process Automation and SAP S/4HANA Benchmark Report
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In This Report: Organizations today operate in a business ecosystem that is becoming more and more dynamic. Two key challenges organizations face are revenue stream pressure from increased competition and the imperative to streamline product delivery for enhanced customer satisfaction. To address these challenges, SAPinsiders within finance and supply chain are paying specific attention to… -
Criticality of Data Management & Process Automation in SAP Ecosystem
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by Kumar Singh, Research Director, Automation & Analytics, Supply Chain Management, SAPinsider Taming the complexity of SAP Business Process Management There is no doubt that SAP technologies, whether it is SAP ECC or S/4HANA ERP or other SAP products, are complex systems. If you are familiar with SAP ERP systems, you know the complexities of… -
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Accelerate SAP S/4HANA transformations with process visualization and intelligent automation
As organizations evaluate the best path forward to speed SAP digital transformation efforts and future-proof from further digital disruption, transitioning to SAP S/4HANA is different for every organization. Prior to embarking on any SAP S/4HANA transformation journey, organizations must fully understand their current business strategy and the true flow of their mission critical processes. Understanding… -
Jump-Start Your Process Automation Projects with Cloud-Based Artificial Intelligence Technologies
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For many organizations, artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a future vision. It is already a key part of their plans for transforming into high-performing digital businesses with a competitive edge driven by automated processes and operations. To help its customers take advantage of AI to improve the efficiency of their business processes, reduce manual… -
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Why SAP Automation Is Crucial When Adopting SAP S/4HANA
Join this session to learn how one of the world’s largest Consumer Packaged Goods companies is using cutting-edge technology to support the transition from their legacy ECC environment to SAP S/4HANA, as well as preparing for a move to DevOps and continuous delivery. Learn how automation enables SAP users to address one of the most… -
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Smart Cloud Automation: Are you Scaling In and Saving Costs?
The migration to HANA gives companies the opportunity to move their SAP environment to AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud. Moving SAP to the cloud promises to improve operations, offer better security, and reduce costs, but to experience significant cost reductions, the cloud size needs to change dynamically based on the systems’ actual performance and… -
3 proven ways enterprise IT leaders can speed up SAP innovation
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Discover how leading enterprises are using automation to speed up their SAP release cycles, achieving 10x faster testing, 90% risk reduction, and 50% lower costs. Find other insightful content from Tricentis on their Vendor Showcase -
Riddell Adopts SaaS-Based Automation to Run Its Programs with Ease
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Keeping up with demand is essential to any business. For Riddell — which designs, develops, and markets innovative sports equipment, smart helmet technology, team apparel, and accessories — it is a massive undertaking to manufacture and distribute equipment to its customers, which include the National Football League (NFL)in the U.S. In this article, you will… -
Measuring The Value Of Finance In The Cloud
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Automating Fax, Email & EDI Orders Into SAP Systems
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If your company wants to eliminate the problems caused by fax, email and EDI orders, there are many factors to consider. This white paper explores those factors, while highlighting how AI-driven automation solutions can deliver cost savings and process ef This content is available to (General or Premium) members. Sign in or Join for free!… -
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McAfee Saves 2,500 Hours of Manual Effort with Test and Business Process Automation on Its Journey to SAP S/4HANA
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McAfee was amidst sweeping change – shifting its accounting standards and financial reporting in SAP ERP, separating its IT systems from its parent company in a spinoff, and moving from a waterfall method to an agile methodology. In response, the business wanted to increase the velocity of its application delivery and testing. Learn how the… -
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HR: Case study: Process automation that delivers on the promise of HR self-service for Cameron
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Learn how Cameron International unlocks the true value of self-service by integrating a modern web front-end experience with SAP ERP HCM processes and forms. HR2017_Olleri_Casestudyprocessautomation Winston Olleri If you have comments about this article or publication, or would like to submit an article idea, please contact the editor…. This content is available to Premium Members....… -
7 Things AR Automation Can Do (That Your SAP System Can’t)
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This workbook will help AR leaders understand AR automation solutions, and achieve a meaningful digital transformation with AR. This content is available to (General or Premium) members. Sign in or Join for free! Sign In Become a Member -
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Automation of a Planning Area Backup to an InfoCube via a Process Chain
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Learn the process flow for automating the extraction of data from a planning area to backup cubes via a process chain in an SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization (SAP APO) database. This is an extension of the SCM Expert article “How to Carry Out Data Extraction from a Planning Area in SAP APO.” Follow a…...… -
Leverage Automation and Simplification for Better Journal Entry Transparency
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While digital transformation has been a revolutionizing force for many aspects of the organization, this isn’t always the case for the journal entry process. Routings and approvals are still often handled manually through emails, spreadsheets, and physical signatures, which can cause delays and a lack of transparency into financial close processes. And when it is… -
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Whirlpool Corporation Achieves Ultra Clean Business Processes with Automation Software
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For over a century, Whirlpool Corporation has been manufacturing home appliances. The organization has built up an abundance of different brands and offerings over the years and, in doing so, has also acquired an abundance of data – so much so that the needs for processes for inputting, extracting, and maintaining that data quickly grew.… -
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Automated Account Reconciliations Take Root at Scotts Miracle-Gro
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Scotts Miracle-Gro, a household name for lawn and garden products, took a hard look at how to best improve its account reconciliation process. Exceptions, discrepancies, and manual, spreadsheet-based processes were cropping up across its SAP landscape, making reconciliation difficult and time consuming for preparers, approvers, and internal auditors alike. It was time for the company… -
Managing Modern Business Processes
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In a climate of continuous change, organizations need to ensure that their business processes are not only executing optimally, but that they can adapt at a moment’s notice to take advantage of opportunities and meet unique requirements. This article introduces a new concept — process-driven architecture (PDA) — that enables you to build sophisticated business…
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