Mar 16-19, 2026Las Vegas, Nevada, NV
SAP Process Automation
Featured Insiders
Upcoming Events
SAPinsider Las Vegas 2026
Related Vendors
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.
95 results
Reduced Supply Chain Processing Time with AutomationSep 17, 2024 — Daikin Europe N.V. implemented Redwood's RunMyJobs to automate and streamline its supply chain processes, reducing overnight processing times from 11 hours to 6, enhancing operational efficiency, minimizing manual errors, and improving coordination with partners and systems.
2 minute read
Efficient Job Scheduling with RedwoodSep 12, 2024 — RunMyJobs by Redwood is an SAP-certified SaaS job scheduler that seamlessly integrates with SAP S/4HANA and BTP, automating complex workflows and resource-heavy tasks through AI technology while offering scalability, centralized control, and a user-friendly low-code interface.
2 minute read
Webinar: Process Productivity and Efficiency Through Process Automation and Intelligence 2024Oct 29, 2024 — Recent research indicates a significant shift in the perception of process automation from a cost-reduction tool to a crucial strategic element for enhancing operational efficiency and employee productivity, with its importance rising from 40% to 54% among organizations in just one year.
1 minute read
Improved Customer Experience Through Billing Process Automation with Redwood’s RunMyJobsSep 10, 2024 — Utility companies face challenges in managing critical operations while ensuring business growth and customer satisfaction, but digital transformation through workload automation, such as Redwood's RunMyJobs platform, can enhance efficiency, reduce errors, and improve service delivery, as demonstrated by the successful case studies of Anglican Water and FortisBC.
2 minute read
Process Productivity and Efficiency Through Process Automation and Intelligence 2024Aug 30, 2024 — Recent research indicates a significant shift in the perception of process automation from a cost-reduction tool to a crucial strategic element for enhancing operational efficiency and employee productivity, with its importance rising from 40% to 54% among organizations in just one year.
1 minute read
Creating an Automation Fabric with SAP BTP with Redwood’s RunMyJobsAug 27, 2024 — As enterprises expand, their IT environments becomes more complex, needing advanced workload automation (WLA) to handle complex job scheduling, data management, analytics, application development, and artificial intelligence, which autonomously manage these tasks, ensuring uninterrupted performance of critical business functions. Technology platforms like SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) play a crucial role in optimizing operations by […]
2 minute read
Streamlined Job Management with BMC’s Control-M’s Job InterceptionAug 12, 2024 — SAP job scheduling and management face challenges like handling high job volumes with complex dependencies, limited visibility, and difficult real-time monitoring. These challenges lead to performance and scalability issues, intricate error handling, and compliance concerns. BMC’s Control-M Job Interception enhances these processes by allowing proactive error handling through job interception and analysis before execution. It supports dynamic rescheduling, prioritization of critical tasks, and resource optimization, preventing bottlenecks. With centralized monitoring, real-time alerts, and detailed audit trails, Control-M improves visibility, compliance, and overall system reliability, aligning job management with organizational goals.
2 minute read
Acea Case StudyAug 2, 2024 — The Acea Group is an integrated, multi-utility company leader in Italy managing and developing networks and services in the water, energy, environment, and energy infrastructure sectors. Acea needed to respond promptly to optimize processes, including financial close.
1 minute read
Integrate Your Help Desk and SAP to Create Incidents Directly from SAPJun 21, 2024 — The most significant feature of this integration is that the complete technical and business context is attached automatically to all incidents created from SAP. This reduces the time it takes for a business user to collect necessary information about SAP issues and brings immense value for your support staff and helps them solve problems much faster.
1 minute read
Case Study: Kärkkäinen Saves Time with Automate Studio in SAP Material ManagementJun 21, 2024 — On average, the department handles about 10,000 new articles per month that need to be created in SAP. Overall, there are approximately 10,000 active products in the company’s product selection. Managing this amount of material data on a daily basis using only SAP GUI, and transactions such as MM41, M42, and LSMW was extremely error-prone, time-consuming, and far from user-friendly.
1 minute read