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Role of Process Design in Process Transformation
Process transformation is becoming an essential component of digital transformation initiatives. As organizations embark on their digital transformation journey, they realize that process transformation will play a key role. This is also reflected in the importance placed on process transformation in the RISE with SAP offering from SAP. A key component of process transformation is process design or re-design. When organizations plan to leverage advanced automation tools, one of the best practices that they adopt is to make sure that the process design is optimal. A suboptimal process will not extract maximum value from any investment in digital tools like robotic process automation. Process intelligence plays a key role in helping organizations understand how to best design or re-design their processes.
Role of Process Design in Process Transformation
Process transformation is becoming an essential component of digital transformation initiatives. As organizations embark on their digital transformation journey, they realize that process transformation will play a key role. This is also reflected in the importance placed on process transformation in the RISE with SAP offering from SAP. A key component of process transformation is process design or re-design. When organizations plan to leverage advanced automation tools, one of the best practices that they adopt is to make sure that the process design is optimal. A suboptimal process will not extract maximum value from any investment in digital tools like robotic process automation. Process intelligence plays a key role in helping organizations understand how to best design or re-design their processes.
What Is Process Design?
Process design is about identifying the most optimal way to run a process and then structuring or re-structuring the process accordingly. And the starting point of understanding the opportunities to improve and re-engineer processes is by analyzing the data from the current state. This is where process intelligence comes into the picture. Process intelligence, derived through process mining, helps capture current state data and insights. This data can then be leveraged to understand the bottlenecks in the current state, optimal flows, and opportunities to re-engineer segments of the process or the entire end-to-end process. SAPinsider Process Automation SOM research report covers this aspect in detail.
Key Considerations for SAPinsiders
Map and understand process interdependencies. Even when the focus is on designing a specific process, it is critical to understand process interdependencies. Comprehensive business process mapping on key processes needs to occur simultaneously to understand their interdependencies. Build swim-lane-style process maps that clearly illustrate how each process interacts with the other. Leverage best-in-class process mapping and design methodologies like SIPOC diagrams.
Formulate a process visibility strategy. Process visibility remains a key aspect of any process design or redesign. It is also one of the foundational pillars of process intelligence, a tool widely leveraged to identify opportunities for process design or re-design. However, it is important to realistically define what is the desired level of process visibility and evaluate the feasibility of attaining that level of visibility.
Embrace intelligent automation. While many organizations design or re-design processes prior to automation, processes need to be subjected to continuous improvements and analyzed continuously. Technology today allows us to take process automation beyond merely automating manual, non-value-adding tasks. Automation enabled by artificial intelligence and machine learning allows you to stretch the boundaries of process enhancement and move towards building a true intelligent enterprise of the future.
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How UiPath’s CIO Reframed SAP Transformation: Five Lessons From ‘Customer Zero’Feb 3 — UiPath ran its SAP S/4HANA migration as a Customer Zero initiative, embedding automation directly into execution rather than layering it on after go-live. The experience reshaped clean-core discipline, operating models, and readiness for agentic workflows under live finance conditions.
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An expert’s assessment of business blueprint options in SAP Solution ManagerMay 12, 2021 — You should attend this session if you are currently using or planning to use SAP Solution Manager for Blueprinting, Documentation or Testing of existing systems and if you want to learn about the existing options for Solution Documentation. We will discuss the different options to create your business blueprint structure (SAP S/4HANA Best Practices, Library Generation, Manual approach, etc.) based on real-life examples and highlight the pre-requisites and implications. Attend this comprehensive session to:
-Take home a comprehensive framework for establishing a business blueprint, maintain it over time and learn how SAP Solution Manager can help you to support different project scenarios
-Hear about proven techniques to model different project scenarios and learn best practices to analyze, differentiate and use the analysis results for your existing projects
-Review the new possibilities for Solution Documentation with SAP Solution Manager 7.2
-What’s new, what has changed and what is means for you
-Learn how to establish the best solution documentation for your requirements how you can effectively increase the acceptance of your business process structure, reduce the amount of time and effort needed to keep it up to date and truly establish a single point of truth
-Review common project pitfalls, do’ and don’ts and how to make your Solution Documentation a lasting success
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Information Design Tool vs. Universe Designer: A Primer for UsersAug 20, 2013 — Are you making the transition from Universe Designer tools to the new Information Design Tool (IDT) in SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0? Read this report by Mike McErlain to gain an understanding of how to translate your Universe Designer skills to IDT skills. See the major differences between the two tools and get an introduction to […]
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Increase the Usability of SAP Business ApplicationsJan 18, 2011 — Gain a better understanding of business application interface design. Find out how to design and develop accessible, easy-to-use business applications your users will love. Key Concept Usability refers to Web site user interface designs that are a collection of pages consisting mostly of static information content, images, and videos with interactive functionalities. Many successful Web […]
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Configure and Implement the Proper Internal Controls Up Front for an Easier AuditDec 15, 2008 — Having to go back and change your SAP system or your related business processes to deal with audit concerns takes time away from your daily operations and results in unnecessary distractions. By configuring your SAP system appropriately and designing your related business processes to effectively address your business risks, you can save significant effort. This […]
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Data Mining with the Analysis Process Designer in SAP BW 3.5May 1, 2004 — The Analysis Process Designer (APD) workbench, introduced in BW 3.1 Content (BW 3.0B SP6), allows users to combine numerous transformations into a single data flow. It offers a less technical approach to enhancing subject-oriented, non-volatile data that has already been integrated, cleansed, and transformed in the data warehouse. The author examines current APD features and […]
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