Sep 22, 2022
•1 minute read
SAP Migration Strategy
What Is SAP Migration Strategy?
With the last major release of SAP ECC, version 6.0 EHP 8, made available in 2016, the question facing SAP customers is around the move to SAP S/4HANA. While SAP has extended mainstream maintenance for the ECC 6.0 platform until the end of 2027, with an optional premium maintenance available for an additional three years, those running these solutions need to decide on the move to SAP S/4HANA. The three biggest factors around this move are when they will move, and how they will move, and where they will move.
What Is SAP Migration Strategy?
With the last major release of SAP ECC, version 6.0 EHP 8, made available in 2016, the question facing SAP customers is around the move to SAP S/4HANA. While SAP has extended mainstream maintenance for the ECC 6.0 platform until the end of 2027, with an optional premium maintenance available for an additional three years, those running these solutions need to decide on the move to SAP S/4HANA. The three biggest factors around this move are when they will move, and how they will move, and where they will move.
The when is a question that is up to each organization. However, with the majority of organizations taking between 12 and 18 months once the business case has already been made, the period before mainstream maintenance ends can approach very quickly. Once the decision has been made when to move, organizations must then determine what approach they will take to their SAP migration. Will they simply move everything as is into SAP S/4HANA? Will they start from scratch to produce as clean a system as possible? Or will they take an intermediate route? The last factor is where they will move. With most organizations moving SAP workloads to the cloud, this may be the route of choice. However, others will want hybrid environments or entirely local infrastructure.
Key Considerations for SAPinsiders
- Understand what other organizations are saying about their SAP Migration Strategy. These include: 1) the fact that the biggest challenge is often building the business case, 2) moves to a new ERP system are both resource intensive as well as expensive, 3) newer versions of SAP S/4HANA include significant business benefits, and 4) the move to SAP S/4HANA represents a major opportunity to improve business operations.
- Ensure that you have planned effectively for the migration. When migrating from your existing ERP system, there are important tips that you can follow to ensure that processes are successful. First, engage your business teams in the process. While this is an investment in resources, there will be more success with the overall project if your business teams are involved from the beginning. Second, remove unnecessary custom code. Limiting what you have to move forward will make the process much easier. And lastly, plan for a phased approach. You will want to have dry runs and even maintain both systems in parallel to ensure that they are working correctly.
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One approach to make your existing SAP ERP system more agile and responsive is using low-code application development to create a connected system of action that can operate across siloes systems. Low-code application development tools help democratize workflow development among other roles in the organization, such as business process analysts, to create applications and automate processes quickly.
By using low-code platforms to enable citizen developers, organizations can slash app development time and boost speed and agility. And low-code allows SAP platform owners to cut technical debt by having new functionality built outside of the SAP core, creating a more manageable migration of their ERP platform to the cloud and SAP S/4HANA — tapping into more agile innovations to meet high volumes of change consistently.
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•5 minute read
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•1 minute read
Lessons Learned: SAP S/4HANA and Digital TransformationEuropean manufacturer Eczacıbaşı Building Products needed to transform and digitize their core business processes to better support their internal distribution network and digitize sales channels by using SAP CX solutions as one single platform hence customer experience.
Starting with a thorough evaluation of their existing systems, the goal was to develop an architecture roadmap and put in place the solutions they needed for future success. Despite the challenges of working with subsidiaries across Europe and having to navigate the obstacles posed by the global pandemic, they were able to put in place systems that supported a 30% increase in the number of items they could ship each month without increasing headcount and a 75% reduction in response time to customer reactions in social media.
Attend this session to:
● Find out how Eczacıbaşı involved their business teams in the project, and what difference that made.
● Discover how they completed their evaluation process, and what that gained them from a deployment perspective.
● Learn how the deployment included SAP S/4HANA as well as other solutions to build their system landscape.
Jan 6, 2022
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•1 minute read
Aspen Moves to SAP S/4HANA While Protecting DataSouth Africa-based Aspen Pharmacare responded to recent global challenges by upgrading its IT infrastructure to improve productivity and regulatory compliance. The drug firm had multiple ERP systems worldwide, both SAP and non-SAP, which created inefficiencies and compliance risks.
The company decided to move to SAP S/4HANA and deploy it on SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud to address these issues. It opted to use cloud infrastructure because its on-premise infrastructure was inadequate to handle SAP S/4HANA's requirements.
Aspen Pharmacare subsequently moved from SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud to AWS. The company plans to shift everything to SAP S/4HANA over the next five years.
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•5 minute read
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Nov 17, 2021
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Nov 17, 2021
•1 minute read
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Nov 17, 2021
•1 minute read
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