Mar 8, 2022
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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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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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Your SAP Migration Just Got a Lot More ManageableDon’t just migrate Build on a scalable, flexible, and intelligent foundation that sets you up for a future of innovation. If your business depends on traditional SAP environments, the 2027 deadline for migration to SAP HANA or SAP S/4HANA presents a major undertaking. However, it is also a great opportunity to modernize and automate your […]
Jan 6, 2022
•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.
Jan 6, 2022
•5 minute read
Migrating to SAP S/4HANA: How will you modernize, simplify and secure SAP Print and Digital Output?Business critical documents, whether physical or virtual, need to be delivered securely, on-time and must have system feedback on delivery. As you plan your SAP S/4HANA migration this requirement is unlikely to have changed. The question now is; Can you keep the same infrastructure, same products and solutions to support SAP printing and scanning? Do […]
Nov 17, 2021
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Migrating to SAP S/4HANA: How will you modernize, simplify and secure SAP Print and Digital Output?Business critical documents, whether physical or virtual, need to be delivered securely, on-time and must have system feedback on delivery. As you plan your SAP S/4HANA migration this requirement is unlikely to have changed. The question now is; Can you keep the same infrastructure, same products and solutions to support SAP printing and scanning? Do […]
Nov 17, 2021
•1 minute read
Migrating to SAP S/4HANA: How will you modernize, simplify and secure SAP Print and Digital Output?Business critical documents, whether physical or virtual, need to be delivered securely, on-time and must have system feedback on delivery. As you plan your SAP S/4HANA migration this requirement is unlikely to have changed. The question now is; Can you keep the same infrastructure, same products and solutions to support SAP printing and scanning? Do […]
Nov 17, 2021
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Evolution of ERP Systems in the Digital EraBy Kumar Singh, Research Director, SAPinsider Changing the Paradigms of Enterprise Resource Planning Business environments, in most industries, have always been dynamic and susceptible to changes. These changes may be gradual or sudden, but the fact is, the world of business has continuously evolved through these changes. However, what we are increasingly experiencing now […]
Oct 20, 2021
•9 minute read
Private Cloud Supports Global Expansion at GraceKennedy Ltd.GraceKennedy Limited is an almost century-old food distribution and financial services company based in Jamaica. Historically, GraceKennedy has focused on the processing and distribution of Jamaican and other multi-cultural food products in Jamaica and overseas markets. GraceKennedy operates six manufacturing facilities in Jamaica and its foods businesses also provide food distribution services to over 40 countries.
SAPinsider’s Chief Research Officer Riz Ahmed talked with GraceKennedy’s CIO Deidre Cousins to learn about the company’s plans to evolve its SAP landscape, expand geographically and further diversify its product and service offerings.
“We need to grow at a faster pace and as we expand into other markets, we want to ensure that our SAP and backend is available and scalable to grow and provide services in those regions,” Cousins says.
“For example, we realized that having a centralized hub in the Caribbean, we were susceptible to some of the risks as it relates to natural disasters and if there was an outage, it would impact our international locations. We had to look at business continuity as a priority and how we could construct our landscape to build in more redundancy. That was the key.”
Read this Executive Insight and learn:
• Drivers that impacted GraceKennedy’s decision to move to the private cloud and how the company completed its cloud project in less than seven months;
• About how the company’s evolving strategy, including its geographic expansion and hardware upgrades, is helping GraceKennedy support its international expansion and increase its performance and reliability; and
• Lessons learned and benefits of moving to the private cloud, including 99.9% uptime and improved business continuity.
Sep 23, 2021
•8 minute read
Migrating to S/4 HANA: Aligning the Visions of IT and Business to Create User AcceptanceThe best technology investments provide tangible business benefits. Often with software migrations, tangible business benefits can be difficult to realize, especially when teams from different departments have different priorities. Migrating to S/4 HANA is a prime example. Leaders of IT may have one vision while business leaders may have another. These groups must bridge the gap now, in the business case and planning stages, rather than waiting until the actual migration and implementation.
In this webinar, we will share key learnings from our experience with process and technology as well as findings from our best practice research. This will include examples of where most successful migrations start and what it takes to successfully bring them to fruition. We aim to help you have a faster, more efficient, safer migration with less costs, less risk of business disruption, and a higher positive ROI calculation.
Register and join the discussion to learn how to:
-Ensure strategy and execution are in harmony
-Create alignment between business and IT
-Move from a seamless migration towards operational excellence
-Improve customer experience with an optimized ERP
Aug 13, 2021
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