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What is SAP S/4HANA Implementation?
SAP S/4HANA is the current enterprise ERP solution provided by SAP. SAP S/4HANA Implementation covers the deployment and configuration of the solution. Currently deployment methods include system conversion (sometimes called a brownfield deployment), new implementation (greenfield deployment), and selective data transition.
Steps to a successful SAP S/4HANA implementation include evaluating tools, SAP Readiness Check for SAP S/4HANA, SAP Fiori, SAP S/4HANA Migration Cockpit, data volume management, custom code conversion, landscape selection, infrastructure evaluation, security overview, and performance monitoring. It is also important to determine whether extensibility or customization will be used to make modifications to the solution to support organizational needs.
What is SAP S/4HANA Implementation?
SAP S/4HANA is the current enterprise ERP solution provided by SAP. SAP S/4HANA Implementation covers the deployment and configuration of the solution. Currently deployment methods include system conversion (sometimes called a brownfield deployment), new implementation (greenfield deployment), and selective data transition.
Steps to a successful SAP S/4HANA implementation include evaluating tools, SAP Readiness Check for SAP S/4HANA, SAP Fiori, SAP S/4HANA Migration Cockpit, data volume management, custom code conversion, landscape selection, infrastructure evaluation, security overview, and performance monitoring. It is also important to determine whether extensibility or customization will be used to make modifications to the solution to support organizational needs.
Key Considerations for SAPinsiders:
- How do you decide which of the different deployment models for SAP S/4HANA makes the most sense for your organization? SAP supports three different deployment models for SAP S/4HANA: a system conversion that takes the data and configuration from your existing SAP ECC system and moves them into SAP S/4HANA; a new implementation that brings no existing configuration information into the new system; and a selective data transition that brings configuration information from the existing system but allows data to be moved selectively into the new SAP S/4HANA implementation. This paneldiscusses the benefits of each of these approaches, so you can determine which is best for you.
- It’s important that you prepare your data for an SAP S/4HANA implementation. When moving to SAP S/4HANA, it’s important to understand your existing data landscape. Where is your data located? How much do you need to bring into SAP S/4HANA? How do you prepare your data for the move? How do you determine whether your data is actually clean? And how can you ensure that the move is successful. This event session walks you through the process of getting your data ready for an SAP S/4HANA implementation and provides best practices for making sure that the implementation goes smoothly.
- More than just doing the deployment, it is important to make sure that your organization has the right skills in place for your SAP S/4HANA implementation. What skills should you focus on as you prepare for the move to SAP S/4HANA? Are change management skills a necessity? What skills do you need to leverage SAP S/4HANA once it has been implemented? What are the best steps to prepare for the move to SAP S/4HANA? What does an organization need to do in the broader sense to prepare for an SAP S/4HANA implementation? This panel discussion covers these points to help you ensure that you are fully prepared for your next implementation.
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Jayhawk Fine Chemicals: SAP S/4HANA Best Practice ImplementationDec 21, 2022 — Jayhawk Fine Chemicals Corporation (“Jayhawk”) was leveraging an SAP ERP 6.0 system to conduct its business supporting all key processes including finance, manufacturing, procurement, customer service, quality, and plant maintenance. In order to support the fast-growing company, Jayhawk recognized that it needed to upgrade to a S/4HANA platform to run an efficient ERP that would enable the business to focus on future innovation.
Download this case study from Syskoplan Reply to learn more about how Jayhawk leveraged the power and flexibility of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform to host their S/4HANA landscape.
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Achieve Day 2 Operational Excellence and Safeguard your SAP LandscapeMar 2, 2023 — Managing complex SAP landscapes is never easy, and many IT resources are frequently spent just ‘keeping the lights on’. Join experts from SUSE to learn how to maintain large-scale critical environments in a secure and predictable manner, enhance operational efficiency and support, and gain intelligent insights beyond your initial implementation.
Attend this webinar to learn how to:
Meet business requirements for faster service delivery
Reduce IT system administration workload
Streamline the lifecycle and security management of your infrastructure
Increase the operational efficiency for a large and complex SAP landscape
In this session, we will review the challenges that customers face in their migration journey and focus on the solutions to minimize downtime for mission-critical SAP workloads, especially some of the exclusive innovations that are being adopted by the Hyperscalers.
By attending this webinar, you will:
Learn how to accelerate the cloud deployment of SAP S/4HANA in a secure cloud environment
Understand how to minimize downtime and keep your services running
Maximize insights about your SAP S/4HANA and cloud environments
Discover how SUSE innovates with Hyperscalers for mission-critical SAP Workloads
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Making the Right Platform Choice to Best Support Your Cloud Deployment of SAP S/4HANAFeb 2, 2023 — Customers are embracing cloud deployment of SAP S/4HANA and it part of their infrastructure modernization process. As the development platform for SAP S/4HANA, SUSE’s thought leadership focuses on innovations to accelerate cloud migration, minimize downtime, and safeguard the SAP landscape. Making the right choice of platform is critical for operating your SAP environment in the cloud.
In this session, we will review the challenges that customers face in their migration journey and focus on the solutions to minimize downtime for mission-critical SAP workloads, especially some of the exclusive innovations that are being adopted by the Hyperscalers.
By attending this webinar, you will:
Learn how to accelerate the cloud deployment of SAP S/4HANA in a secure cloud environment
Understand how to minimize downtime and keep your services running
Maximize insights about your SAP S/4HANA and cloud environments
Discover how SUSE innovates with Hyperscalers for mission-critical SAP Workloads
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The Five Pillars of SAP ModernizationDec 19, 2022 — In this article, you will learn about pervasive connectivity – the concept that all essential functions of a business should be linked. This important point will ensure that your SAP modernization and cloud journey will provide your company with important insights and optimize business functions.
You will also learn about the five pillars of SAP modernization – Cloud-first migration, AI analytics focus, data stewardship, improved productivity and TCO, and composable and decomposable ERP. By emphasizing these five pillars, enterprises will have an important framework that they can use to harness the full power of the cloud.
By focusing on the five pillars, enterprises can build an extended ecosystem with the intelligence, agility, and value that they need to maintain an edge on the competition.
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Digitalization Is the Key to SAP ModernizationDec 16, 2022 — Business leaders are no doubt excited about the opportunities presented by a move to the cloud. However, many will still have reservations about such an involved overhaul. They may wonder what will become of their data and processes and have security concerns regarding their SAP landscapes.
In this article, you will learn how the key to addressing these questions is to develop an individualized approach to SAP modernization. This will allow you to address the needs of your specific teams and landscapes.
In order to develop that individualized approach, it is crucial to address the three building blocks of digitalization – connectivity, infrastructure, and security. It also helps to have a trusted advisor who can impartially lead you through the steps of finding the solution that best fits your needs.
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SAP S/4HANA Cloud Futureproofs Cerapedics Company Growth and Streamlines OperationsDec 15, 2022 — Cerapedics, an orthobiologics company, was using an outdated ERP that was supported remotely through a third party. Expecting major growth over the next 3 to 5 years, Cerapedics needed a solution that would accommodate their skinny IT footprint, allow them to bring their warehouse operations in-house, be scalable, and be located in the cloud.
Read this case study to learn how Cerepedics was able to digitize routine business processes and bring visibility to their financial processes with an SAP S/4HANA Cloud implementation.
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Fujitsu Case Study: Bringing Digital Transformation to the Entire Testing ProcessNov 28, 2022 — Fujitsu embarked on a company-wide digital transformation initiative to standardize work processes and data. The needs were efficiency, internal communication, data sharing, cost-effectiveness, and automation. The impact was significant, with a 35% reduction in labor-hours, easy reuse of test scenarios, overtime hours slashed, and more. This case study illustrates how Fujitsu leveraged Panaya to achieve […]
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Is Integration the Hardest Part of an SAP S/4HANA Migration?Nov 21, 2022 — When migrating to SAP S/4HANA, there are several Key Decision pillars that you need to work through to determine the right choices for our upgrade journey. From talking with so many of you architecting your migration plan, you are deciding where S/4HANA will reside, what path to take to get to S/4, what business value you will deliver, or whether this be a purely technical upgrade.
In this article, you can learn how to handle the never-ending decision of how to manage and what to do with all that data—the struggle is real and ongoing even before thinking about upgrading. All of these are major decision points that can affect the successful outcome of your S/4HANA initiative.
S/4HANA migrations have a lot of pieces to the puzzle: on-prem/cloud, brown, blue, green, hosted or not, technical, or functional or both, do it in-house or get an SI (Systems Integrator), and timing are all considerations you are thinking about as you and the team plan your journey. But integration—something we all do all day, every day—is also a huge branch on the decision tree.
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Beautycounter increases inventory accuracy with SAP S/4HANA on cloudNov 17, 2022 — Facing the end of maintenance support on version 1610, the Beautycounter team chose to upgrade to SAP S/4HANA version 2020, seeking substantial improvements in scalability, functionality, and supply chain-focused additions. In just 12 weeks, without any major impact to the business, Protera performed the upgrade while activating transactional and analytics Fiori apps relevant to finance and accounting.
This transformation enabled Beautycounter to continuously optimize cost, enhance internal processes and develop solutions to help their customers and drive revenue.
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Tips to Attain Faster Stabilization with S/4HANA Production Execution ImplementationOct 28, 2022 — Most S/4 implementations could expect a period of stabilization before all users adapt to the new system. While this may vary widely across S/4HANA implementations due to industry, process complexities, and organization culture, among other things, everyone can gain tips from another company’s implementations journey. An effective and efficient people and process design is critical to attain business goals. These insights can help determine how to best leverage these lessons to reduce their own post implementation difficulties for faster stabilization.
One of the most common reasons why implementations take more time for stabilization is attributed to designs focused on technical aspects without considerations of after go-live data maintenance, people, and processing. Few of the processes and people related modifications that could be of value in Production Planning and Execution are summarized based on a medium level engineering industry manufacturing company implementation.
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