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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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Video: HP Focuses on Compliance during its Global SAP S/4HANA MigrationJul 28, 2021 — HP Inc. launched a strategic effort in 2018 with three goals in mind: Make it easier for its customers to do business with the company, improve its internal processes for employees, and gain a competitive advantage. Migrating to SAP S/4HANA was selected as the way to simplify its sprawling corporate systems. As part of its transformation, HP set up a new governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) system, including rethinking its user access processes and segregation of duties (SoD) ruleset. Hear how HP did it by listening to Carrie Gilstrap, IT Audit Manager, HP, in this video interview.
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HP Improves Efficiencies and Enhances Its Customer ExperienceJul 28, 2021 — In 2018, HP Inc. launched a strategic effort with three goals in mind: Make it easier for its customers to do business with the company, improve its internal processes for employees, and gain a competitive advantage. Migrating to SAP S/4HANA was selected as the way to simplify its sprawling corporate systems. A key component of the migration has been ensuring compliance with internal rules and external regulations, such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) and various data privacy laws.
As part of its transformation, HP set up a new governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) system, including rethinking its user access processes and segregation of duties (SoD) ruleset. In the past HP relied on a homegrown tool for access control but implemented SAP Access Control and SAP Process Control as a component of its SAP S/4HANA migration.
HP also took advantage of SAP Process Control’s continuous control monitoring tools. “We use the tools to monitor our application controls, benchmark and monitor for change, and improve efficiency. It made our IT general controls easy by consolidating data from our legacy systems into one view,” explains Carrie Gilstrap, IT Audit Manager, HP. The company is still in the process of rolling out SAP S/4HANA to all its business units and regions, a process that Gilstrap expects to be completed in 2021.
Read this article and learn:
- How HP ensured compliance with internal rules and external regulations while migrating to SAP S/4HANA.
- How the computer maker used SAP Process Control’s continuous control monitoring tools to monitor its application controls, benchmark and monitor for change, and improve efficiency.
- The importance of implementing continuous control monitoring to prioritize control activities, ensure GRC information is up to date, and achieve compliance at a lower cost.
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Panel Discussion | Customer experiences with SAP S/4HANA deploymentJul 22, 2021 — With excellent quality now more or less a given, companies have shifted their energy to improving the customer experience. Excellence is the new normal. Our customers experiences with SAP S/4HANA Deployment will examine best practices and lesson learned from those with hands-on experience with the process. This session does not focus on “how-tos” or one-size-fits-all approaches. Instead, our experts will help you develop your own framework and extract key learnings.
Attend this session to:
-Enriched experience by renowned industry leaders and experts who reveal best practices and share highly relevant experiences from the industry front lines.
-Get the inside scoop from those from customers of SAP S/4HANA Deployment.
-Hear about the planning, implementation, and operations of the SAP S/4HANA Deployment.
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Deployment Approaches for SAP S/4HANA Benchmark ReportJun 30, 2021 — In This Report: For organizations moving to SAP S/4HANA there are two primary decisions that must be made — where and how they will perform that deployment. Our earlier research into this topic found that nearly half the respondents (47%) favored a system conversion as their deployment model, and just over two thirds (67%) were […]
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Retail Finance Transformation to Drive InnovationJun 14, 2021 — To keep ahead of the rapidly shifting retail marketplace, Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) launched a transformation initiative designed to modernize the company’s core business processes to give employees better access to data in real-time at all levels of the organization. The initiative began as a program to replace its custom legacy ERP system with SAP S/4HANA at its 9,000 stores worldwide but soon turned into a full-scale transformation of WBA’s business.
SAP S/4HANA, which is hosted on Microsoft Azure to furnish the capacity to scale quickly, has streamlined processes, analytics, and decision-making for WBA. It is providing greater accuracy and confidence in the data because of more rigorous controls, governance, and training, explains Mark Slater, VP, Platform Information Officer, Business Services, WBA.
The company focused its initial SAP S/4HANA implementation on finance, retail, supply, and inventory management. Automating processes and improving visibility into better data are key benefits of the transformation program.
Read this article and learn:
- How SAP S/4HANA can help to modernize business processes for greater innovation.
- Ways to keep pace with market complexities by integrating finance, retail, supply chain, and inventory management functions.
- About the advantages that can be gained when you consider communication, continuous training, and change management as essential components to complex technology investments.
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Practical steps for building a proof of concept for SAP S/4HANA analyticsMay 12, 2021 — This session provides all you need to know to set up a proof of concept (PoC) for SAP S/4HANA analytics assembled in one place. Explore your options for BI on SAP S/4HANA and come away with a useful checklist that will help you accelerate your PoC, including links to documentation, blogs, and SAP training offerings. Attendees will learn how to:
-Choose the right business case or business process with relevant data
-Configure and set up integration points for SAP Fiori-, BI-, or BW-based analytics on SAP S/4HANA
-Establish SAP Fiori business and super user roles and see the content to which they have access
-Set up SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP BW connections
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An Insider Look at Ingevity’s SAP S/4HANA Business TransformationApr 2, 2021 — Ingevity is a specialty chemical company based in Charleston, South Carolina that current runs a 20-year-old, heavily customized version of SAP ECC 6.0. But, now for much longer — like many companies, Ingevity is focused on building a digital platform that can support technologies like analytics, automation, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to help the business become more agile in the face of disruption. The company’s VP of IT and CIO, Michael Mullis, recently talked with SAPinsider about Ingevity’s current SAP S/4HANA business transformation initiative.
This is the next big phase for Ingevity from a technology perspective, and the company is finding that it’s not only about technology upgrades — it’s also about organizational redesign.
Read this executive Q&A and learn:
• How Ingevity is implementing a global business transformation leveraging SAP in a remote working environment;
• New leadership approaches to help prevent burn-out among employees; and
• How Ingevity plans to become more agile in 2021 and beyond.
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Ask the Experts: Overcoming Challenges to Delivering on the Promise of SAP S/4HANAMar 11, 2021 — Organizations transforming their business processes and IT infrastructure to compete in today’s digital economy are moving to SAP S/4HANA. However, reaching the full potential of a SAP S/4HANA investment may require overcoming challenges with potentially complex new IT infrastructures. How can you deliver on the promise of SAP S/4HANA to ensure that you achieve faster […]
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Top 5 Tips to Prepare Your Organization for S/4HANAMar 3, 2021 — Organizations are struggling with their decisions around SAP S/4HANA. When should they transition? How do they embrace the new user experience and innovation capabilities of the platform? In this webinar, Kimberley Reid, VP US SAP Solutions at Hitachi Vantara, and Steve Hankins, CFO of Morgan Foods, will share strategies to help organizations prepare their organization […]
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Workshop: Map Out and Validate Your SAP S/4HANA JourneyFeb 11, 2021 — You are ready to begin the journey to transition to SAP S/4HANA Cloud? Whether you are building your strategy or preparing for the transition, you will find value in validating your path and talking to others taking the same journey. Join this peer-to-peer discussion with other leaders who are at different stages of this transition. […]
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