SAP S/4HANA Migration Services

Customer Centricity and Experience – 

As part of the digital transformation, the way users will access ERP solutions is different than in the past. Users want access via different devices (e.g., mobile) via a simplified, user friendly experience. Based on changing requirements and the future of digitally enabled enterprises, SAP provide customers with a new UX called SAP Fiori. 

With usage of SAP Fiori, there is a significant shift from the purely functional view that was available in the old SAP ERP to a role based UX with a single entry point and a common design in SAP S/4HANA across business applications, whether cloud or on premise. Aside from the creation of a nice UI, SAP Fiori also affects how people work. This is evident in non monetary benefits such as the following:

• Increased user satisfaction – The efficiency and effectiveness of work is increased because all applications can be accessed via a single entry point with the same look and feel.
• Increased customer loyalty – Using the unified UX (e.g., recruiting or procurement) increases both internal and customer loyalty.
• Increased solution adoption – Reduced maintenance costs and user errors result from increased solution adoption.

Customer Insight and Improved Decision Making –

As part of the digital transformation, it is essential to collect all necessary data, make the data available in real time, and create actionable results based on the analysis and prediction of data. With the migration to SAP S/4HANA, several changes enable you to provide better customer information and support the decision making process. 

Due to the use of an inmemory database, the redesign of the data model, and the data footprint reduction that comes with SAP HANA, it’s now possible to provide a single platform across the different solutions with one copy of the data and less integration effort. SAP S/4HANA is designed to fulfill the end to end requirements of a digital value chain. It contains optimized, end to end processes that reside on a single data source, with SAP HANA as the digital backbone. 

It also contains IoT integration via SAP Cloud Platform, which allows companies to get insights and automatically initiate business processes from social media tools, as well as analyze structured and unstructured big data in real time. Key benefits of SAP S/4HANA based on the simplified data model, as listed here:

• Real-time processing – Eliminate batch processing and data reconciliation through a single data pool.
• Predictions – Discover and respond to future opportunities and challenges based on available/historical data.
• Simulation – Simulate possible scenarios and explore the impact of business decisions on outcomes.
• Responsive – Improve user satisfaction by reducing wait time through real time access to data.
• Drilldowns – Drill down into easy to use reports and analyze data at any level without exporting data.
• Recommendations – Rule based and instantaneous decision support guides the user and text mining, and the ability to embed structured and unstructured data in one business process ensures innovative business processes and business decisions.

Digitally Enabled Supply Chain – 

The current SAP ERP system serves as a classical system of record storing your transactional data. The business user goes through different transactions for transparency into demand shortages, analyzes various reports, adds intelligence to the information, and then either prioritizes production or transfers goods from one plant to another to avoid shortages. 

With SAP S/4HANA, the business user gets away from the traditional system of record and leverages the core capabilities of the platform, such as IoT or business network connectivity, to obtain more detailed information and advanced analytical options that help complete work more effectively. Most businesses are requiring real time data in the entire supply chain to minimize the stock in warehouses and thus reduce total costs. 

With older ERP solutions, separate data is loaded from several sources, which takes too much time. Therefore, a simplified data model is needed to avoid redundant data and enable on the fly analysis to provide a detailed look inside the inventory and minimize the risk of deviations between physical inventory and virtual inventory. This is taken care by SAP S/4HANA.