IT leaders understand that migration to SAP S/4HANA is an investment in the company’s future—an essential part of the overall transformation effort that will ensure competitive success in the digital era. However, change can be difficult for stakeholders and brings many challenges. Organizations cite three primary reasons they have yet to embrace S/4HANA:
- Business disruption
- A lack of available resources
- Cost concerns
We understand your challenges and questions
V3iT is the trusted advisor that can help you with this transformation with a personalized approach that takes into consideration these questions and concerns based on your current platform and desired direction. There are many suppliers that offer S/4 HANA overview assessments but our offering is a tailored personalized assessment specific to your needs. We recommend the following steps as a user-centric approach that takes into account people, process and technology:
- Engage V3iT to perform your readiness check assessment and help you prepare your business case (return on investment-total cost of ownership). Get a better understanding of the pre-requisites that apply to your organization and the scope of work for those tasks to include Unicode cleanup, Customer Vendor Integration and possibly New General Ledger.
- Decide on how (green/blue/brown-field) and where (cloud, on premise or hybrid) to implement/migrate.
- Engage in an S/4 proof of concept. This is a great way to test and justify your approach.Set tangible yet measurable and achievable goals.
- Plan, Scope and Activate (SAP’s Methodology). This includes business process, change management and technology scope.
- Deploy.
- Run, Optimize and Continuously Innovate.
S/4 HANA Personalized Assessment and Proof of Concept
Readiness and Current Gaps to plan S/4HANA Migration
IT Landscape Assessment, Hardware Reusability and Sizing
Impact and compatibility of add-ons, Custom Programs & Enhancements
Possible Roadmaps for migration and cloud options with Pros & Cons
Impact & Recommendations on Operations & Business Processes
FIORI Apps Recommendations
and much more…
We also offer a proof of concept that can leverage the information gained from your tailored assessment to investigate the scope and complexity of moving your current business processes to the recommended best demonstrated practices for the various functional areas. The proof of concept can be leveraged as a business case and used to determine the best deployment option.
Deployment Options
PROS
- Typically smaller customers with smaller scope footprint or smaller databases under 512GB.
- Smaller means shorter duration of project and quicker ROE.
- Migration of data subset (e.g. no historical data).
- Enabling process transformation.
- Potentially zero downtime.
- No Unicode conversion necessary.
- Roles and Authorizations can be redone from scratch or migrated selectively.
CONS
- Some education would be required in training individuals.
Using SAP standard tools
(SUM/DMO)
PROS
- Customers who wants to leverage investments in customizations and configurations.
- Workforce already conversant with current deployment.
- Similar architecture with just change to the database and adapting simplification.
CONS
- SAP S/4HANA is not mature for all industry verticals.
- Business Downtime required.
- Possible Impact on unique configurations and/or customizations.
PROS
- Ideal for large customers who want to consolidate into a central system.
- Customers who want to move certain application to a newer landscape and/or want to take it slow.
CONS
- Not ideal for smaller customers or with organizations with dissimilar operations in all businesses.
PROS
- Very new approach.
- Minimizes downtime.
- Unique approach to pick and choose what to move and what not to move.
- Can be done even with non-SAP to SAP S/4HANA migrations.
CONS
- Not time-tested.
- Requires additional software licensing not included in the license of SAP S/4HANA.
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