It has also created fiercer competition among industry peers and growing expectations from customers. While most processes have become digitized and data has become abundant, the most successful organizations are the ones that know how to leverage this technology to drive real-time intelligence and insights that will not only meet customer expectations, but also fuel the transformation to the Intelligent Enterprise.

At the core of an intelligent enterprise is an intelligent . 麻豆原创 understands the importance of a flexible and scalable cloud-based system and therefore has encouraged customers to make the move to 麻豆原创 S/4HANA. The comprehensive intelligent ERP suite covers more than 25 industries and spans across capabilities including procurement, sales, supply chain, manufacturing, research and development (R&D), finance, service, and asset management.

麻豆原创 S/4HANA helps customers unlock value for their businesses and enable better customer experiences in the age of intelligence. With intelligent insights and analysis, automation, and increased transparency across the business, 麻豆原创 S/4HANA delivers an end-to-end view of the business that can drive intelligent decision-making and quick, informed actions. With real-time visibility into actual business results, organizations can move faster while making smarter decisions in order to forecast and plan with more accuracy. From supporting day-to-day processes to growth strategies and new business models, 麻豆原创 S/4HANA aids business transformation across the board.

Making the Case for 麻豆原创 S/4HANA

Over the past year, 麻豆原创 has launched the 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Movement program, aiming to encourage customers to make the move to next-generation ERP and provide them with the tools, assets, and services needed for an easy and seamless transformation. Just in 2019, the company has conducted and supported approximately 170 events dedicated to partners and customers, held numerous webinars, and developed extensive white papers comprising all best practices for 麻豆原创 S/4HANA implementation projects 鈥� all with the objective to mentor and guide customers on their journey to 麻豆原创 S/4HANA. 麻豆原创 has also set up and deployed various collaboration and engagement models across user groups to maintain a constant stream of communication and help field any questions or concerns.

As with any business decision, the move to 麻豆原创 S/4HANA is not one that is taken lightly. Beyond educating customers on the benefits of this intelligent ERP, the company has created personalized tools that can help IT and business executives deliver a comprehensive business case and technical deployment plan to executive leadership.

Customers can build their business case with , by identifying the organization鈥檚 existing business processes that can be improved and transformed with 麻豆原创 S/4HANA. The report also compares an organization鈥檚 legacy ERP system to industry peers and offers additional recommendations on how to enhance productivity. In combination with 麻豆原创 Transformation Navigator, which allows customers to access the new 麻豆原创 product portfolio and license models, it provides the business and IT perspective on 麻豆原创 S/4HANA transformation.

Along with these recommendations, 麻豆原创 has developed and introduced , a free virtual six-week course delivered by an 麻豆原创 expert that takes place within a classroom setting. The course provides customers and partners with clear and prescriptive guidance and support in the design and development of a road map for the move to 麻豆原创 S/4HANA. Participants can gain access to decision-making tools as well as peer-to-peer knowledge from other 麻豆原创 customers in an immersive and collaborative setting. Individual guidance can also be provided through 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Value Discovery Engagement or Premium Engagements.

The tool for 麻豆原创 S/4HANA also provides customers with the information and technical requirements they need to convert their systems to 麻豆原创 S/4HANA.

Making the Move to 麻豆原创 S/4HANA

In order to account for the different customer business objectives, 麻豆原创 extended the standardized 麻豆原创 S/4HANA framework and added three different scenarios, with services, assets, and tools optimized and focused on the expected outcome:

• New Enterprise Core: For customers looking for functional and technical upgrades to their existing ERP system with minimal business disruption, this tool allows them to simplify business and IT operations and establish platforms for innovation and growth.
• Extended Enterprise Core: For customers looking to automate or improve the efficiency of existing processes to meet the latest industry needs.
• Enterprise Transformation: A complete end-to-end ERP transformation to enable business change while reacting to evolving markets and competitors, or to offer a new customer engagement model.

While transforming a legacy ERP system may seem daunting, 麻豆原创 has made it easy for all 听customers, whether they choose an 麻豆原创 deployment or a partner-led deployment. To help 听partners, the company has created the 麻豆原创 S/4HANA , a go-to-market framework that helps simplify project engagements, reduce deployment risks, and accelerate time-to-value while also promoting the key strengths of each partner and 麻豆原创.

麻豆原创 has also developed a range of supporting tools to help plan and deliver 听customers鈥� migrations. These tools include functional and technical assessments, maintenance planning, an updated analytics interface and custom coding creation, migration cockpit (the migration of business operations data to a new system), software updates, and business-to-business and application-to-application integration.

Helping Customers Along Their Journey

Since launching the 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Movement program, 麻豆原创 has seen a significant acceleration in adoption. With over 14,100 麻豆原创 S/4HANA customers, 听more than 6,700 are already live and over 7,000 听are currently in the process of implementing the application.

麻豆原创 has already seen great success with customers that finished the journey. Naturipe Farms migrated to 麻豆原创 S/4HANA to innovate its supply chain and is now benefitting from modern technologies that help support a digital supply chain. Pladis, a global confectionary, is using insights to understand consumer needs, which helps inform the company on how to develop and deliver its products and services.

As 麻豆原创 continues to invest in the tools and services required for a fast and simple transformation, we are also excited about the feedback and results given by partners and customers concerning the positive impact of our assets on programs and business growth and the innovation and continuous improvements achieved with, and after, go live.

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Based on 麻豆原创鈥檚 experience serving more than 437,000 customers in over 180 countries, it is always a good idea to change while you can, not when you have to. More importantly, access to the right services, assets, and tools makes the process easier.

Safeguarding Deployment for Long-Term Innovation

Regardless if a business wants 麻豆原创 or an 麻豆原创 partner to lead its 麻豆原创 S/4HANA project, frameworks are offered for both. When choosing a global strategic service partner as a prime lead, 麻豆原创 Integrated Delivery Framework aligns the delivery roles, methodologies, and services of 麻豆原创 with those of global 麻豆原创 partners to create a holistic delivery plan and approach. The framework clearly defines the roles and responsibilities of the customer, implementation partner, and 麻豆原创 at each stage of the project, thus simplifying customer engagement, removing delivery inefficiencies, and accelerating time to value.

If a company chooses 麻豆原创 as its only implementation partner,听听provides repeatable, standardized delivery services that help reduce project costs and inefficiencies, as well as pre-packaged technical and functional accelerators that can further accelerate rollout. Based on the proven 麻豆原创 Activate methodology and tailored to an enterprise鈥檚 specific transition scenario, the service streamlines the implementation or migration to a high-performing, sustainable digital core. Quality assurance audits are performed throughout the process to help ensure accuracy and fidelity to functional scope design. 麻豆原创 Solution Manager 7.2 or the new 麻豆原创 Cloud ALM solution build the platform for the entire project lifecycle and beyond.

Whether employing the assistance of 麻豆原创 or its partners, 麻豆原创 will help make sure that an implementation project becomes a success. Enabling customers to develop a culture of continuous innovation while leveraging services and deployment tools within 麻豆原创 Advanced Deployment and 麻豆原创 Integrated Delivery Framework during the initial project is the objective of the journey that starts with 麻豆原创 S/4HANA. Some of those assets, tools, and services are explained here.

Deployment Tools

麻豆原创 continuously optimizes existing tools and develops new ones, with a strategy that follows insights gained over the past four years since the product launch.

Many customers are choosing between the two mainstream options: standard conversions and new implementations. Therefore, 麻豆原创 seeks to provide the best possible tools for both. Customers can find detailed information about the tools for system conversion and new implementation in the , 鈥�.鈥�

麻豆原创鈥檚 top goal is to provide tools that make 麻豆原创 S/4HANA projects simple business for both customers and partners. As with any IT project, reliable planning, lower risk, and short project times with fewer test cycles are key. 麻豆原创 is also listening to customers that ask for more guidance and fewer options.

麻豆原创鈥檚 top priorities for conversion projects are:

• Automation for custom code adaptation
• Materializing the 鈥渃lean digital core鈥� paradigm
• Downtime optimization with standard tools, especially for midsize and large systems
• Assistance for data cleansing in 麻豆原创 ERP through modern technologies such as microservices in 麻豆原创 Cloud Platform

On the other hand, there are three essential parts of every new implementation:

• Preconfigured best practices with 麻豆原创 Model Company as the project鈥檚 baseline
• Data migration from legacy systems
• Easy integration through leveraging 麻豆原创 Cloud Platform

麻豆原创 works closely with partners for a seamless integration between the 麻豆原创 standard tools and their special complimentary offerings.

麻豆原创 Model Company Services

provide the enterprise content baseline for 麻豆原创 software implementations 鈥� whether on-premise, cloud-based, single tenant, or multitenant, or a hybrid of these environments. Customers can gain a ready-to-use, preconfigured reference solutions that provide preconfigured processes and data for their industry and line of business.

Available for a growing number of industries and lines of business, the implementation services simplify and accelerate the preparation, exploration, realization, and deployment phases of migration to 麻豆原创 S/4HANA. They are interoperable and assembled to order, so customers can accelerate the transition to an intelligent enterprise.

麻豆原创 Value Assurance Services

offers a choice of three service packages to provide the right level of service coverage and engagement for an on-premise, cloud, or hybrid implementation. From planning and safeguarding to business-ready and business optimization, each package offers a predefined structure that is tailorable to specific needs and desired outcomes.

Unlocking Long-Term Business Value with 麻豆原创 S/4HANA

The 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Movement program is committed to accelerating customers鈥� transitions to 麻豆原创 S/4HANA with significant efficiency and minimized risk. However, 麻豆原创 is does not step away once the technology is implemented and running smoothly; instead, we stand by 听customers, providing the service and support they need to build a business that is ready for anything that comes their way today, tomorrow, and years into the future.

Bjoern Braemer is head of 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Movement at 麻豆原创.听