Take the Journey to SAP S/4HANA

with Premium Engagements from SAP

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November 2021

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Expert support and guidance for your journey to SAP S/4HANA
Your way, your strategic choice…
Key Drivers Transition Paths Average Duration Deployment Options

SAP S/4HANA Cloud

▪ Customer tailored 6 months (cloud) SAP S/4HANA

▪ Highly standardized Business Model New
New 12 months (on prem.) Cloud, private
▪ Filled with best practices Innovation edition
Implementation
▪ Based on a clean core Implementation SAP S/4HANA
Greenfield
RE-ENGINEERING
Current with data migration
landscape
SAP S/4HANA
Strategic Choice: Selective Business Selective Data Highly customer Cloud, private
Process Optimization edition
Transition specific
Which Approach?
… … SAP S/4HANA

Brownfield
SAP S/4HANA
Start Rapid System Cloud, private
Modernization Conversion 8 months (on prem.) edition
▪ Technical conversion focus
▪ Faster approach SAP S/4HANA
▪ Innovation moved to “phase 2” RE-USE
by in-place conversion

Read more: Mapping Your Journey to SAP S/4HANA:

A Practical Guide for Senior IT Leadership (link)
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Expert support and guidance for your journey to SAP S/4HANA
Scenario Overview for the Journey to SAP S/4HANA

Innovation Strategy Transition Plan Data Migration Design Technical Architecture

SAP Readiness Check Conversion Plan Mandatory Preparation Custom Code Management Technical Architecture…

Architecture
Planning Activate Fit-to-Standard Performance Dress Rehearsal Production Cutover
Solution Design optimization
Implementation Improvement Innovation
Strategy
Strategic
Advisory System Conversion Prepare Explore Realize Deploy Run

Discover New Implementation Prepare Explore Realize Deploy Run

Selective Data
Transition Journey
Prepare Explore Realize Deploy Run

Innovation Strategy Transition/(Shell) Conversion Plan Data Migration Design Technical Architecture…

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Take the Journey to SAP S/4HANA -Scenario Step 1
Digital Transformation Strategy starting with SAP
S/4HANA
Take the Journey to SAP S/4HANA - Scenario Step 1
Digital Transformation Strategy Starting with SAP S/4HANA

Your expectations when planning your digital Premium Engagements from SAP –
transformation and your journey to SAP The ideal partner to support your transformation
S/4HANA

▪ Gain architecture guidance and roadmap insight for ▪ We develop, review and optimize the overall enterprise
your digital transformation towards the Intelligent architecture for your digital transformation program.
Enterprise, beginning with SAP S/4HANA
▪ We can help you determine a specific, future-proof
▪ Get guidance on the best-fitting transition path architecture and holistic roadmap driven by your
to SAP S/4HANA business and IT strategy and in alignment with the SAP
product vision.
▪ Identify key innovations which will be impactful to
your business ▪ We support you defining your implementation strategy
for SAP S/4HANA
▪ We help you leverage new intelligent technologies fitting
to your process landscape

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Take the Journey to SAP S/4HANA -Scenario Step 1
Digital Transformation Strategy Starting with SAP S/4HANA

Define Your Digital Transformation Strategy Define Your Way to SAP S/4HANA

Architecture planning and Innovation Implementation Support

Services ▪ Develop the value case for the transition to
▪ Create innovation-, implementation and SAP S/4HANA​
integration strategy for cloud and on premise ▪ Decide on the implementation strategy for
▪ Create analytics and data management strategy SAP S/4HANA​
▪ Depict target Intelligent Enterprise architecture ▪ Identify key innovations from business priorities
▪ Supports cybersecurity and compliance ▪ Define the high-level program plan​
▪ Depict multi-year transition road map

Continuously Throughout Your Move Preparation

Orchestration and support through dedicated front office resources

▪ Providing advice to build a robust and scalable target architecture across cloud and on-premise, service orchestration,
expert coordination, and action item follow-up
▪ While linked to the full E2E Backoffice knowledge of SAP including development to provide expertise when necessary

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Take the Journey to SAP S/4HANA - Scenario Step 2a
A Brownfield (System Conversion) Journey
Take the Journey to SAP S/4HANA - Scenario Step 2a
A Brownfield (System Conversion) Journey

Your expectations when transforming your IT Premium Engagements from SAP –

towards SAP S/4HANA using a Brownfield The ideal partner to support your transformation
(system conversion) approach

▪ Retain business process configuration and data ▪ Helps secure your business process harmonization
during your journey towards SAP S/4HANA.
▪ Lean and fast transformation approach
▪ Brings vendor knowledge into your project. Tailored
▪ Innovate incrementally on SAP S/4HANA
services help consolidating your IT infrastructure
▪ Identification of key innovations impactful according to SAP’s product strategy.
to business
▪ Validates gaps, and provides functional adjustments
based on SAP’s best practices to ensure applications,
data and processes are enabled in a future oriented
solution landscape.
▪ Supports your system conversion with expert tools,
proven methodology and subject matter experts.

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 Take the Journey to SAP S/4HANA – Scenario Step 2a
Brownfield Journey – Premium Engagement services guiding the Journey

Scenario Step 2a: A Brownfield Journey to SAP S/4HANA

SAP Readiness Check Conversion Plan Mandatory Preparation Custom Code Management Technical Architecture…

Fit-to-Standard Performance Dress Rehearsal Production Cutover

Design optimization
Improvement Innovation

System Conversion Prepare Explore Realize Deploy Run

Discover New Implementation Prepare Explore Realize Deploy Run

Selective Data
Transition Journey
Prepare Explore Realize Deploy Run

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Take the Journey to SAP S/4HANA - Scenario Step 2a
A Brownfield (System Conversion) Journey

Before Your Conversion During Your Conversion After Your Conversion

Implementation Support Implementation Support and End-to-end Operations

▪ Supports in all key planning activities Safeguarding ▪ Helps you setting up efficient IT operations
▪ Helps defining the technical and functional ▪ Supports mandatory system conversion ▪ Empowers you on IT procedures, tools and
implementation scope preparation
skills
▪ Supports technical architecture definition ▪ Prepares your Master Data for the conversion
▪ Optimizes your business downtime,
and detailed sizing ▪ Gives guidance for Custom code adjustments e.g. during maintenance
▪ Provides guidance on how to implement and ▪ Supports migration activities and optimizes
integrate new, strategic SAP products for ▪ Revisits business processes and applications
your business downtime
analytics and enterprise data warehousing to identify further opportunities which inevitably
▪ Safeguards until successful go-live come up with new capabilities through SAP
▪ Supports conversion prototyping
S/4HANA

Continuously Throughout Your Move

Orchestration and support through dedicated front office resources

▪ Providing advice to build a robust and scalable target architecture across cloud and on-premise, service orchestration,
expert coordination, and action item follow-up
▪ While linked to the full E2E Backoffice knowledge of SAP including development to provide expertise when necessary

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Most efficient and minimal risk road map during your SAP S/4HANA
Transition Transformation Strategy + Brownfield Journey

Discover and Prepare Explore and Realize Deploy and Run

1 2 3 4

▪ Outline enterprise architecture ▪ Run fit-to-standard ▪ SAP Best Practices to identify ▪ Expert support to
workshops to define the and manage impacted support platform deployment
▪ Develop migration and
functional scope custom code
transformation strategy ▪ Helps you adjusting IT
▪ Assess capacity ▪ Verify technical capacity operations
▪ Define analytics and data
requirements and design requirements, and define
management strategy ▪ Empowers you on IT
technical architecture detailed technical architecture procedures, tools and skills
▪ Analyze readiness check
▪ Perform security activities ▪ Reduce business downtime
results
with tools and methodology during conversion
▪ Define implementation
strategy including functional ▪ Expert guidance on migration ▪ Safeguarding and Go-Live
and transformation activities support
capabilities
▪ Use best practices for
▪ Depict integration strategy
implementing analytics and
▪ Define data volume data management
management strategy
▪ Plan the implementation
project

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How a global leader in Electricity Utility did a
SAP S/4HANA system conversion with the help of a Premium Engagements
from SAP

Scenario Description Activities Performed Business Results

▪ System conversion of a central SAP ERP to ▪ Support in Innovation Strategy and Roadmap ▪ Fast-track discovery and preparation:
SAP S/4HANA on-premise definition From initial discovery of SAP S/4HANA until
▪ Definition of implementation strategy, functional first project plan in only 12 weeks time
▪ Modules: FI, FI-AA, FI-CO, MM, PS, PP, SD,
scope and target landscape
Travel Management. ▪ Reduced migration effort:
▪ Functional fit/gap assessment including SAP Transition to SAP S/4HANA in one step
▪ Phased approach:
innovations (instead of two steps via SAP Suite on HANA)
– Architecture planning
▪ SAP S/4HANA Readiness Check
– Implementation support ▪ Move custom applications to SAP standard
▪ Migration Planning Workshop to define the
– Operations application adjustments, technical configuration ▪ Automation of group IT processes and
requirements, migration cycles and high-level consolidation of IT Infrastructure
project plan
▪ Prepare digital enablement towards “Hybrid IT”
▪ Definition of Technical Architecture & to support outsourcing of services and
Infrastructure infrastructure to cloud providers in future
▪ Supports the execution of migration tasks
▪ Safeguarding and Go-Live support
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Take the Journey to SAP S/4HANA - Scenario Step 2b
A Greenfield (New Implementation) Journey
Take the Journey to SAP S/4HANA - Scenario Step 2b
A Greenfield (New Implementation) Journey

Your expectations when transforming your IT Premium Engagements from SAP –

towards SAP S/4HANA using a Greenfield The ideal partner to support your transformation
approach:

▪ Business process re-design to fulfill business ▪ Brings vendor knowledge, and SAP’s product strategy
requirements into your project. Key design decisions will last for years
to come – SAP makes sure you take the right ones.
▪ Less customization by moving closer to the
SAP Standard ▪ Knows SAP functionality best. Potential functional gaps
can often be avoided by an alternative business process
▪ Efficiency increase when implementing SAP configuration. This helps you staying close to the SAP
innovations (like Machine Learning, iRPA, standard and keeping the core clean.
matching invoices, chatbots and FIORI UI)
▪ Supports you in leveraging SAP Cloud innovations and
▪ Implementing a state-of-the-art technology integrating them seamlessly with your on-premise
without the constraints of existing systems or solution.
infrastructure

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 Take the Journey to SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition – Scenario Step 2b
A Greenfield Journey to SAP S/4HANA

Scenario Step 2b: A Greenfield Journey to SAP S/4HANA

Innovation Strategy Transition Plan Data Migration Design Technical Architecture…

Activate Fit-to-Standard Performance Dress Rehearsal Production Cutover

Solution Design optimization
Improvement Innovation

System Conversion Prepare Explore Realize Deploy Run

Discover New Implementation Prepare Explore Realize Deploy Run

Selective Data
Transition Journey
Prepare Explore Realize Deploy Run

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Take the Journey to SAP S/4HANA - Scenario Step 2b
A Greenfield (New Implementation) Journey

Before Your New Implementation During Your New Implementation After Your New Implementation

Implementation Support Implementation Support and End-to-end Operations

▪ Supports in all key planning activities Safeguarding ▪ Helps you setting up efficient IT operations
▪ Helps defining the technical and functional ▪ Supports fit-to-standard and SAP Best
Practices approach ▪ Empowers you on IT procedures, tools
implementation scope
and skills
▪ Supports technical architecture definition ▪ Evaluate and support implementation of SAP
and detailed sizing Fiori user experience ▪ Optimizes your business downtime,
e.g. during maintenance
▪ Prototypes selected processes and technical ▪ Plan and design the migration of data to the
innovations new SAP S/4HANA ▪ Revisits business processes and
▪ Support creation of authorization concept applications to identify further opportunities
▪ Supports cybersecurity and compliance
which inevitably come up with new
▪ Safeguards until successful go-live capabilities through SAP S/4HANA

Continuously Throughout Your Move

Orchestration and support through dedicated front office resources

▪ Providing advice to build a robust and scalable target architecture across cloud and on-premise, service orchestration,
expert coordination, and action item follow-up
▪ While linked to the full E2E Backoffice knowledge of SAP including development to provide expertise when necessary

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Most efficient and minimal risk road map during your SAP S/4HANA Transition
Transformation Strategy + Greenfield Journey

Discover and Prepare Explore and Realize Deploy and Run

1 2 3 4

▪ Define innovation and ▪ Design the business ▪ Prove value of investment ▪ Expert support to support
functional capabilities for processes in fit-to-standard with selected prototypes platform deployment
cloud and on premise workshops, based on SAP (1) on optimization (through
Best Practices ▪ Helps you adjusting IT
embedded best practices)
▪ Outline the enterprise operations
▪ Perform proper setup of (2) on extensibility (through
architecture integration and security SAP Cloud Platform) ▪ Empowers you on IT
▪ Develop migration and ▪ Plan the best approach for procedures, tools and skills
▪ Get expert guidance
transformation strategy data migration to keep the core clean with
▪ Define the analytics and data ▪ Use best practices for SAP Business
management strategy implementation analytics Technology Platform
▪ Depict integration strategy ▪ Expert support to ▪ Safeguarding and go-live
verify technical support
▪ Design the technical capacity requirements on
architecture hardware ▪ Reduce business downtime
▪ Plan prototype ▪ Define detailed
technical architecture
▪ Planning of implementation
and infrastructure
project

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How a global leader of making tissue, pulp, packaging, building products did a
SAP S/4HANA New Implementation with the help of Premium Engagements
from SAP

Scenario Description Activities Performed Business Results

▪ Implementation of a new landscape: ▪ Functional assessment of current ▪ Digital transformation enablement

A pure greenfield model (SAP S/4HANA solution, identification of SAP ▪ Innovation setup – allows for scalability
core + Central Finance) running on a innovations in the cloud and potential and agility
Hyperscaler (IaaS), with classical SAP target solution.
on premise applications, extended by ▪ Consolidation and harmonization of
▪ Definition of innovation strategy, business processes
SAP SaaS and PaaS solutions
roadmap, functional scope and
▪ Leveraging SAP Cloud Platform for prototyping ▪ Smooth integration of multiple on-
integration premise and cloud SAP solution
▪ Assess capacity requirements and
▪ Phased approach: design of target enterprise architecture ▪ Lower infrastructure costs, able to
and mapping to technical architecture change faster for changing business
– Strategy planning
priorities
– Implementation support ▪ Definition of integration architecture
– Hybrid operations ▪ Support security activities
▪ Safeguard and go-live support
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Take the Journey to SAP S/4HANA - Scenario Step 2c
A Selective Data Transition Journey
Take the Journey to SAP S/4HANA – Scenario Step 2c
A Selective Data Transition Journey

Your expectations when transforming your IT Premium engagements from SAP –

towards SAP S/4HANA using a Selective The ideal partner to support your
Data Transition approach: transformation:

▪ Support for consolidating multiple ERP systems in one SAP ▪ Gives guidance for your landscape transformation towards SAP
S/4HANA system S/4HANA
▪ Migration of relevant historical data only, leaving obsolete
▪ Safeguards business continuity with historical data while moving
data behind, such as outdated company codes
to a new SAP S/4HANA system, using selective history, e.g., of
▪ Change to only a part of the system configuration or organizational units, time slice, application, etc.
functionality while retaining a consistent process chain or
document flow ▪ Supports you in introducing new business processes while
protecting good practices and previous investments (e.g., custom
▪ Flexibility defining your own speed and combining single applications) using a shell conversion approach
projects, like finance harmonization, business partner
activation, or others with the move to SAP S/4HANA in a ▪ Enables you to restrict the technical downtime to a couple of
single step – or separate them in a phased approach hours only with the near-zero downtime approach; supports
phased rollouts in case big bang rollout is not preferred or
possible

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 Take the Journey to SAP S/4HANA – Scenario Step 2c
A Selective Data Transition Journey to SAP S/4HANA

System Conversion Prepare Explore Realize Deploy Run

Discover New Implementation Prepare Explore Realize Deploy Run

Selective Data
Transition Journey
Prepare Explore Realize Deploy Run

Improvement Innovation

Activate Fit-to-Standard Performance Dress Rehearsal Production Cutover

Solution Design optimization

Innovation Strategy Transition/(Shell) Conversion Plan Data Migration Design Technical Architecture…

Scenario Step 2c: A Selective Data Transition Journey to SAP S/4HANA

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Take the Journey to SAP S/4HANA - Scenario Step 2c
A Selective Data Transition Journey

Before Your Selective Data Transition During Your Selective Data Transition After Your Selective Data Transition

Implementation Support Implementation Support and End-to-end Operations

▪ Supports in all key planning activities Safeguarding ▪ Helps you setting up efficient IT operations
▪ Helps identifying the data migration ▪ Supports fit-to-standard and SAP Best
Practices approach ▪ Empowers you on IT procedures, tools
requirements and adequate data migration
and skills
procedures and tools ▪ Data migration design and execution
▪ Helps defining the technical and functional ▪ Optimizes your business downtime,
▪ Evaluate and support implementation of SAP e.g. during maintenance
implementation scope Fiori user experience
▪ Supports technical architecture definition ▪ Revisits business processes and
▪ Support creation of authorization concept
and detailed sizing applications to identify further opportunities
▪ Safeguards until successful go-live which inevitably come up with new
▪ Supports preparation of (shell) conversion
or new implementation capabilities through SAP S/4HANA

Continuously Throughout Your Move

Orchestration and support through dedicated front office resources

▪ Providing advice to build a robust and scalable target architecture across cloud and on-premise, service orchestration,
expert coordination, and action item follow-up
▪ While linked to the full E2E Backoffice knowledge of SAP including development to provide expertise when necessary

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Most efficient and minimal risk road map during your SAP S/4HANA Transition
Transformation Strategy + Selective Data Transition Journey

Discover and Prepare Explore Realize Deploy and Run

1 2 3 4

▪ Outline the enterprise ▪ Design the business ▪ Execute data migration ▪ Expert support to support
architecture processes in fit-to-standard platform deployment
workshops, based on SAP ▪ Get expert guidance
▪ Develop migration and Best Practices to keep the core clean with ▪ Helps you adjusting IT
transformation strategy SAP Business operations
▪ Perform Data Migration
Technology Platform
▪ Planning of the Selective Design ▪ Empowers you on IT
Data Transition project ▪ Perform proper setup of ▪ Safeguarding and go-live procedures, tools and skills
integration and security support
▪ Identify the data migration
requirements and adequate ▪ Use best practices for ▪ Reduce business downtime
data migration procedures implementation of analytics
and tools ▪ Expert support to
▪ Design the technical verify technical
architecture capacity requirements on
hardware
▪ Define the analytics and data
▪ Define detailed
management strategy technical architecture
▪ Depict integration strategy and infrastructure

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