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THREE QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER BEFORE YOUR SAP TRANSFORMATION TO S/4HANA

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Darren ShawSenior Business Development

Executive, SNP

Syed FahadSolutions Engineer, SNP

▪ Past, Present and Future of ERP

▪ Enterprise Challenges

▪ CrystalBridge® Overview: Automated Data Transformation

▪ SAP S/4HANA Business Impacts

▪ Determining Customizations

▪ Data Foot-Print Optimization

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TODAY’S AGENDA

Composable ERP is here and requires changes to measures, people, systems, analytics, and data management

▪ This represents the

impending death of the

monolith SAP system and

the post-modern SAP

landscape with its Cloud-

extensions

▪ Welcome back to best-of-

breed – on steroids and

rocket fuel

▪ This impacts everything


CIOs had much to contend with last year, and their efforts have been noticed.

Digital ROI is more achievable when

IT and the business are in sync.

More Influence = Higher

Expectations

The S/4HANA questions will come

fast and furious:

• Who goes first?

• What’s the business case?

• Risk vs reward?

• When?

• Cross-functional issues?

• Business disruption?

• What has to change?

• What can’t change?


The pandemic exposed supply chain and other deficiencies across myriad industries which digital transformation will (hopefully) resolve

ServiceSellMoveMakeSourcePlanOut with

the old…

In with

the new…

Traditional linear supply chain

Dynamic supply chain

You can’t have this . . .

• Dynamic supply chain

• Data-driven decision-making

• Product lifecycle optimization

• Demand-driven MRP

• 360-degree customer view

• MRO 4.0

• Customer lifecycle tracking

• Digital thread

. . . if you have this . . .

• Multiple disparate SAP systems

• Siloed and suspect data

• Highly customized processes


Moving to S/4HANA is about moving to a digital core to enable digital transformation

• Keep digital transformation going – your competitors are.

• Don’t move until you have a migration plan and a business case. What are the problems

that need solving?

• Do not go big-bang. Move incrementally and strategically according to the benefits of

your digital transformation plan. Greenfield and Brownfield are not the only options

available.

• In the meantime, upgrade, simplify, consolidate, and optimize your SAP landscape to

reduce technical debt and facilitate future changes.

• Finance will remain the leading S/4HANA function to implement first (followed by

Logistics). If you’re considering a move to Cloud, start here.

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Enterprise Challenges

Transform

Support

Analyze

Project Realization

• System maintenance/upgrade

requirements

• Complex Landscape Simplification

• Business segment Divestiture

• Reduce infrastructure cost by Moving

to cloud

• S/4HANA Migration

• Downtime

System Analysis

• Non-personalized proof of concept

• Lack of scalability

• S/4 readiness check

• Costly identification of interfaces

• Cross-system analyses over the entire

landscape

Test Data (Non-Production)

• Availability of test data

• Big data leads to increased memory requirements

• Complying with data protection/GDPR regulations


CrystalBridge® – End-to-End Transformation Platform

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Enterprise Structure

Cloud

Sizing*

System Usage

Custom Objects

Discovery

S/4HANA Gap

Identification

Interface Discovery*

Sizing

ParametersRecommendation

o Performance

o No. of Users

o DB Size

o CPU load

o Monthly

Utilization

Cloud subscription

recommendation

based on

information

gathered from

system

System Usage

o Organization

o Module

o Data (Master / Transactional)

o Custom ObjectCustom Object Discovery

o Transactions

o Programs

o Tables

Enterprise Structure

o Display Organization Hierarchy

o Ability to perform analysis for data

carve-out and merge scenarios

S/4HANA Gap Identification

o Identify gaps by modules and functional

areas

o Recommend gap fixes

o Provide details on replacement FIORI

application for transactions and reports

based on system usage

Interface Discovery

o Identifies complete system

interdependencies

o Detail Visual description of topology and

interface activity (Calls and Volume)

CrystalBridge® - Analysis


Multiple SAP® transformation projects in one step with minimized downtime at cutover

SNP Transformation Scenarios

MERGE SPLIT MOVE HARMONIZE

Client merge

HR merge

Any-to-SAP migration

Archive merge

Technical merge

Functional merge

Entire or partial systems

Legal entity carve-out

Selective carve-out

Archive split

Share deal/asset deal

support

Company code deletion

Chart of accounts conversion

New GL conversion

Profit center re-organization

Company code merge

Plant relocation

Harmonization of master data

Controlling area merge

Upgrade with NZD

Client move

DB or OS change

Move to HANA

SAP S/4HANA® transformation

Move to cloud

Migration into one target system

Migrationout of existing system

Migration of entire client

Conversion within existing system

Typical Transformation Scenarios


▪ Understanding of S/4HANA simplifications

▪ S/4HANA simplifications compared to ERP

usage history

▪ S/4HANA Gaps to be identified by functional

area modules and components

▪ Not all simplifications are relevant to client

▪ Determining how close is system to SAP Best

Practice for S/4HANA deployment approach

(Green, Brown, Bluefield®)

Determining S/4HANA Business Impacts


S/4HANA Business Impact Assessment – CrystalBridge Analysis

Number of Items impacted

Action to take with details

Module Filter

Impact Relevancy Filter

SAP ERP System Comparison by SAP Best Practice – CrystalBridge Analysis


▪ Account for all active and inactive

customizations in SAP environment

▪ Determining customization by object

(Transaction Code, Programs and Tables)

▪ Determining system configuration

customizing by active and inactive modules by

data profile and usage

▪ Mission critical customizing is determined by

usage of critical business functions

▪ Identification of custom interfaces

Determining Customizations

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Customization Identification – CrystalBridge Analysis (Custom Objects)

Custom Object Usage

Filter for Used / Unused Customization

Module – Development Class

Details


Customization Identification – CrystalBridge Analysis (Module)

Modules StatusCustomizing Types

Module Components

Details

Data Profile

Customization Identification – CrystalBridge Analysis (Interfaces)

Interface Discovery

• Calls

• Connections

• Data Volume

Details

Data

▪ Detail knowledge of data in SAP ERP system

prior to S/4HANA transformation

▪ Data profile details at all levels for

Organization structure

▪ Master & Transaction data details

▪ Data profile detail by Module and Component

Usage

▪ Organization level usage history details

▪ Data usage details by Module & Component

Data Foot-Print Optimization

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Data Foot-Print Optimization – CrystalBridge Analysis (Data Profile)

Legal Entity Operations Org. Hierarchy

Data Profile by Module

Org. Unit Data Size


Data Foot-Print Optimization – CrystalBridge Analysis (Usage)

Org. Usage

Unused Org Unit Statistics


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USA Headquarters:

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