Answers4Business | Expert SAP Consultants
Digital Transformation
Optimizing to stay competitive in today’s world.
Rethinking digital transformation
Today, organizations are carefully assessing their environments with an eye on the digital transformation happening all around them. This not only means optimizing people, processes and systems, but also undergoing digital transformation more rapidly than imagined a year ago.
New supply chain realities pose unprecedented challenges and present unimagined constraints on both your people and your processes. Moreover, we must plan for workforce social distancing and remote work. All while maintaining operations, dealing with demand swings, overcoming raw material supply shortages, and managing shipping delays.
Answers4Business believes that these circumstances also provide unprecedented opportunity. Built on a foundation of SAP expertise and process flow design experience, we have been helping organizations with digital transformation since 2003.
With years of hands-on configuration experience, we have served as team leads with multiple full cycle implementations across various industries including automotive, banking, CPG, food manufacturing, sales and distribution, mining, pharmaceutical, telecommunications.
Our experts are senior level SAP professionals and have well over 10 years of experience and cross functional knowledge of the integration elements across the SAP solutions suite including the core ERP functions of FI, CO, MM, WM, QM, PP, SD and extends out to Business Intelligence BW, BPC, SCM, and CRM as well as Netweaver/HANA.
Ready to rethink your digital transformation roadmap and timeline?
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How a digital transformation strategy keeps me competitive in today's world.
Ensure full application of existing SAP system and functionality
Reduce total cost of ownership by up to 20%
Move from constant fire-fighting to exception management
Instill a process-based, cross-functional team approach
Help break down organizational and information silos
Target setting and tracking across multiple measures.
Migrating from SAP ECC6 to SAP S/4HANA
This is a major transformation project that involves technical upgrades, business process redesign, and organizational change.
Answer4Business specializes in guiding companies through complex digital transformations. We offer comprehensive strategic planning and process expertise specifically tailored to facilitate a seamless and successful upgrade from SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA.
Our approach ensures your transition is not merely a technical migration, but a strategic evolution that aligns with your business objectives, optimizes processes, and maximizes the value of your S/4HANA investment.
What's involved?
A critical component of our methodology involves meticulous business process mapping and reverse engineering. We don’t just lift and shift your existing processes; we thoroughly analyze and understand your current SAP ECC landscape. This involves:
Detailed Process Mapping:
We work collaboratively with your key stakeholders to document your 'as-is' business processes, capturing every step, decision point, and data flow. This comprehensive mapping identifies interdependencies, critical touchpoints, and areas for potential improvement.
Reverse Engineering for S/4HANA Compatibility
Our experts then reverse engineer these existing processes to identify how they will translate and function within the SAP S/4HANA environment. This proactive analysis allows us to pinpoint potential inefficiencies, redundancies, or areas where S/4HANA's advanced functionalities can be leveraged for greater optimization. We assess how your current customizations, reports, and interfaces will be impacted and identify the best path forward for their redesign or elimination.
"To-Be" Process Design and Optimization:
Based on our reverse engineering insights and an understanding of S/4HANA's capabilities, we collaborate with your team to design optimized "to-be" processes. This involves leveraging S/4HANA innovations like embedded analytics, Fiori apps, and simplified data models to streamline operations, enhance user experience, and drive greater business value.
Gap Analysis and Solutioning:
Through this detailed mapping and reverse engineering, we identify critical gaps between your current processes and the optimal S/4HANA landscape. We then provide strategic recommendations and develop tailored solutions to bridge these gaps, ensuring a smooth transition with minimal disruption to your operations.
The end result of this meticulous effort is a complete, comprehensively mapped out process landscape for your future state on SAP S/4HANA.
- Detailed “To-Be” Process Flows: Visual representations and documentation of how each business process will operate within S/4HANA, incorporating best practices and leveraging new functionalities.
- Identified System Configurations: Clear outlines of the necessary SAP S/4HANA configurations to support the designed “to-be” processes.
- Data Migration Strategies: Defined approaches for migrating relevant data from ECC to S/4HANA, aligned with the new process requirements.
- Integration Points and Interfaces: Documentation of all necessary integrations with other systems and external partners, ensuring seamless data exchange.
- Roles and Responsibilities: Clarified roles and responsibilities within the new process framework, empowering your team to fully leverage S/4HANA.
- Training Needs Analysis: Identification of specific training requirements for your users to effectively adopt the new processes and system functionalities.
By delivering this complete and thoroughly documented process blueprint, Answer4Business ensures a seamless, efficient, and truly transformative upgrade to SAP S/4HANA, positioning your company for sustained growth and innovation.
Contact us today to find out how we can assist you in maximizing the value of your SAP System and start enjoying the true power of your investment.
