Why business leaders should care about migrating to SAP S/4HANA ?
SAP’s High-Performance Analytic Appliance or HANA is the vital platform for all SAP-based applications including the newly introduced SAP S/4HANA business suite. This application combines the synchronic SAP HANA database along with essential application functionalities.
Being a torchbearer for the digital transformation, HANA enables an organization to install applications at a faster pace making sure that requirements are all in line. This procedure gives a 360 degree view of the organization's entire business operations and making it unlikely to become obsolete. Developing an SAP S/4HANA road map prepares an organization to face future challenges.
Now the question which arises is how does an organization begin the SAP S/4HANA Transformation Journey? Is the current system landscape well-equipped to ensure that existing processes stay unhindered during the digital transformation journey?
S/4HANA Migration Scenarios
Organizations that move their ERP to S/4HANA can complete their migration process by choosing any of
the four methods: Greenfield, brownfield, RISE with SAP, and landscape transformation.
How to choose the right SAP S/4HANA migration approach?
- Evaluate your current system to assess migration readiness
- Review the architecture to gauge the impact of migration
- Analyze the future state to envision what the new ERP should do
SAP S/4HANA cloud vs. on-premise deployment
The two important SAP S/4HANA deployment options are:
on-premises and SAP S/4HANA cloud.
Cloud Deployment
- Built on SAP HANA, SAP’s high-performing, in-memory database
- Integrates multiple business applications
- Powered by SAP CoPilot, Machine Learning, and predictive analytics
- Highly desirable ERP solution for small and medium businesses
On-Premise Deployment
- Built on SAP’s in-memory database, SAP HANA
- Can be managed internally by an organization
- Control functions, data, HANA database, applications, systems, networks, servers, etc.
- SAP outsourcing partner takes care of deployment and maintenance
Business imperatives to consider when migrating to SAP S/4HANA
- A comprehensive data management strategy to support SAP workloads comprising all possible environments, workloads, and applications that the business may use.
- The data fabric must enable data to be accessed from any infrastructure, applying the same consistent governance regardless of where the data resides.
- Choose a data platform that is purpose-built for hybrid environments and unified in terms of its architecture, in order to ensure high performance and lower total cost of ownership.
- A full-featured data platform that allows your data to be stored and moved anywhere it’s needed.
- Data leveraged by SAP workloads should be flexible enough to move freely, while still ensuring the highest levels of protection.
Simplifying the migration to
SAP S/4HANA
- Our SAP experts follow a set of tried and tested practices when planning our clients’ S/4HANA migration roadmap.
- Analyze the right deployment option (On-Premise or Cloud) that fits your business requirements and budget
- Evaluate if cleansing of data is required to avoid the risks of licensing and downtimes
- Create a detailed business roadmap to provide end-to-end technical support for seamless data migration in S/4HANA
- Create SAP Sandbox environment initially as a proof of concept (POC) to test the workarounds in real-time
- Methodical and systematic execution from planning to migration, that is, successful migration of legacy SAP system to SAP S/4HANA
- Provide ongoing support and maintenance to ensure that your SAP S/4HANA environment functions without glitches
EMC’s S/4HANA Conversion Factory
EMC’S S/4HANA Conversion factory delivers a comprehensive, risk-mitigated solution to transform your current SAP landscape into a scalable, Intelligent Enterprise-ready environment. We help enterprises migrate their legacy SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA by leveraging standardized processes tools and accelerators, and quality gates.
Shared Services
- Variable capacity
- Optimization of resources by design
- Up to 40% saving in TCO
Process Automation
- Reduce downtime by 10%-30%
- Decrease cost by up to 15%
Standardized Processes
- Standard templates/frameworks
- Repeatability ensuring quality
Quality Gates
- Checkpoints to reduce risk
- Eliminates errors by blending in learnings over hundreds of implementations
Predefined Migration Packages
| Small | Medium | Large | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Qualification Criteria | SAP ECC 6.0 EHP6 DB Size upto 1 TB | SAP ECC 6.0 EHP6 DB Size upto 4 TB | SAP ECC 6.0 EHP6 DB Size greater than 4TB |
| No. of Conversion Cycles | 4 | 5 | 6+ |
| Included Simplifications | FI, CO, SD, MM | FI, CO, PS, SD, MM, PP | FI, CO, PS, SD, MM, WM, PP, PM |
| ABAP (based from ATC Report) | Up to 500 Objects (200 P1, 300 P2) | Up to 1000 Objects (400 P1, 600 P2) | Up to 2500 Objects (1100 P1, 1500 P2) |
| Finance | New GL, New AA | New or classic GL, New AA | New or classic GL, New AA |
| Organization Scope | 5 Entities in 1 country | 10 Entities in 3 countries | 25 Entities in 10 countries |
| Integrations | 5 Interfaces | 10 Interfaces | 20 Interfaces |
| SAP FIORI | 10 Standard Apps | 20 Standard Apps | 30 Standard Apps |
| Duration | 24 – 32 weeks | 32 – 52 weeks | 52+ weeks |
EMC Proposed Migration Delivery Model
EMC’s Success Stories
SAP S/4HANA Migration
Transitioning from a traditional ERP to SAP S/4HANA
- EMC facilitated the smooth migration for our client, a leading global manufacturer and supplier of processed food items, from their legacy system to SAP S/4HANA.
- This transition ensured accelerated GST adaptation with full legal and statutory compliance, alongside maintaining uninterrupted business operations throughout the entire migration process.
- The migration comprehensively addressed all taxable scenarios and regulatory requirements.
- Migration covers all taxable scenarios and requirements
Migration from SAP ECC 6.0 to SAP S/4HANA
- Our client, a prominent manufacturing company, improved their sales and procurement procedures and optimized their financial frameworks through the transition from SAP ECC 6.0 to SAP S/4HANA.
- This transition facilitated effortless integration with third-party applications for supplier, vendor and payment management.
- The upgrade from ECC to S/4HANA was undertaken to meet the evolving business demands, while also refining workflows through the transfer of catch-up transports from non-HANA to HANA systems.
- Streamlined workflows by importing catch-up transports from non-HANA systems to HANA systems
SAP S/4HANA implementation for improved business automation
- By implementing SAP S/4HANA, a leading business in the Exploration and Production Industry achieved a process driven solution to handle day-to-day operations with less personnel intervention, reduced paperwork and enhanced preventive maintenance.
- Optimized resource utilization and improved user experience
- Better analysis of costs and profitability with enhanced payroll and costing systems
- Real-time actionable insights with accelerated financial processes
- Single integrated system across legal entities to achieve short term revenue goals