Your 3 Steps to S/4HANA - The Best Second opinion on the market for SAP S/4HANA
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The document outlines a roadmap for transitioning to SAP S/4HANA, highlighting the importance of understanding both technical and business aspects of the transition. It discusses various scenarios for moving to S/4HANA, including system conversion, landscape transformation, and new implementation. The collaboration between CBS and Bilot is emphasized, showcasing their expertise and resources to assist companies in this transition process.
Your 3 Steps to S/4HANA - The Best Second opinion on the market for SAP S/4HANA
- 1. Your 3 Steps to S/4HANA Your 3 Steps to S/4 Hana Awareness – Roadmap – Transition S/4HANA Breakfast Club 2.6.2016 at Bilot City
- 2. Your 3 Steps to S/4HANA S/4HANA Breakfast Club Speakers Janne Vihervuori Business Lead, Bilot Lorenz Praefcke Director Business Development, cbs Otso Lyytikäinen Senior Solution Architect, Bilot co- founder
- 3. Your 3 Steps to S/4HANA AGENDA About cbs and Bilot What is S/4HANA? SAP’s HANA product portfolio S/4HANA and Analytics Transition to S/4HANA Q&A, Discussion 9:00 9:15 10:00 10:30
- 4. Your 3 Steps to S/4HANA About cbs and Bilot Janne & Lorenz
- 5. Your 3 Steps to S/4HANA About cbs
- 6. Your 3 Steps to S/4HANA Customer value S/4 HANA transition roadmap with cbs S/4 HANA Transition Roadmap • Transition roadmap development is based on business & IT targets • Roadmap steps are showing business & IT potentials • cbs has first mover S/4 HANA EM know how by • Customer project experiences • cbs runs own S/4 HANA EM instance with fully build best practice process model for manufacturing & discrete industries • Independent point of view: cbs does not sell S/4 HANA EM licenses • cbs collaborates with S/4 HANA EM development: Active partnering with SAP S/4 HANA EM development + cbs has first tier contact to S/4 HANA development • Competencies also on non-SAP best of breed solutions (e.g. Salesforce) • m-cbs to derive company specific transition approach • m-cbs to structure & simplify transition program cbs as trusted advisor Roadmap with Business & IT potentials Structured approach for ready to use result Customer experiences: cbs labs - since 11/2015: • 160 PT cbs lab activities • 18 real S/4 issues • 330 simplification list adaptations • 75 management relevant topics Collaboration with S/4 development
- 7. Your 3 Steps to S/4HANA About Bilot 150+ EXPERTS 100+ CUSTOMERS 16M€ TURNOVER IN 2014 +40% AVERAGE GROWTH 15 NATIONALITIES 100% OWNED BY EMPLOYEES
- 8. Your 3 Steps to S/4HANA Bilot’s mission is to Simplify Digitalization
- 9. Your 3 Steps to S/4HANA Expertise around S/4HANA
- 10. Your 3 Steps to S/4HANA Bilot and S/4HANA • Bilot is a pioneer in SAP usability, mobility, commerce, customer engagement and analytics. • Bilot is great at extending the Core, S/4HANA. Bilot cbs Other SAP Business Suite Solutions Data Architecture & Analytics Commerce & CRM Integration Usability
- 11. Your 3 Steps to S/4HANA cbs and S/4HANA • Pioneer in S/4HANA and close to SAP AG, Walldorf on many levels • Global leader in System Landscape Transformations (SLT) transition to S/4HANA can include SLT requirementsBilot Data Architecture & Analytics Commerce & CRM Integration Usability Other SAP Business Suite Solutions cbs
- 12. Your 3 Steps to S/4HANA Bilot and cbs co-operation Bilot Other SAP Business Suite Solutions Data Architecture & Analytics Commerce & CRM cbs Integration Usability + =
- 13. Your 3 Steps to S/4HANA Introduction Janne & Lorenz
- 14. Your 3 Steps to S/4HANA Introduction: Questions triggered by SAP innovations • When is the right to time to start the journey for S/4HANA? • Transformation: is this a technical IT or a business type of journey? • Is Simple Finance already obsolete and will there be Simple Logistics? • What exactly is S/4HANA Enterprise Management? • Is S/4HANA Cloud Edition a valid way to go? • What are the transformation options for S/4HANA? • Regarding analytics: what is changing with S/4HANA and do I still need my BW?
- 15. Your 3 Steps to S/4HANA Introduction: Questions triggered by SAP innovations • Do we need a transformation project? • When should we do a transformation project? • Transformation project: is this a technical IT or a business type of project? • Should we base our transformation project on a greenfield approach? • Is the S/4HANA cloud edition a valid way to go? • Should we use cloud solutions at all? • Are there relevant disruptive process scenarios existing?
- 16. Your 3 Steps to S/4HANA What is S/4HANA Janne & Lorenz
- 17. Your 3 Steps to S/4HANA SAP HANA • In-memory database platform • Columnar data storage • Small data footprint • INSERT of data instead of updating speed!
- 18. Your 3 Steps to S/4HANA Difference between S/4HANA and ERP
- 19. Your 3 Steps to S/4HANA Multiple meanings of ”HANA” Could be hosted on HEC – HANA Enterprise Cloud (IaaS)
- 20. Your 3 Steps to S/4HANA S/4HANA technical simplification example
- 21. Your 3 Steps to S/4HANA Benefits of S/4HANA SAP‘s technical „Buzzwords“: • Speed • Big Data • Simplification • User Experience But was exactly does this mean?
- 22. Your 3 Steps to S/4HANA Benefits: always focussed on business and specific industry requirements • Speed: MRPlive is giving options for online MRP and selective MRP • Big Data: online research / reporting in wholesale business / supermarkets • Simplification: reduced complexity of manufaturing planning processes (APO planning components back in digital core) • User Experience: easy adoption of new Fiori apps for simplyfied functionalities such as purchase order approval for no daily SAP-users
- 23. Your 3 Steps to S/4HANA S/4HANA deployment options SAP public cloudClassical on- premise solution Private cloud
- 24. Your 3 Steps to S/4HANA SAP’s HANA product portfolio Lorenz
- 25. Your 3 Steps to S/4HANA Evolution of HANA and S/4HANA
- 26. Your 3 Steps to S/4HANA Relation between SAP ERP and S/4HANA SAP ECC on HANA DB SAP ERP on any DB Cloud Extensions SAP Business Suite S/4HANA Enterprise Management SAP ECC HANA DB SAP S/4HANA S/4HANA Financials SAP ECC on HANA DB S/4HANA Enterprise Management
- 27. Your 3 Steps to S/4HANA SAP S/4HANA Enterprise Management
- 28. Your 3 Steps to S/4HANA S/4HANA and Analytics: Overview Otso
- 29. Your 3 Steps to S/4HANA OLAP & OLTP on a single in-memory platform
- 30. Your 3 Steps to S/4HANA S/4HANA and Analytics: Architecture Otso
- 31. Your 3 Steps to S/4HANA Embedded Analytics with SAP S/4HANA: Architecture Provided by SAP (Out-of-the- Box) Custom-Built Development Artefacts or Customer-defined Extensions to SAP-provided Objects Physical Tables OpenCDS-based2 VirtualDataModel(VDM) Private Views Interface views Customer-Specific Interface Views 1 Customer-Specific Private Views 1 Gateway Customer & User-Specific Analytical Content (Queries, KPIs etc.) Frameworks & Infrastructure SAP Technology Components Key-User/Business-User Defined Content 3rd Party Components (Optional) 1 defined by roadmap and depending on deployment option 2 CDS = Core Data Services Ext.1 Ext.1 3rd Party UI/Client Consumption Views Customer-Specific Consumption Views 1Ext.1 oData Service Analytical Engine Interfaces: https | oData | InA Fiori Uis SAP BI Tools (Design Studio …) Application Server (ABAP) Database Server (SAP HANA)
- 32. Your 3 Steps to S/4HANA Integration between SAP S/4HANA and SAP BI platform: Architecture Atomic Pre-defined * generating Transient BEx Queries Instantaneous HANA Database Layer SQL-Runtime-Views on Physical Tables ABAP Layer Virtual Data Model, based on Core Data Services (CDS) Analytical Apps and BI Clients e.g. SAP BusinessObjects BI SAP S/4HANA Application Hybrid Transactional and Analytical Applications e.g. SAP Smart Business cockpits • Full ABAP Lifecycle Integration • Supporting ERP authorizations • Supporting ERP hierarchies • Part of the general Extensibility concept • Supporting more business cases (analytics, search, fact sheets, planning,…) • No latency • No data duplication • Ready-to-use content • Integration scenarios with SAP BI Analytical Engine*
- 33. Your 3 Steps to S/4HANA S/4HANA and Analytics: Fate of the BW Otso
- 34. Your 3 Steps to S/4HANA Do I still need my BW? SAP ERP SAP BW OLTP OLAP SAP S/4HANA OLTP OLAP SAP BW ? OLAP
- 35. Your 3 Steps to S/4HANA The answer? Yes, if there’s a need to… • Consolidate data from multiple SAP and non-SAP sources • Cleanse the data before reporting • Harmonize and transform the data before reporting • Take snapshots to ”freeze” the data • Keep historical data • Perform long term trend analysis • Perform complex calculations beyond +-*/ • Have planning capabilities
- 36. Your 3 Steps to S/4HANA How to proceed? • Use S/4 HANA Analytics for requirements that are suitable for real-time operational data. • BW is still fully valid and it’s there if you need it • BW is constantly evolving towards native HANA direction • Use a hybrid approach where necessary • Multiple different mixed scenarios are possible
- 37. Your 3 Steps to S/4HANA Transition to S/4HANA Lorenz & Janne
- 38. Your 3 Steps to S/4HANA Introduction: Right timing for transition Sweet spot is depending: • Status on current application landscape • Initial company situation: plan – build – run • New application quality & maturity Note! • Strategy Finding + Roadmap definition should be started NOW • Transition preparation could be done before sweet spot starts Sweet spot of transition NEW applications: Innovation level, Stability, market experience CURRENT applications: Innovation level Innovation level & Solution Maturity Transition preparation Transition Strategy Finding + Roadmap Definition 0 - 2 years? today
- 39. Your 3 Steps to S/4HANA S/4HANA Transition Scenarios by SAP In real life: often combination of Landscape Transformation and New Implementation!
- 40. Your 3 Steps to S/4HANA Scenario 1: System Conversion Benefits: • Migration without reimplementation • No disruption for existing business processes • Re-evaluation of customization and existing process flows • Transformation over time Target group SAP Business Suite customers with SAP ERP or SAP Business Suite on SAP HANA as starting point Change of current SAP system into a SAP S/4HANA system
- 41. Your 3 Steps to S/4HANA Scenario 2: Landscape Transformation Benefits: • Stay with current business processes and move gradually to S/4HANA (brownfield) • Harmonized business processes and master data through consolidation • Carve out of single entities of the company to SAP S/4HANA and leverage process simplification Target group SAP Business Suite customers with multiple SAP ERP or SAP Business Suite on SAP HANA systems Consolidation of landscape or carve out of selected entities or processes into a SAP S/4HANA system.
- 42. Your 3 Steps to S/4HANA Scenario 3: New Implementation Benefits: • New implementation of industry- leading Business Suite • Reengineering and process simplification based on ready-to-run business processes and reference solution delivered with the product Target group SAP Business Suite customers, new customers or customers with non-SAP landscape New implementation of SAP S/4HANA e.g. by means of migrating a legacy system system
- 43. Your 3 Steps to S/4HANA Real life: combination of all scenarios Benefits: • One-step or wave-based approach but consideration of “big picture” • Data and process harmonization • Greenfield or brownfield approach • Reengineering based on best- practices processes and industry specific knowledge • Open discussion about possible options / best of breed Target group Customers with hybrid models and heterogenous ERP / SAP landscapesCombination of all scenarios based upon customer‘s situation
- 44. Your 3 Steps to S/4HANA Introduction: Transition steps Strategy finding & Roadmap definition Transition preparation Transition
- 45. Your 3 Steps to S/4HANA Strategy finding & Roadmap definition Transition preparation Transition Strategy finding + Roadmap definition: Guidance for companies: cbs + Bilot Management Consulting
- 46. Your 3 Steps to S/4HANA cbs S/4HANA approach: Strategy finding + Roadmap definition: 3 Parts of Roadmap Definition Transition approach High Level Target Architecture High Level Roadmap • Greenfield-/ Brownfield on processes/ applications • On-premise/ cloud solutions • SAP/ best of breed strategy • Building Blocks • Orchestration of preparation & transition activities • Roadmap Building blocks
- 47. Your 3 Steps to S/4HANA Industry-specific breakdown of validated S/4HANA simplifications cbs S/4HANA approach – cbslabs know how as benefit for customer
- 48. Your 3 Steps to S/4HANA Summary: What is important? • HANA DB Upgrade is one step but not the complete move to S/4HANA platform • S/4HANA Transition is NOT only a technical project • Benefits for S/4HANA are derived from the business • S/4HANA projects need preparation but can also be combined with landscape consolidation and transformation • Each company has an indivudal business case and roadmap for the transition onto S/4HANA platform
- 49. Your 3 Steps to S/4HANA Contact cbs Lorenz Praefcke Director Business Development Im Breitspiel 19, 69126 Heidelberg, Germany +49 174 343 8585 [email protected] www.cbs-consulting.de Bilot Janne Vihervuori Business Lead, Business Applications Itämerenkatu 5, 00180 Helsinki, Finland +358 40 5212 444 [email protected] www.bilot.fi