Best Practices to Stay Ahead of Your S/4HANA Transformation Project

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Introduction

In my previous article, I spoke about how ECC can be better transformed to S/4HANA and what are the key steps to look at before even starting it. In this article, we would deeper into the SAP transformation journey and focus more on how to start and prepare the baseline before embarking on the journey. We can also call this to be the Pre-Discover phase, where we set up the required baselines in order to achieve the transformation goals be it Greenfield Implementation or Brownfield Conversion.

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Start Early

While there are plenty of reasons to start your project early, also keep in mind that there may be things that will inevitably arise as you move through your project. For example, you may need to spend more time than expected on data migration or conversion. Or you may realize that it takes longer than anticipated to create and implement custom code for new business processes. Regardless of why projects slip, one thing’s for certain – with S/4HANA – it’s much harder (and more expensive) to re-plan later in the game if your initial timeline gets thrown off course.

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Checklist Before S/4HANA Transformation

Determine how many users you’ll need by geography and by role;
Think about which modules and functions you want;
Decide what kind of hardware platform best suits your needs;
Consider whether or not an SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud solution makes sense for your business;
Make sure you have a plan for post-implementation support costs;
Set a realistic target date for your SAP S/4 HANA project.
Identify the scope of your project to determine the functionality you want from your new system.
Define your organization’s business needs and goals and understand the business processes that will be affected

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Find Tools and Automation

Understand the SAP Activate Methodology so that you can have a clear expectation of the project and activities in place.
Learn about the Automation Platforms like KTern.AI that can make your life easier by providing automation for all tasks including project workspace , analysis, template generation, documentation, etc.
Understand the Readiness Check which will help in identifying gaps and reduce risks.
Try to get early access to the S/4HANA Cloud Sandbox if possible so that you can understand its capabilities and functionalities better

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Have a Steering committee

Make sure the steering committee is actively engaged
Make sure senior leaders are on the steering committee
Make sure the steering committee is empowered to make decisions

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Understand Your Current Landscape

Know what you want to get out of the project
Understand how your business processes work today
Understand how your business processes will work in the future
See what your competitors are doing
Use a business process modeling tool to model your future business processes

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KTern.AI DXaaS Transformation

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I am an avid Learner who loves learning new things. My full time job is hands on coding and designing where I am involved in developing a product for S/4HANA Transformations. My everyday activity includes understanding the user journey for the pain we are

CURATOR'S NOTE

How ECC can be better transformed to S/4HANA and what are the key steps to look at before even starting it. In this ideas, we would deeper into the SAP transformation journey and focus more on how to start and prepare the baseline before embarking on the journey

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