How to build a data-driven SAP S/4HANA Business Case using Digital Maps
- 1. How to build a data-driven SAP S/4HANA Business Case using Digital Maps ? Transformations through innovations • 25 years of transformation experience • Part of 2 successful start-ups • 15 years of domain knowledge in SAP • Avid athlete and visionary • Part of multiple CSR Foundations Know your Speaker Ratnakumar N Product Chief at KTern.AI
- 2. Introduction Are you in the right place ? How do we make sense of our existing data before transitioning from the current world of SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA?” Remember this Digital used to be Code and Technology, now it is all about People and Business. Well, it always was
- 3. What is this all about ? Digital used to be Code and Technology, now it is all about People and Business. • Questions we have • Problems we think • Latent needs How to approach S/4HANA ? Introducing KTern.AI Digital Maps that can connect to a system; Look at data, derive insights, understand process, drive innovations with best practise suggestions • Automating Discover Phase • Digital Maps • Business, Landscape, Customizations, Process Let's ride! Application Demo • Product Walkthrough • Digital Maps Data • Takeaways
- 4. Business • What is the impact of S/4HANA to my Business ? In terms of Daily Operations ? • How complex is my business ? • How good is my industry standard ? • I need new functionalities, what is more relevant ? Processes • What are the Processes configured in the system ? • How Critical are they ? • What is heavily customized ? • How healthy are my processes ? • What are the improvement areas in the process ? Users • Who are my Process owners ? • Who should be part of the transformation ? • Who drive daily operations in the company ? • What is my license impact ? Project Team • What about my project team ? • Who should I approach in terms of UAT ? UT ? • Who will be the business SME ? Landscape • How complex is my landscape ? • What are the other SAP and non-SAP components ? What about the Vendor Add ons ? • What about my compatibility in terms of OS / DB ? • On Premise / Cloud ? Communications • What are the external communications present in the system ? • What about the current RFC / Logical systems in the systems ? • What will happen to my BW Data Sources ? Simplifications • What are the impact on moving to S/4HANA ? • What will happen to my business configurations ? What TCODES will go obsolete ? • What about my master and configuration Data ? Customizations • Will my custom code stop be working ? • What is the impact of the move ? • Can i selectively move the custom code ? • How many will stop working ? • How can i improve my custom objects ? Data & Testing • With this much of disruption, what about testing ? • What about the test data ? • Who will do the testing ? • How much of the time would it take to do the testing ? • Should i archive ? • Can i selectively move ? Training • Who should we train ? • What should be train them with ? • Will there be a training plan ? • How much of the time is needed from the business ? Strategic Alignment • How does this fit into the overall transformation plan of the company ? What about my next steps ? • What will be the ROI in terms of the S/4HANA move ? Project Approach • How to go about doing this ? • Should i think about CVI or New GL or Archiving or Custom code clean up before this ? • Should this be Greenfield or Brownfield or Selective Data ? • What will be my contingency plan ? • What is a timeline estimate ? What about cost / efforts ?
- 5. Visualize Your Company's Data to build a business case using Digital Maps An Intelligent Business platform built and trained with SAP tribal knowledge that allows a seamless connection with ERP systems to come up with a business case for S/4HANA Transformation.
- 6. Business Start by looking at the document creations, generate materiality scoring, understand the process flows and generate value maps and optimization Process Level of usage in terms of the processes. Breakdown in terms of Line of business, Process Group and Process Steps. Stakeholder identifications for each business operations. Relevant business units configured in the systems Impact of S/4HANA Simplification items that are relevant, Obsolete Transactions and Reports, Configuration and Master data, Fiori Applications, Standard Reporting, Improvement in terms of process re-innovations. Landscape Landscape analysis to generate the logical map of surrounding SAP and non SAP Components. Data communications going in and out of the systems Customizations Level of impact in terms of the custom objects. Usage of the custom objects. Impact in terms of S/4HANA as Application structure and Impact in terms of HANA as Database Timeline & Approach Indicative timeline based on the data analyzed. Effort in terms of Business and IT consultants. Right path to the S/4HANA. Activate Framework suggestions with analyzed data Digital Maps in action
- 7. Business Case Stakeholders Custom Objects Test Data Project Plan Innovations Process Results from Digital Maps
- 8. Poll Alert Business Case Stakeholders Custom Objects Test Data Project Plan Innovations Process Results from Digital Maps
- 9. Okay! What’s next? Things to watch out for With the results at hand, the transformation stack built within KTern will allow taking next steps, planning for the transformation, automating and governing with the platform
- 10. Digital Projects SAP Activate empowered project execution platform for an Intelligent Digital Workplace to address Hybrid Workforce and Productivity Environment • Timeline • Stakeholders • Project Plan Digital Labs RPA based SAP Testing to address the 40-60% Effort in Testing and Go Live Audit Checks with prebuilt library of API and UI based Test Cases • Automation • RPA Bot • API Driven Digital Process Digital Process Platform that work natively with SAP BPML or GSI for accelerated Implementation, Fit Gap Analysis, Training Academy, Custom Code Remediation • Scope Items • Process Needs • Digital Twins Digital Mines Continuous Process Insights and Conformance Checks to help organizations identify Happy Paths, Anomalies, Refine Process, Redesign existing Processes. • Mining • Innovations • Insights The Digital Transformation Stack
- 11. Thank you. Mail me at nratnakumar@kaartech.com Follow KTern.AI for more updates Thank you.
- 12. Depth of Coverage Business Structure Business Configuration Master Data Transactional Data Transactions Daily Ops Operational Strategic 10,000 Ft 100 Ft