Guide Your SAP S/4HANA Project to Success Unit 1: First Steps when Moving to SAP S/4HANA First Steps when Moving to SAP S/4HANA Question 1 “Which topics will be covered during this course?” © 2020 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 2 First Steps when Moving to SAP S/4HANA Course introduction | Structure © 2020 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 3 First Steps when Moving to SAP S/4HANA Course introduction | Structure Unit 1 First Steps when Moving to SAP S/4HANA © 2020 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 4 First Steps when Moving to SAP S/4HANA Course introduction | Structure Unit 2 SAP S/4HANA – Finance Essentials © 2020 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 5 First Steps when Moving to SAP S/4HANA Course introduction | Structure Unit 3 Steps to Business Partner and Customer Vendor Integration (CVI) © 2020 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 6 First Steps when Moving to SAP S/4HANA Course introduction | Structure Unit 4 Logistics Essentials and Changes in SAP S/4HANA © 2020 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 7 First Steps when Moving to SAP S/4HANA Course introduction | Structure Unit 5 Enriching SAP S/4HANA with New Logistics Features © 2020 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 8 First Steps when Moving to SAP S/4HANA Course introduction | Structure Unit 6 Moving to SAP S/4HANA – Technical Considerations and Guidance © 2020 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 9 First Steps when Moving to SAP S/4HANA Course introduction | Structure Unit 7 Transforming Your SAP User Experience with SAP Fiori © 2020 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 10 First Steps when Moving to SAP S/4HANA Course introduction | Structure Unit 8 Reporting and Analytics – Starting the Journey © 2020 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 11 First Steps when Moving to SAP S/4HANA Course introduction | Structure Unit 9 Making the Intelligent Enterprise a Reality © 2020 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 12 First Steps when Moving to SAP S/4HANA Course introduction | Structure Unit 10 SAP S/4HANA Innovation Examples in Action © 2020 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 13 First Steps when Moving to SAP S/4HANA Course introduction | Structure 1. First Steps when Moving to SAP S/4HANA 6. Moving to SAP S/4HANA – Technical Considerations and Guidance 2. SAP S/4HANA – Finance Essentials 7. Transforming Your SAP User Experience with SAP Fiori 3. Steps to Business Partner and Customer Vendor Integration (CVI) 8. Reporting and Analytics – Starting the Journey 4. Logistics Essentials and Changes in SAP S/4HANA 9. Making the Intelligent Enterprise a Reality 5. Enriching SAP S/4HANA with New Logistics Features 10. SAP S/4HANA Innovation Examples in Action © 2020 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 14 First Steps when Moving to SAP S/4HANA Question 2 “What is the right transition path to SAP S/4HANA for me?” © 2020 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 15 First Steps when Moving to SAP S/4HANA What is the right transition path to SAP S/4HANA for me? 1 2 3 4 5 Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Level of Process Reengineering Selective Data Source – Target (System Ratio) On-Premise or Cloud Rollout © 2020 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 16 First Steps when Moving to SAP S/4HANA Question 3 “What is the typical duration of an SAP S/4HANA project?” © 2020 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 17 First Steps when Moving to SAP S/4HANA What is the typical duration of an SAP S/4HANA project? The duration of projects is largely determined by customer complexity (degree of change) and implementing partner preferences / tools / methodologies As short as As long as Average (Median) Typical SAP S/4HANA system conversion 4 months 12 months 8 Typical SAP S/4HANA (full suite) implementations 6 months 15 months 11 months months ▪ The graphic excludes very large and complex SAP S/4HANA projects. ▪ Information is based on project information shared by customers with SAP. ▪ Outliers have been removed for this statistic. © 2020 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 18 First Steps when Moving to SAP S/4HANA Question 4 “What can be done today to prepare for a project?” © 2020 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 19 First Steps when Moving to SAP S/4HANA What can be done today to prepare for a project? 1 Build your business case for transitioning to SAP S/4HANA. 2 Clean up your master data, especially your customer and vendor data. 3 Gather information about your system by using the tools provided by SAP, for example SAP Readiness Check and SAP Business Scenario Recommendations (BSR). 4 Utilize a trial system to gain initial hands-on experience. 5 When planning a system conversion, run an initial mock conversion to confirm your business case estimates and understand the full impact. © 2020 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 20 First Steps when Moving to SAP S/4HANA Question 5 “Where can I find information to help my team prepare?” © 2020 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 21 First Steps when Moving to SAP S/4HANA Where can I find information to help my team prepare? 1 Check for openSAP courses to get a first understanding. 2 SAP Help provides important information in the simplification list on the changes between SAP S/4HANA and SAP ERP. 3 You may want to check the blogs, for example the ones we created over the last few years – https://blogs.sap.com/tag/s4hana-rig 4 People responsible for User Experience should check the information in the SAP Fiori wiki – SAP Fiori for SAP S/4HANA wiki 5 Use an SAP on-premise trial system to gain initial handson experience, especially developers and key users. © 2020 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 22 First Steps when Moving to SAP S/4HANA Question 6 “Should I wait before I start my journey to SAP S/4HANA?” © 2020 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 23 First Steps when Moving to SAP S/4HANA Should I wait before I start my journey to SAP S/4HANA? 1 Every transition to SAP S/4HANA includes change which needs to be managed. 2 The number of mandatory changes increased over the past releases. 3 The compatibility scope can only be used until the end of 2025. SAP Business Suite SAP S/4HANA New Features Changed functionality 4 The scope of projects may increase as a result. 5 Earlier adoption allows you to better manage the pace of organizational change and adopt new innovations. © 2020 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC SAP ERP Same as in ERP Compatibility Scope Deprecated Functionality 24 First Steps when Moving to SAP S/4HANA Should I wait before I start my journey to SAP S/4HANA? 1 Every transition to SAP S/4HANA includes change which needs to be managed. 2 The number of mandatory changes increased over the past releases. 3 The compatibility scope can only be used until the end of 2025. 4 The scope of projects may increase as a result. 5 Earlier adoption allows you to better manage the pace of organizational change and adopt new innovations. © 2020 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. 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