SAP S/4HANA Technical Readiness

Vaughn Booyens : S/4HANA Move Business Lead

Email : Vaughn.Booyens@Britehouse.co.za
Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/vaughn-booyens-1ab845
Agenda – S/4 HANA Technical Readiness

Understanding the Market ?

Why Move to SAP S/4HANA?

S/4HANA -Technical Readiness

S/4HANA How – Transformation Journey

Phase ZERO – S/4HANA Architectural Runway

See you at SAPHILA

Intelligent Enterprise
An intelligent ERP solution that enables companies to
capture every opportunity in today’s digital world,

SAP S/4HANA removes common obstacles associated

with legacy ERP applications, such as batch latency,
complex landscapes, and manual processes.
 Why you need to think differently

Accelerate Control cost Mitigate risk

Respond rapidly to meet Minimise operating costs Maintain secure, responsive
business demands, emerging while realizing the benefits systems with best of class
technology and changing of new technology and SLAs to run and manage
market requirements. performance improvements. the business.
 How to stay relevant in todays
ever evolving digital market

Digital Business is defined as the interaction

of people, business and intelligent ‘things’

accelerate your ambition

 What to do to stay relevant in todays
ever evolving digital market

Stabilise core ERP Embrace IoT for ERP Digitally transform Manage product
surrounded by the supply chain lifecycles more
best-of-breed effectively

Realtime analysis Embrace industry- Wrap security around Differentiate and

provides insights to specific functionality Data, Network and Innovate with
your business Applications emerging technology
accelerate your ambition
Challenges currently faced in the Digital Revolution
“How do I fund innovation
for tomorrow while still running
today’s business and delivering
profitable growth?” CEO, CFO
“How do we better understand what
our consumers really want and how
do we deliver the best experience for
them?” CMO, CRO, Head of Sales
“How can I draw more actionable
insights from my enterprise data to
help my business partners react
faster to new opportunities?” CIO
“How do I ensure our suppliers
are contributing to our innovation,
growth and profitability?” CPO
“How to manufacture the lot
size of one and makes sure
our supply chain is demand-
driven and adaptive?” COO
“How can we use our data to
create an engaging employee
experience across all groups
of employees?” CHRO
The Why? ( Business Case )

Ease of the Transformation

journey to SAP S/4HANA
 All our Customers ask the same questions

When do I plan my What is my Hybrid What is the TCO Will this make my
S/4HANA Take Off? IT Strategy? reduction and business more profitable
business benefits

So many uncertainties ? Make the correct Have I planned What S/4HANA migration
Where do I start and decisions upfront – accordingly for the strategy and deployment
mitigate risk ensure long term ROI next 10 Years option should I go with

SAP S/4HANA adoption, requires upfront and adequate investment

S/4HANA – Current Market Adoption
 Why change is required

Preparation for
Simplicity Increased user satisfaction Modernisation
Mode 2

Large changes in the Digital

Cloud readiness and To make immediate business
Core and SAP Strategy To stay relevant
adoption scenarios decisions
moving forward past 2025

Digital Core integration

Achieve TCO and
Real time insights with (IoT, AI and Social media adoption
maintain profitability
Machine learning)
SAP S/4HANA - Business Case Objectives
Four Pillars to your S/4HANA Business Case
S/4HANA is a
Postmodern ERP
SAP SAP
Concur Fieldglass

An Intelligent
Enterprise will move
to Postmodern ERP Intelligent
SAP
Success
Integrated core
S/4HANA is a Factors
Business
Postmodern ERP planning S/4HANA

Agility and ability to make

decisions in real time SAP SAP Ariba
Analytics Solutions
Cloud
Stable core ERP SAP Hybris
surrounded by best of
breed applications
 S/4HANA Deployment Options

The S/4HANA Suite SAP priority DD Hosting DD Services

S/4HANA
Public Cloud 1 PS
Note 1

S/4HANA Single
2 PS/AMS
ECC
Tenant Note 2

S/4HANA on
PS/AMS
HEC
3
Out of support S/4HANA on
post 2025 PS/AMS
premise

Note 1 : 30% cheaper TCO, 3 monthly releases with 20% functionality increase per release.
Currently 80% of all
Note 2: Reduced scope to on-prem, 6 monthly releases. 1 5 verticals ready.
SAP client base
 SAP S/4HANA – Unique value for business

Reimagined Reimagined Reimagined

Business Decisions Business Processes Business Models
Simplicity to get any insight on Simplicity to focus on the essential tasks Simplicity to connect to people,
any data from anywhere and change business processes devices, business networks

No more manual consolidation – No more batch – all No more complex collaboration –

all decisions on the fly and at the processes in real time all business connected
highest level of granularity

An intelligent ERP solution that enables companies to capture every opportunity in today’s
digital world, SAP S/4HANA removes common obstacles associated with legacy ERP
applications, such as batch latency, complex landscapes, and manual processes.
S/4HANA Readiness

Technical Readiness
 An Intelligent Suite – what about all the pre-work

Is History Database To
Not Ready
Migration an Big for
for the Digital
Requirement? Migration
Age
Business not ECC System is
ready for a Old SAP GUI NON Unicode
new S/4HANA Do I want to
Custom Code

?
Cannot Afford Program Deploy Model
Remediation
system Company?
downtime with Need to
S/4HANA New GL not Implement
Path Deployed Business Cloud
Partners ( CVI ) Archiving
Strategy not
Historic data
defined

Money not budgeted Material Ledger

SOLMAN not on
for S/4HANA Activated?
7.2 SP8
Sol Man ALM Do I need a
not deployed CCoE

To Standard
S/4HANA or S/4HANA Will my Sizing
not? Business Interfaces requirement for
Processes do work on S/4HANA
not Support S4HANA? Migration?
business

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 Landscape Simplification / Consolidation*
SAP labs
Enrich SAP S/4HANA through retrofit of SAP Business Suite capabilities prev iew

SAP S/4HANA for SAP S/4HANA for supply chain SAP S/4HANA for SAP business SAP for
sales/service sourcing & procurement w arehouse industries

SAP for Retail

SAP Hy bris Marketing Integrated
Front-office

Business Planning SAP Merchandising

SAP Hy bris Commerce Ariba Network: for Retail
Supply Chain Control Tower • Discovery, PO/Invoice
SAP Hy bris Cloud f or Sales 2) Collaboration, Catalog Article maintenance,
Sales and Operations article hierarchy, CAR
SAP Hybris Cloud for Service2) Ariba Cloud S olutions: integration, allocation
Demand Inventory Response and supply table, …
• Procure-to-Pay
S AP HANA, platform edition • Sourcing, Contract Mgmt.
CRM1) • Supplier Information Perf. Mgmt.

Mark eting Supply Chain Planning Supply Chain Execution Supplier Catalog (MDM) SAP for
• Commerce (multi-channel) Supplier Lif ecycle Mgmt. Enterprise Oil & GAS
Back-office

Contract Lifecycle Mgmt. Data

S ales
Demand Supply Track and Trace
SAP Sourcing Warehouse Upstream operations
• Opportunity Mgmt. Signal Netw ork Track & Trace management
• Order Mgmt.
Supplier Self Service
Management Collaboration SAP Extended
• Billing Transportation SRM Downstream
Warehouse Operational operations
Advanced Planning & Optimization Management • Requisitioning management
S erv ice Management • Operational Contract Mgmt. Reporting
• … DP SNP PP/DS gATP
aATP
• Catalog Index DIMP

SAP HANA, platform edition

1 e.g. for existing CRM customers or customers with specific use cases Slide shows main consolidation areas – not intended to show the complete picture
2 e.g. for customers with Cloud preference * Th is is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time without notice
 SAP labs
prev iew

SAP S/4HANA for SAP S/4HANA for supply chain SAP S/4HANA for SAP business SAP for
sales/service sourcing & procurement w arehouse industries

SAP for Retail

SAP Hy bris Marketing Integrated
Front-office

Business Planning
SAP Hy bris Commerce Ariba Network:
Supply Chain Control Tower • Discovery, PO/Invoice
SAP Hy bris Cloud f or Sales 2) Collaboration, Catalog Article maintenance,
Sales and Operations article hierarchy, CAR
SAP Hybris Cloud for Service2) Ariba Cloud S olutions: integration, allocation
Demand Inventory Response and supply table, …
• Procure-to-Pay
S AP HANA, platform edition • Sourcing, Contract Mgmt.
CRM1) • Supplier Information Perf. Mgmt.

Supply Chain Planning Supply Chain Execution SAP for

Enterprise Oil & GAS
Back-office

Data
S ales
Demand Supply Track and Trace
Warehouse Upstream operations
• Opportunity Mgmt. Signal Netw ork Track & Trace management
Management Collaboration
SRM
Advanced Planning & Optimization
S erv ice
• … DP SNP gATP

• SAP Merchandising
f or Retail
• Requisitioning
• Order Mgmt
SAP Extended • Downstream
Transportation Operational
PP/DS aATP Warehouse • Operational Contract Mgmt operations
• Billing Management Reporting
Management • Catalog Index
management
DIMP

SAP HANA, platform edition

1 e.g. for existing CRM customers or customers with specific use cases Slide shows main consolidation areas – not intended to show the complete picture
2 e.g. for customers with Cloud preference * Th is is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time without notice
 S/4HANA Technical and Project Readiness
Transformation
Navigator

Requirement to
Roadmap Viewer SAP Activate Deploy (R2D)

Usage Logging App Ops.

Custom Test Change Release BP Ops.

Readiness Landscape Process Requirement
Code Suite Control Mgt. Management Improvement
Check Management Management Mgt
Mgt.

SAP Best Practise

SAP Model Company

Project Data Volume Back to BP
Management Mgt. Standard Improvement

S/4 Technical Readiness S/4 Project Readiness Post S/4 Optimization

SAP Toolsets to be used in the S/4HANA journey
 Different Use Cases
Smart project delivery with SAP Solution Manager 7.2

Portfolio & Process Requirement Change Request Release Test

Project Management Management Management Management Management
Management

Size S Size M Size L

Process Management and Test Suite
▪ Small innovation project in time and effort
▪ Pure configuration and less WRICEF
▪ Intuitive user interfaces and dashboards in
Test Suite
Process Management and Requirement
Management w ith Test Suite in Focused Build
▪ WRICEF intensive projects
▪ No transport management integration
▪ PMO Dashboards w ith live project data
Full scope Focused Build w ith Release Management
▪ Full project transparency
▪ 4+ Tier Landscape
▪ Delivery w ith out-tasked development factories
▪ Full project management capabilities to
manage scope changes, risks, and Q-Gates
 Deployment Approach – Product Suite: Requirement to Deploy 1

Product Suite: R2D

SAP Solution Manager 7.2 SP08

Conf iguration Export

DD Process Management
Accelerator
Requirement Management Project and
Dev elopment Scenario
Client
Client DEV
Build Change Request Management Testing SOLMAN
Enablement

Test Management

Release Management

Training Material

Documentation
Process Management

Requirement Management Knowledge

Client PRD Production
Sharing and
Build
SOLMAN Change Request Management Hand Ov er

Test Management

Release Management
 Conversion Evaluation Toolsets

SAP readiness check SAP conversion guide SAP Simplification list

 Toolsets used for Functional Analysis and
IT Optimization Identification

Transformation Navigator

Pathfinder
(All / Sales / Finance)

BSR (Business Scenario

Recommendation)
Toolsets used to evaluate Technical requirements

SAP PAM (Product Availability Matrix) EWA (REP / RGP / RRP / SMP) Microsoft Product End of Life
Support List

Basis Interrogation of Systems Dimension Data SLD Analysis

 Toolsets used to evaluate Custom Code

CCM: Custom Code Management SEA: Scope & Effort Analyser Custom Code
Maintainability Report

Interface Interrogation Engine Interrogation

CQC: (Continuous Quality Check)
SAP Upgrade Assessment
 The How?
Ease of the Transformation
journey to SAP S/4HANA
 The How? Ease of the Transformation
journey to SAP S/4HANA

1 2 3 4

Phase ZERO S/4HANA

Decide on the Choose your
S/4HANA : Migration
Strategy and transition path destination
Roadmap

Technical Readiness New Implementation Cloud / Cloud Single Tenant High Level Consulting
S/4HANA (Greenfield)
Hybrid S/4 Best Process Business
Current state system System Conversion (Cloud & On premise) /Model Company Practises
coherency and (Brownfield)
harmonisation analysis Hana Enterprise Cloud Co-Design
Bluefield Transformation
Architecture Review and (Bluefield) On Premise
Simplification Items review
SAP Landscape
Toolsets: Crystal Bridge, Transformation
Pathfinder etc. accelerate your ambition
SAP S/4HANA Adoption Starter
 Understanding it all - Sol Man SP8 / R2D / Phase ZERO and S/4HANA Migration
S/4HANA Migrations
S/4HANA • Activate Project
(Sol Man 7.2)Technical Readiness • Brow n / Blue or Greenfields
1 • Usage Logging 4 • Data Migration
• Testing
S/4HANA • Early Watch Alert
• SAP Readiness Check S/4HANA • Cut-Over
Technical
Readiness • Custom Code Management Migrations Other Foundational
• Scope and Effort Analyzer
Projects
• Data Volume Management
5 • New GL
Pre- • Process Re Engineering
Foundational • CVI Project
2 S/4HANA
Proj ects
• Data / Housekeeping
R2D • Reporting and Data re structuring
3 • Company Code mergers
Product Suite &
Accelerator
Phase ZERO: S/4HANA Strategy and Roadmap
Solution Manager S/4HANA • Current state system coherency and harmonisation analysis
Accelarator for S/4HANA Strategy and • SNP System Scan
• Process Management Roadmap • Business / custom code
• Requirement Management and process comparison
• Change Request Management • Data analysis, profiling, scoping
• Test Management • Master data coherency analysis
• Release Management • Full simplification items review
 Phase ZERO: S/4HANA Strategy and Roadmap Design
Evaluation Accelerator
Why , How and When to adopt S/4HANA using multitude of Toolsets Sol Man S/4HANA Template accelerator for faster implementation cycles

S/4HANA Readiness Sol Man

SNP Transformation Navigator SAP Pathfinder
Check S/4HANATemplate

Activities
What activities needs to be
undertaken f or Due Diligence

Phase ZERO - Core Activities

• Current state system coherency & harmonisation analysis
• Landscape Discovery
• Process and custom code & process comparison Phase ZERO - Output
• SAP Toolsets : S/4HANA Readiness Check,
• Transf ormation Navigator, Pathfinder • Future proof ed high level
• Data analysis, profiling, scoping design f or the move to S/4HANA
• Master data coherency analysis • Future state conceptual and
• Full simplification items review logical architecture
• Functional Key Considerations • Data harmonisation and
• Data Archiving review readiness strategy, approach
and plan
• Archiv ing strategy and approach
Deployment • Tactical S/4HANA Move plan

Digital core readiness approach

What is the best approach
Adoption of Mode 2 f or my business
 Bluefield™ Approach in Comparison to Brownfield and Greenfield

Degree of Configuration / Process Adjustments

Brownfield Bluefield™ Greenfield

ERP System ERP System ERP System

ERP System (Region A) (Region B) (Region C) SAP ERP System Non SAP-System

On Premise SAP S/4HANA On Premise Cloud On Premise Cloud/ S/4Cloud

• Upgrade of current system to S/4HANA
• No change to business processes
unless required by SAP S/4HANA
simplification items
• Conversion with all data in a sequence
which requires significant regression testing
• Selective migration of current system
to a new S/4HANA system
• Consolidation and harmonization
opportunities
• Adopt new business processes at your
own pace whilst preserving historical data
• Install a new system with S/4HANA software
• Configuration based on SAP Best Practices
and Model Companies or re-use
configuration from existing system
• Testing to ensure solution
matches requirements

Industrialised SAP ECC to S/4HANA approach

 Binary (NON) Problem – What Challenges are we dealing with?

Greenfield Bluefield Brownfields

Implementation Implementation Implementation
Strategy Strategy Strategy

Business Process | Reengineering | Keep only ‘Selected’ Data No BPR – Re deploy old
Change Management and Migrate Bus Processes

Total business Involvement | One Hop for the Migrate Option 1: Custom Code Clean out program
Least Business
Institutional memory ‘Painful like (Unicode, Cloud, S4)
Impact, Least
Last time’ System Downtime | Non-Unicode-
Business Value
Focus to understand the data Even Worse!
Need to refer to Best not the processes
Business Practices and Hope Data reduction program (DVM,
it will fit business Can scale up or down: Archiving)
Super complex systems or simple
Option 3: migration projects in smaller chunks
Only move open Items | History Applicable if Client Simplification List, CVI,
data items stays where they are | has the appetite Option 2: Matl Master #
History Conundrum for large Impact on Projects is shorter, but more Define the
Business / complex | Need specialised Business problem. Test, Test, Test
Resources for New resources Bluefields Not
Simplified Business | Processes
Deployed (Change Management) Implementation applicable for all
Focus on Data Migration | All other Clients. Superb Technical prerequisites
Change Man, Processes, Training toolset to solve (Unicode, New GL, ML )
Fiori UI drive processes etc. still applicable complex problems.
No Business Involvement –
Mixture of Greenfields or Bluefields Technical Upgrade
to mitigate “Customers Problem”
Dimension Data & SNP : Phase Zero S/4HANA Strategy and Roadmap design

SNP Partner Data Modelling & Architecture

6 Rapidly profile and analyze data tables for
completeness and accuracy

SNP Partner Data Quality Softw are

5 Rapidly profile and analyze data tables
for completeness and accuracy

SNP Landscape Analysis

4 Analysis and Comparison of Repository Objects,
Customizing and Number Ranges of SAP Systems SNP CrystalBridge
Next Level Analysis Phase
platform for complex
SNP Interface Scanner SAP data Zero
3 Analysis and Documentation of used Interfaces 7
to SAP Systems

SNP System Scan

2 Technical Analysis of used SAP Modules,
Organisational Units, Tables, Repository
and System Usage

SNP Transform ation Backbone ®

1 Unique Software with pre-defined content
ensuring easy and secure transformations
 Impact Business Processes

Complex IT Landscape
Revenue
Increased Cost Loss No Innovation

The Cost of not Embracing Change

Zero Slow Market
Growth Reaction
Not Attracting
Millennials Lack of Real-
time
Analytics

No
Competitive
Advantage
 We have the Expertise
to ensure you succeed with S/4HANA Transformation

Technical Readiness Utilisation of Tools

Dimension Data follow’s proven approaches utilizing
multiple SAP toolsets, accelerators, pre-checks,
custom code evaluation and Third Party products to
provide answers and insights into your bespoke
S/4HANA requirement.
interpretation against YOUR backdrop of requirements,
enables Dimension Data to access and interpret factual
system data from the customers ERP / Core and peripheral
systems, to determine the AS-IS state and Future state
design for the SAP S/4HANA transformation journey.

Added Benefits
As part of this Methodology Dimension Data will incorporate our internal Best
Practice Solution Manager Product Suite Accelerator for a successful AMS
transition to complement the implementation of the S/4HANA Project whether it is
Greenfields (Model Company / SAP Best Business Processes), Conversion or a
S/4HANA Hybrid approach.
 Britehouse
Implementing and supporting business application software and technology platforms
to solve complex business problems that add value to our Client

‘We are proud to be the first company in Africa to go live

We implemented a Finance and Logistics, Professional
Services including Resource Management Modules of
SAP S/4HANA Cloud across all Britehouse’s business
units, using SAP Activate project Methodology and
Fit-to-Standard processes.
with the full Professional Services suite on SAP
S/4HANA Cloud. The solution has standardised and
streamlined our processes according to global best
practice and we are confident that we can implement
this solution successfully for our clients.’
Jerry Pillay, Britehouse Chief Financial Officer
Thank you & meet me at Saphila
Vaughn Booyens : : S/4HANA Move Business Lead
Email : Vaughn.Booyens@Britehouse.co.za
Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/vaughn-booyens-1ab845
accelerate your ambition