Optimize SAP ERP and Build your business case for SAP S/4HANA · 2020. 12. 30. · Asset Management...

Optimize SAP ERP and

Build your business case for SAP S/4HANA Pattabhi Peddinti

Senior Director, Customer Value Experience

SAP

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Customer Value Experience

Tools providing decision-makers with fact-based recommendations

SAP Fiori apps library & recommendationsRecommendation of relevant SAP Fiori apps to enable innovations

through new user experience

http://www.sap.com/fiori-apps-library

http://www.sap.com/FAR

Further RecommendationsIdentify relevant innovations and optimize TCO

SAP Solution Manager value reportIT TCO optimization with SAP Solution Manager

http://www.sap.com/solman-value

Starting Point: Based on your transformation priorityAssess the situation and identify potential value

SAP Road Map ExplorerFeatures and innovations planned to be delivered with future releases

https://roadmaps.sap.com/

SAP Transformation NavigatorBuild a product roadmap for your digital transformation journey

http://www.sap.com/transformationnavigator

SAP Business Scenario Recommendations on SpotlightTarget group: Customers with SAP ERP

• PDF report for business executives to secure buy-in for your

move to SAP S/4HANA

• Online Spotlight analysis for process experts to identify potential

for standardization, and automation

http://www.s4hana.com/

✓ Your priority: Why move to SAP S/4HANA?

SAP Innovation and Optimization Pathfinder 2.0Target group: Customers with SAP S/4HANA* or SAP ERP

• Tailored recommendations based on insights from your SAP

system, and industry benchmarks to optimize and innovate end-

to-end processes in 6 lines of business and IT operations

http://www.sap.com/pathfinder

*Spotlight analysis can be generated for SAP S/4HANA systems upon request

✓ Your priority: How to maximize value from your SAP solution?

http://www.sap.com/fiori-app-libraryhttp://www.sap.com/FARhttp://www.sap.com/solman-valuehttps://roadmaps.sap.com/http://www.sap.com/transformationnavigatorhttp://www.s4hana.com/http://www.sap.com/pathfinder


















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Maximize value from your SAP solution

with SAP Innovation And Optimization

Pathfinder 2.0


How To Identify Improvement and Innovation Opportunities?

Typical customer questions:

▪ Which innovations are relevant for each area of my business in SAP ERP or SAP S/4HANA?

▪ How can I improve the performance of business processes and optimize my SAP system?

▪ What are the next steps to take advantage of a vast portfolio of service and support offerings from SAP?

The answer: SAP Innovation and Optimization Pathfinder

▪ Unique insights into current business process performance, system usage and industry benchmarks

▪ Tailor-made innovation recommendations for six lines of business

▪ No additional charge for customers on SAP maintenance

▪ Available for customers on SAP ERP or SAP S/4HANA


SAP Innovation and Optimization Pathfinder 2.0

Available for: SAP ERP or SAP S/4HANA

New: SAP Innovation and Optimization Pathfinder 2.0 recommends options

for optimizing E2E processes and the IT environment

Innovation

recommendations

for six lines of business

E2E process

improvement

opportunities

Optimize IT

and accelerate

innovation

ERP or SAP

S/4HANA

system

Current

Environment

Realize

Value

Personalized innovation

recommendations based on your

current SAP system usage for:

▪ Finance

▪ Sourcing and Procurement

▪ Sales and Service

▪ Supply Chain

▪ Manufacturing

▪ Asset Management

E2E process improvement recommendations,

based on 80+ process performance indicators

with industry benchmarks for:

▪ Record to report

▪ Procure to pay

▪ Order to cash

▪ Complaints & returns management

▪ Inventory management

▪ Plan to produce

▪ Request to settle

Recommendations on how SAP

can help automate and improve

your IT activities:

▪ Top areas with potential for

future IT improvements

▪ Automation through

SAP Solution Manager


Download the

Pathfinder Sample Report

for SAP ERP »

Download the

Pathfinder Sample Report

for SAP S/4HANA »

SAP Innovation and Optimization Pathfinder 2.0Examples

https://d.dam.sap.com/a/wHck47phttps://d.dam.sap.com/a/5vGdabM


SAP Innovation and Optimization Pathfinder 2.0Request Process Overview For SAP ERP or SAP S/4HANA Customers

Extract data Initiate your

request

SAP will send you

the results report

1. Implement SAP Notes 2745851

and 2758146 in your productive

SAP ERP or SAP S/4HANA

system, run data collection report

and download ZIP file

2. Download SAP EarlyWatch Alert

3. Optional: SAP Fiori (odata)

usage data from SAP system

• Initiate your request – go to:

www.sap.com/pathfinder2

• Fill in the form and upload:

1. Extracted ZIP file

2. SAP Earlywatch Alert

3. Optional: Extracted SAP Fiori

(odata) usage data

• SAP will send you the results

report via e-mail

Confirm your

request

• After submitting your request you

will receive an e-mail to confirm

your e-mail address

• SAP will start to generate the

report after your confirmation

Download the Handbook »

https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2745851https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2758146http://www.sap.com/pathfinder2https://d.dam.sap.com/a/s3m1E5U


SAP Innovation and Optimization Pathfinder 2.0A tailor-made report highlighting innovation potentials, business process and IT optimizations

Outlines customer-specific improvement and innovation

opportunities based on the customer’s current SAP ERP or SAP

S/4HANA system usage, business & IT performance

Recommendations to optimize SAP solutions from an LOB

and IT perspective, or implement software and cloud innovations

using relevant SAP Enterprise Support or SAP Services offering

Interactive report navigates customers to relevant information,

services and tools and is free-of-charge for customers on SAP

maintenance (all support models)

Key prerequisites:

- Implement SAP Notes 2745851 and 2758146 in your productive SAP ERP or SAP S/4HANA system

- Standard SAP EarlyWatch Alert (SAP Solution Manager)

Note: Activating Business Key Figures in SAP EarlyWatch Alert (as for Pathfinder 1.0) is NOT needed anymore

- Optional: Extract SAP Fiori usage data (odata) from SAP system

Order your pilot report:

www.sap.com/Pathfinder

https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2745851https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2758146http://www.sap.com/pathfinder


















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Kick Off Your Move to SAP S/4HANA with

SAP Business Scenario

Recommendations on Spotlight


How to build your case for SAP S/4HANA?

Typical questions of business executives:

▪ What are the benefits for each area of my business in moving SAP S/4HANA?

▪ What is different, and what is new compared to what we have today?

▪ Where can SAP help streamline and automate my business?

The answer: SAP Business Scenario Recommendations on Spotlight

▪ Unique insights into current business process performance, system usage and industry benchmarks

▪ Tailor-made recommendations for SAP S/4HANA functionalities, SAP Fiori Apps and automation

for six lines of business and across end-to-end processes

▪ Helping you to build your case for SAP S/4HANA and secure business buy-in

▪ No additional charge for customers on SAP Maintenance


Storyline example for the CFO

“Understand how to achieve your business goals with SAP innovations.”

Optimize finance processes and liquidityBusiness goal

“What does my CEO want me to achieve?”

Value drivers“What should we

improve?”

Reduce G/L efforts and

financial closing time

Reduce

days sales outstanding (DSO)

Deep dive

into performance“Where are issues

in today’s processes?”

• Overdue & open finance AR / AP items

• Customer/ vendor payments autom. cleared

• Open items on finance G/L accounts

Impacting G/L efforts and closing time

Deep dive into

usage“How are we

working today?”

• # of sales order items overdue for invoicing

• # of delivery items shipped and not billed

• # of days for lead time: invoice creation to clearing

Impacting days sales outstanding

Process view and process performance indicators(from customer’s SAP ERP software data with industry benchmarks)

Capabilities What peers are using What you use today

Financial Accounting

Collections Management No usage detected

Usage view(from customer’s SAP ERP software data with industry benchmarks)

1

2

3

4

How SAP helpsand what’s different to SAP ERP?

5

Cash & Liquidity Management

Gain real-time insight into global cash

and liquidity with SAP S/4HANA.

Position cash accurately and analyze

enterprise-wide cash flows within a

timeframe of choice.

Entity Close

Increase accuracy, corporate

governance, compliance, and efficiency

of the entity close with automation and

standardization. Accelerate the entity

close process through automation and

standardization.

+

SAP Cash Application

Financial Statement Insights

IRPA - Manage Sales Order

Additional SAP products

SAP S/4HANA capabilities


Optimize Sales

▪ Improve on-time delivery performance

▪ Increase sales force efficiency

▪ Reduce complaints and return costs

Optimize Supply Chain

▪ Reduce days in inventory

Optimize Asset Management

▪ Reduce unplanned downtime or outage

▪ Reduce asset data management cost

Optimize Finance

▪ Reduce G/L efforts and financial closing time

▪ Reduce finance costs

▪ Reduce days sales outstanding

Optimize Sourcing and Procurement

▪ Reduce procurement function cost

Optimize Manufacturing

▪ Accelerate manufacturing cycle time

▪ Reduce total manufacturing costs

SAP Business Scenario Recommendations on Spotlight

12 business optimization goals for 6 lines of business with ~80 metrics

~80 process performance metrics1), supporting the need to MOVE to SAP S/4HANA,

collected from the customer’s SAP ERP systems and benchmarked against peers2)

1) selected out of a set of 1300+ readily available KPIs in SAP Solution Manager, incl. drilldowns and progress measurement.

2) 2500+ data sets per September 2020

https://go.support.sap.com/kpicatalog/?sap-language=EN


SAP Business Scenario Recommendations on Spotlight

Identification of areas for improvement

and automation potential

Deep-dive into process performance

and efficiency

Cloud-based solution with data from

SAP Business Scenario Recommendations

Easy to share including

direct links to Spotlight

Starting point to build a case

for SAP S/4HANA

Executive summary report

SAP Business

Scenario

Recommendations

On Spotlight

NEW: Spotlight

SAP Business Scenario Recommendations

Audience:

Business executives

SAP Business Scenario Recommendations on Spotlight is available free of charge for customers on SAP Maintenance

Audience:

Process Experts

Tool-based support to identify

standardization opportunities

Interactive PDF Report

Online application

Example:

SAP Business Scenario

Recommendations on Spotlight


Login details to the Spotlight demo system:

You can directly access and test SAP Business Scenario Recommendations on Spotlight.

Here are the details needed to access the sample project:

Click on this link: BSR on Spotlight demo project

Enter this user: [email protected]

And this password: Demo1234!

You are connected!

https://demo.spotlight.cloud.sap/project/61097292-78fc-4aee-a96f-ffc2ca8403aa/analysis/88333874-5ad8-4325-a412-85b1be235556


Home menu


SAP Business Scenario Recommendations on SpotlightRequest Process Overview for SAP ERP customers

• Implement SAP Notes

2745851 and 2758146 in

productive SAP ERP system

• Run data extraction report

and download ZIP file

• Initiate your request – go to:

www.s4hana.com

• Fill in the form, upload the

extracted ZIP file and submit

your request

• SAP sends you via email the

report and the instruction to

activate your Spotlight account

• After submitting your request

you receive an e-mail to

confirm your e-mail address

• SAP starts to create the report

and the Spotlight analysis after

your confirmation


request

SAP will share

results report

Confirm your

request

How-To Guide »


request

SAP will send you

the results report

Confirm your

request

https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2745851https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2758146http://www.s4hana.com/https://d.dam.sap.com/a/AREDtXr


• Identify the most valuable SAP S/4HANA business

scenarios for your company

• Receive tailor-made insights to build your case

for SAP S/4HANA

• Get unique business performance and usage insights

as well as tailored recommendations by line of business

based on the actual usage of your SAP ERP system

• Personalized report at no additional charge

for all customers under SAP maintenance,

independent of their support model

Order your free report: www.s4hana.com

Key Benefits of SAP Business Scenario Recommendations on Spotlight


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