s/4hana - digital core of the modern enterprise and key

S/4HANA - digital core of the modern enterprise and key

building block of streamlined enterprise architecture

Yuliya Seregina

March 2017

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Competing in Today’s Digital Economy Requires Speed & Agility

5 Technology Trends are changing the way

we work, live and interact

Smarter World Cloud Computing

Supercomputing

Hyperconnectivity

Cybersecutiry


Digital Business is a Paradigm Shift

REIMAGINE

Business Models

• New ways to reach

customers & prospects

• Outcome based

business

• Platform business

• Enter new industries &

markets

REIMAGINE

Business Processes

• Collapse cycle times

• Accelerate innovation

cycles

• Intelligent processes

• Lean processes

• B2B collaboration

REIMAGINE

Work

• Consumer grade user

experience

• Self services

• Real-time collaboration

• People-Machine

Collaboration

• Cognitive world & AI

5

Still Forkliftsevolving into a services company


Video - STILL


Transformation starts with the Digital Core

Immediate

Empowering business users with

insights to act in the moment.

Intelligent

Beyond automation,

to predictive suggestion.

Integrated

Not only between your departments,

but connected to the world.

HANA Platform


S/4HANA – key building block of streamlined Enterprise Architecture

Data

Architecture

Application

Architecture

Technology

Architecture

• Data and collaboration

driven business models

• Industry leading processes

available across industries

• Landscape and data model

simplification, embedded analytics

• Agile innovative functionality

implementation

• Optimal TCO (consolidated

landscape, lower data

footprint)

• Ideally supports bi-model IT

concept

• Fewer interfaces between the

systems

Business

Architecture


Enter Material Order Choose best supplier

and complete material

order entry

Review Material Shortage

Select Supplier

Analytics and

Insights

Now All On

One Screen

Purchase Manager

Check Budget

Overview

Review Detail

Report

Faster customer delivery

Larger average deal size

Fewer warehouse stock outs

Check Average

Supplier Delivery

Performance Cross Sell

Reimagine Business Processes: Procurement


Buyer & Supplier collaboration

Purchase Orders

Goods Receipts

Ship Notice

Invoices

Invoice Status Update

Purchase Order

Invoice

Payment

PO confirmation

Request for Quotation / Supplier

Quotation Quote / Award

Digital Handshakes

Request for Quote

CC-Invoice; MM invoices

Payment Proposal

Early Payment

Sourcing

Collaboration

Order

Collaboration

BUYER SUPPLIER

Remittance Advise

Invoice

Collaboration

DiscountManagement

Invoice

Collaboration


Cash Application Intelligence: Machine Learning to tackle the most

manual step in invoice-to-cash

Business Value

• Automatically matches payments to open customer invoices

• Enables substantial reduction of labor costs per invoice and faster clearing

• Learn from accountants` actions and applies it to future payments

• Automation shifts effort towards better service quality


Modern IS Architecture concept view

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“Our aim is to gradually

interconnect all modes of

transport – from waterways and

roads all the way to the railway”

Hamburg Port Authority –steering course for the connected port of the future


Technology architecture reimagined with S/4HANA


300Complex Integrations

24 Distinct systems

consolidated into three

27%Reduction in custom

objects


Digital Core of the future

Key innovations starting with auser experience to enable digital adoption

Machine Learning (increased

automation via algorithm driven

business acceleration)

Intelligent Services

Leveraging emerging technologies and trends

Blockchain

Smart System with Digital Assistant

Digital DNA: How to start the evolution


Overcome challenges and stay focused

Challenges FocusEcosystem and legacy

Lack of standardization and

poor data quality

Culture and mindset

Regulations

Infrastructure readiness

Make Digital a priority for senior

executives

Run integrated program vs.

uncoordinated effort

Continue to develop digital

capabilities: invest, build, buy

or partner

Invest in human capital

Reform the company’s data

architecture

Drive the culture of innovation

and technology adoption

Embrace Enterprise

Architecture approach

Focus on TO-BE state

Build capabilities, not just

systems

Get started

cc

2 Opportunity assessment

Governance& Change

Management

4 Value realization

3 Solution road map and ROI

1 Strategy alignment


Starting your journey to SAP S/4HANA

• Start a new implementation

and/or bring an existing

landscape back to standard

• Retain existing processes

and migrate from any DB to

HANA

• Adopt and reimage business

processes incrementally

• Re-imagine the business

• Plan the digital

transformation

• Design and Execute with the

help technical and functional

support services from SAP

• Identify business

requirements

• Build the business case

• Develop an SAP

S/4HANA adoption strategy

& roadmap

First steps: Your path: The roadmap Options:

• Planning & safeguarding

• Technical

implementation

• Functional implementation

• Co-innovation

Innovation

Strategy and

Roadmap

New implementation

Landscape transformation

System conversion

On premise

Cloud

Hybrid

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