What does SAP process automation mean for the cloud-first movement – and how can it benefit your organization?
To maintain a competitive edge, especially in dynamic markets, you need the agility to keep up and pivot when needed. Automating in the cloud is the key to unlocking that agility. In other words, it’s your peace of mind in uncertain times – powering continued evolution and digital transformation.
In this webinar we’ll cover more on the benefits of automating your SAP processes in the cloud, along with:
• The relationship between your processes and data – and why one can’t thrive without the other
• Complex processes in SAP: what they look like, how we define them, and how we can help – with a real-world customer success story to demonstrate
• What to look for in a complete automation solution that will make an impact across your SAP landscape
• How to start the automation journey to overcome the challenges of complex processes – and gain the agility, speed, and data quality you need
3. The global leader
in data integrity
software
Our data integrity
software, data enrichment
products, and strategic
services deliver accuracy,
consistency, and context
to power confident
business decisions.
Brands you trust, trust us
Data leaders partner with us
of the Fortune
100
99
Customers in more than
100
2,500
employees
customers
12,000
countries
Integrate
Enrich Locate
Verify
Data
Integrity
Suite
5. Agenda
[March 1]
Session 1: The
Future of SAP®
Process
Automation in
the Cloud
[March 8]
Session 2:
Automate SaaS
Offering: SAP®
Automation In
The Cloud
[March 15]
Session 3: How
To Optimize Data
And Processes
with AI/ ML and
SAP Fiori
• Speaker: Andrew Hayden, Sr.
Product Marketing Manager
• Speaker: Charles Howard, Sr.
Product Manager
• Speaker:
• Martin Monka, Senior Product
Manager
• Sigrid Kok, Principal Sales
Engineer
7. KPMG’s 2019 CEO Outlook
“Acting with agility is the
new currency of business;
if we are too slow, we will
be bankrupt.”
67% of global
CEOs agree with
this statement:
8. Accelerating “cloud-first”
initiatives
Cloud is the strategic platform for growth and innovation
$474 billion spent
on cloud-first in 2022
80% of CEOs
accelerating digital
transformation
53% of enterprises yet
to see substantial value
from cloud investments
73% of business
leaders engaged in
cloud strategy
9. Data
Process
Tackle process and data together
• Product launches
• Product data management
• Customer onboarding &
management
• Vendor onboarding & management
• Asset management
• Financial master data
and more…
14. Start in the middle
14
Upstream
Process
components
• Materials
• Vendors
• Production Planning
• Manufacturing
Operations
• Other systems
Downstream
Process
components
• Sales and Distribution
• Customers
• Other Systems
15. Common product challenges
15
• Many raw and semi-finished
materials
• Multiple vendors and suppliers
• Complex data objects
• Complex processes
• Manual data management
& spreadsheets
• Often multiple plants
• Frequent changes
• Complex customer environment
• Tight margins
• Seasonal exceptions
• Promotional packaging
• Sales alignment
• Multiple systems involved
• SAP in the middle of it all
17. Upstream process components
Plus other, non-SAP systems
17
Materials
Vendors
Procurement
Product
Development
Finance
Manufacturing
Operations
Controlling
Production
Planning
Warehouse
18. Upstream data & objects
18
Upstream Process components
Other systems
Bill of
Materials
(BoM)
Raw
materials
(ROH)
Vendor
Master
Routings
& PV
Purchase
info
record
(PIR)
Costing
(Mark &
Release)
Material
extension
s
Source
list
Material
status
update
Semi-
finished
materials
(HALB)
Finished
products
materials
(FERT)
Packaging
materials
(VERP)
Master
recipes
Trading
goods
materials
(HAWA)
Pricing
21. A complete automation platform
Excel to SAP
Exchange data with SAP
quickly and easily using
Excel
Form &
Workflow
Automate and accelerate
SAP business processes
with integrated forms and
workflows
Excel Workflow
Automate and accelerate
SAP business processes
through Excel file
management workflows
Process
Automation
Data
Automation
22. Automate Studio
Precisely Automate portfolio
22
STANDALONE
Exchange data with SAP
quickly and easily using Excel
• Data creation and maintenance
• Data migration
• Operational reporting
• Data stewardship
GOVERNED
Share, manage, & control Precisely
across the enterprise
• Basic 2-step workflow
• Centralized management
• Granular control of licenses, users &
policies
• Extensive audit and ROI reporting
• Server-side job execution
WORKFLOW-ENABLED
Automate and streamline SAP
processes using workflows
• Advanced form and workflow
capabilities
• Advanced data stewardship capabilities
via web forms
• Detailed process analytics
Business users
work in Excel
Business users work
in Excel or web forms
Automate Studio Manager
Business users
work in Excel
Automate Evolve
+
23. Dynamic
process linking
Choice of forms or
Excel front end
Smart, tailored,
role-based forms
Flexible, extensible
solution architecture
Granular user &
policy management
SmartTables
Live SAP data
validation
Automated data
exchange with
SAP
Audit trails for
process & data
Process
dashboards &
reports
Look for a complete set of
capabilities
24. Make an impact across your SAP
landscape
Financial
Accounting
FI
Controlling
CO
Sales and
Distribution
SD
Materials
Management
MM
Plant
Maintenance
PM
Asset
Management
AM
Project
Systems
PS
Production
Planning
PP
Quality
Management
QM
Human
Resources
HR
[General finance and accounting audiences - Can be used to intro your audience specific impact slide]
As enterprises become more and more reliant on data and the volume of data we use to manage our businesses grows exponentially, it is more important than ever for companies to be able to react and move quickly.
And CEO’s are acknowledging this need to be more agile and able to quickly respond to changes in the business climate.
Gartner
KPMG
PWC
PWC
[This slide can be used and adapted for many different scenarios to explain where Precisely Automate fits into a customer landscape.]
[This slide can be used and adapted for many different scenarios to explain where Precisely Automate fits into a customer landscape.]
Here is how the new products fit into our landscape.
Desktop Studio, Studio Manager (Server based) , and Evolve (Server based).
Studio Manager contains all the features of Studio desktop.
Evolve has all the features of Studio Desktop and Studio Manager.
Note to sales:
Use this slide to introduce at a high level the features that make Evolve unique. You do not need to go through each one. For deeper conversations and follow-up meetings there is content around many of these features in the Evolve slide library.
Note to sales:
Use this slide to explain that our platforms can make an impact across their SAP landscape—whether it’s master data or transactional data use cases.
I would like to share with you Monster Energy's process transformation story.
This Energy Drinks was using spreadsheets and emails to track their product launches (They call it NPW – New Product Worksheet). Their process even required project managers of new products to invest hours each day tracking down status to report back to meetings and management – just another task that was eating up time. In their words it was “organized chaos”.
<click>
Then the energy drinks company entered into a partnership with a major global soft drinks company. This gave the energy drinks company access to aspects of their global distribution network <click>
and dramatically increasing the number of new product launches (it quadrupled the number of open projects). Their current manual process simply couldn’t scale…
<click>
[Notes: To be clear the soft drinks company doesn’t own the energy drinks company, however they do have a 17% stake in the company]
and getting the data into SAP for all the global sites soon became the bottleneck holding Monster back.
So, let me share with you a little about the Energy Drinks company’s transformation journey.
<click>
First, we mapped out their existing process – something they had never done before – and there were some real aha moments here. This is where Precisely’s professional services team really began to shine – by looking beyond just the tools. Like any good process transformation project, we reviewed the people, process and technology. This was the beginning of the true Transformation that included automation, process redesign and organizational changes needed to allow the Energy Drinks company to move at a faster pace.
<click>
One of the key learnings from the workshops was that there are many different product launch types … and the Energy Drinks company was faced with examples of almost all of them.
Out of the process workshop we identified 3 different business solutions, Point-of-Sale Materials (these are salable materials for items like T-shirts, hats and stickers – Note that Merchandise is a big part of the Energy Drinks company revenue stream), Raw materials (ingredients) and the product manufacturing process – the overall process needed to launch a new product. The product production solution includes more than 8 SAP product data objects, and our modular architecture allows you to dynamically link the sub processes needed for each specific launch, even calling the independent raw material process if needed.
It was obvious that the Energy Drinks company needed to help immediately <click>
[David]
Highlevel overview – our solution can handle a lot of complexity and being able to process projects independently of plant was huge for the Energy Drinks company…
Total steps = 23
At the first pass they have already reduced their product launch cycle times by 50-75% depending on launch type. They now have tools and controls in place that easily allows them to collect the right data at the right time from the right people.
<click>
They have the visibility they need to effectively manage their product launches,
<click>and the governance in place to allow business teams to take true ownership of “their” data.
<click>This gives the Energy Drinks company trust in a repeatable process that allows them to bring new products to market faster than ever before!
<click>