1. Maximizing ROI in Your
S/4HANA Migration
Amit Garussi | VP Product, Change Intelligence

2. Customers
Partners
The Change Intelligence
Platform
• Founded in 2006
• Trusted by over 3,000 customers
• +25 Global Partnerships
• Leader in ERP Impact Analysis
• Leader in Enterprise Testing and Defect Management
CHANGE & TEST WITH CONFIDENCE

3. • Questions should be posted in the Chat
(we will cover them at the end)
• Session is recorded and will be available
on-demand (e-mail with the link will be sent)
House Keeping

4. Agenda
• Best practices for assessing business needs
and planning for S/4HANA migration,
including how to select the right migration
tools and establish clear migration goals
• Strategies for optimizing the pre-migration
environment
• Insights on how to avoid common pitfalls and
challenges in S/4HANA migration projects

5. S/4HANA Market State

6. S/4HANA Innovation Factors

7. 7
S/4HANA Value by Customers
What is holding customers back from planning their
move to S/4HANA?
• Complexity of their existing system
• Length of the project
• Not seeing the value in S/4HANA
What value customers find in S/4HANA?
• Improved performance (76%)
• Improved process efficiencies (62%)
• Improved user and business satisfaction (57%)

8. Utilize the S/4HANA project to
lead innovation!
• Clean old data
• Clean unused custom code
› SAP clean-core
› Be ready for the next upgrades by cleansing
› Future-proof your business
• Review existing processes
and tune them to address business needs
• Utilize new technology options
› Fiori
› Other low/no-code options
• Identify missing knowledge/education
in your business teams
S/4HANA as an
Innovation Catalyst

9. The Business is Your Co-Pilot for a Successful Project
Strive to standardize
business processes
Aim to better fit the
current business
needs/processes
Set the base to support
business growth
Include key users from
the very beginning

10. Ensuring No Business Disruption
Meet Business Needs &
Demands
Comply to Regulation
Requirements
Modernization of Mission-Critical Systems
Processes Standardization
Removal of Technical Debt
Migration Goals

11. • Fully compliant ERP that supports global and local regulations
• Processes standardization =
the base for future rapid-innovation
• Better (and faster) reporting and BI modernization via
› Embedded Analytics
› Fiori analytical apps
› Extensibility for data-analytics solutions
› SAP Analytics Cloud (real time access to S/4HANA data)
• Partners advantage
› RISE with SAP
› Leverage their experience
› Support project activities – overall management, business case,
and roadmap (innovation) development
How to Maximize ROI – General Recommendations

12. • Choose and use SAP tools wisely
• Take advantage of best-of-breed tools =
Time To Value acceleration
› Automatic Corrections
› Custom code corrections
› Configurations
› Automatic Testing
› Re-use of testing assets
› Regression cycles
› Project Activities
› Project blueprint – full plan of all the project activities
› Collaboration – of all project members
› Documentation – of all project artifacts
How to Maximize ROI – Tools

13. How to Maximize ROI – SAP Tools
SAP Build
Process Discovery for S/4HANA
Readiness Check
› Technical tool to assess the
magnitude of the project based
on the current system
› Covers Simplification Items,
affected custom code etc.
› Doesn’t provide time estimations
› Doesn’t help in scoping or smart-
prioritization of activities
› Guidance tool to plan the
S/4HANA business
transformation
› Emphasizes the “reasons” to
move to S/4HANA
› Includes the benefits for your
business
› Includes suggested innovations
› New capability on BTP
› Allows easy build-up of
applications (low/no-code)
› Can be leveraged to provide
business-value rapidly

14. Evaluation, planning,
and Migration Strategy
S/4HANA Conversion Project
Go Live!
Move to Clean Core, Suite on HANA,
EHPSPS, Business-driven Changes
SAP S/4HANA Migration
Projects
Are Long and Complex
ECC Maintenance
and Optimization
S/4HANA Version Upgrades
and Innovation Streams
Discovery, Preparations and
Assessment Phase
Business
Case Phase

15. Panaya Secures All
Phases of Your Journey
ECC Optimization
Conversion
Assessment
S/4HANA
Conversion
S/4HANA Post Go-
Live
EHPSPSBSOH Analyses
While Preparing Your ECC
Landscape for a Future,
Low-Risk Conversion
Detailed Evaluation,
Business Case and
Pre-Planning in 48h
Complete
Conversion
Analysis showing
Technical and
Functional Risks,
and Auto-Code
Corrections in 48h
FPSSPSVersion
Impact Analysis.
Ongoing Business
Innovation and Test
Optimization

16. Questions?

17. Thank You
amit@panaya.com