Building the business case forSAP S/4 HANAJohn Appleby

GM, Bluefin Solutions Inc.

Carl Dubler

Product Marketing Director, SAP

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• S/4HANA Introduction Differences between Suite on HANA and S/4HANA Deployment Options

• The S/4HANA Roadmap Migration planning Example migration schedule

• The S/4HANA Business Case Components of a good business case Business benefits Example business scenarios

What you will learn today

S/4HANA Introduction

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• The successor to SAP R/3 and SAP Business Suite• New SKU and Code Fork

Available on the SAP HANA database

• S/4HANA themes: Renewed interface with Fiori UX Simplified structure with SAP HANA Cloud deployment first

What is S/4HANA?

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Runs on AnyDB

Built for lowest capability database

Limited use of database functionality

Client/Server SAPGui User Interface

SAP R/3

SAP HANA only

Built using all capabilities of SAP HANA

Full use of database functionality e.g. geospatial, graph

Fiori User Experience

SAP S/4HANA

SAP R/3 vs S/4HANA

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S/4HANA Deployment Options

Cloud• Shared HANA multi-tenant DB• HANA Cloud Platform Extensions• Quarterly Release Schedule• 100% Managed by SAP• Automatic Updates

On-Premise• On-Premise or Hosted• ABAP Customization• Yearly Release Schedule• Managed by Customer/Partner• Update schedule defined by

customer

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SAP S/4HANA Roadmap

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SAP S/4HANA Customer Journey

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The S/4HANA Roadmap

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• S/4HANA roadmap varies• Existing ECC Environment

Upgrades, Patches, Unicode Conversion Test Management, Change Management Custom Code Remediation & Reduction Data Reduction & Near-line Storage

• Build of technical readiness Hardware Procurement SAP BW or Agile Datamart

The S/4HANA Roadmap

The S/4HANA Roadmap

Custom Code Remediation

BW Near-Line Store

2015 2016

Suite on HANA

Solution Manager

HW Procurement

Roadmap

Cloud Migration

BW Housekeeping

ECC Housekeeping

Year End

SAP BW on HANA

S/4HANA

Sandboxes

Real-Time Analytics

Test Management

The Business Case

Components of a business case

• Better Business Engagement

• Improved Morale• Customer

Satisfaction

• Reduction in Days Outstanding

• Reduction in batch schedule

• Reduction in Stock• Reduction in

Hardware Cost• Reduction in Project

Costs

1.Financial

2. Quantifiable

3. Measurable

4. Observable

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Tip: try to move benefits from Observable Measurable Quantifiable Financial

Quantifying benefits

• Compare against similar companies

• SAP Value Engineering

• Services organizations provide simulation using your business conditions

• Validate based on experience of others

• Relatively inexpensive

• Verify capabilities• Solidify Business

Case

Pilot / PoC Reference Sites

BenchmarkingSimulation

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Remember: try to move benefits from Observable Measurable Quantifiable Financial

Business benefits matrix

Doing new things Doing things better Stop doing things

Financial

• Reduction in annual maintenance costs of hardware and infrastructure

• One time reduction in stock

• Increase total shopping cart size and value

• Reduced overtime due to less integration pressures

• DBA Tasks

Quantifiable• Reduced project costs

• Reduction in SLA misses for data availability

Measurable• Increased adoption

• Shorter development time due to simplification of the architecture

• Simplification of the solution stack as BWA Blades removed

Observable

• Mix non-SAP and SAP data into one data model in real-time

• Ability to navigate from company level to document level in one report

• 30x Improved average query time leads to faster and better decision making and support

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Where to add capabilities and value

• Finance soft close• Planning and predictive finance• Marketing to audience of one• Material Requirements Planning (MRP)• Advanced Available to Promise (ATP)• High-volume inventory backflush• Engage talent across the organization• HR compliance across the organization• Continuous cross-system control monitoring• Fraud detection

Top capabilities

Unique value of SAP S/4HANA

Business innovations

SolutionsQuantifiable value

Use case

Example: finance soft close

Description: A traditional measurement of the finance organization is the speed at which a company closes its books. In benchmarking studies, SAP Value Engineering found that the top quartile–performing companies achieve the annual financial close in 26% fewer days than their peers, resulting in 61% lower General Ledger and closing costs.

Industry relevance: Cross-industry

Drive one common view of financial data to help ensure enterprise-wide consistency to minimize reconciliation Enable real-time processes for instant insight to make timely, relevant decisions Use prediction, simulation, and analysis to evaluate financial implications of strategic business choices

Universal journal for both financial and controlling data

On-the-fly aggregation of transactional tables Central finance to consolidate many back ends

SAP S/4HANA, on-premise edition SAP S/4HANA, cloud edition SAP Simple Finance solution

Real-time oversight of close progress Real-time insight into financial results Continuous intra-month processes

400 hours cut from period-end close 86% faster real-time analytics 2.5x faster cost postings*

*SAP software implementation

Closebatches

Consolidationbatches

Initial period Close & consolidation

Reporting on-demand

Close & consolidationInitial period

Business Process View: Finance soft close

With SAP S/4HANA: Real-time KPIs Elimination of end-of-period batch Continuous intercompany reconciliation Continuous financial reporting visibility Line-item detail reconciliation Automation for routine tasks Full management visibility of close tasks

With traditional system: Close activities don’t begin until period end Multiple batch-run dependencies Batch bottlenecks that delay downstream High error-correction efforts Complex issues postponed until after close Time-pressured resolutions Delayed visibility into reporting

Traditional system With SAP S/4HANA

Traditional With SAP S/4HANA

Process excellence

Business Scenario Recommendation Tool

• Easy and Free of Charge Intuitively get recommendations for

business scenarios based on your system and industry

• Efficient You only spend minutes to request a

report• Transparent

You’ll get a list of relevant business scenarios and other recommendations

»Request a free report at www.s4hana.com

John Applebyjohn.appleby@bluefinsolutions.com@applebyjbluefinsolutions.com/johnappleby

Carl Dublercarl.dubler@sap.comscn.sap.com/people/carl.dubler