SAP S/4HANA Services

For many years, ERP systems have been the backbone of the business. However, as line-of-business applications have become more prevalent and comprehensive, an increasingly diversified landscape of data sources has become disconnected from the core ERP system. SAP S/4HANA® is designed to overcome this fragmentation by breaking down data silos and establishing a core of intelligence that is now readily accessible.

Savantis supports the SAP ecosystem with a comprehensive suite of services to lead and execute SAP S/4HANA transitions – from advisory and pre-program strategy consulting to cloud hosting and managed services. We help guide our clients through the transition process providing program management, cloud architecture, functional, technical, application development and data migration services to realize your S/4HANA intelligent enterprise vision.

Fundamentally, there are three high-level approaches to SAP S/4HANA Transitions. The first is a technical conversion, also know as a Brownfield Conversion. The second common approach is a new implementation based on an industry-specific template, or pre-configured accelerated solution, also referred to as a Greenfield Implementation. The third approach is a Selective System Transition approach more recently know as a Bluefield Transition. The best-fit approach for your company will be based on numerous factors and considerations that must be carefully explored to meet the underlying business case for the organization.

Selecting your best-fit approach

The way you plan and execute the SAP S/4HANA transition program will substantially influence your ability to adopt next-generation business processes and use the new capabilities of SAP® intelligent products. Based on years of S/4HANA transitions, Savantis has developed an S/4HANA transition approach that guides our clients to the best-fit strategy to meet their business imperatives for digital transformation.

Understanding the key business drivers of the organization, the strategic imperatives for change, and the ability to leverage existing system assets to support the new future state solution, need to be carefully considered to select the best-fit S/4HANA transition strategy. Getting this right from the onset is paramount to the success of the project and even more importantly, the organization’s ability to accelerate the adoption of S/4HANA intelligent technologies that digitally transform business functions.

Selective Data Transition is an alternative to the new implementation approach

Savantis SAP S/4HANA Discovery Phase Advisory Services

At Savantis we believe the more effective you are at assessing your current state SAP solution, selecting the right-fit transition strategy, performing the necessary pre-work, and building a detailed roadmap and program plan before you kick-off your S/4HANA transition project, the greater the likelihood of your success in adopting S/4HANA intelligent capabilities and delivering an on-schedule, on-budget project. Contact us today to review our ground-breaking S/4HANA transition approaches, case studies, and success stories of S/4 transformations!

Avoiding common pitfalls of adopting S/4HANA

Our Discovery Phase Advisory Services are the nucleus of our success in transitioning our clients to SAP S/4HANA. Our service portfolio and Discovery Phase approach has been designed to avoid many of the common pitfalls of S/4HANA transitions. Performing the detailed current-state system analyses and assessments, and playing back the results to the business and IT stakeholders are critical to making the right transition strategy decision for the organization. Our comprehensive Advisory Services Portfolio targets the critical success factors that need to be fully understood and addressed before you begin your S/4 journey.

SAP Cloud Enablement
SAP ALM Solution Manager Enablement
SAP Readiness Check Execution & Playback
SAP Systems and Data Analysis & Clean-up
SAP Simplification List Impact Assessment
SAP Digital Transformation Fit/Gap Sessions

SAP Custom Code Check, Analysis & Remediation LoE Estimation & Planning
SAP System Documentation Assets Analysis & Support
SAP Testing Strategy, Methods, Tools & Asset Analysis
SAP ALM Solution Manager Implementation Services
SAP S/4HANA Proof-of-Concept Planning & Execution

Savantis SAP S/4HANA Consulting Services

At the core of every S/4HANA transition is identifying and remediating the functionality gaps and changes between SAP ECC and S/4HANA, called the Simplification List. Simplification items are analyzed, designed and executed by Savantis’ innovation and delivery centers across the North and Latin America, EMEA and Asia Pacific regions and perform design, build and test activities to remediate all impacted business process changes. In areas of functionality decommissioning, we implement new SAP intelligent solutions that take the place of older ECC features.

Savantis SAP S/4HANA Data Archiving & Migration Services

Regardless of your selected SAP S/4HANA Transition Strategy, data clean-up, extraction, conversion, transformation, archiving and migration will be front-and-center in your project. For many years implementing SAP, data readiness and conversion were always the longest poles in tent that often negatively impacted project timelines and ultimately budgets. And SAP S/4HANA transitions are no different. That’s why Savantis offers extensive Data Archiving & Migration Services.

Transforming data via the S/4HANA Migration Cockpit

Available for SAP S/4HANA and SAP S/4HANA Cloud and included in licensing. The SAP S/4HANA Migration Cockpit is a native SAP tool that provides a powerful, easy-to-use, state-of-the-art modeling environment to enable SAP S/4HANA conversions and new implementations. The solution supports preconfigured migration objects and rules without the need for development skills. It provides a step-by-step migration process that automates cross-object value mapping via a migration object modeler for custom requirements.

Migrate data using staging tables

Staging tables are created automatically (either locally or in a remote system) and can be populated with business data using XML template files or SAP or third-party ETL tools and then transfer data from the staging tables to the target SAP S/4HANA system.

Migrate data directly from an SAP system

Data can be transferred from a source SAP ERP system to a target SAP S/4HANA system. An RFC connection is established to access the source system and supports data migration scenarios from other applications.

Savantis SAP S/4HANA Custom Code Remediation Services

Custom Code Remediation and Migration is a main component of the SAP S/4HANA conversion process. The custom ABAP code must be adapted to the new SAP S/4HANA simplified database table using the ABAP Test Cockpit. Savantis specializes in application development to remediate and optimize ABAP custom objects to meet the conversion project requirements.

Custom Code: Rethink, Clean Up and Remove, Not Just Rework

In an average SAP ERP system, 30% to 60% of custom code is never executed in the production system. Savantis uses the ABAP Call Monitor statistics and the Custom Code Migration Fiori app to remove unused code. We take the transition as an opportunity to clean up your system. Put “clean core” and “zero modifications” on the list of your project’s goals and ensure that all impacted custom code objects are either adapted or deleted during system conversion.

Savantis SAP S/4HANA Technical Basis Services

The SAP S/4HANA Conversion is heavily dependent upon SAP technical basis expertise as SAP ECC 6.X technical components, versions, databases, operating systems, methods and tools used in the conversion process vary greatly. By default, the technical workstream and the experience and capabilities of the architects and basis consultants are paramount to the success of the program.

SAP Technical Basis is the most important element to any SAP S/4HANA transition be it a brownfield conversion, a bluefield selective system and data transition, or a new greenfield implementation. Technical Basis system migration, transition and carve-in/out projects are key differentiators for Savantis as our global, follow-the-sun competency supports our projects 24×7. Savantis’ Technical Basis Services include;

Technical Basis System Strategy, Planning and Landscape Architecture
Cloud SAP Workload Architecture
SAP HANA Database installations, sizing and optimization
AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Proof-of-Concept (PoC) enablement
Operating System (OS) and Database (DB) migrations and conversions
High Availability and Disaster Recovery Strategy, Planning, Testing and Verification
System transition and carve-in/-out
SAP Release Upgrades, Enhancement Packages and Support Package Stacks Implementations
System copies, migrations and transition (Carve-In/Out)
Cloud and SAP Application Security Strategy, Planning, Execution, Auditing and Remediation

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