Getting the right facts for a customized transformation to S/4HANA without poring over pages and pages of texts from different sources is not possible? Far from it. CONSILIO's three assessment packages - Smart, Extended and Excellence - extract all the data needed to determine the ideal transformation approach from your own system landscape - brownfield, crossfield or greenfield.
Perfect measurement
Experience shows that over time, an ERP system grows in a more or less controlled manner through extensions and modifications to the SAP standard, obsolete developments, data and customizing. This not only increases the complexity of the entire system landscape and has a negative impact on performance, but also makes simple release upgrades more difficult or even prevents the switch to S/4HANA.
CONSILIO's assessment packages bring light into the darkness by uncompromisingly revealing the system status. To do this, they cleverly combine queries and tools that allow system specialists to gain a detailed insight into the running system. The workload monitor (ST03N), for example, shows which transactions users have used over a three-month period. SCMON, SUSG/UPL go even deeper by monitoring the execution of ABAP code in a production system. This allows not only usage data to be recorded - i.e. how often a particular ABAP object was called - but also information on the associated business process. The optimal observation period here is 13 months, as this usually covers an entire fiscal year. The usage analysis is supplemented by readiness checks. They check the data, processes and functions of the existing SAP ERP system with regard to their S/4HANA suitability.
Additional Process Discoveries such as the Business Scenario Recommendation (BSR) identify the benefits of the transformation based on an industry comparison. Benchmarks are used to classify the processes in terms of their quality - from good to unsatisfactory, for example. The cause of unsatisfactory results is usually individual processes that do not meet the standard and drag down the values. Typical examples are unfinished documents that the system is now dragging along. While they do not directly impact profitability, they are potential cost drivers in the long run because they make it difficult to see the system and thus make digitization more difficult.
In addition, the Fiori Apps Recommendation Report (FAR Report) reveals which apps simplify or support business processes, the SAP Innovation and Optimization Pathfinder - as the name suggests - identifies optimization potential, and the Custom Code Audit checks the compatibility of code developed in-house and enhancements to objects.
Tailor-made
The CONSILIO specialists then evaluate the collected data in a results report. It then provides a clear direction for a transformation strategy that suits the company. The analysis phase is flanked by business process workshops. Here, the consultants and the company's experts delve into the results of the analysis. The discussions here focus on new strategies as well as short, medium and long-term added value and innovations that can be achieved through the transformation to S/4HANA.
The level of detail of the follow-up depends on the selected assessment package. CONSILIO's portfolio comprises three packages, which are based on the complexity of the system landscape on the one hand and differ in terms of scope and depth of consulting on the other. The precision of the evaluation therefore increases considerably from the Smart to Excellence package - from a rough overview to a detailed draft for the changeover. With the Smart package, the consultants focus exclusively on the critical points, whereas with the Extended package they dive one layer deeper and with the Excellence package right to the bottom. The assessment packages allow users to take a look at their system landscape, the depth of which they can determine themselves. This not only gives them a realistic assessment of their starting position, but also a recommendation for the customized transformation strategy with the best price-performance ratio.
Solid basis for decision-making
CONSILIO's assessment packages offer companies a quick and comparatively inexpensive way to determine which strategy they should follow when switching to S/4HANA. However, they should always take into account the limits of the various packages. The Smart and Extended variants provide a more or less rough insight into the company's own system landscape and thus enable the modeling of a high-level roadmap including a project plan and a price indicator for the transformation. The two packages are therefore particularly suitable for users who want a general orientation for the time being, but want to go into varying degrees of depth.
Typical candidates for the Excellence package, on the other hand, are companies that are struggling with their system and are no longer satisfied. They need an insight down to the smallest detail in order to make the right decision, as the most cost-intensive route to S/4HANA may be indicated here, the greenfield approach. After all, almost no stone is left unturned during the new implementation.
CONSILIO's assessment packages reveal the system status without compromise. To do this, they cleverly combine queries and tools that allow system specialists to gain a detailed insight into the running system.
