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Transform Research and Development withSAP S/4HANA®
S/4HANA
Update 1610
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White Paper Backgroundand Key Definitions
The information outlined below is helpful to understand the contents
of this value proposition white paper. It gives clear details on the objective
and scope of the paper. Key definitions are also provided for select sections
of the paper to provide further clarification.
DELIVERABLE OBJECTIVE
Provides information on the value in moving from an ERP on a traditional database to SAPS/4HANA® and cloud and line-of-business (LoB) solutions
KEYDEFINITIONS
Within the process and sub-process deep-dives, there is detailed content in table format articulating the following:
Pain Points
Major customer business and IT challenges
Current State With ERP On Traditional Database ERP capabilities that are available on a traditionaldatabase
SAP S/4HANACapabilitiesCapabilities shipped with the latest release of SAP S/4HANA
Cloud And LoB Extension EnhancementsAll other solutions that can be integrated with SAP S/4HANA and provide business value. For example, SAP S/4HANA and the SAP Integrated Business Planning solution, or SAP S/4HANA and the SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence(SAP MII) application. These solutions are notembedded in SAP S/4HANA, but integration scenarios exist for these.
2017 – Planned Innovations*New functionalities planned for 2017 release of SAP S/4HANA or new integration possibilities planned with this release.
With the value proposition section, all quantified benefits are conservative, estimated improvement ranges tied to the top value drivers. They are based on early adopters or new developments and enhancements of SAP S/4HANA and LoBand cloud enhancements that can drive value. Keep in mind that these should be used as a guide. We recommend working together to assess your current maturity and the value of moving to SAP S/4HANA in order to develop a personalized business case.
*Detailed road map available on SAP.com
(customer login required)
This document and SAP’s strategy and possible future developments are subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time for any reason without notice. This document is provided without a warranty of any kind, either express or implied, included but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement.
Last Update
SAP S/4HANA 1610 release. All updates made to the deep-dive process sections as compared to the SAP S/4HANA 1511 white paper are italicized
Business Benefits
Key value drivers that are impacted with SAP S/4HANA shipment and cloud and LoB capabilities.
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Agenda
SAP S/4HANA Research and DevelopmentCapability and Value Proposition Overview 4
Enterprise Portfolio and Project Management Deep-Dive* 9
Integrated Product Development Deep-Dive* 12
Value Proposition 16
Customer References 17
*Any updates vis-a-vis SAP S/4HANA 1511 paper are italicized in the deep-dive sections
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TRANSFORM YOUR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT WITH SAP S/4HANA
SAP S/4HANA Research and Development Overview
A successful research and development (R&D) department brings new designs to life with speed and accuracy based on market, customer, and quality insights. R&D prepares the downstream departments to manufacture, sell, and service products with high quality and low cost while continuously iterating designs to create more profitable, desirable, and reliable products. Digital tools are needed for rapid design-prototype-test iterations to foster a “fail fast and fail cheap” approach. There is also pressing need to simplify the complexity in downstream processes such as manufacturing, service, and sales to execute a “lot size of one.” An intelligent, integrated, and visual product innovation platform is essential for efficient product development, faster time to market, and fundamentally better initiative success rates.
With SAP S/4HANA as the digital core, customers can iteratively and more collaboratively build a foundation of requirements-driven smart products that are brought to the market faster with full compliance and a wide range of configurations and variants. SAP S/4HANA Research and Developmentallows companies to gain live visibility into idea pipeline, portfolio prioritization, project actuals versus budget, new product design, development history, engineering changes, and finally phase-out.
VolvoImplementing a resource management process based on SAP HANA® allowed Volvo to gain insights into the demand and supply of development resources for current and new development projects across the entire organization.
“Implementing SAP® Portfolio and Project Management has greatly improved project and resource control for Volvo.”
Stéphane Perrin, Director of Product and Project Management Solutions, Volvo Group
Varian Medical SystemsVarian Medical systems, a leading
manufacturer of medical devices,
leverages the SAP Product Lifecycle
Management (SAP PLM) application to
plan, forecast, and execute its product
development projects. It achieves a high
degree of standardization and efficiency
to support a globally distributed product
development environment.
“The SAP 3D Visual Enterprise applications have reduced the time to create complex training materials from a week down to two days. It also provides a higher level of engagement and technical understanding for our product engineering groups. Overall, we are pleased with the business benefits of the SAP 3D Visual Enterprise applications.”
Snehashish Sarkar, Director, Enterprise Wide IT Engineering Applications, Varian Medical Systems
Ideation and Concept Development
Portfolio and Project Management
Product Development
ComplianceManagement
• Innovation campaigns running inside and outside the enterprise
• Repository for ideas and feedback for development-to-concept stage
• Respond quickly to customer inquiries and requirements
• Coordinate resources across a project’s lifecycle
• Use performance metrics to make informed decisions
• Support for product, service, and asset lifecycles
• Reuse existing components and recipes
• Do costing simulations• Manage change-
controlled structures and variants
• Hand over to manufacturing and service, with full design authoring tool integration
• Design products keeping material, global, regional, and industry compliance
• Prepare quality and safety sheets for downstream use
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SAP S/4HANA RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT VALUE PROPOSITION SUMMARY
SAP S/4HANA enables companies to integrate, embed intelligence, and visualize the entire R&D process from idea, to product, to production, to service, and disposal. Connected and individualized products can be developed with full compliance and shorter time to market.
SAP S/4HANA Research and Development Overview
• Run design processes on live insights into customer
needs and market opportunities
• Perform multilevel “what if” analyses with predictive
insights to drive better design decisions
• Analyze live performance of the project portfolio with
predictive insights at any stage of the innovation process
• Simplify access to project information for stakeholders
and team members with the ability to drill down
• Define and analyze product costs and manage all
engineering changes effectively along the lifecycle
• Create a platform as the single digital backbone of
product master data for internal and external
collaborations across the enterprise
• Provide connected design capabilities, integrating
requirements, mechanics, electronics, software
components, and simulation, as well as synchronizing
all downstream product development needs
internally and externally
• Manage flexible, high-performing, and ease-of- use
configuration and classification for product
individualization
• Integrate and validate compliance requirements in the
development process and manage product declarations
as part of the product properties for all variants across
the product supply chain and lifecycle
• Plan and communicate resource demand to match
available resources in the long and short term
• Simplify decision making and processes across the
enterprise for manufacturing, service, and
marketing through intuitive visualization
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RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT (R&D) CAPABILITIESOutlined below are the primary capabilities for research and development where value can be achieved through SAP
S/4HANA and SAP cloud and LoB solutions.
Enterprise Portfolio and Project Management
• Portfolio management
• Project management
• Commercial project management#
• Project financials control
• Project logistics control
• Idea management*
• Resource management
Integrated Product Development
• Product development
• Production bill of materials (BOM) management
• Product compliance
• Recipe development
• Handover to manufacturing
• Authoring tool integration*
• Product costing*
• Variant configuration
*Requires additional products integrating with SAP S/4HANA#Managing customer-specific ETO (Engineer-To-Order) projects typically in industrial machinery and components (IM&C), aerospace and defense (A&D), and automotive industries
SAP S/4HANA Research and Development Overview
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SCENARIO: MANAGING RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS SAP S/4HANA provides reengineered and simplified business processes that can yield significant benefits, transforming the execution from multi-step, batch-driven processes with latency in terms of key performance indicators to real-time processes with actionable insights.
SAP Portfolio and Project Management for SAP S/4HANA
Project-related information is distributed across various ERP applications. Details are lost due to aggregation and replication.
An intuitive user experience on any device, providing a single, consolidated source of the truth for all project-related information at the lowest level of granularity.
Traditional ERP
SAP S/4HANA
Aggregation
Out of Sync!
Financial Accounting
Human Resources
Procurement
Product Lifecycle
Aggregation
Cross-Project Reporting
Project/Program Manager Uses Multiple Screens And Reports
No Details
One Single Point of Entry Real-time Cross-project Analysis
Direct Access To Granular Information
Financial Accounting
Human Resources
ProcurementProduct Lifecycle
SAP S/4HANA Research and Development Overview
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Typical Pain Points Current State With ERP On Traditional Database
SAP S/4HANAEnhancements
2017 Planned Innovations
Business Benefits
Enterprise Portfolio and Project Management Deep-Dive
• Ability to collect ideasacross the enterprise.The impact analysis is
run by means of a batch process
• Visibility into complete project portfolio, profitability,
and investment structure. Planning, progress, roll-up,
analysis, andsimulation are done in batch runs
• Increased revenue from new products
• Increased likelihood of
new products meeting revenue margin targets
• Innovation campaigns run in the enterprise; Live expert
collaboration and voting for ideas. Discovery of promising
ideas and handover to a stage-gate-driven portfolio process
(SAP Innovation Management solution)
• Live tracking of financial project KPIs by leveragingSAP HANA® in-memory
technology
Cloud/LoB ExtensionEnhancements
(continued next page)
• Additional SAP HANA-based core data services views enable users to retrieve additional project-related information in real time and thus make adjustments in real time to achieve better performance of projects
• SAP S/4 HANA real-time project analytics for better product development decisions
• Role-based SAP Fiori® user interfaces (UIs) enable project managers and stakeholders to get started quickly and easily access accurate information about project progress and portfolio performance
• Inability to prioritize project portfolio and product development
decisions in alignment with corporate strategy
• Inability to collect and select relevant consumer-focused
ideas from across the enterprise
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Typical Pain Points Current State With ERP On Traditional Database
SAP S/4HANAEnhancements
Cloud/LoB Extension Enhancements
BusinessBenefits
• Delayed projectmilestones and missingdelivery of required
gate deliverables; inability to identify deviations until too late
• Lack of transparencyinto project resourcedemands and allocation
leads to project delaysand low resourceutilization
• Slow access to projectand task details reducesproductivity of project
management resources
• Stage-gate-drivenR&D projects alongwith scheduling give
project managementoperations transparent and
accurate view of true project status
• Capacity planning,detailed projectrole planning, and
project staffing in a single application
• SAP Fiori UIs for project management roles like program and project manager, resource manager, and project team members with embedded analytics to enable insight to action
• Project progress monitored in SAP Fiori-based project Gantt chart with system-guided navigation to critical project tasks
• Real-time access toresource availability, skill sets, and organizational
assignment during project staffing process
• SAP Fiori job scheduling app for project version for financial control
• Accelerated access to project and task details through SAP HANA in-memory technology
• Cross-application, multi-resource staffing and scheduling availability
(SAP MultiresourceScheduling application)
• Bidirectional
synchronization of project information with external scheduling tool
(SAP Enterprise Project Connection application)
Enterprise Portfolio and Project Management Deep-Dive
• Faster time to market
• Early identification of project deviations
• Increased portfolio and project management resource productivity
• Reduced R&D expense
• Better resource utilization
• Increased efficiency of
development teams
(continued next page)
2017 Planned Innovations
• SAP Fiori-based project status report to improve visibility into
project performance and monitoring of project milestones
• Seamless staffing and service procurement workflow with SAP SuccessFactors® and SAP Fieldglass® solutions, allowing for better utilization of project resources
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Typical Pain Points Current State With ERP On Traditional Database
SAP S/4HANAEnhancements
Cloud/LoB Extension Enhancements
Business Benefits
• Inability to reportproject costs andprocurement data
accurately increasesrisk of uncontrolleddeviations and waste
• Unsecured communication of project documents and product
sustainability data through unencrypted e-mails and other
communication channels
• Project financial and logistic information issometimes inaccurate
due to batch loadprocess; drill down not possible
• Secure projectdocument exchangewith partners,
suppliers, and customers
• Direct and accurate access to project financial and logistic information;
provides ability to drill down into details for project costs, resource
usage, and progress
• Easy access to project master data with new
SAP Fiori list reports and object pages
• Share and collaborate on project documents internally and externally
(with suppliers and customers) in a secure cloud environment
accessible anywhere, on any device (SAP Document Center solution)
• Reduced R&D expense
• Early identification of
project deviations
• Faster time to market
• Reduced R&D expense
• Work breakdown structure serves as basis for hierarchical
project accounting; actual project cost visibility by using
multiple applications
• Change the status of a work breakdown structure (WBS)
element through SAP Fiori apps; actual project cost visibility
by using one integrated application
• Reduced R&D expense
• Inability to plan project costs and budgets efficiently and track
actual versus planned costs leads to budget overruns
2017 Planned Innovations
• Simplified user interface to create and maintain project controlling structures and related accounting information
• Enhanced user interface for project structure and financial and logistics reporting (SAP Fiori UX)
• Integrated procurement processes with SAP Fieldglass solutions
• SAP Fiori-based project status report to improve visibility into project performance and monitoring of project milestones and actual costs
Enterprise Portfolio and Project Management Deep-Dive
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Typical Pain Points Current State With ERP On Traditional Database
SAP S/4HANAEnhancements
Cloud/LoB Extension Enhancements
Business Benefits
Integrated Product Development Deep-Dive
• Inability to bringconsumer-drivenproduct offeringsto market in a timely mannerleads to low brand equity andstagnant growth
• Inability to use existingknowledge or leverageexternal partnershipsleads to inefficiency
• Inability to plan andmanage engineeringchange leads to highdownstream costs
• Inability to identifyreasons and/or reduce unsuccessful product initiatives
• Product-relateddocuments managedand linked to ERP
master data throughout the end-to-end process
• Context-sensitive
analytics
• Ability to releaseengineering changes
for a unique lot number and release date
• Increased revenuefrom new products
• Reduced engineering
change cost
• Faster time to market
• Higher gross margin
• Searchabledevelopment history to increase reuse or
decrease time and investment indevelopment efforts
that go nowhere
• Increased profitability from executing
engineering changeswith full knowledge of downstream costs
• Enhanced context-sensitive analytics provides instant transparency on live data
• Costs and otherdimensions calculated for new products in the early
stage of the product lifecycle to quickly identify cost drivers and
easily simulate and compare alternatives(SAP Product Lifecycle
Costing solution)
• Cloud-enableddocument
management and collaborationaccessible
anywhere on any device (SAPDocument Center)
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2017 Planned Innovations
• Project and design network services help all internal and external
team members leverage a single digital backbone of product data
(SAP HANA Cloud Platform)
• Unified change
management with sophisticated workflow across all aspects:
mechanical, electronic, and software engineering
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Typical Pain Points Current State With ERP On Traditional Database
SAP S/4HANAEnhancements
Cloud/LoB Extension Enhancements
Business Benefits
• Lack of complete,integrated view of cyber-physical
products (completeview including smart product
aspects)
• Tests and simulations are not leveraged in the
early design phases
• Loss of information along the end-to-end process makes it
challenging to enable seamlessmanufacturing and
service
• Mechanical andelectrical disciplines are
integrated in end-to-end designprocess
• Bill of material androuting management
• Visual handover to
manufacturingsupporting bill ofmaterials (BOM),
routing, and visualwork instructions
• Simplified decisionmaking and processes for
manufacturing,service, and marketing through
intuitive visualization (SAP 3D Visual Enterprise
applications)
• Single multidiscipline product definition across the enterprise reduces
development errors
• Enhanced CAD integration based on the SAP Engineering Control Center integration tool with market-leading authoring tools to support cross-discipline product definition
• Management of embedded software versions
Integrated Product Development Deep-Dive
• Faster time to market
• Reduced engineer change cost
• Reduced fines and recalls due to non-compliance
• Reduced fines and recalls due to non-compliance
• Reduced manual rework in
manufacturing
• Reduced engineeringchange cost
(continued next page)
• SAP Fiori app to maintain multiple BOMs in an intuitive, easy-to-personalize UI leveraging enhanced analytics capabilities
• Compatibility assurance between parts of the product, the product, and the ecosystem
2017 Planned Innovations
• End-to-end 360-degree product view including requirements, mechanics,
electronics, software components, and simulation
• Project and design network services integrate into supplier and asset networks,
bridging the gap between engineering, manufacturing, and services
(SAP HANA Cloud Platform)
• Live multilevel BOM explosion
• Unified engineering and manufacturing BOM for cyber-physical products
(mechanical, electronic, or software)
• Requirement management
integration enables bi-direction information flow for a clear development direction
(SAP HANA Cloud Platform)
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Typical Pain Points Current State With ERP On Traditional Database
SAP S/4HANAEnhancements
Cloud/LoB ExtensionEnhancements
Business Benefits
• Inaccurate recipes for R&D, plant, and site lead to a breakdown of
enterprise processes:procurement, production,services, and compliance
• Lack of access to allcompliance obligations for product segment,
material, and markets,and inability to keep up todate with ever-changing
requirements leads to high effort, delayed go to market, fines, recalls, and
loss of brand equity
• Inability to connectdirectly with suppliers
and customers to receive and provide product sustainability information
• Integration withthe SAP Recipe Management
application
• Ability to access rules available in the ERP
instance for selected markets and product categories
• Product safety andstewardship solutionsautomate compliance
determination andembed compliancemetrics in the R&D
environment
• Accurate recipes for R&D, plant, and site by using different
recipe types (with recipe development)
• SAP Fiori-based UI apps
for recipe developers
• Ability to create,view, and editmultiple recipes
simultaneously
• Some key reports for margin control, such
as finding percentage of pure substance in all recipes, can be
run live
• Simplified,streamlined, andautomated product
compliance processes and embeddedcompliance in the
R&D environment(SAP Product Stewardship Network
and SAP EHS Regulatory Documentation
OnDemand content service)
• Reduced fines and recalls due to non-compliance
• Reduced scrap
• Increased gross margins
• Reduced compliancemanagement costs
• Reduced fines and recalls
due to non-compliance
(continued next page)
2017 Planned Innovations
• Target-driven, streamlined recipe development to optimize compliance process
• State-of-the-art formulation tool to guide product creation and data
maintenance
• Integration to cloud services for compliance checks and
declaration based on up-to-date data
New product compliance solution enabling real-time product compliance processes and analytics embedded into core business processes:
• Covering all product compliance processes, including product marketability and chemical compliance, safety data sheet and label management, and dangerous goods management
• Integrated into core end-to-end business processes
• State-of-the-art user experience
• Embedded content for simple content consumption
• Built on SAP HANA for superior analytics and performance
Integrated Product Development Deep-Dive
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Typical Pain Points Current State With ERP On Traditional Database
SAP S/4HANAEnhancements
Cloud/LoB Extension Enhancements
Business Benefits
• Handling configurationmodels is complex and costly
• Support ofconfigurations involving multi- discipline
definition for individualized products is challenging, labor-
intensive, and erroneous
• Variant configuration can be handled through the complete business
process (engineering, sales and distribution,planning, etc.)
• SAP HANA-optimized low-level configuration in
context of materialrequirements planning (MRP)
simplifies variant management
• Embedded analytics
for classification and configuration
• SAP Fiori UI for
classification
• Increased revenuefrom new products
• Faster time to market
2017 Planned Innovations
• New high-performance configuration engine as the key enabler in engineering,
manufacturing, sales, and beyond to manage a “lot size one”
• Flexible SAP Fiori-based UI for configuration and classification
• Simulation environment for bill of materials (BOMs) using SAP Fiori UX
• Solution proposals through digital assistance with improved user guidance, such as more precise values restriction
• Tight integration of the configure-price quote process
• Real-time added-value insights from combining business data with classification and variant configuration data, provided by predefined scenarios based on CDS (Core Data Services) views
Integrated Product Development Deep-Dive
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SAP S/4HANA Research andDevelopment Value Proposition
Strategy Enablement
Business Benefits
Risk Management
Employee Engagement
STRATEGY ENABLEMENT
RISK MANAGEMENT
BUSINESS BENEFITS
EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT
• 10–20% reduction in effort and touches to define and release individualized and market-specific product variants
• New business models possible, such as “as-a-service”
• 10–30% faster design process for smart product offerings
• 10–55% faster time to market with robustproduct data management processes
• 10–40% improvement in accuracy of engineering changes
• 10–50% faster responses to customer inquiries
• 20–80% reduction in reporting time for compliance visibility of BOM and recipe across the lifecycle
• More compliant products on the market and reduction in fines and recalls
• Initiative visibility – one source of the truth from R&D to production
• 10–20% increase in revenue from new products
• 2–5% reduction in direct material costs
• 20–30% reduction in R&D expenses
• Increased product profitability
• 10–20% reduction of manual rework in manufacturing because of incorrect or incompatible product configuration
• 15–20% more new products meeting revenue targets
• Development collaboration with internal and external partners
• Visual enablement across the enterprise, leading to improved decision making
• Improved accuracy of initiative book value and launch criteria
• Live planning, tracking, and monitoring of all deliverables and time-, cost-, and work-related aspects of projects
• Higher productivity and empowerment of R&D employeesthrough role-based SAP Fiori apps
• 70–80% faster management of project tasks
*Benefits are based on early adopters of SAP S/4HANA or conservative outside-in benefits due to moving from a traditional ERP to enhanced SAP S/4HANA
and LoB and cloud capabilities. As each enterprise is at a different level of maturity, our recommendation is to work with you to determine the value
proposition for your enterprise.
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VOLVO
Highlights
Implementing a resource management process
based on SAP HANA allowed Volvo to gain
insights into the demand and supply of
development resources for current and new
development projects across the entire
organization.
The scope was one central portfolio and project
management solution for 13,000 users,
including 1,100 project and resource managers,
across 24 sites and various business units
around the world. Research and development
costs were reduced by 30% as well as
reductions in project lead times.
Industry
Automotive
www.volvo.com
VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS
Highlights
Varian Medical systems, a leading manufacturer of
medical devices, leverages the SAP Product
Lifecycle Management (SAP PLM) application to
plan, forecast, and execute its product
development projects. It achieves a high degree of
standardization and efficiency to support a globally
distributed product development environment.
With SAP PLM, it replaced outdated 2D models with
3D models and visual work instructions that provide
a higher level of visual accuracy, understanding,
and user engagement for product and product
support engineers. Faster preparation (70%
faster, from one week to two days), delivery, and
consumption of detailed training material occurred
when moving from paper-based manuals to
interactive 3D deliverables.
Solution
SAP HANA and SAP 3D Visual Enterprise
Industry
High tech
www.varian.com
MERCEDES - AMG
Highlights
Mercedes-AMG needed real-time engine testing that leverages the Internet of Things (IoT). The company also wanted to identify engine quality improvement options using predictive analytics. It deployed the SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA to predict issues using SAP BusinessObjects™ Predictive Analysis and delivered test results to workers on tablets using the SAP BusinessObjects™ Business Intelligence platform for faster resolution.
• Dashboard to show engine failures and test results
in real time
• Higher testing capacity, helping reduce overall
capital expenditures
• Predictive analytics based on detailed sensor data,
enabling innovative scenario testing, optimized
development, and lower production costs
SolutionSAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA SAP BusinessObjects Predictive Analysis SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform
Industry
Automotive
www.mercedesamg.com
Customers Are Achieving Value from SAP
Solution
SAP HANA and SAP Portfolio and Project Management
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Your Path To SAP S/4HANA
Every enterprise is unique, with different starting points and end points. Whether you are starting as a net new implementation or digitizing an existing SAP landscape, SAP can help. We have been working with enterprises of all sizes and ¡n all industries. Based on the depth of this experience, SAP has a robust portfolio of services to help you define your road map to SAP S/4HANA.
Customer Engagement Methodology
No matter which path applies to your enterprise, SAP has a structured four-phased approach to ensure success – executive alignment, value discovery, validation and executive readiness, and value delivery.
For more details, please see the brochure Driving Value in a Digital Economy
Value Assurance Packages
Take advantage of SAP Value Assurance service packages for SAP S/4HANA to quickly and safely harness the power of next-generation software and in-memory processing.
For all value assurance packages and for the successful and seamless transition to SAP S/4HANA, please visit the link Transition to SAP S/4HANA.
SAP S/4HANA Road Map
With a three-year detailed road map, SAP gives customers the transparency to accelerate their transition to an SAP S/4HANA landscape – SAP S/4HANA Road Map.
Start Today With A Trial – SAP S/4HANA Trials
Additional R&D References
SAPinsider SAP S/4HANA Special Report
SAP S/4HANA blogs
Reimagine Business in the Digital Economy: Use Cases with SAP S/4HANANeed to Combine Hardware, Electronics and Software Data for Product Development
Infographics/slidesDevelop new products and services based on value-driven investment decisionsDesign Orchestration
VideosSAP Engineering Control Center: Connect Engineering to Your Enterprise
SAP S/4HANA demo videosSimplified Portfolio and Project Management with SAP S/4HANA
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