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Unlock the value of the age of intelligence

Welcome to
The Age of Intelligence

It’s one thing to create, shape, and scale a business

for the digital economy. But achieving market dominance
requires an entirely different set of skills. Now more
than ever, companies must closely tie customer data
to operations in a closed loop that rapidly refines and
redefines the customer experience.
Incumbents often gain the upper hand if they move quickly and intelligently,
leveraging their existing data and operational scale. However, this is only
possible when running on a foundation that enables real-time business
and immediate insight to action.

Just when most companies have finally mastered the art and science of
being data-informed, a more powerful movement is beginning to shake up
the world of data, processes, transactions, and revenue generation: the
intelligent enterprise.

An intelligent enterprise goes beyond using data to inform or measure.

It also adds intelligent technologies, such as artificial intelligence, to acquire
the vision, agility, and speed necessary to automate processes, impress
customers, empower employees, and create new revenue streams.

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As the established, century-old leader in the window coverings
industry, Hunter Douglas is leveraging its vast history and experience.
By consolidating and re-platforming its information with a single,
intelligent ERP system based on SAP S/4HANA®, this global brand is
removing the barriers of highly customized systems and siloed data.
At over 90 years old, Hoerbiger is still finding new ways to optimize the
maintenance of its far-flung sites and enhance its billing and customer
services. This industrial manufacturer is making its processes more
proactive and seamless by using SAP S/4HANA to capture and analyze
data generated from its compression technology. (See Figure 1.)

Hunter Douglas improved its customer experience and delivery
performance by overcoming the unpredictable nature of offering
custom products. By constantly refining its models and processes,
the company eliminated the risk of inventory shortages and overages
making them more nimble, faster, and proactive.
With SAP S/4HANA firmly in place as a digital core, Hoerbiger is fueling its
operational units with real-time analytics through cloud-based dashboards.
By pulling data from the ERP suite without storing it in the cloud, the
company can now react to change instantly because it runs on live data.
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Invoice sent to
Billing the customer

2
1 Usage data flows
Katerra is a vertically-integrated construction company capturing Customer uses to SAP S/4HANA
data from land lots, crew members, materials, and finished projects. gas compressor
Moving from their initial startup deployment of NetSuite, Katerra built
SAP® Cloud
an intelligent enterprise based on SAP S/4HANA to scale its processes 4 Platform

for business growth and demand. Performance

parameters flow to
SAP® Cloud Platform
This decision allowed Katerra to optimize the design and construction
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of its multifamily buildings, track employee productivity, and improve
Algorithm
project performance and quality. And more importantly, the company Maintenance determines
6 machine is
is completing apartment refurbishment projects within two weeks,
Service ticket allows underperforming
compared to the industry standard of two months. mobile and offline access
SAP Cloud for Customer

Figure 1: Digital Core Model Connecting Billing and Maintenance Processes

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The Future Is Here
for Those Who Take Action
Compared to the competition, your business might be running
in slow motion. But as an intelligent enterprise, your business
could stay on pace by:
• Differentiating your business models with machine learning
• Boosting productivity with an award-winning and agile user experience
• Empowering new revenue growth with real-time information and
predictive analytics
• Accelerating time to value with built-in best practices
• Simplifying your IT landscape to eliminate batch processing,
latency, unreliable data, and workarounds
• Reducing IT costs and redeploying resources to focus more on
strategic pursuits

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Momentum of Customer Adoption
for SAP S/4HANA
Join thousands of customers already taking advantage of
SAP S/4HANA, as well as the tens of thousands more that
are starting their deployment of the next-generation ERP suite.
(Figure 2) As a result of their efforts, they are advancing ERP
capabilities to build the foundation they need to connect data;
automate critical functions; and improve products, services,
processes, and business models.

Whether you choose to deploy SAP S/4HANA on premise

or in the cloud, we can help deliver substantial improvement
in terms of performance, speed, and control. Our tools and
services are continuously refined and optimized to help ensure
a clear transition to SAP S/4HANA that is nondisruptive and,
above all, empowering for your workforce.

As a result, your business can:

• Lower total cost of implementation and
ownership with increased standardization
• Accelerate time to value
• Reduce risk significantly
• Optimize speed and cost of delivery with full 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
alignment between SAP and our partners
• Define the path for your transition to
SAP S/4HANA – on premise and in the cloud Figure 2: The Momentum of Customer Adoption of SAP S/4HANA (2015–2018)

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The Intelligent Enterprise
Starts at the Digital Core
Start with SAP S/4HANA to create end-to-end intelligent processes
across all lines of business and industries, take the next leap in
automation of key functions, and move first with the latest machine
Digital
learning capabilities. (See Figure 3.) Core
Manufacturing People
and Supply Chain Engagement
This approach gives businesses a distinct edge in connecting data;
automating key functions; and creating new opportunities to innovate, Network
Customer and Spend
lead, and adapt. The digital tactics that enable these opportunities Experience Management
include artificial intelligence and machine learning, next-generation
capabilities and agile process standardization, and as well as a digital
core and future-proof platform. (See Figure 4.)

Figure 3: SAP S/4HANA Is Designed for the Age of Intelligence

Use intelligent automation, insight, and prediction to allow

resources to focus on more strategic work and anticipate
1 Artificial intelligence and machine learning
customer needs to deliver a richer experience.

Next-generation capabilities Simplify and redefine processes to support business capabilities

2 and industry best practices that were not previously available in a legacy user experience.

Tie experience data to your operations in a digital core that

3 Digital core and future-proof platform
seamlessly integrates SAP Leonardo into your business.

Figure 4: Digital Strategies for Unleashing Intelligent Capabilities

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Impact on IT and Business

EXAMPLES OF IT IMPACT EXAMPLES OF BUSINESS IMPACT

50%
Decrease in hardware costs
30%
Lower inventory levels
“Removing the
with a smaller system size

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constraints of a
highly customized
system enables us

75% 40%
to better respond
to fast-changing
Less waste
business models.”
Fewer servers, which lowered IT
support costs by 17% when moving Jennifer Buko
80 subsidiary instances of SAP ERP Director of Business Transformation
Central Component to one digital Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
core running on SAP S/4HANA
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SAP S/4HANA Use Cases
Simplification, Automation, and Machine Learning in Action

Streamline financial closing with intelligent GR/IR account reconciliation

Before SAP S/4HANA

Many manual, ad hoc coordination cycles are required to clear off
problematic purchase orders. As a result, the business burns a lot of time
and resources, delays end-of-period closing, and experiences a negative
impact on profit and loss.
Intelligent monitoring of goods receipt and invoice receipt (GR/IR) provides
real-time and centralized insights on purchase orders (POs). It also uses
machine learning to accurately recommend the best next step accountants
should take to process POs with discrepancies. This process significantly
improves efficiency and accelerates end-of-period closing.

Accounting

Buying History of Recommendations of the

Center
GR/IR postings best action for PO items
Manual gathering
of information

Root-cause
investigation

Offline alignment Other

Accounts and communication Machine Learning
Receivable
Ad hoc reports
creation Recommendation of the best
POs with mismatched GR and IR action to address problematic POs

Logistics

Suppliers

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Reduce risks and liability with intelligent tax compliance automation

Before SAP S/4HANA

To ensure compliance and avoid costly penalties, this resource-intensive
process calls for the periodic download, consolidation, and analysis
of massive amounts of tax-related data and transactions across various
systems and entities.
The SAP Tax Compliance application reduces risks by enabling intelligent
process automation for complete and ongoing monitoring of tax-related
information from multiple sources. The application uses machine learning
and predictive analytics for verification, remediation, and documentation
of any tax compliance issue.

Missed
compliance
deadlines High level of
personal and
corporate
liability
Automated triggering
Connect data sources of migration and
SAP Third Party auditable documentation

Manual
error Check
handling Repository
Accounts
Receivable Machine Learning

Exceptions Identification of incorrect

Tax-Compliance Hits
Infrequent posting and continuous correction
monitoring
and visibility
Risk of
significant
penalties

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Simplify legal transactions with intelligent contracting

Before SAP S/4HANA

Legal content is scattered among many different formats and applications
including e-mails, physical papers, shared drives, and multiple third-party
systems. The lack of digitalization, centralization, and harmonization incurs
poor governance, delays, and risks for the company.
The SAP S/4HANA solution for legal content is transforming the way
contracts are requested, managed, and controlled. It offers full traceability
of obligations, approvals, signatures, and responsibilities. All content
is easily discoverable, reusable, and adaptable – making audits easier
and automating reviews and approvals.

Intellectual
E-Filling Property
Management
Enterprise
E-Billing Content
Management
Legal Hld Legal Cases
and Matters
eDISCOVERY Contract E-Mails Policies Litigation
and Claims
Compliance
and Risk
Lifecycle ERP
E-Courtroom CRM
SRM SAP S/4HANA® for
E-Mails Workflows Legal Legal Content Management
Legal Legal
and Approvals Options in
Quote Various Formats
Knowledge on
Shared Drives
Knowledge on
Shared Portals

Document to cash
Management
Enterprise
Procure
Knowledge Information
to Pay
Management Management

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Intelligent Supply Chain

Before SAP S/4HANA

Lack of seamless connection and real-time visibility across internal With a single embedded platform, real time-visibility is achieved across
and external operations in the supply chain causes delays and inaccuracy the enterprise. As a result, customer promises are kept, production and
as well as inventory excess. purchasing are optimized, changes are managed quickly, inventory levels
are reduced, and operations are faster.

Accurate Real-Time
Real-Time Agile Production Integrated
Delivery Inventory
MRP and Purchasing Warehousing
Promise Management

Unclear Unaware Supplier Inventory Disparate

Delivery MRP Disconnect Overages warehousing
Ranges

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Get Ready to Move to SAP S/4HANA
With Clarity and Without Disruption

Businesses that move to an intelligent platform, powered by SAP S/4HANA, gain critical advantages over their
competitors. With SAP by your side, you can unlock such business value with a seamless, clearly mapped transition
to a digital core of intelligence and connectedness.

Start your journey to SAP S/4HANA with four steps:

Define your strategy Make your case Consider your options Build your future
Plan the engagement Determine where and Create your deployment plan Find the best practices that
and get executive buy-in how ROI will be realized can ensure business success

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Define Your Strategy
Every business has their unique set of goals and challenges
when considering the adoption of SAP S/4HANA. Our goal is
to help you move to SAP S/4HANA with clarity and in the most Three Starting Points to Move to SAP S/4HANA
undisruptive way possible.

We want you to feel empowered through the entire Self-Guided Planning

process – from planning to consideration to execution
Use self-guided planning tools to discover
and adoption – with the right options, tools, and services
the value of SAP S/4HANA.
such as self-guided planning, adoption starter engagement,
and value discovery engagement.

With our expertise, you can get answers to critical questions

such as:
• Which tools are available to support my planning needs?
• What role should be team play during the planning phase?
• How much involve from SAP is needed?
Adoption Starter Engagement
Get the guidance to understand your path
to SAP S/4HANA. Every customer with a valid
SAP support agreement can join SAP S/4HANA
Adoption Starter Engagement for free.

Value Discovery Engagement

Engage in guided planning with SAP experts
at your site to prepare for SAP S/4HANA
or Intelligent Enterprise projects.

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Make Your Case

IT and line-of-business organizations can gain personalized guidance by choosing

one or a combination of three offerings, which are free to SAP customers.

Business Scenario
Recommendations for SAP S/4HANA SAP Transformation Navigator SAP Readiness Check

Identify business processes that can help
you improve and discover new business
capabilities.
This personalized report shows you
exactly the processes you use today
that will improve with SAP S/4HANA.
www.s4hana.com
See your road map to SAP S/4HANA,
covering each component of your current
IT landscape.
The tool generates a report based on
your current use of SAP solutions or
existing capabilities that are still wanted.
www.sap.com/transformationnavigator
Learn the technical requirements and
actions for converting your IT system to
SAP S/4HANA.
Results from tools are based on
configuration and usage data for customers
running SAP ERP Central Component 6.x.
www.sap.com/readinesscheck

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Consider Your Options
To optimize your path to SAP S/4HANA, we can help match your business objectives to the transition
option and destination that deliver the outcomes you want. (See Figure 5)

You can identify your business priorities and transition options by using either the SAP Transformation
Navigator or SAP Readiness Check tool. Then, your transformation efforts can be defined with the ready-
to-run, preconfigured solutions offered through SAP Model Company services, which covers more than
14 industries and 10 lines of business.

With this approach, the deployment of SAP S/4HANA is accelerated by as much as 50% – no matter
if you decide to undergo a new implementation or convert your existing ERP system.

BUSINESS OBJECTIVES TRANSITION OPTIONS DESTINATION OPTIONS

Business Model Innovation

New SAP S/4HANA
Implementation Cloud

Business Process Optimization

SAP S/4HANA
System
including SAP HANA®
Conversion Enterprise Cloud and
ERP Rapid Modernization hyperscalers

Figure 5: Customers Plan Their Journey to SAP S/4HANA by Building Their Technical and Business Cases

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The Road to a New Implementation
Customers often consider a new implementation of SAP S/4HANA to return
to standardized business processes and adopt leading best practices.
This strategy presents not only an opportunity to perform at a higher level,
but also set the foundation to address future needs with greater ease.
No matter the size of your business or the industry you serve, we can
streamline the implementation experience by offering tools, content,
and services such as:
• SAP Best Practices: Access detailed plans for specific best practices
in defined industries and lines of business to configure SAP software and
establish business practices that can be imported into SAP S/4HANA.
• SAP-qualified packaged solutions: Customize and configure
SAP S/4HANA and deploy applications and add-ons that complement
the implementation by tapping into a library of over 800 preconfigured
business processes.
• Data migration services: Use preconfigured migration objects to
load necessary master data and transactional data of all complexities,
while applying defined rules for data transformation.
• Integration advisor services: Simplify the creation and maintenance
of integration content through a combination of machine learning and
crowdsourcing capabilities.
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Conversion of Existing ERP Systems
Another path to deploying SAP S/4HANA is to convert your SAP ECC
6.x system directly. Doing so allows you to adopt additional digital
capabilities as your needs evolve and business grows, while preserving
your investments in configuration and customization.
To help smooth the conversion process and minimize disruption,
SAP has introduced an efficient set of tools including:
• Software Update Manager: Realize expected outcomes with
minimal downtime by supporting IT tasks such as software
maintenance, SAP system migration to another database,
and add-on installation.
• ABAP test cockpit: Correct ABAP programming language
in custom code to reestablish the compatibility of new data
models and APIs with SAP S/4HANA and check performance
to reveal poorly performing custom code.
• Obsolete data handling: Test and validate conversion results
to clean up outdated data and reduce the memory footprint of
SAP S/4HANA.
Build Your Future
With SAP by your side, you can chart the future success of your business with confidence
by considering three fundamental aspects of your move to SAP S/4HANA.
1. Plan your implementation project
Whether you are migrating a previous ERP system from SAP or
a third party, you should consider streamlining and harmonizing
your business processes and moving closer to standard. Many
SAP customers choose to undergo a new implementation
instead of a conversion for exactly this reason.
Legacy IT systems often grow more complex due to a series
of upgrades, addition of new functionality, or integration with
other applications. Over time, certain types of data may become
irrelevant and software may be unused, even though they are still
included in the landscape.
When migrating from SAP ERP, you can use SAP Readiness
Check to generate a list of custom objects and your usage
history. This tool helps you understand whether specific
functionalities are part of the software standard, relied on by
the business, or rarely used. Then SAP Model Company enables
the opportunity to discover the standard for SAP S/4HANA and
perform a fit-gap analysis between the two systems within days,
not months.
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2. S
 elect your preferred implementation partner
The decision to engage SAP or an SAP partner is entirely your own.
With SAP and our implementation partners, you benefit from years
of expert industry and line-of-business know-how co-developed into
SAP Model Company services, plus a standardized and aligned
implementation methodology.
3. Determine the degree of involvement from
the vendor
From being your software vendor to becoming your service partner,
SAP stands by your side to help ensure the success of your turnkey
transformation and the realization of the full potential of your
investment in SAP S/4HANA.
The decision is yours. You have the freedom to choose which level of
involvement of SAP is needed to help ensure your implementation is
successful, safeguarded, and value-assuring.
In case you choose SAP as your only go-to vendor, we deliver the SAP
Advanced Deployment service, which provides a factory-like, packaged
bundle with defined scope and outcomes from the start of the project
to go-live support. When choosing a partner from the ecosystem, SAP
ensures that partners deliver within SAP standards by using proper
accelerators and methodologies, and a governance framework.
 Planning
Plan your project with confidence and assess business
and IT impact
SAP Readiness Check
• Assess functional aspects
such as simplification
items and recommended
SAP Fiori® apps
• Consider technical
options including
system sizing, software
prerequisites, and
business warehouse
extractors
Custom Code
Adapt custom code efficiently while simplifying the
removal of obsolete code.
ABAP Test Cockpit
• Deliver a new user
interface with analytics
• Reduce effort by 60%
with a quick fix mode
• Consider suggestions
for the removal of
obsolete code
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Deployment
Move data from SAP and third-party systems and convert
legacy ERP applications to SAP S/4HANA
Maintenance Planner SAP S/4HANA Migration Software Update Manager
• Define product Cockpit •C
 overt legacy ERP
maintenance • Migrate data for business applications to SAP
dependencies operations to the new SAP S/4HANA, including
• Generate configuration or third-party system on related data
stack files premise or in the cloud •R
 educe system outage
• Download software • Apply ready-to-use drastically with a
archives migration objects downtime-optimized
• Eliminate programming with conversion approach
autogenerate mappings
• Use migration object
modeler for unique object
Integration
Simplify business-to-business integration with predefined
integration content.
SQL Monitoring SAP Cloud Platform Integration Advisor
• Undergo a comprehensive • Use machine learning and • Tailor interfaces for specific
custom-code crowdsourcing industry, region, and
performance check • Generate proposals for business context
•D
 etect critical integration and mapping •R
 educe integration effort
performance hot spots by as much as 60%
Let’s Move Together
to SAP S/4HANA
With SAP S/4HANA deployed at the core of the IT landscape,
your business can optimize operations, fuel continuous
The future is here
engagement, and enable business-wide collaboration.
But first, these achievements require a series of deliberate
for those who take action
decision-making focused on simplifying the IT landscape
and increasing business agility.

With the assistance of the SAP S/4HANA Movement

program, you can access our portfolio of smart migration
tools and powerful partner ecosystem to understand
business needs, weed out unnecessary complexity, and Simpler IT Increased
connect every aspect of your operations. This structured landscape business agility
approach helps reduce deployment costs by as much as
50% while accelerating time to value.

Most of all, the best part of running such an intelligent

deployment of SAP S/4HANA is the opportunity to seize
new revenue streams, create new market opportunities,
and mitigate risks faster than you ever thought possible. Smart migration tools Up to 50% savings Faster time
and powerful partner with structured to value
ecosystem approach
Learn More
Learn more about the SAP S/4HANA Movement
programby contacting your SAP representative or
visit sap.com/jointhemovement.

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 SAP S/4HANA Adoption Starter Engagement
The adoption-starter, guided-enablement, and self-service tools create
the initial implementation plan for SAP S/4HANA, including benchmarking,
value assessment, and migration strategy.
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Intelligent Enterprise Value Discovery Engagement

The SAP- and partner-led service showcases the role of SAP S/4HANA
in the Intelligent Enterprise, such as user experience and machine
learning, and key opportunities in today’s era of industry transformation.

SAP S/4HANA Value Discovery Engagement

The SAP-led service offers more in-depth migration plan
for SAP S/4HANA based on business needs, expected value,
potential costs, time frame, and ROI.

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