It pays off to choose an SAP S/4HANA assessment

Regardless of the customer's size, there are certain aspects that are common across all assessments. All the deliverables in our S/4HANA assessment are aimed at achieving tangible cost savings during the actual request for proposal (RFP) and project phases:​

• The S/4HANA project will be efficient, as the majority of decisions are made during the assessment phase.
• The future scope of the S/4HANA​ implementation will be well-defined and aligned with relevant business requirements.
• You will get a comprehensive understanding of how to integrate or replace other systems as part of our assessment process.
• Our assessment enables a better fit with the RFP, allowing implementation partners to provide accurate estimations without the need for risk margins in unclear areas.​

Based on the chosen S, M, or L package, the following deliverables are achieved through efficient workshops facilitated by professionals using readymade templates:

1. Project plan for assessment
2. Business requirements
3. S/4HANA Business Impact Assessment
4. The technical ability to implement S/4HANA through SAP readiness check, SCMON / UPL monitoring, custom code analyses and a technical view to required changes
5. Future solution architecture including mandatory changes needed for achieving business requirements and business value impacts
6. Process reviews and recommendations for changes: L1, L2, and L3 process documentation of the SAP use with S/4HANA
7. RFP documentation for S/4HANA scope and requirements
8. S/4HANA project implementation approach and roadmap (Greenfield, BLUEFIELD™ vs Brownfield) including data migration complexity views
9. S/4HANA project governance model
10. S/4HANA project cost estimate
11. S/4HANA project qualitative business case, which showcases the value of SAP S/4HANA innovations​ for future strategic capabilities
12. Final project report

One of our success stories last year was the SAP S/4HANA assessment carried out for Valio, a large dairy & food manufacturer and distribution company with wholesale operations in Finland, Sweden, USA, the Baltics and China.

S/4HANA assessement for Valio

Valio needed well defined scope and initial solution for their S/4HANA journey. We helped customer and delivered four months long S/4HANA assessment for the main process areas.

Challenge

• Business critical SAP ERP 6.0 systems for manufacturing, internal logistics, outbound logistics, wholesale, procurement, plant maintenance and finance required well defined target state for SAP S/4HANA journey.
• End of maintenance of SAP ERP 2027-2030
• Need to merge several ERPs and harmonize operations
• IT seen as key contributor for efficient operations for traceability, wholesale, logistics and manufacturing

Solution

• We conducted 4 months long S/4HANA assessment for the main process areas:
  • Order to Cash
  • Demand to Supply
  • Procure to Pay
  • Finance
  • Plant Maintenance
    
    
• To define future scope and initial S/4HANA solution and most important integration to other systems
• Evaluation of possible implementation approaches (Brownfield, BLUEFIELD™, Greenfield)

Key benefits

• As-Is solutions, customer requirements and S/4HANA capabilities “merged” as
  • To-Be S/4HANA scope and main integrations to other systems
  • Implementation approach and roadmap
    
    
• Clear scope and implementation approach for RFP phase
• Customer learned Tietoevry capabilities and way of working
• Target scope and roadmap defined for S/4HANA journey
• Ready RFP documentation for potential suppliers
• Business case created together
• Project governance model