While many organizations are still running their ERP on SAP’s veteran platform – ECC, many others already completed their move to the newer S/4HANA platform. Having said that, for those who were early adopters and implemented the first major S/4HANA versions between 2015 to 2017, it’s time to upgrade. As SAP officially supports each S/4HANA version 5 years, these early versions (1511 to 1709) are already in end of life (EOL) mode. This imposes significant risks to organizations, as well as preventing them adopt newer SAP solutions and innovations introduced in the further S/4HANA versions.

1. Amit Garussi | VP Product, Change Intelligence
July 2022

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• Questions should be posted in the Chat
(we will cover them at the end)
• Session is recorded and will be available on demand
(e-mail with the link will be sent)
House Keeping

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• SAP S/4HANA Cadence
• Project Planning
• SAP Tools
• Key Success Factors
• Avoid Production Failures
• Introducing Innovation
• The Power of a Single Platform
Agenda

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S/4HANA Releases

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Release 1511 1610 1709 1809 1909 2020
SAP
S/4HANA
Material Ledger
Extended Warehouse
Management
Commercial Project
Management
Advanced Variant
Configuration
Group Reporting Predictive MRP
Extended Service
Parts Management
Unified General
Ledger
Constraint-Based
Planning (PPDS)
Portfolio + Project
Management
Transportation
Management
Central Procurement Product Compliance
Production Planning
Optimizer
Business Partner Advanced ATP
Production
Engineering &
Operations
Service Sales Force Support
Stockroom
Management
Direct Delivery
CRM SRM
SCM

7. Why Should I Care?
• End of Support
• 5 years mainstream support for every release (specific extended support is costly)
• Last FPS for every release is maintenance only (no innovations)
• 30% of SAP customers are on S/4HANA (EOL 2040)
• New Functionalities
• Introducing Innovation – Drove by IT/MIS organizations
• Proactive and leading IT/MIS approach
• Better support digital transformations
• Maximizing Value and Utilization of TCO
• ERP systems are critical, complicated, expensive
• Utilize the current costs (licenses, labor, PS etc.) – to the max
• Avoid Opening a Gap
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8. SomeKey Questions We’ll Answer in This Session
• How to pre-plan your S/4HANA upgrade project?
• How to manage a successful, on time and on budget project?
• How to avoid production failures due to the technical upgrade?
• How to identify and introduce new processes and innovation as part of the project?
• How to utilize a single platform to manage, simplify and accelerate all the project activities
(development corrections, testing and more)?
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Plan YourS/4HANA Upgrade Project
Approach
• Technical
• Functional
• Embedded (Fiori)
Scope Definition
• Move Standalone Systems
(CRM/SCM/SRM) to S/4HANA?
Any Gaps?
• Move Standalone Fiori to
Embedded Version (recommended
by SAP)?
• HANA Upgrade as well?
• Define Innovations per LoB
Plan
• Scope
• Timeline
• Budget
• Risks
• Communications
(all stakeholders)

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Innovation Activities
• What’s New Viewer
• Fiori App Library and/or Lighthouse
Scenario
• Innovation and Optimization
Pathfinder
• Value Map for BP Improvement and
Digital Innovation (Fiori)
SAP Tools to Consider/Use
Technical
Readiness
• SAP Readiness Check
Technical Activities
• SI (Delta) Catalog
• Upgrade Guide
• Custom Code Migration Guide
• Software Update Manager (SUM)
Fundamentals
• SAP Upgrade Roadmap Viewer

11. Don’t Forget (!)
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• Communication x3 – THIS IS THE KEY
• IT and Business
• From the very beginning
• C-Levels and Senior Management
• Extra Critical for Business Processes changes (deprecated transactions…)
• Validate the needed expertise before you kickoff the project
• SAP documentation and openSAP courses

12. Key Factors for Successful Project Management
• This is a risky project with many potential failure points
• Invest time in a thorough planning phase
• Build a project steering-committee (Business + IT)
• Nominate key business users
• Define communication channels (RACI etc.)
• Ensure you have the right platform/tools to work with E2E
• Reduce idle time by efficient stakeholders’ collaboration
• Consider project automations (testing and repetitive tasks)
• Ongoing monitoring of project plan/actual
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13. Avoid Production Failures
• Production failures are the nightmare of any project manager
• They can always happen, even following a detailed and profound planning
• Their criticality is based on their impact
• They can drive huge cost/loss for the business
• Build failures mitigation and contingency plans as part of the project risks management
• They can be avoided by using upgrade simulation tools and thorough project management
platforms such as Panaya
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14. Introducing Innovation
• As part of the project, IT may want to introduce innovations to the business
• This can bring major added value to many departments and different stakeholders
• Proof that it isn’t just a technical upgrade
• Use this opportunity to fine-tune the business suite with revised/improved processes
• Use SAP tools as Innovation and Optimization Pathfinder
• Free report
• Interactive with “tailored” recommendations
• Introduce process enhancements and business transformation (Fiori, Cloud Extensions)
• Compare yourself to others
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15. Single Platform as The Source ofTruth
• Single source of truth is the cornerstone of any successful project
• Managing the project end-to-end in one place for both the IT and the business is a MUST
• Avoid mis-communications and mis-alignments
• Cut wasted time  Save cost  Minimize project timelines
• Panaya’s S/4Accelerate was built to perfectly match all S/4HANA upgrade aspects:
• For both IT and Business
• For all project stages (assessment, planning, execution, monitoring and completion)
• Detailed project plan (including corrections and tests), ready to execute, in 48 hours
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18. Panaya’s S/4Accelerate
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BENEFITS
• Upgrade to the latest S/4HANA with minimal risk
• Reduce your upgrade effort by over 70%
• Consolidate your entire project plan and execution
MAIN FEATURES
• Fully tailored executable project within 48 hours
• Ready to execute code corrections and tests
• Intelligent Code Remediation for auto code correction
• The most comprehensive impact analysis
• Automatic project progress updates
• Full progress visibility dashboards and reports

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Intelligent Code Remediation Flow

22. Panaya’s S/4HANACustomers

23. Q&A
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24. Thank you
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amit@panaya.com