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RECOMMENDED
INNOVATIONS
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Sample Corp. | Main System: PRD
Automotive Industry
Next-Generation
Digital Business
SAP Cloud
Solutions
Relevant enhancements for:
Digital coreEnhance your existing SAP ERP system Cloud extensions
Recommended Innovations
Improve Business Processes
Areas with potential for business improvement:
Optimize IT and Accelerate Innovation
Areas with potential for IT improvement:
Functional
Enhancements
Relevant enhancements for:
Manufacturing
Finance
Procurement
Simplified User
Experience
Purchaser, Buyer Apps
Quality Engineer
Manager Approval Apps
Relevant SAP Fiori Apps for:
Basic Warehouse Management
Cost Management
Sales Master Data Management
Simplified business scenarios for:
Key findings for Sample Corp. :
Key recommendations for Sample Corp. :
Key findings for Sample Corp. :
SAP Cloud for Sales
SAP Ariba Contracts
SAP Ariba Catalog
Procure to Pay: Overdue purchase order items
Warehouse Management: Open outbound transfer orders
Order to Cash, Finance: Overdue customer payments
Database growth per month
Average response time in dialog task
Users with extended usage rights
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Automotive Industry
Discover functional
enhancements
Simplify your business
* http://news.sap.com/sapphire-now-sap-fiori-user-experience/
• SAP enhancement packages
simplify the way customers
manage and deploy new
software functionality
• Customers can selectively
implement these software
innovations and activate selected
business functions upon
business demand
• SAP S/4HANA is the next-
generation business suite
designed to help you run
simple in the digital economy
• SAP S/4HANA is the “digital
core” of your entire enterprise
and natively supports the
Internet of Things, Big Data,
real-time analytics, mobile,
business networks, and more
Functional
Enhancements
Next-Generation
Digital Business
29 recommendations13
on your current SAP
enhancement package 4
Relevant innovations Relevant scenarios
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Improve user experience
• SAP Fiori is the personalized and
intuitive user experience for SAP
software across devices
• It will help your users gain
productivity, save training costs
and increase user adoption
• SAP Fiori apps for SAP Business
Suite included with your
underlying SAP software license*
Simplified User
Experience
21 on your current database
203 on SAP HANA
Relevant SAP Fiori apps
Explore cloud opportunities
• SAP offers cloud apps (SaaS) for
all lines of business, a market-
leading cloud platform (PaaS),
and flexible on-demand
infrastructure (IaaS)
• Overall already SAP has 110+
million cloud subscribers and 41
state-of-the-art data centers
around the world
SAP Cloud
Solutions
Relevant cloud solutions
on latest SAP enhancement
package 828
12 recommendations
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Sample Corp. | Main System: PRD
Automotive Industry
RECOMMENDED
INNOVATIONS
Finance
on your current release
level and database
on SAP S/4HANA
1
160
Human Resources
on SAP S/4HANA
1
0
on your current release
level and database
Sales, Service and
Marketing
on SAP S/4HANA
1
21
on your current release
level and database
Sourcing &
Procurement
on SAP S/4HANA
3
62
on your current release
level and database
R&D,
Engineering
on your current release
level and database
on SAP S/4HANA
0
5
Asset Management
on your current release
level and database
on SAP S/4HANA
2
22
Supply Chain
on your current release
level and database
on SAP S/4HANA
0
10
Manufacturing
on your current release
level and database
on SAP S/4HANA
4
24
* http://news.sap.com/sapphire-now-
sap-fiori-user-experience/
SAP Fiori will help your
users gain productivity,
save on training costs and
increase user adoption.
SAP Fiori is included with
your underlying SAP
software license*.
Explore each line of
business to discover which
SAP Fiori apps are
currently, and in the future,
relevant for you.
SAP Fiori is the new
user experience for
SAP software
Simplified User
Experience
Customer-specific
Recommendations
Top 10 Fiori Apps for media industry »
Top recommended SAP Fiori apps
based on your current system usage »
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Sample Corp. | Main System: PRD
Automotive Industry
RECOMMENDED
INNOVATIONS
Enjoy a new user
experience with SAP Fiori
and engage the valuable
SAP service and support
activities in these next
steps:
1. Discover how to drive
quick time-to-value
2. Prepare using SAP
Enterprise Support value
map for SAP Cloud platform
3. Realize value by
achieving your productivity
improvements for savings
and profits
Simplified User
Experience
Next
Steps
+ ADDITIONAL OFFERINGS »
SAP ENTERPRISE SUPPORT:
1. Discover 2. Prepare 3. Realize
• Try SAP Fiori, demo cloud
edition »
• Discover available SAP Fiori
apps and get customer-
specific recommendations »
• Join openSAP course
“Introduction to SAP Fiori
UX” »
• Read success stories from
other customers »
• Expert-guided-implementation
for SAP Fiori »
• Join openSAP course “Build
your own Fiori App in the
Cloud” »
Join SAP Enterprise Support value map for SAP Cloud platform »
Chose your objective*:
(1) Revitalize your SAP user experience in the cloud with SAP Fiori Cloud
(2) Realize SAP Fiori use cases for your company
(3) Deliver enterprise-grade native and hybrid mobile apps
(4) Set up the hybrid app toolkit and develop SAP Fiori mobile apps in SAP Web IDE
*Exemplary excerpt of SAP Enterprise Support services and value map objectives
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Sample Corp. | Main System: PRD
Automotive Industry
YOU VS. INDUSTRY PEERS
(selected from SAP EarlyWatch Alert)
BUSINESS GOALS
WITH IMPROVEMENT POTENTIAL IMPACT ON BUSINESS
VALUE
FOR YOU
Reduce Warehouse Costs
(% of spend)
Costs for the warehouse
management processes
2
Delay in the warehouse picking process
Delay in goods issue posting and billing
Differences between real world and the
book stock
Wrong available to promise planning »
Optimize Business
Processes
Reduce operating
expenses
best 25%worst 25%
1773674
Warehouse
Management:
Open outbound
transfer orders
Sample Corp. 820 items
Reduce Days Sales
Outstanding
Avoiding of delays, wasted money
and errors
3
Higher liquidity cost
Longer period end closing and year end
closing
Manual work for tracking / clarification
Loss of revenue
»
Maximize cash
generation
Reduce operating
expenses
best 25%worst 25%
3.38711.26972.054
Order to Cash,
Finance: Overdue
customer
payments
Sample Corp. 34.163 items
Improve Supply Chain
Planning Accuracy
Predicting the future requirements to
balance supply and demand
1 Delay in production and sales delivery
Maverick buying (unplanned expensive
emergency purchases)
Wrong available to promise planning
Wrong material requirement planning
»
Optimize Business
Processes
Reduce operating
expenses
best 25%worst 25%
4.16618.92022.836
Procure to Pay:
Overdue
purchase order
items
Sample Corp. 110.395 items
Additional KPIs: KPIs that are included into the Early Watch Alert report compared to your Industry peers »
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Sample Corp. | Main System: PRD
Automotive Industry
BUSINESS GOAL WITH IMPROVEMENT POTENTIAL:
Improve Supply Chain Planning Accuracy
1
The aging distribution shows a significant number of inbound deliveries older than twelve
months. Review how these numbers can be reduced and how to avoid this trend in future.
Situation:
Implication:
This could indicate current delays in your purchasing process and subsequent ones (sales,
production, maintenance/repair). The identified purchase orders could also indicate (old)
supplying elements that are considered in current available-to-promise (ATP) and material
requirement planning (MRP) calculations, which could lead to inaccurate planning results.
KPI relevant for:
• Procurement
KPI breakdown: “Procure to Pay: Purchase order items open & overdue”
<3 months old 4-11 months old Older 12 months
Customer values 6.816 9.128 94.451
In % 6% 8% 86%
Further business goals which may be impacted by this KPI:
• Optimize perfect order fulfillment: Avoiding delays, wasted money and errors
• Procurement cost (% of spend)
”110.395 purchase order items are overdue by more than
10 days and are not yet completely delivered.”
RECOMMENDED
INNOVATIONS
Future Solution:
Use business process analytics in SAP Solution Manager to
continuously improve business processes.
• The KPI tree shows all dependencies which influence the
business goal “Improve Supply Chain Planning Accuracy’
• A dashboard allows an ongoing control of all dependent KPIs
being able to influence and optimize
Supply Chain
Planning Accuracy
Overdue Inbound
Deliveries
Purchase requisition
items open &
overdue
Exceptions in
incomplete
purchase orders
No data
Purchase order
items open &
overdue
110.395
>> Improve Business Processes >> OverviewTop 3 Business Goals With Improvement Potential >> Improve Supply Chain Planning AccuracyYou are here:
NEXT STEPS »KPI DASHBOARD »
11.25357.376
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Sample Corp. | Main System: PRD
Automotive Industry
RECOMMENDED
INNOVATIONS
+ ADDITIONAL OFFERINGS »
SAP ENTERPRISE SUPPORT:
1. Discover 2. Prepare 3. Realize
• Business decision makers introduction »
• Accelerated innovation enablement: SAP
Solution Manager - Business Process
improvement and analytics
• Business Process Performance
Optimization continuous quality check »
• Meet the expert: How to use business
process operations dashboard »
• Meet the expert: How to use Business
Process Analytics »
• Expert-guided-implementation: Business
process improvement and analytics
Join SAP Enterprise Support value map for Business Decision Makers »
Chose your objective*:
(1) Run and understand the SAP Business Process Analysis report, discover quick wins
(2) Successfully configure SAP Business Process Analytics and understand its results
(3) Identify potential for old data reduction
(4) Execute business process improvement project for selected 2 to 3 key figures within 4 months
(5) Set up and configure Business Process Operations dashboard and Dependency Diagram on top of SAP Business Process Analytics
*Exemplary excerpt of SAP Enterprise Support services and value map objectives
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Sample Corp. | Main System: PRD
Automotive Industry
RECOMMENDED
INNOVATIONS
• Support customers to maximize the value of their current SAP Business Suite or SAP S/4 HANA implementation
• Initial process health check and mapping of Business Process Analytics key figures to customer business goals (e.g. perfect order fulfillment)
• Best Practice implementation of Business Process Analytics and management tools for status and progress tracking in customer SAP Solution Manager
• Ongoing Best Practice knowledge regarding root cause analysis, ongoing support to track improvement progress and value realization
Premium Engagement Service for Business Process Improvement for SAP Solutions
Business Assessment for Finance Business Assessment for Supply Chain Management
• Business assessment and roadmap of your financials processes with in-depth
analysis of the financial organization
• Provides flexible transformation path to meet business needs and regulations
• Outcome: Better compliance with financial regulations and more timely decision
making due to faster financial reporting
• Helps to cope with industry trends like increasing product variety, shortened
product life cycles and fragmentation of the supply chain
• Improving customers’ SCM processes and the supporting IT applications
• Outcome: Target SCM processes are defined plus transformation roadmaps
are developed based on SAP best practices
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ADDITIONAL OFFERINGS FOR BUSINESS PROCESS IMPROVEMENTS*:
ADDITIONAL OFFERINGS FOR BUSINESS PROCESS ASSESSMENT*:
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Sample Corp. | Main System: PRD
Automotive Industry
YOU VS. INDUSTRY PEERS
(selected from SAP EarlyWatch Alert)
IT GOALS
WITH IMPROVEMENT POTENTIAL IMPACT ON BUSINESS
VALUE
FOR YOU
Improve Data Volume
Management
Database growth and control with
the correct system settings and
archiving procedures
Improve SAP System
Usability
System usability including
response times, look & feel, and
user interface simplicity
Improve Security
Improve application security,
compliance and data security along
the build, set-up and operation
phases
1
2
3
Reduction of application performances
Increase in operation costs
Users resistance in leveraging
application
Lower business performance and data
accuracy
Reduce operational
cost
»
Legal risk from unauthorized data
access
Business continuity risk from
uncontrolled customizing changes
Ensure business
continuity
Reduce operational
cost
»
»
Ensure business
continuity
best 25%worst 25%
1416
Sample Corp.Database growth
per month
38 GB
Continuous business
improvements
Time to Value
best 25%worst 25%
366520990
Sample Corp.Average
response time in
dialog task
1.116 ms
best 25%worst 25%
131330
Sample Corp.Users with
extended usage
rights
19 users
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Sample Corp. | Main System: PRD
Automotive Industry
Future Solution:
Use SAP Solution Manager IT services and operations management.
NEXT STEPS »
Situation:
IT GOAL WITH IMPROVEMENT POTENTIAL:
Improve Data Volume Management
1
$
We recommend to keep the database growth always under control not only in relationship
with potential need of new hardware but also to keep the system performances in good
conditions.
Implication:
Shrinking the overall database size helps keep maintenance efforts to a minimum, lower costs
for backup/recovery and refresh of test systems.
Total cost of Ownership
System activities performance can have an high impact on the IT cost of operation therefore is
paramount to leverage automation as offered by Solution Manager.
• Impacted Cost Driver -> Cost of monitoring
KPI breakdown: “Database growth per month”
Database growth (GB) Database size (GB) % of database growth
38 7.226 0.5%
• Represents all capabilities for monitoring, alerting, analysis, and
administration of SAP solutions, and allows customers to reduce
TCO by predefined content and centralized tools for all aspects
of SAP Solution Manager operations.
Relevant SAP Solution
Manager capabilities:
• New Infrastructure for
Technical Monitoring and
Alerting
• Technical Analytics
• Extended Root Cause
Analysis (RCA) Scope
• Technical Administration
• Data Volume Management
”37 GB database growth over last month in SAP system PRD.”
RECOMMENDED
INNOVATIONS
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Sample Corp. | Main System: PRD
Automotive Industry
RECOMMENDED
INNOVATIONS
SAP ENTERPRISE SUPPORT*:
1. Discover 2. Prepare 3. Realize
• What is data volume management (DVM) »
• Meet the expert: SAP Data Volume
Management – Archiving Overview »
• Meet the expert: DVM Work Center
Overview »
• Expert-guided-implementation: Data volume
management »
• Accelerated innovation enablement: SAP
Solution Manager - Data Volume
Management expert on demand »
• Meet the expert: Archiving of basis
tables »
• Review progress using DVM work
center »
Join SAP Enterprise Support value map for Data Volume Management »
ADDITIONAL OFFERINGS**:+
Lifecycle Management for Operation Efficiency Implementation SAP Solution Manager for IT Operations
The Lifecycle Management for Operation Efficiency (LMOE) service helps
companies attain operational excellence, reduce total cost of operations, and
focus attention on innovation. It uses efficiency-improvement key performance
indicators (KPI’s) and configurable engineered services from the SAP Services
portfolio. Companies can protect their software investments and lower costs.
The SAP Solution Manager for IT Operations service is using SAP best service
practices to setup technical installation and configuration necessary to use SAP
Solution Manager for IT Operations. Establish SAP Solution Manager as the single
and central platform for technical monitoring and business process monitoring.
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