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Shubham Pachori
Computer Science & Engineering Department,
Institute of Technology, Nirma University
Ahmedabad, India
12BCE055@nirmauni.ac.in
I.
INTRODUCTION
A. Strategic positioning
All the firms in present digital age are facing a quite
interesting time. They are running their current business to the
maximum scale and efficiency as they have it implemented
with various SAP solutions or solutions from their competitors.
Additionally, they see new business models coming up which
have completely different parameters. They need to be
implemented fast, have a high change rate, still need to be
adopted and clear targeted into a future, which is much more
targeted to the end consumer and not only to B2B businesses.
Businesses model are focused more on outcomes which the
user can reap after the successful deployment of the product.
So when the customer go for the cloud enterprise suite, they are
looking for the outcome, they are looking for the complete
service and that they can successfully use to their business and
to their benefits.
intelligent. Utilizing sensor networks and contextaware, big data analysis, operations enjoy more uptime
and increased profitability.
And, of course, there are other areas. Digital transformation
is about more than just evolving business processes. The right
combinations are today already disrupting industries.
Industries today are looking for ways to transform their
business. They need to deliver services rather than products,
and everything needs to happen fast, so innovation with speed
is key. Industries are looking to improve their decisions,
processes, and products next. Ultimately, they need to cater
towards new business models before they get disrupted - this is
where SAP S/4HANA comes in. S/4HANA creates unique
opportunities to not only run day-to-day business in real-time
with industry best practice, but also reinvent business models
while industries transform and drive new revenues growth
areas. The core fundamental value proposition are
obvious add-ons to the existing SAP R/3 product wereInternet of Things to monitor the devices in the real time,
Big data analytics to store and analyze trillions of bytes of
data to provide valuable insights, transformed business
networks which include all the nodes of your business,
social network and sentiment analysis to create and monitor
brand values and consumer satisfaction and lastly a people
centric solution. Thus SAP S/4 HANA was conceived on
the core fundamentals of SAP R/3 which has made it the
perfect next generation e-business suite.
The first one is non-disruptiveness. So with these nondisruptive innovations we are ensuring a seamless
adoption and implementation of SAP Simple Finance.
Procurement Increased efficiency in the Procure-toPay processes, new Analytical Apps & Spend KPIs,
Ariba Network Integration for PO Order
Loyalty is a component that represents the nextgeneration loyalty management, where we really want
to incentivize customers, and ultimately ambassadors
of the brand, for their behavior, for their drive
regarding the company or the products of the company.
Speed of Innovation
In the SAP S/4HANA, on premise edition the customer
responsible for the deployment and maintenance does have full
control over speed of innovation, planned downtimes, changes
within the system and changes of the system. In the SAP
S/4HANA, cloud edition the customers participate
automatically on quarterly innovation upgrades based on the
service level agreements.
Implementation Approach
The customer (usually collaborates with consulting
partners) can implement highly individual requirements
regarding business processes and customization. This requires
detailed technical know-how. Customers coming from SAP
Business Suite can move to SAP S/4HANA, on premise
edition basically in a one-step-technical procedure using SAP
Update Manager with Data Migration Option (DMO).
In the SAP S/4HANA, cloud edition the customer is
following best-practices with standardized fine-tuning
requirements to participate faster on future innovative business
processes. The customer of the cloud edition can implement the
solution with key user business know-how. During this
process, limited technical know-how is required. Customers
coming from SAP Business Suite can move to SAP S/4HANA,
cloud edition by implementing the SAP S/4HANA cloud
system using the guided configuration functionalities plus (if
required) data migration functionality (technically based on
SAP Landscape Transformation [SAP SLT]).
Scope
In the SAP S/4HANA, on premise edition the customer can
use the full ERP Scope from SAP Business Suite. (This
includes the application innovation from SAP Simple Finance
and SAP Simple Logistics). The SAP S/4HANA, on premise
edition can integrate with other SAP cloud solutions like
Success Factors Employee Central, Field glass, SAP Hybris
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