SAP S/4HANA

Develop the digital backbone of your business

SAP S/4HANA – the new real-time suite

S/4HANA is the latest generation of SAP products and is one of the most modern ERP systems. It is the digital backbone of a company. S stands for simple, 4 for the fourth product generation and HANA refers to the underlying database technology. Compared to its predecessors, S/4HANA is distinguished by a combination of in-memory technology and simplified structures, allowing data to be retrieved and processed in real-time. It allows for better performance. S/4HANA can be run both from the cloud and on-premise.

Due to the official end in maintenance for SAP ECC, there is time to switch to the new system until 2027.

We support you and organise your changeover using the migration scenario that suits you best. We assist you from developing your strategy, to your digital roadmap and implementation.

PIKON is your reliable and experienced partner for your S/4HANA implementation

The introduction of ERP systems has a profound effect on process design and therefore on the way employees work. The processes mapped in your ERP system are the prerequisite for good interaction between all areas, they are the company’s digital backbone.

PIKON has many years of experience in implementing and optimising SAP systems and has already successfully completed several S/4HANA projects using different migration scenarios. As process-oriented consultants, we assist you in relaunching and further developing your processes and systems. We do this based on the PIKON 3-point approach, which combines the needs of people, IT and business management into a meaningful whole.

The transition to SAP S/4HANA demanded a lot from the entire organisation at EBZ. Therefore, we were glad to have found a partner in PIKON who not only assisted us during the Go-Live (Big Bang with foreign subsidiaries in the USA and China) but also ensured a smooth transition afterward, working together with our internal SAP team and not leaving our employees on their own. The PIKON consultants provided us with strong support during our Greenfield implementation.

Yvonne Vetter
Head of SAP department at EBZ

PIKON can support you throughout the entire lifecycle of your S/4 project. We can support you in all aspects of your S/4 project with our four business areas ERP, Custom Development, Business Intelligence and Organisational Development.

S/4HANA workshop offers

S/4HANA Starter day

Are you just starting out with S/4HANA? We will give you an initial overview.
You will learn about the innovations in S/4HANA in logistics, accounting and the user interface. In addition, migration scenarios and appropriate project approaches.

Time required: 0,5 days

S/4HANA Strategy

You have the task to develop the S/4HANA strategy in your company? We teach you the cornerstones of the S/4HANA implementation.
Effects on business processes, organizations, master data and employees are topics of the workshop as well as migration scenarios and target architectures.

Time required: 1 day

S/4HANA Specialisation

You have already gained an initial overview, but have further questions on various points? You can put together your own workshop from a modular system of possible in-depth topics. As the workshop is put together individually for you, the required time is not fixed.

Time required: 0,5 – 2 days depending on individual arrangement.

S/4HANA Migration-Workshop: Greenfield-/Hybrid-Approach

The S/4HANA implementation “on the greenfield” is already set for your company?
In the workshop, we develop together with you the appropriate roadmap with time and budget planning and address topics such as data transfer, preliminary work, etc.

Time required: 1 – 2 days, depending on individual arrangement.

S/4HANA Migration-Workshop: Conversion

You have decided on Conversion as the scenario for your migration? Learn in the workshop how to best approach your SAP S/4HANA conversion project and develop your digital roadmap.

Time required: 0,5 – 2 days depending on individual arrangement.

Why S/4HANA? Reasons and advantages

Current trends such as big data, Internet of Things or batch size 1 place new demands on IT and business processes. At the same time, users expect solutions that they can use intuitively. And irrespective of the time, place and terminal device. The course was set with S/4HANA to be able to tackle the new challenges.

There are various reasons for our customers to implement S/4HANA and they are the system’s advantages at the same time:

Wanting to optimise, standardise and align business processes
Increasing productivity through faster, simpler and automated processes
Saving time in specialist departments, e.g. for month-end closing
Making decisions faster through real-time reporting, big data analyses
Intuitive, faster operation of the SAP system, thanks to new user-friendly interfaces such as SAP FIORI
Reducing TCO by merging different companies into one SAP system
More efficient cooperation between different companies by using one SAP system

Whitepaper

Your road to SAP S/4HANA

Read the whitepaper to find out how you can develop SAP S/4HANA into your digital backbone and which preparatory steps you can already take now.

Benefit from our experience from the successful implementation of various migration scenarios.

Your road to S/4HANA – migration scenarios

There are various migration scenarios for switching to S/4HANA. Which migration scenario is best for you depends on several factors. Find out more about this in our S/4HANA migration workshops. We will also be happy to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the respective scenario with you.

Greenfield

Greenfield implementation of S/4HANA with a simultaneous go-live of all SAP and NON-SAP companies (big bang)

Conversion

Technical migration of the existing system to S/4HANA using the migration cockpit

Hybrid

Similar to Greenfield, only gradual introduction of S/4HANA in the different companies (no big bang)

Discover which migration scenario might the right one for your company.

Self-Assessment

Do you know where you stand in terms of digitization? Take the test! (only available in German)

Determine the digital maturity of your company with the help of a non-binding online questionnaire. Take some time and we will automatically show you areas of action without obligation.

References

PIKON has been working with S/4HANA for many years and has already successfully completed several S/4 implementation projects using different migration scenarios.

With PIKON, we have a consultant with whom we can further develop our strategic concepts against the backdrop of digitalisation and, at the same time, a strong partner for the conversion to S/4HANA as the digital core of our business processes. The PIKON 3-Point-Consulting-Approach helps to win over the people at Putzmeister for the corresponding changes.

Dr. Christian Danninger
CFO, Putzmeister Holding GmbH

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Your process experts

Processes are the backbone of the company and create the basis for your company’s digitisation and competitiveness. As process-oriented consultants we support you in this process.