Shortfacts - April 2019

Orbis switches to S/4 Hana

Orbis has successfully completed a system conversion (brownfield approach) from SAP ERP to S/4 Hana Enterprise Management using its own resources. The migration to S/4 Hana is of strategic importance for the international software and consulting company on its way into the digital world. With the new ERP suite, Orbis can now optimize business processes in areas such as finance and carry out important digital innovation projects based on the latest SAP technology. This ensures investment security, also because the mainstream maintenance for the SAP ERP application used to date will expire in 2025. The benefits of S/4 Hana are already making themselves felt: In Finance, all data from Financial Accounting (FI) and Controlling (CO) is now bundled centrally in the Universal Journal and therefore in a single document. This creates a "single source of truth" for the financial processes and eliminates the need for time-consuming reconciliations between FI and CO. As the financial figures are processed at line item level, they can be conveniently evaluated with modern SAP analytics tools at any level of detail and, thanks to in-memory technology, very quickly. Above all, aggregated analyses such as profit and loss balances (P&L) per cost center or project have been significantly accelerated.