Tools

The S/4 transformation requires different tools for brownfield, greenfield and SDT project approaches in order to make the impact on the organization transparent and controllable. The more existing SAP customers move towards selective data transition (SDT) and greenfield, the more important this component becomes. Functions in systems and applications are changing and opening up new opportunities for business processes. Process cost drivers and complexity can be identified and reduced through the use of new technologies such as process mining, RPA and machine learning. The use of Fiori and UI5 gives users a better view of the important information and decision-making options in the process.

This has a major impact on the tasks and role description of the future employee. All of these factors therefore increase the need to recognize and address changes early on in the projects and to support them as part of the projects. Here, cbs relies on proven tools such as change impact and stakeholder analyses to identify correlations between process and organizational structures and to make the effects on the structure of the organization visible. As part of project preparation, it is important to start early with the topic of business and IT governance in order to allocate the transformation and change in the project to the right people and roles and provide them with the right mandates.

This critical step in the project usually requires a very high level of management involvement. The rule of thumb here is "The greater the need for transformation and change (Green), the more management and the organization must be part of the projects". An important factor for all tools is that every existing SAP customer has a certain uniqueness and therefore the preparation, analysis and derivation of measures for the structural and process organization with customers must be designed very individually.