SAP Readiness Check: The first step to get closer to S/4HANA
The SAP Readiness Check report should be the first step that SAP end customers must follow to evaluate their path to S/4HANA and allows them to have a better overview of the type of project that they must address, as well as the innovations of which can take advantage.
We all know about the arrival of the new SAP product, its intelligent SAP S/4HANA suite, which comes to replace the ERP R/3 suite. In the same way, much has been said about the path that must be followed to successfully reach the new product and how to approach this type of project. We mainly have two project approaches: first hand we have the Greenfield approach, in this approach a reimplementation of business processes is proposed, in a new and clean installation of S/4HANA, taking advantage of the opportunity to redesign, restructure and propose innovations in its current processes that, supported by the Intelligent Suite, will bring great benefits to companies.
On the other hand, we have the Brownfield approach, which consists of converting the current version of the ERP R/3 to S/4HANA, keeping historical data, general processes already implemented and, in general, the current implementation, adjusting only what the new simplified processes of S/4HANA are necessary. Due to the above, the conversion to S/4HANA is often misinterpreted as a purely technical project and it is a concept far removed from reality.
But how to approach this path, from the field of end-user companies of SAP?
On the other hand, we have the Brownfield approach, which consists of converting the current version of the ERP R/3 to S/4HANA, keeping historical data, general processes already implemented and, in general, the current implementation, adjusting only what the new simplified processes of S/4HANA are necessary. Due to the above, the conversion to S/4HANA is often misinterpreted as a purely technical project and it is a concept far removed from reality.
But how to approach this path, from the field of end-user companies of SAP?
In the first instance, the report gives us an evaluation of the simplified processes that would apply to our current ERP configuration and that will undoubtedly require an analysis of the company’s internal processes. Likewise, the report gives us an evaluation of the compatibility of Add-ons that are currently available and which are definitely not compatible, for which the options to replace or withdraw said functionalities must be validated.
The report also provides us with information on the infrastructure Sizing expected upon reaching S/4HANA, the ABAP developments (Z’s) susceptible to some change or affectation by the new architecture, the Fiori applications recommended to implement according to the evaluation of current functionalities, among other aspects.
For all of the above, the SAP Readiness Check report is a great tool that SAP end customers can take advantage of to build their way towards S/4HANA and, in turn, have bases, arguments and tools to address the project both within their companies and to external providers.
Ask your SAP allies to implement the report based on SAP note 2758146 “Setting up the SAP Readiness Check 2.0 for SAP S/4HANA” and carry out the analysis of this report from the functional and process scope, both with your internal users as external functional consultants.