Our S/4HANA Fitness TrainingsGet to know the path and the challenges of the changeover step by step

Courses

Course catalogue

At the various stations of our course offering, you will learn step by step about the path and challenges of the changeover to SAP S/4HANA. Our courses give you insights into selected specialist topics and, at the end, very specific recommendations for action. 

Our S/4HANA workshops offer you orientation,
insights into selected specialist topics and at the end
a concrete recommendation for action.

WARM-UP

1.1. Why? - Recognising the added value of S/4HANA

What do a new design, modern architecture and real-time processing offer your company?

Where is there potential for process automation and where can you benefit from SAP's smart business approach?

We align the specific focus of this workshop with your priorities and agree these with you in advance.

Target group: Decision-makers, IT managers, department managers, project managers

Duration: 4 hours

Location: At your premises, at our locations or via video conference

Result: You have a clear picture of the potential of SAP S/4HANA and can define your priorities

1.2. What? - Get to know the special features and terminology of S/4HANA

Your questions revolve around what? What are the professional and technical particularities and what can be done in advance of the actual migration in terms of prerequisites and project planning?

in terms of prerequisites and project planning? What can I expect in the actual migration project?

  • Common language - What is behind the terms around S/4HANA?
  • Common landscape - What belongs to an S/4HANA software and hardware landscape?
  • Common understanding of business specifics - What are the requirements and what can be part of the migration?
  • Common starting point - what are the prerequisites and what can already be created now
  • Common understanding of tools - which tools will be provided
  • Common understanding of the project - what is part of the project based on an example project

Target group: This workshop is aimed at technical contact persons, functional contact persons and key users and project managers.

Duration: 4-5 hours

Location: At your premises, at our locations or via video conference

Result: You know what is involved in a project from a technical and organisational point of view and have defined the first work packages

1.3. How? - Achieve goals

Do you want to know how to transform your landscape? How do you get from the definition of the goal and the actual state of your

landscape specifics to the expressed goal?

  • Inventory of the actual landscape and the general conditions
  • Recording the goal vision and defining the project and landscape goal
  • Expanding the draft project plan and defining the roadmap
  • How does a special focus on the Preparation Phase lead to project success?
  • Detailing the Implementation Phase
  • Defining the next steps

Target group: The workshop is aimed at technical contact persons, functional contact persons and project managers

Duration: 5-6 hours

Location: Due to the necessary coordination on site or in our locations, but remote is also possible (depending on the number of participants and the applicable security concept, even recommended)

Result: You know how the specifics of your landscape are integrated into the project process and how they define the target landscape and the way to get there. You can now start with the detailing of the professional, development-oriented and technical tasks.

DURATION

2.0. Innovations on a silver platter

SAP publishes new releases for ECC and S/4HANA systems at regular intervals. Many SAP customers ask themselves the question: Which new features and innovations are relevant for me? The SAP Pathfinder provides the answer. We show you how the SAP Pathfinder works and what added value it offers you. Together we will analyse the Pathfinder and explore practical optimisation potential for your SAP system.

Target group: Project managers, IT managers, innovation managers

Duration: 1-2 hours

Location: At your premises, at our locations or via video conference

Result: They have a clear idea of which innovations and innovation are relevant for them.

2.1. Simple Finance - Perspectives

With SAP S/4HANA Finance, one of the most important modules in ERP is undergoing a radical renewal. We will show you which new functions are particularly interesting and what changes you can expect. For example, you will learn about innovative options for real-time consolidation with Central Finance and the uniform view of internal and external accounting. In addition, we have compiled the advantages of the new asset accounting under SAP S/4HANA for you and show further added values for your company.

Target group: Technical experts and key users from the areas of finance and controlling.

Duration: 2-4 hours

Location: At your premises, at our locations or via video conference

Result: You will be able to evaluate the advantages and benefits of S/4 Finance and the new asset accounting for your organisation.

2.2. Reporting and real-time analyses

What new real-time analytics does S/4HANA offer? What will happen to your proven commercial reporting tools and where will the future boundaries between ERP and BI be drawn? What role will embedded analytics play as a future single source of truth?

Target group: Experts, business analysts and key users from different departments with a focus on BI and reporting.

Duration: 2-4 hours

Location: At your premises, at our locations or via video conference

Result: You have an idea of how to transfer your existing reporting world into the new S/4 environment and can develop a vision for optimisations.

develop a vision for optimisations.

2.3. UX - New ways in usability

FIORI is on everyone's lips. What does a changeover to a new UX mean for your company? What applications does SAP offer you out of the box? And are you familiar with Fiori Elements?

What effort is involved in creating customised Welcome Pages and which interfaces make sense in your company organisation for which user group?

Target group: UX-interested people from the departments and IT

Duration: 2-4 hours

Location: At your premises, at our locations or via video conference

Result: You have gained an insight into how you can independently orchestrate and master your UX within your own roadmap in the future.


2.4. Enterprise Project and Portfolio Management (EPPM)

With portfolio and project management within SAP S/4HANA, you can? Effectively manage and track company portfolios and projects. You gain an integrated view of the complete project lifecycle and keep your resources under control. With EPPM, you will succeed in commercially evaluating innovations from a uniform data source and integrating them into your investment processes in S/4, thus focusing on the right ideas.

Target group: Portfolio and project managers, innovation managers

Duration: 1-2 hours

Location: At your location, at our locations or via video conference

Outcome: You get an idea of how to analyse your project portfolio and prepare investment decisions. You will learn how to manage projects operationally with (E)PPM, keep an eye on costs and use resources optimally.

2.5. Digital ways in purchasing

Get to know the integrated digitalisation processes in purchasing that SAP has planned under S/4HANA.

Optionally, we also offer a 360-degree process checkup for your purchasing department.

Target group: Decision-makers in purchasing and IT.

Duration: 2-4 hours

Location: At your premises, at our locations or via video conference

Result: Together we develop an innovation map and prioritise the individual business cases according to your requirements.

2.6. Streamlining processes - cutting out old habit

Are you ready for the transformation of your processes?

With the new SAP Process Discovery (the further development of Business Scenario Recommendations), SAP offers a comprehensive tool to analyse your business processes and rediscover them under S/4HANA. Based on your core processes, we show you which business processes can be changed, adapted or streamlined by switching to SAP S/4HANA. In addition, industry comparisons will be used to analyse performance and identify relevant added values and functions of SAP S/4HANA for you.

Target group: Process managers and IT managers

Duration: 2-4 hours

Location: At your premises, at our locations or via video conference

Result: You can rethink historically grown processes and receive suggestions for your readiness to innovate.


2.7. Changeover to business partner

You are already aware that with the change to S/4 you will use the business partner as the central data model. But what is in store for you besides the purely technical migration?

We venture a joint look at this challenge and consider relevant aspects in advance.

  • Data scope and data quality
  • Dependencies on upstream systems and other sources of your business partners
  • Harmonisation of debtors and creditors across the entire corporate structure
  • Existing extensions and user exists?
  • Requirements for authorisations
  • UX design requirements

Together we will work out a rough project plan taking into account all pre-checks offered by SAP.

Target group: SAP managers who deal with master data, IT project managers, SAP project managers, application managers

Duration: 2-4 hours

Location: At your premises, at our locations or via video conference

Result: You know what to expect in an implementation project and can plan your activities.


2.8 The technological basis

With S/4HANA, you also rely on HANA as a database system. SAP S/4HANA is an in-memory database with specific hardware and software requirements. We will be happy to go through these special features, what is worth noting and how the database and technology change will affect administration and operation with you in detail.

Target group: The workshop is aimed at technical contact persons.

Duration: 2 hours

Location: At your premises, at our locations or as a webinar

Result: You will learn about SAP S/4HANA as a technical platform and its special requirements.

2.9. Unicode and source version

SAP S/4HANA imposes technological requirements that may not yet be implemented in the current system landscape. Is the Unicode or non-Unicode coding and the source release already ready to serve as the starting point for the technical conversion? We will discuss with you which prerequisites need to be created and which steps can be part of the actual S/4HANA migration, or at least be considered in the project.

Target group: The workshop is aimed at technical contact persons, business contact persons and project managers.

Duration: 2 hours

Location: At your premises, at our locations or as a webinar

Result: You will know the technical requirements for an S/4HANA migration and the possibilities of taking update and Unicode project steps into account.

take into account

2.10. System landscape design

The system landscape design can pose special challenges. In addition to the classic systems, there are cloud applications and components that are mapped in a hybrid landscape.

We provide an overview of a hybrid landscape and show necessary security aspects as well as tools for integrating the different components.

Target group: The workshop is aimed at technical contact persons, landscape architects and project managers.

Duration: 2 hours

Location: At your premises, at our locations or as a webinar

Result: You will learn about tools and possibilities for operating a hybrid landscape.

2.11. Tidying up and archiving

In the context of a migration project and especially in the preparation phase when the topic of sizing arises, it is usually worth taking a look at the data stock in the system and the associated migration volume. The data footprint has a direct influence on the memory sizing and possibly also on the licence volume.

In this context, we will discuss possible technologies as well as housekeeping and DVM measures, such as archiving, in order to prepare the data stock for the migration in the best possible way.

Target group: The workshop is aimed at technical contact persons, business contact persons and project managers.

Duration: 2 hours

Location: At your premises, at our locations or as a webinar

Result: You will learn about possible housekeeping and DVM activities.

READY TO GO

Your individual roadmap

We accompany you step by step through the changeover to SAP S/4HANA. Together with you, we identify the fields of action, plan and carry out the implementation based on your individual requirements:

  • Inventory and requirements analysis
  • Comparison with the SAP offer
  • Recommendation for action
  • Development of a solution package
  • Development of a concrete roadmap

Ready for the next step?

We look forward to hearing or reading from you.

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