SAP S/4HANA on AWS OPTIMIZATION by Thorben

Leverage Thorben Consulting, LLC’s 20 years of experience supporting US federal civilian and US DOD SAP implementations and optimizations both on premises and in the cloud. Mastering Innovation Together ® with our clients fuels solutions to our clients’ biggest challenges.

WHY SAP? Organizations worldwide use SAP ERP to integrate their core processes so they can run their entire organization in a single system. SAP delivers performance for all sizes of organizations but especially for large organizations. SAP provides flexibility on advanced, secure infrastructure. SAP S/4HANA Cloud is a future-ready enterprise resource planning (ERP) system with built-in intelligent technologies, including AI, machine learning, and advanced analytics. SAP S/4HANA Cloud helps transform business processes with intelligent automation, built for the cloud, and runs on SAP HANA – a market-leading in-memory database that offers real-time processing speeds and a dramatically simplified data model. Integrate SAP RISE effectively with your organizational approach to User Management, Data Management and Functional Optimization.

SAP Activate is the industry standard process which is used by SAP practitioners. SAP Activate combines SAP best practices, methodology, content and tools that helps customers and partners deploy SAP S/4HANA. The 6 phases of SAP Activate are Discover, Prepare, Explore, Realize, Deploy and Run. Discover & Prepare Accelerating Explore & Realize Optimizing Deploy & Run Thorben Solutions Roadmap Secure Enclave & Migration Tools Enterprise Tools & Automations

OPTIMIZING DEPLOY & RUN Goals during the deploy and run phases include Innovating faster and transforming your business by differentiating your customer experience, accelerating growth, and improving operational efficiency and sustainability.

COMMITMENT Organizations can engage Thorben no matter where they are in their SAP Modernization journey. Deploying SAP S/4 HANA is a major, multi-year project for any organization that is embarking on the migration. Given the complexity of the task and the challenges that must be addressed on the way, and in advance of beginning the actual technical migration work, Clients should implement several preparatory initiatives that will determine paths forward on known solution design and development decision points for the future end state.

These include: Improve the User Experience in Fiori and UI Customizations. Given the experience in how Clients are leveraging the SAP Portal and SAP UI components today, Clients should: Use Human Centered Design to Develop the new user experience, branding, and help strategy. Document what type of in-application help is desired per screen and user type. Continually Optimize the existing Fiori business applications and screens for completeness. Optimize custom code updates and analytics strategy. Finetune role management and SAP governance, risk, and compliance (GRC). Optimize electronic data interchange solutions modernization and consolidation if necessary. Utilize SAP solution manager instance to support the S/4HANA project deployment and sustainment. Implement Contiuous Modernization and Optimization