PwC’s centre of excellence for SAP strategy

Is your current SAP landscape ready for the future or holding you back?

Our SAP legacy solution assessment helps answer this question. We leverage our proprietary accelerators and industry expertise with SAP’s readiness check to take a forward-looking view of your current SAP environment, evaluating how well it aligns with your long-term strategy and what the potential risks are. From shaping your S/4HANA roadmap to identifying where AI and automation can add real value, our centre of excellence brings clarity to complexity, helping you to make smart, confident decisions on your SAP future.

• Value-driven SAP transformation

To guarantee value from their SAP transformation, PwC helps clients to adopt a value-first approach. This aligns your transformation goals with measurable business outcomes from the start, including defining a clear value vision, using phased roadmaps to reduce risk and leveraging industry benchmarks to quantify impact. The result is an SAP transformation that delivers tangible, sustainable value across your finance, operations and strategic functions.

• Cross line of service (xLoS) collaboration

As a cornerstone of PwC Belgium’s SAP delivery model, our xLoS practice brings together specialists from across our firm (including tax, assurance, managed services and management consulting, as well as our SAP specialists) to deliver holistic, business-aligned SAP transformations that are strategically aligned with regulatory, financial and operational priorities.

PwC uses a pragmatic, value-driven approach to guide clients through their S/4HANA transformation journey. Recognising that no two organisations are alike, we offer a flexible roadmap that balances cost, disruption and business value while embedding governance, compliance and change management into every step of the journey.

Our migration strategies are tailored to you and your operational goals and long-term IT vision. We support three migration paths: greenfield (a full redesign and clean-slate implementation), brownfield (technical system conversion with minimal disruption and limited transformation value) and hybrid (a combination of the greenfield and brownfield migration paths).

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, the right enterprise resource planning (ERP) is critical for your organisation’s future success. When transitioning from legacy SAP systems, options include continuing with SAP S/4HANA or exploring ERP alternatives such as Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Oracle. Solutions for specific business functions, including procurement, CRM and HR, are also important.

Our consulting services leverage our deep industry insights and extensive expertise in ERP selection to help your organisation navigate this crucial decision-making process. In addition to assessing your core ERP needs, this approach also evaluates your satellite systems by analysing functionality, scalability, integration and other capabilities to ensure a cohesive IT ecosystem that enhances operational efficiency and supports your strategic objectives.

Aligning technology with strategic business objectives starts with designing a robust solution and system architecture. Our approach is focused on crafting a process and application landscape that ensures cohesion and guides decision making. We use comparative analyses of multiple scenarios to guide your organisation as you choose the architectural pathway that best supports your operational workflows, digital transformation and future growth to enhance your overall organisational resilience and success.

In defining the solution and system architecture, PwC helps its clients identify “one-time opportunities” to leverage the migration for organisational changes. Indeed, many organisations face a backlog of structural changes (such as merging controlling areas or redefining enterprise structures) that have been deferred due to system limitations. PwC helps clients use their SAP S/4HANA transformation as a catalyst to address these changes. By aligning system restructuring with transformation milestones, we enable clients to modernise their operating model, reduce complexity and unlock efficiencies that would be difficult to achieve in isolation.

In the ever-evolving landscape of SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP), solution governance is pivotal for achieving cost efficiency and sustainable growth. Our centre of excellence for SAP strategy excels in developing governance frameworks tailored to SAP landscapes that emphasise SAP security, GRC (governance, risk and compliance) and sustainability metrics. By embedding these components in your SAP S/4HANA implementation, migration and upgrade, we align decision making processes you’re your organisational objectives and sustainability needs, making governance a cornerstone of your lasting success.

Data is the backbone of any ERP system. Our Centre of Excellence supports clients in establishing strong data governance frameworks that ensure data quality, consistency and compliance throughout the SAP landscape. We help define master data strategies, data ownership models and data quality KPIs, while also supporting the implementation of tools such as SAP MDG (Master Data Governance). This ensures that your S/4HANA environment is built on a foundation of trusted data, enabling better decision-making and regulatory compliance.

Transitioning to the cloud is a strategic move that unlocks agility, improves cost efficiency and increases performance by giving you access to advanced capabilities like AI, analytics and real-time insights.

Our cloud assessment provides a clear view of your current SAP environment and its cloud readiness by evaluating your existing architecture, business drivers and operational needs. The results are a tailored, business-first assessment that defines your most effective route forward, whether that’s a full migration, a phased approach or a targeted redesign, to ensure your cloud transition delivers measurable business value.