Centre of Excellence for SAP Strategy

Our discussions over the years with companies using SAP have shown that there is a high demand for support on defining a long-term SAP Strategy. Many pieces of the puzzle may already lie on the table, but putting them together is not always that easy. Customers appreciate the opportunity to leverage on our extensive experience. Do you need a sounding board or help to define your SAP Strategy for the years to come? Get in touch with us!

For PwC a SAP transformation programme is not only a technical exercise. We bring experts from finance, statutory accounting, local statutory and tax requirements, risk and controls, supply chain, (cyber) security and reporting to the table. In this way, we ensure that clients leverage the full value of their SAP solution. 

Sooner or later every company questions whether they have the ‘set-up’ that is needed to tackle the problems of tomorrow. Will it provide the platform for digital transformation? Will the move to a SAP Legacy solution support my business strategy? To answer this type of question we assess if the SAP solution is future proofing business activities. We assess the risks that come with not transitioning and when these risk may arise. That's why we constantly benchmark the current solution set-up against the future pipeline of upgrades and evaluate the opportunity cost.

SAP provides tools to support the different stages of a migration strategy. The Centre of Excellence for SAP Strategy at PwC complements these tools with resources and dedicated assets. We can then evaluate your current architecture in order to take the right decisions on your existing landscape. Steepen your learning curve by using our experience from past projects and also how to incorporate the outcome of such an assessment efficiently.

We often hear that an upgrade to S/4HANA adds considerable value and future proofs the business. But what does this IT transformation mean in concrete terms? What will the benefits be and at what cost? Will a delay incur opportunity costs? When companies grapple with these questions, we bring light into the darkness thanks to a comprehensive value assessment, that clearly defines the value drivers of an S/4HANA transformation.

What do you do first? Which way should you turn? Navigating the transformation of a SAP landscape - be it in the context of S/4HANA or not - isn't always that straight forward. 

PwC’s Centre of Excellence for SAP Strategy offers guidance to the many different aspects that have to be taken into account, such as past investments, internal enterprise architecture guidelines (also beyond SAP), SAP product strategy and anticipated roadmaps. The only constant is that we aim to get you to your destination safely and fast.

ERP selection and evaluation of SAP alternatives

When a customer needs to replace their current SAP legacy, the question often arises whether they have to stick to SAP S/4HANA or if other options are possible. When our customers come to us for support on this, we share with them our long experience in comparing and evaluating possible alternatives. They can be cloud based or on-site, and tailored to the needs of the particular organisation. We facilitate the decision-making process by assessing our customer's size, sector and future needs, to ensure they get the perfect match!

We design a process and application landscape to include clear alignment on design principles, facilitating decision-making in this landscape. It's therefore important to have a comparative framework of multiple scenarios to choose the preferred scenario. In parallel we recommend that you have a good picture of the required infrastructure. Together, we fine-tune the business case of the future state design and also take into account the expected value of increasing standardisation, harmonisation and simplification of the process and application landscape. 

A case in point: we can give businesses flexibility in choosing whether to keep their S/4HANA implementation on-site or move it to a private (or public) cloud. While the former offers the control and reassurance of maintaining data in-house, the other has the potential to deliver significant savings in terms of capital costs, streamlining service delivery and offering a secure, fully scalable environment. It also offers access to next generation technology to continue your digital transformation journey.

Design of sustainable and cost efficient SAP solution governance

Performing due diligence to ensure value for money is vital when considering or undergoing an extensive SAP project. What are the potential cost savings and do they balance out the total cost of ownership (hardware, licenses, support, maintenance)? PwC's Centre of Excellence for SAP Strategy helps customers define the key success criteria to measure clearly if the SAP investment (CAPEX) and the recurring costs (OPEX) deliver the expected business value.

Setup and execution of SAP transformation programs

You know where you want to go and the stakeholders are aligned on the 'why'. It’s now time to implement the transformation programme! Our experts enable and deliver SAP transformation programs from start to finish. We advise on which project management methodology to use, be it Agile, Hybrid or Waterfall. We’ll give you the confidence to enter the transformation process worrying less about what isn't possible but rather being excited about what is.