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Aug 10, 2016 at 07:50 PM

Journey to S/4 HANA for SAP customers with decentralised systems

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Hello gurus,

I have been reading about S/4 HANA roadmaps recently and have a question I can't seem to get out of my head!

Say, for example we have Company A who operate in Asia, with a separate on-premise SAP ERP systems, across multiple enhancements packs, and some which aren't even supported any more. This company have ambitions of using S/4 HANA and being able to have a single source of truth and tap into their data from 'group' level not country. How would we best roadmap this journey?

Working backwards, the ideal solution would be to have a centralised instance of S/4 HANA system with 10 countries using it. However how would this be achieved, is there any point of the technical upgrade to HANA and the conversion, because in this case we are just going to have 10 instance of S/4? Again Company A wouldn't be able to consolidate with ease and it'd more difficult to integrate with SAP's SaaS offerings.

Therefore in my mind, I can't see any benefit of the technical upgrade and conversation to S/4 so this existing SAP customer would effectively become a 'greenfield' project? And then for each country you could potentially create a country template to roll onto the existing system.

Interested to hear your thoughts as I believe this will be a common question,

Paul