Researching a company or assessing your own company and figuring out where its gaps and opportunities are can take a significant amount of time. The FLASH Enterprise Maturity Assessment is a new, free digital, self-serve tool from the Global Value Advisory team that helps you do broad, strategic, end-to-end company capability discovery and benchmarking faster. It aims to accelerate and influence company engagements and understanding while generating valuable insights and thought leadership. Currently, FLASH is for Retail and Consumer products companies and customers, with 6 additional industries to launch in April 2024.
In summary, FLASH will allow you to:
- Identify a company's business gaps
- Uncover a company's business opportunities
- Generate insights about where a company should prioritize its transformation areas
- Deliver best practices with strategic recommendations to drive valuable business outcomes
FLASH lives in the Value Lifecycle Manager for SAP and partner users and online for SAP users, Partners and customers. It features an unprecedented model that automatically scores, calculates and measures companies against industry benchmarks. In less than 20 minutes, users can answer 15 questions across enterprise topics including customer data, service, customer experience, marketing and personalization, merchandising, supply chain, financial management, human resources, business strategy and sustainability. Following are visuals from the tool:
Question Dashboard
Sample Question
Once complete, users receive an immediate, personalized company report with insights, recommendations and best practices.
Personalized Report - Overall Score
Personalized Report - Strengths & Opportunities
Personalized Report - Score Table
Personalized Report - Best Practice Content
To get started:
- If you're an SAP employee or Partner and want to login with SAP Single Sign On, access FLASH on Value Lifecycle Manager (VLM) here and start a Benchmarking survey. Choose your industry, then choose start a FLASH (currently available under Consumer Products and Retail Industries). Or, anyone can easily start an assessment online at https://flash-vlm.cxahub.com.
- Take your FLASH assessment for or with a customer by answering the questions covering topics across the enterprise. You may want to invite a colleague or collaborate with a customer to help answer some of the questions.
- Click Generate/Download Report to get a customized report within 5 seconds showing company gaps and areas of opportunity.
- Click on the topic links in the report to receive a best practice PDF with recommendations.
- Customers can request a free report review with an expert advisor or partner.
- Provide feedback on your experience via the survey.
Learn more about FLASH here.
Reach out with questions to: flash@sap.com
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