SAP S/4HANA - Achieving the promise of efficiency

The transformation to SAP S/4HANA is an important step for many companies to optimize their business processes and increase their efficiency – towards a digital, interconnected, automated end-to-end process landscape. Processes should become more agile, faster and more cost-efficient and large volumes of data should be easier to process in real time. However, many companies have failed or are far from achieving the potential they had hoped for.

Challenges of the SAP S/4HANA transformation

Many companies face considerable challenges when implementing SAP S/4HANA. Typical reasons for the problems are:

• Lack of business leadership: IT departments often lack a holistic understanding of value-adding business processes.
• Lack of end-to-end integration: Interface problems prevent automated and efficient processes.
• Inadequate standard SAP solutions: Automation potential is often not fully exploited because SAP Best Practice proves to be the “lowest common ground”.
• Variety of business units: Different processes make harmonization difficult.
• Transformation with risks: Examples show that inadequate planning leads to declining sales and inefficient IT systems.

Our data-driven approach for a successful transformation

Horn & Company relies on a powerful, data-driven strategy to guide companies through transformation:

• Detailed analysis of as-is processes: Transparency across processes, data objects, interfaces and real system usage (inclusive Z-developments).
• Development of a target picture: Precise definition of end-to-end processes, data objects, and identification of automation potential.
• Reduction of interface problems: Avoidance of system breaks and incorrect data transfers.
• Maximum increase in efficiency: implementation of automation measures for sustainable P&L effects.

Clear, measurable P&L effects of our method

With the Horn & Company approach, the transformation becomes a clear benefit case, 

• because S/4 offers various levers of process automation to enable a significant reduction of FTEs,
• as a well-adjusted S/4 parameterization reduces the process-related inventory drivers and liquidity destroyers and thus greatly reduces working capital, and
• as lower error rates and faster throughput times increase process quality and thus significantly improve the customer experience.

The Horn & Company approach is geared towards your transformation strategy and your business processes

Regardless of whether you are currently planning the transformation phase, are already in the transformation phase or have already implemented S/4, the approach offers a package of measures to increase efficiency that is tailored to your business processes according to the respective phase. The efficiency gains can be achieved regardless of whether the transformation is carried out as a greenfield, brownfield or hybrid approach. 

Our approach enables you to develop a comprehensive transformation strategy and roadmap that is tailored to the individual needs and requirements of your organization.

Further details can be found in our whitepaper.