Step 1: Overview – S/4HANA Supply Chain capabilities and scope
- Present key capabilities and functions of SAP S/4 HANA and related cloud applications like Ariba and IBP
- Demonstrate process improvement opportunities and associated metrics to define value and case for change
- Share lessons learnt to allow our clients make educated decisions
Step 2: Assessment and roadmap
- Capture Business / IT Strategy, Vision, and Goals to create a definition of success and measurement parameters
- Review current system architecture and identify areas of system rationalization to ensure business benefits are achieved with optimized application landscapes
- Examine the readiness of technical prerequisites and functional requirements
- Evaluate large customizations and propose recommendations in the digital core or relevant cloud apps. Help with process standardization and harmonization
- Build a maturity path from current state to a fully functional and digitized supply chain with seamless user experience
- Evaluate deployment options in light of the current IT strategy, business requirements, and potential scalability
Step 3: Cost benefit analysis
- Conduct a detailed cost benefit analysis of investing in S/4HANA for supply chain capabilities.
- Provide detailed benefit analysis at capability level like planning, procurement, logistics and order management
- Evaluate options, basic vs advanced, for various core capabilities like embedded logistics applications in S/4HANA. These will be evaluated based business functional requirements
- Provide cost evaluations for various deployment options and associated benefits / compromises in short term and long term
Step 4: SAP S/4HANA roadmap
- Provide a fact based assessment of the business need, IT strategy and long term vision to inform the decision on S/4HANA roadmap
- Develop a tailored SAP S/4HANA implementation approach including key decisions, activities, dependencies and timelines
- Highlight the benefits realization timeline to ensure the various milestones on the roadmap are aligned with the business benefits
- Highlight the gradual business maturity and incremental digitization of your supply chain over the life of your digital journey
Step 5: Proof of concept
- Develop and demonstrate key supply chain use cases like supply chain control tower, and live MRP
- Identify digital supply chain use cases leveraging IOT, RPA, Block Chain, ML, AI, Big Data.
- Develop prototypes in the digital core as well as key supply chain cloud applications. Leverage the prototypes to evaluate change and training requirements for the transformation
Step 6: S/4HANA implementation
- Leverage PwC Transform Methodology to lead and manage End-to-End implementation – mobilize, design, construct, test and operate.
- Manage change, develop and execute training curriculum, create cross-functional teaming, introduce and apply design thinking and agile methodology
- Conduct a thorough before and after metrics evaluation to ensure desired business benefits were realized
