The Transformation preparation service (TPS) for the SAP Business Suite is integral to addressing the evolving priorities of Suite First and AI First by positioning the suite at the heart of product strategy. As part of the RISE with SAP journey, TPS is crafted to bridge the gap between vision and execution, ensuring that initial project promises lead to measurable outcomes and maximized transformation investments.
Organizations often struggle with aligning their strategic vision with execution, ensuring transformation initiatives deliver measurable results, and accelerating adoption of new systems. TPS addresses these challenges by providing an immersive experience during the Prepare phase of the SAP Activate Methodology, led by SAP experts. The service simplifies the transformation process, enabling customers to transition smoothly from vision to execution by using SAP solutions and entitlements. Through comprehensive end-to-end process setup, TPS ensures that organizations devise a follow-up plan to maximize their SAP investments, integrating AI capabilities and establishing robust governance frameworks to optimize processes for success.
The core components of TPS ensure a tailored transformation experience. First, it provides a customized transformation roadmap, reviewing presales documents, mapping entitlements, and developing strategic plans to meet industry-specific requirements. Through Solution Standardization Board sessions, TPS enhances governance practices, critical for sustaining transformation success. AI use cases are explored using tools like Joule, ensuring alignment with business goals and demonstrating tangible benefits. Also, customers are guided in application development and integration using SAP Build tools, with prebuilt use cases activated for swift benefit realization. Comprehensive process analysis and management are supported through tools such as SAP Signavio, SAP LeanIX, and SAP Cloud ALM, integrating best practices for enhanced operations.
The TPS provides a tailored roadmap to maximize SAP investments, integrating AI, SAP BTP, and Business Transformation Management (BTM) with governance maturity assessments. It aligns business objectives with execution strategies, starting with identifying and exploring relevant AI and BTM use cases using tools like Joule. These use cases are demonstrated and deployed to showcase their benefits and impact.
The service strengthens governance frameworks to minimize risks and ensure sustainability by applying prebuilt use cases and best practices. It aids in informed decision-making regarding adoption priorities, accelerates the adoption process, and drives long-term transformation success. By bridging the gap between presales vision and post-sales execution, TPS translates objectives into actionable results, ensuring faster time-to-value and higher adoption rates through AI insights and best practices.
Key components of the transformation preparation service include:
- Discovery-Based Insights: US business case analysis, value mapping, and architecture blueprints to guide roadmap planning and establish timelines aligned with objectives.
- Guided Setup Services: Work with SAP specialists for seamless access to cloud service entitlements and toolchain integration to optimize operations.
- Accelerated Value Delivery: Achieve rapid outcomes through knowledge transfer and use case examples, fostering continuous improvement and aligning with strategic goals.
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The TPS yields numerous benefits, empowering leaders to focus on business innovation with aligned strategies while accelerating and streamlining customized transformation plans for specific lines of business. By delivering structured, data-driven transformation management, the service showcases tailored innovation use cases, sets up systems with activated transformation capabilities, and strengthens governance through Solution Standardization Board engagement.
Embedded Tasks:
- Tailored Transformation Roadmap
- Integration toolchain activation SAP BTM Use cases
- Governance framework for Fit-to-standard
- AI use cases (Business Process)
- SAP Build Use cases
Implementation of the TPS consists of various activities. It begins with an initial alignment session to establish the technological framework and confirm agenda scope, followed by a three-day intensive workshop. Day one focuses on overall architecture, introducing Business Transformation Management concepts to set a clean core baseline. Day two involves a walkthrough of best practices tailored to the customer’s business needs, identifying AI use cases for innovation. Day three covers governance strategies within the context of RISE with SAP, aligning transformation efforts with overarching goals to delineate a transition approach from the current SAP Business Suite to the future state. The final activity involves a wrap-up session to consolidate workshop insights, presenting a detailed recap of findings and providing governance playbooks and integrated toolchains.
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The TPS provides comprehensive support to SAP Business Suite customers, facilitating strategic planning and implementation tools for sustainable transformation. By offering personalized guidance and robust frameworks, TPS empowers customers to navigate their digital journey confidently. Available to all Business Suite users, this service allows customization based on individual needs and strategic goals. It incorporates a multidisciplinary approach, essential for successful transformation, and the accompanying illustration details stakeholder collaboration for a smooth process.
Success in TPS requires collaboration between SAP and the customer. Customers are engaged throughout, assigning key business and IT contacts, sharing critical information such as organizational structure and IT strategy, developing project charters, and participating actively in workshops. By implementing adoption plans and roadmaps, customers apply full SAP offerings for long-term value realization. TPS is offered universally to SAP Business Suite customers, allowing them to engage based on their specific strategic needs and goals, thus facilitating strategic alignment and fostering sustained growth and innovation.