Optimizing Business Processes

The main aspects are:

• Achieve business agility by enabling organizations to adapt processes to business needs.
• Reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) by lowering customization, development, and maintenance costs, while also reducing system implementation time.
• Increase business value by adopting innovations via frequent and less time-consuming upgrades.
• Ensure process efficiency by leveraging standard SAP solution capabilities, limiting deviations to differentiating processes.
• Minimize process deviations by aligning the target state enterprise architecture with the SAP reference solution architecture.

SAP Cloud ALM provides:

• Capabilities to follow the 'RISE with SAP Methodology - clean core success plan' and to manage the corresponding Quality Gates.
• Activate implementation methodology ensuring a Fit-to-Standard approach (for system conversion, greenfield, selective data transition).
• SAP Best Practice processes as basis for Fit-to-Standard workshops (BPMNs, process documentation, test cases).
• Transparency with documentation capabilities for business processes (including implementation documentation and test cases).
• Tracking capabilities and Requirement Management for Fit-to-Standard workshops. This allows the identification of differentiating processes, which require extensions.
• Business process modelling capabilities to design customer-specific processes for differentiating business processes.
• Analytics and Traceability dashboards to track the adherence to clean core criteria throughout the project.
• Scope definition and instrumentation for Business Process Monitoring and Job and Automation Monitoring to get transparency regarding business process KPIs, most important jobs, and automation tasks:
  • Business Process Monitoring addresses the needs of LOB users and is based and business process KPIs.
  • Job and Automation addresses the needs of LOB and IT users to ensure the reliable execution of jobs and automation tasks.
• Integration with SAP Readiness Check to get full traceability on simplification items, required custom code adoption, and add-ons.