Highway to S/4 HANA It’s not just an upgrade, it’s a transformation
S/4 HANA Readiness Assessment
Contents SAP S/4HANA – Start your engines
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Speeding to insights and actions with lower TCO2
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Accelerating the ROI
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Moving beyond business information
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Featured client: Meijer
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Assembling your Crew
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Defining the SAP S/4HANA® journey
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Fasten your seatbelts
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Your challenges? Our answers
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Why YOU need this
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Featured client: CONA Services supports Coca-Cola bottlers’ growth with SAP migration to Microsoft Azure 10 Ensuring you’re on the right path
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Accelerating your journey
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Take your journey to the clouds
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Contributors
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Capgemini Credentials
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About Capgemini
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SAP S/4HANA— Start your engines Speeding to insights and actions with lower TCO New cloud, mobile, and in-memory technologies are making instant insight and action an everyday reality—any place, any time. Change happens in real-time and businesses need to be able to respond in real-time to deliver true value to their customers. This demands swift handling of the ever-growing mountains of data available to influence and drive core business processes. It is time for the Intelligent Enterprise. SAP has put real-time business within reach with SAP S/4HANA. This next generation platform unifies
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the lightning-fast analytics of SAP HANA with transactions, enabling enterprises to gather and process data while simultaneously applying it to consecutive business process, all in real time. Whether you are planning an installation, considering a data base migration, using Business Warehouse (BW) for reporting only, or facing performance issues, SAP S/4HANA can help you reinvent your business. And there are compelling reasons why you should make the move now—including better business value, lower total cost of ownership (TCO) and enhanced application and virtualization opportunities.
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SAP S/4HANA—Start your engines Accelerating the ROI When considering the move to SAP S/4HANA, it’s important to recognize why sooner is better than later (Figure 1). The return on investment (ROI) is clear—the new SAP HANA platform offers
enhanced business value and huge TCO savings. In addition, SAP is creating new applications that are only available on SAP S/4HANA, such as Simple Finance, so not making the transition could limit your growth and expansion on SAP Business Suite.
Figure 1: Key advantages to moving to SAP S/4HANA
Business Value
Now
“Next Generation” Applications
Business Processes Optimization
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Custom Code Optimization
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Business process improvement
Next Business Practices competitive innovation
Technical Migration ●
Migration to new SAP HANA platform
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Visualization and coud options to reduce TCO
“Simple” Application ●
Adoption of latest innovation standard from SAP
Time
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Moving beyond business information
immediately tangible benefits, including:
Information is one of the most valuable assets of any business. Effective management and interpretation of data can set a business apart from its competitors. But Capgemini knows that business information and analytics go even deeper in the truly competitive enterprise. When information can be gathered, processed, and analyzed with speed and agility—and in direct relation to business processes—it is at its most powerful.
l Speed:
By bringing together transactional processes and analytics on a single platform, organizations can experience real-time business across processes, with
l Innovation:
Perform real-time planning, execution, reporting, and analytics based on live data
l Agility:
Access real-time business insights on any device, anytime, anywhere
l Simplicity:
Deal with both transactional and analytical workloads simplifying your IT landscape
l Cost
efficiency: Reduce TCO by combining analytics and transactions Unlock new growth opportunities by rethinking business processes and enabling the business platform for mobile devices HIGHWAY TO S/4 HANA
FEATURED CLIENT:
Background:
Solution
Benefits
l Meijer’s
l SAP
l Streamlined
financial systems had been in place for many years and have largely satisfied the needs of the business.
l However,
with the recent and projected company growth, and objectives to improve company’s competitiveness and reengineer omnichannel experience, it was clear that the application landscape could not readily accommodate the demands of rapid expansion in terms of new or enhanced business capabilities, performance, and scalability.
l Thus,
Meijer had launched its technology roadmap which involved replacing a number of finance and business systems to ensure long term alignment with the overall company growth strategy.
S/4HANA 1503 Finance for General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Fixed Assets and Project Accounting.
l SAP
MM and Ariba to support Indirect Procurement processes.
l SAP
BPC for Financial Consolidations and Reporting.
business processes.
l New
ERP Platform to support financial and indirect procurement functions.
l Successful
completion of the first step of a long term IT roadmap, with the right mix of global
l BODS
for Data Transformation and Conversions.
l Organizational
Change Management to guide the program from a change perspective including end user training.
l Infrastructure
hosting on Capgemini private cloud.
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Assembling your crew With a new platform at the center of your business, do we need a different set of skills? If the existing team is the correct one, what skills do they need? We need to stop relying on historical ways of approaching SAP. Even though some core elements, such as finance, supply chain, project management, hard work, and a sense of humor, remain true, with the new technologies available and the requirement for more interoperability with point solutions and SaaS solutions, the way we think about business process delivery and customer experience requires new ways of thinking. In fact, there’s a need to revamp roles by maybe adding some new ones and removing a few old ones.
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From a technical viewpoint there’s a need for a lot of changes: l Handling
APIs and potentially a far more complex integration landscape will need hybrid integration skills
l Designing
APIs that may or may not be based on the SAP definition of an object (e.g. customer)
l Need
for robotics process automation (RPA) experience and exposure
l Machine
learning skills with languages such as
python l Chatbot
on natural language programming (NLP) and programming skills for “non-keyboard”
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interaction i.e. for setting up the Copilot or Recast artificial intelligence chatbots, or Alexa l Need
for designing human-centric interfaces, which would mean design thinking, and Javascript to build a system that has easy interactions through Fiori or Alexa/Cortana, etc.
l “New-ABAP”,
which is ABAP in the cloud and through eclipse to build extensions on top of the SAP S/4HANA core system
l More
business skill and industry knowledge from our consultants to deliver value on top of the SAP S/4HANA system
l AI
and Big data, how will the SAP solution process and analyze all the new data points that are being made available. And how will so leverage all this in your organization to really make better decisions?
From an SAP architects point of view: l Understand
how to design an API led design
l Understand
how to develop SAP custom code in SAP Cloud Platform
l Be
able to design solutions that go across SAP S/4HANA and SAP Cloud Platform, e.g. using machine learning on the data in SAP S/4HANA and other sources
l Understand
how to do DevOps across SAP.
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From a developer’s point of view one needs to understand: l Developers
need to have knowledge of platforms such as Eclipse and Github and automated testing tools such as Jenkins
l They
need to learn how to use SAP Cloud Platform
l They
also need to start developing SAP cloud platform (SCP) and use APIs instead of all ABAP.
From a functional point of view as well as core SAP S/4 HANA skills one needs to understand: l Design
thinking to really understand the business problem
l Understanding
new ways to deliver (agile, DT)
l Being
able to do a functional design across S/4HANA and SCP. An understanding of the possibilities around automation/RPA (which should include UIPath, Blueprism, Contextor) and how these can be identified and embedded in business processes
l Following
on from this, the same is true for AI and ML: What is available in SAP standard, how can these be enhanced/developed further, how these technologies can be embedded in the business process. There is no point in understanding the standard process, or the AI and ML components, we will need a new type of hybrid SAP practitioner.
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Functional Consultants will need a closer working with data/analytics colleagues and awareness of:
l Driving
l Positioning
of BW/4HANA
l Scrum
l Capabilities
of predictive analytics
l Embedded
analytics; how far can we go and what the split is between embedded and an EDW (Enterprise data warehouse) and live connection through the SAP analytics Cloud (SAC).
l Visualization l Blockchain
tooling; SAC vs Tableau vs PowerBI etc
scenarios and integration with SAP
S/4HANA.
The basis/infrastructure/cloud team: l Design
a landscape in any cloud solution (AWS, Azure, GCP, Virtustream etc)
l Design
and implement the SAP Cloud Platform
system l Create
deployment strategies across the landscape (both SAP S/4HANA and SAP Cloud Platform)
l Automate
as much as possible (e.g. frequent system copies etc).
Engagement managers who know how to deliver in the hybrid cloud with mixed methodologies for different components that include Agile and DevOps need to have the following skill sets:
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the solution to standard and a fit-gap approach rather than driving to a set of requirements Masters who are far more hands-on than the traditional EM’s and PM’s from waterfall days
l They
cannot stand behind a plan but need to be working more closely with the team and the client so better interpersonal skills are a must.
A contract manager will need these skills: l Contracts
will not be entirely driven by milestones, from a waterfall methodology. If we cannot contract for a new style of delivery it is unlikely to happen
l That
you are not building to a fixed set of requirements
l And
all team members need to be signed up to a disciplined approach that keeps the core stable and aligns with the architectural principals for the project
l Our
customers are resetting their entire business models due to the massive technology adjustments they are thinking digitally the SAP teams need to as well.
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Defining the SAP S/4HANA® journey Defining a successful path towards SAP S/4HANA to secure your journey and get the maximum value for your business. Key customer questions about the move to S4
Do these questions seem familiar? How often are you engaged in discussions which ask the most pertinent, fundamental questions while making transformational shifts? In today’s revolution of digital, the market for a cloud-first business transformation is exploding. Organizations are investing rapidly in transforming their business models, their business processes and the supporting innovative technology, that would allow these changes to be scalable and agile. SAP S/4HANA Cloud is a SaaS based solution designed to deliver key business processes in an ‘as-a-service’ model. It provides preconfigured content for core business processes in finance, procurement, manufacturing and supply chain.
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With organizations rapidly embarking on complex digital transformation journeys, both the on-premise as well as the cloud editions, of the SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA® (S/4HANA) is supposed to drive value across lines of business and industries with the ambition to run digitized and efficient processes. However, such journeys are never simple. They are never straightforward. There are uncertainties, pitfalls, questions on the “how and why do I make this move”, and of course the classic, “uh-oh!” moment.
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Fasten your seatbelts
Why YOU need this
Beyond the SAP Transformation Navigator engagement, Capgemini helps clients to craft a tailored approach at every stage of the adoption journey using various tools and accelerators: assessment, preconfigured scenarios, process mining, deployment options, solution options, functional scope, pre-checks, custom code analysis.
l Capgemini
Your challenges? Our answers l The
Highway to SAP S/4HANA offering from Capgemini caters to anyone who is thinking of moving to SAP S/4HANA either on-premise, or, on the cloud, or in the process of the move to SAP S/4HANA, with the singular aim of succeeding and getting the best out of SAP S/4HANA
l Scope
to an immediate or near-term adoption while involving both the IT and business with business benefits
supports SAP S/4HANA led transformation both from a business transformation perspective and SAP S/4HANA adoption
l Clear
view of the target architecture and roadmap. Support the business benefits case—Helps you For example, typically, The public cloud edition, unlike it’s on-premise sibling, is suited to companies who have decided to “fit-to-standard”, get access to continuous instant technology innovation and concentrate on the acceleration of their growth locally and worldwide without any localization and version upgrade constraint
l By
opening our SAP S/4HANA Toolbox we can provide accelerators, pre-defined scenarios and PoV’s to drastically reduce costs and time—thereby making adoption predictable and planned
l The
complete packaged set of tools, reusable content, pre-configured scenarios, PoV’s and understanding on SAP interfacing products
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FEATURED CLIENT:
CONA Services supports Coca-Cola bottlers’ growth with SAP migration to Microsoft Azure
CONA Services supports North American Coca-Cola bottlers, and it needed more from its cloud infrastructure and data to bring bottlers into the digital age. Migrating SAP on Microsoft Azure provided cost savings, better performance, and more possibilities for the future. The world consumes almost two billion beverages every day produced by the Coca-Cola Company. The company’s global network of bottling partners plays a huge role in making that happen. In 2006, the company launched the Coke One global program to better align bottlers’ data processes and to collaborate more effectively.
Coke One North America (CONA) provides each of the 12 largest Coca-Cola Company’s bottling partners with the tools they need to collaborate smoothly. CONA Services set out to find the best cloud foundation for its existing SAP HANA applications. It chose to migrate to SAP HANA on Microsoft Azure, working closely with Capgemini, SAP, and Microsoft to complete one of the biggest migration of its kind. The CONA migration was completed in just seven months from planning to full production. The entire CONA platform now runs on Azure, making it easily accessible and scalable for bottlers and distributors.
The new CONA Azure platform handles roughly 160,000 orders a day, which represents an annual $21 billion of net sales value. The company’s bottlers use the platform to help improve operations, speak the same technical language, and thrive in the digital age of bottling.
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Ensuring you’re on the right path Defining a successful path towards SAP S/4HANA to secure your journey and get the maximum value for your business. AutoPath AutoPath is our SAP-certified pre-configured S/4HANA package solution that enables the suppliers of automotive companies to streamline operations, providing greater visibility and control of core business processes.
forecasts and JIT delivery schedules, maintain production schedules, perform automated Kanban execution.
It is ideal for organizations that want to align with automotive industry leading practices and promote the standardization and simplification of business operations. A few important things to know about AutoPath:
By combining the AutoPath solution with Capgemini’s iCaptivate Methodology, businesses can experience an accelerated speed to value for their SAP implementation.
It is pre-configured to manage schedule agreements,
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It draws on a repository of OEM EDI messages and label formats including GM, Ford, and Chrysler.
The AutoPath solution also provides extensive integration capabilities with other solutions (social, mobility, analytics, IoT, blockchain, cloud).
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ChemPath
CPGPath
ChemPath provides the Chemicals industry a preconfigured and rapidly deployable SAP ‘All-in-One’ solution based on the latest S/4HANA technology platform. The solution is built on SAP’s Chemicals best practices, a pre-configured LIMS interface, preintegrated with SAP Solution Manager 7.2 and ready to integrate with a portfolio of third-party industry solutions and platforms
CPGPath is Capgemini’s proprietary all-in-one SAP pre-configured and pre-packaged solution, built on best practices from the consumer products industry. Certified by SAP, the solution, constructed on the latest version of SAP S/4HANA, can form the digital core of a client’s intelligent enterprise journey.
Based on several successful installations over the past 10 years, ChemPath delivers a host of benefits for new implementations, including:
CPGPath accelerates your SAP implementation and achieves measurable and sustainable business value because its solution building blocks are available from day one including:
l S AP
l L eading
configuration and enhancements, pre-built specifically for your industry. Ability to conduct “Show and Tell” sessions with real business processes, screens and data
l A ccelerated
implementation timeline, business blueprint process maps, training and technical documentation
l M obility,
FIORI for Usability and Business Intelligence for ease of use
l R obust
iCaptivate methodology powered by Activate, bundled with SAP’s Solution Manager, to offer reliable, effective implementations.
l F lexibility
to accommodate the needs of varying client situations with optional plug and play components
l C an
be leveraged as a reference model to accelerate the requirements and design project phases
industry practices for consumer-products processes, pre-configured for rapid deployment
l R eal-time
insights and predictive analytics
l E commerce l M achine
platform
learning to facilitate efficiency
l I ntegration
using SAP Cloud Platform for product availability and cross-selling
l P rocess
flows and business-process procedures, including system designs and documentation
l R eady-to-go
test scenarios and scripts to help reduce testing time and eff ort
l T raining
for improved performance, including leading practices inchange management
l D eployable
on non-SAP HANA platforms.
l C an
be packaged as a comprehensive SAP solution, including SAP licenses and infrastructure licenses
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l U se
our Infrastructure and Application Maintenance services as an alternative to purchasing new
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EnergyPath / UtilityPath Given the current opportunities in the rapidlychanging Energy and Utilities markets, successful companies can’t slow growth by tying up precious capital funds and can’t afford a long, drawn out implementation of an ERP system. However, many of these companies are struggling to scale up to the current market expansion and unlock the true potential of the business, due to outdated and disjointed systems. Let us show you how we can lower/eliminate upfront capital cost of acquiring, implementing and supporting a world-class SAP solution, built on the latest S/4HANA 1709 digital core, while drastically reducing the time to implement.
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Capgemini’s solution offers two striking benefits: 1. An accelerated approach to implementing SAP. 2. A true leading practice solution for the industry which vastly improves the underlying work processes, whether you are implementing SAP from scratch or optimizing your existing implementations. It has a number of unique differentiators which are already in use at your peer companies today. EnergyPath simplifies SAP for field and key personnel and works very effectively in the background, providing the key information for companies to focus on managing their business.
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LifeSciencesPath LifeSciencesPath is Capgemini’s SAP-certified S/4HANA package solution that is preconfigured with validation artifacts for accelerated implementation. Features include: l L ifeSciencesPath
enables life sciences companies to streamline operations, providing greater visibility and control of core business processes.
l L ifeSciencesPath
Shows the Way to Life Sciences
Industry SAP It is the best choice for companies that want to adopt industry-leading practices and promote the standardization, simplification and scalability of business operations. l L ifeSciencesPath
helps companies embarking on a green-field SAP journey as it can serve as the foundational system upon which the extended value chain can be built.
l I t
can also be used for companies with existing SAP implementations (brown field) who are looking to expand their business process footprint or to enhance existing processes by focusing on the latest leading practices and industry benchmarks.
l L ifeSciencesPath
is the leading practices reference
system. LifeSciencesPath provides a vast collection of tools, templates, resources and guides that have demonstrated acceleration with past implementations. Examples include a master list 14
of pre-configured reference business process solutions, process documentation and process flows, tested example data and integration test scripts, business process procedures: transaction-level work instructions (training material), and GAMP® Validation deliverables templates The LifeSciencesPath solution also provides extensive integration capabilities with other solutions (social, mobility, analytical, IoT, blockchain, cloud) that are driven by business needs. It can be quickly provisioned and deployed both on premise and in the cloud to provide flexibility, speed and a path to further business innovation. HIGHWAY TO S/4 HANA
MFGPath MFGPath is a S/4HANA-based SAP All-in-One ERP solution that enables industrial and discrete manufacturing companies to streamline operations, providing greater visibility and control of core business processes. The solution can be deployed to provide innovation, acceleration, and value as well as provide enhanced capability maturity for companies at any stage of development. Features include: l D isparate
enterprises: integration within the four walls, no closed-loop processes or analysis
l I ntegrated
enterprises: integrated systems within the enterprise, ERP-enabled, no closed-loop processes or analysis
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l A gile
Enterprises: Integration across the manufacturing network, enabling operational excellence, real time-analytic adaptation
Capabilities: l P re-configured
SAP solution to establish production schedules, consumption-based replenishment, automated Kanban execution, and EDI-based VMI with customers and suppliers
l B ased
on leading SAP and manufacturing practices.
l P lanning
and Scheduling—automates demand and supply chain execution with robust forecasting, sales and operations planning, capacity planning, production scheduling, and sequencing.
l A vailable
on SAP S/4HANA and SAP ECC Platform.
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SAP for Upstream Oil and Gas Oil & Gas companies need and are looking for a fixed price solution that meets their requirements. READYUpstream provides Upstream Oil & Gas companies a predictable and proven solution built on S/4HANA and industry-leading practices to jumpstart their SAP implementation efforts. READYUpstream leverages SAP technology and preconfigured industry templates to: l Streamline l Achieve
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business processes Increase efficiency
higher levels of system integration
Benefits: l Increased
agility to better respond to market opportunities
l Reduced
time and resources required for implementation
l Real-time l A
Lease Operating Statement View
scalable platform for growth
l Enhanced
Operational Visibility with AFE vs. Field Estimates reporting
l Lower
overall cost of operations
l Better
profitability and performance management
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Accelerating your journey
Certified partner-built industry innovation accelerators follow SAP best practices by incorporating design thinking methodologies to help customers get to the root of the problem and come up with a solution to meet their needs in their environment. The innovation kits are part of Capgemini’s strategic collaboration with SAP. Through the SAP Cloud Platform, Capgemini has been able, with the necessary tools and resources, to identify opportunities and build prepackaged industry accelerators.
The four Capgemini solutions that are certified for the manufacturing and retail (supply chain) sectors are: 1. Intelligent Shipping – designed to achieve efficiencies in the shipment process through the automated processing of a high volume of delivery documents and converting them into shipments with better capacity utilization for each shipment. 2. Cold Chain Quality Assurance – designed to enable clients to achieve safe distribution, improve quality of goods, certify and trace deliveries, and cut waste. 3. Trusted Goods Consumer Dialogue – designed to enhance the customer experience by providing them with trusted information from a single source. 4. Visual Inspection – designed to help manufacturers avoid costly returns and customer dissatisfaction resulting from the shipment of
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Take your journey to the clouds
AP S/4HANA is built on the SAP HANA® business data platform. Available for on-premises, cloud, or hybrid deployments, SAP S/4HANA leverages the power of SAP HANA. So you can manage and analyze vast data volumes in real time. And optimize your core processes—from finance and human resources to supply chain management and product lifecycle management.
SAP Migration Success Spotlight: Driving innovation and IT transformation for Louisiana Pacific with SAP migration to Amazon Web Services Builders and homeowners across the country trust Louisiana Pacific engineered wood and other building products to create quality homes. A pioneer in high-performance building solutions, LP’s quality flooring, sheeting, roofing and siding products have helped the Nashville-based manufacturer become a $4 billion company.
Transforming to seize the market opportunity LP has always leveraged technology to manufacture materials as efficiently as possible to make the best use of their raw materials and labor. With the housing market in the U.S. starting to recover in 2013, the company wanted to use technology across its business to take advantage of the upcoming boom. LP needed more from its technology: more scalability, better performance, and greater efficiencies. Faster end18
“The response time that we get helps our users get out of punching keys on a keyboard and back to serving our customers, running the business process, loading trucks, and delivering value to our customers.” —Jeff Yelle, Director, IT Center of Excellence, LP user application performance, processing of nightly data loads, and optimizing costs were all
essential for creating a system to give LP a competitive advantage. It also needed an agile platform to respond to future challenges more quickly and to nimbly support growth. Following a technology review, the need for a more flexible IT infrastructure was identified. They chose to migrate from a datacenter model to a cloud-based SAP environment. This would provide scalability for rapid growth, agility in updated environments, more on-demand workloads, and lower operating costs. HIGHWAY TO S/4 HANA
Migrating to the cloud
Reframing business operations
With a tight four-month deadline, the migration moved five SAP landscapes with more than 73 systems from a data center environment to the AWS Cloud without any interruption in LP’s fast-paced business processes. The migration was completed ahead of schedule and exceeded all expectations. Once the production environment went live, IT support personnel were prepared for calls reporting bugs, down systems, and other problems, but the support line was quiet. The team heard only that the new environment was operating faster and work was being completed more efficiently.
With SAP implementation deployed on AWS, LP now loads trucks faster with fewer logistical problems. Response time for employees is lightning fast. Reporting now leverages real-time data, as well as nightly data loads, for fast and accurate business insights. LP has also seen an improvement in application performance of about 20%. Its new flexible cloud platform can easily expand as needed to add new workloads and functionality to accommodate the fluctuations of the housing and construction markets. It benefits from 24x7 availability and improved disaster recovery.
Building for the future The improvements establish a baseline that can be readily
scaled to support LP’s operations in the future. The company is now able to implement software patches and upgrades at a rapid pace that minimize disruptions to daily business operations.
Additionally, having adopted a cloud-centric mindset, LP can now easily leverage the benefits of the Internet of Things (IoT). LP underwent a fast but transformative journey that radically changed the way its business operates. With frictionless agility, improved performance, and a resilient digital core, the organization can look forward to another 45 years of providing leading engineered-wood solutions to the construction industry.
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Request a complimentary S/4HANA Assessment today Organizations that transition to SAP S/4HANA benefit from a proven technology platform—for disciplined operations and predictable business growth. They also gain a foundation for emerging capabilities—from real-time analytics to the Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML).
Capgemini would like to offer you a complimentary assessment to illustrate how your organization can quickly and efficiently start your transition to S/4HANA. One of our SAP experts will schedule a short call to better understand your needs and we will provide your customized 30 minute assessment.
Contributors David Lowson
Gianluca Simeone
Expert in ERP Implementation, Package Solutions
Expert in Cloud, SAP, SAP HANA
I run the package solutions business for Capgemini including all delivery of SAP, Salesforce, Oracle, Maximo, JDA, PLM, Coupa and others. https://www.capgemini.com/experts/sap/davidlowson/
Senior Technology Expert with 20 years of experience on SAP areas. Passionate and motivated leader with different technologies background, having followed also the SAP technical stream evolutions from Netweaver to HANA and S/4HANA. Part of business evelopment, presales and delivery team with skills developed from the Prospect Sales meeting to the Implementation and Projects lifecycles. Technical leader on disruptive and nondisruptive innovative SAP solutions implementations, Cloud, Mobility, in-memory, UX. https://www.capgemini.com/experts/sap/gianlucasimeone/
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Capgemini Credentials Finalist for CX Pinnacle
Pinnacle Award winner every year since 2007 l 2016,
2017, 2018 Customer’s Service Choice Partner of the year SAP Hybris Partner of the Year SAP North America Partner Excellence Award 2016 for Industry Services 2016 Pinnacle Award Finalist Quality Partner of the Year 2016 Pinnacle Award Finalist for Customers Choice Award for Sell and Build 2015 Pinnacle Award for Services Transformation Partner of the Year 2018
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SAP Global Services Partner
2018
SAP Gold Partner Reseller Program
2018 2018
2018 2018
Global SAP Hosting Partner
Highly regarded in the analyst community l Leader:
Gartner Magic Quadrant for SAP Services, Worldwide, 2017 Forrester Wave, Services Providers for Next-Generation SAP Products, 2016 Leader: IDC Marketscape, Digital Strategy consulting Worldwide, 2016 Leader: IDC Marketscape, Big Data Consulting and Systems Integration Services Worldwide, 2016 Leader: Gartner Magic Quadrant for SAP Implementation Services Worldwide, 2015 Leader: IDC Marketscape Positions, Professional Services firms for SAP Suite on HANA in Oil and Gas Worldwide, 2015
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Innovation Awards Finalist Received NL Innovation Award – Ministry of Defense project
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About Capgemini A global leader in consulting, technology services and digital transformation, Capgemini is at the forefront of innovation to address the entire breadth of clients’ opportunities in the evolving world of cloud, digital and platforms. Building on its strong 50-year heritage and ambitions through an array of services from strategy to operations. Capgemini is driven by the conviction that the business value of technology comes from and through people. It is a multicultural company of over 200,000 team members in more than 40 countries. The Group reported 2018 global revenues of EUR 13.2 billion. Visit us at
www.capgemini.com