Streamline your S/4HANA migration with SAP Signavio

Sep 16, 2024

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Migrating to SAP S/4HANA presents a powerful opportunity to transform your business, but it's a complex journey that demands careful alignment of strategy, processes, systems, and people. In this blog, we’ll explore how leveraging SAP Signavio can ensure your SAP S/4HANA migration delivers the results your business needs.

Migrating to SAP S/4HANA offers clear business benefits, but the journey is far from straightforward. Achieving a successful transformation requires significant investment in time, cost and resources - and guaranteeing success hinges on seamlessly connecting four critical dimensions: business strategy, processes, systems and people.

For organizations to justify this investment, there must be a tangible return. Migrating to SAP S/4HANA offers organizations the opportunity to change what isn't working and 'get back to basics'. Without maximizing the potential of your transformation, the true value will remain unrealized.

In addition to technological improvements, it is a chance to enforce lasting organizational change, by streamlining business processes and ensuring they are aligned to strategic objectives. And this, is where the Signavio Business Process Transformation Suite becomes an indispensable tool.

Introducing SAP Signavio Business Process Transformation Suite

As a cloud-based process management platform, the SAP Signavio Business Process Transformation Suite offers an integrated, holistic approach to process management by combining process modeling, mining, analysis, and automation capabilities within a central hub. It enables organizations to gain a comprehensive understanding of their business processes, manage them proactively, and continuously optimize them.

Designed to enable a collaborative approach to business transformation, the platform fosters alignment across organizations, by ensuring all relevant stakeholders are actively involved in designing the desired future state. This collaborative environment allows teams to effectively model, govern, share and refine business processes, driving consistent improvement and innovation.

Setting the stage for a successful transformation

Every successful technology transformation impacts how a business functions, so for organizations embarking on their S/4HANA migration journey, there is significant value in implementing Signavio at the start of this process. Here's why:

Unlock deep process insights

Signavio helps you gain deep insights into your current processes, paving the way for a more effective migration. By analyzing your existing business processes, it allows you to understand how well processes are conforming to best practices and performing against real-world scenarios. This detailed process discovery enables you to identify inefficiencies, uncover improvement opportunities and ensure that your processes are optimized in readiness for your transition.

Effectively capture and visualize processes

Signavio allows you to document your current (as-is) processes comprehensively, allowing users to map out existing processes, identify gaps, inefficiencies and redundancies before migrating to a new system. It enables a collaborative approach, allowing all relevant stakeholders to participate in the modeling process.

Identify gaps prior to migration

Fit-gap analysis is a crucial step in business process management, especially when transitioning to a new system. For organizations migrating to S/4HANA, Signavio plays a vital role in identifying how well existing processes align with the capabilities of their new system. Intuitive, user-friendly visual representations of the 'as-is' vs. the 'to-be' state allow users to clearly see where processes diverge from desired outcomes and how existing processes differ from SAP Best Practice processes. In addition, Signavio offers a library of best practice processes and templates that can be used as a benchmark during process re-design.

Simulate and optimize 'to-be' processes

With Signavio’s process simulation tool, organizations can run 'what-if' scenarios to simulate how business processes will run in their new system. By comparing how changes such as process flow, resource allocation and system configuration etc. will impact the business in the 'to-be' process enables users to identify potential issues and make adjustments prior to migration. In addition, Signavio supports integration with real data, meaning organizations can use actual operational data to ensure simulations reflect real business conditions.

Maintain process excellence after migration

Once you’re over the line and have gone live with SAP S/4HANA, maintaining process excellence is crucial. Signavio continues to play a key role in ensuring your business operations remain optimized, compliant, and aligned with best practices. Here's how:

Enable standardized working

Signavio facilitates the standardization and harmonization of business processes across various business units and geographies. By providing a centralized repository for all process-related information, it establishes a single source of truth, enabling employees to easily access, review, and follow standardized procedures.

Achieve and maintain total compliance

Effectively managing risk and compliance when transitioning to a new system is critical to avoid disruptions, data breaches and regulatory violations. With Signavio’s compliance management feature, compliance checks can be embedded into process models, ensuring workflows adhere to relevant laws, regulations and policies.

Drive successful user adoption

Signvaio helps to deliver a more holistic change management approach by facilitating collaboration across all departments. With process models and documentation stored in a central location, users can easily access and review their 'to-be' processes, reducing the risk of error and non-compliant behavior.

In addition, Signavio tracks how users interact with the system and the processes. This includes data on who is using the process models, how often they are accessed and whether users are following the prescribed steps. This data-driven approach means you can easily gauge the level of user engagement within your new system.

Unlock the full potential of your S/4HANA upgrade with delaware

In summary, SAP Signavio plays a critical role in ensuring a smooth, efficient, and risk-managed migration to SAP S/4HANA by providing tools for process discovery, optimization, standardization and continuous improvement, along with strong support for change management and compliance.

At delaware, we are dedicated to making your migration to S/4HANA seamless and efficient, and we see Signavio as a key driver in helping to achieve this goal. To learn more about SAP Signavio Business Transformation Suite and to find out how we can help you leverage its capabilities to streamline your migration, get in touch.