Do you find that inconsistent processes often create confusion, errors, and delays in your business? Whether it's invoicing, purchasing, or financial closing, employees executing processes in different ways can lead to significant inefficiencies. These inefficiencies often result in errors, delays, and employee frustration, hindering the smooth functioning of your business. But what if there was a way to streamline and standardise these processes, ensuring consistency, efficiency, and reduced errors across your organisation? The answer lies in leveraging SAP Signavio with your SAP S/4HANA migration.
SAP's roadmap for the future includes phasing out SAP ECC by 2027. While this deadline may seem distant, the migration process to S/4HANA can be long, complex, and challenging. The key to successful migration lies in adhering to SAP Best Practices—standardising business processes that lead to simpler management, more efficient workflows, and faster improvement cycles.
SAP Signavio is a powerful accelerator in this journey. It helps organisations gain visibility into their existing processes and align them with SAP's Best Practices. By standardising your processes with Signavio, you ensure that the migration is smoother and more cost-effective.
It's common for businesses to lose track of how their processes work. For example, invoicing may have dozens of variants based on different circumstances, leading to inefficiency, delays, and errors. However, SAP Signavio's Process Mining tool gives you complete visibility into your processes, enabling you to identify variations and inefficiencies. Even if your current ERP system does not yet use SAP, Signavio can help you analyse your existing process flows and compare them to SAP’s Best Practices.
Once you understand the current process, Signavio helps you model and compare it against SAP Best Practices, identifying areas for standardisation. This is particularly critical when migrating to the SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud, where adhering to these standards is essential for a seamless transition. By aligning processes with SAP Best Practices, your migration will be easier, faster, and ultimately cheaper.
We recommend using the SAP Signavio Process Manager, a Business Process Modeling (BPM) tool that helps visualise and compare your workflows with SAP's standards to streamline your processes.
Here's how it works:
By involving key stakeholders in the process modelling, you increase acceptance and support, ensuring smoother adoption of new, standardised processes.
In addition to Signavio, SAP offers SAP Cloud ALM (Asset Lifecycle Management) to complement your process improvement efforts. Cloud ALM helps streamline implementation, improve operational management, and provide end-to-end monitoring and analytics for your SAP system. This ensures that all processes are continuously aligned with SAP Best Practices.
Following best practices can significantly accelerate the implementation process when migrating from SAP ECC or a non-SAP ERP system to S/4HANA. By aligning processes with SAP Best Practices, you minimise the need for significant system adjustments, enabling a quicker and smoother transition to S/4HANA.
Here's how SAP Signavio accelerates implementation:
Combining the Process Manager with the Collaboration Hub ensures that everyone in the organisation is aligned and supportive of the new processes, driving faster implementation and smoother adoption.
In summary, SAP Signavio offers several key benefits:
Are you interested in how SAP Signavio can simplify your migration to SAP S/4HANA or help you improve processes post-migration? Contact one of our experts today for a personalised consultation and discover how Signavio can transform your business processesfor greater efficiency and success.
Timo van Helvoort is an Emixa ES Supply Chain Management Team consultant with a background in operations management, logistics and Industry 4.0.