SAP Solution: Greenfield

The Fischer Group is modernizing its ERP system with S/4 Hana in the private cloud. The aim is to create a future-proof IT landscape, transparent processes, and greater efficiency. The migration will improve planning, production, and control and create the basis for international expansion.

German managers have a problem: They demand the impossible from their IT teams when it comes to data. This endangers the future of companies, as the example of the switch to S/4 Hana shows.

When implementing S/4 EWM in warehouse logistics, detailed planning is critical to success - this is the experience of a large medium-sized manufacturer with complex warehousing and three very different business units. But the result is convincing.

The S/4 conversion knows a wide color spectrum. The cover of this issue reads: Power of Orange. But the origin is the white sunlight, which goes through a glass prism and throws the spectral colors on the wall - including green, brown, blue and orange, see also house message. Here is an E-3 cartoon by Robert Platzgummer (1975 to 2016) that is up to date again...

S/4 Hana is SAP’s fourth ERP generation. Most companies want to master the digital transformation to S/4. Rightly so in my opinion, because the new solution is leading in the market—both in terms of technology and functions.

SAP's color theory finds a continuation. On the current cover is "Power of Orange" and Gregor Stöckler, member of the SNP management, writes on page 14 about the other field variants and naturally ends his text with: Power of Blue.

cbs combines specially developed and proven method modules.

A global S/4 business transformation with high resource commitment for the organization? Unthinkable. Saving valuable time and achieving a digitalization edge - that is the maxim.

Classic entitlement projects are based on a monolithic approach with a linear sequence of project phases with milestones. In an ideal project environment, where both the project drivers and the end state are known, this may work.

Anyone who does not begin the transformation to S/4 in the coming years will have lost. All the more so because the necessary consulting capacities will be lacking in the market. The S/4 transformation - including the digital one - must therefore be radically simplified.

Modern ERP systems such as SAP S/4 Hana not only combine smart software solutions for a wide range of business areas, but are also the technological basis for a successful transformation to an intelligent company.

The changeover to S/4 and the development of a global template pose major challenges for the well-known technology company ZF Friedrichshafen with its heterogeneous ERP landscape.