SAP Solution: MAG 22-02

Industry 4.0 is changing our everyday working lives in many areas. By definition, this so-called digital revolution is accompanied by a massive change in the role of the human resource in the work process.

A spontaneous discussion arose about the contemporary nature of Hana and S/4. This is very exciting because it covers many dimensions, including the future of SAP.

Fast and cost-efficient adoption of digital manufacturing and seamless traceability are business-critical for mid-sized manufacturing companies. A lean MES with an UX design that users can configure themselves makes it possible.

IoT, AI or machine learning: it has never been easier to obtain applications, ready-made services and the latest technologies quickly and flexibly from the cloud. But what is the right cloud strategy and how can secure data migration be achieved?

At the beginning of the new year, a discussion arose virally about the relevance of S/4 and how contemporary this ERP software from SAP still was - not so much in 2022 as at the end of the conversion in about five years.

No monthly SAP news should be disregarded. The Short Facts are dedicated to smaller news items as well as seemingly more or less important statements from the community. This is the place for SAP-specific press releases that otherwise tend to be overlooked.

Almost nine out of ten companies (88 percent) that already use an ERP solution from SAP will migrate to S/4 Hana within the next three years. This is the result of a survey conducted by Camelot and the analyst firm Techconsult among 200 German companies.

At the beginning of the year, E-3 Magazine asked to what extent Hana and S/4 are still up to date. This is not a blasphemy of SAP's ERP doctrine, but a pragmatic view of the S/4 conversion.

The year started well for Christian Klein. Manager Magazin January 2022 shows a picture of Klein with the title "Codeword Attack. A short time later, the correction came online: "The defensive battle of the SAP CEO.

In the background, the biggest ERP change in IT history is probably taking place. In contrast, the version change from the mainframe-based SAP R/2 to the three-tier client-server system SAP R/3 was only a mild spring breeze.

Data and content from operational applications that are no longer processed there should be continuously transferred to a legally secure and system-independent platform such as JiVS IMP.

DMI is taking steps to radically simplify the transformation to SAP S/4 Hana. To this end, the company, which specializes in information management, advises SAP existing customers to have their own data layer for all information that is no longer processed operationally.