SAP S/4 HANA Migration : Utilities Gain Flexibility And Optimization With Operational Excellence

The Introduction:

Based in USA, and having more than 5 centers in various zones of USA, the client’s firm confronted difficulties with its current on-premises enterprise SAP framework workloads. The organization required an increasingly light, cost-proficient, secure and adaptable IT scalable environment so it could respond quickly to changing business market prerequisites. Its current on-premises IT foundation was a noteworthy hindrance, shielding the organization from accomplishing elevated amounts of adaptability and responsiveness to ceaselessly developing business and client needs.
The client moved toward Stridely Solutions to help move its on-premises SAP solution and approached to gain assistance based on a suitable solution for their requirements.

The Problem Statement

A key offering of organization business is the Energy and Utilities, which comprises of groups working in connection with institutions to tweak stock most appropriate to research programs. Client’s organization intended to extend their program, an IoT activity, that coordinates the physical equipment, SAP application management, Salesforce.com, and their site. A future objective is to then offer the coordination to their worldwide auxiliaries. With more than 40 years in business and a few clients under severe FDA guidelines, guaranteeing these applications cooperate consistently – and safely – was basic.

To further add intricacy with complexity to an officially troublesome assignment, predictable, extensive growth was quickly fueling the business forward, however, uncovered holes in the IT infrastructure. Their execution of the SAP ECC 6.0 stage was inadequate with regards to enter usefulness in the regions of generation arranging, eProcurement and item costing. The requirement for a stable, and all the more significantly versatile stage to help the quickly advancing business ended up basic.

As organization assessed their choices, they were looked with the substances of having a small IT team who didn’t have the important SAP specialized involvement to execute a “cloud first” with SAP S/4 Migration methodology and bolster an enormous scale ERP efforts.

“We are very excited to finally be able to introduce our energy and utility services to a significantly larger number of team based in United States, thanks to Stridely Solutions and SAP.”

– Chief Operations Officer

The Solution

SAP S/4 HANA expert assist the client with start to finish execution services and answers for improving ROI capacity; provide better administration; monitor inward operational proficiency and administrative reports. With new projects and assignments or legal conditions coming up, the system is migrated and implemented to scalability to dynamically fit with the modifications.

Our contributions include:

  • Customer Relationship Management (CRM) with automated notification and record capture from mail
  • Multi-Channel Integration
  • Invoicing for Water, Energy and Gas Industries
  • Client and Revenue Analytics
  • Enterprise Asset and Work Management
  • Mobile App Integration
  • Workforce Management
  • Parity Score Card for execution the executives
  • Administrative Reporting
  • Execution Services through BW/SEM
  • Production network Management
  • Human Capital Management
  • Common Services for HR back-office activities
  • SAP Upgrades
  • SAP Archiving

GCC (Global Competency Center)

To enable you to manufacture a strong help model for SAP S/4HANA implementation, the tasks are divided based on phases as per the priorities provided by the client’ team. The principal track of the program comprises of a three-staged methodology intended to limit the effect to the business while establishing the framework for future business needs. The initial two stages, presently complete, were requirements for empowering the program and involved executing SAP Business Suite Powered by SAP HANA® pursued by actualizing SAP S/4HANA. The third stage will keep on utilizing the abilities of SAP S/4HANA.

Stage 1: Move to SAP Business Suite on HANA

Establishing the specialized framework started with the migration of finance and accounting and HR frameworks from SAP Business Suite on Microsoft SQL to SAP Business Suite on HANA. The usage took a half year, and set the establishment for the SAP S/4HANA move up to empower the change.

Stage 2: Transformation in SAP S/4HANA

Built up the transformational innovation foundation with the execution of SAP S/4HANA 1610. As Stridely Solutions had optimized its worldwide and finance related procedures and specialized engineering, it picked a brownfield transformation (i.e., set up redesign and information relocation), utilizing the SAP system.

Stage 3: Further specialized ability change to meet new business needs

We assess business needs and influence SAP S/4HANA functionalities to drive further an incentive to the business. This worth incorporates an increasingly adaptable and coordinated stage to help various organizations, upgrading astute, continuous automated accounting and finance related detailing, experiences and investigation and the capacity to use future SAP abilities.

Digital Financial Reporting and Analytics

In parallel to, we upgraded its advanced analytical reports on two fronts: a movement of SAP Business Warehouse on Microsoft SQL to SAP HANA in Microsoft Azure and enablement of another treasury and records receivables investigation information mart on SAP S/4HANA.

  • Improvised alignment of strategies and operations
  • Enhancement in productivity along with leveraged business insight
  • Thoroughly controlled regulation of finances
  • Stabilized corporate governance
  • Real-time, anywhere, anytime access to enterprise information
  • Strengthened compliance with information security standards
  • High-speed analysis of both structured and unstructured data
  • Capability to maintain the exponentially expanding data volumes
  • Quickening of reporting and qualitative improvements in results
  • 25% lower service costs with regularly conducted cost and financial analysis
  • 50% reduction in operating effort for billing and invoicing, due to integrated data.
  • 24% increase in revenue with an increase in cross-sell rates
  • 20% reduction expected on annual SAP infrastructure spend
  • 30% reduction in error rate in invoices sent out