THE APPROACHES TO S/4HANA

 

The shift to SAP S/4HANA is exponentially gaining momentum. Colours like Green, Brown, and Blue are often heard and considered when having intense discussions about the migration approach. We tend to wonder whether they are discussing Fashion or whether it has something to do with Picasso's periods.

Through this interview, we shall discuss several approaches to S/4HANA. This shall, in turn, be crucial in bringing some sanity and clarification about this issue. The approaches include; Greenfield, brownfield, and hybrid.

The Greenfield and brownfield approach effectively provide various options when converting an SAP ERP system to S/4HANA. Companies deploy the Greenfield approach when there is a need to launch into a new installation of the SAP S/4HANA system. However, the brownfield approach is efficient in preserving all data and settings. Hybrid plays the role of spanning the company's parent of the mothership. It is designed to operate SAP S/4HANA and its specific subsidiaries, ecosystem, or associate entities fully equipped with SAP S/4HANA. Cloud happens to be a modern alternative to the traditional ERP template approach.

The preeminent approach for adopting SAP S/4HANA;

With respect to colours, each company is free to choose the colour it prefers. Subsequently, every customer should choose an approach based on their own particular needs.

Brownfield is vastly preferred by customers who have certain requirements. For instance, customers who want to leverage their existing solutions and save their historical data are urged to deploy the brownfield approach. In addition, the Brownfield approach provides efficacy in results when it comes to converting S/4HANA and adopting its innovations rapidly.

Greenfield is convenient for customers who want to re-engineer their processes and implement a new solution without saving historical data.

Hybrid seems to have some features similar to both Brownfield and Greenfield. It saves the value and quality of existing solutions and provides flexibility for the definition of the go-live phase. It, in turn, permits separated go-lives for different company codes and the system downtime optimization.

At SYNNOVE systems in Singapore, Malaysia, we use our SAP S/4HANA COVID-19 ERA CONVERSION PACKAGE service to aid customers in picking the best approach. The usage of SAP HANA Cloud in a hybrid data strategy offers both flexibility and high performance.