The client is one of the largest US-based spirits and wine companies with sales in more than 170 countries.
The client was looking to upgrade to SAP S/4HANA for digital enablement. They wanted visibility into this journey with a clearly defined business case, proof of concept and pilot implementation. Infosys leveraged proprietary tools like its Safe Passage Methodology and S/4Assist toolset to meet the client’s needs.
Key Challenges
- Unsure of how to select the right business innovations in S/4HAHA
- Assessing the impact of SAP S/4HANA innovation on the existing business operations and data conversion
- Executing pre-upgrade activities like hardware, CVI, ecosystem compatibility, etc.
- Ensuring minimum impact on critical integrations
- Developing the scope, plan and budget for the upgrade to get board approval
- Choosing between on-premises or cloud architecture
- Provisioning the new infrastructure landscape
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The Solution
Defining the SAP S/4HANA roadmap and pilot conversion to S/4HANA 1809
Infosys evaluated the fitment of SAP S/4HANA for the client’s environment and assessed the business as well as technological impact by using the S/4Assist toolset.
After creating a detailed project plan for pilot conversion, Infosys performed many activities to streamline the cutover. This included remediating the custom code and minimizing data disruption among business partners. Our comprehensive assessment provided the client with clear insights into all of their options and the cost for each, empowering them to make the right decisions.
Infosys implemented the pilot conversion from ECC to SAP S/4HANA and defined the prerequisite projects needed to be deployed before the large-scale S/4HANA conversion.
Accelerating digital transformation journey with SAP S/4HANA
- Enabled successful remediation of impacted code and integration testing
- Successfully converted nearly 135,000 customers and 127,000 vendors into business partners
- Improved performance of data intensive transactions in SAP S/4HANA like General Ledger tasks and COPA reports
- Provided the client with a comprehensive budget for the entire project including external and internal resources, SAP services, infrastructure upgrades, and more
Benefits
Future-proofed the migration by developing a detailed roadmap with future steps and clear estimation of cost, effort and time
Jumpstarted the implementation of 30 high priority business innovations in SAP S/4HANA
Created reusable and automated test scripts that have reduced the overall cost of conversion
