Author: Rene Leppich, Arvato Systems

The digitization of the economy is fundamentally changing work processes and is not bypassing any industry or area of responsibility. This is by no means just a technological upheaval.

The need for innovative solutions for growing business requirements continues to rise in order to support the smart processes and new business models required in the course of digitization. To make themselves future-proof, more than 11,500 customers worldwide already rely on S/4.

Many SAP customers feel unsure of what to do concerning the migration to S/4 Hana - and rightly so.

Above all, the digital transformation must take place holistically, along the entire value chain, in all areas of the company, including internal and external links.

Exceptional situations such as the current one show that digitization has not yet reached the necessary level of future security for many companies.

Digitization presents companies with major challenges. If you want to avoid failures, you need a structured approach - this also applies to the implementation of S/4 as the "digital core". The creation of a business transformation roadmap is absolutely recommended for this.

With S/4, SAP has clearly positioned its ERP system as the digital core for the digital transformation of companies. Alignment with the corporate strategy and a clearly structured approach are important for future-proof implementation.