SAP Signavio
Migrating to S/4HANA – SAP Cloud ERP represents an opportunity to digitally transform a customer’s business, but it is also complex and potentially expensive journey that requires alignment on strategy, processes, systems, and resources. Winterhawk is here to help customers leverage SAP Signavio (by the way, it is included in all SAP Bill of Materials with S/4) to ensure your migration delivers provides optimum results.
- From an ROI perspective, it should quite literally save you money.
- Most customers find that migrating to S/4HANA will offer clear business benefits, but achieving a successful transformation requires significant investment in time, cost and resources.
- There is an opportunity to change what isn’t working. Without maximizing the potential of your transformation, the true value will remain unrealized.
- In addition to technological improvements, it’s a chance to enforce lasting organisational change; by streamlining business processes and ensuring they are aligned to strategic objectives. And this, is where Signavio – part of the SAP Toolchain (which includes LeanIX, WalkMe and Tricentis) becomes an indispensable tool
As a cloud-based process management platform, the SAP Signavio offers an integrated, holistic approach to process management by combining process modelling, mining, analysis, and automation capabilities within a central hub. It enables organisations to gain a comprehensive understanding of their business processes, manage them proactively, and continuously optimise them.
Designed to enable a collaborative approach to business transformation, the platform fosters alignment across organisations, by ensuring all relevant stakeholders are actively involved in designing the desired future state. This collaborative environment allows teams to effectively model, govern, share and refine business processes, driving consistent improvement and innovation.
Setting the stage for a successful transformation!!
Every successful technology transformation impacts how a business functions, so for organisations embarking on their SAP Cloud ERP migration journey, there is significant value in implementing Signavio at the start of this process.
Key Benefits
- Signavio helps you gain deep insights into your current processes, paving the way for a more effective migration. By analyzing your existing business processes, it allows you to understand how well processes are conforming to best practices and performing against real-world scenarios. This detailed process discovery enables you to identify inefficiencies, uncover improvement opportunities and ensure that your processes are optimized in readiness for your transition.
- Signavio allows you effectively capture and visualize processes via documenting your current (as-is) processes comprehensively, allowing users to map out existing processes, identify gaps, inefficiencies and redundancies before migrating to a new system. It enables a collaborative approach, allowing all relevant stakeholders to participate in the modelling process.
- Gap analysis is a crucial step in business process management, especially when transitioning to a new system. For organisations migrating to SAP Cloud ERP, Signavio plays a vital role in identifying how well existing processes align with the capabilities of their new system. Intuitive, user-friendly visual representations of the “as-is” vs. the “to-be” state allow users to clearly see where processes diverge from desired outcomes and how existing processes differ from SAP Best Practice processes.
- In addition, as a baseline, SAP Signavio offers a library of best practice processes and templates that can be used as a benchmark during process re-design – Winterhawk have developed these further, creating wider libraries for our customers across many industries.
- With Signavio’s process simulation tool, organizations can run “what-if” scenarios to simulate how business processes will run in their new system. By comparing how changes such as process flow, resource allocation and system configuration etc. will impact the business in the “to-be” process enables users to identify potential issues and make adjustments prior to migration. In addition, Signavio supports integration with real data, meaning organisations can use actual operational data to ensure simulations reflect real business conditions.
- Once you’re over the line and have gone live with SAP Cloud ERP, maintaining process excellence is crucial. Signavio continues to play a key role in ensuring your business operations remain optimized, compliant, and aligned with best practices. Here’s how:
- Signavio facilitates the standardization and harmonization of business processes across various business units and geographies. By providing a centralized repository for all process-related information, it establishes a single source of truth, enabling employees to easily access, review, and follow standardized procedures.
- Effectively managing risk and compliance when transitioning to a new system is critical to avoid disruptions, data breaches and regulatory violations. With Signavio’s compliance management feature, compliance checks can be embedded into process models, ensuring workflows adhere to relevant laws, regulations and policies.
- Signvaio helps to deliver a more holistic change management approach by facilitating collaboration across all departments. With process models and documentation stored in a central location, users can easily access and review their “to-be” processes, reducing the risk of error and non-compliant behavior.
Winterhawk Signavio Deployment and Support Packages
We want to make customers journeys as easy as possible. We offer both a range of fixed price deployment packages as well as custom deployments.
DEPLOYMENT PACKAGES
Pre-Implementation | Starter Pack (2 weeks)
- Procure to Pay
- Order to Cash
- Plan to Produce
Deliverables
🎯 Business Impact Analysis of Process Blockers – Identify and quantify the operational and financial impact of critical process blockers
🎯 Clean-Core Optimization Using S/4HANA – Evaluate how existing S/4HANA capabilities can close process performance gaps without custom development
🎯 Targeted Remediation Roadmap – Define clear, prioritized actions to eliminate blockers and stabilize operations, with ownership and expected business benefits
🎯 Enterprise Process Insights Roadmap – Establish a phased plan leveraging SAP Signavio to continuously monitor, analyze, and improve processes in line with strategic objectives
Baseline (5-10 weeks depending on processes covered)
- Procure to Pay
- Order to Cash
- Plan to Produce
Deliverables
🎯 Current State Impact Analysis
🎯 High Risk Matrix
🎯 Process Areas for further Investigation
🎯 S/4HANA capability gap mapping and corrective recommendations
Process Modelling (5-14 weeks depending on processes covered)
- Procure to Pay
- Order to Cash
- Plan to Produce
Deliverables
🎯 Develop current state process maps
🎯 Current state gap analysis and scoring
🎯 All process maps developed as per BPMN 2.0 global standards with details up to level 3 & 4
🎯 Develop future state process maps aligned with SAP best practices and business requirements
Process Mining (6-16 weeks depending on processes covered)
- Procure to Pay
- Order to Cash
- Plan to Produce
Deliverables
🎯 Data modelling and process mining of SAP applications data footprint
🎯 Process mining dashboard development
🎯 Process variants and cycle time analysis
🎯 Harmonization recommendations
🎯 Process conformance check ie Process gaps identified against SAP best practices or customer standards
SUPPORT / AMS
Annual or Semi Annual Assessment
BPM Journey to Continuous Improvement (for S/4HANA users)
Deliverables
🎯 Review the progress on blockers acknowledged for improvement (target versus achievement analysis)
🎯 Analyze any new high-risk blockers that have been identified (change comparative to previous period)
🎯 Provide ccorrective recommendations analysis (completed, in-progress, overdue, on-hold, etc)
🎯 Workshop(s) to discuss the assessment, observations and recommendations
🎯 Annual comparison matrix of high-risk blockers (applicable during last 4 quarters)
🎯 KT workshop