SAP S/4HANA Transition Net: The 5 Big Questions Prior to a Project

The transition net is a simple yet powerful method to choose the right transition strategy for SAP S/4HANA transition. It involves five questions whose answers are scored between 1 and 3 and plotted in a spider map to determine the best fit of the three transition approaches: What is the desired level of process reengineering? What is the level of historical data required in the SAP S/4HANA system? What is the ratio of the number of source systems to the number of target systems? What is the cloud adoption strategy for SAP S/4HANA? What is the rollout approach for the project? This figure shows the transition net chart with these five questions and how their answers are plotted. The table below provides a guide for assigning scores for each of the five questions in the transition net. Transition Net Question Score Transition Solution Approach What is the desired level of process engineering? 1 Only the mandatory simplification items needed in SAP S/4HANA 2 Selective process redesign, for example, setup of parallel ledgers, organizational structure harmonization, and so on 3 Redesign of many key processes across all business areas required What is the level of historical data requir...