KTern Accelerated Assessment for an Electrical and Electronics Manufacturer in the United States of America​

A leading electrical and electronics manufacturer and their SAP system integrator chose KTern to complete a faster SAP S/4HANA Assessment and define a roadmap to achieve stress-free conversion from ECC 6 to S/4HANA 1909.

Industry Vertical

Manufacturing

Products and Services

Ductless, VRF systems

Country

United States of America

Source System

SAP ECC 6 EHP 4

Database

Oracle – 359 GB

Number of SAP Users

43

Custom Objects

4118

SAP Interfaces

9

95%

Faster Assessment

0%

Usage of 3rd party collaboration tools

99.9%

Reduction in Preparatory Time

15%

Improved Project Collaboration & Efficiency

The Situation

  1. The electrical and electronics manufacturer decided it was the right time to move from ECC to S/4HANA
  2. As the first step, they built the business case for S/4HANA by analyzing the perceived benefits of the transition
  3. Moving forward, they decided to execute a system assessment to build their roadmap to S/4HANA
  4. For a risk-free roadmap to S/4HANA, they knew that a lot of business insights were needed
  5. Estimations stated that it would take 40 man-days to complete their assessment manually
  6. They started searching for automation driven assessments to reduce the cost, time, and effort required
  7. After comparing multiple products and services, they finally chose KTern to fulfill their requirements

How did KTern help?

  1. KTern was connected to the SAP ECC sandbox system within 5 minutes with no configurations required
  2. An automated assessment was executed to illustrate the technical, functional, and business process impact of moving from ECC to S/4HANA through a system conversion
  3. Auto-recommendations pertaining to testing strategy, landscape & infra, and data archiving were provided
  4. An S/4HANA conversion blueprint incorporating the right plan, the right effort, the right cost, the right system sizing, the right project management, and the right quality was auto-generated
  5. The complete assessment was completed in 2 days instead of 40 days

KTern-Driven Benefits

  1. “S/4HANAPEDIA” empowered project automation and governance
  2. Cost and effort savings due to reduced resource deployment
  3. Huge time savings due to the elimination of configurations and manual work
  4. Improved collaboration and efficiency among all project stakeholders
  5. One product to control the project from start to finish