ISG assists a global multi-billion-dollar commodity trading company in successfully migrating from its SAP ERP central component (ECC) platform to S/4HANA, saving $80 million in the on-premise and cloud redesign and sourcing process.
A global commodity trading company wanted to migrate from “SAP Classic” to S/4HANA. It also wanted to simultaneously mitigate its exposure to digital access, platform migration, maintenance and cloud costs. To ensure the best possible outcome, ISG deployed a team of SAP licensing experts and software architecture and technical auditors who worked with the company’s various stakeholders to create an engagement approach which eliminated risks and optimized costs.
We created a “current state” inventory of its existing SAP infrastructure which identified surplus and under-licensed assets. Then ISG conducted workshops to identify and rationalize S/4HANA sizing requirements, license unit tiering, upgrade requirements, interfaces, third-party applications and a deployment roadmap. Finally, ISG developed a bill of materials (BOM) based on the outputs of the current state assessment and the company’s roadmap and deployment roadmaps.
ISG strategically leveraged our reputation as a “deal advocate” to achieve the following deal attributes:
The company received a market-leading agreement which achieved each of the cost and risk mitigation goals it outlined at the engagement’s start. Under the agreement negotiated by ISG, it realized the following benefits: