Transforming, managing, and improving your business processes are critical to your business transformation to help achieve your goals for operational efficiency, business change, growth at scale and at pace. A continuous process transformation is essential to an organisation's competitive advantage and therefore faster time to insight and adapt becomes paramount to unlock value throughout your journey.
To enable enterprises, accelerate and drive process excellence initiatives, SAP has introduced SAP Signavio Process Transformation Suite, embedded with the right strategies, guidance, methodologies, visualisations, and prebuilt industry reference models for you to harness the power of SAP Signavio and unlock new possibilities.
Process excellence must be managed as a continuous and sustainable activity, instead of a one-off initiative. We strongly believe understanding how your current processes work and talk to each other, is the foundational step of transformation. However, visibility into one's business processes does not come easy and is usually more complex that you originally designed and anticipated.
“Imagine an organisation spread across continents, with procurement, manufacturing, logistics and sales across the globe, with years of organic and inorganic growth and then imagine the complexity of business processes e.g. Procure-to-Pay, Order-to-Cash and Record-to-Report, Taxation and their variations and millions of transactions!”
What you need to know?
- SAP Signavio provides holistic and granular visibility into an organisation's business processes and coupled with PwC's Industry Edge with pre-built process reference models, gives you an ideal platform for process transformation. At a high level, specific modules within Signavio are connected to an organisation's ERP applications (SAP or otherwise), deep dives into processes, interprets the data, benchmarks against industry standards and enables the plan for change.
- The combination of SAP Signavio Process Transformation Suite and Industry Edge offers you a unique, end-to-end business process management solution, consisting of complementary tools, business content and services.
- PwC's industry experts and technology specialists, experienced on business transformations, have built significant assets on SAP Signavio platform that provides you with new business and IT capabilities. These Assets are scalable and can be used out of the box, to support you navigate and accelerate your process transformation journey. As PwC's key differentiators, the Assets coupled with industry leading practices packaged in a comprehensive playbook — all designed to ignite the next stage of your transformation journey with SAP.
- PwC’s industry leading practices combine our deep experience in both SAP Signavio and SAP S/4HANA implementations and we have targeted specific transformation / implementation activities where SAP Signavio’s capabilities add value through increasing efficiency, enhancing quality, and providing new insights.
“SAP Signavio is an essential component of any SAP S/4HANA business transformation as it helps to understand the current state and enables future improvements. We, at PwC, are using Signavio to magnify our own S/4HANA implementation and we share all our learnings with our clients. As Christian Klein, CEO of SAP SE, said at SAPPHIRE Barcelona 2023 : PwC drinks its own Champagne.”
Marc Bourdé, Partner, PwC United Kingdom
Pharmaceutical Industry
Background:
One of our key clients in pharmaceutical industry was facing severe challenges with introducing new business models, limited by its heterogeneous application landscape, which was essential for competitiveness and sustainable growth. The client had embarked on a multi-year, strategic, Business-led, IT-enabled global program that aims to drive, enable and activate the end-to-end transformation of its business, processes and systems, including the implementation of SAP S/4HANA as a new ERP solution.
What did we do?
We led the program with a (hybrid) agile approach which is aligned with SAP Activate and based on an Azure Boards (ADO) and Solution Manager Focused Build toolchain. We leveraged SAP Signavio in the E2E design of business processes, including the E2E process hierarchy and process governance. We supported the client in the setup of the process governance in Signavio including definition of attributes, naming conventions and BPMN 2.0 standards. We guided the client to set up a lean and transparent E2E process governance from the very beginning of the transformation and take the first but a crucial step towards a process driven organisation.
Engineering Industry
Who:
One of our foremost clients in the engineering industry with global operations across 85+ countries, and has embarked on a SAP S/4HANA for Central Finance (CFIN) greenfield transformation. The company has a complex mesh of processes covering and the scope of the programme covered Procure-to-Pay, Plan-to-Deliver, Tax, Treasury, Order-to-Cash, and Record-to-Report to support its daily operations.
What did we do?
We have implemented SAP Signavio to enable process transformation by mapping processes and aligning them with the client’s technology landscape. We have leveraged Signavio's process collaboration capability to enable global adoption, giving the business full visibility of the future processes. This has really helped embed transparency across the operational processes and brought to life potential synergies to be had throughout the chain. We managed the business process lifecycle through fit-to-standard phases with the right level of rigour on Signavio process management, which enabled transparency and supported efficient process governance throughout the design and into the deployment.
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