SAP S/4HANA Benefits Overview

The benefits of SAP S/4HANA compared to older ERPs, eg SAP ECC, are significant. Therefore, it is not surprising that SAP decided to stop supporting legacy ERP in 2027 , as all the benefits of SAP S/4HANA ERP system make it the much more advanced platform.

All the tasks that your current SAP or non-SAP ERP performs will experience drastic improvements, if you decide to change. The most important benefits of ERP in summary:

Improve Your Performance

With its underlying SAP HANA database technology, SAP's newest ERP platform enables real-time data insights and faster overall access to your entire volume of data. This enables you to perform big data analytics that will support you in enterprise-wide planning, flexible decision making, and complex transactions in no time.

Simplify Your Processes

One of the advantages of SAP ERP is that it restructures your IT environment in a more transparent and centralized way. After an integration, your entire workflow and all related business processes run more efficiently and become much easier to manage thanks to automation capabilities. As a result, all departments in your company will benefit from SAP S/4HANA.

Improves user experience

Another important benefit of SAP S/4HANA is that the platform is more comfortable when it comes to usability. Thanks to SAP Fiori, you receive an intuitive and customizable user interface that always gives you clear insights into all your corporate data and transactions. Keeping an overview has never been so easy!

Innovate Your Business

SAP S/4HANA and forward-thinking technologies go hand in hand, making your workflow more efficient. State-of-the-art innovations such as Artificial Intelligence , machine learning, the Internet of Things or Robotic Process Automation can be seamlessly integrated into the platform. These solutions keep your business productive and ready for the future

Extend Your Flexibility

S/4 HANA has alleviated a major pain point – real-time reporting or analytics. The delay in reporting and analysis due to extracting, transforming, and loading to connect to storage systems. With S/4 HANA you can do all the transactions and reporting all at the same time because within SAP HANA you can have SAP BW embedded. This eliminates the need to download reports and analysis to third party systems. You will now be able to pull real-time reports that combine transactional and historical data allowing you to make strategic and tactical decisions based on the latest data.

Increase Sustainability

The integrated SAP HANA database in-memory technology works more efficiently and requires less storage space. This leads to a reduction in your data footprint and lowers your maintenance costs. But you also benefit from SAP S4 HANA in terms of ecological sustainability , as you can measure your carbon footprint thanks to elaborate scaling tools.

Now Your Resources

All the benefits of the SAP S/4HANA ERP system can be summed up in one important advantage for companies: the overall cost reduction. The powerful and centralized ERP system requires less hardware expenses as well as maintenance work, giving you valuable financial capabilities that you can reinvest in the development of your company.

Customize Your System

SAP S/4 HANA is an all-in-one solution, but with a significant advantage: Depending on the line of business you operate in, you can tailor your SAP Business Suite according to your industry. There are specific modules of SAP S/4 HANA that offer you the exact functionalities that your organization and all its subsidiary departments need