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… management issues impacting our workforce and manufacturing partners as they adapt to the new platform and processes,” said Frisk. Those issues caused delayed shipments and loss of productivity, he added.”
S/4HANA’s Maturity Issues
So we have been pointing out the high-risk nature of S/4HANA for some time in numerous articles. We published the only independent study on S/4HANA implementations, which you can see at A Study into S/4HANA Implementations.
S/4HANA is still an immature application, and this makes it challenging to implement. Many parts of S/4HANA are not yet released, and …

… actually works mostly in Excel, although in a structured manner. In the area of financial budgeting, a company called Excel4Apps also works with Excel instead of attempting to replace it.
“Ten key financial processes will be brought up to date: client-to-cash, procure-to-pay, planning, forecasting, analytics, taxation, partner accounting, time management, asset management and record-to-report.”
This provides a rough idea of the scope.
S/4HANA Maturity Issues
Bray said that the implementation is generally going to plan, but admits “one of the problems we have had is the release cycles of S/4. Particularly in …

… S/4HANA at the time of implementation, and we get varying reports as to how complete the module actually is. It appears that BAN implemented S/4HANA Finance with eyes on S4HANA EM as being the primary justifier of using S/4HANA as the following quotation from BAN’s implementing partner attests:
“As a major benefit of S/4HANA, SAP touts the ability for enterprises to “reimagine business processes.” Ballance has started on this journey and foresee S/4 Logistics (the next module off the block) as a real game-changer for their business. While the simplified data model and …

… consulting companies is its specific topic and is covered in the following article.
This S/4HANA implementation went live on January 15th, 2015.
The desire to sell S/4HANA projects and to get S/4HANA skills on the resumes of consultants is intense. I was consulting with one SAP Gold Partner selling S/4HANA projects but had no experience implementing S/4HANA. This company primarily sold to unsophisticated customers who would not have known to ask about specific S/4HANA experience in this company’s consulting corps.
I once asked the CEO and the head of consulting how they intended …