At YRC, we help to implement and align these platforms that will streamline operations, unlock process intelligence and increase the profitability of your retail business, whether you are a grocery chain, fashion brand, or omnichannel retailer. This combination will future-proof your retail business.

What is Retail SAP S/4HANA – Signavio Implementation?

Implementing SAP S/4HANA retail together with SAP Signavio process transformation as an integrated solution provides a firm foundation for digital retail operations with a future-ready mindset. While SAP S/4HANA digitizes and streamlines enterprise resource planning functionality with real-time capabilities built into the intelligent enterprise suite, Signavio helps businesses visualize, analyze, and automate processes at scale.

When taken together, S/4HANA and Signavio bring retailers into the future by enabling them to do away with legacy systems, set up intelligent workflows, and get visibility and transparency throughout their entire operation, from the warehouse outlet to the storefront.

Two applications bring a lot of benefits:

• Consolidation of data and transaction processing through S/4HANA.
• End-to-end process mapping and process simulation from Signavio.
• Collaboration across business departments.
• Rapid, intelligent decision making based on real-time metrics.

For retailers, this is a system that not only handles high-volume transactions and inventory management but also continuously provides insight into how well those processes actually perform. YRC uses both to power transformational efforts resulting in holistic SAP retail transformation with S/4HANA, also reducing manual activity and improving service delivery throughout your retail enterprise.

Why Retailers Need SAP S/4HANA and Signavio Together

Utilizing SAP S/4HANA for retail alongside SAP Signavio implementation allows retailers to respond to rapid changes in customer behaviors, technology, and supply chains. Even more, it aligns the business’ operational efficiencies with its strategic SAP retail transformation with S/4HANA.

Retailers need both tools in order to make sure all of their business processes from stocking a shelf to fulfilling online orders, are efficient, flexible, and data-driven.

Together, these systems provide:

• Centralized ERP for operational consistency.
• Visibility and simulation of processes for proactive change management.
• Velocity of innovation and new service deployment.
• Alignment of IT systems to business objectives.

For example, if a retail chain wants to increase fulfillment speed in their stores during a seasonal peak. With SAP S/4HANA tracking current inventory in real-time and SAP Signavio simulating process adjustments, the business can adjust, test, and mobilize the changes in days instead of weeks, potentially resulting in increased sales and customer satisfaction.

The YRC team makes it easy to integrate retail with SAP S/4HANA and SAP Signavio, allowing you the ability to ripple the changes throughout their retail operations during periods of change, growth, or disruption to ensure smooth sailing in the retail operation process.

Key Benefits of SAP S/4HANA for Retail Transformation

SAP S/4HANA is new-age ERP, with in-memory computing and real-time analytics as fundamental features. For retailers, this equates to faster transactions, smarter inventory methodologies, and a single version of the truth that extends sufficiently from finance to the supply chain.

SAP S/4HANA for retail gives users real-time insights, less manual effort, greater agility- providing better decision quality across all areas of the business.

The benefits include:

• Timely processing of high-volume transactions.
• Accurate inventory status across backend locations.
• Manage product lifecycle in real time.
• Automate purchase orders and invoicing.
• Data encompassed from the point-of-sale and customer behavioral data.

Retailers will also gain scalability-whether it is opening in new geographies, new formats, or even hybrid business models. For instance, a supermarket chain can optimize tracking of perishable products, leveraging real-time alerts to reduce waste which will direct profits.

YRC can align your S/4HANA inception with the retail goals – ensuring that you obtain an efficient digital transformation rather than another exciting system upgrade.

What is SAP Signavio and How It Drives Process Transformation

SAP Signavio is a cloud-based process intelligence and transformation suite used for end-to-end visibility into business operations. It plays an important role in the journey retailers need to take towards moving from reactive business models to proactive business models.

SAP Signavio helps retailers identify inefficiencies, map optimized workflows and implement changes that demonstrate measurable outcomes.

Advantages of retail process transformation:

• Discover and map all of the critical retail workflows.
• Use process mining to find opportunities.
• Simulate changes prior to implementing changes.
• Measure success with KPIs.
• Determine compliance and governance.

Imagine a retailer that is dealing with order to cash delays. Signavio can support a retailer by visualizing each step in the process workflow to highlight friction points (for example, delayed vendor confirmation.), and recommend new workflows. And, if used with S/4HANA, they can quickly simulate changes leveraging an available ‘real-time’ data wrapper to support operations.

YRC uses SAP Signavio not only as a tool but as a strategic enabler that continuously improves operational efficiency, employee productivity and customer satisfaction.

YRC’s Approach to SAP S/4HANA Retail Implementation

YRC employs a consulting-first, industry-specific methodology to implement SAP S/4HANA in retail that ensures alignment with your business objectives, as well as your existing legacy system and the customers’ needs.

Our method is agile and strategic. We take retail clients from the system discovery phased through to the phases of post-deployment optimization with safe, measurable checkpoints along the way.

Our implementation method includes:

• Process Discovery & Fit-Gap Analysis
• Data Readiness & Data Cleansing
• Custom configuration of Retail modules
• Integration with the POS, CRM and Inventory Management systems
• Testing, Training and Go-Live Support

YRC consulting has deep domain knowledge. We are late-stage adopters of digital retail – we know the unique challenges of retail (SKU turnover, demand seasonality, multi-channel logistics) and we can build your SAP S/4HANA environment with these challenges in mind.

By delivering your product in an agile tech style and engaging teams across functional lines, we accelerate deployment to limit system downtime, improve user engagement and ultimately ROI.  YRC has implemented SAP S/4HANA for many types of retailers whether as a chain of digital fashion outlets or with specialty stores, YRC closely considers your scope and ambition when planning your SAP implementation.

End-to-End SAP Signavio Implementation Services by YRC

YRC provides end-to-end SAP Signavio implementation services providing for the needs of today’s retail businesses, YRC enables its clients to achieve insights to act on, enhanced agility in the face of disruption, and build a culture of continuous improvement.

We help retail clients map, improve, and govern processes using the full capabilities of SAP Signavio’s transformation suite. 

Signavio services help you with the following:

• Process Mining to better understand inefficiencies
• Modeling & Simulation of retail workflows
• Collaboration Tools for team-wide process visibility
• Governance Frameworks for consistency and compliance
• Monitoring Dashboards to monitor KPI progress

Retail clients range from redesigning stock replenishment cycles, to developing interactions with vendors, to customer engagement touchpoints. Signavio allows users to visualize workflows, simulate alternatives, and deploy improvements, all while not compromising live operations.

YRC enables retail clients to integrate Signavio with S/4HANA for end-to-end visibility across systems and frontline execution; ultimately maximizing the outcomes of transformation across your retail ecosystem.

Real Use Cases: How SAP Enables Retail Transformation

Across various industries, retailers are beginning to utilize SAP S/4HANA and SAP Signavio as a means of improving operations, reducing processes, and meeting the changing needs of increasingly more digital consumers. These applications are facilitating real change, not just in the software, but the methods in which core retail processes are birthed.

The Answer First: Retailers can leverage SAP S/4HANA and SAP Signavio by improving operational efficiency, mitigating manual effort, and as an enabler of decision-making based on data rather than opinions, by changing how core retail processes are executed.

Here are a few examples in the real world:

Apparel Retailer: This Global Fashion Retailer used SAP S/4HANA to create inventory visibility across its stores, warehouses, and e-commerce platforms. As a result, the company saw a 25% improvement in package delivery speed and fewer stockouts during peak shopping for consumers.

Grocery Chain: By utilizing Signavio’s process mining capabilities, this supermarket group was able to discover inefficiency in each phase of its vendor management cycle. Once the team redesigned the process, they were able to reduce the time to process invoices by 40%.

Common Challenges in SAP S/4HANA Retail Projects (and How They Are Solved)

1. Data Complexity and Migration Issues

Retailers tend to be encumbered by multiple legacy siloed applications that all have lots of inconsistent data formats. Migrating billions of records, which might contain mapping errors, delays or incorrect master data would be a nightmare.

Solution: Early on the project, it is critical to conduct a detailed data readiness assessment, allowing time for automated data cleansing, de-duplication and validation prior to migration.

2. A lack of process visibility

If we do not have visibility to all of the end-to-end current state business processes, it’s difficult to know where the issues are and where to focus improvement activities.

Solution: SAP Signavio’s process mining and modeling tools help to identify bottlenecks while providing a visual mapping technique to see the actual order of business activities which allow for data backed redesigning to improve current-state process efficiencies.

3. User Resistance to Change or Change Fatigue through direct foreseen impacts

Not all end users or stakeholders will agree with making changes to current state practices or there may be change fatigue brought on by adopting a new UI.

Solution: Being proactive in applying continuous change management techniques, training programs, and stakeholder engagement in concert with furthering product development will foster adoption and capitalization on opportunities to get the most value.

4. Integration complexity

Integrating SAP S/4HANA to other applications such as e-commerce, back-office, CRM, and warehouse applications could be problematic.

Solution: A well-defined Middleware strategy and publish clear interface documents; all to safely foster real-time integration responsibility to enable all retail applications to work seamlessly together.

Future-Proofing Retail with SAP and YRC

When we talk about the retail field, digital transformation is not a matter of acceptance, but a necessity. YRC helps retailers create velocity by giving them the dual engines of innovation that are SAP S/4HANA retail consulting and SAP Signavio implementation.

Envision First: YRC helps retail businesses become agile, efficient, and connected to insights using strong SAP technologies.

For us, transformation is not simply about technology; it’s about joining people, processes, and platforms as one. As you are measuring your transformation strategy by fast time to delivery, or lowering costs, or providing greater customer service, we deliver SAP solutions that are tailored to reach those outcomes.

Let’s turn your retail transformation strategy into a reality: with SAP, Signavio, and YRC.

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