With the great SAP migration on the way, it is time to ditch the old approach to ERP upgrades and let productivity intelligence guide the way. Productivity intelligence from KYP.ai offers comprehensive insights from business process data, revealing how your systems, including ERP, are truly being used. Armed with this intelligence, you can take a modern data-driven approach to the great migration; get rid of old process problems, and build a smooth set of operations with productivity, efficiency, and automation built into them.
Supercharge Efficiency
Productivity intelligence reveals many different kinds of issues like the bottlenecks and inefficiencies that are hampering the processes in your current ERP. For example, it could highlight many clunky approval workflows or redundant data entry tasks that are slowing down your employees, or opportunities for process automation that are hidden from view. With this knowledge, you can streamline and automate outdated processes for the new ERP. Here are three SAP examples:
- Ditching broken processes: If your SAP ECC system has a purchase requisition process that’s stuck in the last century, where emails fly back and forth and approvals get lost, then it is time for a data-driven change. Productivity intelligence helps you identify the causes of the chaos to build a streamlined, automated workflow in your shiny new S/4HANA system.
- Deviations from standards: Productivity intelligence finds variations in workflows and makes deviations from standard practice visible. These variations in processes could be exposing you to risks such as missing compliance steps or they could be clever workarounds by your experts that make the process run smoother. Armed with this intelligence, you can design an upgraded system with reduced risks and one that your experts would actually want to use.
- More user engagement: Productivity intelligence might show that some of your teams are heavy users of spreadsheets outside of your current SAP deployment. This discovery makes their business needs clear enabling you to tailor your S/4HANA implementation to integrate those spreadsheet functionalities, making work easier for your employees and boosting adoption too.
Measuring outcomes
After the big upgrade, productivity intelligence becomes your success tracker. Having captured process data before the upgrade you can compare the before and after picture and check those all-important KPIs to see exactly how much time and money you have saved, and how much efficiency you have gained. For example, after you have migrated to SAP S/4HANA you have more automated procure to pay processes and enhanced financial reporting, with the improved outcomes continuously tracked in your productivity intelligence dashboards.
Continuous improvement
With the great migration done, you can rely on the productivity intelligence dashboard to show you new ways of doing things faster and better in response to changing business and market dynamics and as new and more powerful intelligent technologies become available. The intelligence enables you to keep up the data-driven drive for efficiency. Examples of what you can achieve include:
- More employees becoming productivity ninjas and removing many unnecessary steps from their business processes.
- Automate more manual tasks and augment others with Generative AI capabilities that were identified as suitable by the productivity insights.
- Improve data quality by eliminating errors.
- Understand user requirements better leading to improved processes in the new SAP and that in turn leads to higher adoption of the new S/4HANA, and less shadow IT.
To conclude, productivity intelligence is not just a cool tech tool – it’s your ERP upgrade guide. It empowers you to modernise processes as part of the upgrade, minimize risks, and improve adoption with an efficient, user-friendly system that drives real business value.
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Becky Brown 
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