Challenges of SAP S/4HANA implementation
Filander, Elle (2025)
Julkaisun pysyvä osoite on
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-202502072462
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-202502072462
Tiivistelmä
SAP S/4HANA is one of the most used ERP systems in the world. ERP systems allow organizations to have their daily processes in the same system. For organizations, it’s beneficial that they can access to all their primary data from one system. ERP can provide the information of sales, finance, material and other useful core processes. There are still challenges during implementing SAP S/4HANA as this is very complex process. These challenges can be avoided. This thesis covers all the main challenges faced during implementation process, and how to overcome them.
This thesis analyses previous findings such as literature and case studies of the challenges faced during implementation. The aim is that this thesis can be used in the future to prevent these challenges from happening and this way to increase the possibility of successful implementation.
With a survey, author discovers new findings that inform of their challenges with implementation processes. The survey provides their view of how to avoid these and how to have successful implementation. Author uses her own experience with implementation challenges to reflect the findings from all the sources.
As a result, author found out that main challenges are challenges with user adoption, clear planning, data migration and change management. For future, author wanted to provide a recommendation for all the organizations that are implementing SAP S/4HANA. With this research they can pay attention to risk factors and understand the benefits of SAP S/4HANA.
This thesis analyses previous findings such as literature and case studies of the challenges faced during implementation. The aim is that this thesis can be used in the future to prevent these challenges from happening and this way to increase the possibility of successful implementation.
With a survey, author discovers new findings that inform of their challenges with implementation processes. The survey provides their view of how to avoid these and how to have successful implementation. Author uses her own experience with implementation challenges to reflect the findings from all the sources.
As a result, author found out that main challenges are challenges with user adoption, clear planning, data migration and change management. For future, author wanted to provide a recommendation for all the organizations that are implementing SAP S/4HANA. With this research they can pay attention to risk factors and understand the benefits of SAP S/4HANA.