Discover what’s new in SAP Signavio’s major Process Landscape Analysis update this November

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In today’s fast-paced ERP transformation landscape, achieving process transparency, harmonization, and efficiency is critical. Organizations migrating to SAP S/4HANA face the challenge of aligning complex business processes across multiple units while ensuring adoption of standardized templates. SAP Signavio’s Process Landscape Analysis (PLA), as part of the plug and gain approach, addresses these challenges by providing a structured, data-driven way to manage and optimize processes throughout the transformation journey. All essentials and key resources regarding plug and gain approach can be found here.

The latest update of the PLA introduces new content, an improved user experience and a completely new dashboard, making process harmonization easier and more actionable than ever. 

In this blog, you will get a high-level overview of:

• The latest updates to Process Landscape Analysis and its new structure
• The new Adherence to Target Processes dashboard and its key insights

 

The Process Landscape Analysis

First: what's new in the update?

The latest major PLA update delivers more and deeper content and new capabilities to track harmonization and ensure process adherence. The image below gives a clear overview of the current version and everything that will be added new. 

 

Understanding the Process Landscape Analysis 

What does this mean? To give a bit more context, let’s dive a bit more into the process landscape analysis and how it is built up. At its core, Process Landscape Analysis offers a consolidated view of the processes running in an ERP system by combining several modules of the SAP Signavio Suite. Built on three key components, it allows organizations to understand current process performance, identify process variants, and monitor adherence to target processes:

• The Process House – Provides a top-down structure for navigating individual processes. It aggregates information at the end-to-end process level and company level, giving stakeholders a complete overview of process execution across the organization.
• Individual Processes – Each process is analyzed for execution, variants, and transaction code usage. The Best-Run Score (BRS) evaluates process effectiveness and efficiency, helping identify high-volume processes that may need optimization.
• Adherence to Target Processes Analysis – Compares actual execution with defined target process variants to monitor compliance, enforce standardization, and support the rollout of ERP templates.

Together, these three components create a comprehensive view of your ERP processes, laying the foundation for informed decisions and a successful transformation journey. The following video shows how it looks like. 

 

Adherence to Target Processes

A cornerstone of the update is the Adherence to Target Processes dashboard, which enables organizations to track harmonization and ensure process adherence in SAP transformation projects. The dashboard comes with the following analysis:

• Current Process Variants Analysis – Provides a snapshot of process variants used across organizational units, highlighting inconsistencies and opportunities for standardization.
• Comparison Against Target Processes – Measures adherence to defined templates, revealing deviations and guiding corrective actions, such as training or process refinement.
• Assessment of Target Processes – Identifies rarely or never used variants, enabling deprecation and maintaining a lean ERP template.

For instance, if a rollout introduces a new procurement process, the dashboard shows which units follow the target process, where deviations occur, and which legacy variants may require retirement, ensuring operational efficiency and governance.

Challenge: Ensuring Consistent Execution Across Organizational Units

When customers define a template for their ERP system, they typically specify multiple process variants for each process. In each ERP system, customers are running many processes. This is called the ERP-Template. With Plug and Gain Process Landscape Analysis, customers can measure the actual process execution across more than 100 processes right out of the box.

However, the typical questions customers then ask: 

To which extent does our actual process execution match with the ERP template? Where do we need to reinforce the rollout?

And it’s not enough to see this at a global level. Typical customers have > 1,000 combinations of processes and organizational units. We need the transparency by process and organizational unit. That’s where the new adherence to target processes dashboard comes in! Within the dashboard customers are able to define specific target process variants for each process (their ERP template) and measure actual execution against that on the level of process and organizational unit. This helps understand how far away from the template the current execution is, if the role out was successful and exactly where it was not. 

Why Process Harmonization Matters

Process harmonization is essential for consistent, efficient, and compliant operations across an organization. It ensures that business processes are executed uniformly to reduce complexity, improve quality, and drive measurable business outcomes.
Successful harmonization strengthens both the top line (better customer experience, better financial results, faster execution) and the bottom line (cost reduction, standardization, and compliance). Yet, many organizations struggle to achieve this consistency, especially when multiple systems, tools, and organizational units are involved.

SAP Learning Journey available

In addition, we offer the following SAP Learning Journey, which provides a comprehensive guide to Process Landscape Analysis, including detailed explanations of each analysis, supporting video tutorials and how it could be applied in SAP Activate..