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In this article I would like to provide the information about Reference Business and Solution Architecture, or “Best Practices”, proposed by SAP as a business software vendor to Chemicals and other Process Industries.
What is the SAP Enterprise Architecture
Before jumping into the industry content, I would like to explain what these “Best Practices” or the Reference Business and Solution Architecture are in general. This is set of pre-defined SAP provided content which includes:
Illustration: SAP Enterprise Architecture Scheme
- Business process map for Levels 1, 2, 3, 4 (Level 4 relates to business activities)
- Business process variances for different scenarios (example: Make to Stock, Make to Order, and others)
- Business Capabilities suggested to use for each of business activity.
- SAP Solution Capabilities supporting respective Business Capabilities
- SAP Solutions providing respective Capabilities.
Best Practices for Chemicals content provided by SAP
Illustration: Chemicals Process Map L1 from SAP Signavio Process Collaboration Hub
The SAP provided content for Chemical and Process Industries consists of processes classified by enterprise domains. (please use this link to access Signavio environment with The Chemicals content)
Products and Services Domain:
- Idea to Market, I2M
Customers & Sales Domain
- Lead to Cash, L2C
Supply Domain
- Source to Pay, S2P
- Plan to Fulfill, P2F
Corporate Governance Domain
- Recruit to Retire, R2R
- Acquire to Decommission, A2D
- Governance and Sustainability, GOV
- Finance, FIN
Each domain consists of business process variances relevant for Chemical and Process Industries. For example, for the “Lead to Cash” you can find variances like
- Lead to Cash for Make to Order (process industry)
- Lead to Cash for Sell from Stock
- Lead to Cash for Commodities
- Waste Collection Service
- … and others
Illustration: Lead to Cash - End to End process variances
Illustration: Lead to Cash for Make to Order (process industry)
On the illustration above you can see the L2 process details on example of "Lead to Cash for Make to Order (process industry)" process variance. You may also drill down to Level 3, Level 4 (capabilities) and further. Later on I will explain this in details. Also please note that same level of details we have prepared and published for all E2E business processes and domains.
Two types of deployment
Today SAP proposes two deployment strategies for Solution Architecture for our respective customers in Chemicals and Process Industries:
- Hybrid, which is based on RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Private Edition (link)
- and Cloud, which is based GROW with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Public Edition (link)
These deployment strategies are being developed and positioned by SAP for different customer segments. Either you are global multinational business with different product divisions, or strong regional company, or medium or even small chemical fabric with grow ambitions – you will find and leverage the solution strategy and related reference content which fits you best. You can find more information about on our site sap.com.
From the Enterprise Architecture point of view, we have also developed and published two contents chapters both for Solution Capabilities and for Respective SAP Solutions. So, you can find and leverage Best Practices content for each type of deployment – depending on your Business Strategy and Intention to Cloud Services.
SAP Solutions to support the transformation
Illustration: SAP Signavio and SAP LeanIX
We published our Best Practices for Chemicals and Process Industries Content on our tools:
- SAP Signavio Process Collaboration Hub, which is designed for business process development and collaboration related tasks (SAP Signavio | Business Process Transformation Suite)
- and SAP LeanIX, which is designed to manage enterprise architecture, including capabilities map, solution architecture and landscape, and design of digital transformation roadmap with multi stages and phases (SAP LeanIX | Enterprise Architecture Transformation)
So you can use these tool and the reference industry content as the ready-to-use building blocks to define your own transformation roadmap which will serve best for your company.
Conclusion
Being a world leader in business software we are rooted in Chemical Industry. More than 40 years we are taking care about our customers’ success. We are committed to continues innovations for the industries, and our customers.
Choose SAP and run your digital transformation with SAP Best Practices for Chemical and Process Industries to reach speed, gain business outcomes, Grow and Rise with SAP. Want to know more? Please visit our page on sap.com
Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions about.
Sergey Nozhenko, SAP Industry Business Unit for Chemicals
