FAQ: SAP Signavio Process Explorer

The SAP Signavio Process Explorer solution is the gateway for our customers to access and explore a myriad of value accelerators and resources that will help them speed up the time to value of their projects.

The solution provides:

• 7,000 business process models

• Several capability maps for 20 business domains

• Value accelerators for 13 industries with more to come

• Metrics associated with process models for selected scenarios

• SAP best practice and product recommendations

One Process Acceleration Layer is the practice to generate and collect value accelerators. SAP Signavio Process Explorer is the product to access and explore value accelerators.

The vision behind the One Process Acceleration Layer is to build up a unified process content layer across SAP. SAP Signavio Process Explorer represents the main gateway to this content, making it easily accessible and explorable.

The SAP® Signavio® Value Accelerators are a set of content and resources that help our customers jumpstart their projects and accelerate time to value. A value accelerator can be specific for a theme (such as a product or industry) and may include one or a combination of the following:

• Best practice process models

• Business capability and solution maps

• Benchmarks, metrics, and dashboards

• SAP best practices and product innovation recommendations

• Thought leadership papers, how-to manuals, and videos

• Connectors, integrations, data transformation templates and other technical enablers

SAP Signavio Process Explorer is the gateway to the vast majority of SAP Signavio Value Accelerators.

• Business processes, business capabilities and solution maps including:

– 20 business domains for cross-industry

– 8 end-to-end processes for cross-industry and for 13 other industries

– 31 process variants for idea to market, lead to cash, plan to fulfill, source to pay, recruit to retire and acquire to decommission

• SAP product best practices and innovation recommendations including:

– The SAP® Best Practices for SAP S/4HANA® Cloud package, with around 1,300 BPMN diagrams and additional assets such as a test script and task tutorial

– The SAP® Best Practices for SAP S/4HANA® (on premise) package, with around 900 BPMN diagrams and additional assets

– SAP® SuccessFactors® process library

• Best practice process models:

– 19 SAP Standard Value Assurance service packages

– SAP standard content covering these industries:

1. Oil, gas & energy
2. Utilities
3. Automotive
4. Retail
5. Fashion
6. Consumer products
7. Chemicals
8. Mining
9. Mill products
10. Industrial manufacturing
11. Telecommunications
12. Professional services
13. Passenger travel & leisure

– SAP standard content covering the following Lines of Business (LoB):

– Finance

– R&D

– Engineering

– Supply chain execution

– Connected assets

– Asset management

– Billing and revenue

– Sales

– EHS and sustainability management

• Metrics and innovation recommendations mapped to process models:

– Explore content to gain insights on the performance of processes and gather insights on the process performance of the peers

– Content will be available for project-based services (order to fulfill and invoice to cash)

– Leverage provided innovations for further transformation and improvement of business processes

– End-to-end value accelerator scenario for professional services, which

connects the lead-to-cash process with product-specific processes, capabilities, metrics, and innovation recommendations

• Thought leadership papers, ‘how-to’ manuals, and videos:

– Our first research paper, Digitizing End-to-End Cash Management: From Objective Definition to Operational Process Improvement

• Reference to SAP Signavio Process Intelligence and SAP Signavio Process Insights accelerators. SAP Signavio Process Explorer connects both business-relevant metrics from the SAP Signavio Process Intelligence solution and the innovation recommendations from the SAP Signavio Process Insights solution directly to a set of dedicated process models.

• SAP product portfolio: This category entails product-related process models such as for SAP S/4HANA and SuccessFactors.

• Capabilities: The capability content view which describes an organization’s capacity to successfully perform activities, thereby achieving its objectives and delivering value to its customers. Our business capability model represents a standard set of 20 business domains that cover the comprehensive capability scope of an enterprise.

• Processes: The process content view which represents a structured set of subprocesses, process steps, or activities designed to accomplish a specific purpose and goal. Our business process model represents a standard set of eight end-to-end processes and variants that cover the comprehensive process scope of an enterprise:

– Generic business processes describe the value creation of an enterprise in a generic and standardized way. These form the basis for the governance of process-modeling activities.

– Business process variants express the variety of approaches taken by companies to generate value, reflecting industry specifics or other defined practices. They are also used to define the scope supported by SAP software.

• Industries: Industry-specific value accelerators which refer to a group of companies that are related based on their primary business activities.

• Metrics mapped to process models: An easy-to-consume assessment of business processes’ effectiveness and/or efficiency. This helps organizations quantify the attainment of business goals.

We currently deliver value accelerators in 13 different industries covering various areas of focus such as:

• Oil, gas and energy

• Utilities

• Automotive

• Retail

• Fashion

• Consumer products

• Chemicals

• Mining

• Mill products

• Industrial manufacturing

• Telecommunications

• Professional services

• Passenger travel & leisure

We plan to add more industries to this portfolio in the future.

We cover 20 business domains, including:

• R&D and engineering

• Product management

• Marketing

• Sales

• Omnichannel commerce

• Customer service

• Sourcing and procurement

• Supply chain planning

• Supply chain execution

• Supply chain enablement

• Manufacturing

• Service delivery

• Human resources

• Asset management

• Enterprise strategy

• Sustainability management

• Portfolio and project management

• Governance, risk and compliance

• International trade and global tax

• Finance

SAP benchmarks are created using SAP process performance data collected from SAP customers who have agreed to the terms and conditions. The current database contains around 140,000 data points, across 26 industries, and covers major business processes including source-to-pay, plan-to-fulfill, lead-to-cash, finance, and acquire-to-decommission.

The benchmarks are calculated with data drawn from the IVCE database, a database that allows customers to upload their process performance data and receive process insights and recommendations.

SAP Signavio Process Explorer will not replace SAP Solution Manager. The integration between SAP Signavio and SAP Solution Manager will be delivered later, and we will offer the opportunity to work with the content in both tools.

Currently, we are integrating content from SAP Solution Manager into SAP Signavio Process Explorer. This content includes end-to-end scenarios and modular processes. It is also possible to migrate content from SAP Signavio Process Explorer to SAP Solution Manager.