Join us in this first of a three-part spring series fea­tur­ing ASUG Research and smartShift expertise.

For the past two years, ASUG and smartShift have delved into cus­tom code and clean core, par­tic­u­lar­ly regard­ing the tran­si­tion from SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA. Our exten­sive research involved sur­vey­ing over 350 ASUG Mem­bers, and com­ple­ments what smartShift has heard from numer­ous SIs and hun­dreds of SAP cus­tomers worldwide.

Today, many SAP cus­tomers heav­i­ly rely on cus­tom code to ful­fill var­i­ous oper­a­tional needs, from indus­try-spe­cif­ic require­ments to reg­u­la­to­ry com­pli­ance and report­ing. How­ev­er, as busi­ness­es con­tem­plate tran­si­tion­ing to SAP S/4HANA, man­ag­ing cus­tom code pos­es a sig­nif­i­cant chal­lenge. While man­u­al trans­for­ma­tion seems like the default choice for many, is it tru­ly the sole path forward?

Join Maris­sa Gilbert, Research Direc­tor at ASUG, and Arndt Hoff­mann, CCO at smartShift, in the first seg­ment of our three-part web­cast series. In this ses­sion, we’ll nav­i­gate the intri­cate path of SAP cus­tomers’ migra­tion to SAP S/4HANA, explor­ing strate­gies to rec­on­cile the essen­tial role of cus­tom code with the aspi­ra­tion for a clean­er core in ERP upgrades.

Key Take­aways

• Where are orga­ni­za­tions in their SAP S/4HANA migra­tion jour­ney and what is caus­ing set­backs and headaches on the road to migration.
• What is the sta­tus of orga­ni­za­tions’ use of cus­tom code and why do orga­ni­za­tions need cus­tom code?
• How to han­dle cus­tom code in SAP S/4HANA migration.