Making a move to a new ERP system like SAP S/4HANA offers benefits including speed, cost savings, and innovation. But it also comes with challenges, some of which can be prevented if you know how to plan ahead and how to address issues before they become barriers.

AES Corp., a Fortune 500 company that generates and distributes electrical power in 15 countries, is currently consolidating several of its ERP systems to run on a single SAP S/4HANA environment.

The company began this project in 2017 to reduce its total cost of ownership as well as increase the speed of its processes. At the time, all of its businesses were running in a global SAP ECC 6.0 environment and on an Oracle database. AES has maintained an SAP global ERP template for more than 10 years, which has helped the company manage its business processes across all locations.

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