For many organizations, wanting to move to SAP S/4HANA isn’t the problem. The want, and the need, is there. According to ASUG’s 2019 State of the Community study, 56% of ASUG members that participated plan to implement SAP S/4HANA in the future. Most, however, are experiencing the same four roadblocks, which include not being able to prioritize the project, a lack of resources, waiting for the product to mature, or needing to justify the move.

Global sporting goods company Callaway Golf ran the same central instance of its SAP ECC 6.0. system for more than 20 years. When the business ventured from designing and manufacturing golf-related products to now retailing lifestyle-related merchandize in more than 70 countries, the IT department needed to build a business case to move to SAP S/4HANA.

ASUG News sat down with Alan Schneider, Callaway’s senior director of global ERP and business applications, to discuss how he built a business case, what challenges he and his team faced, and what’s next in the move to SAP S/4HANA.

ASUG News: Where is Callaway in its S/4HANA implementation?