SAP Licence Advisory

Creating visibility of your current SAP licences and assisting you in obtaining the right commercial flexibility for your modernisation journey.

At Libertas, we support your entire SAP journey, guiding you through the complexities of SAP licensing to manage risks, maximise commercial value, and empower your business to thrive.

Our Services

Crafting the right SAP commercial agreement for your business is more than just identifying a bill of materials and negotiating a price. It's also about choosing the right licensing model and safeguarding against future uncertainties and unplanned expenses.

At Libertas, we go beyond securing the lowest price. We leverage our decades of SAP licensing experience and proven methods to ensure you secure an agreement that supports your immediate objectives and provides protection for your long-term goals.

SAP Licence Optimisation

Understanding your SAP licence consumption versus entitlements can be challenging due to complex entitlements, disparate metrics, and incomplete auditing tools. Libertas helps you comprehensively understand your entitlements, accurately assess your usage, and explore commercial options to unlock value and safeguard your future.

SAP Audit Support

SAP audits, whether standard or enhanced, can be daunting. With risks like Indirect Access and back maintenance fees, audits can pose significant financial liabilities. Libertas helps you take control, understand your options, and proceed with confidence.

SAP Licence Negotiation

Securing an SAP agreement that aligns with your current and future business objectives is challenging. Often, contracts meet product needs but little else. Libertas helps you evaluate all commercial options, targeting those that match your needs. We guide you through every step of the negotiation process to secure the right agreement with the right terms at the right price.

3rd Party Support Evaluation

Third-party maintenance providers can offer substantial savings over SAP's standard maintenance offerings but also carry risks. Libertas ensures you are well-prepared, confident in your compliance position, aligned with your software needs, and aware of future pathways back to mainstream support.

Customer Success Stories

We take pride in our track record of delivering great results for our customers.
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Retail

Situation

  • Pre-separation from parent

  • Consumer facing organization

  • Very old legacy systems (including SAP)

  • Outdated agreements that do not reflect current business needs

  • Very significant software liability

    • Outcome
    Negotiated SAP contracts to remove all liability at 15% of the discounted exposure.

    SAP Software contracts reflect business needs and protects from future uncertainty.
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    Utility

    Situation

  • Post merger of businesses

  • Business facing cost pressures

  • Committed to S/4 HANA journey

  • Significant investment in SAP Software

  • Significant cost over-runs

    • Outcome
    Renegotiated SAP Software contracts realising audited savings of $79M over 5 years.

    SAP Software contracts reflect business needs and protects from future uncertainty.
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    Manufacturing

    Situation

  • Significant cost pressures —labour and energy

  • Unstable ECC environment

  • Very weak contractual position

  • Self Managed Maintenance

  • Acceptable business case for change

    • Outcome
    Renegotiated SAP Software contracts saving $18M over 5 years of contracted SAP spend.

    Returned the customer to SAP support without having to pay back maintenance.
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    Pharmaceutical

    Situation

  • Business facing cost pressures

  • Stable ECC environment

  • Complex architectural and integration landscape

  • Significant SAP software liability

  • Weak position to negotiate

    • Outcome
    Designed and deployed a technical remediation that reduced the liability by 94%.

    The solution was formally verified by the SAP Global Licence Audit Compliance team.
      Contact Libertas today to discuss your unique SAP S/4HANA transformation journey