SAP S/4 Advisory

Expert guidance on commercial, technology, and operational change throughout the transformation journey

Our senior, highly experienced team provides advice, guidance, and support to facilitate the often complex and commercially visible transition to SAP S/4HANA. We create transparency in the approach, while addressing all aspects of commercial and organisational risk.

What We Do

With the ever-increasing costs of SAP S/4HANA transformation projects it is imperative that businesses have a sound roadmap to success, with complete transparency of approach, cost, timeline and stakeholders. Our experience suggests the single greatest risk of programme failure is a lack of planning due to capability shortfalls within the incubation stage of project definition. Why? Projects are larger and more complex than ever before, yet the onus is on the business to maintain key SAP S/4 Architect resources, Cloud Infrastructure Architects, and often SAP Commercial Architects to establish requirements, plan and forecast accurate costs, and subsequently source an appropriate SI partner. This is simply not realistic. Libertas seeks to ‘fill the breach’ between the in-house IT, business SME and commercial teams and the SI partner, to provide expert support in the following areas:

Business Case Preparation

Roadmap Definition

Future State Requirements Specification

SI Partner Procurement

Programme Governance

Design Authority

Change & Transformation

Services

Business Case Preparation

Libertas has in-depth knowledge of the available commercial models such as Perpetual, Cloud and SAP RISE, with detailed understating of all cost elements ranging through project deployment costs, SAP licence costs/subscriptions, and Hyperscaler infrastructure costs. By optimising traditional technology cost models, organisations can free up spend from operational expenses to allocate more funds for digital transformation.

Roadmap Definition

Libertas can provide high level strategic roadmap advice in support of all required deployment phases, with specific emphasis on requirements of the SI partner.

Future State Requirements Specification

Clarity and transparency in the definition of requirements to be submitted to market is imperative to ensure that SI partners are responding accurately with minimal downstream variation. The objective is to avoid costly commercial increases due to change requests, to enable effective budget management.

Procurement - SI Partner

Libertas is an experienced procurement & probity consultant having participated in numerous SI selection processes both in evaluation and negotiation. Our consultants can run the procurement process or provide functional and technical support for the in-house team in evaluating capability against requirements.

Procurement - SAP Licensing

Licence assessment and procurement services, inclusive of negotiation, to obtain not just the largest possible discounts, but also to secure the equally valuable commercials terms and conditions necessary to balance the competing objectives of flexibility of consumption and certainty of outcome.

Programme Governance

Libertas has extensive experience in programme, stakeholder and SI partner governance processes and practices. This service is available both inwhen establishing the programme of work, in addition to as well as ongoing services as an independent third party for SI partner management and governance.

Design Authority

Libertas provides key Architect resources assigned directly to the client side to validate SI partner outcomes and ensure the best solution delivery. These resources are all Senior Architects with in excess of 15 years’ SAP experience, with multiple end-to-end SAP deployments.

Change and Transformation

Libertas has advised on many transformations including business process, business model, domain, and cultural/organisational change. In doing so, we’ve gained a perspective on just how difficult true transformation really is and what it takes to succeed. Utilising both unique and broadly available tools, Libertas takes the effort out of gaining insights, instead focussing on gaining maximum return on transformation.

Business Case Preparation

Libertas has in-depth knowledge of the available commercial models such as Perpetual, Cloud and SAP RISE, with detailed understating of all cost elements ranging through project deployment costs, SAP licence costs/subscriptions, and Hyperscaler infrastructure costs. By optimising traditional technology cost models, organisations can free up spend from operational expenses to allocate more funds for digital transformation.

Roadmap Definition

Libertas can provide high level strategic roadmap advice in support of all required deployment phases, with specific emphasis on requirements prior to the onboarding of the SI partner.

Future State Requirements Specification

Clarity and transparency in the definition of requirements to be submitted to market is imperative to ensure that SI partners are responding accurately with minimal downstream variation. The objective is to avoid costly commercial increases due to change requests, to enable effective budget management.

Procurement - SI Partner

Libertas is an experienced procurement & probity consultant having participated in numerous SI selection processes both in evaluation and negotiation. Our consultants can run the procurement process or provide functional and technical support for the in-house team in evaluating capability against requirements.

Procurement - SAP Licensing

Libertas provides licence assessment and procurement services, inclusive of negotiation, to obtain not just the largest possible discounts, but also to secure the equally valuable commercials terms and conditions necessary to balance the competing objectives of flexibility of consumption and certainty of outcome.

Programme Governance

Libertas has extensive experience in programme, stakeholder and SI partner governance processes and practices. This service is available when establishing the programme of work as well as ongoing services as an independent third party for SI partner management and governance.

Design Authority

Libertas provides key Architect resources assigned directly to the client side to validate SI partner outcomes and ensure the best solution delivery. These resources are all Senior Architects with in excess of 15 years’ SAP experience, with multiple end-to-end SAP deployments.

Change and Transformation

Libertas has advised on many transformations including business process, business model, domain, and cultural/organisational change. In doing so, we’ve gained a perspective on just how difficult true transformation really is and what it takes to succeed. Utilising both unique and broadly available tools, Libertas takes the effort out of gaining insights, instead focussing on gaining maximum return on transformation.

Our Proven Approach

Data Driven

We consider problems from different perspectives and deliver insight through data-driven problem solving, focussed on our clients’ most important strategic needs.

Practical

Unlike traditional consulting firms, our solutions are developed with a clear view of what is achievable for our clients in their unique environments.

Flexible

Our model allows us to take different approaches from staff augmentation all the way to full ownership of outcomes. We always leave our clients with greater capability than when we started.

Experience

Our people have real world operational experience allowing the solving of real-world problems. Our high calibre teams bring a breadth and depth of experience to their work, along with a passion for delivering high quality solutions for our clients.

Partnerships

Through our partnership with clients we build long-lasting relationships based on trust. We work in partnership with each client’s own expertise and resources to deliver practical and sustainable solutions.

Our approach is to use real operational data, embedding and input from key stakeholders to determine opportunities against leading practice - with relevance to our client's unique situation and culture.

Customer Success Stories

Programme Procurement

Challenge

Large NZ food manufacturer required financial clarity and risk reduction on all aspects of the planned SAP S/4HANA engagement after the business case escalated beyond available budget.

Outcome

Libertas undertook a commercial assessment and negotiation for software, infrastructure and SI services. Resulted in renegotiated software BoM, SI vendor contracts and a revised deployment model to adopt Hyperscaler infrastructure in place of HEC gaining substantial financial advantage.

SAP S/4 Transformation

Challenge

One of Queensland’s largest utility companies embarked on a Digital Transformation encompassing SAP S/4HANA provisioned on Hyperscaler infrastructure.

Outcome

Libertas was engaged at programme inception to define and develop the business case, in addition to outlining the delivery roadmap and approach applicable to the highly regulated environment. The team successfully governed all procurement activities and negotiations for each of SAP licence construct, Hyperscaler and SI partner.

Commercial Roadmap

Challenge

Queensland government owned energy provider had embarked on a comprehensive S/4 transformation programme. Existing and planned SAP licence purchases were not aligned to the programme’s direction nor were they commercially efficient.

Outcome

Libertas defined and executed a remediation plan to reset the SAP licence construct successfully aligning the to business needs and achieving a substantial 5yr TCO saving.