SAP S/4 Strategy & Sourcing

Expert guidance for a successful transition, minimising risk, and maximising ROI.

SAP S/4 Strategy & Sourcing

Expert guidance for a successful transition, minimising risk, and maximising ROI.

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.

Our Services

In today's complex SAP S/4HANA landscape, a well-defined roadmap and expert guidance are crucial. Poor planning during the initial stages can derail even the most promising projects. Libertas bridges the resource gap, offering expert support in eight key areas.

Roadmap Definition

Libertas offers high-level strategic guidance for all deployment phases of your SAP S/4HANA transformation. We place particular emphasis on defining clear requirements before onboarding the SI partner, ensuring a smooth and efficient project lifecycle.

Business Case Preparation

Libertas provides in-depth analysis of various commercial models (Perpetual, Cloud, SAP RISE) and cost structures (deployment, licenses, infrastructure). This empowers you to make informed decisions and free up capital for strategic digital transformation initiatives.

Future State Requirements Specification

Libertas helps you develop clear and transparent future state requirements to be presented to the SI partner. This minimises ambiguity, reduces the risk of costly change requests later, and keeps your project on budget.

Procurement – SI Partner

Libertas leverages extensive experience in SI selection processes. We can manage the entire procurement process, from evaluation and negotiation to final selection. Alternatively, we can provide expert support to your internal team, ensuring you choose the best SI partner for your specific needs.

Procurement – SAP Licencing

Libertas goes beyond just negotiating competitive pricing for SAP licences. Our team of experts secures optimal licencing terms and conditions that align with your business goals, balancing flexibility and cost certainty.

Programme Governance

Libertas provides a comprehensive program, stakeholder, and SI partner governance approach. We can help you establish effective practices at the outset of your project and offer ongoing support as an independent third party, ensuring all parties are aligned and accountable.

Design Authority

Libertas assigns senior architects with over 15 years of SAP experience to your project. These experts can act as your Design Authority, validating SI partner deliverables and ensuring the best possible solution is implemented to meet your specific requirements.

Change & Transformation

Libertas understands the complexities of organisational change management. We leverage our extensive experience in business process, model, domain, and cultural/organisational transformations to develop a tailored plan that maximises your return on investment. We combine established and innovative tools to streamline the process and minimise disruption.

Roadmap Definition

Libertas offers high-level strategic guidance for all deployment phases of your SAP S/4HANA transformation. We place particular emphasis on defining clear requirements before onboarding the SI partner, ensuring a smooth and efficient project lifecycle.

Business Case Preparation

Libertas provides in-depth analysis of various commercial models (Perpetual, Cloud, SAP RISE) and cost structures (deployment, licenses, infrastructure). This empowers you to make informed decisions and free up capital for strategic digital transformation initiatives.

Future State Requirements Specification

Libertas helps you develop clear and transparent future state requirements to be presented to the SI partner. This minimises ambiguity, reduces the risk of costly change requests later, and keeps your project on budget.

Procurement – SI Partner

Libertas leverages extensive experience in SI selection processes. We can manage the entire procurement process, from evaluation and negotiation to final selection. Alternatively, we can provide expert support to your internal team, ensuring you choose the best SI partner for your specific needs.

Procurement – SAP Licencing

Libertas goes beyond just negotiating competitive pricing for SAP licences. Our team of experts secures optimal licencing terms and conditions that align with your business goals, balancing flexibility and cost certainty.

Programme Governance

Libertas provides a comprehensive program, stakeholder, and SI partner governance approach. We can help you establish effective practices at the outset of your project and offer ongoing support as an independent third party, ensuring all parties are aligned and accountable.

Design Authority

Libertas assigns senior architects with over 15 years of SAP experience to your project. These experts can act as your Design Authority, validating SI partner deliverables and ensuring the best possible solution is implemented to meet your specific requirements.

Change & Transformation

Libertas understands the complexities of organisational change management. We leverage our extensive experience in business process, model, domain, and cultural/organisational transformations to develop a tailored plan that maximises your return on investment. We combine established and innovative tools to streamline the process and minimise disruption.

    Our Proven Approach

    Customer Success Stories

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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
      Contact Libertas today to discuss your unique SAP S/4HANA transformation journey