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UST offers three accelerator programs to complement RISE with SAP so you can quickly and reliably achieve transformational change in the cloud.
Let's discuss the current manufacturing environment and then look at the advantages of the three UST accelerator programs.
Manufacturers face tough challenges in the post-pandemic world. They must manage customer demand and supply planning with unexpected shortages and constraints.
Striking the balance with the right supply to match demand is challenging when you add in production yield, quality control, and global labor issues. There are also security, analytics, data insights, and compliance issues to consider.
Making the right technology investments for digital, cloud- and SaaS-based solutions are important. Manufacturers must ensure they choose scalable and innovative solutions to achieve their business goals and generate ROI.
When manufacturers invest in digital, cloud technologies, you need your IT solutions to:
A flexible ERP package with specific capabilities and cloud services aligned with consumption are needed. This allows manufacturers to transition to the cloud in a less costly, measured way that drives value.
Since an ERP system is critical to manufacturing operations, transforming your ERP system with modern cloud technologies is important, and not reserved for only the largest manufacturing enterprises.
When manufacturers standardize or de-customize their core ERP systems, and innovate with digital applications, they can generate ROI and achieve the many benefits listed above.
RISE with SAP is a bundled technology and services offering to help enterprises modernize their infrastructure and operations with ERP-as-a-service cloud technologies. It’s designed to help companies become more sustainable, intelligent, and innovative.
Our comprehensive RISE with SAP program offers you cloud transformation on your terms, timeline, and includes cloud infrastructure and these managed services from SAP:
You can use platform-as-a-service solutions to connect with your trading partners and integrate analytics, application development, intelligent automation, and other non-SAP solutions.
SAP manages the platform, cloud operations, technical support, and SLAs.
Your trusted partner, UST, provides outcome-driven services.
SAP is the technology vendor of choice for manufacturing companies because of our deep expertise with both industry-specific challenges and business process optimizations.
That’s why UST and SAP joined forces to deliver holistic RISE with SAP offerings to help you fast-track your transformational journey to the cloud.
UST offers three accelerator programs designed to complement RISE with SAP so you can quickly achieve transformational change. Our UST offerings bundle technical solutions and expert services to help you gain the most value from your ERP system, address manufacturing cloud challenges, optimize business processes, drive innovation and achieve growth.
This program is designed for risk-averse organizations or companies that want a test run to ensure their cloud migration will go smoothly. Our SAP cloud experts execute a trial migration to the UST cloud to pinpoint and resolve issues before the actual SAP migration to S/4HANA. The key learnings from this pilot exercise pave the way for an accelerated, well-planned implementation at scale.
We designed this framework to enhance and build upon the SAP Activate methodology. The goal is to put the building blocks in place, so your company is ready for a cloud transformation effort. It’s an 8-stage program that maps your business drivers and pain points to S/4HANA capabilities. We begin with a business value workshop that provides the scaffolding to align your business landscape with a clearly defined cloud migration strategy. We also leverage our Design for Happiness methodology that uses human-centric digital development to weave the hearts, minds, and motivations of your consumers into your cloud strategy. The net result is a clear roadmap for standardization and innovation and a well-articulated transformational business case.
In addition to these services, UST helps existing SAP ECC customers who want to migrate to S/4HANA. It’s a hybrid migration framework that leverages UST tools, accelerators, and intellectual property to speed your SAP digital manufacturing journey. Get the best of both worlds with your transformation. We start by making a shell copy on the cloud, then upgrading, transforming, and finally migrating data to the new environment. We also offer integrations to other non-SAP applications that may be a part of your IT landscape.
To ensure your cloud journey delivers as much value as possible, we also offer digital extensions specifically designed to drive critical ERP improvements for manufacturers, such as:
Increasing profitability — With UST Flex, intelligent order management solution, manufacturers can manage order allocation in various supply constraints to reduce order cancellations and revenue loss via a digital allocation cockpit.
Reducing waste and revenue leakage — With UST Sentry, our vision-based AI solution, we help manufacturers build predictable patterns to increase operational efficiencies, monitor performance and automate complex business processes. Manufacturers can embrace SAP Industry 4.0 solutions to increase productivity across inventory tracking, quality control, compliance, yield management, safety, and other adherences.
Improving visibility to make more informed decisions — UST Omni supply chain visibility & orchestration platform uses predictive analytics to identify issues and uncover optimization opportunities in real-time. You can perform what-if analysis by adjusting inventory and supply and running simulations based on business rules.
Our SAP practice has been helping more than 65 multi-national customers with their cloud transformation journeys. The RISE with SAP program is the next evolution to help companies, including smaller enterprises, move to the cloud faster, more efficiently, and cost-effectively, with less risk and established ROI outcomes.
Here’s a snapshot of some recent UST S/4HANA cloud transformation customer successes:
Increased forecast accuracy, and reduced product rework by 5X — UST helped a global leader in data memory and storage solutions leverage its existing SAP S/4HANA-based ERP system to design, develop and deploy a new finish-to-order solution that compared upcoming orders to stock-on-hand in real time to ensure the company had the correct inventory to fulfill orders accurately and on time. The new SAP HANA solution decreased delivery delays and increased the efficiency of manufacturing processes.
Reduced manual processes by 40%, improved customer experience — A global wholesale electronics distributor struggled to manage its supply chain because of demand planning issues and manual processes that couldn’t scale. UST designed and developed an integrated SAP solution that leveraged UST Flex iOM and custom algorithms to increase supply and demand visibility, improve allocation planning and better align sales and fulfillment.
If you’re considering, or ready to embark on, a S/4HANA cloud transformation journey to improve your SAP manufacturing processes, UST can help you.
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John Jordan is a seasoned SAP consultant with 20+ years of experience in SAP S/4HANA Controlling. As Lead SAP S/4HANA Controlling Consultant at ERP Corp, he specializes in seamless transitions to SAP S/4HANA, focusing on Product Costing, Material Ledger, and Margin Analysis.
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