A migration that just “gets you through” will hit the same wall again in three years.
With the SAP ECC maintenance deadline approaching, more companies are rushing to migrate just to “make the deadline.” Migrating while still carrying an overgrown mess of organizational master data and bloated add-ons only carries the same problems into the new system. P&W treats the foundation before migration — reducing add-ons and guiding you to a core system your teams can actually use.
Why Do So Many SAP Migrations Carry Over the Same Problems?
The more a migration project is squeezed by deadlines, the more likely it is to carry the distortions of the current system straight into the new environment. These are three pitfalls we repeatedly see in the field.
Organizational & Master Data Complexity
Organizational master data — company codes, cost centers, profit centers — proliferates year after year until SAP’s standard management-accounting and profitability-analysis functions stop working.
Add-Ons Turning Into Black Boxes
Processes that standard functionality could handle get built as one-off add-ons instead, piling up maintenance burden and custom development cost — and the next system ends up reproducing the same structure.
Fragmentation Through Excel Dependency
Data never fully lives inside the system, so monthly aggregation and P&L tracking come to rely on manual Excel work in the field — and that whole way of working gets carried over after migration too.
Four Steps to “Treat” the System Before You Migrate
We avoid a full rebuild — with its enormous cost and risk — and instead work with your current system, treating and rebuilding only the distortions getting in the way of management decisions.
Current-State Diagnosis (Fit-to-Standard Analysis)
We inventory standard functionality and add-ons feature by feature, asking: “Is this add-on really necessary?” and “Could standard functionality — Fiori, CDS Views — replace it?”
Rationalizing Organizational & Master Data
We clean up duplication and redundancy in organizational master data — company codes, cost centers, profit centers — building a foundation where management accounting and profitability analysis actually work.
Add-On Reduction & Fit-to-Standard Implementation
We systematically replace the add-ons that have sprung up department by department with Fiori standard screens, CDS Views, and proven third-party tools — compressing both maintenance burden and custom development cost.
Phased Rollout
We pilot at a low-impact site to establish the pattern, then standardize and roll it out across multiple sites, and finally apply it to your core site — avoiding the risk of a single big-bang migration.
Modules We Cover
Centered on FI/CO (financial & management accounting), we support you across SD, MM, LE, PP, and QM as well.
Financial Accounting
We build the foundation for tracking your financial position in real time — general ledger, AR/AP management, fixed asset management, and more.
Management Accounting
We get cost management by cost center and profit center, and product-level profitability analysis, functioning — producing data that actually informs management decisions.
Sales & Distribution
We integrate order entry through shipping and billing, optimizing the sales process including pricing and inventory allocation.
Procurement & Inventory Management
We centrally manage everything from purchase requisitions through ordering and goods movements, supporting supply-demand balance and supply-chain efficiency.
Logistics Execution
We integrate warehouse management, transportation planning, and delivery tracking to improve shipping accuracy and speed.
Production Planning & Control
We put MRP-driven material planning and production order operations in place, building a structure that can collect the underlying data for actual costing.
Quality Management
We link inspection planning, quality inspection, and nonconformance management with other modules, supporting quality assurance across the whole supply chain.
The Kinds of Challenges We Handle
We don’t do staff-augmentation-style dispatch. We support you as a team, consistently, from concept through implementation.
We’re mid-implementation, but keep rescheduling because of a huge backlog of add-ons
We diagnose why the project is stalling or running over, benchmarking against other cases, and support you from building turnaround measures through execution.
We want to roll out SAP at our factory but don’t know where to start
Using our templates, we support you from current-state process analysis and defining the target state through package selection (S/4HANA MM/PP/QM).
We want to roll out SAP for accounting but don’t know where to start
Using our templates, we support you from current-state process analysis and defining the target state through package selection (S/4HANA FI/CO, including global rollouts).
We’re implementing SAP Public Cloud, but can’t keep up with all the jargon
We dispatch SAP experts and business-support staff who work the task from the business user’s own perspective.
We want to launch a transformation initiative across PLM/ERP/MES but don’t know where to begin
After organizing challenges both bottom-up and top-down from a management perspective, we work through solutions using our templates and derive the ROI.
We want to start on DX but haven’t worked out what to actually do
We organize your business plan and competitive benchmarks, clarify the themes to tackle — business process reform, systemization concepts — and support you from planning through execution.
Why Not Start by Diagnosing Your Current State?
Whether you’re still at the concept stage or racing against a looming deadline, that’s fine. Feel free to start with our free Quick SAP Diagnostic, or a free 30-minute consultation.