Consulting
SAP Consulting Services for Enterprise Transformation Planning
The decisions taken before a build begins decide what the build can achieve. VISCAP’s consulting practice works ahead of delivery — turning an honest read of where you stand today into a roadmap your organization can actually act on. We are typically brought in around an SAP S/4HANA or SAP Cloud ERP evaluation, a RISE with SAP or GROW with SAP assessment, an HR and payroll transformation, SAP BTP and integration planning, clean core adoption, or a review of a programme already under way.
We help customers understand their current SAP and non-SAP landscape, define the target state, prioritize transformation initiatives, assess implementation or migration readiness, select the appropriate SAP path, and build an actionable roadmap.
See the delivery approachSAP strategy and transformation roadmap
SAP programmes rarely come undone on technology — they come undone on sequence. We tie business priorities to SAP investment…
SAP landscape and readiness assessment
An honest picture of what you are running today: the SAP and non-SAP applications in play, the integrations holding them together…
Business process and solution advisory
We look at how your processes genuinely run, not how the documentation says they do, then map them against SAP standard…
Cloud ERP and deployment advisory
S/4HANA or SAP Cloud ERP, RISE or GROW, public, private or hybrid — the answer follows from your operating model, not from a…
Clean core, integration, and extensibility planning
Every custom object written into the core today is an upgrade you pay for later. We review the customization and technical debt you…
Data, analytics, and SAP business AI readiness
AI is only ever as good as the data underneath it. We assess data quality and ownership, set the reporting priorities the business…
SAP strategy and transformation roadmap
SAP programmes rarely come undone on technology — they come undone on sequence. We tie business priorities to SAP investment, settle what moves first and what can wait, and state the outcome each stage owes you, so the roadmap holds when the board tests it.
- Business and technology priority alignment
- SAP investment roadmap
- Transformation sequencing
- Scope and outcome definition
SAP landscape and readiness assessment
An honest picture of what you are running today: the SAP and non-SAP applications in play, the integrations holding them together, the real state of your data and reporting — and the gaps that would otherwise surface halfway through the programme rather than before it is approved.
- Current SAP and non-SAP landscape review
- Application and integration dependencies
- Data and reporting readiness
- Transformation risks and gaps
Business process and solution advisory
We look at how your processes genuinely run, not how the documentation says they do, then map them against SAP standard. Fit-to-standard or extend becomes a deliberate call, taken module by module, with the cost of each choice visible before anyone commits.
- Process assessment
- Fit-to-standard opportunities
- SAP solution fitment
- Module and capability prioritization
Cloud ERP and deployment advisory
S/4HANA or SAP Cloud ERP, RISE or GROW, public, private or hybrid — the answer follows from your operating model, not from a preference. We weigh each against your rollout footprint, localization obligations and appetite for change, then give you a recommendation rather than a menu.
- SAP S/4HANA and SAP cloud ERP considerations
- RISE with SAP and GROW with SAP assessment
- Public cloud, private cloud, and hybrid considerations
- Rollout and localization planning
Clean core, integration, and extensibility planning
Every custom object written into the core today is an upgrade you pay for later. We review the customization and technical debt you already carry, set the direction for what belongs on SAP BTP instead, and define an integration and API strategy that keeps innovation unblocked.
- Customization and technical-debt review
- SAP BTP extensibility direction
- Integration and API strategy
- Upgrade and innovation readiness
Data, analytics, and SAP business AI readiness
AI is only ever as good as the data underneath it. We assess data quality and ownership, set the reporting priorities the business will actually use, and identify which SAP Business AI and Joule use cases are ready to run — and where governance has to come first.
- Data quality and ownership
- Reporting and analytics priorities
- SAP business AI and joule use-case readiness
- Governance and adoption considerations
SAP Solutions Supported by Our Consulting Services
Core business systems
The solutions this service works on directly.
SAP S/4HANA
Whether the move to a real-time digital core is worth making now, which conversion path suits the history you are carrying, and what deployment model sits behind it.
SAP SuccessFactors
HR process design, the module scope that earns its place, and the order an HXM landscape should be rolled out in so each release lands on stable ground.
SAP HCM & Payroll
What your payroll landscape and statutory scope really demand, and the realistic route forward from on-premise HCM — including where staying put is the defensible answer.
Platform and insight
What connects them, extends them and reports on them.
SAP Customer Experience
Front-office processes assessed across sales, service, commerce and customer data — and, just as importantly, the points at which they have to meet the core cleanly.
SAP Business Technology Platform
Extensibility, integration and automation direction that keeps what makes you different outside the core — and keeps your upgrade path clear rather than negotiable.
SAP Analytics Cloud and Group Reporting
The reporting, planning and consolidation priorities worth funding first — set against an honest read of the data readiness sitting underneath all of them.
Our SAP Consulting Delivery Approach
4 stages, each with a defined exit and an outcome the next stage depends on.
Align
Understand business priorities, transformation objectives and stakeholder expectations — then agree the measures success will be judged on, and who owns each of them. Skipping this is expensive later: a roadmap built on assumed priorities gets re-argued the first time the board asks what it is actually buying.
Assess
Review business processes, SAP and non-SAP applications, integrations, data, reporting, customizations and organizational readiness. We work from how the landscape genuinely runs rather than how it is documented, because the gaps that derail programmes are almost always the ones nobody had written down.
Design
Define the target SAP landscape, solution direction, deployment model, architecture principles, clean core approach and transformation priorities. Fit-to-standard or extend, public, private or hybrid — each call is made deliberately and with its cost visible, rather than inherited from how things happen to work today.
Roadmap
Build the implementation sequence, workstreams, governance model, dependencies, risks, resource requirements and value measures. The output is a plan your organization can act on and defend: what moves first, what waits, what each stage owes you, and the point at which the next decision has to be taken.
Where required, VISCAP can continue from advisory into implementation, rollout, integration, testing, change enablement, and application management services.
Industries
S/4HANA migration for a global FMCG manufacturer
VISCAP replaced a fragmented ECC landscape with a real-time S/4HANA digital core and SAP Group Reporting, cutting the financial close by 40% and creating a single source of truth across the group.
One global payroll platform across 14 countries
SAP and non-SAP systems unified across 30+ countries
Cloud ERP go-live in five months via GROW with SAP
Frequently Asked Questions
They cover the work that happens before and around a build: SAP strategy and transformation roadmap, landscape and readiness assessment, business process and solution advisory, cloud ERP and deployment advisory, clean core, integration and extensibility planning, and data, analytics and SAP Business AI readiness. The output is a prioritized, sequenced roadmap rather than a system.
Before the direction is fixed. The decisions that are most expensive to reverse — deployment model, conversion path, what stays standard and what gets extended, the order the workstreams run in — are all made early. Advisory is also worth engaging mid-program, when a project is under way but scope, sequencing or readiness has drifted.
Consulting decides what to do and in what order: current-state assessment, target state, solution fitment, deployment model and roadmap. Implementation builds it — configuration, extensions, data migration, integration, testing and go-live. VISCAP does both, so a roadmap can carry straight into delivery without being re-scoped by a new team.
Yes. A landscape and readiness assessment reviews your current SAP and non-SAP applications, integration and application dependencies, data and reporting readiness, customizations and technical debt, and the organizational readiness behind them — then sets out the risks and gaps that would affect a transformation.
Yes. Our advisory spans SAP S/4HANA and SAP Cloud ERP, SuccessFactors, HCM and payroll, SAP Customer Experience, SAP BTP integration and extensibility, and SAP Analytics Cloud and Group Reporting. Most roadmaps touch several of these, which is precisely why they need sequencing rather than parallel starts.
It depends on the size of the landscape and how many workstreams are in scope. A focused readiness assessment on a single area is a short engagement; a full current-state review and multi-workstream roadmap across ERP, HR, integration and analytics takes considerably longer. We scope the engagement to the decisions you need to make, and say up front what each stage will produce.
Contact Us
Speak with VISCAP’s SAP consulting team about your current landscape, the transformation you are weighing up, and the roadmap that gets you there.