LeverX helps growing and large organizations plan and execute SAP S/4HANA transformations, from initial landscape assessment and business case development to target architecture, migration planning, implementation readiness, and long-term optimization.
For organizations running SAP ECC or other legacy ERP systems, the transition to SAP S/4HANA involves more than a technical upgrade. It requires an assessment of existing business processes, custom code, data quality, integration dependencies, and infrastructure, alongside a clear view of the operating model the business needs going forward.
With more than 20 years of SAP expertise, 1,500+ delivered projects, and 2,200+ professionals worldwide, LeverX brings together SAP consulting, enterprise architecture, software engineering, data management, and integration capabilities to address these interconnected requirements.
As an SAP Gold Partner, LeverX helps organizations evaluate transformation options, define a target state, and develop a roadmap grounded in their existing SAP landscape, business priorities, and technical requirements.
By combining functional, technical, architectural, data, integration, and industry expertise, LeverX helps decision-makers assess trade-offs, understand dependencies, and make informed decisions before committing to major ERP investments.
SAP S/4HANA Consulting Across the Transformation Lifecycle
Effective SAP S/4HANA transformation starts well before implementation. Organizations need a clear understanding of their current SAP landscape, a defined target state, and a realistic plan for bridging the gap between the two.
LeverX helps growing and large organizations navigate the consulting activities that shape this journey, from initial assessments and transformation planning to architecture decisions and implementation readiness.
Key consulting services include:
- SAP landscape and S/4HANA readiness assessments
- Transformation strategy and roadmap development
- Greenfield, Brownfield, and Selective Data Transition advisory
- Business process assessment and harmonization
- Solution and enterprise architecture
- SAP Clean Core strategy
- Custom code and technical debt assessment
- Data migration and integration strategy
- SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) advisory
- Business case and total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis
- Implementation readiness and project planning
- Organizational change and post-go-live optimization
By connecting business priorities with technical and operational considerations, this consulting-led approach helps organizations evaluate options, prioritize investments, and establish a foundation for SAP implementation, migration, or broader landscape modernization.
SAP S/4HANA Readiness and Landscape Assessment
Before selecting a transformation path, organizations need to understand the systems, processes, data, and dependencies that will shape the work ahead.
LeverX assesses the existing SAP environment across technology, business processes, custom development, integrations, data, and organizational requirements. The findings help identify constraints, risks, improvement opportunities, and priorities that should inform the transformation roadmap.
SAP Landscape and Architecture Assessment
The first step is to understand how the current SAP environment is structured and how its components support business operations.
LeverX examines system architecture, SAP components, infrastructure, interfaces, dependencies, extensions, and connected applications to identify areas that may affect the target S/4HANA architecture.
The assessment may highlight:
- Legacy components and architectural constraints
- Redundant systems and overlapping capabilities
- Dependencies between SAP and non-SAP applications
- Infrastructure and deployment considerations
- Integration bottlenecks
- Opportunities to simplify the technology landscape
These findings provide a clearer basis for architecture decisions and help define which components may need to be retained, modernized, consolidated, or replaced.
Business Process Assessment
The target SAP environment should reflect how the organization needs to operate, not simply reproduce existing workflows.
LeverX examines core business processes to identify inefficiencies, inconsistent workflows, manual workarounds, and opportunities to align operations with SAP Best Practices.
Depending on the scope, the assessment may cover:
- Process mapping and maturity
- Fit-to-standard opportunities
- Cross-functional dependencies
- Manual workarounds and duplicate activities
- Process harmonization across business units
- Automation opportunities
- Opportunities to reduce process complexity
This analysis helps organizations distinguish processes that can be standardized from those that require differentiation, while identifying complexity that could increase implementation effort or ongoing maintenance.
Custom Code and Technical Debt Assessment
Existing custom development can affect the scope, complexity, and maintenance requirements of an S/4HANA transformation. Understanding which extensions remain necessary is therefore an important part of planning the target environment.
LeverX reviews custom functionality to help determine what should be retained, adapted, redesigned, replaced with standard SAP capabilities, moved to an appropriate extension architecture, or retired.
The findings inform modernization priorities and can support a broader SAP Clean Core strategy, with the aim of keeping the target environment more manageable as business requirements evolve.
Data Readiness Assessment
Data quality, consistency, and structure influence migration planning, reporting, and the reliability of business processes in the target environment.
LeverX examines master data, transactional data, historical information, dependencies, and data quality to identify potential requirements for cleansing, harmonization, archiving, transformation, and migration.
This assessment helps establish data preparation priorities and clarify which information needs to be migrated, retained, transformed, or archived as part of the transition.
Integration Assessment
SAP S/4HANA rarely operates in isolation. A transformation can affect connections with CRM, HR, finance, manufacturing, warehouse, logistics, tax, banking, e-commerce, and other enterprise applications.
LeverX reviews existing interfaces and integration dependencies to determine which connections may need to be retained, redesigned, replaced, or modernized. The findings help inform the target integration architecture, clarify dependencies between systems, and identify integration work that should be addressed during transformation planning.
Transformation Readiness
Technical findings alone do not determine whether an organization is ready to begin implementation. Project governance, stakeholder alignment, resource availability, and business priorities also influence how a transformation should be planned.
LeverX considers these organizational and delivery factors alongside the technical assessment to identify outstanding decisions, prerequisites, and dependencies that may affect implementation planning.
The resulting assessment gives stakeholders a structured view of the current environment, the work required to move toward the target state, and the priorities to address before the next stage of the transformation.
SAP S/4HANA Strategy and Roadmap Consulting
Once the current SAP landscape and its constraints are understood, the next step is to determine how to move toward the target state. LeverX helps growing and large organizations evaluate transformation scenarios and develop a roadmap aligned with business objectives, technical requirements, investment priorities, and the target operating model.
Evaluating Transformation Scenarios
The right transformation approach depends on the organization's existing SAP landscape, business priorities, and desired future state. LeverX helps evaluate options such as:
- Greenfield transformation: Implement a new SAP environment with redesigned business processes and a new target architecture.
- Brownfield conversion: Convert the existing SAP ERP system to SAP S/4HANA while retaining appropriate configurations, processes, and data.
- Selective Data Transition: Selectively transition relevant data and processes, combining elements of system conversion and process redesign where appropriate.
- SAP landscape consolidation: Simplify fragmented SAP environments across business units, systems, or acquired companies.
- Hybrid transformation: Combine approaches across systems or business areas to accommodate different technical, operational, and organizational requirements.
The evaluation considers custom code, process maturity, data quality, integration dependencies, organizational change, and the implications of each option for the target operating model. This helps stakeholders understand the trade-offs involved before committing to a transformation path.
Business Case and Total Cost of Ownership
Selecting a transformation approach also requires an understanding of its financial implications. Beyond initial implementation costs, organizations need to consider the longer-term costs of operating, maintaining, integrating, and evolving the target SAP environment.
LeverX supports business case development and investment planning through:
- Total cost of ownership (TCO) and investment analysis
- Transformation scenario comparison
- Investment prioritization
- Business value assessment
- Cost and risk analysis
- Roadmap sequencing
These analyses help decision-makers compare options, assess financial and operational trade-offs, and understand how investment decisions relate to business priorities and long-term SAP requirements.
SAP S/4HANA Solution Architecture
The target SAP architecture should reflect how the organization intends to operate in the future, rather than simply reproduce its existing landscape on a new platform.
LeverX helps growing and large organizations translate business requirements into a target architecture spanning SAP applications, integrations, data, cloud platforms, and extension technologies. The focus is on aligning architectural decisions with business priorities, technical constraints, and long-term maintainability.
Architecture consulting can cover:
- Enterprise and SAP solution architecture
- SAP modules and capability assessment
- Integration and data architecture
- Cloud and hybrid architecture
- SAP BTP and extension strategy
- Technical architecture assessment
- Architecture governance
- Scalability, security, and maintainability considerations
The resulting architecture provides a basis for implementation planning and helps organizations determine where standard SAP functionality meets business needs and where additional capabilities may be required.
SAP Business Process Consulting for S/4HANA
A target architecture is only effective when it supports the way the business needs to operate. S/4HANA transformation therefore presents an opportunity to review existing processes, reduce unnecessary complexity, and reconsider customizations that may no longer be needed.
LeverX helps organizations assess and harmonize business processes using fit-to-standard principles and SAP Best Practices, while accounting for operational requirements that may justify differentiated functionality.
Consulting can cover:
- Finance and controlling
- Procurement and sourcing
- Sales and distribution
- Manufacturing and quality management
- Supply chain planning
- Warehouse and transportation management
- Asset management
- Human resources
- Product lifecycle management
- Cross-functional business processes
This work helps organizations identify where standard SAP capabilities can support more consistent processes and where changes to workflows, responsibilities, or custom solutions may be appropriate.
For organizations with multiple business units or acquired companies, process harmonization can also inform shared process templates, more consistent reporting, and subsequent rollouts across the wider business.
SAP Clean Core Consulting
SAP Clean Core is an important consideration when designing an S/4HANA environment that needs to remain maintainable as business and technology requirements evolve.
Over time, custom code, modifications, and tightly coupled integrations can increase the complexity of maintaining and upgrading an ERP system. LeverX helps organizations assess these dependencies and determine how existing custom functionality should be handled in the target architecture.
Clean Core consulting can include:
- Custom code and customization assessment
- Fit-to-standard analysis
- Extension architecture
- SAP BTP advisory
- Integration strategy
- Technical debt assessment and reduction planning
- Clean Core roadmap and governance
The objective is to limit unnecessary modifications to the ERP core while retaining the business capabilities the organization needs.
Where appropriate, extensions can be designed using SAP BTP or other suitable architectural components, depending on the requirements and constraints of the target environment.
These decisions help establish a more maintainable architecture and inform future upgrade, extension, and governance practices.
SAP Data and Integration Strategy
The target SAP environment must work as part of the wider enterprise landscape. Data and integration decisions therefore need to account for business processes, connected applications, information ownership, and reporting requirements - not just the ERP migration itself.
Data Strategy
Data readiness affects migration scope, reporting reliability, and the consistency of business processes after go-live.
LeverX helps organizations assess data quality, governance, master data, historical information, migration requirements, and analytics needs. Depending on the scope, activities may include data cleansing, harmonization, migration planning, validation, and clarification of data ownership and stewardship responsibilities.
The findings help establish data preparation priorities and define how information should be managed across the target SAP environment.
Integration Strategy
S/4HANA transformation can affect connections with SAP and non-SAP applications across finance, HR, manufacturing, logistics, customer management, and other business functions.
LeverX helps organizations assess existing integrations and define target integration architecture, integration patterns, API requirements, and connectivity across cloud, legacy, and third-party systems.
This work helps clarify system dependencies and identify integration changes that need to be addressed during transformation planning.
SAP BTP Advisory
SAP Business Technology Platform can support integration, extensions, automation, data management, and application development across an enterprise SAP landscape.
LeverX helps organizations evaluate where SAP BTP fits within the target architecture and how its capabilities may support integration and extension requirements while keeping the ERP core maintainable.
The appropriate approach depends on existing systems, business needs, architectural standards, and the organization's long-term technology strategy.
SAP S/4HANA Consulting for U.S. Businesses
Organizations operating in the United States may need to account for domestic financial reporting, internal controls, tax requirements, and complex operational structures alongside global SAP transformation objectives.
These considerations can influence the target architecture, business processes, data model, reporting capabilities, and integration landscape. Depending on the organization and project scope, relevant areas may include:
- U.S. GAAP: Financial accounting and reporting requirements.
- SOX-related controls: Internal controls over financial reporting, including appropriate control evidence and audit trails.
- SEC reporting: Reporting processes and data requirements for applicable public companies.
- Federal and state tax requirements: Tax determination, reporting, and integrations with relevant tax systems.
- Multi-state operations: Business processes spanning multiple states, facilities, and legal entities.
- Multi-entity financial management: Intercompany transactions, consolidation, and consistent financial reporting.
- Banking and payment integrations: Connectivity with financial institutions and payment systems.
- Payroll and HR integrations: Connections with relevant U.S. payroll and workforce systems.
- Supply chain and manufacturing: Integration with warehouse, manufacturing, logistics, and third-party applications.
- Global templates and localization: Alignment between U.S. operations and corporate processes across international markets.
The applicable requirements depend on the organization's industry, legal structure, reporting obligations, and system scope. SAP architecture and configuration should support the relevant control and reporting processes; they do not replace legal, tax, or accounting advice.
LeverX helps organizations translate these business and operational requirements into SAP consulting, architecture, integration, and implementation considerations, supporting alignment between local needs and the broader transformation approach.
S/4HANA Implementation Readiness
Once the target architecture, process requirements, and key dependencies have been considered, the next step is to establish what is needed to move into implementation.
LeverX helps organizations prepare for execution by aligning business and IT stakeholders around scope, priorities, responsibilities, and the proposed delivery approach.
Implementation readiness activities can include:
- Scope definition and prioritization
- Business process alignment
- Target architecture validation
- Migration and data strategy
- Integration requirements
- Custom code remediation priorities
- Testing and validation approach
- Governance and project organization
- Change management planning
- Implementation roadmap and milestones
This preparation helps clarify outstanding decisions, responsibilities, dependencies, and readiness gaps before major implementation activities begin.
The result is a more structured basis for implementation planning, with a clearer view of the work required, the decisions still to be made, and the issues that need attention before execution proceeds.
LeverX SAP S/4HANA Consulting Case Studies
LeverX applies its SAP consulting and technical delivery experience to transformation challenges ranging from global process harmonization and system modernization to migration planning, implementation readiness, and operational improvement.
The following case studies illustrate how LeverX has worked with organizations across different industries to address specific SAP requirements, with examples of project scope, delivery approaches, and reported outcomes.
Retal Group - S/4HANA Consulting and Global Process Harmonisation
LeverX supported Retal Group in modernizing its SAP S/4HANA environment, including migrating infrastructure to Microsoft Azure and refining its Global Template.
The work focused on SAP architecture, global process harmonization, operational stability, and preparation for future regional rollouts. These activities supported the group's international expansion and helped establish a foundation for further development of its SAP landscape.
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Malt Producer - SAP S/4HANA Consulting and Localisation
LeverX assessed and stabilized an existing SAP S/4HANA environment, identifying adjustments needed to improve system operation and address local business and regulatory requirements.
The engagement included system assessment, configuration improvements, and localization. The adaptation and fine-tuning work was completed in three months.
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Eurasia Group - SAP S/4HANA Consulting and Business Process Modernisation
LeverX supported Eurasia Group in transitioning from SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA, addressing both technical migration requirements and changes to business processes.
The program included current-system assessment, scope definition, custom code analysis, process harmonization, migration planning, testing, and change management.
The reported results included an 8.5-month program involving 13 LeverX experts and 25 client professionals, a 10% reduction in system maintenance costs, and a 15% improvement in data consistency. The project also established a foundation for a subsequent SAP EWM implementation.
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Telecommunications Provider - ERP Implementation Readiness
LeverX provided strategic SAP consulting to help a telecommunications provider prepare for the selection and implementation of a new ERP system.
The work covered business process analysis, requirements definition, total cost of ownership (TCO) considerations, technical requirements, and preparation for ERP vendor selection.
This engagement illustrates LeverX's consulting capabilities at the decision-making stage, before an organization commits to an ERP platform and implementation approach.
Read the SAP ERP Implementation Readiness case study →
IT Infrastructure Provider - SAP Consulting and Operational Streamlining
LeverX helped an IT infrastructure solutions provider address configuration and process gaps, improve integrations, and optimize its SAP S/4HANA landscape in preparation for future business needs.
The work spanned multiple operational areas and included SAP S/4HANA, HCM, EWM, analytics, security, SAP Basis, and readiness assessment.
The project demonstrates the breadth of SAP consulting and technical capabilities involved in assessing and improving a complex enterprise environment.
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Global Manufacturing Company - SAP ECC to S/4HANA Transformation
LeverX supported a global manufacturer of optical fibers, cables, and laser-delivery systems in transitioning from SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA using a Brownfield approach.
The project covered Finance, Production and Quality, Materials Management, Sales, HR, master data, SAP Basis, and custom functionality.
The transformation involved business data migration, custom code adaptation, and a controlled three-day cutover window. Following go-live, LeverX continued to support SAP configuration, enhancements, and application management.
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Why Organizations Choose LeverX for SAP S/4HANA Consulting
SAP S/4HANA transformation involves more than migrating to a new ERP platform. It requires coordinated decisions across business processes, architecture, data, integrations, and long-term application management. LeverX brings together SAP expertise, enterprise delivery experience, and technical capabilities to help organizations navigate these interconnected challenges.
More Than 20 Years of SAP Expertise
With more than 20 years of SAP experience, LeverX supports organizations across the SAP lifecycle, from consulting and transformation planning to implementation, migration, integration, and application management. This breadth of experience helps teams consider both immediate project requirements and the longer-term needs of their SAP landscape.
Experience with Complex Enterprise Environments
LeverX has delivered 1,500+ projects and worked with Fortune 500 companies. This experience spans complex SAP environments, multiple business functions, and international operations — contexts where S/4HANA transformation requires coordination across systems, teams, and business processes.
Recognized SAP Partnership
As an SAP Gold Partner, LeverX works within the SAP ecosystem across consulting, implementation, integration, and transformation initiatives. This partnership complements its project delivery experience and supports its work with organizations navigating changes to their SAP environments.
Consulting Informed by Delivery Experience
A transformation strategy needs to account for the practical demands of implementation. LeverX draws on delivery experience to address considerations such as custom code, data migration, system integrations, testing, and application support. This connects architectural and planning decisions with the technical and operational work required to put them into practice.
Expertise Across the SAP Landscape
S/4HANA rarely operates in isolation. Transformation can affect connected applications, data flows, integration layers, and custom-built solutions. LeverX combines SAP consulting with capabilities in SAP BTP, integration, data management, custom application development, and automation to address these dependencies as part of the broader enterprise landscape.
Support Beyond Go-Live
The work continues after implementation. As business processes evolve and new requirements emerge, organizations may need to refine their SAP environment, extend functionality, or address operational issues. LeverX provides ongoing support through application management, optimization, and further development, helping organizations maintain and evolve their SAP landscape over time.
Global Delivery Experience with a U.S. Presence
For North American enterprises, SAP transformation may need to accommodate domestic business requirements while remaining aligned with global templates and operating models. LeverX combines global delivery experience with a U.S. presence and consulting capabilities for North American organizations, supporting work across these regional and enterprise-wide considerations.
A Practical Path to SAP S/4HANA
SAP S/4HANA transformation involves interconnected decisions about business processes, system architecture, data, integrations, and deployment. A structured approach helps organizations address these dependencies in the right sequence while keeping business priorities and technical constraints in view.
LeverX follows a transformation approach informed by SAP Activate, adapting the project structure to the client's existing SAP landscape, business objectives, and delivery requirements. Each phase helps establish the foundation for the next, from initial assessment and planning to deployment and ongoing improvement.
1. Discover
Build an understanding of the current SAP environment, business processes, data, integrations, and transformation objectives. Assess existing constraints, dependencies, and potential areas for improvement to inform the scope and direction of the initiative.
2. Prepare
Translate the initial findings into a practical project framework. Define scope, governance, roles, responsibilities, milestones, and delivery plans, aligning business and IT stakeholders on priorities, expectations, and the proposed transformation approach.
3. Explore
Evaluate business requirements against standard SAP capabilities and the target operating model. Identify where existing processes can align with standard functionality, where process changes may be needed, and where integrations, data changes, or custom development require further consideration.
4. Realize
Configure and extend the solution based on the agreed requirements. Prepare and migrate data, develop integrations, and conduct the necessary functional, integration, performance, and user acceptance testing to evaluate solution readiness and address identified issues.
5. Deploy
Coordinate the transition to the new environment. Prepare users and operational teams, validate cutover readiness, finalize deployment activities, and manage the move to the new system in line with the agreed transition plan.
6. Run
Support the system after go-live, address early operational issues, and monitor the performance and stability of the SAP environment. Identify opportunities for optimization and further development as business requirements and operational needs evolve.
This approach provides a structured framework for moving from assessment to deployment and ongoing improvement. The scope, sequencing, and activities of each phase can be adapted to the organization's SAP landscape, transformation objectives, and implementation requirements.
Start Your SAP S/4HANA Transformation with LeverX
Choosing the right transformation path starts with understanding the current SAP landscape, defining the desired future state, and evaluating the options available to the business.
LeverX works with U.S. enterprises to assess existing SAP environments, evaluate transformation scenarios, define target architecture, and plan migration or implementation activities. Its consulting capabilities also extend to post-go-live support and continued optimization as business and technical requirements change.
