SAP TRANSFORMATION PLANNING
RISE with SAP Consulting Services
A cloud subscription proposal is only one part of an ERP transformation. Macrofix helps existing SAP customers assess their starting point, clarify the RISE with SAP scope and build a coordinated delivery roadmap. Bring process owners, IT teams and suppliers into the same plan before committing to milestones.
SCOPE YOUR TRANSFORMATION
Turn a RISE proposal into a delivery plan
RISE with SAP is SAP’s transformation path for on-premises SAP ERP customers moving toward SAP Cloud ERP Private. This page describes Macrofix consulting and project-planning services around that journey, not SAP’s complete offering or a promise that every tool and capability is included.
We connect the customer’s business priorities to an evidence-based roadmap, with scope boundaries, dependencies, decision owners and delivery assumptions stated explicitly.
Assessment, scope and transformation governance
Our consulting scope can cover landscape assessment, business-case assumptions, proposal and responsibility review, clean-core priorities, delivery governance and adoption readiness. The result is a coordinated plan for the next decision. Technical deployment details belong in our SAP S/4HANA cloud deployment services; build and transition work require separately agreed scopes.
See all SAP S/4HANA services for the wider ERP lifecycle.
Current landscape and business case
Review current SAP products and releases, business processes, entities, integrations, custom developments and operational constraints. Document the objectives and measurable decision criteria. A business case should distinguish evidenced costs and benefits from assumptions; advertised customer results are not a forecast for your organization.
- SAP landscape and process assessment
- Business-case assumptions and decision criteria
- Proposed scope and responsibility review
- Supplier clarification and decision register
Commercial and service-scope clarity
Translate the proposed product and service descriptions into a scope matrix. Identify included services, optional items, customer tasks, delivery partners, dependencies and unanswered questions. Record where subscription terms, infrastructure responsibilities and project statements of work need supplier or customer clarification. Legal and procurement decisions stay with authorized reviewers.
- Clean-core and dependency prioritization
- Cross-workstream delivery governance
- Adoption and training readiness
- Phased transformation roadmap
Clean-core and dependency priorities
Inventory process variations, custom code, interfaces, data quality concerns and upgrade-sensitive dependencies. Prioritize what to assess for standardization, remediation, retention or extension. Clean-core planning requires technical evidence and business decisions; it is not an instruction to remove every customization or an assurance that every extension can move unchanged.
- Current SAP products, releases and entities
- Business objectives and process constraints
- Interfaces, extensions and data dependencies
- Named business, IT and procurement owners
Delivery workstream governance
Connect business process design, technical readiness, data, integrations, security, testing, rollout and provider coordination in one governance view. Define accountable owners, dependencies, issue escalation and decision gates. Track acceptance for each workstream rather than treating the purchase or system provisioning date as business go-live.
Adoption and operating-model readiness
Plan training, process ownership, administrator readiness and the transition from project teams to operations. Agree who maintains test coverage, reviews releases, owns interfaces and handles application incidents. Preparation can connect separately scoped implementation, data migration and support engagements.
A decision-ready transformation roadmap
The roadmap can include a starting-point assessment, transformation objectives, scope and responsibility matrix, prioritized dependency backlog, workstream plan, decision log and readiness criteria. Open questions remain assigned to owners. This provides a basis for an implementation statement of work, not a substitute for the SAP agreement or a completed migration.
- Starting-point assessment and key assumptions
- Business objectives and decision criteria
- Scope and responsibility matrix
- Prioritized dependency and remediation backlog
- Workstream roadmap with decision gates
- Readiness findings and open-question register
Separate the subscription from the project
Identify the contractual supplier and responsible operator for each subscribed service, and distinguish their obligations from Macrofix project deliverables and customer-owned tasks. Confirm actual product scope, entitlements, regions, service levels, change rules and exclusions in the applicable documents.
Macrofix does not assume authority to resell subscriptions, accept agreements for the customer or perform provider-only operations. Tools, AI capabilities, migration incentives and other benefits are included only when confirmed in the relevant offer. Assessment recommendations do not authorize production changes.
- Confirm subscription scope with the supplying party
- Separate provider commitments from project deliverables
- Keep commercial acceptance with authorized customer reviewers
- Require approval and evidence before production changes
Assess, align, prioritize and authorize
Assess the starting point, align business objectives, review the proposed scope, prioritize dependencies and define a phased roadmap. Validate critical assumptions with the responsible parties, then present the readiness findings and open decisions. The customer authorizes commercial commitments and the next delivery phase through its own approval process.
- Assess the current SAP landscape
- Align business goals and decision criteria
- Review proposed scope and ownership
- Prioritize dependencies and delivery phases
- Present readiness findings for customer approval
Readiness evidence for the next decision
A useful planning engagement finishes with documented choices and testable next steps: confirmed decision criteria, scoped workstreams, supplier clarifications, dependency owners, adoption needs and approval gates. Unresolved compatibility or commercial questions should be visible. Implementation acceptance, migration reconciliation and business go-live remain later, separately evidenced decisions.
- Business objectives and assumptions documented
- Product and service-scope questions assigned
- Dependencies prioritized with accountable owners
- Workstream and adoption plans aligned
- Next-phase approval gates explicitly defined
RISE with SAP consulting FAQs
Macrofix can scope assessment, transformation planning, responsibility review, dependency prioritization, delivery governance and adoption readiness. Technical implementation, data migration, cloud deployment and recurring support are separately defined engagements. The SAP product agreement and provider services are not replaced by this consulting scope.
No. RISE describes a transformation journey and offering around moving an existing SAP landscape toward SAP Cloud ERP Private. Product editions, subscriptions, tools, provider services and project delivery are related but different scopes. Confirm the exact product and contractual offer rather than treating the names as interchangeable.
This page does not establish subscription-resale rights or authority to sign for a customer. A proposal must identify the supplying party and actual included services. Customer procurement, legal and commercial reviewers retain control of agreements and purchasing decisions.
Assessment can inventory and classify dependencies for retention, remediation, standardization or supported extension. Feasibility depends on the target product, release, supported interfaces and technical findings. Do not assume every customization transfers unchanged, or that clean-core planning means removing all differentiating processes.
Only when confirmed in the actual offer, applicable entitlement and service documents. Availability, use conditions, regions and exclusions can differ. Macrofix planning can record these questions and their owners, but should not advertise an unverified benefit or universal service guarantee.
The assessment effort depends on landscape size, available evidence, process scope and stakeholder access. The transformation timeline also depends on remediation, integration, data, testing, provider coordination and adoption. Agree the assessment and subsequent delivery milestones separately; there is no universal go-live date.
Make the next transformation decision clearer
Considering RISE with SAP for an existing SAP landscape? Share your current product, transformation objectives, major dependencies and planning stage. Macrofix can help turn those inputs into an assessment and delivery roadmap. Use an approved private channel for contracts, system inventories or other confidential material; keep the public enquiry high level.