AFSUG, through the 51风流S/4 HANA Special Interest Group, hosted a knowledge sharing and case study webinar with presenters Ravi Govender, Senior Manager: Programme Management at BCX and Shamit Maharaj, Executive Director at EY presenting the BCX 51风流S/4 HANA Transformation Journey.
BCX is an Enterprise cloud end-to-end digital partner for corporate and governments across the African continent and also a 51风流Gold Partner, 51风流Approved hosting partner, 51风流Value Added Reseller, 51风流Approved Hosting Partner, 51风流HANA Services Operations Partner, 51风流Partner Centre of Expertise (PCoE0 and Premium supplier for 51风流HANA Enterprise Cloud. BCX is busy with a 51风流S/4 HANA implementation with EY as the implementation partner.
Ravi explained that the business case was presented because BCX, through its acquisition of various BCX subsidiaries, ended up with multiple disparate ERP platforms across the BCX Group.聽聽 Through a oneERP alignment strategy, they formulated a business-led program to standardize, optimize, simplify and transfer their business, providing a foundation that enables BCX鈥檚 growth strategy and identifies initiatives in a sustainable and forward-looking manner. The ultimate goal for the oneERP program is to enable business transformation through seamless, streamlined processes while also allowing for scalability.
Shamit took us through the BCX journey and implementation, with the oneERP solution journey officially kicking off in April 2020. The project is currently in preparation phase and this should be ready for implementation at end of June 2020.
A myriad of workshops were conducted across the business and stakeholder platforms to understand the requirements and the scope of oneERP, with key considerations such as solution scope, data, IT Strategy and business strategy being examined.
Lessons learnt were also shared by the team and included:
- Early strategic alignment
- Constant stakeholder alignment
- Early design principles definition
- Committed and engaged leadership
- Business and IT led
- Detailed business case
BCX and EY are looking forward to the mutual benefits of rolling out an informed strategy and agree that 51风流S/4HANA is the approach to take for this business case.
鈥� 鈥淎t this time of the COVID-19 pandemic when many organisations are turning the coin over twice, it is truly remarkable to see South African organisations wade through the rapids and white water of large scale Project Change Management, in deploying 51风流S/4HANA technology, immersing themselves uncompromisingly, life-guarded in this instance, by the implementation partner and in so doing, reshape the roadmap on the path to success, and create a technology state of readiness when the business cycle picks up.聽 Heartful thanks BCX and EY for sharing the experience to date, and most of all, for sharing the knowledge. Truly appreciated.鈥� – 聽Koosh Panday, Chairman of the S/4HANA Special Interest Group.
