In this workshop, participants are guided through the process of building a clear and defensible business case for an SAP S/4HANA transformation, including the key financial, operational, and strategic decisions that shape program success. Attendees will come away equipped with the knowledge to: Build a clear and defensible SAP S/4HANA business case that aligns scope, deployment model, costs, risks, and expected outcomes. Evaluate deployment options, cloud incentives, subscription models, and key contract terms using structured decision criteria. Assess readiness gaps, risk factors, and operational impacts associated with different transformation choices. Develop a concise, board-level readout that communicates value, justifies decisions, and frames the transformation in outcome-driven terms.

What does it take to successfully adopt SAP Cloud ERP Private as part of an enterprise modernization journey? In this candid customer panel, business and IT leaders from Kyocera, Naturipe Farms, and Woodstream share insights on what worked, what didn’t, and what they’d do differently. Get practical guidance to strengthen program governance, manage RISE service tickets effectively, resolve issues before they escalate, and use SAP Cloud ALM insights to support performance and business continuity as your environment evolves. Come away with the clarity and confidence to make informed decisions, reduce risk, and drive lasting business impact from cloud ERP.

Before embarking on your technical migration and implementation plans, it’s essential to take a step back and evaluate the strategic decisions that shape your SAP S/4HANA journey. This session provides concrete evaluation criteria and actionable guidance to align your SAP S/4HANA strategy with business transformation goals.  Attend to: Evaluate and the pros and cons of Greenfield, Brownfield, Selective Data Migration approaches, including differences based on system readiness, business priorities, and technical complexity. Identify key pre-migration considerations, including custom code strategy, third-party compatibility, and data retention policies. Assess key differences between SAP S/4HANA deployment models and understand how your choice impacts long-term scalability, integration, and total cost of ownership.

This session examines how Aerospace made change enablement a strategic priority by embedding it into every phase of its SAP S/4HANA program to support user adoption and long-term sustainability. See how a structured framework of stakeholder engagement, targeted training, and continuous feedback prepared teams for new processes and reduced resistance during rollout. Hear how early planning increased user confidence and strengthened readiness across business and IT. Get lessons from Aerospace to improve the effectiveness of your change approach, better prepare users for new ways of working, and achieve smoother adoption throughout your SAP S/4HANA transition.

This session examines how Loparex recovered from a challenging SAP S/4HANA go-live across four manufacturing sites, when adoption gaps, master data issues, and planning misalignment pushed teams back to manual workarounds and undermined confidence in the system. Learn from Loparex’s experience and come away equipped to: Recognize early indicators that post–go-live SAP S/4HANA value is eroding before issues become entrenched. Distinguish between technical stabilization issues and execution breakdowns driven by adoption, data, and planning gaps. Move beyond a deployment-focused mindset by reinforcing education, behavior change, and execution discipline after go-live. Protect the expected return on SAP S/4HANA investments by addressing execution risks during planning and correcting breakdowns in live operations.

As American Industrial Transport (AITX) evaluated its path to the cloud, leadership needed a clear, data-backed way to assess options and justify a potential move forward. In this session, learn how AITX used SAP Signavio process intelligence and AI-driven analysis to uncover inefficiencies, quantify value opportunities, and replace assumptions with objective insight. Hear how those findings were translated into a business case that aligned stakeholders, prioritized investments, and supported informed decision-making around cloud ERP and RISE with SAP. Attendees will come away with practical guidance for using process data to evaluate cloud transformation options and structure more effective executive-level discussions.

This session explores PetMeds’ SAP Cloud ERP (formerly "SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud") implementation to modernize its core operations and support scalable growth. Hear how the company evaluated Public and Private deployment options, how they determined what to standardize versus configure, and how those choices guided their implementation approach and supported a more predictable build. Discover how Fit-to-Standard workshops, clean core practices, and preconfigured content shaped scope decisions and helped maintain compliance and quality while accelerating deployment. Come away with proven ways to manage rapid timelines, avoid complexity, maintain scope discipline, and set up your organization for a smooth SAP Cloud ERP rollout.