What is Enterprise Management Layer (EML)
The Enterprise Management Layer (EML) is a upgraded version of SAP Model Company combining all the essential SAP Best Practices, considered as a Global Template for SAP S/4HANA implementations (or) transformations for the customers located in various countries.
The EML as template offers pre-configured end-to-end business processes in all the SAP Application areas. The major focus of EML is on the complex accounting and reporting requirements based on the country (local government) level requirements, this helps to meet the global/local accounting principles.
Additionally, EML helps to bring all the customers who are having heavy customizations in their ECC & other business applications, will bring back to standard to make sure with the sustainable solution with limited maintainability.
In April 2020, SAP enhanced SAP S/4HANA Cloud, extended edition by delivering business content and updated services as part of the subscription. SAP bundles into the technical offering of software capabilities the ability to immediately consume a pre-defined scope of pre-activated SAP Best Practices business processes virtually “out-of-the-box”.
With the offering of a pre-configured business template usable by customers and partners as a foundation to jumpstart their implementation project, SAP significantly contributes to the key cloud principles:
- Reduce Time-to-Value
- Reduce Total Cost of Ownership by reducing cost for implementation
- Contribute to the speed to leverage New Innovation
The Enterprise Management Layer for SAP S/4HANA Cloud, extended edition (EML) allows customers to execute business processes based on SAP Best Practices. Where the standard SAP Best Practices typically focus on national companies running operations within one country only, the EML focuses on international customers that run subsidiaries within multiple countries around the globe.
Business Applications and Process Standardization
The appliance “Enterprise Management Layer as available in S/4HANA Cloud, extended edition” consist out of 2 virtual machines.
- S/4HANA with Required DB Application
- Adobe Document Services (ADS)
The “Enterprise Management Layer, as available in S/4HANA Cloud” solution can be delivered via Cloud Appliance Library any of the Cloud Accounts.
The Enterprise Management Layer is a global template which can be tailored to each customer’s requirements in 2 simple stages:
- Initial build: Each customer specifies the initial scope and certain parameters for the build of their system such as the countries in scope, but also the customer’s group currency and fiscal year variant. For each country, around 160 standard scope items(Approx) will be available. In addition, scope options which might require additional software licenses can be selected for functionality.
- Customer project: Fit-to-Standard workshops are recommended to maximize re-use of SAP delivered ready-to-run business processes while carefully assessing where a customer’s business requires tailoring or extending the solution.
SAP Model Company Vs Best Practices Vs EML
An SAP Model Company is planned & designed for only one country. This will enable us to create a example company code structure which will help us to get the business idea for the best use of SAP Products & Processes.
SAP Best Practices for SAP S/4HANA Cloud provides ready-to-use business process content for core business processes in R2R, S2P, P2P, OTC etc. Typically, SAP Best Practices are more Industry oriented standard processes. SAP Best Practices are prepared more towards the Industry Solutions developed by SAP as part of ECC Infrastructure.
By combining the above two experiences from Model Company and Best Practices, SAP converted and combined all together and evaluated the Enterprise Management Layer.
EML is the solution template which provides the complete value chain as per the multiple industry standards across multiple countries. Technically, EML will help to design the clean core standards (Low Code/No Code) across the various process chains. This will help to keep the system clean, and clear to keep in automated support models, ultimately reduce huge cost for enhancements, maintenance and post live support.
Speed, Content, Quality & Flexibility
Today’s digital transformation is driving rapid change across all industries, and its effects are profound. We are witnessing a paradigm shift with the commoditization of cloud computing and how its openness, flexibility, and scalability is driving digitalization globally. With billions of connected devices and the copious amount of data they generate, we see an ever-increasing demand to store and process distributed data in real-time.
Deliver the Quality Content with Flexible Options with in planned Speed – Activation of the Best SAP Practices (in the form of EML Process) for 43 countries.
Once the Technical setup up of the SAP S/4HANA system as per the Administration Guide provided, the complete clean core solution is available in 25+ languages, creating clients, enabling Fiori apps, creating users, activating business functions, etc., will be the piece of walk to run the system with Basic and standard system landscape.
As the EML template exposed with SAP Landscape, complete quality content will be available and where the business process discussions sessions will help for alignment. Taylor the country coverage and the functional scope of your customer-specific enterprise management layer for optimal fit. Use the template as a jump start for your SAP S/4HANA implementation and deploy it throughout your system landscape, including in your Development, Quality and Production systems.
Adaption of EML for S/4 Transformation
SAP Signavio, the Product to speak the EML with the Business, that will help to Initiate, design, analyze and improve the Business
Below are the various kinds of modules separated in Signavio, which will help to design the Business process at various steps. Below process image helps us to understand the details and importance of EML enabled SAP Signavio as part of Solution design and development.
Analyze & Monitor
SAP Signavio Process Insights – helps customers in getting an overview of the overall performance using End to End process flows, Process performance indicators (PPI), Innovation Recommendations & Correction Recommendations (Best Practice). This will help Customer can identify which business areas or processes needs to be prioritized for improvements.
SAP Signavio Process Intelligence – process data from both SAP and non-SAP systems, SAP Signavio process Intelligence with the help of its powerful process mining capabilities can identify want needs to be improved based on the raw data. SAP Signavio process intelligence helps by providing visibility into the real process execution which provides insights into the previously unknown process and experience related inefficiencies. This helps Customer to Identify Process/Experience related inefficiencies & identify What improvements are required.
Design & Simulate
SAP Signavio Process Manager – help the customer get an inside-Out view of the business processes, helps the customer to design (make improvements/Changes to existing process) and analyze the processes, the solution also provides the customer the flexibility to compare and simulate the end-to-end flow with the changes, to see what the impacts are and to see how the new process works based on real scenarios before implementing the changes.
SAP Signavio Journey Modeler – helps the customer to improve the customer experience by providing the tools which allows to design appealing customer Journeys (How the final user experience the operations -Look and feel), Once designed the customer can connect these customer journeys to the business processes & systems.
Rollout & Improve
Once the design is complete the next step is to roll out the solution to the organization, SAP Signavio Process Governance provides the customer with the ability to manage and govern the rollout of the solution (Process and customer Experience). SAP Signavio Process governance provides the customer with the ability to adapt solution quickly and effectively.
On top of all the above functions SAP Process Automation provides the capability to reduce the manual and repetitive tasks with the help of iRPA (intelligent Robotic Process Automation), Workflow & Low code-No Code functions.
Conclusion
With the changing world with complex processes involved, Business need the full and transparent insights. It helps the organizations to adapt fast, and know-how about the upgraded systems / applications / processes in the business models. So, SAP Signavio offers business process management that literally every business needs, coupled with industry-next practices and process mining.
