Dear all,

Continuous improvement is one of the keys to your business’s success.

SAP Signavio Process Insights, discovery edition is the starting point for process analysis. You can read this blog to know more about this topic, but I would just like to point out that this offering is available free of charge for every SAP maintenance customer.

Discovery edition now displays the value analysis for several performance indicators. In this new “Value Analysis” section, you will start by uncovering concrete value drivers, such as reducing finance cost. You can pick one and drill down to individual indicators of performance impacting this value driver and see the monetary benefits of improving the related performance. The tool shows you the calculations and inputs, including SAP assumptions you can actually modify according to your needs or specific situation.

This capability provides easy and automated value case creation for SAP Signavio. We hope it will assist you in your value-driven discussions & decision making.

Let me show you how it works!

In the example above, let’s click on “Reduce Sales Costs”,

and then on “Sales documents created”.

A panel on the right appears:

The top part of this new panel are the baseline state and target state.

The next part is the input values (coming from your system) and the assumptions (like for example “Average time required to create a sales document manually”) that are generic.

On the last part, you will see the formula to calculate the potential benefits. It is in essence the multiplication of the inputs and assumptions on the top:

The “current potential benefits” is the maximum potential benefit (here the benefits of going from the current 7.93% automation rate to 100% automation rate). The goal is to improve the current potential benefit through process improvements that lower costs, here reducing costly manual effort through increasing automation.

The “target potential benefits” is the benefit of going from the targeted 76.97% automation rate to 100% automation rate.

The difference between the current potential benefit and the target potential benefit is the estimated benefit of process improvement. Or if you prefer the estimated benefits of going from an automation rate of 7.93% to 76.97%. This is this figure we focus on.

Let’s see in detail:

Current Potential Benefit = 3,000 outbound deliveries created in a week x 48 weeks worked per year x 1-7.93% Sales documents automatically created x 10min x 25EUR = 552.4K EUR / Year

Target Potential Benefits = 111 x 48 1-76.97% x 10min x 25EUR= 138.2K EUR / Year

Estimated benefits = current potential benefits – target potential benefits = 552.4K Eur – 138.2K = 414.2K Eur

Please note: “Target State” is by default the goal of being among the best 25% performing companies for the related performance. It is possible to change this target state and the assumptions.

Please note: The progression tab is only available on SAP Signavio Process Insights full edition as SAP Signavio Process Insights, discovery edition is a one-time report.

This capability -part of SAP Signavio Process Insights, discovery edition- is an easy first step to build your case for process transformation. Some assumptions are made by SAP, but you can change them if you feel your specific situation does not qualify for the standard inputs.

You can request SAP Signavio Process Insights, discovery edition for your productive SAP ERP or SAP S/4HANA system on https://url.sap/discovery-edition.

I am very much looking forward to provide you with your analysis very soon!

Kind regards

Rene Cedat

SAP Signavio