SAP S4 HANA Cloud: Public Edition

What is S/4 HANA Cloud Public Edition?

S/4 HANA Cloud Public Edition is a complete enterprise resource planning (ERP) system with built-in intelligent technologies, including AI, machine learning, and advanced data analytics. SAP S4/HANA cloud helps companies adopt new business models, manage business change at speed, orchestrate internal and external resources, and use the predictive power of AI. Benefit from tight, native integration between processes, industry depth, and a consistent in-memory data model with SAP HANA software.

S/4 HANA Cloud public edition is best suited for companies with:

A Strategic Growth Plan
A growing workforce
An eye towards growth - even reaching the $1 billion mark

SAP S4 HANA Public Cloud delivered by Navigator

Increase margin with built-in best practices and industry-specific processes

Comprehensive end-to-end business processes delivered by pre-configured best practice processes and industry-specific scenarios, SAP's HANA cloud software can support:

Finance
Sourcing & Procurement
Sales
Service
Manufacturing
R&D Engineering
Asset Management
Supply Chain
Human Resources

80% of SAP's customers are mid-size enterprises

Take the lead with industry innovation for top-line, bottom-line, and green-line growth
Never stop improving with continuous insight to optimize business functionality and processes
Secure your success with a trusted partner for your ERP needs, at every step of the way

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What is Grow with SAP?

Fast-growing firms rely on a flexible solution. Grow with SAP and Navigator helps growth-focused firms adopt SAP ERP with speed, predictability, and continuous innovation.

Learn more about the Grow with SAP program here.

Asset Management

50% reduction in lead time, more accurate assessment of asset capacity, and potential for overload work

Manage assets more efficiently with SAP, eliminating a daily three-hour manual asset management process and removing human errors

Information Technology

Lower total cost of ownership with reduced IT costs, minimized risk, and a path for future enterprise growth

Savings of approximately one million in hardware maintenance costs and a 10% improvement in IT operations when you implement SAP software

Finance

84% reduction in time required to release invoices to customers or clients, freeing up employees for core business processes

1.5x more payment transactions managed by the same number of employees

Procurement

$2 million saved by reducing duplicate purchase orders

Standardizing procurement processes and minimizing human intervention, helping to reduce costs and efficiently manage suppliers

R&D / Engineering

Improved processes for product development

Reimagined contact-to-cash process to improve project profitability and increase product functionality

Supply Chain

97% of deliveries made on time - up from 90% increased customer satisfaction

Increase the inventory turnover rate by 30%, shorten the turnover time from 30 to 20 days, and reduce inventory cost by 10% when using our SAP cloud platform

Top-line Growth
Bottom-line Growth
Green-line Growth

Top-line Growth

Grow revenue by introducing transformative business models in your industry. Our cloud ERP software offers the capabilities you need to be an innovator, a visionary – and a disruptor.

Bottom-line Growth

Unlock new efficiency with SAP automated business processes across your mission-critical processes so you can always be agile and ready for what’s next. Our cloud platform also provides easy access from any location, creating greater flexibility for your management teams.

Green-line Growth

Manage sustainability with enterprise-wide transparency, access, and controls. Our cloud ERP software allows you to embed sustainability into your core business processes, capabilities, and operations.

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Grow Revenue
Increase Margin
Unlock New Efficiency
Go Global
Protect Your Solutions

Grow revenue by creating differentiating business models in your industry

Improve revenue and cash flow
with out-of-the-box processes
to sell, deliver, bill, and monitor
a combination of physical
goods and services as one
end-to-end quote to cash
processes platform
Drive digital business model
innovation by creating
customer-centric and financially
viable usage and
subscription-based billing
processes with SAP
Optimize revenue flow with
highly automated AI and machine
learning exception-based
intelligent receivables
and payment handling

ERP business suite based on the SAP HANA in-memory database that allows companies to perform transactions and analyze business data

Increase margin with built-in industry-specific processes and best practices

Run your business more efficiently
with a complete cloud ERP covering
order-to-cash, purchase-to-pay,
record-to-report end-to-end
business scenarios and more services that extend across 25 industries
Plan and forecast with confidence
across all departments with
pre-built use cases and
open APIs to existing
vertical cloud solutions
Go beyond reporting and make
insight to action a reality with
embedded analytics into
business processes, and data cloud, allowing real-time analysis across any business dimensions on the most
granular level

Unlock new efficiency with intelligent automation across all mission-critical processes

Automate repetitive manual
processes with SAP embedded artificial intelligence and machine learning across Finance, Human Resources, Customer Experience, Supply Chain, and Operations
Shift to predictive finance and
use simulated future bookings
to forecast financial close,
so you can anticipate challenges
or opportunities and deliver more
accurate forecasted financial result
Speed up the resolution of critical
business issues with cloud SAP intelligent situation handling that alerts users about urgent issues, proposing follow-up actions and automating the resolution

On SAP S4 HANA, run your business with confidence

Run your mission-critical operations on a global scale

Enable international compliance
with IFRS and GAAP reporting
for ever-changing regulations and
taxation rules for the country and
region-specific compliance
Allow compliant growth with built-in
country localizations (43) and
languages (27) and supply local
tax reporting, country charts of
accounts, statutory, and mandatory
reports for quick time to value
Run your business with confidence
by screening new business partners
and automate tasks for international
trade and business management with our easy-to-use ERP platform

Secure your SAP S4 HANA with a trusted partner that understands your business needs now and as your scale.

Protect your SAP applications and data with embedded cybersecurity and automated data protection compliance

Protect the confidentiality,
integrity, and availability of
your data with our SAP platform, which is based on zero trust
principles
Secure business processes that
support your compliance with
regulatory requirements globally
Innovate with a reliable partner acting
as your single point of contact to
manage security requirements for
your SAP platform and applications

Why Navigator Business Solutions?
You Need a True Partner
You Need Expertise
ERP Done Fast & Cost-Effectively

Why Navigator Business Solutions?

There comes a point in the life of every growing business when siloed or outdated, small-business software solutions are not enough.

For forward-looking companies that are scaling rapidly, this moment comes quickly. For other businesses with slower but consistent growth, it might take place over the course of three to 10 years. Inevitably, though, mid-sized businesses upgrade their systems to true ERP systems for the advantages of having a robust, end-to-end backend system that serves as a single source of truth, enables automation and standardized workflows, and brings the functionality to all departments that is needed to run growing or complex operations.

When that day arrives, most businesses choose an ERP from one of the major vendors, be it SAP, Oracle, or Microsoft.

If going with one of the major vendors' solutions, the more important choice becomes one of the implementation partner and consultants that will help make the ERP project a success. This is because ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) software is a mature market, and the core functionality is already built into the systems. How the project is planned and the system implemented and configured for the needs of the growing business, is where the true differentiation lies.

This is why it isn’t just about getting SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition ERP, it is about getting an SAP ERP delivered by Navigator Business Solutions.

You Need a True Partner

We've spent the past 20+ years working with more than 500 customers, providing best-of-breed, integrated, cloud-based ERP systems as an SAP Gold Partner. So we understand the unique needs of diverse lines of business such as life sciences, consumer products, professional services, and distribution, among others, and how to make SAP Cloud ERP work well for a given industry.

“Navigator was very knowledgeable coming in,” says Christopher Beck, who was global head of IT for personal care products manufacturer, Harry’s, until earlier this year. “Not just the products, but the business side of it. They seemed to just understand. So when there were additional things that we were trying to do, they had business process expertise to help make it happen.”

A good implementation partner does more than just guide, though. It also listens to the needs of the business and supports it both during and after the system's rollout.

“Navigator has been so responsive,” says Shawn Stone, vice president of operations for life sciences manufacturer, BioDerm. “They understand our needs, and if they don't understand something, they get you to the person that can help you figure it out.”

Scott Harris, who was tasked with getting pharmaceutical contract manufacturer TriRx up and running in only three months, elaborates on this point.

“One of the really good things about Navigator is that we’re still in touch with the consultants who put it in,” he explains. “Normally after you've gone live, you get about 30 days of hypercare and then you are rolled into the support group and never hear again from the consultants who helped implement it. But we’re still in touch with our consultants. This has been outstanding because I need someone who understands my system, not just someone who can do helpdesk issues.”

“We had a really strong relationship with Navigator,” adds Heather Howard, CSCO at shoe brand, Rothy’s. “We could just speak incredibly clearly without any nuances. We would go to them and say, ‘Hey, you guys are the experts. Help us.'"

You Need Expertise

SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition ERP is highly configurable because it encompasses all areas of a business. There are standardized best practices-based implementations that can greatly reduce the complexity and configuration process, and we have developed several prepackaged industry solutions to make ERP configuration and rollout easier for small to mid-sized businesses. But to configure a system properly that effectively encompasses the needs and processes of a given business, it is important to have an implementation partner that really knows how the underlying system works and can work.

“If you ever use SAP, you're going to want a partner like Navigator,” says Matt Geary, director of IT for BioDerm. “Typical vendors would shy away and say things like, ‘We’re not trained or not certified in that area, so we’re not going to help you.’ Navigator, on the other hand, basically is like having SAP on staff.”

This sentiment is widely shared by other businesses that have worked with us due to our decades of experience working with SAP products.

“They definitely brought to the table a depth of experience with the platform,” explains Paul Schorr, the lead IT advisor who helped pen manufacturer uni-ball roll out ERP for its North American subsidiary. “Navigator didn’t bring in a generic ERP developer. It was definitely my favorite ERP implementation, and I didn’t lose a lot of sleep over it.”

You Need ERP Done Fast & Cost-Effectively

We understand that small to medium-sized companies are busy building their business and cannot afford a long, systems rollout or throwing lots of time and money at a new ERP.

That’s why we focus on cloud-based ERP solutions like SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition, an ERP system that is built around industry best practices-based processes and is generally easier to configure and takes fewer resources to set up.

“I have been through quite a few enterprise software deployments,” adds Schorr. “I've never been through one for a multimillion-dollar company with one IT person, one finance person, one operations person and one consultant. That was the entire scope of the team, and most of us had other jobs we were doing in addition to this project.”

That’s because many of our solutions are configured out-of-the-box, says Harris at TriRX. “All you have to do is set it up, implement, and turn it on.”

SAP S4 HANA Cloud: Public Edition Cloud ERP Software