SAP S/4HANA Migration · Choosing Your Migration Path

A company explicitly wants to redesign its business processes as part of the move to S/4HANA. Why does SAP steer them to a new implementation rather than a conversion, and what's the trap of choosing conversion here?

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Leadership frames the S/4HANA move as 'just a big upgrade of our ERP.' Why is that framing a strategic mistake, and what does it miss?

A project manager scopes an S/4HANA migration as a single technical workstream. What second, largely non-technical part are they forgetting, and why does missing it derail the project?

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