KPS Instant Platform
The easy way to SAP S/4HANA for retail.
The KPS Instant Platform provides you with a useful tool to start your transformation instantly. The included trainings and guides based on best practices trading processes help you build your competencies quickly and effectively in running your retail processes in SAP S/4HANA from end to end.
More innovation, less risk: Get a head start on transforming your retail processes and moving to SAP S/4HANA.
KPS Instant Platform
Do you want to bring your retail processes up to date? Are you planning to introduce or switch to SAP S/4HANA and looking for ways how you can manage the transformation of your retail processes in the best possible way?
We can help you make your project a success – quickly, cost-effectively, and reliably. With the KPS Instant Platform.
1. End-to-End Processes & use cases
300+ best-practice processes and 67 retail-specific use cases let you map integrated processes across different SAP applications and other solutions. All on a single platform. Visualised, tested, and documented. Ready for instant use. This is how real end-to-end processes work.
2. For all business units in your company
The platform clearly visualises the processes for all users in all departments and functions in the company. From purchasing to warehousing to the checkout process in SAP and the customer journey, the processes can be displayed and enriched with retail-specific microservices for the customer journey.
3. Leading applications. Composable
Implemented with the best technology components, tested and documented in Signavio and SAP Enable Now.
4. Flexible and exceptional performance
Provided and available in the infrastructure of choice – in the cloud or on premise at your company or at KPS.
Your advantages
Jump Start
Simply faster
With ready-to-use processes and applications, you don’t start from scratch. But with a head start instead.
Safety
Simply safer
The Platform’s best practices, process documentation and test automation allow you to avoid typical errors from the outset and thus create a particularly low-risk transformation.
Know-how
Simply smarter
The KPS Instant Platform provides retail-specific training materials, guides, click dummies and learning opportunities for the most important use cases – for users to learn and try out directly in the system.
Cost-efficiency
Simply more economical
The costs of transformation become calculable thanks to reliable product pricing. So, you save money and get something in addition: more plannability.
Award-winning: KPS Instant Platform
20 years of SAP experienceand in-depth retail knowhow along with our sustained investments in innovation are paying off. For you and also for your customers.
Choose your path
Do you want to discover first what the retail-specific processes in SAP S/4HANA look like? Do you already want to try out how you can implement your processes? Or would you rather create a prototype right away that you can migrate to SAP S/4HANA? The choice is yours! The KPS Instant Platform offers three editions.
Learn & Train
The ideal opportunity for your business departments and IT teams to familiarise themselves with the retail-specific processes of the new SAP S/4HANA environment.
Model & Prototype
What do your retail processes look like in the new SAP S/4HANA environment? By working with the exemplary company of the Platform, you can configure, customise, and test them.
Prototype, Migrate & Customise
Create the optimal prototype of your retail processes in SAP S/4HANA – ready for transformation in your system. From the business process to the customer journey. For more innovation with less risk.
For us, it is crucial that our core business is implemented as quickly and cleanly as possible. Business continuity must be ensured, while at the same time omnichannel capabilities are expanded, touchpoints are harmonised across all channels and the customer’s experience is optimised.
Retail best practices in SAP Standard
Leading companies in the food, fashion, lifestyle & luxury goods, gardening, home & living or household & electronics sectors trust the best practice processes & use cases delivered with the KPS Instant Platform. All of it in SAP standard with the option to individualise your truly differentiating business processes. And on top of that, you get KPS microservices and add-ons for your individual retail or wholesale segment.
A platform for you
Standardisiert. Aber alles andere als Standard. Zur echten Differenzierung am Markt. Individualisierung ist dann ein USP, wenn sie an der richtigen Stelle erfolgt.
1. Fashion, Lifestyle & Luxury Goods
React quickly and agilely to trends and provide an outstanding customer experience at all touchpoints. To achieve this, processes from core operations to customer interaction must be seamlessly integrated. Business scenarios and use cases on SAP S/4HANA from pre-season to past-season for clothing, shoes, accessories, jewellery, watches, eyewear, sporting goods, sports equipment, lingerie or licensed articles can be mapped on the Instant Platform.
2. Grocery & more
High stock turnover rates and the right products at the right price in the right place, played out via automated campaigns and loyalty programmes. Processes and technologies must be ready for this. Use cases in SAP S/4HANA for fresh produce, fruit, vegetables, frozen, meat, fish, beverages, dry goods & grocery, non-food, garden & DIY, furniture, services and GNFR.
3. Retail & wholesale
Almost one million consulting hours in the retail sector form the basis of our experience, which has been incorporated into the development of the Instant Platform for SAP S/4HANA in Retail. All business scenarios and use cases for core assortments such as electronics, household appliances, furniture, healthcare, pet and plant supplies, personal care & beauty products and services are ready for use end-to-end and ensure the jump start of your transformation.
4. Food Cash & Carry, Delivery Services
Complex delivery scenarios without interruptions to the cold chain including value-added services and bonus programmes with full transparency on volumes, costs and prices per item. This requires end-to-end processes and use cases from Source2Offer, Acquire2Retire, Procure2Pay, Allocate2POS, Offer2Order, Order2Cash, Return2Credit, Return2Debit, Inquire2Service and Record2Report.
When do you meet our instant platform?
Please get in touch if you have any questions or would like to book a live demo.
