About Yorkshire Water
Yorkshire Water is a regulated water and waste company that provides some of life’s most essential services.
Decision Inc. enabled Yorkshire Water to overcome performance degradation of their SAP Planning Optimised for S/4HANA system. A focused System Review uncovered key configuration issues which meant that, with production levels of data, the system performed badly and impacted other SAP systems.
The Requirement
In 2020 Yorkshire Water engaged Decision Inc. to remediate existing components which were not functioning correctly, and to perform a focused system review of the performance of their SAP Planning Optimised for S/4HANA reporting and consolidation solution.
The key challenge was that Consolidation and Planning methodologies had been simply migrated from the incumbent SAP Planning Standard system to the new SAP Planning Optimised system, without detailed consideration of the opportunities and limitations of BPC Optimised for S/4HANA.
Key areas of focus to enhance performance:
- Technical set-up and the use of versioning
- Configuration of views and calculations: performance tuning to take advantage of the HANA database architecture
- Application design, including a reduction in the usage of unnecessary S/4HANA dimensionality
- Housekeeping activities: developing, scheduling and handover
- Tactical re-building of forecasting components
