SAP — Up to 30% Too Expensive! Why SAP Operations Costs More Than It Should

SAP — Up to 30% Too Expensive! Why SAP operations costs more than it should and what you can do about it.

Many companies pay 20-30% more for their SAP operations than necessary. The causes: too many manual processes, lack of automation in transport management, unstructured change management, and high testing effort due to inadequate impact analysis.

beteo identifies concrete levers to reduce costs:

• Automated Transport Management: Reduces errors and effort. Manual transport processes are the single largest source of unplanned SAP downtime and emergency work. Automation eliminates the majority of these incidents.
• Professional ALM: Avoids expensive firefighting. Most SAP emergencies are the result of poorly managed changes. A mature ALM process prevents the conditions that create emergencies.
• Impact analysis before changes: Reduces testing effort by up to 40%. Rather than testing everything after every change, impact-based test selection focuses effort on what actually changed.
• Clear governance structures: Eliminates duplicate work. Unclear responsibilities lead to the same work being done multiple times, or not at all.

In our experience, companies that implement these four levers systematically achieve sustainable cost reductions of 20-30% in their SAP operational budget within 18-24 months.