Fit-to-Standard approach with SAP S/4HANA – A better option?


Fit-to-standard is an approach that involves implementing industry best practices to build a clean core solution, allowing for faster adoption of S/4HANA within an organization’s SAP systems. It promises to give businesses a reliable core ERP system that is agile, dynamic, and responsive to technological and market challenges.

Being a definitive enabler of digital transformation, SAP S/4HANA with its significant functionality and key innovations, allows for a more fit-to-standard approach as compared to previous ERP solutions. Businesses that implement SAP systems typically face challenges with their upgrades if their previous implementations were done without a fit-to-standard approach. The primary reason for this is that the solution is heavily customized because of shortcomings in functionality, usability issues and the inability to effectively manage change. But SAP now provides an SAP S/4HANA solution that is rich in functionality, and coupled with a far superior user interface, provides for minimal customization.

SAP Fiori-3.0 was released in 2020 and has now become the primary user interface for SAP S/4HANA.  Embedding Fiori within S/4HANA solves the usability issues and allows for a fit to business approach for organizations where fit-to-standard doesn’t work. Unlike fit-to-standard, in which no changes are made, with fit to business, when a customer wants to implement a specific change, it is made in the UX layer in the front-end of Fiori rather than the system’s back-end code. This is close to a fit-to-standard solution and ensures that the upgrades and patch applications are much smoother as this has already been tested by SAP, thereby reducing the risks to the business at the time of upgrades.

Businesses also become more flexible and agile as they can directly use new functionality in the standard configured system delivered by SAP without fear of compatibility issues. For instance, if a brand manufacturer wants to open a retail flagship store, all they need to do is to activate the corresponding functionality that is already in the solution.

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