Australian SAP Business Suite Strategy and Advisory
Move from SAP Uncertainty to a Clear, Board-Ready Roadmap
Align business strategy, SAP roadmap and investment so you can brief the board with confidence, not caveats.
Right now, your SAP landscape is carrying a lot more than transactions. End-of-support dates, years of customisations, M&A activity, growth plans and new compliance demands are all converging on the same ageing ERP core. Every option – upgrade, migrate, consolidate, re-platform – comes with cost, risk and politics attached.
Discovery Consulting helps CIOs, CFOs, COOs and Heads of Transformation move from conflicting opinions and vendor slideware to a practical, board-ready SAP Business Suite roadmap that everyone can stand behind.
The Reality of Your Current SAP Landscape
You already know the current ERP will not support the next 5–10 years of your organisation’s strategy.
The pressure is coming from all directions:
- End-of-support timelines and rising maintenance costs
- Fragmented instances after acquisitions and divestitures
- Layers of custom code and satellite systems nobody fully trusts
- Competing stakeholder views on “greenfield versus brownfield” and when to move
- Board and regulators asking sharper questions about resilience, compliance and auditability
In high-risk industries like mining, utilities and construction, or in education and public sector, these decisions aren’t just about IT. They affect safety, service continuity, workforce stability and public trust.
Internally, the picture is often the same.
Multiple “readiness” decks that don’t agree, vendor-driven recommendations, and no single, trusted view of the facts.
What Happens If You Delay or Guess
Leaving things as they are feels safer in the short term, but the risks are real:
Budget Risk
Mis-scoping a major Cloud ERP move and living with cost blowouts for years
Operational Risk
Disruption to payroll, procurement, billing or critical field operations
Compliance Risk
Falling behind regulatory expectations or audit findings across finance, workforce and safety
Strategic Risk
Missing the chance to use automation, data and AI because the core platform won’t support it
Political Risk
Standing in front of the board with a recommendation built on vendor optimism and gut feel
You can’t take a multi-year, potentially nine-figure Cloud ERP decision to the board on instinct. You need a roadmap and value case you can defend.
One Agreed SAP Roadmap Your
Executives Can Back
The “after” state is not another thick report. It’s a shared, practical plan.
The pressure is coming from all directions:
- One agreed SAP roadmap – covering Business Suite and Cloud ERP options, aligned directly to business priorities and risk appetite
- Clear direction of travel – whether that means consolidating ECC, moving to S/4HANA via RISE or other cloud models, or sequencing change across regions and business units
- Realistic phasing and dependencies – understanding what moves when, where the dependencies sit, and how to avoid overloading teams
- Executive alignment – CIO, CFO, COO and transformation leads working from the same facts, language and trade-offs
- Board-ready story – a concise narrative that connects technology decisions to cost, risk, compliance and growth
Instead of endless workshops and re-spun slide decks, you have a roadmap the organisation can use to plan investment, engage vendors and direct internal teams.
Discovery’s SAP Business Suite Advisory
Discovery’s SAP Business Suite advisory engagement is the bridge between that uncomfortable “before” state and the clear “after” state.
It is an independent, outcome-focused advisory service – not a pre-sales exercise for an implementation programme. The aim is simple, give senior leaders a factual view of where you are, the options in front of you, and the value and risk case for each path.
At a high level, the engagement typically includes:
Current-state assessment
A structured review of your SAP landscape, integrations, customisations, operating model and pain points. The goal is to replace assumptions with facts about technical debt, resilience, compliance exposure and cost drivers.
Target-state and scenario design
Using your organisation’s strategy, constraints and sector context, we design realistic target-state options – for example, consolidation on SAP Business Suite, phased cloud ERP adoption, or S/4HANA journeys – and outline the implications of each.
Roadmap and value / risk case
We translate those options into a pragmatic roadmap, with indicative phasing and investment envelopes, and build an executive-ready value and risk case so leadership can compare paths side by side.
Executive-ready recommendations
The output is a clear recommendation, documented trade-offs, and artefacts tailored for both the board and programme sponsors – not just for IT.
Why This Matters for High-Risk Industries, Education and Public Sector
Discovery focuses on sectors where SAP decisions carry operational and public consequences: high-risk industries such as mining, utilities and construction; education from early learning through K-12; and public sector organisations.
Across these environments:
- Workforce, safety and compliance demands are rising
- Organisations are consolidating, expanding or restructuring
- Budgets are under pressure, while expectations of digital services continue to grow
Discovery brings sector experience, pre-configured templates such as HXM Right Now and S/4 Right Now, and SAP Business Technology Platform solutions like Casual Management, Personal Level Leave and Work Schedule Generator to inform advisory work with what actually succeeds in delivery.
That practical experience means your roadmap is grounded in what works in environments like yours – not in generic, one-size-fits-all templates.
Key Outcomes for CIOs, CFOs, COOs and Transformation Leaders
From conflicting opinions to one agreed roadmap
Before: every conversation about ERP change turns into a debate, with IT, finance and business units arguing over approach and timing.
After: you have one agreed SAP roadmap that reflects business priorities, regulatory realities and risk appetite. Stakeholders see their concerns addressed in the plan, not ignored.
From vague dates to a realistic modernisation path
Before: end-of-support dates and project ideas are scattered across slide decks and spreadsheets, with no clear sequence or capacity view.
After: you have a phased roadmap that makes clear what moves when, what is dependent on what, and how to manage risk along the way.
From “another big IT spend” to a clear value and risk case
Before: executives are wary of another major ERP spend, and business cases feel abstract.
After: investment is tied to specific value drivers – efficiency, compliance, risk reduction, workforce experience and AI readiness – with documented risks and mitigations.
From vendor narratives to independent advice
Before: the loudest vendor or SI often shapes the story, and recommendations blur into sales pitches.
After: you have an independent view, grounded in evidence, that you can use to challenge and direct vendors and partners.
How Discovery Works With Your Teams and Vendors
How Discovery Works With Your Teams and Vendors
Discovery’s role is to sit on your side of the table:
- We work with IT, finance, operations and HR to understand constraints and ambitions in plain language before bringing in SAP jargon.
- We respect existing vendor relationships and implementation partners; the advisory output is designed to guide them, not replace them.
- We focus on tidy, executive-friendly artefacts – short decks, structured summaries and clear next steps – rather than dense documentation.
Where relevant, the roadmap will reference Discovery’s pre-configured IP and accelerators, but the advisory remains vendor-agnostic and focused on what best serves your organisation’s strategy.
Proof and Authority
Discovery Consulting is an independent SAP advisory and delivery partner with experience across Australian organisations in high-risk industries, education and public sector.
Our team:
- Has guided organisations through SAP Business Suite and cloud ERP decisions where safety, compliance and service continuity are critical
- Combines deep SAP expertise with a “teach, don’t preach” approach: we show you options, trade-offs and evidence rather than pushing a pre-determined answer
- Operates onshore in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, with advisory and delivery capability aligned to SAP’s own investments in AI, cloud and Business Technology Platform
In a market where many partners lead with hard-sell landing pages and generic messaging, Discovery leans on thought leadership, sector focus and practical IP rather than pure hype.
What Happens in a SAP Roadmap Consultation
Your first step is a focused conversation, not a commitment to a multi-month engagement.
In that session, we will typically:
- Clarify the triggers and constraints driving your SAP decision (support timelines, M&A, regulation, growth, cost)
- Map the major moving parts in your current landscape at a high level
- Discuss where there is real uncertainty or disagreement inside the leadership team
- Outline whether a structured advisory engagement will materially reduce risk and ambiguity – and what that would involve
You leave with a clearer picture of your situation and a recommended path forward, whether or not you choose to proceed with a full advisory engagement.
Your SAP platform will shape cost, risk and capability for years. Delaying the decision or relying on vendor-led narratives only increases uncertainty.
If you need to move from vague anxiety and conflicting opinions to a clear, defendable SAP roadmap, the next logical step is a structured, independent conversation.