ERP clean core strategy
What is a clean core strategy?
An ERP clean core strategy helps your organisation ensure that business-critical systems remain agile, cost-effective and ready to adopt innovation.
Clean core is a set of guiding principles that support continuous business transformation and modernisation
Reduce historically grown complexity and gain agility
Increase the pace of innovation and leverage business value through reliable data and AI innovations
Ensure a clean core by following RISE with SAP Methodology, which promotes standardisation and modern extensibility to drive successful transformation
Explore the value of a clean core strategy
80
%
less software customisation*
70
%
of core business processes are automated*
50
%
reduction in database size*
80
%
of core business processes standardised across 24 countries*
Driving enterprise agility
- Reduce time to value with standard processes
- Prioritise extensions only for business-differentiating processes
- Make better decisions with streamlined data and robust governance
Unlocking new innovations
- Foster continuous improvement through capabilities such as business AI
- Drive greater value, easier upgrades and flexibility to adapt to market shifts with modern, agile ERP
Enabling efficient and secure operations
- Lower maintenance expenses by standardising systems and reducing complexity
- Reduce operational and cybersecurity risks by minimising customisation and standardising processes
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See how SAP customers are succeeding with a clean core strategy
Managing complexity and growth with a clean core approach
Read how CAP Group is ensuring that its core ERP systems evolve to meet business needs by moving to the cloud with RISE with SAP.
Building a strong foundation for growth with a centralised cloud ERP
Discover why jewellery brand Pandora chose the RISE with SAP journey to accelerate its move to cloud ERP and help simplify, standardise and scale business processes.
Adopting a clean core strategy to fuel growth and innovation
Explore H.B. Fuller’s large-scale migration to cloud ERP to unlock the full value of SAP Business Suite for greater efficiency and nimbler mergers and acquisitions.
Bringing AI to the business with flexibility and scale in the cloud
Discover how SAP is helping Accenture drive significant efficiency gains and pursue new opportunities with AI.
Resources to support your journey to a clean core
Clean core integration
Learn how the Clean Core strategy and the integration principles described in this paper support this objective: enabling the Autonomous Enterprise as a foundational pillar by empowering SAP S/4HANA Cloud customers to connect applications, data and processes across their landscape while keeping the digital core stable, upgrade-safe and ready for continuous innovation.
5 pillars for clean core data
Accelerate your move from on-premises ERP with a trusted, harmonised data foundation that reduces infrastructure and upgrade costs, lowers data-related risk and unifies SAP and third-party data.
Driving innovation and efficiency through clean business processes
Discover the importance of business process standardisation for clean core during and beyond your transformation—from the design phase to the run-and-maintain phase of the application lifecycle.
Clean core extensibility for SAP Cloud ERP Private
Learn how a clean core strategy and the extensibility model enable cloud ERP customers to extend where needed, but still allow for smooth system upgrades and handling of system extensions.
Analysing and standardising business processes
Start your clean core journey by optimising your business processes using SAP Signavio solutions - a part of RISE with SAP.
Reducing customisation and modularising architecture
Turn your data into significant business value by leveraging the capabilities of SAP Business Technology Platform.