ERP clean core strategy

Unlock agility and be innovation-ready by embracing a clean core strategy.
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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.

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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
  • Prioritize 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

*See Legal Notice on www.sap.com/legal-notice for use terms, disclaimers, disclosures, or restrictions.

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.

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Building a strong foundation for growth with a centralised cloud ERP

Discover why jewelry brand Pandora chose the RISE with SAP journey to accelerate its move to cloud ERP and help simplify, standardise, and scale business processes.

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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.

Read the customer story 

Driving digital innovation with scalability and flexibility

Look at how leading global professional services company Accenture is applying the clean core paradigm to transition to a composable architecture and eliminate custom code.

Read the innovation story 

Resources to support your journey to a clean core

RISE with SAP Methodology dashboard

  • Actionable insights on your clean core initiative

  • Comprehensive set of views to track and monitor status, gather insights, and provide recommendations for transformation projects

  • Detailed insights and data on the clean core status of your systems, hosted on SAP Cloud ALM

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Clean core services

  • Advisory services to provide guidance about the benefits and transformation options

  • Implementation, migration, and development services to help you transform with the least risk

  • Enablement and coaching services to help optimise and monitor progress

Explore the clean core services catalogue 

Global strategic service partners

  • Deep expertise for rethinking current systems, business models, processes, and operations

  • Defined cloud migration strategy to help select, implement, and integrate the right SAP solutions

  • Ongoing support and maintenance with industry solutions, custom development, and change management

Find a cloud ERP partner 

Frequently asked questions

The five guiding principles of clean core include:

  • Processes: A clean business process keeps competitiveness and reduces complexity by staying as close as possible to the SAP standard.

  • Extensibility: Clean extensions are decoupled from the core by leveraging released APIs. A clear governance process ensures leveraging the best available extensibility option—on-stack and side-by-side with SAP BTP​.

  • Data: Clean data implies the continuous effort to keep data clean and compliant, as well as an established data governance model​.

  • Integrations: A clean integration is a robust, reliable, and future-ready approach to connecting systems built on standardised, secure, and scalable technologies.

  • Operations: Clean operations refers to a cross-dimension approach to embed best practices in governance, people, processes, and tools, enabling agile IT transformation in support of business transformation.

 

The RISE with SAP Methodology dashboard supports businesses in their transformation toward a clean core approach in several ways:

  • It encourages adoption of standard processes while enabling custom extensions for differentiation.​

  • This leads to streamlined operations and increased operational efficiency.​

  • A clean core helps keep business-critical systems agile, cost-effective, and innovation-ready.​

  • The dashboard is a tool designed to guide and support customers throughout their transformation journey to a clean core landscape.​

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