ERP clean core strategy
What is a clean core strategy?
An ERP clean core strategy helps your organization 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 modernization
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 standardization and modern extensibility to drive successful transformation
Clean core extensibility for SAP Cloud ERP Private
Learn how our extensibility principle enables cloud ERP customers to extend capabilities while still supporting smooth system upgrades and extension management.
Explore the value of a clean core strategy
80
%
less software customization*
70
%
of core business processes are automated*
50
%
reduction in database size*
80
%
of core business processes standardized 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 standardizing systems and reducing complexity
- Reduce operational and cybersecurity risks by minimizing customization and standardizing 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 centralized cloud ERP
Discover why jewelry brand Pandora chose the RISE with SAP journey to accelerate its move to cloud ERP and help simplify, standardize, 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, harmonized 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 standardization 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.
Analyzing and standardizing business processes
Start your clean core journey by optimizing your business processes using SAP Signavio solutions – a part of RISE with SAP.
Reducing customization and modularizing architecture
Turn your data into significant business value by leveraging the capabilities of SAP Business Technology Platform.