Enhance Learning and Research
Today's universities and research institutions face tight budgets and fierce competition. These organizations must improve student performance and retain top students while containing costs and improving research and innovation
Student Success and Completion
Improve the student experience and foster student success and completion
- Student Lifecycle Management
- Student Engagement
- Student and Learning Analytics
- University Institutional Performance
Education and Research Revenue
Manage revenue generation to optimize performance and enhance service delivery.
- Grants Management
Sourcing and Procurement
Drive measurable savings while supporting innovative decision making.
- Source and Contract
- Buy and Deliver Indirect Goods
- Supplier and Risk Management
- Central Procurement
- Buy and Deliver Direct Goods
- Buy and Deliver Services
- Invoice and Pay
- Procurement Analytics
- Trading Partner Collaboration
- Technology Platform
Academic and Commercial Research
Deliver superior research results and thought leadership while tightly managing processes and driving revenue.
- Research Planning and Execution
- Research Analytics
Budget and Finance
Maintain financial integrity and support growth
- Invoice-to-Pay
- Public Sector Budget Planning
- Public Sector Budget Operations
- Invoice-to-Cash
- Real Estate
- Travel-to-Reimburse
- Treasury and Financial Risk Mitigation
- Governance, Risk and Compliance
Human Resources
The new world of military service
- Core Human Resources and Payroll
- Talent Management and Learning
- People Analytics
- Talent Acquisition
The higher education and research industry is being reshaped by four major trends.

Economic pressure and changing dynamics are challenging the value of education in the view of the millennial generation, especially those seeking work with a sense of purpose
Global online and open coursework will increasingly be integrated as the "global campus" aggressively evolves.
Proactive student engagement is changing to adapt classes and teaching to meet millennial expectations for "success."
Real-time, "always-on" mobile support is expected across the enterprise and campus, including security and monitoring
Being able to address these global megathemes and industry challenges will determine who will be among the winners in the next 10 years. Successful operating-model innovation, process optimization, and workforce productivity are directly linked to delivering great customer and employee experiences.
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The Value of SAP S/4HANA for Higher Education & Research Companies
SAP S/4HANA provides Higher Education & Research companies with a proven framework to adopt industry next practices while attaining operational excellence across the full value chain to transform into intelligent enterprises
Strategy enablement
- Accelerate new business-model innovation and new revenue-generating opportunities
- Understand every aspect of your business and adjust to rapidly changing business requirements: report in real time by function, region, category, channel, and product
- Enable faster domestic and international expansion
- Accelerate M&A synergy
- Reorganize on the fly• Achieve greater speed and agility
- Manage risk and ensure compliance
Empowered Employees
- Higher productivity with a new, role-based way of working with a responsive, intuitive user experience on all devices
- Improved user experience with access to data from anywhere on any device, with interactive graphics and analytics on a single copy of data
- Greater ability of store associates and store managers to serve their customers effectively when equipped with the right information
- Actionable insights on unified, real-time data and processes with built-in system suggestions for decision support
Business benefits
- 10%–30% increase in on-time delivery
- 25%–30% reduction in inventory levels
- 10%–20% increase in customer satisfaction
- 10%–12% reduction in days of inventory
- 10%–15% reduction in revenue loss due to stock-outs
- 10%–12% reduction in total logistics costs
- 3%–5% reduction in supply chain planning costs
- Reduction in order fulfillment lead time
IT benefits and total cost of ownership (TCO)
- Reduced data footprint
- Merging of OLAP and OLTP
- Elimination of many desktop clients
- Lower testing costs
- Simplified landscapes
- Native integration

Reimagined University Work and Working
Department-by-department staffing must change from tactical to strategic.
Nowhere is inefficiency in universities more pronounced than in department staffing structures. Employees are hired and retained without the context of an enterprise strategy to build the next-gen workforce with the skills to manage the intelligent university.