SAP Cloud ERP for growing and mid‑sized businesses

SAP S/4HANA is now offered in the cloud as SAP Cloud ERP, so whichever name you’ve come across, it’s the same trusted platform, and we’ll help you choose the option that suits your business best.

The public edition sits inside the cloud as the foundational application. Finance, procurement, sales and service share a data model with supply chain and manufacturing, all of it held in one database. Transactions and analysis work against the same live data, so a report shows where your business is at that moment.

The businesses Codestone help move to SAP Cloud ERP often find themselves at a similar point in their evolution. Some have grown well beyond where they started, and a finance system that was perfect at £15m is now being asked to do far more at £60m. Others have an older ERP that has served them well but has become harder to change over time, or a set of tools that each do their job but were never designed to work together, leaving the team to bridge the gaps by hand.

What matters most is where you are heading, and we’ll help you understand whether your current systems are ready to take you there, and what the right next step looks like if they’re not.

You’ll start to see the benefits of SAP Cloud ERP almost immediately as month end stops being an assembly exercise, because the numbers are already together. Reporting runs from live data and compliance and audit get easier because the trail is already there. When you add a site, a product line or a company, you are adding it to something that already works.

The public edition is sold as a subscription with a monthly charge for each named user, so that part of the bill follows headcount and the type of access each person needs. The programme sitting alongside it is the larger figure, shaped by how far your current way of working sits from the SAP standard, the number of companies and currencies in scope and the state your data is in before anyone touches it.

If you run several companies, the close is usually what decides how urgent this becomes. SAP Cloud ERP handles inter-company postings, multi-currency and group reporting within the same system that holds the transactions, which removes the assembly step that makes consolidation slow. Where the group structure is genuinely complicated and the disclosure requirements go well beyond a standard filing, a dedicated consolidation platform above the ERP is the better answer, and we will say so.

Consolidation and close on CCH Tagetik

Successful programmes at this scale have a lot in common, and the technology is usually the easy part. What really makes the difference is keeping scope clear, getting your data in great shape and making sure the business is ready for the change. Codestone plan for all three from day one.

Discovery comes first, and we treat it as one of the most valuable stages of the whole programme, with the right people and the right amount of time. Together we map how your finance and operations run today, how everything connects, and where change will bring the greatest value. We also make sure your people are properly trained and genuinely comfortable with the new system, so they can use it with confidence from the start and your business feels the benefit straight away.

Going live is where the value really begins, and we will stay alongside you to refine processes, make the most of each new SAP release and build on what’s working well. When you’re ready to go further, whether that’s extending into new areas, putting AI to work or looking after your wider IT through our managed services, we’ll already know your business, so every next step feels easy to take.

An ERP programme is rarely only the ERP, and integration is usually the largest piece of work around it. Codestone builds those connections on SAP Integration Suite, so the links between SAP Cloud ERP and the rest of your systems keep working as both ends change.

Where the case for change needs shaping before anything technical starts, that runs as a business change programme in its own right, with its own governance. The wider SAP cloud line sits alongside it: SAP Analytics Cloud where reporting and planning need to work from the same data, and SAP Concur where expenses and travel are part of the finance problem.

Reporting and planning on SAP Analytics Cloud

Built for services-centric businesses, across these industries:

• Professional Services
• Public Sector
• Higher Education
• Media
• Financial Services

Simplifies procurement, improves supplier collaboration and gives you clearer visibility of spend across:

• Direct material procurement
• Service procurement
• Supplier management
• Central procurement

Helps your sales team sell more effectively, simplify the sales process and give customers a better experience, with:

• Sell Products, Projects and Contract-based Services separately or as a full solution
• Convergent & External Billing

Helps you deliver services efficiently, including:

• After-sales service and support with contracts, service deliveries and billing
• Combine sales & services as packaged solution offerings

Uses intelligent technologies to make your warehouse and logistics faster and more efficient across:

• Warehouse Outbound & Inbound Processing
• Core Inventory Management
• (Advanced) ATP Processing
• Basic Transportation Management

Brings clearer insight and more automation to your manufacturing across:

• Material requirements planning with demand driven and/or predictive MRP
• Make to stock and make to order
• Quality management
• Environment, Health and Safety

Gives you real-time insight and more efficient delivery for:

• Product compliance
• Enterprise portfolio and project management
• Advanced Variant configuration

Simplifies and automates asset management across:

• Reactive and proactive maintenance
• Resource scheduling for maintenance planner
• Enhanced collaboration + review

SAP Datasphere builds on Data Warehouse Cloud with further data services:

• Brings your data together across SAP Cloud ERP on SAP Business Technology Platform.
• Connects different data sources, so decisions are based on the full picture.
• Works with data from other vendors and external data products.