• Retail

The need

Demand planners and sales teams were constrained by spreadsheet-based reporting. Reports were often several days old, lacked dynamic drill-down capabilities, and required IT support for even minor changes. With seasonal volumes increasing, the business needed live operational KPIs—delivered directly within S/4HANA—without embarking on a lengthy BI transformation project.

Our solution

S5 assigned Swapnil Pradeep Dharia, Senior Analytics Consultant, to lead a focused, eight-week embedded-analytics sprint:

1. System readiness & quick wins – activated standard content and KPI tiles in the customer’s S/4HANA tenant.

2. Analytical queries & Fiori apps – Created reusable CDS-based analytical queries and Fiori report/list pages for key metrics such as margin, inventory, and order cycle time.

3. Enablement – Delivered practical, hands-on workshops to equip key users with the skills to extend CDS views and build reports independently.

This engagement highlights the impact of S5’s S/4HANA Transformation & Analytics Guild—enabling organizations to unlock real-time operational insights rapidly, without compromising system integrity.
By following our 5 S’s methodology—Simplicity, Scalability, Speed, Sustainability, and Synergy—we help customers adopt embedded analytics with confidence, keeping the core clean and ready for future innovation on SAP’s evolving platform.

Technologies:

• Analytics
• S/4Hana

Results

• Live data, no exports - Reports now refresh in under 5 seconds, replacing overnight batch jobs and Excel exports
• Self-service drill- downs - 80% reduction in IT requests for report modifications; business users can adapt views independently.
• Single source of truth - Various extended/custom CDS views are reused across Finance, Supply Chain, and e-commerce functions.
• Future-proof clean core - All logic implemented using released CDS and APIs, ensuring long-term maintainability and future integration with SAP planning and analytics tools.