Our whitepapers & studies
Here you will find all our white papers at a glance. They cover current topics from our business units.
- Development of a S/4HANA roadmap for the financial sector
- Digitalisation of the financial sector with SAP S/4HANA
- Digitalisation of the Insurance Sector with SAP S/4HANA
- Mapping Your Journey to SAP S/4HANA - A Practical Guide for Senior IT Leadership
- msg Plaut S/4HANA MigrationBox - Development of a roadmap for the changeover to S/4HANA
- Rollout of SAP S/4HANA: strategies - implementation - experiences
- SAP Solution Brief: SAP Dairy Management by msg for SAP S/4HANA
- Study Luenendonk: With S/4HANA into the digital future | Status, goals and trends in the introduction of S/4HANA (German)
- Study: Claims Management 2025 (German)
- Study: The future of banking (German
You will also find other interesting topics in our news articles.

Digitalisation of the
financial sector with
SAP S/4HANA

Digitalisation of the
financial sector with
SAP S/4HANA
Digitalisation of the financial sector with SAP S/4HANA
Read here about our experience in the S/4HANA world to support you in your considerations when creating a business case, an approach for the migration or in preparing the content. In this whitepaper, we have used specific areas of application to illustrate the benefits and possible uses of S/4HANA for the new challenges in finance, such as process automation, real-time cash management and much more.

Digitalisation of the
Insurance Sector with
SAP S/4HANA

Digitalisation of the
Insurance Sector with
SAP S/4HANA
Digitalisation of the Insurance Sector with SAP S/4HANA
With S/4HANA, SAP has introduced many innovations for the insurance industry. msg Plaut has presented the benefits and possible uses of S/4HANA for the new challenges in the insurance sector based on specific areas of application. From reporting to user experience to implementation in the system landscape, the range of possible applications extends. It is intended to help you identify which benefit aspects and specific tasks are particularly value-adding and to support you in your decision to switch to S/4HANA.

Development of a
S/4HANA roadmap
for the financial sector

Development of a
S/4HANA roadmap
for the financial sector
Development of a S/4HANA roadmap for the financial sector
Before a conversion to S/4HANA, specific consideration should be given to which potential benefits can be realized and the objective defined. Then, the procedure, time horizon, and a rough cost estimate can be defined. This provides a clear basis for deciding how to proceed. This white paper shows the respective phases for developing an S/4HANA implementation roadmap in detail and presents the project management methodology of msg Plaut.

Mapping Your Journey to SAP S/4HANA - A Practical Guide for Senior IT Leadership

Mapping Your Journey to SAP S/4HANA - A Practical Guide for Senior IT Leadership
Mapping Your Journey to SAP S/4HANA - A Practical Guide for Senior IT Leadership
This practical, straightforward, and summary guide for executives, project managers, decision makers, and senior IT leaders was created jointly by members of SAP product teams, subject matter experts, and consultants in collaboration with ASUG and DSAG. The goal is to share the cumulative experience from more than 5,000 projects.

msg Plaut S/4HANA MigrationBox - Development of a roadmap for the changeover to S/4HANA

msg Plaut S/4HANA MigrationBox - Development of a roadmap for the changeover to S/4HANA
msg Plaut S/4HANA MigrationBox - Development of a roadmap for the changeover to S/4HANA
With this whitepaper, we have developed a guide for the development of the roadmap for the changeover to S/4HANA, which will help you to take the next steps and successfully start your project. A basis for information and discussion has been created when it comes to answering essential questions: "When should you switch?" - "Why should you change over?" - "How does the changeover proceed?".

Rollout of SAP S/4HANA:
strategies - implementation -
experiences

Rollout of SAP S/4HANA:
strategies - implementation -
experiences
Rollout of SAP S/4HANA: strategies - implementation - experiences
S/4HANA offers companies that operate in several countries in particular the optimization and cross-national design of business processes. In doing so, it is important to support both the requirements of the corporate headquarters and the specific strengths of the national subsidiaries. msg Plaut has decades of experience in rollouts of SAP systems. This white paper provides you with concrete recommendations and suggestions for the organization and implementation of global SAP S/4HANA rollouts.

SAP Solution Brief:
SAP Dairy Management by msg
for SAP S/4HANA

SAP Solution Brief:
SAP Dairy Management by msg
for SAP S/4HANA
SAP Solution Brief: SAP Dairy Management by msg for SAP S/4HANA
Accurate and efficient operations are critical for your dairy business. The best way to achieve this is to digitize your supply chain processes. With a comprehensive solution tailored to the needs of the dairy industry, you can simplify processes, streamline operations, increase efficiency and enable smart supply chain operations, all while continuing to deliver high-quality products.

Study Luenendonk:
With S/4HANA into the
digital future (German)

Study Luenendonk:
With S/4HANA into the
digital future (German)
With S/4HANA into the digital future
Important questions need to be clarified for the changeover to S/4HANA: Into the cloud or continue on-premise? Technical migration or also redesign of business processes to the S/4HANA standard? Brownfield, greenfield or a mix? Should only maintenance for the ERP system be ensured or should a step toward digital transformation be taken? These questions were the focus of this Lünendonk study. CIOs, CFOs and SAP managers from 153 large midsize companies and corporations were surveyed.

Study: Claims
Management
2025 (German)

Study: Claims
Management
2025 (German)
Studie: Claims Management 2025
Wo stehen Branche und Unternehmen aktuell im Schadenmanagement mit Blick auf Automatisierung, Dienstleistereinsatz und Unternehmensstrategie? Welche Treiber und Herausforderungen bestehen? Wohin wird sich das Schadenmanagement entwickeln? Das Modell des Schadenmarktes der Zukunft ist Kernelement dieser Studie und möchten klare Handlungsoptionen aufzeigen, wie in Zukunft Schadenmanagement erfolgreich betrieben werden kann.

Study:
The future of
banking (German)

Study:
The future of
banking (German)
Study: The future of banking
The changes in the banking industry are massive, as this management survey clearly reflects. Almost all respondents think that the rules of the game will be fundamentally redefined in the next five years. Drivers and topics are largely known - what is less clear is what conclusions should be drawn for one's own institution and what measures for change should be implemented in concrete terms and with what prioritization.
For this study, the IMWF Institut für Management- und Wirtschaftsforschung GmbH surveyed 100 specialists and managers at German banks. The online survey took place in March and April 2021.