Brownfield or Greenfield?
Your migration path determines your budget, your timeline, and your production risk. This guide helps manufacturing leaders choose with confidence — not guesswork.
Make the right Call before 2027.
Does this sound familiar?
What you are hearing
- You need a full greenfield to get the real benefits of S/4HANA
- Your custom code is too complex to migrate as-is
- Use this as an opportunity to redesign your entire business processes
What you are worried about
- 18 to 36 month projects that risk shutting down production
- Multi-million dollar budgets with unclear ROI
- Losing institutional knowledge buried in your ECC logic
What Is Inside the Guide
- A side-by-side comparison of brownfield vs. greenfield across 7 dimensions: timeline, budget, risk, change management, customizations, data migration, and time-to-value
- A decision framework with the 5 questions every manufacturing CIO should answer before committing to a migration path
- The MTU Aeroengines case study: a global manufacturer that completed its S/4HANA conversion with zero production disruption and is now into digitization and automation beyond brownfield, for expample with 10 live Fiori apps in the production planning area
- Clear guidance on when greenfield actually makes sense — and when it is the wrong choice for manufacturers who cannot afford disruption
CONSILIO has already provided us with expert support during our S/4HANA Brownfield conversion with zero downtime.
Together, we are optimizing MTU’s supply chain processes beyond the S/4HANA transformation. With jointly developed Fiori apps, we are paving the way for the supply chain to move into the SAP standard and toward a Clean Core
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No sign-up required. Two pages. The framework you need to make a defensible decision before 2027.
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