Alkemia
Enterprise Apps · SAP Framework

Modernize the core.
With criteria, not enthusiasm.

Independent criteria for CIOs, CFOs, and executive sponsors deciding on SAP Cloud ERP before or after signature.
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Alkemia reads contracts, licences, real usage, and commercial exposure from the client side of the table. It assesses the criteria, may recommend stopping, and may withhold its own sign-off. Authority to sign, proceed to Go-Live, or accept risk remains with the client executive sponsor. Alkemia was founded by Alexandre Pereira, former Vice President of ERP for SAP Latin America and the Caribbean, and has no commercial relationship with SAP or with SAP integrators. He led the regional launch of S/4HANA Cloud in 2018 and of RISE with SAP in 2021.

Alkemia
Decision Intelligence
System

A system that connects client evidence to the SAP decision framework.

Alkemist coordinates SAP specialist agents to connect usage, contracts, assumptions and exposure while keeping each analysis linked to its supporting evidence. Alkemia remains accountable for the recommendation.

  • Authorized evidence
  • Preserved context
  • Human judgment
How it supports SAP decisions

Two readings of the same decision: one reads the programme, the other reads the contract.

Where is your decision now?

Start at the decision moment. Each entry point organises the context, the economic consequence, and the next move.

SAP Pre-Audit

SAP Pre-Audit: Licence Position

When it applies

A proactive installed-base review; before a true-up, renewal, or negotiation; or after a measurement notice, within the advisory scope still available.

Decision supported

Which licence positions to recognise, contest, or address, and which levers to use now, at the next window, or knowingly leave unused.

What Alkemia delivers

  • A two-sided licence position: exposure and unclaimed value.
  • A quantified interval and confidence level when the documents and extracts support the calculation.
  • An exposure-and-value register covering direction, recurrence, ownership, and contestability.
  • A lever plan separated by timing and owner.
Assess whether the pre-audit applies

Before signature

Cloud ERP Exposure Diagnostic

When it applies

An SAP Cloud ERP proposal is under evaluation. Before signature, the client needs to test the proposal’s assumptions against its own commercial, contractual, and operational reality.

Decision supported

Whether the proposal is defensible as received, what needs to change, and which conditions must be secured in writing before the go or no-go decision.

What Alkemia delivers

  • An independent assessment of the proposal as received.
  • A comparison of the proposal’s assumptions with evidence from the client’s systems and operations.
  • Commercial, contractual, licensing, sizing, and conversion exposure, quantified only where the evidence permits.
  • Trade-offs, scenario implications, and negotiation and information-request priorities.
Discuss a pre-signature diagnostic

After signature

Post-Signature Exposure Diagnostic

When it applies

The SAP contract is signed, and the client needs to understand the economic exposure already embedded, the levers still actionable, and the next contractual or operational milestones.

Decision supported

Which exposures require action now, which levers remain open in the current window, and which commitments must be managed.

What Alkemia delivers

  • An aggregate commercial-exposure headline or range when the evidence supports quantification.
  • An Exposure Register by axis, gap, severity, and value.
  • A classification of still-actionable levers and commitments already fixed, with rationale by axis.
  • Owner-tagged actions and deadlines tied to the relevant milestone: activation, operations, measurement, renewal, or value realisation.
Review exposure in the SAP contract

Complete advisory

SAP Cloud ERP Decision Advisory

When it applies

The organisation needs continuous support from qualification through value realisation, rather than a single diagnostic.

Decision supported

How to reach a defensible go or no-go decision with a complete business case, a negotiation position, and explicit contractual protections.

What Alkemia delivers

  • Qualification, discovery, option structuring, and business case.
  • Decision facilitation, negotiation position, closure, and transition.
  • Eight phases and seven gates where Alkemia may recommend pausing or withhold its own sign-off.
  • An optional value-realisation framework after Go-Live.
Discuss the complete advisory

From licence inventory to Go-Live.

  1. Qualify

    Initiation & Opportunity Qualification

    Gate G1. Edition decision (SAP Cloud ERP Private, formerly RISE with SAP; or SAP Cloud ERP Public, formerly GROW with SAP) and motion decision (net-new or ECC-to-S/4HANA migration) before scoping. The decision starts with feasibility: Greenfield readiness on six dimensions, assessed before the vendor calendar.

  2. Inventory

    Discovery, Licence & Landscape

    Gate G2. Licence inventory and reassessment of the legacy estate using contracts and system-usage information. The analysis tests assumptions about users, landscape, and integrations against operational reality before contract negotiation.

  3. Structure

    Hypothesis & Option Structuring, Sizing, Migration & BoM

    Gate G3. Multiple hypotheses structured and sized in parallel. Migration effort estimated against real telemetry. Bill of Materials documented before the quote.

  4. Analyze

    Business-Case Consolidation

    Gate G4. Costs, risks, and benefits consolidated, trade-offs named. The number the board sees is the number the analysis defends.

  5. Decide

    Decision Facilitation

    Quote, value proposition, and stakeholder alignment facilitated against decision criteria the client owns. Decision authority stays with the client executive sponsor.

  6. Negotiate

    Negotiation & Contract Finalization

    Gate G6. Price-protection levers applied in the contract negotiation. At G6, Alkemia refuses sign-off when minimum protections are not on the table.

  7. Close

    Transition & Closure

    Gates G7.2A and G7.4. Post-signature enforcement at 30/60/90 days.

  8. Realize

    Value Realization & Continuous Improvement

    Optional. Continuous monitoring against the business case the contract committed to, including renewal preparation.

Seven gates where Alkemia can recommend stopping.

At seven advisor assessment points, from G1 (qualification) to G7.4 (post-signature enforcement), Alkemia assesses the criteria and may recommend stopping before the next phase begins. Signature, Go-Live, and risk acceptance always remain with the client executive sponsor, who acts without an advisor gate in the decision phase (V).

Gate Phase Alkemia can Authority
G1 I · Qualify Recommend stopping before scoping Advisor assesses
G2 II · Inventory Recommend stopping Advisor assesses
G3 III · Structure Recommend stopping Advisor assesses
G4 IV · Analyze Recommend stopping Advisor assesses
n/a V · Decide No advisor gate Client sponsor
G6 VI · Negotiate Refuse its own sign-off if the minimum protections are missing Client signs
G7.2A VII · Close Recommend pausing go-live when critical protections are missing Client accepts risk
G7.4 VII · Close Post-signature enforcement (30/60/90 days) Advisor monitors

⚑ The two highest-consequence gates.

Clean Core · six dimensions

What stays in the core. What leaves it. And why.

Clean Core is decided across six dimensions, each evaluated against real usage telemetry. What stays is what the business needs. What leaves is what the upgrade cost can no longer justify.

  • Extensions (on SAP BTP)
  • Integrations
  • Data
  • Processes
  • Operations
  • Upgrade readiness
Real usage diagnostics

Months of AS-IS, in hours.

Analysis begins with information from the client's systems and evidence of actual usage, turning operational evidence into decision input.

  • Complete AS-IS mapping in hours and days
  • Objective fit-to-standard based on actual usage
  • Licence reclassification using contract and system-usage evidence
  • Data volume simulation and archiving for sizing and TCO
  • Compliance risk identification and structural gaps
  • Repeatable analysis for audit, FinOps, cost, and performance
Price-protection levers

Where contracts hide them.

Contractual lever families, each one a number at renewal that was not there before. What is actually negotiable depends on deal size, timing, and the strength of the business case.

  • Allocation protections
  • Early restructuring
  • Exit clauses
  • Growth-price lock
  • Renewal cap
  • Co-terming
  • Currency provisions
  • Cash-flow engineering and funding

Which decision can still be changed?

Tell us whether the organisation is before measurement, before signature, or already bound by an SAP contract. The conversation starts with the economic decision still open.

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