Business Flows 2.0 Release Overview: From Generic Foundations to Industry-Specific Execution

bpExperts is proud to announce the latest Business Flows 2.0 (BF 2.0) release—a structured, SAP-aligned repository of business processes designed to support real-world SAP transformation initiatives.

This release delivers value in two distinct ways. It enhances the Generic Industry version with improved structures and updated content, and it introduces a new Process Industry repository tailored specifically to the operational realities of process-driven organizations.

With Business Flows 2.0, organizations gain greater transparency across their process landscape, faster and more reliable process scoping, and actionable insights that accelerate SAP-driven transformations from the earliest phases. The BF 2.0 release is guided by a consistent set of principles applied across both the Generic and Process Industry content, ensuring that improvements are not isolated changes but part of a coherent overall design.

What Makes This Release Special

A defining element of this release is the enhanced Business Flows metamodel, which introduces industry-specific transformational drivers and business capabilities that are explicitly modeled and visible:

  • Carefully selected, industry-relevant end-to-end scenarios were defined for the Process Industry, focusing on real operational business cases rather than generic functional flows.

  • Industry-specific transformational drivers and business capabilities are explicitly represented, making the link between strategic objectives, processes, and execution transparent and actionable.

  • For the first time, SAP scope items, business capabilities, and SAP solutions are officially introduced and implemented together, ensuring that process content is directly aligned with what SAP solutions support in practice.

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Process Industry Development Approach

As part of the BF 2.0 release, a dedicated Process Industry (PI) version has been introduced. It complements the Generic Business Flows by providing tailored structure and content for process-driven organizations and serves as a blueprint for future industry-specific releases.

SAP-Aligned Domain Coverage

The Process Industry repository spans eight SAP-aligned end-to-end domains:

  • Idea to Market

  • Plan to Fulfill

  • Lead to Cash

  • Source to Pay

  • Finance

  • Acquire to Decommission

  • Governance

  • Recruit to Retire

Objectives of the Process Industry Release

The objective of this release is to enable effective scoping, design, and implementation of SAP-aligned business flows by:

  • Establishing a comprehensive, industry-specific process repository

  • Deploying the content on SAP Signavio for immediate use in modeling and analysis

  • Supporting efficient mapping of real business cases to SAP solution capabilities

  • Highlighting process-industry-specific transformational drivers and business capabilities to support targeted business outcomes

Development Methodology

The Process Industry content was developed using a structured and reusable approach:

  • The Generic Business Flows served as a baseline to ensure architectural consistency

  • Industry-specific business cases (such as Sell-from-Stock, Third-Party Procurement, and Manufacturing Site operations) defined the primary scope

  • Industry-centric scoping focused on operational realities rather than functional decomposition

  • Validation against SAP solution capabilities ensured feasibility and alignment

  • Dedicated libraries of transformational drivers and business capabilities support measurable value realization

Repository Structure and Benefits

The Process Industry repository provides multiple perspectives to support navigation and analysis:

  • Industry View for selecting relevant content

  • Domain View aligned to SAP end-to-end domains

  • Industry-specific E2E scenarios and transformational drivers

  • Detailed E2E flows linked to business capabilities and SAP scope items

This enables organizations to:

  • Accelerate process scoping and design using predefined industry standards

  • Align business processes directly with SAP solution capabilities

  • Identify key transformational drivers and required business capabilities

  • Maintain a consistent, structured, and reusable process repository

Generic Industry Highlights

The Generic Industry version has also been significantly enhanced in this release, with improved domain structures, refined end-to-end scenarios, and stronger alignment with SAP solutions.

Key improvements include:

  • Introduction of Acquire to Decommission and Asset Management, completing the full asset lifecycle view

  • Structural realignment based on Integrated Business Planning principles

  • Streamlined end-to-end scenarios, removal of obsolete content, and introduction of new scenarios addressing regulatory, sustainability, workforce management, and subscription-based business models

This release incorporates SAP scope items version 2508, with extended coverage across logistics, procurement, asset management, finance, quality management, and human capital management. SAP Integrated Business Planning, SAP Ariba, and SAP SuccessFactors scope items are aligned where applicable.

Several domains remain under active review and will be further enhanced as part of planned redesigns scheduled for Q1 2026.

Overall Impact

Overall, this release strengthens the foundation of Business Flows 2.0 by improving structural consistency, expanding functional coverage, and ensuring closer alignment with current SAP solutions and best-practice operating models.

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Business Flows 2.0: Why Industry Context Matters More Than Ever in SAP Transformations

Over the past years, we have used Business Flows in many SAP transformation initiatives — especially in large, complex industrial environments. And while the feedback has consistently been positive, one insight became impossible to ignore:

👉 Reference content only creates value if it is scoped, relatable, and usable from day one.

That insight is the starting point of Business Flows 2.0.


From “One Size Fits All” to Industry-Specific Acceleration

In earlier releases, Business Flows followed a deliberately generic approach: a comprehensive set of end-to-end scenarios covering all industries, all domains, all variants of doing business.

That worked—until it didn’t.

As the content grew, we saw a clear pattern in projects:

  • Scoping workshops became harder

  • Repositories became overwhelming

  • Teams spent too much time reducing instead of accelerating

With Business Flows 2.0, we have added a fast lane:

➡️ Industry-specific repositories, curated and pre-scoped for real transformation work.

Aligning Business Architecture with SAP Reference Content

Another strong driver behind Business Flows 2.0 is the way SAP has evolved its own reference content over the last years.

SAP Best Practices, Scope Items, and Solution Capabilities have become extremely rich—but also complex. What’s often missing is a business-oriented structure that helps organizations understand:

  • Why certain capabilities matter

  • Which scope items are relevant

  • How they relate to real end-to-end business scenarios

Business Flows 2.0 bridges exactly that gap:

  • Business end-to-end scenarios remain the anchor

  • Transformation drivers make objectives and pain points explicit

  • Business capabilities connect strategy to execution

  • SAP solutions and scope items are mapped transparently—without losing the business perspective

One Domain. One Map. One Conversation.

A major structural change in Business Flows 2.0 is that we no longer separate:

  • End-to-end scenarios

  • Process groups

  • Process libraries

  • Transformation drivers

into disconnected entry points.

Instead, they now come together within one domain map.

That means:

  • No jumping between different models

  • No loss of context

  • Much faster conversations with business and IT stakeholders

It’s a setup designed for the Discover and Prepare phases of SAP initiatives—before teams disappear into detail.

First Release: Process Industry (Discrete Manufacturing Next)

We’re starting the Business Flows 2.0 journey with the Process Industry domain, released today.

Discrete Manufacturing is already in progress and will follow shortly. From there, we’ll move into Consumer Goods—and later into industries where the differences are even more substantial, such as Retail, Utilities, Energy, and Services.

That’s where the industry-specific approach will really shine.

Transparency Is Still Our Philosophy

One thing hasn’t changed.

We’ve always believed that reference content only creates trust if it is transparent, consistent, and open for discussion. That’s why we’re happy to:

  • Walk you through the content

  • Give you access via our collaboration hub

  • Discuss how it fits (or doesn’t fit) your transformation context

Because at the end of the day, Business Flows is not about models.

It’s about helping organizations enter and execute SAP transformations with clarity, structure, and speed.

If this resonates with you, feel free to reach out—we’re happy to continue the conversation.

👉 If you want to see how this looks in practice, reach out to us and get your free demo session!

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Insights - Business Transformation Day 2022 - Schloss Krickenbeck

Gülsüm Ucuran

On November 10, 2022, the Business Transformation Day with top Key Note speakers, insightful customer presentations, as well as interesting short presentations by selected partners (SAP SE, Software AG, msg services GmbH) took place in the beautiful premises of Schloss Krickenbeck.

This year, Mr. Russell Gomersall, one of the managing partners of bpExperts, moderated the Business Transformation Day. After a short welcome to the participants, he presented the highlights of the last 10 years of bpExperts annual events. Getting customers to network and talk together has a long tradition at bpExperts. Openly discussing each other’s business transformation journey, which methodologies and tools were applied, and most of all, how the participants have ‘managed change’ within their organization in order to sustain the ‘process driven way’. For many participants also a comfortable feeling, that they are not alone with their day-to-day struggles. Over the years many Use Cases have been the same. But the challenges and pressure that today’s business transformation initiatives are confronted with are higher than ever. The complexity of new operating models, expectations towards digitalization, the complexity of hybrid application landscapes, the growing relevance of compliance, all under time and budget constraints have a great impact on all aspects of the business transformation initiatives. The Key Notes clearly show how over the years the participants have grown to an astonishing maturity with these challenges.


Key Notes

During the morning session, the following practical presentations and insights were contributed by

  • Mr. Caspar Jans, (Software AG)
    “How does an Enterprise Management System help you steer through these challenging times?”

  • Mrs. Corinna Frank, (PHOENIX CONTACT GmbH & Co. KG),
    “ARIS in a hybrid setup. The best of both worlds?”

  • Mr. Thomas Göbel, (Evonik Superabsorber GmbH)
    “Carve-Out readiness based on an End-To-End Process house.”

  • Mr. Michael Becker, Vaillant GmbH
    “Enterprise Process Model Development within a Digital Transformation Program.”

Round Table

After the lunch break we organized a Knights of the Round Table get-together: In Schloss Krickenbeck’s infamous ‘Rittersaal’ (see pictures below), we offered multitude roundtable topics, and facilitated the subsequent discussions around the Key Notes, and additional presentations from our partners Software AG, SAP SE and msg services GmbH.

The Knights of the Round Table covered the following topics :

Many thanks therefore to all guest which made this event special by sharing their experience and thoughts and last but not least a special thanks to our great customers and partners.

Hope to meet you soon again!

Business Transformation Day - Schloss Krickenbeck

After such a great event and exclusive presentations, there was no shortage of celebrating our 10th anniversary of bpExperts. Here is a small excerpt but do not worry the rest of the photos are well sealed ;)

Process-driven Business Transformation: Achieving process, system, data, and people readiness with one methodology

Markus Wolf

A holistic readiness for transformation requires structures weaving together the areas for readiness of processes, systems, data, and people. Tying it all together into one methodology allows for project specific customization of the approach by program and project management while ensuring consistency and transparency.

The readiness idea and process focus

Processes are at the center of every business transformation. They facilitate well-structured discussions and decision making, as well as training and communication. The aim is to link the company strategy, operating models, and targets of the transformation to the to-be design, as well as required system support, and data. The intended future state and necessary adjustments are made easy to understand for various stakeholders.

Getting people to understand processes, systems and data in their daily context creates business readiness. That is what we do as Business Integrator. 

Our methodology ensures senior stakeholder buy-in and process understanding early in the transformation by covering the business drivers and operating models of their business and linking those to harmonized standard core processes. 

The readiness idea and system focus

Having established clear strategic targets broken down per process area allows process owners and experts to determine requirements and changes both on business, as well as system perspectives. Requirements can be translated directly into solution design in context with the envisioned future state of business operations.

Offering guidance along standard processes, best practice, and system expertise protects the integrity of the solution design. The amount of system customization can be limited to where it is required to achieve the targeted strategic benefits.

Early contributions and decision-making responsibilities of process owners and experts lead to in-depth understanding of targets and design, to intensive knowledge build-up within the customer organization and fosters later acceptance of changes.

The readiness idea and data focus

Data, and especially master data represent the link between the various business cases and the applicable business processes, and consequently processing within the solution design in a highly automated and digitalized world. It is hence pivotal to establish already throughout the design and transition a widely shared understanding of how data steers processes and functionality.

The readiness idea and people focus

Discussing and elaborating on business processes naturally leads to identification of impacted organizational areas, and to an early assessment of change impacts on the daily operations and on core business KPIs. It also allows for a clear location of changes, thus providing a sound basis for planning and preparation of the actual implementation of adjustments. Furthermore, the structured and interlinked documentation of change impacts enables identification of essential business and design decisions.

Over time objectives might change and adjustments to the design must be made for several reasons on all levels. We enable the orchestration of changes by efficiently documenting all transformation aspects, including business and design decisions in an interlinked and comprehensive manner.

We believe in these re-enforcing factors of our process-driven business transformation methodology.

Example – business-relevant testing

When using our process-driven business transformation methodology, test cases and test scenarios can be derived directly from the respective flows or underlying operating models, from the related business cases and further connected to the defined End-to-End processes. This already contributes to identifying the relevancy of test cases in combination with pertinent data for the users’ future daily lives. It allows testers, like business key users, to generate valuable insights both for training preparation, but also as feedback for small improvement ideas which can boost acceptance of the solution amongst affected user groups. The reporting on test status can be tailored to the needs of various stakeholder groups. The respective process owners can receive a status for their area of responsibility, like Pl2P, O2C or A2R. Business managers can be provided with details on testing progress for their relevant operating models and core business activities. Reported errors from testing, as well as improvement ideas can be reported directly to the relevant stakeholders. This makes testing results and related information more tangible.

Key messages:

The fully interconnected process-driven business transformation methodology improves understanding of relevancy of the planned transformation on individual level of all stakeholders. As a result, decision making can be accelerated and the quality of decisions can be increased, while fostering an identification with and acceptance of the transformation.

  • It is not sufficient to adress all those aspects individually; you need to tackle them in an orchestrated approach across all stakeholders and throughout the whole transition period

  • Your business transformation vision requires a managed and transparent break-down, and a translation to manifest in people, processes, systems, and data

  • The key for agility and sustainability of your transformation is the capability to coherently reciprocate along the path of intention, decision, and implementation

Call for Action

A special occasion to learn more is our Business Transformation Day on the 10th Nov. 2022. Alternatively request a free demo anytime.