Waiting for your S/4HANA migration before you touch procurement technology feels like the responsible call. But, it's quietly the most destructive thing on your roadmap.

In this minisode, Joël Collin-Demers lays out three reasons the waiting posture backfires:

• Migrations move slower than anyone plans for,

• The ERP underpins far less of your procurement stack than you'd assume,

• And the real bottleneck is talent and capacity, not technical dependency.

Then Joël walks through the two architecture moves that let you invest now without disrupting the S/4 program, and the budget reframe that turns ProcureTech into the line item that helps pay for the migration instead of competing with it.

If you're a procurement or finance leader with an S/4HANA migration on the horizon and a digitalization plan parked behind it, this one's for you.

Sources:

• SAP's ECC base is barely budging... Just 39% had licensed S/4HANA by the end of 2024 (The Register, reporting Gartner): https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/20/sap_sees_little_progress_in/

• S/4HANA migrations average about 18 months and can run as long as six years (ASUG, The State of SAP S/4HANA Adoption): https://www.asug.com/insights/the-state-of-sap-s-4hana-adoption-trends-successes-and-challenges

• SAP's clean core doctrine, build beside the core rather than on it (SAP News): https://news.sap.com/2025/08/extend-sap-s4hana-cloud-right-way-clean-clear/