About this Project

• Client: The world’s leading semiconductor IP designer, powering 95% of smartphones and driving innovation in AI, automotive, and cloud. 

• Industry: Semiconductor & Technology 
• Focus Area: AI Readiness for Procure-to-Pay (P2P)

The Challenge

Our client, a global leader in semiconductor IP, sought to accelerate its digital transformation by launching ambitious AI and automation initiatives. The company recognized that the success of these projects depended on the health and quality of their underlying data and processes. They needed a clear, objective assessment of their existing P2P workflow before committing to large-scale AI investments. 

Leadership faced critical questions: 

• Was the current P2P process consistent enough to be a reliable input for AI? 
• Where did data quality issues and process bottlenecks exist?
• Which areas were the most promising for automation, and which would just automate existing inefficiencies? 

A wrong decision could lead to failed projects, wasted resources, and skepticism around future AI investments. Leadership needed facts and a clear readiness roadmap, not assumptions. 

Why FUTUROOT?

The client needed data-driven clarity to ensure AI and automation success. FUTUROOT delivered by:

• Replacing Assumptions with Facts — Revealed inefficiencies and data quality issues.
• Measuring Readiness — Provided an objective Automation Readiness Score.
• Prioritizing Opportunities — Highlighted tasks with the highest automation ROI.
• Enabling Evidence-Based Decisions — Gave leadership confidence to invest in AI initiatives.

This approach turned AI readiness into a fact-based, actionable strategy, ensuring higher success rates for upcoming automation projects.

Our Approach: Anchored in Data, Not Assumptions 

FUTUROOT’s approach combined process mining, KPI analysis, and automation readiness scoring to provide a clear, data-driven roadmap for AI and automation success. 

Bottleneck Analysis
FUTUROOT mapped the full end-to-end process, revealing bottlenecks like manual approvals and duplicated data entry, quantifying a 40% reduction in cross-region execution differences, and providing a clear list of fix-first priorities before AI implementation.

KPI Management
FUTUROOT was used to define and monitor key performance indicators essential for successful automation, including invoice processing cycle times, touchless invoice rates, and error rates. This included improvements in vendor master accuracy (82% → 96%), conformance to standard process paths (68% → 88%), and reduction of AP exception rates (22% → 10%). This established a baseline allowing leadership to measure improvement with evidence, rather than opinion. 

Business Outcomes Delivered

FUTUROOT transformed what could have been a fragmented, assumption-driven process into a clear, evidence-backed set of actionable outcomes:

About this Project

• Client: Fortune 500 life sciences leader, serving labs and healthcare in 150+ countries. 
• Industry: Global Science Services 
• Focus Area: Digital Product ROI & Rationalisation

The Challenge

Our client, a global leader in scientific services, had invested in a diverse portfolio of SaaS platforms for Procurement (P2P), Accounts Payable (AP), Order-to-Cash (O2C), and more. With significant capital and resources committed, leadership faced a critical challenge: how to accurately measure the return on these investments. 

Leadership faced critical questions: 

• Which platforms were truly being used as intended? 
• Were the promised efficiencies and cost savings being realized? 
• Was there overlap and redundancy in the toolset? 
• Could the company justify continued spending on every platform—or was it time to rationalize and optimise?  

A lack of visibility risked continued investment in low-value tools, missed opportunities for cost savings, and a fragmented digital environment. They needed a fact-based approach, moving beyond assumptions to confirm the tangible ROI of each platform.

Why FUTUROOT?

Traditional methods—user surveys, manual audits, consultant-driven assessments—were too subjective and incomplete. Our client required objective, system-level insights into digital platform usage and outcomes. 

FUTUROOT delivered exactly that through a system-agnostic process mining approach, connecting directly to event logs across all SaaS platforms. This enabled them to:

• Track actual usage of each digital tool 
• Conduct quantifiable ROI analysis 
• Confirm the real impact of digital investments on P2P, AP, and O2C processes 

Our Approach: Anchored in Data, Not Assumptions 

Using FUTUROOT’s advanced toolset, the client gained a transparent understanding of their ERP landscape: 

Variant Explorer and Process Explorer
Mapped process variations across SaaS platforms, showing how identical processes like procure-to-pay were executed and providing clear metrics on usage, costs, and adoption.

FR Analytics
Established measurable success metrics for each platform. Created KPI-based ROI dashboards to quantify both current performance and improvement potential. 

Business Outcomes Delivered

FUTUROOT transformed what could have been a fragmented, assumption-driven process into a clear, evidence-backed set of actionable outcomes:

About this Project

• Client: A top 10 global generics and specialty medicines producer, operating in more than 100 countries and supplying markets across the U.S., Europe, and emerging economies.
• Industry: Pharmaceuticals 
• Focus Area: SAP S/4HANA Healthcheck Across Procure-to-Pay (P2P), Accounts Payable (AP), and Order-to-Cash (O2C) 

The Challenge

A global pharmaceutical company, operating in 100+ countries had been running on SAP S/4HANA for four years. With a new CIO in place, leadership wanted to re-assess whether the company was truly maximizing its ERP investment. 

The team needed facts, not opinions. The questions emerging were: 

• Are core processes like P2P, AP and O2C, aligned with SAP best practices? 
• Which features of SAP S/4HANA are sitting idle? 
• Where are bottlenecks and risks slowing us down? 
• And what’s the real ROI on the investment so far? 

Traditional review methods like workshops and static audits couldn’t answer those questions with confidence. Our client required a fact-based, system-driven health check that could replace subjective debate with data-driven evidence. 

Why FUTUROOT?

FUTUROOT applied process mining directly to the client’s SAP S/4HANA event logs, creating an end-to-end, transparent view of how processes ran — step by step, variant by variant. 
This approach empowered our client to: 

• Check real adoption against SAP Scope Items and industry standards. Not just “what should happen,” but “what actually happens.” 
• Spot gaps & Drill into root causes– inefficiencies, unused features, and policy deviations – that erode value 
• Build a business case with quantified impact. Benchmark performance against industry and SAP standards to measure true process health and quantify improvement opportunities in terms of time, cost, and control impact. 

In short, FUTUROOT replaced assumption with evidence, eliminating debate and enabling decisive action. 

Our Approach:

Using FUTUROOT’s advanced process Analytics Suite, we executed a structured SAP health check in four focus areas:

Conformance Checking

Lupin’s P2P, AP, and O2C processes were mapped against SAP Scope Items and BPMN “ideal” processes to provide a clear view of operations. The analysis revealed deviations like missing steps, redundant hand-offs, manual workarounds, and policy breaches. By establishing a defensible baseline of “what should happen versus what actually happens,” leadership could prioritize fixes and implement targeted, precise process improvements.

KPI Management

KPIs reflecting best practice adoption—such as touchless transaction rates, cycle times, rework, and exception handling—were defined to measure performance. The analysis provided clear visibility into where best practices were followed and where inefficient or non-standard variants prevailed. This enabled quantification of gaps, setting of measurable targets, and continuous monitoring of improvements.

Business Outcomes Delivered

The SAP S/4HANA health check with FUTUROOT delivered clear, tangible business benefits: 

About this Project

• Client: A global manufacturer of power solutions, 
integrating systems after a major acquisition. 

• Industry: Power Solutions

• Focus Area: ERP Consolidation During Acquisition

The Challenge

A global leader in power solutions, faced a significant integration challenge following its acquisition of a UK-based manufacturing subsidiary

Leadership needed clarity on key questions: 

• Are local teams executing HQ’s standardised process, or are deviations common? 
• Which countries demonstrate higher efficiency, and what are they doing differently? 
• Where do compliance risks, inefficiencies, and bottlenecks remain hidden? 
• How can best practices be identified, validated, and scaled company-wide? 

Without a data-driven, objective view into these processes, our client risked inefficiency, inconsistent compliance, and missed opportunities for collaboration across borders. 

Why FUTUROOT?

Traditional consulting methods for ERP harmonization — workshops, interviews, and assumption-driven modelling — were too slow and subjective. The client required fact-based, system-level insights directly from their systems 
to make a confident decision.

FUTUROOT delivered exactly that — a system-agnostic process mining approach, using real event logs from both Oracle NetSuite and SAP. This enabled them to: 

• Processes that had quietly drifted far from SAP best pract
• Approval layers and manual steps that dragged down cycle times. 
• Redundancies that added cost without adding value. 

For the first time, the team had a shared fact base. Debates stopped revolving around opinions and started focusing on evidence. That shift in perspective became the anchor for their migration strategy — pragmatic, data-driven, and built on truth. 

Our Approach:

Using FUTUROOT’s advanced toolset, the client gained a transparent understanding of their ERP landscape: 

Variant Explorer
All process variations across both ERP systems were mapped, revealing differences in how identical processes—like P2P were executed between the US (Oracle) and the UK (SAP). This enabled clear comparison and filtering by system, geography, and business unit.

Process Comparison
We conducted a side-by-side comparison of Oracle and SAP process flows, highlighting key differences such as approval hierarchies, invoice-processing steps, and cycle times.

Business Case Management
We integrated the findings into a comprehensive roadmap that outlined harmonisation scenarios, quantified cost savings, and defined ROI, delivering a fact-based recommendation backed by data rather than opinion.

Business Outcomes Delivered

FUTUROOT transformed what could have been a prolonged, high-risk guesswork 
exercise into a rapid, evidence-backed strategic decision:  

About this Project

• Client: A global top-10 brewer from Turkey, spanning Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East
• Industry: Beverages (Multinational FMCG) 
• Focus Area: Global Process Benchmarking & Standardization Across Countries (P2P, AP, O2C) 

The Challenge: Inconsistent Ways of Working Across Borders 

As a leading beverage group with operations in multiple countries faced a challenge common to global enterprises: inconsistency and lack of transparency between headquarters (HQ) and local operations. Each country had developed its own approach to Procure-to-Pay (P2P), Accounts Payable (AP), and Order-to-Cash (O2C). 

Leadership needed clarity on key questions: 

• Are local teams executing HQ’s standardised process, or are deviations common? 
• Which countries demonstrate higher efficiency, and what are they doing differently? 
• Where do compliance risks, inefficiencies, and bottlenecks remain hidden? 
• How can best practices be identified, validated, and scaled company-wide? 

Without a data-driven, objective view into these processes, our client risked inefficiency, inconsistent compliance, and missed opportunities for collaboration across borders. 

Why FUTUROOT?

Earlier attempts at benchmarking relied on anecdotal input and static reports, which lacked rigour and depth. The client required a platform that could: 

Leadership needed clarity on key questions: 

• Connect directly to operational data across all territories and systems. 
• Provide real-time, quantitative comparisons of process performance by geography. 
• Benchmark each country’s execution objectively against HQ’s “golden standard.” 
• Surface best practices and deviations instantly to guide improvement. 

FUTUROOT offered process mining and analytics tools purpose-built for this challenge, enabling a rigorous, scalable, and transparent approach to global process harmonisation.  

Our Approach:

Using FUTUROOT’ we did:

Dimension-Based Benchmarking
By connecting to data sources across all countries, FUTUROOT mapped end-to-end P2P, AP, and O2C processes per market, providing clear comparisons of cycle times, throughput, automation rates, and process variants. Global dashboards offered instant scorecards of efficiency and standardisation, allowing teams to focus improvement where it mattered most. As a result, PO creation cycle times dropped from 9.2 days to 5.8, as markets adopted proven best practices and harmonised their ways of working.

Conformance Checking
FUTUROOT’s visual overlays and KPI comparisons highlighted top-performing geographies and surfaced local innovations worth scaling such as streamlined approval flows and higher automation rates. Side-by-side process views enabled knowledge transfer and rapid rollout of the most effective variants across the network.   

Cross-country Standardisation Index
By closing performance gaps between subsidiaries, variance in OTC order-fulfilment lead times fell by 40%—delivering a more consistent and predictable customer experience across markets. 

Business Outcomes Delivered

FUTUROOT transformed a fragmented, inconsistent global operation into a unified, evidence-based performance improvement journey — driving measurable efficiency, compliance, and collaboration across regions.

About this Project

• Client: Global enterprise in Food & Beverage Distribution
• Industry: Food & Beverage Distribution
• Focus Area: SAP Vistex Implementation – Inventory Management

The Challenge

The client, a leading European food service distributor, embarked on a critical project to implement SAP Vistex. However, the company faced a significant hurdle: its existing inventory management system was over 20 years old. Due to its age and extensive use, no one in the organization had a complete, accurate understanding of all the real-world inventory scenarios that had developed over time

Decades of accumulated complexity created serious questions for leadership: 

• How could they ensure a smooth and controlled transformation without full visibility into their current processes?
• What were the actual process flows and variations in inventory movement?
• Which of the numerous inventory movement types were truly active, and which were obsolete legacy configurations?
• How did these hidden processes impact forecasting models and business operations? 

A lack of factual insights could lead to unnecessary customization, wasted testing, and major disruptions during the SAP Vistex rollout. Leadership needed objectivity, clarity, and factual insights — not assumptions or guesswork.

Why FUTUROOT?

The client faced a 20-year-old, complex inventory system with limited visibility, making a controlled SAP Vistex transformation risky. FUTUROOT delivered clarity, speed, and confidence by: 

FUTUROOT delivered clarity, speed, and confidence by:

• Uncovering Hidden Processes — Revealed all active and inactive inventory movement types.
• Quantifying Variants — Mapped 87 scenarios versus 12 known, enabling harmonization.
• Reducing Risk and Waste — Highlighted redundant processes and unnecessary testing.
• Providing a Fact-Based Roadmap — Delivered dashboards and actionable metrics for data-driven decisions.

This approach transformed what could have been a lengthy, high-risk inventory transformation into a rapid, evidence-backed, and controlled process.

Our Approach: 

Using FUTUROOT’s advanced toolset, the client gained a transparent understanding of their inventory management landscape:

Process Explorer

Analysed 98% of all inventory transactions, distinguishing active from inactive movement types. This eliminated obsolete processes, reducing unnecessary customisation, testing effort, and risk.

Variant Explorer

The analysis identified 87 inventory variants versus 12 previously known, enabling harmonization, cutting 45% of redundancies, and providing full visibility into all processes.

Additional Impact

Retiring 15% of inactive material codes improved data cleanliness, while reducing test case volume by 35% saved six weeks of UAT effort.

Business Outcomes Delivered

FUTUROOT transformed what could have been a prolonged, high-risk guesswork 
exercise into a rapid, evidence-backed strategic decision:  

About this Project

• Client: Global leader in specialty insurance distribution and niche risk solutions
• Industry: Insurance & Specialty Services 
• Focus Area: Automation Roadmap Across Accounts Payable (AP)

The Challenge

Our Client, a global specialty insurance firm, faced a significant challenge in its Accounts Payable process. The company operated with multiple AP company codes and a high volume of manual activities across territories, all running on SAP. 

Leadership knew inefficiencies existed—but they lacked the objective data to pinpoint which specific, rule-based tasks were ripe for automation, and where the potential impact was greatest. They faced critical questions:

• Which repetitive tasks were most suitable for automation across territories? 
• What was the quantifiable potential for efficiency gains, cost savings, and error reduction? 
• How could they build a clear, prioritised automation roadmap across different business units? 

Without system-based evidence, automation risked becoming another costly, assumption-driven initiative. 

Why FUTUROOT?

The client needed more than high-level assumptions — they required data-driven clarity to identify automation opportunities and quantify impact.

FUTUROOT delivered by:

• Revealing Automation Hotspots — Identified repetitive, rule-based AP tasks across company codes and territories that were ripe for automation.
• Quantifying Resource Savings — Measured manual effort and error-prone steps to prioritize initiatives with the highest ROI.
• Exposing Process Bottlenecks — Highlighted delays and handoffs in AP workflows that slowed invoice processing and increased risk.
• Providing a Fact-Based Business Case — Quantified potential improvements in cycle times, error reduction, and cost savings to guide investment decisions.

This approach transformed the initiative from a speculative, assumption-driven effort into a clear, evidence-backed automation strategy, giving leadership confidence that resources would be invested where the greatest impact could be achieved.

Our Approach: Anchored in Data, Not Assumptions 

Using FUTUROOT’s advanced automation readiness toolkit, our client gained a transparent, multi-level view of their AP landscape: 

Variant Explorer
Cross-Code & Territory Analysis – Analysed process variations across company codes and geographies. This revealed how identical tasks (e.g., invoice processing) were executed differently and pinpointed where repetitive, rule-based tasks were most prevalent. Leadership could filter and compare data by territory or unit, ensuring automation opportunities were scalable, not siloed. 

Workforce Analytics
Manual Effort Hotspots – Mapped where human time and effort were consumed most heavily. This provided a clear picture of the “automation sweet spots”—the steps where automation would free up the most resources and reduce error-prone manual work.  

Business Outcomes Delivered

FUTUROOT transformed what could have been a prolonged, high-risk guesswork 
exercise into a rapid, evidence-backed strategic decision:  

About this Project

• Client: A Diversified Agribusiness Enterprise
• Industry: Agriculture
• Focus Area: Pre-Migration Process Optimization

The Challenge

A leading agribusiness enterprise was preparing for a critical transformation: migrating from SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA within 12 months.

The leadership team faced pressing questions:

• How closely do current ECC processes align with S/4HANA best practices?
• Which inefficiencies and redundancies risk being carried into the new system?
• What optimisations could reduce migration complexity and accelerate adoption?

A “lift and shift” approach was not an option. Without clarity, the company risked replicating old inefficiencies in a modern system—leading to ballooning costs, extended timelines, and major post-migration disruption.

Why FUTUROOT?

The leadership team wasn’t interested in another round of workshops or consultant slide decks. They had already lived with years of incremental fixes and workarounds in ECC. What they needed was clarity — an unfiltered view of how their processes actually ran, and the courage to decide which of those habits should carry forward into S/4HANA, and which should be left behind.

FUTUROOT provided exactly that. By plugging directly into ECC’s event logs, it replaced assumptions with facts and delivered a side-by-side reality check:

• Processes that had quietly drifted far from SAP best practice.
• Approval layers and manual steps that dragged down cycle times.
• Redundancies that added cost without adding value.

For the first time, the team had a shared fact base. Debates stopped revolving around opinions and started focusing on evidence. That shift in perspective became the anchor for their migration strategy — pragmatic, data-driven, and built on truth.

Our Approach:

Using FUTUROOT’s advanced toolset, the organization gained a clear, comparative view of their ECC environment against S/4HANA best practices.

Conformance Checking
Benchmarked ECC processes against S/4HANA reference models, flagging deviations, missing steps, and redundant activities.

KPI Analysis
ECC processes were benchmarked against S/4HANA reference models, revealing deviations, missing steps, and redundant activities.

Business Outcomes Delivered

Using FUTUROOT’s advanced toolset, the organisation gained a clear, comparative view of their ECC environment against S/4HANA best practices.