Free · About 15 minutes · Instant results
You know your SAP Finance setup has gaps. Which ones could derail your project?
SAP's Readiness Check tells you whether the system can technically convert. It says nothing about whether your finance design, reporting, and processes will actually work after go-live. This assessment does, across five categories, in about 15 minutes, with a scored dashboard the moment you finish.
- About 15 minutes
- Around 15 questions
- Instant scored dashboard
- Free, no sales call to see results
SAP Readiness Check tells you
Whether your system can technically convert to S/4HANA. It is a sizing and compatibility check. Necessary, but it is an IT metric, and it is silent on whether the numbers will be right.
This assessment tells you
Whether your finance design is ready: ledgers, intercompany, close, reporting, governance, and the readiness to automate. The financial truth must match the operational reality. This is where you find out if it does.
What it checks
Five categories. You are scored on the ones that apply to your project phase.
Finance Leadership & Direction
Whether Finance, not IT or your SI, is steering the design, and who can say no to a design decision. Misalignment here cascades into every choice that follows.
Core Design Foundation
The structural backbone: ledgers and group valuation, chart of accounts and document splitting, segments, and intercompany. These are the hardest things to change after go-live.
Compliance & Reporting
Country statutory and tax coverage, reporting and close that hold up without Excel, and whether margin is explainable and processes are owned.
Delivery & Validation
Phase-specific: whether the design is validated before build, how build and test are holding up, or how the live system performs.
Future & Automation
Whether your data quality and roadmap can carry automation and AI in Finance, or whether they would scale the errors.
How it works
Answer the assessment
Five categories that adapt to your project phase, about 15 questions in all. About 15 minutes.
See your dashboard instantly
A traffic-light readiness score, a ring chart for every scored category (four to five, depending on your phase), and your top five immediate risks, on screen the moment you finish.
Decide your next step
Phase-specific recommendations, plus the option to book a design review or a call. No waiting for a report, no charge.
An instant, visual readiness dashboard
No five-day wait, no PDF in your inbox a week later. The moment you submit, you see a traffic-light score, a ring chart for every scored finance domain, and your top five immediate risks, ranked, with the business impact of each spelled out.
- Green: on track, minimal risk
- Amber: needs attention before it costs you
- Red: critical risk that could derail the project
Scored across
You are scored on the categories that apply to your phase. The delivery category and Future & Automation appear only when they are relevant.
Sample dashboard
See the assessment output before you start.
The assessment delivers a scored dashboard for your finance domains, plus the top risks ranked by impact. This sample shows the type of insight you will get instantly when you finish.
Illustrative sample only. Your score and risk profile are built from your project-specific answers.
Questions we hear from finance leaders
- What is an independent S/4HANA Finance design review?
- It is a validation of your S/4HANA Finance blueprint and key design decisions by someone who is not building the system. We check whether the design will actually close, report, and reconcile before it goes to build: enterprise structure, ledgers and group valuation, margin analysis, product costing, intercompany, allocations, and the close. You get a risk-ranked gap report, challenges to the key design decisions, and a clear go-or-fix list, independent of any System Integrator.
- Do I still need an independent Finance design review if I already have a System Integrator?
- Yes, because a System Integrator builds what you ask for, and the review makes sure you are asking for the right thing. Your SI has a build to deliver and a spec to follow, so it is not positioned to challenge whether that spec is financially correct. We bring an independent line of sight, so design flaws surface before build rather than after go-live, when a fix can mean a re-implementation instead of a workshop.
- How do I make sure my S/4HANA Finance design is right before go-live?
- Validate the design independently before it is committed to build, while changes are still cheap. The biggest risk on an S/4HANA program is not building the system; it is building the wrong Finance design, fast, because finance logic gets simplified or copied in and no one independent checks that it will close and reconcile. We recommend starting with the free Finance Readiness Assessment to see where your design risk sits, then a Finance Design Review to pressure-test the blueprint before build.
- What is the Finance Readiness Assessment, and what does it cost?
- It is a free, self-service assessment that scores your S/4HANA Finance design across five categories in about 15 minutes and returns an instant, scored dashboard, at no charge. It covers finance leadership and direction, the core design foundation, compliance and reporting, delivery readiness for your current phase, and automation readiness. It is the honest starting point: it shows where your finance design risk sits and which next step, if any, you need.
- Who is Innovativity and Ugur Hasdemir?
- Innovativity is the independent S/4HANA Finance practice of Ugur Hasdemir, a Finance-first design validator based in Utrecht who works with programs across the Netherlands and DACH. He has 15+ years designing and validating SAP S/4HANA Finance for global manufacturers, utilities, and logistics businesses. He is an SAP Press and Rheinwerk author and writes at s4hanablog.com on the design decisions that make or break S/4HANA Finance.
- What kinds of S/4HANA Finance work does Innovativity take on?
- We work across three layers. The free Finance Readiness Assessment is the entry point; the Finance Design Review is an independent validation of your blueprint before build; and Expert Advisory provides senior SAP Finance architecture on call, either as a targeted intervention or an ongoing retainer. When a program needs capacity rather than only design, we also place experienced SAP consultants from our network through Specialist Resourcing, staffing only people we would put on our own engagements.
- What is the difference between a Finance Design Review and Configuration Accelerators?
- A Finance Design Review is our time applied to your specific problem: bespoke, independent validation of your design before build. Configuration Accelerators are pre-built, fixed-scope Finance logic delivered into your system, covering hard edges such as multi-GAAP CAPEX control, margin precision, and intercompany flow integrity. In short, the review checks whether your design is right; the accelerators are proven logic you drop in. If you are unsure which you need, the free assessment points you to the right next step.
- When in an S/4HANA program is the right time for a Finance design review?
- The highest-value moment is in Explore or early Realize, when the design is about to be committed to build but is not yet locked in code. At that point a flaw is a workshop to fix; after go-live the same flaw can cost a re-implementation. If you are unsure where your program stands, the free Finance Readiness Assessment routes by your current phase and shows where the design risk is concentrated.
Built by an independent SAP Finance architect
15+ years in SAP Finance. SAP Press author. Now scoring your readiness in about 15 minutes.
The same lens applied on programs at Unilever, Air France-KLM, Cargill, and LeasePlan, distilled into one assessment you can take right now, free.
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