Organizations on a transformation journey need to ensure every process improvement delivers measurable business value. But how can you quantify the savings, track progress, and connect improvement ideas to larger transformation strategies?
SAP Signavio streamlines this through Value Cases – a structured approach to value analysis, calculation, and alignment with transformation initiatives from the SAP Signavio Process Transformation Manager. In this blog post, we’ll explore:
What a Value Case isHow to create and analyze oneHow to link Value Cases to Initiatives in SAP Signavio Process Transformation Manager
What is a Value Case in SAP Signavio Process Intelligence?
A Value Case allows you to systematically quantify how much a process improvement project can save or gain your organization. Think of it as a mini-business case tied directly to a process metric (like cycle time, rework rate, manual steps, etc.).
Value cases in SAP Signavio Process Intelligence use structured value analysis based on proven SAP Value Lifecycle Management (VLM) formulas to ensure accurate business impact quantification. The solution provides direct documentation, allowing all value calculation logic and assumptions to be documented and maintained in a single location for easy reference and auditability. It supports scenario-based calculations, enabling users to adjust assumptions such as standard processing times or average labor rates. Value cases can be integrated and linked to transformation initiatives, which provides are more holistic picture by consolidating the analysis and findings and ensures alignment with broader business objectives.
How to Create a Value Case
Prerequisites: You must have the manager or analyst role for the relevant process.
1. Choose Your Starting Point
You can create a value case via:
The Value Cases Tab: Manage value cases directly and create new ones from hereThe Metric Library: Use the metric library which provides you with preconfigured metrics. Some of them are agnostic, others are tailored to specific business processes.
Your Metric Collection: Choose an existing metric already in use.
2. Define the Value Case
Each value case includes:
One metric: The key process indicator you want to improve (e.g., invoice processing time).A value formula: Predefined by SAP or customizable.Assumptions and Context: SAP-suggested factors (such as average hourly rates) or tailored organizational numbers.
3. Calculation and Analysis
Potential Value is automatically calculated as:
(Baseline Monetary Impact per Year) – (Target Monetary Impact per Year) = Potential Value
Baseline: The maximum potential benefit (here the benefits of getting supplier discount on the sum of all early payments).Target: The potential benefit of reducing the amount of early payments without discount by the target rate, or in other words, receiving discounts for the target % of early payments.Annualization Factor: Normalizes the values on a yearly basis for easy comparison.
You can choose to set a absolute or relative improvement target.
Example:
Suppose you have a metric measuring early payments where no discount has been granted by the supplier. Currently over all completed cases the sum of early payments is about 16.99 € million.
As mentioned, the metric library already provides plenty of pre-build calculations and definitions of metrics to be used. In this example, the early payments metric is defined as the sum of the amount converted (eur) where the case was cleared more than three days before the due date, no discount was granted, the case is already completed and the system is I2P.
The calculation can be seen in the following:
The metric can now be used as the basis for the value case calculation, by clicking on “Create Value Case” on the bottom right.
Select the value driver, in this example Improve Days Payable Outstanding. You could also pick for instance, reduce finance cost. They are later used to categorize and group multiple value cases together. Once created you can find the value case under the Tab ‘Value Cases’
Next you can open the value case by clicking on the blue title “Early payments without discount”. Now let’s add the calculation logic for the value case and define the time period. Go down to to the calculation area and to keep it simple in this example, you can reference to the metric for early payments using ${metric_result}. Let’s assume the discount rate for early payments is 2% so add let’s add * 0.02.
Now the Baseline Date Range needs to be defined. It quantifies the initial performance of the metric measurement, along with the associated monetary value. It’s the value collected from your system before the process improvement efforts, so you can measure your progress against it. In this case, it is now set to the full year of 2023. Notice it also provides you the option to define the target state either in absolute or percentage values.
Having defined the calculation, time frame and improvement percentage, the potential value is calculated and displayed in the header bar.
Linking a Value Case to a Transformation Initiative
Business success happens when improvement ideas aren’t siloed, but tied to broader initiatives and linked to quantifiable value. For this you can directly link and add this value case to an initiative for example the Procurement Excellence:
Select the Initiative and press Save.
Now it is easily accessible by the users directly from the SAP Signavio Collaboration Hub. For instance, there could be 3 value cases tied to this Procurement Excellence initiative, one linked to improving the procurement FTE Productivity and two regarding Days Payable Outstanding. This ensures that stakeholders can see exactly how a process change impacts larger transformation efforts and enables continuous value tracking as the projects progress making the expected business impact transparent.
Conclusion
SAP Signavio Process Intelligence Value Cases enable organizations to measure business value—ensuring process mining and transformation work moves beyond theory to bottom-line results. By linking value cases to Initiatives in the SAP Signavio Process Transformation Manager, you align improvement projects with strategic goals, creating maximum impact and insight across the enterprise.
If you want to learn more about the SAP Signavio Process Transformation Manager and how to achieve a value-driven approach to transformation check out this blog.
Organizations on a transformation journey need to ensure every process improvement delivers measurable business value. But how can you quantify the savings, track progress, and connect improvement ideas to larger transformation strategies?SAP Signavio streamlines this through Value Cases – a structured approach to value analysis, calculation, and alignment with transformation initiatives from the SAP Signavio Process Transformation Manager. In this blog post, we’ll explore:What a Value Case isHow to create and analyze oneHow to link Value Cases to Initiatives in SAP Signavio Process Transformation Manager What is a Value Case in SAP Signavio Process Intelligence?A Value Case allows you to systematically quantify how much a process improvement project can save or gain your organization. Think of it as a mini-business case tied directly to a process metric (like cycle time, rework rate, manual steps, etc.).Value cases in SAP Signavio Process Intelligence use structured value analysis based on proven SAP Value Lifecycle Management (VLM) formulas to ensure accurate business impact quantification. The solution provides direct documentation, allowing all value calculation logic and assumptions to be documented and maintained in a single location for easy reference and auditability. It supports scenario-based calculations, enabling users to adjust assumptions such as standard processing times or average labor rates. Value cases can be integrated and linked to transformation initiatives, which provides are more holistic picture by consolidating the analysis and findings and ensures alignment with broader business objectives. How to Create a Value CasePrerequisites: You must have the manager or analyst role for the relevant process.1. Choose Your Starting PointYou can create a value case via:The Value Cases Tab: Manage value cases directly and create new ones from hereThe Metric Library: Use the metric library which provides you with preconfigured metrics. Some of them are agnostic, others are tailored to specific business processes. Your Metric Collection: Choose an existing metric already in use. 2. Define the Value CaseEach value case includes:One metric: The key process indicator you want to improve (e.g., invoice processing time).A value formula: Predefined by SAP or customizable.Assumptions and Context: SAP-suggested factors (such as average hourly rates) or tailored organizational numbers.3. Calculation and AnalysisPotential Value is automatically calculated as:(Baseline Monetary Impact per Year) – (Target Monetary Impact per Year) = Potential ValueBaseline: The maximum potential benefit (here the benefits of getting supplier discount on the sum of all early payments).Target: The potential benefit of reducing the amount of early payments without discount by the target rate, or in other words, receiving discounts for the target % of early payments.Annualization Factor: Normalizes the values on a yearly basis for easy comparison.You can choose to set a absolute or relative improvement target.Example:Suppose you have a metric measuring early payments where no discount has been granted by the supplier. Currently over all completed cases the sum of early payments is about 16.99 € million.As mentioned, the metric library already provides plenty of pre-build calculations and definitions of metrics to be used. In this example, the early payments metric is defined as the sum of the amount converted (eur) where the case was cleared more than three days before the due date, no discount was granted, the case is already completed and the system is I2P.The calculation can be seen in the following:The metric can now be used as the basis for the value case calculation, by clicking on “Create Value Case” on the bottom right.Select the value driver, in this example Improve Days Payable Outstanding. You could also pick for instance, reduce finance cost. They are later used to categorize and group multiple value cases together. Once created you can find the value case under the Tab ‘Value Cases’Next you can open the value case by clicking on the blue title “Early payments without discount”. Now let’s add the calculation logic for the value case and define the time period. Go down to to the calculation area and to keep it simple in this example, you can reference to the metric for early payments using ${metric_result}. Let’s assume the discount rate for early payments is 2% so add let’s add * 0.02.Now the Baseline Date Range needs to be defined. It quantifies the initial performance of the metric measurement, along with the associated monetary value. It’s the value collected from your system before the process improvement efforts, so you can measure your progress against it. In this case, it is now set to the full year of 2023. Notice it also provides you the option to define the target state either in absolute or percentage values. Having defined the calculation, time frame and improvement percentage, the potential value is calculated and displayed in the header bar. Linking a Value Case to a Transformation InitiativeBusiness success happens when improvement ideas aren’t siloed, but tied to broader initiatives and linked to quantifiable value. For this you can directly link and add this value case to an initiative for example the Procurement Excellence:Select the Initiative and press Save.Now it is easily accessible by the users directly from the SAP Signavio Collaboration Hub. For instance, there could be 3 value cases tied to this Procurement Excellence initiative, one linked to improving the procurement FTE Productivity and two regarding Days Payable Outstanding. This ensures that stakeholders can see exactly how a process change impacts larger transformation efforts and enables continuous value tracking as the projects progress making the expected business impact transparent. ConclusionSAP Signavio Process Intelligence Value Cases enable organizations to measure business value—ensuring process mining and transformation work moves beyond theory to bottom-line results. By linking value cases to Initiatives in the SAP Signavio Process Transformation Manager, you align improvement projects with strategic goals, creating maximum impact and insight across the enterprise.If you want to learn more about the SAP Signavio Process Transformation Manager and how to achieve a value-driven approach to transformation check out this blog. Read More Technology Blog Posts by SAP articles
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