Building Resilience and Agility with Composable Business Processes
Move faster with reusable process building blocks – without losing control
Complex system landscapes slow process change at scale
Current challenges:
Scaling breakdown
70% of digital transformations fail. Composable approaches support smaller, iterative releases, standardise what must be standard, and adapt what should be adaptable.
Quality debt
The cost of poor software quality in the U.S. was at $2.08 trillion in 2020
Maintenance costs
In FY2015, U.S. federal agencies spent approximately 75% of IT spend ($61.2B) on operations and maintenance, not modernisation
Building blocks for your business operations
Scheer PAS creates a composable process layer across SAP and non-SAP systems, so you can reuse proven process building blocks instead of rebuilding automations for every change. The result is faster delivery, consistent execution, and governance that scales across business units and regions.
Scheer PAS connects SAP (ECC and S/4HANA), legacy applications, and partner platforms into an orchestrated end-to-end process layer. This replaces fragile point-to-point logic with a structured foundation for repeatable automation.
Common capabilities such as validations, handovers, approvals, notifications, and integration steps are designed once and stored as reusable modules. Teams can assemble new workflows from these blocks rather than duplicating logic across departments.
Core process steps are standardised, while controlled parameters and modular extensions allow local requirements (country rules, organisational policies, product-specific exceptions) without creating parallel process “versions” that drift over time.
Composability only scales when changes stay controlled. Scheer PAS supports centralised process ownership, consistent documentation, and traceable execution so updates can be rolled out predictably, with transparency for compliance and internal stakeholders.
Unified visibility across the composed process enables teams to identify bottlenecks, recurring exceptions, and rework drivers. Improvements can be implemented by updating shared building blocks, so optimisations propagate across every process that reuses them.
Measurable benefits and outcomes
Key metric |
Improvement |
Impact |
|---|---|---|
Time-to-change (process updates) | Reusable process building blocks (integrations, rules, UI steps, validations) reduce rework when approvals, compliance rules, or system interfaces change | 30–60% faster delivery of process changes across business units and regions |
Development effort / rework | Composition replaces “copy-and-customise” automation patterns; changes are applied once in shared components and reused across multiple workflows | 20–50% less implementation effort for new process variants and rollouts |
Operational stability | Standardised components reduce one-off scripts and fragile point-to-point logic; fewer changes require deep refactoring | 15–35% fewer incidents and rework cycles caused by automation or integration changes |
Governance and audit readiness | Centralised process ownership, consistent documentation, and traceable execution across variants improves transparency and control | 25–50% less audit preparation effort through consistent evidence and clearer process lineage |
Scalability of process portfolio | New workflows are assembled from existing modules rather than engineered from scratch; shared blocks scale across processes | 2–4x faster expansion of automation coverage (more processes supported without linear growth in delivery teams) |
Build by composing in a safe manner
Scheer PAS is typically introduced in a phased, non-disruptive approach. It builds on your existing SAP and non-SAP landscape rather than replacing it. Organisations start with one or two high‑impact workflows, establish a reusable building‑block foundation, and then expand progressively. That is why speed increases without sacrificing governance, stability, or compliance.
Typical adoption approach
1
Process identification and reuse potential
Select processes with frequent change, many variants, or high integration effort (for example: onboarding, service management, order changes, master data updates). Define KPIs up front, such as change lead time, reuse rate of components, incident rate, and cycle time.
2
Foundation: integration and composable process modelling
Connect SAP (ECC or S/4HANA) and non-SAP systems and model the end-to-end flow in a centralised process layer. Define the standards that make composability safe: naming conventions, versioning, ownership, access rights, and documentation expectations.
3
Build the first “golden” building blocks
Create reusable modules for the steps that repeatedly occur across processes: validations, approvals, exception handling, notifications, and integration patterns. Establish guardrails so teams can compose and extend without creating uncontrolled variants.
4
Pilot, measure, and scale by reuse
Run a controlled pilot with a small set of processes and variants. Measure outcomes against the KPIs, then scale by reusing the same building blocks across additional workflows, regions, and business units. All of this while updating shared components only once and propagating improvements consistently.
Timeframe, scalability, and governance
Initial results
Usually within weeks, depending on process scope and integration complexity
Scalability
Designed to expand the process portfolio through reuse, not linear growth in implementation effort
Governance
Centralised ownership, version control, and traceable execution to keep composed variants auditable and controlled
"Every enterprise we work with has years of investment in ERP and legacy systems. Composable architecture is what allows them to build on that foundation rather than replace it – introducing agentic automation iteratively, with reusable building blocks, without sacrificing governance or stability. That is not a workaround. That is the right way to transform."
Sharam Dadashnia, Chief Product Officer (CPO) at Scheer PAS
