Business Process Excellence

Business process excellence (BPE) is a critical success factor for Nordic organizations navigating rapid digital change. Rising cost pressure, new operating models and cloud ERP programs demand processes that are scalable, productive, efficient, and harmonized. Our BPE services strengthen your core operations by enabling people, processes and technology to deliver more value through faster digital transformation, smoother ERP deployments, and sustainable performance improvements. 

Why business process excellence matters now

As digitalization accelerates, organizations face growing demands for productivity, transparency and control. Insights from BearingPoint’s Process Management & Analytics Study show that process management is more important than ever — driven by cost optimization, transformation and risk reduction. More than 75% of organizations investing in BPE achieve 5–20% improvements in key performance areas. 

Our business process excellence offering 

We help Nordic organizations design, standardize, and operate best-practice processes aligned with their strategic and digital ambitions supported by AI-based impact and scenario analysis: 

• Strategic process management: Define process strategy, governance, and ownership aligned with business and IT objectives. 
• Operational process excellence: Design, harmonize, and continuously improve endtoend processes to improve productivity, quality, and scalability. 
• Business–IT alignment: Connect process landscapes and IT architecture through process mining, automation, digitization, and IT consolidation. 
• Global Template Toolkit: A proven methodology to simplify, standardize, and reduce risk across ERP and largescale transformation programs. 

Measurable results through proven methodologies

Our clients typically achieve: 

• Higher productivity across the organisation 
• 5–20% improvements in efficiency, cost, and quality  
• Increased transparency and stronger governance 
• Faster, lower risk ERP and cloud transformations 
• Improved collaboration between business and IT 

Our experience from Nordic ERP cloud programs, including SAP S/4HANA, IFS Cloud, and Microsoft Dynamics, shows that clear, harmonized processes are essential for sustainable success. 

What’s next: Spotlight sessions 

Next up is a preview of upcoming deep dives where we share practical approaches, lessons learned, and concrete deliverables within the world of Business Process Excellence: 

• Harmonize smart - standardize where it counts - localize where it matters: how to define the right level of process and template standardization to enable scale while protecting critical local requirements. 
• Template to value - ERP transformation: how to move from “template design” to measurable business outcomes through clear governance, fit-to-standard decisions, and value-driven rollout planning. 
• Business Process Management for long-term value: how to establish BPM capabilities (ownership, controls, ways of working, and continuous improvement) that keep processes healthy long after go-live.