What is a fit-to-standard workshop in the Explore phase?

A fit-to-standard workshop is a structured session where the project team walks business stakeholders through SAP's pre-configured, standard best-practice process for a specific business area (like order-to-cash or procure-to-pay), directly in a demo/sandbox system, to determine whether that standard process meets the organization's actual needs as-is, or whether a genuine gap requiring customization exists.

flowchart LR
    A[Demo standard SAP process to stakeholders] --> B{Does it fit business needs?}
    B -->|Yes| C[Adopt standard process as-is]
    B -->|No| D[Document as a gap requiring further design/customization]

The name reflects the underlying philosophy: rather than starting with "what do we need, from scratch," the question becomes "does the pre-built standard fit, and if not, what's genuinely different about our requirement" — a deliberate strategy to minimize unnecessary customization by defaulting to SAP's proven standard processes unless a real business need justifies deviating from them.