ERP - S4HANA1709 - Delta Scope PDF

SAP ERP to SAP S/4HANA 1709 – Delta Scope
Speaker’s Name, SAP

SAP S/4HANA: the guiding principles
Modern Architecture Role-based Design Smart Business
Robust and scalable People centric Built for scalability,

Simple data structures speed Any device automation & IoT
On primary data Browser based Cockpits with
Single source of truth Flexible workflows Exception based worklists
Flexible consumption Collaboration Embedded analytics, prediction &
Non disruptive journey Decision support Simulation
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S/4HANA Pillars
New User Experience
Shell header
Revised, launching notification and
me-are viewports and Co-Pilot window. Notifications
Provides navigation menu when app is Shown in separate viewport
Me-Area Anchor bar navigation launched by clicking on title
Replacing former shell header menu that opens on clicking repective icon
Replacing group menu in shell header
Shows recent activities now
Links
Option to show apps
as links in a tile group
Me-area Workspace Notifications

FAQ 3 FAQ 3
S/4HANA Pillars
New User Experience
Single entry point via SAP

Fiori launchpad Access to
User Menu & SAP Menu
Domain specific infos and

actions
Enter details and

explore in depth Your custom
transactions
This is the current state of planning and
may be changed by SAP at any time.
S/4HANA Pillars
Embedded Analytics - Transactional + Analytics
Overview Page
*on selected devices

S/4HANA Pillars
Embedded Analytics - Transactional + Analytics
KPI Monitoring

SAP S/4HANA Enterprise Management
Overview
Sourcing and Inventory and Basic
Streamlined Supplier Information Operational Invoice and Payables
Contract Warehouse
Procure to Pay and Master Data Procurement Management
Management Management
Accelerated Plan Production Inventory and

Project Control and Production Maintenance
Production Planning Orchestration and Quality Management Basic Warehouse
to Product Product Development Engineering Management
Execution Management
Inventory and Basic

Optimized Order and Contract Receivables
Warehouse
Order to Cash Management Processing
Management
Enhanced Request Service Master Data Service Parts Service Agreement

Service Management
to Service Management Management Management
HR Connectivity Time Recording
Cost Management
Accounting and
Core Finance and Profitability
Closing Operations
Analysis

*Additional license - **Additional installation and license – C(Partially) Compatibility scope
1709
SAP S/4HANA Core Finance

Solution Areas:
BASIC FINANCIAL COST MANAGEMENT &
CORE ACCOUNTING
OPERATIONS PROFITABILITY ANALYSIS
Solution Capabilities:
ACCOUNTS
ACCOUNTS
CLOSING FINANCIAL INTERNATIONAL COST PRODUCT COST PROFITABILITY &
ACCOUNTING RECEIVABLES/
RECIVABLES/
OPERATIONS REPORTING TRADE MANAGEMENT MGMT. COST ANALYSIS
PAYABLES
PAYABLES
The unified General Accelerate close Reduce risk and cost Manage customer For International Gain a deep Calculate Cost of Understand cost &
Ledger represents through automation of real-time financial accounts receivables Trade requirements understanding of Goods Manufactured margin incurred by
the heart of Finance and standardization. reporting and and payables you can use cost drivers and (COGM) or Cost of your products &
as a single source of Templates can be multidimensional all customers with embedded functions responsibilities with Goods Sold (COGS) services in detail to
truth. It provides the used across multiple data analysis for SAP S/4HANA. for Intrastat structuring your as broken down by successfully manage
basis for instant entities to improve accounting increase automation reporting, Intrastat costs along cost each step of the the portfolio. With
insight into legal governance and use standards with SAP and electronic declarations (26 centers, activities or production, project flexible and powerful
reporting but also of best practices. solutions. For support to reduce countries) and projects. A powerful or service leveraging insights based on,
into management Integration is key to Business Reporting manual effort and Legal control-export toolset of cost source info from the your business users
profitability leverage detailed like New Cash Flow cost associated with Broader allocations will operational source - have the support
reporting. information from Statement use new running this financial international trade increase highly integrated they need to
Operations. Semantic Tagging. process. function via native transparency, into industry optimize decisions.
integration with SAP efficiency and cost specific process.
GTS. control.
Finance Launchpad with KPI alerts Invoice Processing Analysis Multiple views on Products & Profits

* Additional License - ** Additional Installation & License – C Compatibility Scope
SAP S/4HANA – LoB Finance
Cash and Debt and Payments and
Financial Risk
Treasury Management Liquidity Investment
Management
Bank
Management Management Communication
Subscription Billing and Revenue Contract

Management Accounting
Planning,
Financial Planning and Analysis Budgeting, and
Forecasting
Collections Credit Evaluation Dispute Financial Supply Invoice

Advanced Financial Operations Management and Management Resolution
E-Invoicing
Chain
Indirect Tax
Management
Portfolio and
Investment and Maintenance and Space
Energy and Safety Lease
Construction Repair Management
Management
Advanced Revenue
Financial Close Reporting and
Accounting and Financial Close Compliance Corporate Close
Governance Disclosure
Accounting and
Reporting Reporting***
Closing Financial Inventory Revenue and Cost Basic Compliance

Core Accounting Asset Accounting
Operations Reporting
General Ledger
Accounting Accounting Reporting
Cost Management and Profitability Cost Product Cost Profitability and

Analysis Management Management Cost Analysis
Electronic Bill
International
Accounts Invoice Invoice Presentment, Travel
Basic Financial Operations Accounts Payable
Receivable Collaboration Processing
Trade
Payment, and E- Management***
Management
Invoicing
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Finance
SAP ERP to SAP S/4HANA 1709 ▪
▪
Accounting and Financial Close
Subscription Billing and Revenue
Management
LoB Finance – Basic Financial Operations – accounts payable

▪ Basic Financial Operations
▪ Treasury Management
▪ Advanced Financial Operations
▪ Financial Planning and Analysis

▪ Cost Management and Profitability
Analysis
▪ Core Accounting
International Elec. Bill Present.,

BASIC FINANCIAL Accounts Payable Accounts Invoice Invoice
Trade Payment, and
OPERATIONS Receivable Collaboration Processing
Management E-Invoicing
Purpose Benefits
▪ Simplify the way you record and manage accounts payable data from vendors ▪ Record and manage accounts payable data received from vendors
▪ Streamline accounts payable processes through real-time integration with ▪ Integrate accounts payable data with company purchasing data for enhanced
purchasing software financial insight
▪ Keep records current by updating postings to accounts payable simultaneously in ▪ Post to accounts payable and the general ledger simultaneously
the general ledger
▪ Use invoice data to update cash management information, supporting liquidity
▪ Enable effective liquidity planning by updating cash management records with planning
invoice data in real time
▪ Support compliance with local country rules and regulations using country-specific
payment formats

Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Basic Financial Operations – accounts payable


Analysis
▪ Core Accounting

Trade Payment, and
Functional changes User experience improvement Data innovations

▪ Built-in operational reporting with SAP Smart ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ No need to rely on preaggregated data for reporting
Business cockpits, eliminating the need for data steps
replication ▪ Ability to drill down from vendor balances to line items
▪ Roles with new, dedicated SAP Fiori apps:
More-efficient processes for posting and clearing ▪ Simplified data model, with the removal of total and
▪ — Accounts Payable Accountant
outgoing payments and scheduling automatic index tables
— Accounts Payable Manager
payments
— Cash Manager
▪ Integration with discounting capability in the SAP — Manager – Financial Info
Ariba Payables solution to capture early-payment
discounts For additional information on roles and apps, visit the SAP
Fiori apps reference library.

Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Basic Financial Operations – accounts receivable


Analysis
▪ Core Accounting

Trade Payment, and
Purpose Benefits
▪ Manage accounts receivable data efficiently for all customers ▪ Lower audit costs using automation tools that eliminate error-prone manual
processes
▪ Trigger postings automatically to accounts receivable in response to sales and
logistics transactions, and record postings in the general ledger ▪ Decrease finance department costs through automated postings, self-service tools,
and mobile access to key receivables information
▪ Integrate data with SAP or third-party applications for dispute, collections, and credit
management ▪ Improve compliance and risk management with automated processes
▪ Cut days sales outstanding with insight into customer positions during every
interaction

Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Basic Financial Operations – accounts receivable


Analysis
▪ Core Accounting

Trade Payment, and

▪ Built-in operational reporting with SAP Smart ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ No need to rely on preaggregated customer data for
Business cockpits, eliminating the need for data steps reporting
replication
▪ Roles with new, dedicated SAP Fiori apps: ▪ Ability to drill down from accounts receivable analytics
▪ More-efficient processes for posting and clearing — Accounts Receivable Accountant to line items
incoming payments, including handling of discounts
— Accounts Receivable Manager
▪ Integration with cloud extensions such as the SAP — Cash Management Specialist
S/4HANA Cloud solution for credit integration, SAP — Credit Controller
S/4HANA Cloud solution for customer payments,
SAP digital payments add-on, and SAP Cash For additional information on roles and apps, visit the SAP
Application software Fiori apps reference library.

Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Basic Financial Operations – invoice collaboration


Analysis
▪ Core Accounting

Trade Payment, and
Purpose Benefits
▪ Deliver accurate invoices to accounts payable more quickly using electronic invoice ▪ Lower procurement cost by replacing paper-based manual processes with
submission and automated verification automatic sending and receipt of invoice data
▪ Resolve invoice exceptions quickly ▪ Increase annual procurement savings by improving process efficiency through
automated tasks
▪ Receive digitally signed, legally compliant invoices over Ariba Network
▪ Reduce the volume of supplier calls with increased supplier visibility into invoice
status

Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Basic Financial Operations – invoice collaboration


Analysis
▪ Core Accounting

Trade Payment, and

▪ Ability of business user to view draft invoices coming ▪ Ability to discard incoming messages ▪ Native integration to Ariba Network
from Ariba Network directly and create a supplier
invoice using the available data ▪ Role with new, dedicated SAP Fiori apps:
▪ Complete integration with the SAP Application – Accounts Payable Accountant

Interface Framework tool, which oversees message For additional information on roles and apps, visit the
exchange and error handling between SAP S/4HANA
and Ariba Network SAP Fiori apps reference library.

Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Basic Financial Operations – invoice processing


Analysis
▪ Core Accounting

Trade Payment, and
Purpose Benefits
▪ Manage invoices efficiently from creation through reconciliation ▪ Improve process efficiency with flexible, dynamic search features in supplier invoice
lists and with integration to fact sheets
▪ Gain transparency and control throughout the invoice processing lifecycle
▪ Streamline document creation using reverse and release features to correct data in
▪ Match invoice data with predecessor documents and verify that all legally binding draft invoices, directly post the invoice, or reverse an erroneous invoice
information is included
▪ Identify and resolve invoice creation issues quickly
▪ Identify any discrepancies between price, number, and quantity of items listed in the
PO and in the supplier invoice
▪ Set up approval and release procedures that help ensure timely payment

Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Basic Financial Operations – invoice processing


Analysis
▪ Core Accounting

Trade Payment, and

▪ More-comprehensive authorization checks for ▪ Flexible and dynamic search capabilities on top of ▪ No need to rely on preaggregated data for reporting
supplier invoices, verifying general authorization for supplier invoices, allowing the user to stay in the same
company code and specific plant authorization when window ▪ Ability to drill down from vendor balances to line items
an item with a PO reference changes ▪ Simplified data model, with the removal of total and
Reverse and release action in supplier invoices index tables
▪ — Accounts Payable Accountant
already created
— Buyer
▪ Flexible and dynamic search capabilities in supplier For additional information on roles and apps, visit the SAP
invoice list Fiori apps reference library.
▪ Enhanced user interfaces for payment execution and
invoice processing
▪ Integration of business networks

Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Basic Financial Operations – international trade management


Analysis
▪ Core Accounting

Trade Payment, and
Purpose Benefits
▪ Manage foreign and international trade activities by integrating them efficiently into ▪ Reduce supply chain planning analytics cost by automating import and export
the supply chain processes and helping to ensure business partner compliance
▪ Ensure legal compliance and clear customs quickly ▪ Reduce operations cost (services) by improving global supply chain performance
and reducing total landed cost
▪ Increase profitability from international trade activities with automation
▪ Reduce time to market for new products by eliminating time-consuming, manual
compliance tasks and boosting productivity with automation

Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Basic Financial Operations – international trade management


Analysis
▪ Core Accounting

Trade Payment, and
▪ Foreign trade functionality exclusively through the ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Rebuilt international trade functionality with optimized
SAP S/4HANA solution for international trade, steps data models for better use of the SAP HANA database
covering:
▪ Roles with new, dedicated SAP Fiori apps: ▪ Synchronization of master data, such as commodity
— Intrastat reporting
— Intrastat Specialist codes, between SAP GTS and SAP S/4HANA for
— International trade classification international trade to eliminate the need for manual
— Trade Classification Specialist
— International trade compliance with focus on legal interaction
— Trade Compliance Specialist
control for export
For additional information on roles and apps, visit the SAP
▪ Availability of broader scope of international trade
functionality with the SAP Global Trade Services (SAP
GTS) application, provided through embedded .
integration of SAP S/4HANA with SAP GTS as a
global trade services processing hub

Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Basic Financial Operations – electronic bill presentment, payment, and e-invoicing

Analysis
▪ Core Accounting

Trade Payment, and
Purpose Benefits
▪ Create and process invoices, credit and debit memos, pro forma invoices, and ▪ Reduce finance cost by automating processes, eliminating printing and postage, and
cancellation notices in real time decreasing staffing needs through customer self-services
▪ Avoid errors and delays due to lost invoices, process receivables instantly, and
improve service by presenting bills and payment options in a customer portal
▪ Streamline dispute resolution with real-time customer collaboration

Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Basic Financial Operations – electronic bill presentment, payment, and e-invoicing

Analysis
▪ Core Accounting

Trade Payment, and
▪ Comparable SAP ERP functionality provided in SAP ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process
S/4HANA steps

Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Cost Management and Profitability Analysis – cost management


Analysis
▪ Core Accounting
COST MGMT AND

Product Cost Profitability and
PROFITABILITY Cost Management
Management Cost Analysis
ANALYSIS
Purpose Benefits
▪ Improve profitability with enhanced organizational cost management ▪ Decrease finance department cost by using a universal journal, lessening the need to
move data between controlling and financial applications or perform manual
▪ Gain deeper insight into the drivers of cost and the causes of underperformance reconciliation
▪ Access complete, accurate, real-time information on the profitability of products, ▪ Reduce the time needed to close books, thanks to acceleration of certain period-end
customers, and channels closing tasks

Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Cost Management and Profitability Analysis – cost management


Analysis
▪ Core Accounting
COST MGMT AND

ANALYSIS

▪ Direct reporting of account assignment, simplifying the ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Universal journal now includes:
solution and eliminating the need to rely on object numbers steps — Cost centers, orders, projects, and dependent
representing specific combinations of dimensions
objects
▪ Direct reporting of controlling-profitability assignment — Profitability segments
— Controller – Inventory
Allocations that trigger updates to areas such as partner — Results of allocations and settlements
▪ — Controller – Overhead
profit centers and functional areas
— Controller – Production ▪ Market dimensions stored in table CE4 now part of the
▪ Allowance of parallel valuations in all areas to be based on — Controller – Sales universal journal
parallel ledgers
— Cost Accountant ▪ Ability to add flexible hierarchies and semantic
▪ Inclusion of cost elements as part of the chart of accounts, — Inventory Manager tagging, allows for adding ad hoc reporting structures
allowing maintenance to occur in account master data, not (alternative views on data)
— Manager – Financial Info
in separate master data transactions for cost elements
▪ Optimization of the creation of plan data through the use of
embedded planning scenarios (separate license for the
SAP Business Planning and Consolidation application
required); provision of preconfigured planning scenarios
for cost center planning, profit center planning, and so on

Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Cost Management and Profitability Analysis – product cost management

Analysis
▪ Core Accounting
COST MGMT AND

ANALYSIS
Purpose Benefits
▪ Determine the true costs incurred by products or services to enable effective ▪ Increase transparency into the value chain by taking advantage of data captured in
management of the product portfolio logistics processes
▪ Break costs down into each step of the value chain
▪ Map the quantity flow of products from logistical areas to support accurate inventory
valuation

Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Cost Management and Profitability Analysis – product cost management

Analysis
▪ Core Accounting
COST MGMT AND

ANALYSIS

▪ Greater transparency into the value chain by taking ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Storing of material movements now in material ledger
advantage of data captured in logistics processes steps Controller - Production Costs, Cost Accountant - (based on the principle of one); no requirement to
Production apply actual costing

— Controller – Inventory
— Controller – Overhead
— Controller – Production
— Controller – Sales
— Cost Accountant

Fiori apps reference library

Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Cost Management and Profitability Analysis – profitability and cost analysis

Analysis
▪ Core Accounting
COST MGMT AND

ANALYSIS
Purpose Benefits
▪ Make better-informed profitability and cost decisions ▪ Cut finance department cost with automated functionality that reduces the need for
manual tasks
▪ Deliver service at a lower cost
▪ Lower audit cost by enabling detailed audit trails, retention of tax data, and reporting
▪ Gain real-time access to financial data, with the ability to drill down to line-item levels
▪ Accelerate time to close books by minimizing financial processing disruptions during
period-end closing

Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Cost Management and Profitability Analysis – profitability and cost analysis

Analysis
▪ Core Accounting
COST MGMT AND

ANALYSIS

▪ Ability to quickly change predefined reports and ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Simplified data model, allowing fast and transparent
create new reports using a query designer tool steps reporting
▪ Additional reporting variants, including plan versus ▪ Roles with new, dedicated SAP Fiori apps: ▪ Inclusion of profitability segments in the universal
actual, actual, currency conversion, year to date, cost — Controller – Inventory journal in real time, allowing for fast and transparent
centers, internal orders, projects, market segments, profitability reporting during the month and faster,
— Controller – Overhead
profit centers, profit-and-loss functional areas, and more-reliable decision-making
— Controller – Production
sales orders
— Controller – Sales ▪ Extension of the universal journal to include planning
▪ Real-time availability of profitability information for and consolidation data
profitability reporting during the month, resulting in a
more-efficient month-end closing and faster decision- For additional information on roles and apps, visit the SAP ▪ Capture of intercompany relationships in the material
making Fiori apps reference library. ledger, used as a basis for transfer pricing
▪ Availability of transfer pricing for clear insight into the ▪ Ability to add flexible hierarchies and semantic
internal supply chain tagging, allows for adding ad hoc reporting structures
(alternative views on data)
▪ Integrated financial planning with SAP Business
Planning and Consolidation for SAP S/4HANA

Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Core Accounting – asset accounting


Analysis
▪ Core Accounting
CORE Closing Financial Inventory Revenue and Cost Basic Compliance

Asset Accounting General Ledger
ACCOUNTING Operations Reporting Accounting Accounting Reporting
Purpose Benefits
▪ Manage assets with state-of-the-art asset accounting functionality ▪ Post in all valuations in real time
▪ Maintain and analyze fixed assets according to generally accepted, country-specific ▪ Include all details when posting asset depreciation, including accumulated
rules depreciation and depreciation cost by single asset
▪ Perform all asset-relevant processes, such as depreciation in multiple valuations, in ▪ Enhance flexibility in parallel valuation, with a choice of either a ledger or accounts
one integrated system approach
▪ Use country templates to support quick adoption of the asset accounting software ▪ Make valuation-specific postings that can be restricted by accounting principles or
depreciation areas
▪ Navigate and drill down per accounting principle
▪ Conduct reconciliation between general ledger and asset accounting, with asset
accounting documents included as part of a universal journal
▪ Update plan values for depreciation in real time, including every asset master data
change and asset transaction
▪ Specify fiscal-year variants for each valuation (as long as the start date and end date
of the fiscal-year variant are the same)

Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Core Accounting – asset accounting


Analysis
▪ Core Accounting


▪ Simplified data model ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Storing of asset accounting documents in the
steps universal journal table, eliminating the need for
▪ Requirement to use new asset accounting reconciliation
functionality ▪ Role with new, dedicated SAP Fiori apps:
— Asset Accountant


Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Core Accounting – closing operations


Analysis
▪ Core Accounting

Purpose Benefits
▪ Simplify corporate accounting and financial close processes while improving ▪ Cut the time to close books by:
accuracy and compliance by recording financial accounting data for multiple — Supporting fast, accurate, peer-to-peer intercompany reconciliation
companies, currencies, charts of accounts, accounting principles, and industry
— Automating and accelerating closing tasks
requirements
— Increasing user efficiency
▪ Close books, create financial statements, and manage reports at the entity and
corporate levels according to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) as ▪ Decrease finance department costs and streamline administrative processes by
well as local legal regulations enabling automated, highly efficient tasks for intercompany reconciliation and
closing operations
▪ Perform soft closes to produce interim reports
▪ Accelerate closing operations through automation and standardization

— Run comprehensive closing functionality of the general ledger and subledgers
— Support quick, efficient, peer-to-peer reconciliation of intercompany balances and

invoices between group subsidiaries

Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Core Accounting – closing operations


Analysis
▪ Core Accounting


▪ Option to apply overhead in real time rather than ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Single transaction table for general ledger, controlling,
waiting for period close steps asset accounting, and inventory accounting items,
eliminating the need for reconciliation
▪ Option to derive market segment information in real ▪ Roles with new, dedicated SAP Fiori apps:
time from postings to cost centers, internal orders, or — General Ledger Accountant ▪ Intercompany reconciliation with real-time access to
work breakdown structure elements open items in accounts receivable and accounts
— Cost Accountant – Inventory
payable, eliminating the need to store items in a
▪ Accelerated transactions for settlement, variance — Cost Accountant – Production
special ledger
calculation, and work-in-progress calculation, — Cost Accountant – Sales
delivering fast, real-time results by leveraging the
— Cost Accountant – Overhead
power of in-memory computing
▪ No longer any maintenance of closing cockpit Fiori apps reference library.
functionality (limited free version) with SAP
S/4HANA; use of SAP Financial Closing cockpit
(separate license) encouraged
▪ No support currently of SAP Invoice and Goods

Receipt Reconciliation analytic application in SAP
S/4HANA
Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Core Accounting – financial reporting


Analysis
▪ Core Accounting

Purpose Benefits
▪ Streamline financial reporting and multidimensional analysis processes ▪ Enhance business insight through business intelligence and data visualization
solutions
▪ Reduce the cost and risk of real-time financial reporting and analysis activities
▪ Improve compliance and auditability, thanks to reliable, complete financial and
▪ Gain financial insight from predefined reports and configurable reporting tools regulatory statements
▪ Improve understanding by drilling into financial statements and data sources, such ▪ Reduce cost of audits through audit trails, an audit information system, and
as materials or sales information retention and reporting of tax data

Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Core Accounting – financial reporting


Analysis
▪ Core Accounting


▪ Simplified data model that combines finance and ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Single universal journal table for general ledger,
controlling capabilities, consolidating all relevant steps controlling, asset accounting, and inventory
information in one place and allowing users to slice accounting items, eliminating the need for
and dice data down to the line-item level ▪ Roles with new, dedicated SAP Fiori apps: reconciliation
– General Ledger Accountant
▪ Core data services (CDS) views that enable users to ▪ Inclusion of cost elements from controlling as part of
– Cost Accountant – Inventory
benefit from both highly customized legacy reports general ledger master data
– Cost Accountant – Production
and new built-in analysis
– Cost Accountant – Sales
▪ Replacement of certain transactions and programs
– Cost Accountant – Overhead
with new transactions, programs, or applications in a
Web development environment to speed processing For additional information on roles and apps, visit the SAP
Fiori apps reference library. SAP Fiori apps reference
▪ Semantic tagging functionality and flexible library.
hierarchies for reporting available in SAP S/4HANA
Enterprise Management

Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Core Accounting – general ledger


Analysis
▪ Core Accounting

Purpose Benefits
▪ Run compliant, real-time financial accounting processes quickly and efficiently ▪ Enhance information quality to support better-informed decision-making
based on an accurate general ledger
▪ Eliminate the need for reconciliation between the general ledger and subledgers
▪ Create a comprehensive financial picture with streamlined external and internal
accounting ▪ Improve compliance and risk management by:
— Automating and standardizing processes
▪ Record all business transactions swiftly and precisely, including primary postings
— Enforcing corporate and legal policies
and settlements from internal accounting
▪ Improve completeness and accuracy of accounting data using financial software

integrated with other operational areas

Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Core Accounting – general ledger


Analysis
▪ Core Accounting


▪ Simplified data model ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Single universal journal table for general ledger,
steps controlling, asset accounting, and inventory
▪ Replacement of certain transactions and programs accounting items, eliminating the need for
with new transactions, programs, or applications in a ▪ Roles with new, dedicated SAP Fiori apps: reconciliation
Web development environment to speed processing — General Ledger Accountant
▪ Inclusion of cost elements from controlling as part of
▪ Merger of financials and controlling into a universal — Administrator
general-ledger master data
journal, creating a single source of truth and enabling — Configuration Expert
users to drill down to the line-item level — Controller
▪ Inclusion of cost elements as part of the chart of For additional information on roles and apps, visit the SAP
accounts, allowing maintenance to occur in account Fiori apps reference library.
master data rather than in separate cost-element
master data transactions

Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Core Accounting – inventory accounting


Analysis
▪ Core Accounting

Purpose Benefits
▪ Perform accurate inventory valuation in real time ▪ Improve accuracy of material inventory valuation in real time
▪ Manage inventory valuation according to company governance principles and legal ▪ Support high data volumes resulting from material movements in logistics
regulations
▪ Create real-time reports at the line-item level, aggregated to inventory positions,
▪ Use periodic valuation of material inventories according to statutory requirements, with drill-down capabilities
such as lowest value, last in/first out, or first in/first out; or product cost
management requirements, such as actual costing or standard costing ▪ Increase accuracy of material prices and determine cost of goods sold and profit
margins correctly
▪ Perform manual adjustments to material prices and material stock values
▪ Record all goods movements in a material ledger, translating values into multiple
currencies during posting

Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Core Accounting – inventory accounting


Analysis
▪ Core Accounting


▪ Material ledger as one solution for material valuation ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Inclusion of material ledger as part of the universal
data steps journal to support inventory valuation
▪ Greater reporting flexibility based on universal journal ▪ Roles with new, dedicated SAP Fiori apps: ▪ Smaller memory footprint through removal of data
line items — Controller redundancies and aggregates
▪ Accelerated analytics performance — Cost Accountant – Inventory


Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Core Accounting – revenue and cost accounting


Analysis
▪ Core Accounting

Purpose Benefits
▪ Enable informed, real-time decision-making through integrated revenue and cost ▪ Increase sales productivity with accurate sales data available anytime and anywhere
accounting processes
▪ Accelerate period-end closings through streamlined financial reporting, disclosure,
▪ Assign costs and revenues to the profit-and-loss statement in real time, providing and filings
the basis for legal and internal segment reporting
▪ Improve decision-making by using higher-quality information
▪ Calculate contribution margins for distinct market segments or groups, segregating
revenue and costs by products, customers, business units, or company divisions

Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Core Accounting – revenue and cost accounting


Analysis
▪ Core Accounting


▪ Real-time derivation of characteristics for profitability ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ New account type for revenue and sales deductions
reporting, with costs posted to the relevant cost steps (merging cost elements and accounts)
centers, orders, and projects
▪ Roles with new, dedicated SAP Fiori apps: ▪ Characteristics (from CE4 table) now columns in the
▪ Availability of splitting cost of goods sold (COGS) in — General Ledger Accountant universal journal, for easier reporting
SAP S/4HANA
— Cost Accountant – Sales
▪ More transparency into realignment results for For additional information on roles and apps, visit the SAP
profitability analysis (through an SAP Fiori app) Fiori apps reference library.

Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Core Accounting – basic compliance reporting


Analysis
▪ Core Accounting

Purpose Benefits
▪ Use the following features of basic compliance reporting for processing reports ▪ Reduce the cost to support tax accounting and reporting by generating and
according to critical compliance reporting requirements: managing statutory reports centrally
– Monitor compliance status and due dates for legal reports ▪ Reduce finance cost by integrating native statutory reporting subledgers with
financial asset management software from SAP to avoid costly interfaces to third-
– Generate legal reports party statutory reporting solutions
– Create forms for business partners and initiate correspondence ▪ Reduce audit cost by managing statutory reporting centrally
– Download generated reports for manual submission to government authorities
– Verify the content of legal reports electronically before submission

Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Core Accounting – basic compliance reporting


Analysis
▪ Core Accounting


▪ Reports merged and bundled in SAP S/4HANA, to ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Immediate access to data source resulting in flexible
provide a single framework for country-specific, steps generation of reports
periodic legal reporting, including tax related
reporting ▪ Role with new, dedicated SAP Fiori apps:
— General Ledger Accountant


Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Accounting and Financial Close – advanced compliance reporting


Analysis
▪ Core Accounting
ACCOUNTING Advanced
Corporate Close Financial Close Reporting and
AND FINANCIAL Compliance
CLOSE Reporting
Purpose Benefits
▪ Use a next-generation environment with a unified user experience to manage your ▪ Reduce the cost to support tax accounting and reporting by generating and
statutory reporting worldwide, enabling simple adoption of constant legal reforms in managing statutory reports centrally
your digital business transformation:
▪ Reduce finance cost by integrating native statutory reporting subledgers with
— Perform embedded analytics using data analysis
financial asset management software from SAP to avoid costly interfaces to third-
— Track the items considered for reporting under a specific reporting task, enabling party statutory reporting solutions
you to analyze and audit these documents, if required
— Incorporate business rules (integration with business rules framework plus
▪ Reduce audit cost by managing statutory reporting centrally
[BRFplus])
— Provide file name patterns for the generated document
— Perform the configurations required to make statutory reports legally compliant

(framework extensibility)
— Define additional legal reports based on advanced compliance reporting

Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Accounting and Financial Close – advanced compliance reporting


Analysis
▪ Core Accounting
ACCOUNTING Advanced
CLOSE Reporting

▪ Advanced compliance reporting functionality in ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Immediate access to data source resulting in flexible
addition to basic compliance reporting: steps generation of reports
— Data preview
▪ Compliance monitor with embedded analytics in SAP
— Audit trail S/4HANA
— Incorporation of business rules
▪ Role with new, dedicated SAP Fiori apps:
— Administrator


Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Accounting and Financial Close – corporate close


Analysis
▪ Core Accounting
ACCOUNTING Advanced
CLOSE Reporting
Purpose Benefits
▪ Increase the accuracy and completeness of corporate close reports through control ▪ Decrease finance cost by reducing the need for manual work through
and validation checks, and real-time access to underlying financial data comprehensive, automated functionality
▪ Accelerate the corporate close process by automating processes and eliminating ▪ Reduce days to close annual books by providing real-time integration and
time-consuming errors automating period-end tasks in the general ledger and subledgers
▪ Improve compliance by maintaining a fully documented audit trail
▪ Reduce total cost of ownership with a single, fully-integrated financial solution

supporting both local and corporate financial reporting

Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Accounting and Financial Close – corporate close


Analysis
▪ Core Accounting
ACCOUNTING Advanced
CLOSE Reporting

▪ Enhancements to continuous accounting: ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Entity and consolidated information centralized in the
— Integration of SAP Financial Closing cockpit with steps universal journal
SAP S/4HANA, including harmonized user
interface
— Consolidation Specialist
— Expanded automation through integration of the
SAP Shared Service Framework for SAP S/4HANA For additional information on roles and apps, visit the SAP
Fiori apps reference library
▪ SAP intends to introduce predictive close to enable
new business functions in a future release of SAP
S/4HANA

Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Accounting and Financial Close – financial close governance


Analysis
▪ Core Accounting
ACCOUNTING Advanced
CLOSE Reporting
Purpose Benefits
▪ Execute, control, and monitor the creation and updating of important master data ▪ Reduce days to close annual books by automating workflows, introducing tighter
efficiently internal controls, and aligning master data to increase data quality
▪ Accelerate financial close, generate accurate reports, and comply with multiple ▪ Reduce audit cost by providing comprehensive audit trails and automated testing of
regulations with access to reliable data internal controls
▪ Increase compliance by documenting the internal control system and streamlining ▪ Reduce finance cost by centralizing maintenance, fostering collaboration, and
testing and assessments automating distribution of master data

Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Accounting and Financial Close – financial close governance


Analysis
▪ Core Accounting
ACCOUNTING Advanced
CLOSE Reporting

▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process
steps

— Controller


Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Accounting and Financial Close – reporting and disclosure


Analysis
▪ Core Accounting
ACCOUNTING Advanced
CLOSE Reporting
Purpose Benefits
▪ Gain insight into financials to reduce the time, cost, and risk of regulatory filings and ▪ Reduce audit cost by using comprehensive audit trails, audit information functions,
disclosures and tax data retention and reporting functions
▪ Accelerate financial reporting and disclosure with fact-based decision-making ▪ Reduce finance cost by streamlining financial reporting, disclosure, and filing
processes
▪ Access relevant information anytime and anywhere to better understand business
needs for quick and confident action ▪ Reduce days to close annual books by streamlining financial reporting, disclosure,
and filing processes
▪ Generate pixel-perfect reports and clear, understandable metrics to gain visibility
into what's driving the business
▪ Boost profitability, reduce risk, and comply with International Financial Reporting
Standards (IFRS) and local GAAP or US GAAP thanks to transparency and insight

Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Accounting and Financial Close – reporting and disclosure


Analysis
▪ Core Accounting
ACCOUNTING Advanced
CLOSE Reporting

▪ New SAP Fiori apps for financial reporting ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Immediate access to data source resulting in flexible
steps, even in Microsoft Office Excel workbooks generation of reports
▪ Reporting of quantitative data from multiple data sources
▪ Focus on corporate accounting, responsible for the

preparation and filing of external financial statements and
related regulatory filings as well as management reporting
▪ Reporting of qualitative data, including the creation and

editing of qualitative (textual) data such as notes to
statements
▪ Flexible business-user owned and managed reports

intended to be edited and adjusted regularly
▪ Support for XBRL with flexible mapping and extension
▪ Support for SEC form 10K and form 10Q, FINREP, COREP,
Solvency II, and E-Bilanz where dedicated content-based
solutions have been developed

Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Advanced Financial Operations – collections management


Analysis
▪ Core Accounting
Collections Credit Evaluation Dispute Financial Supply Invoice Investment and

ADVANCED E-Invoicing Indirect Tax Energy and Safety
Management and Management Resolution Chain Management Construction
FINANCIAL
OPERATIONS Portfolio and
Maintenance and Space
Lease
Repair Management
Management
Purpose Benefits
▪ Deploy a customer-centric process for prioritizing customer accounts in real time ▪ Increase the efficiency of the cash collections team by digitalizing business
processes to document promises to pay, open invoice disputes, and send
correspondence
▪ Accelerate escalation of customer accounts by automating the tracking of follow-on

activities
▪ Improve team effectiveness by using analytics and worklist balancing tools

Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Advanced Financial Operations – collections management


Analysis
▪ Core Accounting

FINANCIAL
Lease
Repair Management
Management

▪ In-process analytics based on real-time data to help ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process
guide teams steps

— Accounts Payable Accountant
— Accounts Receivable Accountant


Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Advanced Financial Operations – credit evaluation and management


Analysis
▪ Core Accounting

FINANCIAL
Lease
Repair Management
Management
Purpose Benefits
▪ Reduce risk by assessing your customers' credit worthiness in real time using a ▪ Reduce compliance and risk management costs by using a comprehensive,
scorecard based on internal and external factors integrated framework to adhere to International Financial Reporting Standards
(IFRS) and local accounting mandates
▪ Minimize customer defaults by deriving and enforcing credit limits instantly across
logistics systems ▪ Reduce audit cost by delivering a financial audit trail from the general ledger back to
subledger posting
▪ Accelerate operations by automating credit application and approval processes
▪ Increase receivables by measuring, allocating, and monitoring credit exposure in real

time
▪ Manage risk proactively by evaluating customer credit before you confirm pricing
and sales

Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Advanced Financial Operations – credit evaluation and management


Analysis
▪ Core Accounting

FINANCIAL
Lease
Repair Management
Management

▪ Comparable SAP ERP functionality provided in SAP ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process
S/4HANA steps



Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Advanced Financial Operations – dispute resolution


Analysis
▪ Core Accounting

FINANCIAL
Lease
Repair Management
Management
Purpose Benefits
▪ Create and process invoices, credit and debit memos, pro forma invoices, and ▪ Reduce finance cost by automating processes, eliminating printing and postage, and
cancellation notices in real time decreasing staffing needs through customer self-services
▪ Avoid errors and delays due to lost invoices, process receivables instantly, and
improve service by presenting bills and payment options in a customer portal
▪ Streamline dispute resolution with real-time customer collaboration

Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Advanced Financial Operations – dispute resolution


Analysis
▪ Core Accounting

FINANCIAL
Lease
Repair Management
Management

▪ Comparable SAP ERP functionality provided in ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process
SAP S/4HANA steps



Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Advanced Financial Operations – e-invoicing


Analysis
▪ Core Accounting

FINANCIAL
Lease
Repair Management
Management
Purpose Benefits
▪ Empower your organization and your suppliers with advanced invoice management ▪ Improve invoice processing efficiency of FTEs by creating a more efficient invoice
that leverages an intelligent network to post invoices straight through approval process for suppliers
▪ Speed invoice processing by eliminating paper-based and manual activities and ▪ Reduce finance cost by reducing errors and improving the productivity of accounts
integrating quickly with back-office systems payable workflows
▪ Maximize early-payment discounts by accelerating invoice processing, enabling cost

reduction

Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Advanced Financial Operations – e-invoicing


Analysis
▪ Core Accounting

FINANCIAL
Lease
Repair Management
Management

▪ Native integration with Ariba Network ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process
steps

— Invoicing Manager
— Invoicing Specialist


Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Advanced Financial Operations – financial supply chain


Analysis
▪ Core Accounting

FINANCIAL
Lease
Repair Management
Management
Purpose Benefits
▪ Turn payables into strategic assets with SAP S/4HANA to enhance financial supply ▪ Improve return on assets by optimizing early payment discounts
chain performance
▪ Lower finance cost by reducing errors and improving the productivity of accounts
▪ Close the procure-to-pay loop with secure electronic payment, rich remittance, and payable workflows
improved visibility to reduce supplier inquiries
▪ Help suppliers reduce days sales outstanding, with prorated or dynamic early-
payment discounts
▪ Manage payment terms to maintain or extend days payable outstanding to free up

cash

Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Advanced Financial Operations– financial supply chain


Analysis
▪ Core Accounting

FINANCIAL
Lease
Repair Management
Management

SAP S/4HANA steps



Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Advanced Financial Operations– indirect tax


Analysis
▪ Core Accounting

FINANCIAL
Lease
Repair Management
Management
Purpose Benefits
▪ Manage indirect tax in a comprehensive, consistent and cost-savings manner. Adapt ▪ Improve tax compliance efficiency of FTEs by reviewing tax declarations before
to the rapidly changing regulations across the globe. submitting the VAT return to tax authorities
▪ Automate tax determination, calculation, reporting and compliance while integrating ▪ Reduce the cost to support tax accounting and reporting by identifying the source of
them with core business processes on a global scale inaccuracies in tax postings
▪ Fulfill all reporting obligations related to e-Invoicing, and periodic tax returns
▪ Have processes and tools to mitigate tax compliance issues with a company-wide
tax control framework
▪ Improve visibility of global tax processes

Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Advanced Financial Operations– indirect tax


Analysis
▪ Core Accounting

FINANCIAL
Lease
Repair Management
Management

SAP S/4HANA steps

Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Advanced Financial Operations – invoice management


Analysis
▪ Core Accounting

FINANCIAL
Lease
Repair Management
Management
Purpose Benefits
▪ Simplify and automate invoice processing, from creation and management to ▪ Reduce invoice capture and processing headcount costs by handling exception-
monitoring and routing based invoice processing with workflow approvals and preconfigured business rules
▪ Access relevant and real-time accounts payable and invoice information anytime, ▪ Reduce finance cost by identifying invoice errors before they happen with
anywhere, and on any device configurable business rules
▪ Communicate with the entire network of suppliers and engage in e-invoicing through
Ariba Network

Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Advanced Financial Operations – invoice management


Analysis
▪ Core Accounting

ADVACED E-Invoicing Indirect Tax Energy and Safety
FINANCIAL
Lease
Repair Management
Management

SAP S/4HANA steps
▪ Two configuration options: ▪ Roles with new, dedicated SAP Fiori apps:
— Simple mode (SAP Fiori only) — Accounts Payable Accountant
— Classic mode (comparable to SAP ERP) — Accounts Receivable Accountant


Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Advanced Financial Operations – energy and safety (real estate)

Analysis
▪ Core Accounting

FINANCIAL
Lease
Repair Management
Management
Purpose Benefits
▪ Mitigate environment, health, and safety (EHS) risks by performing risk ▪ Reduce energy cost by improving energy utilization
assessments, measuring and reporting emissions, designing effective controls, and
communicating safe work practices ▪ Reduce emissions cost by monitoring resource consumption by location
▪ Support intelligent change by testing controls and tracking incidents to learn from ▪ Improve environmental safety and compliance by standardizing safety compliance
events procedures
▪ Lower emissions spend with real-time views of energy consumption ▪ Reduce lost time resulting from accidents by tracking safety incidents

Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Advanced Financial Operations – energy and safety (real estate)

Analysis
▪ Core Accounting

FINANCIAL
Lease
Repair Management
Management

▪ Accelerated performance of daily environmental data ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process steps ▪ 17 equations related to 40 CFR Part 75 Emissions
processing Monitoring Policy Manual regarding continuous
▪ Scalable role assignment that uses the location hierarchy emission monitoring
▪ Graphical user interface to manage emission data
▪ More scalable setup process with the new copy ▪ 8 predefined calculation methodologies for 40 CFR Part
▪ File-based import of emission data compliance scenario feature 98, referred to as the Greenhouse Gas Reporting
▪ Delivery of example methodologies for greenhouse gas
▪ Roles with new, dedicated SAP Fiori apps: Program: calculations covering 56 single expressions
emission calculations from tier 1, tier 2, and tier 3 of 40 CFR Part 98 Subpart
– Environmental Engineer C and the conversion of CO2, N2O and CH4 emissions
▪ Accelerated performance of daily health and safety data
processing into CO2 equivalents
– Environmental Technician
▪ Dedicated risk identification process ▪ CDS views for detailed analysis of materials and
– Hazardous Substance Manager chemicals in stock, including greenhouse gas
▪ Monitoring of implementation of controls to mitigate risks classification and hazardous ingredients
– Industrial Hygienist
▪ Support of business unit‒specific setup of risk identification Delivery of occupational exposure limit values with
For additional information on roles and apps, visit the SAP ▪
and assessment process good worldwide coverage (~70,000 limit values, ~100
▪ Core data services (CDS)‒based analytics to gain better regulatory lists, and ~ 65 countries)
and faster insights into safety performance

Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Advanced Financial Operations – investment and construction (real estate)

Analysis
▪ Core Accounting

FINANCIAL
Lease
Repair Management
Management
Purpose Benefits
▪ Analyze investment alternatives and details ▪ Reduce total manufacturing costs by closely monitoring construction project
budgets
▪ Increase efficiency by tracking project budgets, milestones, and delivery as well as
communicating electronically on bids ▪ Manage spend more strategically by closely monitoring spending on construction
▪ Manage process steps, automate payments, and track architectural, usage, and land ▪ Reduce finance cost by automating vendor invoice processing and asset
data capitalization
▪ Help managers keep on track, meet deadlines, and make better decisions with ▪ Reduce write-offs for uncollectible accounts receivable by tracking each phase of a
management, monitoring, and collaboration functionality construction project in accounting
▪ Get a clear view into investments and property portfolios, gain project insights and ▪ Improve cycle time for new contract creation by tracking the bid and award for
budget control, reduce project risk, save time in supplier collaboration, and improve construction services
the bidding process

Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Advanced Financial Operations – investment and construction (real estate)

Analysis
▪ Core Accounting

FINANCIAL
Lease
Repair Management
Management

SAP S/4HANA steps

Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Advanced Financial Operations – maintenance and repair (real estate)

Analysis
▪ Core Accounting

FINANCIAL
Lease
Repair Management
Management
Purpose Benefits
▪ Plan and monitor budgets, collaborate electronically with suppliers, and automate ▪ Reduce service and support cost by automating maintenance, repair, and service
invoice processing order handling between tenant, planner, and technician
▪ Create and track maintenance and repair orders, and recover maintenance ▪ Improve customer satisfaction by providing faster replies and better status updates
expenses to tenants' requests
▪ Avoid budget overruns, automate paper-based processes, and accurately track ▪ Reduce call abandonment rate by following defined standard procedures in request
energy consumption with effective maintenance and repair management processes handling
▪ Keep projects on budget, reduce processing costs through automation, increase
service-level agreement fulfillment, and fully allocate operational costs

Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Advanced Financial Operations – maintenance and repair (real estate)

Analysis
▪ Core Accounting

FINANCIAL
Lease
Repair Management
Management

▪ SAP Geographical Enablement Framework for SAP ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process
S/4HANA steps
– Foundation to enrich business data with geometric For additional information on roles and apps, visit the SAP
attributes Fiori apps reference library.
▪ SAP Geo Framework for SAP S/4HANA Asset

Management
– Bidirectional navigation between the geo

framework and SAP S/4HANA Asset Management
solution
– Geo-enabled technical objects: equipment,

functional location
– Geo-enabled business transactions: plant

maintenance notification, plant maintenance order

Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Advanced Financial Operations – portfolio and lease management (real estate)

Analysis
▪ Core Accounting

FINANCIAL
Lease
Repair Management
Management
Purpose Benefits
▪ Streamline property management by integrating critical data with computer-aided ▪ Reduce effort to comply with new leasing standards with automatic valuation
design (CAD) applications for robust analytics calculations, tracking of lease modifications, and consistency between lease
agreements and financial postings
▪ Gain insights by tracking building attributes and spatial relationships and using
thematic reports to visualize complex data. ▪ Avoid costly errors with critical-date monitoring and renewal and termination notices
and options to ensure only intended options are exercised
▪ Comply with new lease accounting standards (IFRS 16 and ASC 842), with valuation
cashflows being systematically calculated and posted using standard integration. ▪ Reduce administrative costs by automating invoicing, postings, and payments
▪ Lower costs by automating contingent rent calculations and settlements and ▪ Lower vacancy rate and length of vacancy by gaining visibility into upcoming
applying criteria such as a consumer price index to set rental fees vacancies
▪ Monitor critical-date, renewal, and termination notices and options ▪ Increase revenue through improved asset utilization by automating lease-out
processes for prospective tenants
▪ Reduce write-offs resulting from uncollectible accounts receivable by automating

dunning and installment handling

Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Advanced Financial Operations – portfolio and lease management (real estate)

Analysis
▪ Core Accounting

FINANCIAL
Lease
Repair Management
Management

▪ Optimization of real estate processes and ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Built-in operational reporting with SAP Real Estate
improvements in the user experience through steps Cockpit, eliminating the need for data replication
simplification provided by the SAP Real Estate
For additional information on roles and apps, visit the SAP ▪ No need to rely on preaggregated data for reporting
Management application
For more information on simplification provided in SAP ▪ Simplified data model, allowing fast and transparent
S/4HANA Finance and project financial control, see the reporting
Simplification List for SAP S/4HANA. ▪ Optimized reports for faster response time

Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Advanced Financial Operations – space management (real estate)


Analysis
▪ Core Accounting

FINANCIAL
Lease
Repair Management
Management
Purpose Benefits
▪ Optimize workspace by tracking employee and contractor assignments and ▪ Increase lease revenue by reducing vacancies and by leasing available space
monitoring planned occupancies
▪ Increase asset availability by monitoring asset utilization and assignments
▪ Monitor available rental spaces, forecast vacancies, and ensure compliance with
critical lease dates ▪ Improve return on assets by improving asset allocation
▪ Increase lease revenue by automating rent calculations and payment details ▪ Optimize the size of the real estate portfolio through accurately monitoring and
planning workspace utilization
▪ Improve space utilization and gain more-accurate equipment assignments by
creating and scheduling move plans
▪ Enhance management of conference room occupancy with the ability to charge for
ordered services

Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Advanced Financial Operations – space management (real estate)


Analysis
▪ Core Accounting

FINANCIAL
Lease
Repair Management
Management

▪ Optimization of real estate processes and ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Built-in operational reporting with SAP Real Estate
improvements in the user experience through steps Cockpit, eliminating the need for data replication
simplification provided by the SAP Real Estate
Management application For additional information on roles and apps, visit the SAP ▪ No need to rely on preaggregated data
Fiori apps reference library. for reporting
For more information on simplification provided in SAP
S/4HANA Finance and project financial control, see the ▪ Simplified data model, allowing fast and transparent
Simplification List for SAP S/4HANA. reporting
▪ Optimized reports for faster response time

Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Financial Planning and Analysis – planning, budgeting, and forecasting

Analysis
▪ Core Accounting
FINANCIAL Planning,
PLANNING AND Budgeting, and
ANALYSIS Forecasting
Purpose Benefits
▪ Boost business efficiency by integrating data for faster and more accurate planning, ▪ Accelerate reporting cycles and reconciliation by streamlining end-to-end business
budgeting, forecasting, and analysis processes and providing workflow support for efficient and effective planning cycles
▪ Identify and capitalize on growth opportunities using tools to model and simulate
what-if scenarios
▪ Reduce cycle time and lower risk with automated data processes such as
aggregation, embedded calculations, and reporting

Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Financial Planning and Analysis – planning, budgeting, and forecasting

Analysis
▪ Core Accounting
FINANCIAL Planning,
PLANNING AND Budgeting, and
ANALYSIS Forecasting

▪ Functionality provided by the SAP Business Planning ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ No data replication needed, as actual data and master
and Consolidation application that is optimized for steps, even in Microsoft Office Excel workbooks data are accessed through virtual data providers
SAP S/4HANA
▪ Roles with new, dedicated SAP Fiori apps: ▪ Integrated data model for all financial planning
▪ No need for separate business warehouse, with SAP — Cost Accountant – Overhead dimensions, such as cost center planning, profit and
Business Planning and Consolidation for SAP loss, and so on
— Cost Accountant – Sales
S/4HANA now integrated in SAP S/4HANA; savings
on hardware and administrative cost with no upgrade For additional information on roles and apps, visit the SAP
or patching fees Fiori apps reference library.
▪ Ability to add industry- and customer-specific

planning dimensions on the fly, and built-in
extensibility
▪ Simulation capabilities provided by content enabled

by SAP HANA
▪ Historic GUI-based planning transactions available in

SAP S/4HANA

Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Subscription Billing and Revenue Management – contract accounting


Analysis
▪ Core Accounting
SUBS. BILLING
Contract
AND REVENUE
Accounting
MANAGEMENT
Purpose Benefits
▪ Manage automated accounts payable and accounts receivable processes for high ▪ Reduce noncompliant records management by ensuring compliance with statutory
volumes of documents obligations and country-specific requirements
– Execute accounts receivable and payable tasks more effectively with automated
▪ Improve invoice processing efficiency of FTEs by automatically transferring
processes
receivables, payables, revenue, and expenses to the general ledger on a cumulative
– Improve compliance with support for statutory obligations and country-specific basis
requirements
– Keep records up to date through automatic data transfer to the general ledger on ▪ Reduce penalty cost of lost business due to billing errors by improving data
a cumulative basis management to ensure fewer billing errors and to improve customer satisfaction

Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Subscription Billing and Revenue Management – contract accounting


Analysis
▪ Core Accounting
SUBS. BILLING
Contract
AND REVENUE
Accounting
MANAGEMENT

▪ Comparable business processes with SAP S/4HANA ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Different system framework in SAP S/4HANA; for
steps details, see 2253765 - SAP S/4HANA, on-premise
▪ Analytical apps for accounts payable/receivable edition: Restriction Note for SAP Hybris Billing
manager (FI-CA) enhanced ▪ Role with new, dedicated SAP Fiori apps:
– Accounts Payable and Receivable Manager
– Accounts Payable and Receivable Accountant

Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Treasury Management – cash and liquidity management


Analysis
▪ Core Accounting
TREASURY Debt and Payments and

Cash and Liquidity Financial Risk
Investment Bank
MANAGEMENT Management Management
Management Communications
Purpose Benefits
▪ Monitor cash flows in real time to have sufficient liquidity to cover payment ▪ Increase efficiency by managing bank accounts centrally
obligations
▪ Improve processes for transferring cash to operations worldwide in a timely manner
▪ Access real-time information on global bank balances and cash flow
▪ Reduce banking fees, borrowing costs, and demand for cash
▪ Create a single version of the truth by integrating data from multiple sources
▪ Benefit from new user interfaces using SAP Fiori user experience principles and
▪ Manage bank accounts centrally, including workflow mechanism, and improve interface technology
internal controls
▪ Leverage integrated planning capabilities using SAP Business Planning and

Consolidation for SAP S/4HANA

Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Treasury Management – cash and liquidity management


Analysis
▪ Core Accounting

Investment Bank

▪ Switching off of cash management functionality in the ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Change in table structure
SAP ERP application when activating SAP S/4HANA steps
Finance ▪ New data model, called “one exposure,” based on
▪ Role with new, dedicated SAP Fiori apps: SAP S/4HANA
▪ New cash position and liquidity forecast based on SAP — Cash Manager
Fiori apps For additional information, see Data Setup Guide for
For additional information on roles and apps, visit the SAP Cash Management.
▪ New functionality for central bank account management Fiori apps reference library.
▪ Replacement of liquidity planner function by
SAP Fiori app “Cash Flow Analyzer”
▪ Embedded planning function available in

SAP Business Planning and Consolidation for SAP
S/4HANA
▪ Integration to the SAP Bank Communication

For more information on simplifications provided in SAP
S/4HANA Finance, see the Simplification List for SAP
S/4HANA.
Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Treasury Management – debt and investment management


Analysis
▪ Core Accounting

Investment Bank
Purpose Benefits
▪ Improve capital structure with winning strategies that balance debt against equity, ▪ Reduce finance cost by optimizing the capital structure and by balancing trade-offs,
risk, and returns in real time debts, equity, and risk
— Define hedging strategy to mitigate financial risks
▪ Reduce write-offs for uncollectible accounts receivable by automating transaction
— Benefit from a wide range of financial instruments supported by the solution posting and position reporting in the general ledger
— Increase productivity by harnessing the power of automation and collaboration to
free up resources for high-value tasks
— Bolster efficiency by integrating end-to-end financial processes and automatically
posting transactions to the general ledger
— Increase efficiency by automating back-office processes such as payment,
matching, and correspondence
— Enhance collaboration through connectivity with banks and trading partners

Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Treasury Management – debt and investment management


Analysis
▪ Core Accounting

Investment Bank
▪ Simplified foreign exchange management process ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ New data model, called “one exposure,” based on
steps SAP S/4HANA
▪ Enablement of most-used trade finance processes
in SAP Treasury and Risk Management ▪ Role with new, dedicated SAP Fiori apps:
— Treasury Risk Manager
▪ New SAP Fiori–based reporting capabilities with
— Treasury Specialist
unlimited granularity
▪ Cloud-based enhancement for European Market Fiori apps reference library.
Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) reporting: SAP
Trade Repository Reporting application by Virtusa

Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Treasury Management – financial risk management


Analysis
▪ Core Accounting

Investment Bank
Purpose Benefits
▪ Assess financial risks, including foreign exchange, interest rate, price, and credit ▪ Reduce compliance and risk management costs by automating reporting and by
risks, and manage market conditions in real time using robust analytics using risk scenarios to create real-time hedging strategies
▪ Gain immediate insight into various risk positions using what-if analyses and make
proactive decisions
▪ Improve compliance, reduce exposure to solvency issues, and create effective

hedging strategies that meet GAAP and IFRS standards
▪ Get instant insights with real-time analytics, enterprise-wide data integration, and a
consistent user experience across all devices
▪ Keep up with changing global regulations, enhance compliance, and mitigate risks

Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Treasury Management – financial risk management


Analysis
▪ Core Accounting

Investment Bank

▪ SAP Fiori–based reporting capabilities with unlimited ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ New data model, called “one exposure,” based on
granularity steps SAP S/4HANA
▪ Identification of risk exposures across the ▪ Role with new, dedicated SAP Fiori apps:
organization — Treasury Risk Manager
▪ Optimized foreign exchange (FX) and hedge For additional information on roles and apps, visit the SAP
management capabilities Fiori apps reference library.
▪ Legal compliance and preparedness for upcoming
regulatory challenges such as IFRS 9
▪ Treasury reporting:
— Balance sheet, FX exposure: further drill-down
functionality into exposures and hedging
instruments
— Credit line analyzer
— Overview pages for FX process to bundle different

apps into one factsheet

Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance – Treasury Management – payments and bank communications


Analysis
▪ Core Accounting

Investment Bank
Purpose Benefits
▪ Improve compliance with integrated bank account management capabilities that are ▪ Reduce finance cost by efficiently processing and approving requests
linked to payment approvals and rule-based workflows
▪ Reduce uncollectible accounts receivable write-offs by providing cash-flow
▪ Increase transparency based on end-to-end monitoring for bank statements and information in real time, integrating with banks, and monitoring end-to-end status
outgoing payment messages
▪ Reduce reliance on banks and the need to transfer cash to regions
▪ Improve bank connectivity with access to multiple payment networks, including

SAP Financial Services Network, SWIFT connectivity options, and host-to-host
connections

Finance
▪
Management
LoB Finance - Treasury Management – payments and bank communications


Analysis
▪ Core Accounting

Investment Bank

▪ Combination of capabilities in SAP Bank ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process
Communication Management and the SAP Cash steps
▪ Enhanced integrated bank account management — Cash Manager
capabilities delivered with SAP Cash Management,
specifically in the area of authorized approvers per
bank group or account, which is checked during the For additional information on roles and apps, visit the SAP
payment approval process Fiori apps reference library.
▪ Simplified corporate-to-bank connectivity using SAP

Financial Services Network to connect to banks

SAP S/4HANA – LoB Human Resources
Time Recording Time Sheet
Goal and
Compensation Succession Absence Workforce
Catalog only Management***
Performance Recruiting***
Management*** Management***
Shift Planning***
Analytics***
Management***
Workforce Workforce HR Manager Self- Employee Self-

Benefits***
Planning*** Reporting*** Administration*** Service*** Service***
© 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ CUSTOMER *** Slides on these solution capabilities are not included in this PPT 86
Human
Resources
SAP ERP to SAP S/4HANA 1709
LoB Human Resources – Time Recording – time sheet
▪ Time Recording
TIME RECORDING Time Sheet
Purpose Benefits
▪ Capture and manage time data to better understand workforce utilization ▪ Reduce workload of HR team members with self-reported time sheet data
▪ Enable activity-based time recording for billing and invoicing of projects ▪ Improve legal compliance through transparent, readily captured time sheet data that
can be shared with billing and invoicing processes
▪ Record time spent on tasks not related to projects, such as administration and
training ▪ Enhance insight into the activities of all workers, including employees and the
contingent workforce, with shared database views
▪ Connect time sheet recording with core HR and payroll functionality using the SAP
ERP Human Capital Management (SAP ERP HCM) solution or SAP SuccessFactors
HCM Suite in the cloud

Human
Resources
LoB Human Resources – Time Recording – time sheet
▪ Time Recording
TIME RECORDING Time Sheet

▪ Simplified time sheet reporting process ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ CDS views, which enable access to employee object
steps page and employee search
▪ Integration of SAP ERP HCM with SAP
SuccessFactors HCM Suite ▪ Role with new, dedicated SAP Fiori apps:
— Manager – HR information
▪ HCM functionality in SAP S/4HANA provided by
either SAP ERP HCM or SAP SuccessFactors HCM — Employee – HR information
Suite For additional information on roles and apps, visit the SAP

SAP S/4HANA Sourcing and Procurement
Networked and Collaborative Commerce
Key Capabilities Benefits
• Provides a holistic procurement platform for direct • Increased profitability derived from employee
materials, indirect goods, services, contingent labor, compliance and sustainable cost savings
and travel
• Effortless user experiences with unprecedented
• Ability to secure many-to-many networked transparency into spend, enabling companies to Run
collaboration with trading partners Simple
• Consumer-grade usability and mobility • Reduced total cost of ownership (TCO) due to less data
replication, reduced effort for system setup and
• Full source-to-pay processes, including spend operation, and lower data footprint
analysis, sourcing, contract management, supplier
management, procurement, invoice, and payables • Faster order and invoicing cycle times with fewer errors
management and ability to drive early payment discounts
• Comprehensive solutions with deep category-specific • Improved management of supplier-based risks

capabilities
• Support for total supplier enablement, including new

supplier discovery and ratings

1709
SAP S/4HANA Sourcing and Procurement

Solution Areas:
COLLABORATIVE SUPPLIER MGMT. &

OPERATIONAL INVOICE & PAYABLES
SOURCING & PROCUREMENT
PURCHASING MGMT.
Solution Capabilities: CONTRACT MGMT. ANALYTICS
INVOICE PROCESSING CLASSIFICATION, SPEND VISIBILITY,

PURCHASE ORDER OPERATIONAL INVOICE PROCESSING INVOICE PROCESSING INVOICE PROCESSING
SELF SERVICE REQUIREMENTS SERVICES PURCHASING & COLLABORATION & SEGMENTATION & REALTIME REPORTING
PROCESSING & SOURCE ASSIGNMENT CONTRACT & ACCOUNTS & ACCOUNTS
REQUISITIONING PROCESSING & ENTRY ACCOUNTS PAYABLES SUPPLIER EVALUATION &&MONITORING
ACCOUNTS
COLLABORATION MANAGEMENT PAYABLES PAYABLES PAYABLES
Consumer-grade UX Indirect and direct Control over Harmonized UX for

Simple offline RFQ Analytic apps manage Fiori apps to help Purchasing categories Real-time multi-
and cross-catalog procurement automation and both goods & service manage supplier
apps and option to the status of to classify spend and dimensional spend
search enabling leveraging integration manual intervention purchasing invoices and payment suppliers from report that can be
employees to adopt with other business where appropriate. processes. seamlessly integrate contracts.
blocks. purchasing manipulated like “pivot
procurement areas, automation and Human decision Simplified limit (value- with SAP Ariba Predictive algorithm
Upload scanned invoice perspective. table” with drill-down
processes and harmonized UX. making supported by only) PO items to Sourcing for full online to monitor contracts copies for manual Real-time supplier capability.
policies. Analytic apps to analytical visualization control over RFQ process support. to help plan contract invoice processing evaluation analytics KPI tiles and
Flexible workflow monitor the status of embedded within “unplanned” services Analytics apps to negotiations. (optional integration automatically Procurement Overview
configurable without POs. transactional and record details via monitor RFQs and Templates and mass with OCR via generated from app that provide “at-a-
development. Native integration applications Fiori service entry compare supplier changes to increate OpenText***). transactional data. glance” visualization of
quotations. efficiency in Native integration with Manage activities with multiple analytical
Workflow inbox Fiori with Ariba Business sheet application. Business Network:
managing a large suppliers, or internal apps.
app and Notification Network employee survey to
Center to facilitate number of contracts.
additional perspective
efficient approval on supplier
process. evaluations.
KPI Tiles Overview Page Analytics

SAP S/4HANA - LoB Sourcing and Procurement
Commodity
Commodity Management Procurement
Real-Time
Procurement Analytics Reporting and Spend Visibility
Monitoring
Classification and Supplier

Supplier Management Segmentation Evaluation
Collaborative Sourcing and Contract Operational

Contract
Source
Management Assignment
Management
Service
Purchase Order Purchase Order Requirements Self-Service
Operational Purchasing Collaboration Processing Processing Requisitioning
Purchasing and
Entry

Sourcing and
Procurement
SAP ERP to SAP S/4HANA 1709 ▪ Commodity Management
LoB Sourcing and Procurement – Operational Purchasing – purchase order collaboration

▪ Collaborative Sourcing and Contract
Management
▪ Operational Purchasing
▪ Procurement Analytics
▪ Supplier Management
Service
OPERATIONAL Purchase Order Purchase Order Requirements Self-Service
Purchasing and
PURCHASING Collaboration Processing Processing Requisitioning
Entry
Purpose Benefits
▪ Transmit POs and order documents, and onboard suppliers to your network ▪ Simplify collaboration and increase procurement savings by automating the
transmission of purchasing documents, supplier status checks, and supplier change
▪ Share, shop, and make better-informed decisions through megashifts in technology. requests
Connectivity to our business network solutions can help you:
▪ Decrease procurement cost by reducing time-consuming, manual tasks for buyers
– Support PO automation and collaboration to transmit POs and other order- and suppliers
related documents
▪ Lower cost and complexity by connecting to the largest, most-comprehensive
– Access and respond quickly to order activities from internal stakeholders and business network
suppliers
▪ Reduce PO error rate by improving the transmission of POs and communication
– Collaborate fully on order fulfillment, change orders, confirmations, and between buyers and suppliers
cancellations as well as advance shipping notices and related notifications

Sourcing and
Procurement
LoB Sourcing and Procurement – Operational Purchasing – purchase order collaboration

Management
Service
Purchasing and
Entry

▪ In line with SAP’s strategy to simplify the solution ▪ Complete integration with the SAP Application Interface ▪ Native integration with Ariba Network, making former
portfolio, not all integration processes and messages Framework tool, which oversees message exchange and add-on obsolete
that are provided with SAP Ariba solution integration error handling between SAP S/4HANA and Ariba
for SAP Business Suite rapid deployment solution are Network ▪ Unification of customer and vendor master data
available. under business partner
For more information, see the Simplification List for SAP
S/4HANA. – Purchaser

Sourcing and
Procurement
LoB Sourcing and Procurement – Operational Purchasing – purchase order processing

Management
Service
Purchasing and
Entry
Purpose Benefits
▪ Simplify buying activities through streamlined processing of POs ▪ Reduce PO errors by integrating the creation of procurement documents
▪ Use one integrated business solution to create, display, change, and process POs ▪ Lower procurement costs by handling sourcing and contracts efficiently
▪ Increase annual procurement savings by improving process efficiency through

automated tasks
▪ Enhance efficiency by prefilling data fields dynamically based on selected supplier or

material types

Sourcing and
Procurement
LoB Sourcing and Procurement – Operational Purchasing – purchase order processing

Management
Service
Purchasing and
Entry

▪ Provision of foreign trade functionality with the SAP ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Simplified data model for pricing, in line with SAP’s
S/4HANA solution for international trade, such as steps strategy to simplify the solution portfolio
Intrastat reporting.
▪ Roles with new, dedicated SAP Fiori apps: ▪ Unification of customer and vendor master data
▪ Availability of broader scope of international trade under business partner
functionality with the SAP Global Trade Services (SAP
GTS) application, provided through embedded integration — Manager – Procurement
of SAP S/4HANA with SAP GTS — Purchase Documents by Requirement Tracking
▪ Adoption of new output management functionality Number

— Purchaser
▪ Dynamic prefilling and provisioning of fields based on
selected supplier or material type to facilitate manual — Employee – Procurement
creation of POs
▪ Restricted set of available field entries to minimize errors Fiori apps reference library.
during the change process
▪ Mass change of POs to increase efficiency with change log
▪ Option to adopt the new flexible workflow (configurable
without need for development) to facilitate compliance
with policies
Sourcing and
Procurement
LoB Sourcing and Procurement – Operational Purchasing – requirements processing

Management
Service
Purchasing and
Entry
Purpose Benefits
▪ Streamline both automated and manual purchasing processes ▪ Enhance processing efficiency by avoiding redundant data entry
▪ Bundle demands and automate sourcing and order processing activities ▪ Reduce PO errors by integrating the creation of procurement documents
▪ Simplify approval and release procedures ▪ Lower procurement costs by efficiently handling sourcing and contracts
▪ Manage demand for a wide range of requirements, from project and material ▪ Increase annual procurement savings by improving process efficiency through
requirements planning to sales, production, and maintenance order processing automated tasks

Sourcing and
Procurement
LoB Sourcing and Procurement – Operational Purchasing – requirements processing

Management
Service
Purchasing and
Entry

▪ Embedded visualization of analytical data (including ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Simplified data model for pricing, in line with SAP’s
spend and supplier evaluation score) in sourcing steps strategy to simplify the solution portfolio
process to facilitate informed decision-making
▪ Support for tasks such as search, filter, assign source of ▪ Unification of customer and vendor master data
▪ Dynamic search and filtering and automatic proposal supply, and create PO through role-based SAP Fiori under business partner
of search values launchpad
▪ Changing of search parameters in same screen ▪ Roles with new, dedicated SAP Fiori apps:
— Purchaser
▪ Automatic proposal of available information records
or agreements — Purchase Documents by Requirement Tracking
Number
▪ Direct creation of POs — Purchasing Manager
▪ Redistribution of workload between purchasing For additional information on roles and apps, visit the SAP
groups Fiori apps reference library.

Sourcing and
Procurement
LoB Sourcing and Procurement – Operational Purchasing – self-service requisitioning

Management
Service
Purchasing and
Entry
Purpose Benefits
▪ Simplify the purchasing process for casual users and employees using self-service ▪ Improve employee productivity by delivering ease of use and business-to-consumer-
requisitioning solutions from SAP like shopping experiences
▪ Enable employees to purchase goods and services directly, while ensuring they are ▪ Optimize procurement process efficiencies by providing catalog-based navigation
following purchasing policies and pricing agreements and using preferred suppliers
▪ Reduce procurement cost by enabling employee self-service functionality
▪ Automate, tightly control, and streamline the purchasing process using catalog-
driven pricing, contract logic, and an approval workflow with self-service
requisitioning solutions from SAP

Sourcing and
Procurement
LoB Sourcing and Procurement – Operational Purchasing – self-service requisitioning

Management
Service
Purchasing and
Entry

▪ Shopping cart functionality provided by the SAP Supplier ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ For simplification, inclusion of self-service
Relationship Management (SAP SRM) application now in steps procurement functionality in the purchase requisition
SAP S/4HANA Enterprise Management data structures for SAP S/4HANA; no longer a
▪ Role with new, dedicated SAP Fiori apps for creating, requirement for data replication
▪ Ability to load internal and external catalog content into displaying, managing, and approving purchase
SAP S/4HANA.
requisitions: ▪ Unification of customer and vendor master data
▪ Replacement of the master data management (MDM) under business partner
catalog in the SAP SRM application (no longer available in
– Configuration Expert – Business Process
SAP S/4HANA) by the catalog search function as part of Configuration
self-service procurement in SAP S/4HANA (functional — Employee – Procurement
limitations may apply); ability to integrate an MDM catalog — Manager – Procurement
instance with SAP S/4HANA as a punch-out catalog
through an open catalog interface — Purchaser
▪ Extended document history for transparency in the self- ▪ Improved user experience for free-text purchase
service process requisitions with “type-ahead” search based on
historical data
▪ Option to adopt the new flexible workflow (configurable
without need for development) to facilitate compliance For additional information on roles and apps, visit the SAP
with policies Fiori apps reference library.

Sourcing and
Procurement
LoB Sourcing and Procurement – Operational Purchasing – service purchasing and entry
Management
Service
Purchasing and
Entry
Purpose Benefits
▪ Empower buyers to create, display, and change POs for services ▪ Reduce procurement function costs by seamlessly passing sourcing and contracts
to an enterprise resource planning system
▪ Create, display, change, and process purchase orders more easily with one
integrated system for services purchasing ▪ Increase annual savings – total spend – by improving process efficiency
▪ Support faster automated and manual entry and other processes for purchase order
efficiency
▪ Gain the transparency needed to manage service purchases quickly and accurately
by streamlining purchase order processing
Sourcing and
Procurement
LoB Sourcing and Procurement – Operational Purchasing – service purchasing and entry
Management
Service
Purchasing and
Entry

▪ Personalized, workflow-based release of service entry ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ One master data object for materials and services
sheets (contact person named in service entry sheet steps (use of product type to differentiate between material
header) and service)
▪ Simplified limit (value-only) PO items, receipted — Purchaser ▪ Unification of customer and vendor master data
through SAP Fiori app “Service Entry Sheet” (3-way under business partner
— Purchase Documents by Requirement Tracking
match for limit PO items)
Number
— Manager

Sourcing and
Procurement

▪ Commodity Management
LoB Sourcing and Procurement – Collaborative Sourcing and Contract Management – operational contract management ▪ Collaborative Sourcing and Contract
Management
COLLABORATIVE Operational
Source
SOURCING AND Contract
Assignment
CONTRACT MGMT Management
Purpose Benefits
▪ Manage contract creation, execution, and monitoring effectively ▪ Enhance contract monitoring to provide information instantly about contract
consumption, status, and validity
▪ Maximize the value and consumption of sourcing contracts
▪ Reduce maverick buying by proposing only suppliers with valid contracts as a supply
▪ Guide day-to-day contract operations with clear, actionable insight source
▪ Accelerate the identification of contracts through dynamic, flexible search and the
filtering of data in the contract repository
Sourcing and
Procurement
LoB Sourcing and Procurement – Collaborative Sourcing and Contract Management – operational contract management
Management
Source
SOURCING & Contract
Assignment

▪ Dynamic and flexible search and filtering across ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Unification of customer and vendor master data
entire contract worklist, displaying contracts about to steps under business partner
expire, and graphical elements that help users
visualize contract consumption, both of which ▪ Roles with new, dedicated SAP Fiori apps:
accelerate business decision-making — Purchaser
— Manager
▪ Direct navigation to contract and supplier object
pages For additional information on roles and apps, visit the SAP
▪ Availability of additional information, such as status,
approver, and notes
▪ Insight-to-action capabilities, such as renewal of

contract with using predictive algorithm for future
consumed quantity based on historic data
▪ Mass update capability for contracts and templates

for better UX of managing contract data
▪ Business card information of supplier
Sourcing and
Procurement

LoB Sourcing and Procurement – Collaborative Sourcing and Contract Management – source assignment ▪ Collaborative Sourcing and Contract
Management
Source
SOURCING & Contract
Assignment
Purpose Benefits
▪ Support automated and manual processes for managing source assignments ▪ Reduce PO errors by creating integrated procurement documents
▪ Automate operational sourcing processes ▪ Accelerate assignment of sources through automated identification of available
suppliers
▪ Increase annual procurement savings by improving process efficiency through

automated tasks
▪ Streamline order processing by grouping, filtering, and downloading open demands
Sourcing and
Procurement
LoB Sourcing and Procurement – Collaborative Sourcing and Contract Management – source assignment
Management
Source
SOURCING & Contract
Assignment

▪ Immediate display of all available supply sources, ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Unification of customer and vendor master data
speeding the work of purchasing agents steps under business partner
▪ Execution of simple and manual Request for ▪ Roles with new, dedicated SAP Fiori apps for managing
Quotation (RFQ) process are now possible within SAP purchase requisitions and managing supply sources:
S/4HANA — Purchaser
▪ Improved UX with Fiori apps to manage the RFQ — Purchase Documents by Requirement Tracking
process including comparison of supplier quotations Number

and approvals for awarded quotations — Strategic Buyer
— Employee – Procurement

Sourcing and
Procurement

LoB Sourcing and Procurement – Supplier Management – classification and segmentation ▪ Collaborative Sourcing and Contract
Management
SUPPLIER Classification and Supplier

MANAGEMENT Segmentation Evaluation
Purpose Benefits
▪ Gain transparency into suppliers and purchasing categories ▪ Increase insight into the supplier portfolio with classified attributes and flexible
search functionality
▪ Group similar expenditure items, such as expenses for advertising agency services
or IT hardware, into purchasing categories to organize spend, responsibilities, and ▪ Reduce risk by identifying low-performing suppliers
organizations
▪ Enhance spend analysis using real-time reports across purchasing categories
Sourcing and
Procurement
LoB Sourcing and Procurement – Supplier Management – classification and segmentation

Management


▪ Addition of a purchasing category as a new business ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Unification of customer and vendor master data
entity, to streamline classification and segmentation steps under business partner
activities
▪ Classification and segmentation of suppliers and — Strategic Buyer
review of evaluation results related to purchasing
categories
Sourcing and
Procurement

LoB Sourcing and Procurement – Supplier Management – supplier evaluation ▪ Collaborative Sourcing and Contract
Management

Purpose Benefits
▪ Analyze the supply base continuously using predefined criteria ▪ Gain deeper insight into supplier performance through evaluation results
▪ Monitor and evaluate supplier performance using automated, real-time ▪ Take corrective actions that address supplier issues more quickly by working
calculations based on relevant data stored in business documents, such collaboratively with stakeholders
as price and quantity in POs
Sourcing and
Procurement
LoB Sourcing and Procurement – Supplier Management – supplier evaluation

Management


▪ Gradual move of the SAP Supplier Lifecycle Management ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Supplier evaluation based on SAP HANA technology
(SAP SLM) application to SAP S/4HANA steps using core data services (CDS) views and SAP Smart
▪ Automatic data collection of hard facts: time, quantity, price Business cockpits, which eliminates data redundancy
▪ Roles with new, dedicated SAP Fiori apps: (former logistics information system)
accuracy, and quality from relevant transactions
— Strategic Buyer
▪ Possibility to manually adjust supplier performance scores with ▪ Unification of customer and vendor master data
auditable change history under business partner
▪ Embedding of supplier evaluation in assignment of source of
supply to compare multiple suppliers
▪ Supplier soft-fact evaluations based on questionnaires
▪ Configurable questions and questionnaires with individual

scoring and overall weighting
▪ Monitoring of hard and soft facts for supplier evaluation in one

KPI
▪ Navigation to detailed KPIs for single evaluations of each hard

fact and evaluation scorecards
▪ Definition of internal activities to track supplier performance

Sourcing and
Procurement

LoB Sourcing and Procurement – Procurement Analytics – real-time reporting and monitoring ▪ Collaborative Sourcing and Contract
Management
PROCUREMENT Real-Time
Reporting and Spend Visibility
ANALYTICS
Monitoring
Purpose Benefits
▪ Gain up-to-the-minute insights with real-time reporting and monitoring ▪ Accelerate reporting cycles and reconciliation by directly accessing purchasing and
inventory analysis in real time
▪ Simplify the daily work of purchasers with real-time reporting and monitoring,
enabling companies to: ▪ Increase availability of real-time, predictive insights into business processes with
accelerated and accurate reporting and real-time calculation of KPIs
– Provide extensive, real-time information on purchasing spend by analyzing POs,
purchase requisitions, invoices, and contracts ▪ Enable instant insight-to-action capabilities through navigation to relevant business
processes and business objects
– Evaluate supplier performance in real time, based on criteria such as on-time
delivery, price, and quantity accuracy
– Visualize data in various chart types and by criteria such as supplier, purchasing
group, or material group
Sourcing and
Procurement
LoB Sourcing and Procurement – Procurement Analytics – real-time reporting and monitoring
Management
ANALYTICS
Monitoring

▪ Live KPI calculations based on actual data on a line- ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ KPI definitions and calculations based on SAP HANA
item level steps technology using core data services (CDS) views and
SAP Smart Business cockpits, which eliminates data
▪ Overview of multiple KPIs and relevant charts in easy- ▪ Roles with new, dedicated SAP Fiori apps: redundancy and allows live KPI calculations without
to-consume cards and tiles — Purchaser the need to replicate data to a business warehouse
▪ Availability of relevant visualizations as mini-charts — Strategic Buyer
▪ Unification of customer and vendor master data
together with a table-format list in some monitoring — Analytics Specialist
under business partner
report applications; for example, analytics reports
such as “Monitor Supplier Confirmations”
Sourcing and
Procurement

LoB Sourcing and Procurement – Procurement Analytics – spend visibility ▪ Collaborative Sourcing and Contract
Management
ANALYTICS
Monitoring
Purpose Benefits
▪ Gain real-time visibility into spend performance and savings opportunities ▪ Unlock savings opportunities by analyzing purchasing spend
▪ Aggregate spend data, analyze it for new insights, and share new intelligence with ▪ Control purchasing spend by monitoring off-contract and nonmanaged spend
spend analysis solutions from SAP. With SAP software, companies can:
– Gain a holistic view of corporate spending
– Access clean, complete, and accurate spend data quickly
– Identify and act on opportunities for cost savings and cost avoidance with
synthesized information that is ready for analysis
Sourcing and
Procurement
LoB Sourcing and Procurement – Procurement analytics – spend visibility

Management
ANALYTICS
Monitoring

▪ Comprehensive spend analysis across relevant areas ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Spend analysis based on SAP HANA technology using
steps core data services (CDS) views and SAP Smart
▪ Multidimensional interactive spend report (similar to Business cockpits, which eliminates data redundancy
the pivot table with drag-and-drop of key figures and ▪ Multidimensional spend report that allows for
dimensions) based on real-time data in SAP interactions such as drag-and-drop of dimensions and ▪ Unification of customer and vendor master data
S/4HANA key values into rows and columns; also capable of drill- under business partner
downs and navigating to other relevant applications such
▪ Purchase order value report now incorporates as list of contracts; and downloading of resultant report
purchase requisitions as “Expected Spend” to Microsoft Excel

— Strategic Buyer

Sourcing and
Procurement
LoB Sourcing and Procurement – Commodity Management – commodity procurement

Management
COMMODITY Commodity
MANAGEMENT Procurement
Purpose Benefits
▪ Enable procurement of commodities and help create commodity contracts based on ▪ Increase hedging coverage for commodities by automating the identification of
market quotes forecasted purchase volumes as risk exposures and by helping to hedge them
efficiently
▪ Automate price calculations and streamline the invoicing process
▪ Reduce procurement function by providing embedded formulas to automate very
▪ Extend ERP functionalities that automate commodity-based contractual pricing and complex price calculations for commodities
enable provisional, differential, and final procurement invoicing
▪ Reduce procurement total spend by expanding the ability to fix commodity prices
with financial derivative instruments
Sourcing and
Procurement
LoB Sourcing and Procurement – Commodity Management – commodity procurement

Management
COMMODITY Commodity
MANAGEMENT Procurement

▪ Definition of commodity pricing engine (CPE) formula ▪ Easy-to-use formula assembly definition using business ▪ Enhancement of derivative contract specification key
and terms in configuration or, alternatively, as master rules framework plus (BRF+) technology, such as better to allow industry standard terms in market data
data from document creation visualization and allowing the use of ranges, * capture and CPE formula definition
placeholders, and so on
▪ Simplified CPE reference date routine (application ▪ Deprecation of redundant commodity master and
independent); ability to use the same formula and ▪ Support for visual harmonization of commodity market data entities (quotation source, type, or
term for sales as well as for purchasing management transactions by a new visual theme called name)
“Belize” in SAP Fiori 2.0
▪ Simplified use of factory calendar in CPE ▪ Deprecation of unused CPE routines
▪ CPE formula assembly using BRF+, state-of-the-art

technology
▪ Process simplification through reduction of queues

and background processing, resulting in higher
performance and better reliability

SAP S/4HANA - LoB Manufacturing
Sales and
Manufacturing Operations
Manufacturing Insights AnalyticsC *** Production
PlanningC ***
Extended Production Scheduling Constraint Based

Production
Production
and Delivery Plan Planning
Scheduling
Quality Quality
Quality Management Engineering Improvement
Quality Inspection
Just-in-Time Just-in-Time
Basic External Basic Production Basic Production Repetitive
Production Operations Processing Execution Subcontracting
Inbound Outbound Kanban
Control Manufacturing
Processing Processing
*** Slides on these solution capabilities are not included in this PPT
C (Partially) compatibility scope – see SAP Note 2269324
Manufacturing

▪
Manufacturing Insights
Extended Production Scheduling and
Delivery Plan
LoB Manufacturing – Production Operations – basic external processing

▪ Production Operations
▪ Quality Management
PRODUCTION Basic External Basic Production Basic Production Repetitive
OPERATIONS Processing Execution Subcontracting Control Manufacturing
Purpose Benefits
▪ Avoid capacity bottlenecks and reduce inventory volumes ▪ Circumvent capacity shortages in times of high demand with increased visibility into
all business areas
▪ Integrate financials and other business areas with manufacturing processes
▪ Optimize the planning, execution, and monitoring of external processing efforts with
▪ Execute processes that cannot be completed in-house using subcontractors proactive, smart decisions
Manufacturing

▪
Delivery Plan
LoB Manufacturing – Production Operations – basic external processing


▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Extension of material number to 40 characters
steps
Manufacturing

▪
Delivery Plan
LoB Manufacturing – Production Operations – basic production execution

Purpose Benefits
▪ Initiate and control manufacturing processes ▪ Manage manufacturing processes efficiently
▪ Monitor and adjust production worklists ▪ Gain more transparency with integration to production with planning
▪ Release production and process orders
▪ Monitor production execution
▪ Provide shop-floor workers with current information
Manufacturing

▪
Delivery Plan
LoB Manufacturing – Production Operations – basic production execution


▪ Integration with
SAP S/4HANA Manufacturing for ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Extension of material number to 40 characters
production engineering and operations steps
▪ Roles withnew, dedicated SAP Fiori apps:
— Production Engineer
— Production Supervisor
— Production Operator
Manufacturing

▪
Delivery Plan
LoB Manufacturing – Production Operations – basic subcontracting

Purpose Benefits
▪ Optimize the subcontracting process from planning and execution to monitoring ▪ Increase the first-call resolution rate by effectively tracking product batches
▪ Overcome capacity bottlenecks and reduce inventory with proactive, fact-based ▪ Reduce manufacturing cost through outsourcing of noncore activities
decision-making
▪ Improve on-time delivery performance using an electronic data interchange
▪ Gain the visibility needed to detect and resolve potential scheduling problems infrastructure that streamlines subcontracting processes
▪ Reduce procurement cost by automating basic subcontracting processes
Manufacturing

▪
Delivery Plan
LoB Manufacturing – Production Operations – basic subcontracting


▪ Use of default planning parameters when material ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Extension of material number to 40 characters
master records specific to an MRP area do not exist, steps
eliminating the need to create material master
attributes specific to an MRP area for each
subcontractor
▪ Simplified planning logic, with two, instead of three,

ways to plan for parts provided by a subcontractor
Manufacturing

▪
Delivery Plan
LoB Manufacturing – Production Operations – just-in-time inbound processing

Purpose Benefits
▪ Produce and deliver just in time (JIT) and just in sequence according to the demand ▪ Prevent stock-outs
of manufacturing customers, integrated into sales and manufacturing processes and
supporting automation for efficient processing ▪ Accelerate fulfillment
▪ Support flexible JIT techniques and JIT logistics ▪ Increase customer service
▪ Reduce operating costs
▪ Optimize inventory levels to meet demand
Manufacturing

▪
Delivery Plan
LoB Manufacturing – Production Operations – just-in-time inbound processing


▪ Immediate availability of SAP ERP functionality in ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Extension of material number to 40 characters
SAP S/4HANA, as the industry switch for discrete steps
industries and mill products for the activation of
specific features is no longer required ▪ Availability of classical just-in-time (JIT) inbound
processing transactions in SAP Fiori launchpad
Manufacturing

▪
Delivery Plan
LoB Manufacturing – Production Operations – just-in-time outbound processing

Purpose Benefits
▪ Execute material flow according to lean principles ▪ Reduce costs by eliminating waste
▪ Support flexible, just-in-time (JIT) techniques for container-dependent and ▪ Increase customer satisfaction while lowering costs through higher product,
container-independent JIT logistics process, and service quality
▪ Enable pull methodologies within repetitive and shop-floor manufacturing ▪ Enhance visibility into manufacturing and supply chain processes using lean
environments, including: principles
– Flexible supplier pull processes with demand forecasting for external material flow ▪ Improve flexibility of manufacturing and supply chain processes through JIT logistics
– Flexible internal-warehouse pull processes for internal material flow
Manufacturing

▪
Delivery Plan
LoB Manufacturing – Production Operations – just-in-time outbound processing


▪ Immediate availability of SAP ERP functionality in ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Extension of material number to 40 characters
SAP S/4HANA, as the industry switch for discrete steps
industries and mill products for the activation of
specific features is no loner required. ▪ Availability of classical just-in-time (JIT) inbound
processing transactions in SAP Fiori launchpad
Manufacturing

▪
Delivery Plan
LoB Manufacturing – Production Operations – kanban

Purpose Benefits
▪ Execute production and material flow according to lean principles ▪ Reduce costs by eliminating waste
▪ Support lean material-flow control methods within repetitive and shop-floor ▪ Increase customer satisfaction through higher product, process, and service quality
manufacturing environments
▪ Enhance visibility into manufacturing and supply chain processes using lean
▪ Use kanban processing in lean replenishment for: principles
— A supplier kanban process for external material flow
▪ Improve flexibility of manufacturing and supply chain processes through kanban
— A move kanban process for internal material flow processing
— Flow manufacturing for internal material flow
Manufacturing

▪
Delivery Plan
LoB Manufacturing – Production Operations – kanban


▪ Support for plant- and MRP-area levels instead of ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Extension of material number to 40 characters
storage-location level with planning functionality in steps
SAP S/4HANA for greater simplicity
Manufacturing

▪
Delivery Plan
LoB Manufacturing – Production Operations – production control

Purpose Benefits
▪ Monitor released production and process orders ▪ Prepare efficiently for production activities
▪ Confirm production progress ▪ Integrate production with inventory management and financials in near-real time
▪ Share relevant data about how to execute manual production steps
▪ Record and log production information
Manufacturing

▪
Delivery Plan
LoB Manufacturing – Production Operations – production control


▪ Integration with SAP S/4HANA Manufacturing for ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Extension of material number to 40 characters
production engineering and operations steps

— Production Supervisor
— Production Operator

Manufacturing

▪
Delivery Plan
LoB Manufacturing – Production Operations – repetitive manufacturing

Purpose Benefits
▪ Optimize production planning and control in repetitive, make-to-stock or make-to- ▪ Simplify production processes by reducing individual lot- and order-specific
order environments, for both configurable and nonconfigurable products processing
▪ Create and revise production quantities on a period and quantity basis ▪ Reduce inventory through creation of a balanced product mix
▪ Lower cost by eliminating waste
▪ Streamline production completion confirmations by including the back-flushing of

components and posting of production costs
Manufacturing

▪
Delivery Plan
LoB Manufacturing – Production Operations – repetitive manufacturing


▪ Accelerated performance of daily manufacturing ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Extension of material number to 40 characters
activities, thanks to powerful in-memory data steps
processing
Manufacturing

▪
Delivery Plan
LoB Manufacturing – Quality Management – quality engineering

QUALITY Quality Quality Quality Inspection

MANAGEMENT Engineering Improvement
Purpose Benefits
▪ Create high-quality products, processes, and services right from the start of the ▪ Increase compliance with industry standards
product lifecycle
▪ Reduce costs using closed-loop inspection planning
▪ Provide the correct tools and implement appropriate quality planning strategies
▪ Improve quality planning using transparent, nonredundant master data
▪ Recognize risks and potential defects early in the product design process
▪ Support continuous improvement by analyzing the causes and effects of failures
▪ Prepare, execute, and monitor quality inspections in areas such as purchasing,
production, and sales ▪ Enhance traceability and product safety through data consistency and simplified IT
infrastructure
▪ Reduce costs and increase efficiency by supporting high-quality operations
▪ Limit rework and scrap through sustained quality-control efforts
▪ Increase efficiency with streamlined, standardized quality processes, whether in the

lab or on the shop floor
Manufacturing

▪
Delivery Plan
LoB Manufacturing – Quality Management – quality engineering



▪ SAP intends to simplify inspection planning with ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Extension of material number to 40 characters
intuitive handling of inspection characteristics in a steps
future release of SAP S/4HANA Enterprise ▪ SAP intends to provide functionality in SAP S/4HANA
Management. ▪ SAP intends to include new apps and overview pages for that allows reduction of quality costs and sustainable
the role of quality engineer and quality planner in a future prevention of defects based on an advanced, closed-
release of SAP S/4HANA Enterprise Management. loop inspection planning process, including:
For additional information on roles and apps, visit the SAP — Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) and
Fiori apps reference library. control plan

— Production part approval process (PPAP)
— Audit management
— Predictive quality management
Manufacturing
▪
Delivery Plan
LoB Manufacturing – Quality Management – quality improvement


Purpose Benefits
▪ Reach corporate quality goals through enhanced insight into quality evaluations ▪ Improve tracking of key quality metrics at all operational and business levels through
KPIs
▪ Achieve higher visibility into operations across plants and regions
▪ Accelerate identification of systematic errors with the ability to analyze problems,
▪ Establish transparent, enterprise-wide quality audit planning, execution, and eliminate root causes, and respond more quickly to unforeseen events and
reporting deviations
▪ Reinforce process excellence by enabling comprehensive oversight of operations,

audit cycles, and quality improvement efforts
Manufacturing

▪
Delivery Plan
LoB Manufacturing – Quality Management – quality improvement



▪ SAP intends to provide in a future release of SAP ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Extension of material number to 40 characters
S/4HANA: steps
▪ SAP intends to:
— Flexible, harmonized action management
▪ For the role of quality engineer, a new SAP Fiori overview — Use machine learning capabilities to enable a
functionality to streamline quality improvement
page that provides one central place for all inspection guided and proactive complaint process supported
processes
lots that require action by proposed issue resolutions
— Additional functionality for the standardization of
New SAP Fiori apps to evaluate quantitative results with — Standardize issue resolution procedures, including
complaint processes, enabling more-accurate ▪
tracking of quality issues graphics and statistical parameters root cause analysis and collaborative scenarios
— Reduce the IT footprint and increase response time
— Evaluations to analyze key figures for quality For additional information on roles and apps, visit the SAP
management data Fiori apps reference library. — Provide comprehensive analysis of quality
management data to enable insight to action
— Provide enhanced overview pages containing
analytical information as entry points for different
roles in quality management
Manufacturing

▪
Delivery Plan
LoB Manufacturing – Quality Management – quality inspection


Purpose Benefits
▪ Prepare, execute, and monitor quality inspections in areas such as purchasing, ▪ Limit rework and scrap through sustained quality-control efforts
production, and sales
▪ Increase efficiency with streamlined, standardized quality processes, whether in the
▪ Reduce costs and increase efficiency by supporting high-quality operations lab or on the shop floor
▪ Record and track inspection results and defects ▪ Enable timely responses to exceptions with improved visibility into real-time quality
data throughout the product lifecycle
▪ Connect, monitor, and maintain test equipment to help ensure accuracy of
inspection results ▪ Increase options for recording and evaluating inspection results with integrated
quality operations
Manufacturing

▪
Delivery Plan
LoB Manufacturing – Quality Management – quality inspection



▪ SAP intends to: ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Extension of material number to 40 characters
steps
– Provide further improvements to enable more- ▪ SAP intends to provide different overview pages as
efficient quality inspection processes ▪ New SAP Fiori apps and overview pages for the role of entry points containing analytical information
quality engineer and quality technician to have one combined with insight-to-action capabilities.
– Improve the recording and monitoring of defects central place for all the inspection lots that require
and corresponding problem-solving process action:
— SAP Fiori app “Manage Inspection Lots”
— SAP Fiori app “Manage Usage Decisions”
— SAP Fiori app “Results History”
▪ SAP intends to include new apps for the roles of quality

technician and quality engineer in a future release of SAP
S/4HANA Enterprise Management.
Manufacturing

▪
Delivery Plan
LoB Manufacturing – Extended Production Scheduling and Delivery Plan – constraint based production planning
EXTD. PROD. Constraint Based

Production
SCHEDULING & Production
Scheduling
DELIVERY PLAN Planning
Purpose Benefits
▪ Shorten lead times and reduce costs with constraint-based production planning ▪ Increase speed and responsiveness of production planning by linking advanced
using SAP S/4HANA planning processes to manufacturing execution
▪ Maintain quality products and decrease costs by reacting quickly to changes on the ▪ Improve customer service by enhancing visibility into manufacturing capacity and
plant floor responding quickly to new demand
Manufacturing
▪
Delivery Plan
LoB Manufacturing – Extended Production Scheduling and Delivery Plan – constraint-based production planning

Production
Scheduling

▪ Introduction of advanced production and capacity ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Integration of SAP liveCache technology in SAP HANA
planning directly into SAP S/4HANA, capabilities that steps database
were available only in the SAP Advanced Planning and
Optimization (SAP APO) component ▪ Role with new, dedicated SAP Fiori apps: ▪ Core interface (CIF) simplification
— Production Planner
▪ Data harmonization
Fiori apps reference library. ▪ Extension of material number to 40 characters
Manufacturing

▪
Delivery Plan
LoB Manufacturing – Extended Production Scheduling and Delivery Plan – production scheduling

Production
Scheduling
Purpose Benefits
▪ Integrate production planning tightly with scheduling and execution for a detailed ▪ Reduce days in inventory (work in progress) by integrating scheduling and execution
view of inventory, capacity, and material flow to gain a consistent, real-time view of inventory and product data
▪ Schedule resources optimally by considering finite capacity, sequencing and setup, ▪ Cut manufacturing cycle time by instantly adapting production schedules to current
and material availability plant conditions
▪ Address many industry-specific sequencing requirements with configurable,
multilevel production scheduling
Manufacturing

▪
Delivery Plan
LoB Manufacturing – Extended Production Scheduling and Delivery Plan – production scheduling

Production
Scheduling

▪ Introduction of advanced production and capacity ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Integration of SAP liveCache technology in SAP HANA
planning directly into SAP S/4HANA, capabilities that steps database
were available only in the SAP Advanced Planning and
Optimization (SAP APO) component ▪ Role with new, dedicated SAP Fiori apps: ▪ Core interface (CIF) simplification
▪ Mill industry scheduling scenario functionality ▪ Data harmonization
enhanced For additional information on roles and apps, visit the SAP
Fiori apps reference library. ▪ Extension of material number to 40 characters
1709
SAP S/4HANA Supply Chain

Solution Areas:
BASIC INVENTORY,
WAREHOUSING, AND PRODUCTION PLANNING
TRANSPORTATION
MATERIAL
GOODS ISSUE & BASIC WAREHOUSE INVENTORY BASIC ORDER
GOODS ISSUE BASIC SHIPPING REQUIREMENTS
GOODS RECEIPT MANAGEMENT ANALYTICS PROMISING / ATP
PLANNING
Use simplified GI postings Leverage embedded EWM Provides functionality for Experience the power of Optimize material flow for Available to promise: new
for Transfer and scrapping to perform standardized Picking, Packing & Shipping. simplification by using external and internal ATP algorithm based on
Experience real-time, high- inbound & outbound Leverage embedded state-of-the-art analytical requirements (MRP) with HANA embedded in mass
volume processing using processing with internal Transportation Management apps, which take full system-generated solution component check in
sensor data. movements and physical to handle freight agreements advantage of the simplified proposals. production.
Benefit from locking inventory & reporting in one and delivery based charges data model incl. 40 digit Manage and track change Improve percentage on-
elimination and material system (master data, as well as basic bookings, mat-no. and the power of requests for orders. time delivery.
ledger valuation. customizing & UX). plan and execute your the HANA database. One single MRP if all Leverage just-in-time
Use simplified new apps for Track alternative quantities transports, use functionality Optimize inventory and downstream materials are scenarios for inbound and
• GR from PO with integrated Catch for basic agency billing and material flows based on advanced planning- outbound.
• Initial entry Weight Management subcontracting as well as real-time information. relevant.
dangerous goods
management.
Optimize your stock and inventory Manage your transportation needs Visualize & simulate MRP
turnover and material flow options with fast insight to action
SAP S/4HANA - LoB Supply Chain
Advanced Inventory, Warehousing, Dock Extended

Appointment Warehouse
and Transportation Scheduling Management
Extended Production Scheduling Advanced Order

and Delivery Planning Promising/ATP
Material
Basic Order Inspection
Production Planning Promising
Requirements
Planning
Planning
Basic Inventory, Warehousing, Basic Shipping

Basic Warehouse
Goods Issue Goods Receipt
Inventory
Management Analytics
and Transportation
Supply Chain
▪
Advanced Inventory, Warehousing and
Transportation
LoB Supply Chain – Basic Inventory, Warehousing, and Transportation – basic shipping
Delivery Plan
▪ Basic Inventory, Warehousing and

Transportation
▪ Product Engineering
▪ Production Planning
BASIC INV.,
Basic Shipping Basic Warehouse Goods Issue Goods Receipt Inventory
WAREHOUSING,
& TRANSP.
Purpose Benefits
▪ Automate shipping processes ▪ Improve inventory accuracy with real-time reports on inventory positions and flows
with preconfigured analytical views
▪ Manage asset usage, throughput, and order fulfillment
▪ Enhance on-time delivery performance by integrating pick, pack,
▪ Streamline material flows and make warehouse operations more transparent and ship processes
▪ Increase inventory turnover and reduce days in inventory by making informed

decisions based on accurate demand and supply data
Supply Chain
▪
Transportation
LoB Supply Chain – Basic Inventory, Warehousing, and Transportation – basic shipping
Delivery Plan

Transportation
BASIC INV.,
WAREHOUSING,
& TRANSP.

▪ Functionality in basic scope enhanced with the SAP ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Elimination of status tables VBUK and VBUP, with
Transportation Management application steps status fields moved to the corresponding header and
item tables (VBAK and VBAP for sales documents and
▪ Roles with new, dedicated SAP Fiori apps: LIKP and LIPS for delivery documents)
— Inventory Manager
▪ Field length extension of sales and distribution
— Shipping Specialist
document category:
— Warehouse Clerk
— Data element VBTYP (Char1) replaced by data
For additional information on roles and apps, visit the SAP element VBTYPL (Char4)
Fiori apps reference library. — Field VBTYP_EXT (Char4) eliminated
Supply Chain
▪
Transportation
LoB Supply Chain – Basic Inventory, Warehousing, and Transportation – basic warehouse management
Delivery Plan

Transportation
BASIC INV.,
WAREHOUSING,
& TRANSP.
Purpose Benefits
▪ Deliver the right products to the right place ▪ Improve inventory accuracy with real-time reports on inventory positions and flows
that use preconfigured analytical views
▪ Automate warehouse operation processes
▪ Enhance on-time delivery performance by integrating pick, pack, and ship processes
▪ Streamline material flows and make warehouse operations more transparent
▪ Increase inventory turnover and reduce days in inventory by making informed
decisions based on accurate demand and supply data
▪ Perform standardized inbound and outbound processing with internal movements

and physical inventory and reporting
Supply Chain
▪
Transportation
LoB Supply Chain – Basic Inventory, Warehousing, and Transportation – basic warehouse management
Delivery Plan

Transportation
BASIC INV.,
WAREHOUSING,
& TRANSP.

▪ Capabilities of the SAP HANA platform and database ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across select process ▪ Integration with a simplified data model of
that deliver new business insight, such as operational steps SAP S/4HANA
analytics, and complement traditional service
reports, optimizing the process of goods movement ▪ Roles with new, dedicated SAP Fiori apps: ▪ Enhancement of data management across the supply
— Warehouse Clerk chain through the full scope of SAP Extended
▪ Functionality in basic scope enhanced, such as Warehouse Management now embedded in SAP
multiple-process steps, higher stock, and process For additional information on roles and apps, visit the SAP S/4HANA
transparency, with the SAP Extended Warehouse Fiori apps reference library.
Supply Chain
▪
Transportation
LoB Supply Chain – Basic Inventory, Warehousing, and Transportation – goods issue
Delivery Plan

Transportation
BASIC INV.,
WAREHOUSING,
& TRANSP.
Purpose Benefits
▪ Integrate all outbound warehouse operations and align goods issue with demand ▪ Improve on-time delivery performance by enhancing shipping execution
▪ Streamline material flow and increase transparency across the entire outbound ▪ Decrease revenue loss caused by stock-outs through enhanced visibility into
logistics process demand and logistics status
▪ Reduce stock-outs, minimize shipment errors, and accelerate order fulfillment ▪ Accelerate the order-to-ship process with automated, streamlined goods issue
▪ Optimize inventory and material flows with analytical applications
Supply Chain
▪
Transportation
LoB Supply Chain – Basic Inventory, Warehousing, and Transportation – goods issue
Delivery Plan

Transportation
BASIC INV.,
WAREHOUSING,
& TRANSP.

▪ Capabilities of the SAP HANA platform and database ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Integration with a simplified data model of SAP
that deliver new business insight, such as operational steps, even for complex goods movement (MIGO S/4HANA
analytics, and complement traditional service transaction code)
reports, optimizing the process of goods movement
— Shipping Specialist
— Warehouse Clerk

Supply Chain
▪
Transportation
LoB Supply Chain – Basic Inventory, Warehousing, and Transportation – goods receipt
Delivery Plan

Transportation
BASIC INV.,
WAREHOUSING,
& TRANSP.
Purpose Benefits
▪ Simplify inbound logistics processes ▪ Increase process flexibility through optimized logistics processes
▪ Streamline material flows and increase transparency across end-to-end inbound ▪ Improve on-time delivery performance by enabling efficient, transparent inbound
logistics operations processes
▪ Manage individual and multiple inbound deliveries in the background ▪ Enhance agility and operational readiness with streamlined material flows and
increased visibility into inbound logistics processes
▪ Raise operational efficiency by linking goods receipt processes to invoice
management solutions ▪ Use a simplified data model for real-time, high-volume processing to post with the
finest granularity of sensor data
▪ Benefit from material ledger valuation and elimination of locking
Supply Chain
▪
Transportation
LoB Supply Chain – Basic Inventory, Warehousing, and Transportation – goods receipt
Delivery Plan

Transportation
BASIC INV.,
WAREHOUSING,
& TRANSP.

▪ Real-time inventory management through a ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Simplified data model that eliminates aggregates and
redesigned data model in SAP S/4HANA steps database locks
▪ Simplified material valuation to enable parallel ▪ SAP Fiori user experience improvements: ▪ Use of one valuation method (material ledger) instead
inventory posting for standard, price-driven materials — Direct access to material documents after posting of two (inventory management and material ledger)
through links, improving overall process flow
▪ Enhancements to work-in-process (WIP) batch ▪ Inserts only on application level, eliminating SPREIS
functionality for order combinations — Bar-code scanning in goods receipt process locking and taking rounding differences into account
supported for devices that can host the SAP Fiori
▪ Batch selection brought into the goods receipt client
process
— Receiving Specialist
— Warehouse Clerk

Supply Chain
▪
Transportation
LoB Supply Chain – Basic Inventory, Warehousing, and Transportation – inventory analytics
Delivery Plan

Transportation
BASIC INV.,
WAREHOUSING,
& TRANSP.
Purpose Benefits
▪ Enable real-time reporting in inventory management ▪ Improve on-time delivery performance by analyzing deviations in delivery plan and
schedule and making timely adjustments
▪ Support better-informed inventory management decisions with real-time and
historical data ▪ Reduce days in inventory by analyzing inventory coverage and ensuring inventory is
aligned with demand
▪ Improve profitability with rapid access to relevant information when inquiring about,
comparing, or choosing recommended actions for processes ▪ Reduce carrying cost of spare-parts inventory by making informed spare-parts
inventory decisions based on real-time and historical data aligned with supply,
▪ Accelerate decision-making aligned with supply, inventory, and fulfillment goals inventory, and fulfillment goals
through increased insights
Supply Chain
▪
Transportation
LoB Supply Chain – Basic Inventory, Warehousing, and Transportation – inventory analytics
Delivery Plan

Transportation
BASIC INV.,
WAREHOUSING,
& TRANSP.

▪ Real-time inventory management through a ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Simplified data model that eliminates aggregates and
redesigned data model in SAP S/4HANA steps database locks
▪ Overview page to support the inventory manager and ▪ Roles with new, dedicated SAP Fiori apps:
warehouse clerk in daily business by presenting — Inventory Manager
selected and relevant KPIs and charts at a glance
— Warehouse Clerk
▪ Inventory KPI analysis with follow-on actions on slow- For additional information on roles and apps, visit the SAP
moving materials Fiori apps reference library.
▪ Improved analysis of goods movements
▪ Analysis of goods receipt blocked stock and stock in

transit
▪ Analytical query for physical inventory documents,

available for consumption in SAP Cloud Platform and
analytical tools
Supply Chain
▪
Transportation
LoB Supply Chain – Production Planning – basic order promising

Delivery
▪ Plan
Transportation
▪ Extended Production Scheduling and
Delivery Plan

Transportation
▪ Production
▪ BasicPlanning
Inventory, Warehousing and
Transportation
PRODUCTION Material
Requirements
PLANNING Promising Planning
Planning
Purpose Benefits
▪ Provide order commitment dates and quantities during order creation and change ▪ Improve customer satisfaction by automatically matching end-item or component
processes supply with demand
▪ Consider material availability when promising orders
Supply Chain
▪
Transportation
LoB Supply Chain – Production Planning – basic order promising

Delivery Plan

Transportation
PRODUCTION Material
Requirements
Planning

▪ No impact on business processes ▪ Performance improvements when carrying out ▪ Removal of database table VBBS, which contains
available-to-promise (ATP) checks on large orders preaggregated sales requirements
For information about technical changes, see the
Simplification List for SAP S/4HANA. ▪ Role with SAP Fiori apps: ▪ Daily aggregation of requested (OMENG) and
— Internal Sales Representative confirmed (VMENG) quantities no longer needed,
thanks to the new ATP functionality running in SAP
For additional information on roles and apps, visit the SAP HANA, making this table obsolete
▪ Redirection of the old SAP ERP coding for ATP check
to use database table VBBE
Supply Chain
▪
Transportation
LoB Supply Chain – Production Planning – material requirements planning

Delivery Plan

Transportation
PRODUCTION Material
Requirements
Planning
Purpose Benefits
▪ Monitor stock-outs effectively ▪ Reduce the cost of customer service and support by making proactive decisions in
response to changing demand
▪ Create procurement proposals automatically for purchasing and production
▪ Increase annual procurement savings and reduce revenue loss with clear visibility
▪ Enable production planners to guarantee availability of procured or produced across the supply chain
materials at the right time
▪ Improve on-time delivery performance by tailoring available capacity and receipts to
meet required product quantities
▪ Improve inventory accuracy by considering inventory data, lead times, and

procurement timing in planning
Supply Chain
▪
Transportation
LoB Supply Chain – Production Planning – material requirements planning

Delivery Plan

Transportation
PRODUCTION Material
Requirements
Planning

▪ Performance optimization of material requirements ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ New planning file, which improves update
planning (MRP) functionality by using the SAP HANA steps performance in all logistical processes
database
▪ Support for exception-based processing by means of
▪ Introduction of demand-driven replenishment new SAP Fiori apps that show the issues to be resolved
functionality in SAP S/4HANA, leveraged by a set of by the respective roles in the role-based work
new apps; intent to expand this functionality in a environment for production operators, production
future release supervisors, production planners, and production
engineers


Supply Chain
▪
Transportation
LoB Supply Chain – Production Planning – inspection planning

Delivery Plan

Transportation
PRODUCTION Material
Requirements
Planning
Purpose Benefits
▪ Enable continuous improvement by designing quality into products ▪ Create closed-loop inspection planning in compliance with industry standards
▪ Integrate all quality-related information across the organization ▪ Minimize product costs with a risk-based product and process design
▪ Recognize risks and potential defects at an early stage ▪ Help ensure consistent master data and improve compliance by integrating task list
planning with production data
Supply Chain
▪
Transportation
LoB Supply Chain – Production Planning - inspection planning

Delivery Plan

Transportation
PRODUCTION Material
Requirements
Planning
▪ SAP intends to simplify inspection planning with ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process
intuitive handling of inspection characteristics in a steps
future release of SAP S/4HANA Enterprise ▪ SAP intends to streamline the inspection planning
Management. process.

— Quality Planner

Supply Chain
▪
Transportation
LoB Supply Chain – Extended Production Scheduling and Delivery Planning – advanced order promising/ATP
Delivery Plan

Transportation
EXTENDED PROD.
Advanced Order
SCHED. & DELIV. Promising/ATP
PLANNING
Purpose Benefits
▪ Provide order commitment dates and quantities during online order creation or ▪ Improve customer satisfaction by using embedded logic to automatically match
change and in batch mode supply with demand
▪ Make promises on orders, maintaining visibility of real-time inventory to help ensure ▪ Improve on-time delivery performance by replenishing inventories frequently based
fulfillment on the latest information about stock levels and demand forecasts
▪ Improve customer satisfaction with real-time inventory information for advanced ▪ Reduce inventory carrying cost by using real-time information on inventory
available-to-promise (ATP) order commitment dates with SAP S/4HANA. availability and projected availability to provide accurate order commitment dates
▪ Commit to orders quickly and accurately by automatically checking for material ▪ Reduce days in inventory by leveraging real-time information regarding inventory
availability and product allocations availability to shorten replenishment cycles and to respond to demand on a frequent
basis
▪ Boost delivery performance with embedded logic for automatically matching supply
of ordered items with demand
Supply Chain
▪
Transportation
LoB Supply Chain – Extended Production Scheduling and Delivery Planning – advanced order promising/ATP
Delivery Plan

Transportation
EXTENDED PROD.
Advanced Order
SCHED. & DELIV. Promising/ATP
PLANNING
▪ No impact on business processes ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Removal of database table VBBS, which contains
steps preaggregated sales requirements
For information about technical changes, see the
Simplification List for SAP S/4HANA. ▪ Roles with new, dedicated SAP Fiori apps: ▪ Daily aggregation of requested (OMENG) and
— Internal Sales Representative confirmed (VMENG) quantities no longer needed,
— Order Fulfillment Manager thanks to the new ATP functionality running in SAP
— Order Fulfillment Specialist
HANA, making this table obsolete
For additional information on roles and apps, visit the SAP ▪ Redirection of the old SAP ERP coding for ATP
Fiori apps reference library. check to use database table VBBE
Supply Chain
▪
Transportation
LoB Supply Chain – Advanced Inventory, Warehousing, and Transportation – dock appointment scheduling
Delivery Plan

Transportation
ADVANCED INV., Dock Extended

WAREHOUSING, Appointment Warehouse
& TRANSP. Scheduling Management
Purpose Benefits
▪ Achieve more accurate and efficient dock planning and appointment scheduling ▪ Improve on-time delivery performance by integrating appointment planning with
warehouse activities and improved partner collaboration
▪ Enable flexible dock appointment planning, supervision, and partner collaboration in
an integrated platform ▪ Reduce transportation spend by streamlining and automating dock door planning
and appointment scheduling processes
▪ Get real-time visibility of dock appointments, warehouse arrivals and departures,
and available labor and resources
▪ Improve communication among shippers and carriers to reduce operational issues,

manage appointments, and measure performance
Supply Chain
▪
Transportation
LoB Supply Chain – Advanced Inventory, Warehousing, and Transportation – dock appointment scheduling
Delivery Plan

Transportation


▪ New functionality in SAP S/4HANA, including: ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Replaced Microsoft Silverlight with SAP NetWeaver
steps
– Planning of vehicle arrivals at the warehouse for
loading and unloading
– Appointment planning for the carrier
– Setting and monitoring of capacities
Supply Chain
▪
Transportation
LoB Supply Chain – Advanced Inventory, Warehousing, and Transportation – extended warehouse management
Delivery Plan

Transportation

Purpose Benefits
▪ Optimize extended warehouse operations, including inbound processing, cross- ▪ Improve asset utilization, throughput, and safety, and ensure on-time, compliant,
docking, outbound processing, warehouse storage, and physical inventory and accurate order fulfillment
management
▪ Support workforce management, slotting, and advanced inventory optimization
▪ Support extended warehouse services such as billing, transit warehousing for

logistics service providers, and direct control of warehouse automation equipment
Supply Chain
▪
Transportation
LoB Supply Chain – Advanced Inventory, Warehousing, and Transportation – extended warehouse management
Delivery Plan

Transportation


▪ Embedding of the SAP Extended Warehouse ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Simplified master data structure
Management application in SAP S/4HANA steps
▪ Removal of redundancy in transaction data objects
▪ Functionalities planned for a future release: ▪ Role with new, dedicated SAP Fiori apps:
▪ Simplified configuration
— Quality management (QM) feature parity — Warehouse Clerk
— Analytics using core data services (CDS) — Warehouse Operative (Extended Warehouse
— Advanced labor management Management)

— Industry-related enhancements for e-commerce For additional information on roles and apps, visit the SAP
and retail Fiori apps reference library.
— Internet-of-Things (IoT) scenarios
SAP S/4HANA Sales

Solution Area:
ORDER AND CONTRACT
MANAGEMENT
SALES MASTER DATA SALES CONTRACT SALES ORDER MGMT. CLAIMS, RETURNS & SALES MONITORING &
BILLING & INVOICING
MGMT. MANAGEMENT & PROCESSING REFUND MGMT. ANALYTICS
Leverage simplified data Take immediate action Analyze and resolve order Settle sales rebate flexibly Reduce customer service Monitor Order-to-Cash
model and central using real-time analytical issues in Sales Order using Condition Contract & support cost by Process Performance and
Business Partner results to effectively Fulfillment, combined with Settlement. Manage Billing streamlining return execute Sales Analysis on
approach. manage Sales Track Sales Order for Document converges both processes. the fly and display
Create, modify, or display Contracts and Sales maximizing “no-touch” internal and external info. Simplify selected return contextual information for
sales master data in a Quotations order rate. into one single customer processes with Incoming Sales, Backorder
harmonized user Fast access to all daily invoice. Manage Invoices in Accelerated Customer Analysis and Delivery
experience. tasks via My Sales Overview a worklist. Ensure legal Return. Performance.
page compliance for cross Manage the most
Integrate S/4HANA TM for boarder business with important sales
delivery. International Trade - performance indicators on
Enable payment card via Intrastat reporting, Legal Sales Management
integration to SAP digital control (export), Letter-of- Overview page and
payment add-on. Credit. execute Sales Plans.
Sales Management Overview Sales Order Fulfillment Delivery Performance
SAP S/4HANA - LoB Sales
Incentive and
Sales Performance Management Commission
Management
Commodity Management Commodity Sales
Sales Order Claims, Return,

Sales Master Data Sales Contract Billing and Sales Monitoring
Order and Contract Management Management Management
Management and
Invoicing
and Refund
and AnalyticsC
Processing ManagementC
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Sales

▪
Sales Performance Management
Management
LoB Sales – Order and Contract Management – sales master data management
▪ Order and Contract Management
ORDER AND Sales Order Claims, Returns,

CONTRACT Management and and Refund
Management Management Invoicing and Analytics
MANAGEMENT Processing Management
Purpose Benefits
▪ Provide accurate, structured, and accessible master data ▪ Increase sales productivity with anytime, anywhere access to more-accurate sales
master data
▪ Collect, analyze, organize, and deliver a single version of sales master data across
the company ▪ Enhance logistics management using integrated logistics processes, such as
material and inventory management
▪ Support customer-specific marketing campaigns and deliver the right products at
the right time with harmonized master data ▪ Improve decision-making with sales data insight supported by higher data quality
▪ Improve sales document quality with more-accurate product and item details
▪ Foster additional sales through the use of the cross-selling feature
▪ Simplify data capture with the help of material determination functionality
Sales
▪
Management
LoB Sales – Order and Contract Management – sales master data management


▪ Business partner as the central approach to maintain ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Simplified data model for sales and distribution
customer master data steps pricing, which stores pricing results from documents,
such as sales documents and POs, in a database table
▪ Unified master data, which enables SAP S/4HANA to ▪ Access to available sales master-data transaction using
natively integrate with the SAP Hybris Commerce SAP Fiori launchpad ▪ Increased length of material numbers supported in
solution, the SAP Hybris Cloud for Customer solution, SAP S/4HANA to address requirements of mill
and the SAP Customer Relationship Management ▪ Role with new, dedicated SAP Fiori apps: products and discrete industries
(SAP CRM) application — Internal Sales Representative
▪ Support for business partners in conjunction with
▪ In line with our strategy to simplify our solution For additional information on roles and apps, visit the SAP customer and vendor integration functionality, which
portfolio, functionality for sales support, such as Fiori apps reference library. further simplifies the data model
customer fact sheets and customer potential
analysis, can be used by integrating with SAP CRM
and with SAP Hybris Cloud for Customer.
Sales

▪
Management
LoB Sales – Order and Contract Management – sales contract management


Purpose Benefits
▪ Manage contracts holistically for long-term sales agreements ▪ Improve customer retention by tailoring sales agreements to match each
customer’s unique needs
▪ Unify the order management process by integrating contract management with
sales, pricing, and logistics processes ▪ Enhance sales forecast accuracy with the ability to anticipate sales revenues from
long-term agreements
▪ Monitor sales contracts throughout the agreement lifecycle
▪ Raise the number of customer interactions that result in sales by monitoring
▪ Track and compare actual customer purchases against volumes specified in sales contract fulfillment and renewal
agreements
▪ Increase sales volume according to the terms of customer-specific agreements
▪ Respond quickly to customer inquiries and contract renewal issues
▪ Simplify handling of sales orders through contract call-offs, which allow the creation
▪ Manage rebate agreements with insight into contract conditions and processing of customer orders by referencing a contract
Sales

▪
Management
LoB Sales – Order and Contract Management – sales contract management



▪ Condition-contract settlement management to allow ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Enhanced query performance by reducing select
users to flexibly define and execute rebate steps statements and by simplifying joins for headers and
agreements items, such as status and business data
▪ Unified customer experience thanks to native — Internal Sales Representative ▪ Increased robustness of rebate processing by
integration with SAP Hybris Commerce and SAP decreasing redundancies created with aggregates
Hybris Cloud for Customer solutions For additional information on roles and apps, visit the SAP
Fiori apps reference library. ▪ Smaller memory footprint by streamlining document
flow, eliminating index tables, and requiring fewer
aggregates
Sales

▪
Management
LoB Sales – Order and Contract Management – sales order management and processing

Purpose Benefits
▪ Integrate order management and processing, from quote to shipment and from ▪ Increase sales by reducing days sales outstanding and boosting overall sales
billing to booking revenue effectiveness
▪ Capture sales data from multiple channels ▪ Enhance sales productivity with a streamlined, redefined order management
process
▪ Provide role-based access to information
▪ Improve customer retention through a better flow of information on order status and
tracking
Sales

▪
Management
LoB Sales – Order and Contract Management – sales order management and processing


▪ Provision of credit management functionality for ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Enhanced query performance by reducing select
sales now with the SAP Credit Management steps statements and by simplifying joins for headers and
application included in SAP S/4HANA Enterprise items, such as status and business data
Management ▪ Role with new, dedicated SAP Fiori apps:
— Internal Sales Representative ▪ Smaller memory footprint by streamlining document
▪ Foreign trade function now part of SAP S/4HANA for flow, eliminating index tables, and requiring fewer
international trade; provision of basic letter of credit For additional information on roles and apps, visit the SAP aggregates
function by integration with the SAP Treasury and Fiori apps reference library.
Risk Management application; and advanced letter of
credit function covered by SAP Treasury and Risk
Management
▪ Provision of revenue recognition functionality for

sales now with revenue accounting functionality
▪ Unified customer experience thanks to native

integration with SAP Hybris Commerce and SAP
Hybris Cloud for Customer solutions
Sales

▪
Management
LoB Sales – Order and Contract Management – billing and invoicing


Purpose Benefits
▪ Simplify billing operations ▪ Improve customer satisfaction by reducing billing errors
▪ Streamline the order-to-cash process ▪ Decrease days sales outstanding and improve cash flow through automated billing
and invoicing functions
Sales

▪
Management
LoB Sales – Order and Contract Management – billing and invoicing



▪ Handling of clearance of condition contracts through ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Smaller memory footprint by streamlining document
the settlement management feature steps flow, eliminating index tables, and requiring fewer
aggregates
▪ Availability of extended sales and distribution rebate ▪ Role with new, dedicated SAP Fiori apps:
processing only to customers using the SAP Trade — Billing Clerk ▪ Enhanced query performance by reducing select
Promotion Management application statements and by simplifying joins for headers and
For additional information on roles and apps, visit the SAP items, such as status and business data
▪ Ability of customers to choose to use the new output Fiori apps reference library.
management approach leveraging Adobe Document ▪ Increased robustness of rebate processing by
Server and Adobe Forms for customer invoice decreasing redundancies created with aggregates
processing
▪ Ability of the rebates feature of SAP S/4HANA to run
▪ New functionality that allows customers to convert without an index table
external billing data, sales orders, sales contracts,
debit memo request, and outbound deliveries into
one invoice
▪ Integration with payment hub to enable electronic

and digital payments
Sales

▪
Management
LoB Sales – Order and Contract Management – claims, returns, and refund management

Purpose Benefits
▪ Streamline complaints and returns process ▪ Reduce customer service and support costs by automating and streamlining returns
processes
▪ Trigger follow-on actions, such as inspection of returned material, resolution of
issues, processing of a refund, or exchange of materials due to damage or incorrect ▪ Improve services by using the knowledge gained from successfully resolved
delivery complaints
Sales

▪
Management
LoB Sales – Order and Contract Management – claims, returns, and refund management


▪ Monitoring of customer complaints; acceleration and ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Smaller memory footprint by streamlining document
management of customer returns steps flow, eliminating index tables, and requiring fewer
aggregates
▪ Availability of advanced customer returns ▪ SAP intends to develop SAP Fiori apps for the returns
management with simplified configuration and use of and refund clerk in a future release of SAP S/4HANA. ▪ Enhanced query performance by reducing select
intuitive SAP Fiori apps dealing with return process — Returns & Refund Clerk statements and by simplifying joins for headers and
items, such as status and business data
.
Sales

▪
Management
LoB Sales – Order and Contract Management – sales monitoring and analytics

Purpose Benefits
▪ Predict sales accurately and set realistic sales goals ▪ Reduce sales and operations costs with real-time, enhanced insights and greater
efficiency
▪ Set targets on various dimensions, aggregate account and opportunity planning
information, and work with rolling sales forecasts ▪ Improve on-time, on-budget delivery performance by accelerating operations
Sales

▪
Management
LoB Sales – Order and Contract Management – sales monitoring and analytics


▪ To reduce the IT footprint and increase response ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Smaller memory footprint by streamlining document
time, SAP intends to provide functionality similar to steps flow, eliminating index tables, and requiring fewer
logistics and sales information systems in SAP aggregates
S/4HANA, with database analytics provided through ▪ Insight into the performance of the order-to-cash
OData and core data services (CDS) views. process by using the overview page of the order-to-cash ▪ Enhanced query performance by reducing select
process monitor statements and by simplifying joins for headers and
▪ Ability for power users to define new reports based items, such as status and business data
on the CDS-based order-to-cash virtual data model ▪ Roles with new, dedicated SAP Fiori apps:
— Sales Manager ▪ Analytics that are built on core database views
▪ Availability of new KPIs for sales contracts, customer
— Order-to-Cash Process Manager
returns, outbound deliveries, and credit and debit
— Internal Sales Representative
memo requests
Sales

▪
Management
LoB Sales – Commodity Management – commodity sales

COMMODITY
Commodity Sales
MANAGEMENT
Purpose Benefits
▪ Enable selling of commodities and help create commodity contracts based on ▪ Increase sales force efficiency by simplifying the selling process, from contract
market quotes creation through final invoicing and audits
▪ Automate price calculations and streamline the invoicing process ▪ Reduce sales cost by expanding the ability to fix forecasted prices with financial
derivative instruments
▪ Automate commodity-based contractual pricing and enable provisional, differential,
and final invoicing ▪ Reduce risk from commodities exposure by increasing visibility into unhedged
commodity positions from forecasted sales volumes using accurate risk reporting
Sales

▪
Management
LoB Sales – Commodity Management – commodity sales

COMMODITY
Commodity Sales
MANAGEMENT

▪ Definition of commodity pricing engine (CPE) formula ▪ Easy-to-use formula assembly definition using business ▪ Enhancement of derivative contract specification key
and terms in configuration or, alternatively, as master rules framework plus (BRF+) technology, such as better to allow industry standard terms in market data
data from document creation visualization and allowing the use of ranges, * as capture and CPE formula definition
placeholders, and so on
▪ Simplified CPE reference date routine (application ▪ Deprecation of redundant commodity master and
independent); ability to use the same formula and ▪ Support for visual harmonization of commodity market data entities (quotation source, type, or
term for sales as well as for purchasing management transactions by a new visual theme called name)
“Belize” in SAP Fiori 2.0
▪ Simplified use of factory calendar in CPE ▪ Deprecation of unused CPE routines
▪ CPE formula assembly using BRF+, state-of-the-art

technology
▪ Process simplification through reduction of queues

and background processing, resulting in higher
performance and better reliability

Sales

▪
Management
LoB Sales – Sales Performance Management – incentive and commission management

SALES Incentive and

PERFORMANCE Commission
MANAGEMENT Management
Purpose Benefits
▪ Motivate sales teams and drive revenue with compelling incentive and compensation ▪ Increase sales force efficiency by focusing your sales resources on the most
schemes strategic portfolio
▪ Implement compelling variable compensation programs with incentive and ▪ Increase revenue from new products or services by focusing your sales teams on
commission management new-product introductions
▪ Retain and motivate top performers by building and maintaining an accurate, ▪ Increase sales incentive management productivity of FTEs by automating routine
strategically aligned compensation plan tasks and providing an intuitive tool to align incentives with strategic priorities
▪ Enable your organization to handle commission and incentive programs for ▪ Increase channel management productivity of FTEs by automating routine tasks and
employees and partners by automating routine tasks providing an intuitive tool to align incentives and commissions with strategic
priorities
Sales

▪
Management
LoB Sales – Sales Performance Management – incentive and commission management

SALES Incentive and

PERFORMANCE Commission
MANAGEMENT Management

SAP S/4HANA steps
SAP S/4HANA - LoB Service
Service Parts Service Parts

Service Parts Management Fulfillment WarehousingC
Service Master Data and Agreement Service Execution Service Task List
Technical Assets,
Structures, and
Warranty
Service and
Maintenance
Service Contract Service Request
Management and DeliveryC and CatalogsC
HistoryC
Management
PlanC
Claims, Returns,
Service Billing and Service Service Planning Complaints Service Order
Service Operations and Processes and Refund
SettlementC FulfillmentC
Service InitiationC
and SchedulingC Management Management
ManagementC
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Services

LoB Service – Service Operations and Processes – claims, returns, and refund management
▪ Service Master Data & Agreement
Management
▪ Service Operations & Processes
▪ Service Parts Management
▪ Service Management
▪ Customer Service and Support
SERVICE Claims, Returns,

Service Billing and Service Fulfillment Service Initiation Service Planning Complaints Service Order
OPERATIONS and Refund
Settlement and Scheduling Management Management
AND PROCESSES Management
Purpose Benefits
▪ Streamline complaints and returns process ▪ Reduce customer service and support costs by automating and streamlining returns
processes
▪ Trigger follow-on actions, such as inspection of returned material, resolution of
issues, processing of a refund, or exchange of materials due to damage or incorrect ▪ Improve services by using the knowledge gained from successfully resolved
delivery complaints
Services

LoB Service – Service Operations and Processes – claims, returns, and refund management
Management


▪ SAP intends to develop features for advanced returns ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Smaller memory footprint by streamlining document
management, including monitoring complaints and steps flow, eliminating index tables, and requiring fewer
managing customer returns. aggregates
▪ SAP intends to develop SAP Fiori apps for the returns
and refund clerk in a future release of SAP S/4HANA. ▪ Enhanced query performance by reducing select
— Returns & Refund Clerk statements and by simplifying joins for headers and
items, such as status and business data
Services

LoB Service – Service Operations and Processes – service billing and settlement
Management

Purpose Benefits
▪ Generate accurate bills for services performed, including materials used ▪ Improve the accuracy of billing data with automated invoicing processes
▪ Create periodic bills to provision regularly scheduled services ▪ Reduce the number of invoicing disputes by using documents that increase the
transparency and flexibility of billing and cost-settlement processes
▪ Deliver a complete set of billing documents, such as invoices, credit statements, and
debit memos ▪ Enhance customer satisfaction by offering a wide range of invoicing methods to
meet customer requirements
▪ Lower the number of service days sales outstanding by quickly and accurately
capturing service data and connecting service delivery with billing processes
▪ Increase service revenue contribution by providing timely service billing
Services

LoB Service – Service Operations and Processes – service billing and settlement
Management


▪ Capabilities of the SAP HANA platform and database ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Integration with a simplified data model of
analytics, and complement traditional service reports
▪ Proven user interface for Web and desktop client
Services

LoB Service – Service Operations and Processes – service fulfillment
Management

Purpose Benefits
▪ Create a flexible approach to service delivery, addressing the unique financial and ▪ Optimize service delivery by selecting the appropriate delivery approach
logistical considerations of each request
▪ Increase customer satisfaction by enhancing the timeliness and accuracy of service
▪ Manage, monitor, and complete the service process by using a standardized service execution
request
▪ Improve service-level performance and compliance with greater insight into
▪ Capture internal and external resource consumption and efforts required to customer requests
successfully execute a service order
▪ Reduce the cost of customer service and support by integrating service control with
▪ Fulfill complex service and support requests quickly and efficiently core business processes, which enhances operational efficiency
▪ Improve service agility by using targeted operational insights
Services

LoB Service – Service Operations and Processes – service fulfillment
Management


Services

LoB Service – Service Operations and Processes – service initiation
Management

Purpose Benefits
▪ Trigger service requests efficiently, regardless of the original communications ▪ Streamline service processing with one central entry point for all service requests
channel
▪ Improve control of service processes through a single starting point for service
▪ Assess service requirements quickly and determine customer entitlement to service initiation
accurately
▪ Enhance the execution quality of service processing, thanks to a rapid assessment of
▪ Automate requests for service, triggering service processing and delivery a customer’s service entitlement
Services

LoB Service – Service Operations and Processes – service initiation
Management


Services

LoB Service – Service Operations and Processes – service planning and scheduling
Management

Purpose Benefits
▪ Optimize service planning through improved job preparation and scheduling of work ▪ Reduce the cost of customer service and support through automation of key
process steps
▪ Speed request processing with predefined service activities that enable rapid service
planning and scheduling ▪ Improve compliance with service-level agreements by prioritizing and managing
service activities according to contract terms
▪ Calculate service budgets quickly using predefined cost rates, parts consumption,
and planned external expenses
▪ Improve service scheduling by considering contractual commitments and resource

availability
Services

LoB Service – Service Operations and Processes – service planning and scheduling
Management


▪ Reduction in the cost of customer service and ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Integration with a simplified data model of
support through automation of key process steps steps SAP S/4HANA
▪ Improvement in compliance with service-level ▪ Proven user interface for Web and desktop client
agreements by prioritizing and managing service
activities according to contract terms
Services

LoB Service – Service Operations and Processes – complaints management
Management

Purpose Benefits
▪ Manage customer interactions smoothly based on complete visibility of customers, ▪ Reduce cost of researching and assisting customers by providing employees with
service, and maintenance history to minimize complaints service and maintenance history, customer data. and service contract data
▪ Initiate follow-up actions with service contracts based on standardized task lists to ▪ Increase service contract renewals by enhancing an employees’ capability of
manage complaint resolution responding to customers’ needs when interacting with them
▪ Track the status of the follow-up actions and follow through the service process end ▪ Reduce operations cost (services) by automatically adding follow-up activities
to end
Services

LoB Service – Service Operations and Processes – complaints management
Management


Services

LoB Service – Service Operations and Processes – service order management
Management

Purpose Benefits
▪ Plan services with appropriate resources and a standardized list of required ▪ Reduce service delivery and support cost by referencing relevant information such
materials as service requests and bills of material
▪ Execute services smoothly by ensuring availability of required materials through ▪ Reduce services and maintenance parts inventory by integrating with inventory
checks and integrated procurement management and material requirements planning to optimize stock level
▪ Control costs through granular recording and aggregated real-time views of costs for
services provided to customers
Services

LoB Service – Service Operations and Processes – service order management
Management


Services

LoB Service – Service Master Data and Agreement Management – service execution and delivery
Management
SERVICE MASTER Technical Assets,

Service Execution Service Task List Warranty Service and Service Contract Service Request
DATA AND Structures, and
and Delivery and Catalogs Management Maintenance Plan Management Management
AGREE. MGMT History
Purpose Benefits
▪ Deliver best-in-class service, enhancing company brand and image ▪ Increase customer satisfaction by enhancing the timeliness and accuracy of service
process execution
▪ Provide managers with full transparency into the entire service process, from initial
contact and scheduling to execution and billing ▪ Improve service-level performance and compliance with greater insight into
customer requests
▪ Resolve customer service requests quickly by providing front-line workers with
actionable insight ▪ Reduce the cost of customer service and support by enhancing operational
efficiency
▪ Lower the number of service days sales outstanding by accurately capturing service
data and connecting service delivery with billing processes
▪ Decrease unplanned service effort by increasing the ability to predict service

demand
Services

LoB Service – Service Master Data and Agreement Management – service execution and delivery
Management

AGREE. MGMT History

Services

LoB Service – Service Master Data and Agreement Management – service task list and catalogs
Management

AGREE. MGMT History
Purpose Benefits
▪ Bundle standardized services for faster copying and execution, rather than creating ▪ Reduce planning efforts significantly by using predefined, ready-to-use task lists at
new services from scratch any level of task detail
▪ Use standard services as building blocks when defining the scope of work for ▪ Calculate the cost of services more efficiently based on the scope of work
regularly scheduled contract services
▪ Define and specify services, including internal offerings and procurement of external
services, in service catalogs
Services

LoB Service – Service Master Data and Agreement Management – service task list and catalogs
Management

AGREE. MGMT History

Services

LoB Service – Service Master Data and Agreement Management – technical assets, structures, and history
Management

AGREE. MGMT History
Purpose Benefits
▪ Collect and store technical master data on a granular level, from simple serial- ▪ Improve overall service delivery with insight enabled by high-quality master data
number records to enriched equipment information
▪ Enhance customer support through highly accurate information about the customer
▪ Update dynamic technical attributes, such as measurement counters, and their installed base
value readings
▪ Increase the productivity of service technicians by giving them the ability to access
▪ Build hierarchical or networked relationship structures among technical assets service master data on any device
▪ Maintain the technical history of master data changes, service work activities, and ▪ Improve service efficiency due to the structural flexibility of customer asset data and
measurement readings to support analysis and legal compliance the ability to clearly identify assets covered by service agreements
Services

LoB Service – Service Master Data and Agreement Management – technical assets, structures, and history
Management

AGREE. MGMT History

Services

LoB Service – Service Master Data and Agreement Management – warranty management
Management

AGREE. MGMT History
Purpose Benefits
▪ Improve customer satisfaction by streamlining the entire warranty claims process ▪ Enhance flexibility to handle warranty conditions and entitlements for both customer
and vendor claims processing
▪ Handle warranty claims efficiently for basic conditions or specific requirements,
such as time-dependent or performance-dependent limits defined in warranties ▪ Reduce risk of missed warranty claims through improved monitoring of timelines for
claims processes
▪ Perform basic checks for warranty claims, whether they result from a customer
message, service or maintenance order, or billing request ▪ Decrease cost of claims assessment and follow-up processing, thanks to
streamlined claims-handling processes
▪ Increase processing efficiency by automating checks for basic warranty

commitments
Services

LoB Service – Service Master Data and Agreement Management – warranty management
Management

AGREE. MGMT History

▪ Capabilities of the SAP HANA platform and database ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Integration with a simplified data model of SAP
that deliver new business insight, such as operational steps S/4HANA
Services

LoB Service – Service Master Data and Agreement Management – service and maintenance plan
Management

AGREE. MGMT History
Purpose Benefits
▪ Combine the defined scope of work and the contractual delivery obligation through a ▪ Reduce the service planning workload by initiating and monitoring the scheduling of
service or maintenance plan recurring events automatically
▪ Trigger recurring service events based on multiple scheduling strategies, including ▪ Increase the accuracy and reliability of budget planning with improved simulation
time and date and counter readings, such as operation hours and mileage and forecasting of service events
▪ Enhance service quality, thanks to less deviation between scheduling and execution
of service events
Services

LoB Service – Service Master Data and Agreement Management – service and maintenance plan
Management

AGREE. MGMT History

Services

LoB Service – Service Master Data and Agreement Management – service contract management
Management

AGREE. MGMT History
Purpose Benefits
▪ Equip employees with easy access to a holistic view of each customer’s entitlements ▪ Reduce cost of goods or services sold by minimizing complexity and manual
intervention in automatic transfer of contract information in follow-on processes
▪ Manage discounts and other pricing agreements to offer customers services with
appropriate pricing ▪ Increase service revenue by automatically applying terms according to service
contracts
▪ Fulfill service contracts accurately and minimize administrative overhead by using
service plans to manage recurring maintenance services ▪ Reduce cost of customer billing, credit, and collections by automatically processing
periodic billing according to service contracts
▪ Execute periodic billing automatically to efficiently manage revenue stream
Services

LoB Service – Service Master Data and Agreement Management – service contract management
Management

AGREE. MGMT History

Services

LoB Service – Service Master Data and Agreement Management – service request management
Management

AGREE. MGMT History
Purpose Benefits
▪ Gain quick access to service and maintenance history, customers entitlements, and ▪ Reduce cost of noncompliance to service contracts by automatically referencing
price arrangements while logging and managing service requests relevant service contracts
▪ Initiate follow-on processes generated from a standardized task list for managing ▪ Reduce operations cost (services) by automatically filling in fields related to
service requests customers and maintenance items such as equipment or facility
▪ Monitor and track the progress of these initiated service request tasks from the ▪ Reduce service delivery and support cost by automatically adding follow-on
request to completion activities through the standardized task list
Services

LoB Service – Service Master Data and Agreement Management – service request management
Management

AGREE. MGMT History

Services

LoB Service – Service Parts Management – service parts fulfillment
Management
SERVICE PARTS Service Parts Service Parts

MANAGEMENT Fulfillment Warehousing
Purpose Benefits
▪ Improve service parts planning, fulfillment, and customer service through integrated ▪ Increase customer satisfaction by providing on-time delivery of service parts, thanks
functionality for global parts sourcing, availability, and price optimization to accurate inventory
▪ Gain real-time visibility into service parts inventory across the supply chain ▪ Reduce sales and operations planning costs by increasing the profitability of
fulfillment operations for service parts
▪ Increase the efficiency of supply chains for service parts through aligned,
streamlined processes that address parts planning, warehousing, and fulfillment ▪ Improve on-time delivery by responding quickly and flexibly to customer demand
Services

LoB Service – Service Parts Management – service parts fulfillment
Management


Services

LoB Service – Service Parts Management – service parts warehousing
Management

Purpose Benefits
▪ Optimize warehousing activities for service parts, from inbound and outbound ▪ Increase inventory turnover and reduce days in inventory by optimizing use of
processing to distribution and storage available space
▪ Increase service levels and control cost by balancing capacity, maximizing ▪ Reduce inventory carrying costs by decreasing volume of goods stored and lowering
throughput, and effectively managing high order volumes logistics expense
▪ Streamline supply chain operations with enhanced alignment of parts planning,
warehousing, and fulfillment processes
Services

LoB Service – Service Parts Management – service parts warehousing
Management


SAP S/4HANA - LoB Marketing and LoB Commerce
Subscription Billing and Revenue Credit Collection
Invoicing
Receivables
Management and
Payment Handling
Document
Enterprise Information Management Presentment
Marketing and
Commerce
▪
Management
Enterprise Information Management
LoB Marketing and Commerce – Enterprise Information Management – document presentment
ENTERPRISE
Document
INFORMATION
Presentment
MANAGEMENT
Purpose Benefits
▪ Turn ordinary customer documents into powerful, personalized communication ▪ Increase revenue from cross-selling and up-selling by automatically embedding
tools offers and personalized messages into customer documents
▪ Create targeted messages and deliver consistent information by automating the ▪ Improve customer satisfaction by delivering relevant, personalized content and
creation and presentation of impactful documents, such as personalized campaigns, offers to customers
forms, and invoices
▪ Reduce marketing cost by automating the creation of personalized documents, such
▪ Generate offers effectively by embedding relevant cross-sell and up-sell messages as customer-specific marketing assets
with document presentment tools
Marketing and
Commerce
▪
Management
LoB Marketing and Commerce – Enterprise Information Management – document presentment
ENTERPRISE
Document
INFORMATION
Presentment
MANAGEMENT

SAP S/4HANA steps
Marketing and
Commerce
▪
Management
LoB Marketing and Commerce–Subscription Billing and Revenue Management – credit and collection management
SUBSCRIPTION Credit and Receivables

BILLING AND Collection Invoicing Management and
REVENUE MGMT Management Payment Handling
Purpose Benefits
▪ Tailor credit decisions and collection management processes to customer profiles ▪ Improve customer satisfaction by generating clear, easy-to-understand invoices for
with SAP S/4HANA all services on a single bill
▪ Automate customer care and dispute management for credit and collection ▪ Reduce application lifecycle management cost by consolidating multiple billing
management systems into one source
▪ Manage payments from multiple sources in one system and enable flexible payment ▪ Reduce days sales outstanding (one-time benefit) by making bills easier to
options understand to ensure prompt payment without disputes
▪ Manage worklists and analyze overdue items and dunning actions success rates with ▪ Reduce service and support cost by reducing billing-related inquiries with clear,
SAP Fiori apps consolidated billing
Marketing and
Commerce
▪
Management
LoB Marketing and Commerce–Subscription Billing and Revenue Management – credit and collection management


▪ No functional change in SAP S/4HANA ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process
steps

— Accounts Payable and Receivable Accountant
— Accounts Payable and Receivable Manager

Marketing and
Commerce
▪
Management
LoB Marketing and Commerce – Subscription Billing and Revenue Management – invoicing

Purpose Benefits
▪ Manage cash flow with simplified invoicing ▪ Reduce write-offs for uncollectible accounts receivable by extending credit and
delivering services based on proper credit scoring
▪ Enable the viewing and adjustment of invoices, as well as the generation of timely,
accurate invoices with SAP Fiori apps ▪ Reduce days sales outstanding (one-time benefit) by automating, continuously
analyzing, and optimizing credit scoring and collections strategies
▪ Accommodate third-party partnerships, and keep customers informed of
responsible parties for charges ▪ Reduce customer churn by properly evaluating a customer's ability to pay in
advance
▪ Increase transparency in the invoicing process, reduce enquiries, consolidate

invoicing and billing items from multiple lines of business, and save on printing and
mailing costs
Marketing and
Commerce
▪
Management
LoB Marketing and Commerce – Subscription Billing and Revenue Management – invoicing


steps

— Invoicing Manager (Convergent Invoicing)
— Invoicing Specialist (Convergent Invoicing)

Marketing and
Commerce
▪
Management
LoB Marketing and Commerce – Subscription Billing and Revenue Management – receivables management and payment handling

Purpose Benefits
▪ Manage receivables, payments, and reporting of high volumes of financial ▪ Reduce write-offs for uncollectible accounts receivable by making better decisions
transactions with SAP S/4HANA with a consolidated view of outstanding debts across multiple billing systems
▪ Streamline revenue collection and payment reconciliation with SAP Fiori apps ▪ Reduce days sales outstanding (one-time benefit) by automating the payment
reconciliation process and removing manual processing
▪ Automate receivables management and payments from multiple sources in one
system ▪ Reduce application lifecycle management cost by consolidating multiple bills into a
single invoice
▪ Manage customer accounts with flexible payment options, and avoid uncollected
revenue by integrating customer care and dispute management ▪ Reduce customer churn by properly processing payments and targeting collections
to customers who require it
Marketing and
Commerce
▪
Management
LoB Marketing and Commerce – Subscription Billing and Revenue Management – receivables management and payment handling


steps

— Accounts Payable and Receivable Accountant
— Accounts Payable and Receivable Manager

SAP S/4HANA - LoB Asset Management
Multiresource
Asset Operations and Maintenance Maintenance Planning
and SchedulingC ***
Maintenance,
Environment Health and Safety Incident
Environment, Health, and Safety Management Management Management
Safety, and
Permit to Work
Maintenance
Maintenance
Maintenance Management Execution
Planning and
Scheduling
Asset
Management
SAP ERP to SAP S/4HANA 1709 ▪ Environment, Health, and Safety
LoB Asset Management – Maintenance Management – maintenance execution

▪ Maintenance Management
Maintenance
MAINTENANCE Maintenance
Planning and
MANAGEMENT Execution
Scheduling
Purpose Benefits
▪ Execute maintenance plans to ensure optimal operation of ▪ Improve “wrench time” with proactive maintenance execution
enterprise assets
▪ Increase reliability of assets with the collection of accurate information
▪ Manage preventive or condition-based maintenance proactively
▪ Enhance safety and environmental compliance through integrated permit and work
▪ Perform maintenance activities that enhance safety, environmental, and operational clearance features
results
Asset
Management
LoB Asset Management – Maintenance Management – maintenance execution

Maintenance
Planning and
Scheduling

▪ Enhancement of technical object breakdown analysis ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Core data services (CDS) view for damage analysis,
(combines transactions MCI7, MCJB, and MCJC) steps location analysis, object statistics, planner group
analysis, and manufacturer analysis
▪ Simplified search and viewing of all master data and ▪ SAP intends to provide additional SAP Fiori apps to
transactional data from maintenance management support more efficient management of the breakdown ▪ SAP intends to provide more flexible and improved
maintenance process in a future release of SAP analytical capabilities to monitor the performance of
S/4HANA by improving information gathering and assets in a future release of SAP S/4HANA, helping to
reducing asset downtime. reduce risk through improved asset reliability.

— Maintenance Planner
— Maintenance Technician
— Employee – Maintenance Info

Asset
Management
LoB Asset Management – Maintenance Management – maintenance planning and scheduling

Maintenance
Planning and
Scheduling
Purpose Benefits
▪ Plan maintenance activities that will help enterprise assets run reliably ▪ Improve asset uptime with proactive maintenance planning and scheduling
▪ Schedule proactive preventive or condition-based maintenance tasks ▪ Reduce total cost of ownership by avoiding asset breakdowns
▪ Focus maintenance efforts on activities that enhance safety, environmental, and ▪ Enhance safety and environmental compliance through integrated permit and work
operational results clearance features
Asset
Management
LoB Asset Management – Maintenance Management – maintenance planning and scheduling

Maintenance
Planning and
Scheduling
▪ Mass update of material availability status for ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Core data services (CDS) view for damage
maintenance orders steps analysis, location analysis, object statistics,
▪ Roles with new, dedicated SAP Fiori apps: planner group analysis, and manufacturer analysis
▪ Enhancement of technical object breakdown
analysis (combines transactions MCI7, MCJB, and — Maintenance Planner ▪ SAP intends to provide more flexible and improved
MCJC) — Maintenance Planner – Resource Scheduling analytical capabilities to monitor the performance
— Maintenance Technician
of assets in a future release of SAP S/4HANA,
▪ Simplified search and viewing of all master data helping to reduce risk through improved asset
and transactional data from maintenance — Employee – Maintenance Info
reliability.
management For additional information on roles and apps, visit the SAP
Asset
Management
LoB Asset Management – Environment, Health, and Safety – environment management

ENVIRONMENT, Maintenance
HEALTH, AND Safety and Permit
Management Management Management
SAFETY to Work
Purpose Benefits
▪ Reduce environmental impact with comprehensive environment management ▪ Reduce environment, health, and safety (EH&S) penalties and fines by meeting
regulatory agency, industry, and corporate needs for emissions and other EH&S
▪ Comply with regulations, internal policies, and environmental operating permits, and regulations
reduce waste and emissions, with environment management software from SAP
that allows you to: ▪ Reduce write-offs for uncollectible accounts receivable by understanding and
— Define requirements and ensure timely completion of related tasks planning for regulatory and emissions risk management
— Collect, calculate, and process environmental emission data
— Record deviations and take corrective action
— Give plant managers a comprehensive view of environmental performance
Asset
Management
LoB Asset Management – Environment, Health, and Safety – environment management

SAFETY to Work

▪ Accelerated performance of daily environmental data ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ 17 equations related to 40 CFR Part 75 Emissions
processing steps Monitoring Policy Manual regarding continuous
emission monitoring
▪ Graphical user interface to manage emission data ▪ Scalable role assignment that leverages the location
hierarchy ▪ 8 predefined calculation methodologies for 40 CFR
▪ File-based emission data import Part 98, referred to as the Greenhouse Gas Reporting
▪ More scalable setup process with the new copy Program: calculation methodologies covering 56
▪ Support for hourly calculations compliance scenario feature single expressions from tier 1, tier 2, and tier 3 of 40
▪ Support of list substance synonyms and conditions ▪ Improved substance handling: new list and improved CFR Part 98 Subpart C and the conversion of CO2,
search features N2O and CH4 emissions into CO2 equivalents
▪ Delivered example methodologies for greenhouse gas
emission calculations ▪ Roles with new, dedicated SAP Fiori apps:
— Environmental Engineer
— Environmental Technician

Asset
Management
LoB Asset Management – Environment, Health, and Safety – health and safety management
SAFETY to Work
Purpose Benefits
▪ Reduce risks by taking a proactive approach to health and safety management ▪ Increase employee engagement by providing clear instructions to workers so that
they can take proper action to control risks
▪ Identify hazards, implement controls, and manage tasks to reduce risk and ensure
compliance with health and safety management software from SAP that can help ▪ Reduce environment, health, and safety (EH&S) penalties and fines by providing a
you: systematic way to identify, analyze, and control risks
— Prevent exposure to chemicals and workplace hazards by monitoring industrial
▪ Reduce unplanned downtime or outages by proactively identifying and mitigating
hygiene and health
safety risks to help ensure that production processes run more smoothly and
— Engage workers in health and safety efforts by providing easy access to chemical equipment is more reliable
safety information and running safety inspections
— Reduce operational risks by ensuring that plant managers have a comprehensive
view of risk data
Asset
Management
LoB Asset Management – Environment, Health, and Safety – health and safety management
SAFETY to Work

▪ Accelerated performance of daily health and safety ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ CDS views for detailed analysis of materials and
data processing steps chemicals in stock, including greenhouse gas
classification and hazardous ingredients
▪ Dedicated risk Identification process ▪ Roles with new, dedicated SAP Fiori apps:
— Industrial Hygienist ▪ Delivery of occupational exposure limit values with
▪ Monitoring of implementation of controls to mitigate good worldwide coverage (~70,000 limit values, ~100
risks — Hazardous Substance Manager
regulatory lists, and ~ 65 countries)
▪ Support of business unit–specific setup of risk
identification and assessment process
▪ Core data services (CDS)–based analytics to gain

better and faster insights into safety performance
Asset
Management
LoB Asset Management – Environment, Health, and Safety – incident management

SAFETY to Work
Purpose Benefits
▪ Identify and resolve safety issues and learn from incidents ▪ Reduce environment, health, and safety (EH&S) penalties and fines by supporting
comprehensive recording and managing of incidents and safety issues
▪ Provide intuitive entry forms that encourage participation from all employees
▪ Increase employee engagement by encouraging employee participation so that they
▪ Offer a comprehensive incident management process that enables subject-matter can have a voice and help create a culture of safety
experts to thoroughly respond to, investigate, analyze, correct, prevent, and report
incidents ▪ Reduce unplanned downtime or outages by proactively addressing safety issues to
help ensure that production processes run more smoothly and equipment is more
▪ Gain insight into all safety issues, leading to better preventive actions and a reliable
reduction in the likelihood and severity of incidents
Asset
Management
LoB Asset Management – Environment, Health, and Safety – incident management

SAFETY to Work

▪ Accelerated performance of daily incident ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ CDS views for detailed analysis of incidents, injuries,
management data processing steps and illnesses, including incident root causes,
locations, plants, organizations, units, and time data.
▪ Core data services (CDS)–based analytics for ▪ Role with new, dedicated SAP Fiori apps:
detailed analysis of incidents, injuries, and illnesses — Industrial Hygienist
data
Asset
Management
LoB Asset Management – Environment, Health, and Safety – maintenance safety and permit to work
SAFETY to Work
Purpose Benefits
▪ Control maintenance work through clear safety instructions and permits ▪ Reduce EH&S penalties and fines by enabling streamlined work order planning and
execution, including effective safety measures
▪ Link environment, health, and safety (EH&S) information to technical equipment and
plant maintenance tasks, enabling : ▪ Reduce fixed asset service and maintenance costs by enabling streamlined work
order planning and execution, including effective safety measures
– Plant managers to automatically generate work order safety plans and concrete
safety measures ▪ Reduce unplanned downtime or outages by controlling maintenance work through
permits and lock-out/tag-out procedures
– Maintenance workers to receive easy-to-read instructions on their job cards, so
they can protect themselves from a variety of hazards on the shop floor
▪ Support flexible levels of permits natively integrated with the work order process in
enterprise asset management
▪ Automate the permit process, enforcing fully auditable procedures that promote
consistent behavior
▪ Integrate flexible levels of permits into the work order process to help ensure
efficient execution of maintenance work
Asset
Management
LoB Asset Management – Environment, Health, and Safety – maintenance safety and permit to work
SAFETY to Work

▪ Accelerated performance of daily work permit ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process
processing, as well of related safety certificates, such steps
as isolation certificates for lock-out/tag-out
procedures ▪ Improved handling (fewer clicks) for user processing of
safety certificates
▪ Full user status enablement for work permits and
safety certificates ▪ Dedicated mobile work clearance management (WCM)
app for lock-out/tag-out procedures
▪ New functions for requesting and printing isolation
certificates
SAP S/4HANA - LoB R&D/Engineering
Monitoring of
Capital Portfolio Capital Project
Asset Operations and Maintenance Management Management
Capital
Investments
Product Product
Safety Data Sheet
Dangerous Goods Marketability and Compliance for
Product Safety and Stewardship Management Chemical
and Label
Discrete
Management
Compliance IndustriesC ***
Integrated
Advanced Variant Authoring Tool Handover to Model-Based Integrated Recipe
Product Lifecyle Management Configuration Integration Manufacturing
Idea Management
Enterprise
Product Costing Product
Development
Development
Enterprise Portfolio and Project Portfolio Project

Project Financials
for Commercial
Project Issue and
Change
Project Resource
IT Project and
Resource
IT Project
Portfolio
Management Management Connectivity
Projects Management
Portfolio Project Resource
Management for Management for Management for
Commercial Commercial Commercial
Projects Projects Projects
Product
Basic Variant
Product Development Development
Configuration
Foundation
Project Financials Project Logistics

Project Control Control Control
Production BOM Recipe/Routing

Product Engineering Management Management
R&D/Engineering

▪
Asset Operations and Maintenance
Enterprise Portfolio and Project
Management
LoB R&D/Engineering – Product Engineering – production BOM management

▪ Product Lifecycle Management
▪ Product Safety and Stewardship
▪ Project Control
▪ Product Development
PRODUCT Production BOM Recipe/Routing

ENGINEERING Management Management
Purpose Benefits
▪ Create a complete product description in the bill of materials ▪ Minimize the risk of creating products with the wrong parts
▪ Enable the production engineer to systematically and completely define the product
▪ Help the production engineer define product changes
R&D/Engineering

▪
Management
LoB R&D/Engineering – Product Engineering – production BOM management

▪ Project Control


▪ Use of BOM data to create a production version, ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Enhancement of existing tables with versioning fields
eliminating confusion over correct product data steps
▪ Choice of most recent value when selecting a valid ▪ Role with new, dedicated SAP Fiori apps:
BOM item to ensure accuracy — BOM Engineer
▪ Availability of BOM version management in parallel to For additional information on roles and apps, visit the SAP
date validity–controlled BOM Fiori apps reference library.
▪ Effective change management that supports creation

of change numbers and navigation to different
change states of BOM from within the application
▪ Automatic save of BOM in draft mode through draft

support functionality until final save of BOM is done
R&D/Engineering

▪
Management
LoB R&D/Engineering – Product Engineering – recipe/routing management

▪ Project Control

Purpose Benefits
▪ Describe process steps to be executed to create products ▪ Streamline production through integration with other resource planning
functionality, such as quality management and controlling
▪ Specify details about work centers where operations are carried out
▪ Increase insight through tracking of changes
▪ List required production resources and tools
R&D/Engineering

▪
Management
LoB R&D/Engineering – Product Engineering – recipe/routing management

▪ Project Control


▪ New functionality available, such as shop floor routing ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process
steps

— Production Engineer
— BOM Engineer

R&D/Engineering

▪
Management
LoB R&D/Engineering – Project Control – project financials control

▪ Project Control
PROJECT Project Financials Project Logistics

CONTROL Control Control
Purpose Benefits
▪ Manage project financials effectively and deliver projects within budget ▪ Reduce project delivery cost by automating the management of financial
performance
▪ Define work breakdown structures accurately, creating a basis for hierarchical
project accounting ▪ Improve operational efficiency through integration of project controls with core
business processes
▪ Plan costs and budgets efficiently and track actual versus planned costs
▪ Anticipate financial risks and avoid cost overruns by performing ad hoc analysis and
▪ Monitor progress and financial performance of projects, identifying deviations and calculations
at-risk activities or issues
▪ Improve resource productivity and project profitability with data-driven insight
R&D/Engineering

▪
Management
LoB R&D/Engineering – Project Control – project financials control

▪ Project Control


▪ Optimization of project financial processes through ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Stability of core data model to facilitate a simple
simplification provided by the SAP S/4HANA Finance steps (except the initialization of business graphics, such migration for existing customers
solution as the network graphic or hierarchy graphic, or
transactions containing graphics, such as the project ▪ Core data services (CDS) views for master data of
For more information on simplification provided in SAP planning board, no longer supported in a SAP GUI for milestone, project definition, and WBS elements
S/4HANA Finance and project financial control, see the Java or HTML environment)
Simplification List for SAP S/4HANA.
— Project Financial Controller

R&D/Engineering

▪
Management
LoB R&D/Engineering – Project Control – project logistics control

▪ Project Control

Purpose Benefits
▪ Deliver high-quality projects on time and within the estimated scope ▪ Improve project performance by minimizing delays and preventing business
disruption
▪ Define project structures with appropriate work breakdown and network structures
to support project logistics planning and execution ▪ Enhance delivery performance with insights into project cost, time, scope, and
quality
▪ Plan and schedule all project activities, resource demands, and required materials
▪ Increase operational efficiency through integration of project logistics with core
▪ Trigger and control all procurement processes for internal and external resources operational processes
▪ Understand all logistics-related execution details ▪ Improve resource productivity and project profitability with data-driven insight
R&D/Engineering

▪
Management
LoB R&D/Engineering – Project Control – project logistics control

▪ Project Control


▪ Availability of long material numbers and dedicated ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Stability of the core data model to facilitate simple
industry functions, such as grouping, pegging, and steps (except the initialization of business graphics, such migration for existing customers
distribution in standard as the network graphic or hierarchy graphic, or
transactions containing graphics, such as the project ▪ Core data services (CDS) views for master data of
▪ Optimization of project logistics processes through planning board, no longer supported in a SAP GUI for network, network activity, and material component
simplification provided by the SAP S/4HANA Java or HTML environment) overview
Manufacturing solution
For more information on simplification provided in SAP
— Project Logistics Controller
S/4HANA Manufacturing and project logistics control,
see the Simplification List for SAP S/4HANA. For additional information on roles and apps, visit the SAP
R&D/Engineering

▪
Management
LoB R&D/Engineering – Product Development – product development foundation

▪ Project Control
PRODUCT Product
Basic Variant
DEVELOPMENT Development
Configuration
Foundation
Purpose Benefits
▪ Create new, individualized product offerings for an increasingly demanding ▪ Reduce time to market for new products by increasing the reuse of components and
customer base providing product design and manufacturing information sooner, shortening
development time
▪ Define all design requirements and constraints while maintaining rigorous design
standards ▪ Lower the cost of engineering changes with a platform that supports cross-
enterprise innovation and product development processes
▪ Produce high-quality goods that deliver value to customers
▪ Increase innovation and market reach by managing the design process with a
consistent, configurable product model
R&D/Engineering

▪
Management
LoB R&D/Engineering – Product Development – product development foundation

▪ Project Control
PRODUCT Product
Basic Variant
Configuration
Foundation

▪ Field extension of characteristic values integrated ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Integration of classification and configuration data in
into classification and variant configuration steps SAP S/4HANA embedded analytics
processes
— BOM Engineer
— Recipe Developer
— Systems Engineer

R&D/Engineering

▪
Management
LoB R&D/Engineering – Product Development – basic variant configuration

▪ Project Control
PRODUCT Product
Basic Variant
Configuration
Foundation
Purpose Benefits
▪ Support sales and manufacturing processes with integrated variant configuration ▪ Increase sales force efficiency by a higher level of tool support within order
configuration to allow the sales force to focus on selling
▪ Improve your company's product engineering, sales, and manufacturing
performance for integrated variant configuration and classification. ▪ Reduce order management cost by embedding variant configuration into the order
entry process, reducing order configuration activities
▪ Enable your business processes to handle highly individualized products in
engineering, sales, quality management, and manufacturing
R&D/Engineering

▪
Management
LoB R&D/Engineering – Product Development – basic variant configuration

▪ Project Control
PRODUCT Product
Basic Variant
Configuration
Foundation

into classification and variant configuration steps SAP S/4HANA embedded analytics using core data
processes services (CDS) views
▪ Disabling of “actions” (documented as obsolete even

earlier); use of actions still works for existing models
▪ Disabling of concept “classification used as a

selection condition” in BOMs; use of concept still
works for existing models
For more information on adaptations or changes, see

the Simplification List for SAP S/4HANA.
R&D/Engineering

▪
Management
LoB R&D/Engineering – Enterprise Portfolio and Project Management – portfolio management

▪ Project Control
Project Financials Project Issue and IT Project and IT Project Portfolio Mgmt for
Portfolio Project Project Resource
ENTERPRISE for Commercial Change Resource Portfolio Commercial
Management Connectivity Management Management
PORTFOLIO AND Projects Management Management Management Projects
PROJECT MGMT
Project Mgmt for Resource Mgmt
Commercial for Commercial
Projects Projects
Purpose Benefits
▪ Align project portfolios with business goals while analyzing risk and performance in ▪ Reduce time to market for new products by tracking project milestones and
real time with SAP S/4HANA deadlines in real time
▪ Invest in the right projects by aligning your project portfolio with enterprise strategy ▪ Increase revenue from new products or services by enabling decision makers to
quickly identify the most profitable initiatives
▪ Identify the projects that can generate the most business value by instantly scoring
and ranking proposals against each other ▪ Reduce commercialization cost for new products or services by offering insight into
a portfolio's health and status, and by comparing planned and actual budgets and
▪ Gain rapid insights into the performance of your entire project portfolio through real- deadlines
time analytics and monitoring
R&D/Engineering

▪
Management
LoB R&D/Engineering – Enterprise Portfolio and Project Management – portfolio management

▪ Project Control
PROJECT MGMT
Projects Projects

▪ Integration of portfolio management functionality into ▪ All information in one place, enabling the right decisions ▪ Stability of core data model to facilitate a simple
SAP S/4HANA, removing the need to install a for stage gate–driven development projects with migration for existing customers
separate add-on as for previous versions embedded analytical insights and automation
▪ Optimized data model to reduce data redundancy and
▪ Live tracking of financial project KPIs by leveraging in- ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process to improve performance
memory technology of SAP HANA steps
▪ Linking of ideas with project proposals
▪ Ability to manage large number of portfolio items ▪ SAP Fiori launchpad to directly access:
through in-memory technology of SAP HANA — User-specific portfolio items or initiatives
▪ Monitoring of actual, planned, and forecasted project — Buckets
costs directly in portfolio view — Portfolio administration

R&D/Engineering

▪
Management
LoB R&D/Engineering – Enterprise Portfolio and Project Management – project connectivity

▪ Project Control
PROJECT MGMT
Projects Projects
Purpose Benefits
▪ Drive project success by integrating all relevant, live information enterprise-wide with ▪ Increase portfolio and project management efficiency of FTEs by offering instant
SAP S/4HANA access to accurate resource requirement information when disparate project
management tools are used
▪ Gain an integrated, real-time view across your portfolio by incorporating external
project management tools ▪ Reduce time to market for new products by giving the right real-time information to
the right people at the right time to make smart decisions in the moment
▪ Improve efficiency by automating processes, simplifying project management, and
synchronizing project data to form a single source of truth ▪ Reduce unplanned downtime or outages by providing accurate, real-time
information to project planners so they can prevent and manage unplanned activities
▪ Reduce cost by identifying resource requirements and variances using your tool of
choice ▪ Reduce engineering change cost by having live, accurate insights into project
scheduling and resource requirements to reduce time and cost variances
R&D/Engineering

▪
Management
LoB R&D/Engineering – Enterprise Portfolio and Project Management – project connectivity

▪ Project Control
PROJECT MGMT
Projects Projects

▪ Bi-directional synchronization of project information ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Sample integration solution (SIS) for exchanging
in SAP S/4HANA with external scheduling tool (SAP steps project information between SAP Portfolio and Project
Enterprise Project Connection application) Management for SAP S/4HANA and third-party
scheduling tools
▪ Integration of SAP Portfolio and Project Management Fiori apps reference library.
for SAP S/4HANA with Oracle Primavera
▪ Integration of SAP Portfolio and Project Management

for SAP S/4HANA with Microsoft Project Server
R&D/Engineering

▪
Management
LoB R&D/Engineering – Enterprise Portfolio and Project Management – project financials for commercial projects
▪ Project Control
PROJECT MGMT
Projects Projects
Purpose Benefits
▪ Plan and forecast quantities, costs, and revenues throughout the project lifecycle ▪ Improve profitability by improved transparency of cost drivers and advanced cost-
tracking capabilities
▪ Plan internal labor, materials, equipment, subcontractors, expenses, and so on
▪ Increase portfolio and project management efficiency of FTES by combining user-
▪ Use a bid structure during bid estimation as the basis for cost and revenue planning friendly user interfaces with integrated project accounting and advanced financial
▪ Automate project forecasting processes through defined business rules and enable estimating, planning, and forecasting functions
manual overrides of the forecast
▪ Perform project cash flow planning based on the time-phased cost and revenue plan
R&D/Engineering

▪
Management
LoB R&D/Engineering – Enterprise Portfolio and Project Management – project financials for commercial projects
▪ Project Control
PROJECT MGMT
Projects Projects

▪ Integration of commercial project management ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process
functionality into SAP S/4HANA, removing the need steps
to install a separate add-on as for previous versions
▪ Application to plan and forecast quantities, costs, and

revenues throughout the project lifecycle (full
functionality as in previous add-on)
▪ Integration with project structure from project

system or SAP Portfolio and Project Management
▪ Distribution of quantities, costs, and revenues based

on predefined distribution keys
R&D/Engineering

▪
Management
LoB R&D/Engineering – Enterprise Portfolio and Project Management – project issue and change management
▪ Project Control
PROJECT MGMT
Projects Projects
Purpose Benefits
▪ Document and track project issues and changes ▪ Increase billable revenue from project changes by enabling project managers to
identify project deviations and cost drivers in time to take corrective measures
▪ Manage activities that are needed to resolve issues or to process changes
▪ Increase percentage of projects on time, within budget, and within scope by
▪ Automate approval processes for changes identifying project-related issues in a timely manner, managing project change
▪ Integrate cost and revenue planning for changes with overall project planning and requests and reducing the number of unapproved project changes
forecasting ▪ Reduce revenue loss due to compliance issues by capturing, clarifying, and
monitoring project-related issues and their impact on project execution
R&D/Engineering

▪
Management
LoB R&D/Engineering – Enterprise Portfolio and Project Management – project issue and change management
▪ Project Control
PROJECT MGMT
Projects Projects

▪ Integration of commercial project management ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process
functionality into SAP S/4HANA, removing the need steps
to install a separate add-on as for previous versions
▪ Application to plan and forecast quantities, costs, and

revenues throughout the project lifecycle (full
functionality as in previous add-on)
▪ Integration with project structure from project

system or SAP Portfolio and Project Management
R&D/Engineering

▪
Management
LoB R&D/Engineering – Enterprise Portfolio and Project Management – project management

▪ Project Control
PROJECT MGMT
Projects Projects
Purpose Benefits
▪ Plan, execute, and monitor projects in real time to minimize deviations in schedule, ▪ Increase portfolio and project management efficiency of FTEs by optimizing
cost, and scope portfolios, project schedules, roles, and resources
▪ Provide live insights into project cost, time, scope, and quality performance through ▪ Improve gross margin by monitoring a project's status in real time throughout its
integration with SAP S/4HANA lifecycle to optimize its value and ROI
▪ Manage the resources, schedule, and financial performance for each project phase, ▪ Reduce time to market for new products by accelerating the implementation of
from initiation through closure planned and scheduled project activities
▪ Minimize delays and prevent business interruptions by monitoring the progress of ▪ Reduce commercialization cost of new products or services by reducing the costs of
projects in real time planning, financing, and monitoring projects
▪ Access project information through role-based user interfaces
R&D/Engineering

▪
Management
LoB R&D/Engineering – Enterprise Portfolio and Project Management – project management

▪ Project Control
PROJECT MGMT
Projects Projects

▪ Integration of project management functionality ▪ SAP Fiori apps “My Tasks” and “My Checklist Items” for ▪ Stability of core data model to facilitate a simpler
into SAP S/4HANA, removing the need to install a project team members to access project overview page migration for existing customers
separate add-on as for previous versions to review status and exceptions for projects assigned to
individual as project manager ▪ Optimized data model to reduce data redundancy and
▪ Tracking of milestones and percentage of to improve performance
completion through project progress monitor ▪ SAP Fiori apps to access projects or tasks as a
substitute ▪ Integration with SAP Product Lifecycle Management
▪ Simplified access for project members to confirm objects such as engineering change request, material
tasks and check list items ▪ Roles with new, dedicated SAP Fiori apps: master, and recipes
— Project Manager
▪ Traffic lights to indicate issues with project ▪ Sharing and collaboration on project documents in a
schedule, costs, staffing, and quality — Project Team Member secure cloud environment accessible anywhere on
For additional information on roles and apps, visit the SAP any device (SAP Document Center solution)
▪ Visibility into actual project costs by using one
integrated application
▪ Direct and accurate access to project financial and

logistic information
▪ Ability to drill into details for project costs, resource

usage, and progress
R&D/Engineering

▪
Management
LoB R&D/Engineering – Enterprise Portfolio and Project Management – resource management

▪ Project Control
PROJECT MGMT
Projects Projects
Purpose Benefits
▪ Identify the optimal resources required to budget, plan, and execute projects with ▪ Reduce time to fill resource requests by providing real-time visibility into skill level,
SAP S/4HANA availability, and other resource parameters
▪ Accelerate the development of accurate project forecasts and identify potential ▪ Improve strategic business and resource planning by matching available skills with
bottlenecks using advanced analytics qualification requirements and setting parameters for future staffing needs
▪ Optimize resource requirements while reducing variances with robust tools for ▪ Reduce time to market for new products by streamlining the accurate allocation of
centrally managing the project lifecycle resources based on priorities, skills, and rates
▪ Identify competencies, assign roles, and develop schedules based on availability

using intuitive dashboards
▪ Reduce project costs by preventing resource shortages, unexpected requests, and

last-minute changes requiring the use of additional resources
R&D/Engineering

▪
Management
LoB R&D/Engineering – Enterprise Portfolio and Project Management – resource management

▪ Project Control
PROJECT MGMT Project Mgmt for Resource Mgmt
Projects Projects

▪ Resource management functionality now integrated ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Stability of core data model to facilitate a simple
into SAP S/4HANA, removing the need to install a steps migration for existing customers
separate add-on as for previous versions
▪ Streamlined staffing process with fewer clicks
▪ Real-time access to resource availability, skill sets,
and organizational assignment during project staffing ▪ Roles with new, dedicated SAP Fiori apps:
process — Project Team Member
— Project Manager
▪ Ability of resource managers to easily find and review
vacant roles For additional information on roles and apps, visit the SAP
▪ Management of substitutes for projects and task
R&D/Engineering

▪
Management
LoB R&D/Engineering – Enterprise Portfolio and Project Management – IT project and resource management
▪ Project Control
Projects Projects
Purpose Benefits
▪ Gain instant transparency into cost and available resources to plan, execute, and ▪ Reduce project cost overrun by monitoring actual, planned, and budgeted costs with
manage IT projects real-time analytics
▪ Accelerate the planning and execution of IT projects with template-based project ▪ Increase portfolio and project management efficiency of FTEs by rapidly optimizing
management methodologies resource utilization and advanced staffing processes based on resource availability
▪ Gain real-time insights into resource demand and capacity availability through role- ▪ Reduce time to fill resource requests by tightly integrating advanced staffing
based resource management processes with real-time scheduling, cost, and revenue planning capabilities
▪ Manage and orchestrate projects across organizational units with multiproject

dashboards
R&D/Engineering

▪
Management
LoB R&D/Engineering – Enterprise Portfolio and Project Management – IT project and resource management
▪ Project Control
Projects Projects

▪ Resource management functionality now integrated ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Stability of core data model to facilitate a simple
into SAP S/4HANA, removing the need to install a steps migration for existing customers
▪ SAP Fiori apps “My Tasks” and “My Checklist Items” for ▪ Optimized data model combining portfolio and project
▪ Tracking of milestones and percentage of completion project team members to access project overview page data into one view
through project progress monitor to review status and exceptions for projects assigned to
individual as project manager
▪ Simplified access for project members to confirm
tasks and checklist items ▪ SAP Fiori apps to access projects or tasks as a
substitute
▪ Traffic lights to indicate issues with project schedule,
costs, staffing, and quality ▪ Roles with new, dedicated SAP Fiori apps:
— Project Manager
▪ Real-time access to resource availability, skill sets, and
organizational assignment during project staffing — Project Team Member
process For additional information on roles and apps, visit the SAP
▪ Ability of resource managers to easily find and review
vacant roles
▪ Management of substitutes for projects and task

R&D/Engineering

▪
Management
LoB R&D/Engineering – Enterprise Portfolio and Project Management – IT project portfolio management
▪ Project Control
Projects Projects
Purpose Benefits
▪ Gain instant transparency into your IT project portfolio and accelerate portfolio ▪ Increase number of IT projects on time and within scope by providing the real-time
management visibility to enable viable projects, controlled costs and schedules, and adequate
resources
▪ Execute the right projects by quickly aligning your project portfolio with IT enterprise
strategy ▪ Increase number of IT projects generating positive ROI by providing the
transparency to select the optimal projects, along with live reports to control budget
▪ Identify the IT projects that can generate the most business value by rapidly scoring during execution
and ranking project proposals
▪ Minimize IT project delays and prevent business interruptions by monitoring the

progress of projects in real time
▪ Manage the capacity, schedule, and financial performance for each phase of an IT
project
R&D/Engineering

▪
Management
LoB R&D/Engineering – Enterprise Portfolio and Project Management – IT project portfolio management
▪ Project Control
Projects Projects

▪ Project management functionality now integrated ▪ All information in one place, enabling the right decisions ▪ Stability of core data model to facilitate a simple
into SAP S/4HANA, removing the need to install a for stage-gate-driven development projects with migration for existing customers
▪ Collection, evaluation, and ranking of project requests ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process to improve performance
from business users and alignment of project steps
portfolio with budget and resource availability
▪ SAP Fiori launchpad to directly access:
▪ Tracking of milestones and percentage of completion — User-specific portfolio items or initiatives
through project progress monitor
— Buckets
▪ Simplified access for project members to confirm — Portfolio administration

tasks and checklist items
▪ Traffic lights to indicate issues with project schedule, Fiori apps reference library.
costs, staffing, and quality
▪ Visibility of actual project costs by using one

R&D/Engineering

▪
Management
LoB R&D/Engineering – Enterprise Portfolio and Project Management – portfolio management for commercial projects
▪ Project Control
Projects Projects
Purpose Benefits
▪ Improve performance and reduce costs by streamlining processes and avoiding ▪ Reduce time to fill resource requests with advanced staffing process capabilities
bottlenecks tightly integrated with project scheduling and cost and revenue planning
▪ Enable commercial-project providers efficiently allocate and procure their project ▪ Increase employee productivity by optimizing resource utilization and advanced
resources staffing processes based on resource availability
▪ Improve closed-loop resource handling by running transparent processes that ▪ Improve demand forecast accuracy by providing integrated closed-loop resource
support high-level capacity planning, detailed resource allocation, and time entry planning capabilities for high-level capacity planning, detailed resource allocation,
processes and time entry processes
▪ Plan resource demands aligned with project financials, create material components, ▪ Reduce project delivery cost by optimized resource utilization, avoiding resource
and trigger and control procurement bottlenecks and integrating closed-loop resource planning capabilities
R&D/Engineering

▪
Management
LoB R&D/Engineering – Enterprise Portfolio and Project Management – portfolio management for commercial projects
▪ Project Control
Projects Projects

▪ Integration of portfolio management functionality into ▪ All information in one place, enabling the right decisions ▪ Stability of core data model to facilitate a simple
SAP S/4HANA, removing the need to install a for stage gate–driven development projects with migration for existing customers
▪ Live tracking of financial project KPIs by leveraging in- ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process to improve performance
memory technology of SAP HANA steps
▪ Linking of ideas with project proposals
▪ Ability to manage large number of portfolio items ▪ SAP Fiori launchpad to directly access:
through in-memory technology of SAP HANA — User-specific portfolio items or initiatives
▪ Monitoring of actual, planned, and forecasted project — Buckets
costs directly in portfolio view — Portfolio administration

R&D/Engineering

▪
Management
LoB R&D/Engineering – Enterprise Portfolio and Project Management – project management for commercial projects
▪ Project Control
Projects Projects
Purpose Benefits
▪ Establish a single version of the truth for project information across different ▪ Reduce project delivery cost by providing advanced planning, tracking, and
departments and roles, such as project management, senior management, forecasting capabilities and enabling project managers to identify project deviations
controlling, sales, procurement, and so on and cost drivers in time to take corrective measures
▪ Provide an integrated view on all aspects of a customer project, such as cost ▪ Decrease number of unprofitable projects by providing optimized, end-to-end
planning, procurement, billing, risk management, and so on business support and full transparency of project statuses across systems and
applications
▪ Integrate project-related data and processes along the complete project lifecycle,
from selling to planning and execution
▪ Compare plan data versus actual data to quickly identify deviations
▪ Manage and track project-related risks
▪ Provide full visibility of project status, enabling timely corrective actions
R&D/Engineering

▪
Management
LoB R&D/Engineering – Enterprise Portfolio and Project Management – project management for commercial projects
▪ Project Control
Projects Projects

▪ Commercial project management functionality now ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ CDS views:
integrated into SAP S/4HANA, removing the need to steps — KPIs
install a separate add-on as for previous versions
▪ Role with new, dedicated SAP Fiori apps: — Alerts
▪ Project workspace as work environment for project — Project Manager (Commercial Project Management) — General project data
professionals that provides an integrated view across — Project status
systems and applications to support users in the For additional information on roles and apps, visit the SAP
Fiori apps reference library. — Ageing of receivables
completion of their tasks
— Billing plan
▪ Project cost and revenue planning to plan and — Debit memo requests
forecast quantities, cost, and revenue throughout the
— Invoices
complete project lifecycle (bid , baseline planning,
— Purchase orders
and execution)
— Purchase requisitions
▪ Project issue and change management to
systematically track project issues and change
requests
R&D/Engineering

▪
Management
LoB R&D/Engineering – Enterprise Portfolio and Project Management – resource management for commercial projects
▪ Project Control
Projects Projects
Purpose Benefits
▪ Improve performance and reduce costs by streamlining processes and avoiding ▪ Reduce time to fill resource requests with advanced staffing process capabilities
bottlenecks tightly integrated with project scheduling and cost and revenue planning
▪ Help commercial-project providers efficiently allocate and procure their project ▪ Increase employee productivity by optimizing resource utilization and advanced
resources staffing processes based on resource availability
▪ Improve closed-loop resource handling by running transparent processes ▪ Improve demand forecast accuracy by providing integrated closed-loop resource
supporting high-level capacity planning, detailed resource allocation, and time entry planning capabilities for high-level capacity planning, detailed resource allocation,
processes and time entry processes
▪ Plan resource demands aligned with project financials, create material components, ▪ Reduce project delivery cost by providing advanced planning, tracking, and
and trigger and control procurement forecasting capabilities and enabling project managers to identify project deviations
and cost drivers in time to take corrective measures
▪ Reduce operating costs, prevent resource bottlenecks, increase productivity, and
identify opportunities to maximize profitability
R&D/Engineering

▪
Management
LoB R&D/Engineering – Enterprise Portfolio and Project Management – resource management for commercial projects
▪ Project Control
Projects Projects

▪ Native integration of commercial project ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ No change to data model
management functionality, making former add-on steps
obsolete
R&D/Engineering

▪
Management
LoB R&D/Engineering – Product Lifecycle Management – advanced variant configuration

▪ Project Control
PRODUCT Integrated
Advanced Variant Authoring Tool Handover to Idea Management Model-Based Integrated Recipe
LIFECYCLE Product Costing Product
Configuration Integration Manufacturing Enterprise Development
MANAGEMENT Development
Purpose Benefits
▪ Improve sales and product engineering performance for advanced variant ▪ Increase sales force efficiency by better tool support within order configuration to
configuration by implementing a new state-of-the-art configurator allow the sales force to focus on selling
▪ Create a comprehensive simulation environment for variant configuration models ▪ Reduce order management cost by embedding variant configuration into the order
entry process, reducing order configuration activities
▪ Benefit from the user-friendly classification capabilities
R&D/Engineering

▪
Management
LoB R&D/Engineering – Product Lifecycle Management - advanced variant configuration

▪ Project Control
PRODUCT Integrated

into classification and variant configuration steps SAP S/4HANA embedded analytics using core data
processes services (CDS) views
▪ New role for product modeler, variant configuration, with
▪ Disabling of “actions” (documented as obsolete even new SAP Fiori app for advanced simulation environment ▪ New configurator engine leveraging capabilities of
earlier); use of actions still works for existing models SAP HANA by using an advanced function library
▪ New SAP Fiori–based configurator UI embedded into concept
▪ Disabling of concept “classification used as a sales order app
selection condition” in BOMs; use of concept still
works for existing models For additional information on roles and apps, visit the SAP
For more information on adaptations or changes, see
the Simplification List for SAP S/4HANA.
R&D/Engineering

▪
Management
LoB R&D/Engineering – Product Lifecycle Management – authoring tool integration

▪ Project Control
PRODUCT Integrated
Purpose Benefits
▪ Accelerate product development by integrating diverse CAD authoring tools on one ▪ Reduce engineering change cost by harmonizing all CAD authoring tool data with an
real-time platform intuitive, easy-to-use interface that streamlines product development
▪ Develop products in real time by integrating mechanical, electrical, and electronic ▪ Reduce time to market for new products by increasing component reuse and
CAD authoring tools with SAP S/4HANA providing relevant product information instantly to improve downstream processing
▪ Get a 360-degree product view with instant transparency across disciplines and an ▪ Reduce commercialization cost for new products and services by involving all key
intuitive user experience departments in real time, including engineering, purchasing, production, quality, and
marketing
▪ Synchronize metadata, structures, access, and file handling across design and
business data for a complete product description
R&D/Engineering

▪
Management
LoB R&D/Engineering – Product Lifecycle Management – authoring tool integration

▪ Project Control
PRODUCT Integrated

▪ Comparable SAP ERP functionality provided in SAP ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Integration with a simplified data model of
S/4HANA steps SAP S/4HANA
R&D/Engineering

▪
Management
LoB R&D/Engineering – Product Lifecycle Management – handover to manufacturing

▪ Project Control
PRODUCT Integrated
Purpose Benefits
▪ Simplify and accelerate the transition of engineering master data into manufacturing ▪ Reduce scrap and rework costs related to engineering changes by instantly
production data identifying manufacturing issues up-front through visualization and design review of
products
▪ Reduce time to volume by working directly with engineering and manufacturing data
structures in one real-time solution ▪ Reduce engineering change cost by providing a real-time, integrated environment
that enables all stakeholders to collaborate in the change process
▪ Minimize product cost by thoroughly understanding master data and product
structures before executing production runs ▪ Reduce time to market for new products by creating dramatic efficiencies that
accelerate innovation and expedite production ramp-up
▪ Improve agility by deploying flexible manufacturing practices based on plant
resources and capabilities
▪ Increase quality by eliminating errors in production master data through instant

visualization and robust work instructions during the planning process
▪ Avoid disruption to engineering design and production operations by providing real-

time conflict and change management capabilities
R&D/Engineering

▪
Management
LoB R&D/Engineering – Product Lifecycle Management – handover to manufacturing

▪ Project Control
PRODUCT Integrated

▪ More-efficient processes for management of ▪ Roles with new, dedicated SAP Fiori apps: ▪ Introduction of new change record object across
engineering change — Production Engineer – Discrete Manufacturing multiple disciplines
▪ Extended handover to manufacturing scenarios for — Design Engineer
visual enterprise manufacturing planner functionality — BOM Engineer
— Quality Engineer

R&D/Engineering

▪
Management
LoB R&D/Engineering – Product Lifecycle Management – idea management

▪ Project Control
PRODUCT Integrated
Purpose Benefits
▪ Translate your best ideas into successful, innovative products, services, and ▪ Reduce ideation and innovation management cost by shortening the ideation
business models process: fail fast, fail forward, measure innovation performance, and increase
throughput
▪ Integrate processes from ideation to development execution
▪ Measure and manage your ability to innovate from end to end
▪ Accelerate the ideation phase: turn ideas into concepts faster using the flexible
stage-gate process ▪ Improve process efficiency with seamless navigation and retrieval of detailed
information
▪ Run an innovation office to evaluate and manage ideas throughout the pipeline with
the help of configurable evaluation questionnaires ▪ Track sales trends and analyze success of ideas formerly submitted in the SAP
Project and Portfolio Management application
▪ Bridge innovation silos across functions, business units, and geographies with the
innovation community ▪ Increase revenue from new products and services by managing a portfolio of new-
product development projects to generate a continuous pipeline of product
▪ Foster interdisciplinary team building for better idea development by leveraging innovations
social collaboration features
▪ Boost employee engagement by offering an intuitive mobile client and hands-on idea
▪ Encourage employees to participate in the ideation process with the help of an open community that can interface with any third-party enterprise 2.0 solution
innovation platform
▪ Reduce commercialization cost of new products and services by identifying
promising ideas early in the process and stopping development efforts for low-
potential product ideas
R&D/Engineering

▪
Management
LoB R&D/Engineering – Product Lifecycle Management – idea management

▪ Project Control
PRODUCT Integrated
▪ Transparency for campaign participants on ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Integration with a simplified data model of
campaign milestones and phases steps SAP S/4HANA
▪ Capturing of additional information about an idea ▪ Improved user productivity: back navigation and fast
in a structured way access to completed ideas from user and campaign
home page
▪ Collaboration with and coordination of suggestions
from various users before creating and submitting ▪ Enhanced collaboration and participation when
an idea for evaluation. developing ideas
▪ Support for scenarios where ideas need to be ▪ Visibility of votes

evaluated by an expert before a specific due date ▪ Continued engagement of campaign participants
▪ Rewarding of employees for their ideas For additional information on roles and apps, visit the SAP
▪ Campaign registration periods
R&D/Engineering

▪
Management
LoB R&D/Engineering – Product Lifecycle Management – model-based enterprise

▪ Project Control
PRODUCT Integrated
Purpose Benefits
▪ Extend the digital product definition outside of design engineering and into the hands ▪ Improve downstream efficiencies by leveraging a model-based approach to product
of the extended enterprise development
▪ Extend model-based definition (MBD) to true model-based enterprise (MBE) use ▪ Ensure product security and accuracy by controlling and managing who has access
to product data and ensuring they are working with the correct data
▪ Define the product in a virtual model, with all its drawings, product and
manufacturing information (PMI), and geometric dimensions and tolerances (GD&T) ▪ Reduce rework by leveraging engineering designs in handover to manufacturing,
quality inspection, technical publications, and manufacturing execution
▪ Extend the virtual model to use quality inspection, manufacturing definition,
aftermarket spare parts definition, and so on downstream from engineering ▪ Extend the basics of the model-based enterprise principles by using engineering
data in advanced user experience scenarios such as virtual reality, augmented
reality, and mixed/blended reality
R&D/Engineering

▪
Management
LoB R&D/Engineering – Product Lifecycle Management – model-based enterprise

▪ Project Control
PRODUCT Integrated

▪ More efficient processes for management of ▪ Roles with new, dedicated SAP Fiori apps: ▪ Introduction of new change record object across
engineering changes — Production Engineer – Discrete Manufacturing multiple disciplines
▪ Extended handover to manufacturing scenarios for — Design Engineer
visual enterprise manufacturing planner functionality — BOM Engineer
— Quality Engineer

R&D/Engineering

▪
Management
LoB R&D/Engineering – Product Lifecycle Management – product costing

▪ Project Control
PRODUCT Integrated
Purpose Benefits
▪ Enable costing of new products early in the engineering and quotation phase ▪ Innovate and perform in changing business environments
▪ Manage cost forecasts for future products, including production volumes and ▪ Calculate the cost of a product accurately against target cost
purchasing volumes
▪ Mitigate financial risks
▪ Master product cost potential and transparency at a time when it counts
▪ Enhance collaboration between functions by integrating processes across divisions
▪ Minimize costs by securing future product margins early, when the design is evolving
and master data is incomplete ▪ Shorten quotation cycle and reduce time to market
▪ Manage costs for new-product innovations and customer-specific engineered ▪ Lower product cost and avoid unprofitable product variants
products with proactive costing ▪ Cut development costs
▪ Simulate the impact of cost reduction measures by identifying cost drivers in later ▪ Boost product profitability
stages of the product lifecycle
▪ Raise the quote win rate in the engineering and design phases
▪ Gain visibility into cost structures across diverse teams
R&D/Engineering

▪
Management
LoB R&D/Engineering – Product Lifecycle Management – product costing

▪ Project Control
PRODUCT Integrated

▪ SAP intends to provide functionality similar to that in ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ No change to data model with SAP Product Lifecycle
the SAP Product Lifecycle Costing solution with SAP steps Costing scope due to easy integration into SAP
S/4HANA to reduce the IT footprint and increase S/4HANA of the SAP Product Lifecycle Costing
response time. solution, a native SAP HANA application
▪ Estimation of future cost by adding dynamic ▪ Changes in data structure: addition of new fields for
surcharges for future years new functionality
▪ Filtering and mass change including save option
▪ Work centers for internal processes
▪ Additional analytics capabilities
▪ Highlighting, for example, of items that need to be

reworked
▪ Improved import from SAP ERP into SAP Product

Lifecycle Costing in SAP S/4HANA
▪ Improved UI with flexible table layout

R&D/Engineering

▪
Management
LoB R&D/Engineering – Product Lifecycle Management – integrated product development

▪ Project Control
PRODUCT Integrated
Purpose Benefits
▪ Accelerate product ideation and development with flexible tools that integrate the ▪ Decrease engineering change cost by lowering compliance risk, improving product
design process quality, and involving purchasing, production, and marketing in changes
▪ Speed up design by integrating product lifecycle management in a single ▪ Cut time to market for new products by making development an integrated
environment collaborative process and by providing the right product information downstream
▪ Manage complex product structures using systems engineering and a ▪ Reduce commercialization cost of new products and services by enabling the reuse
multidisciplinary innovation platform of approved and available materials and components
▪ Create individualized products by defining and reusing variant product structures
across the supply chain
▪ Differentiate your product from the competition and improve its reliability by
collaborating with customers and end-users and by incorporating operational
feedback into product development processes
R&D/Engineering

▪
Management
LoB R&D/Engineering – Product Lifecycle Management – integrated product development

▪ Project Control
PRODUCT Integrated

▪ Comparable SAP ERP functionality provided in ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Integration with a simplified data model of
SAP S/4HANA steps SAP S/4HANA
▪ More efficient processes for management of ▪ Roles with new, dedicated SAP Fiori apps: ▪ Introduction of new change record object across
engineering changes — Production Engineer – Discrete Manufacturing multiple disciplines
▪ Provision of capabilities to manage constraints that — Design Engineer ▪ Introduction of version management for engineering
support the definition and management of hardware — BOM Engineer bill of materials (EBOM)
and software compatibility — Quality Engineer
▪ Representation of software objects to support
▪ Modern rules engine and user-friendly modeling UI For additional information on roles and apps, visit the SAP systems engineering scenarios
with the advanced variant configuration capability of Fiori apps reference library.
SAP S/4HANA ▪ Creation of hardware and software constraints to
support constraint management
▪ At-a-glance project status for users through project
brief ▪ New rules engine for advanced variant configuration
capability
▪ Enhancements to classification
R&D/Engineering

▪
Management
LoB R&D/Engineering – Product Lifecycle Management – integrated recipe development

▪ Project Control
PRODUCT Integrated
Purpose Benefits
▪ Accelerate time to market through collaborative product development and massive ▪ Reduce commercialization cost of new products and services by enabling the reuse
efficiency gains of substances and embedding compliance checks and formula optimization within
product development
▪ Streamline manufacturing with integrated, multipoint approaches for managing
projects and product data in real time ▪ Cut time to market for new products by supporting the collaborative development of
ingredients and recipes and by accelerating the handover to manufacturing
▪ Develop recipes and formulas rapidly, reuse existing ingredients, and design
packaging and labeling in a single, high-performance environment ▪ Lower project cost overrun by offering early input cost estimates and ongoing
insights into product performance with real-time contextual analytics
▪ Gain instant insight into product performance with real-time contextual analytics
▪ Cut maverick spend overall by providing advanced, high-speed search capabilities
▪ Collaborate with suppliers throughout a product's lifecycle for existing substances and recipes
▪ Work seamlessly with partners to accelerate product development and comply with
regulations, while managing product development costs
R&D/Engineering

▪
Management
LoB R&D/Engineering – Product Lifecycle Management – integrated recipe development

▪ Project Control
PRODUCT Integrated

▪ Recipe finder functionality to enhance searching ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Stability of the core data model to facilitate simple
based on scientific and technical attributes steps migration for existing customers
▪ Automatic validation for new recipe versions with ▪ Roles with new, dedicated SAP Fiori apps: ▪ Optimized data model to reduce data redundancy and
recipe version handling – Administrator – Recipe Development to improve performance
– BOM Engineer
▪ Improved specification handling with additional – Product Configuration Modeler
quick-entry capabilities – Recipe Developer
– Systems Engineer

R&D/Engineering

▪
Management
LoB R&D/Engineering – Product Safety and Stewardship – dangerous goods management

▪ Project Control
PRODUCT Prod. Marketability Safety Data Sheet

Dangerous Goods
SAFETY AND and Chemical and Label
Management Compliance
STEWARDSHIP Management
Purpose Benefits
▪ Provide safe and compliant transportation of hazardous materials to avoid delivery ▪ Reduce penalties and fines by automating the verification of safety requirements as
delays and to protect brand value part of transportation management
▪ Manage dangerous goods information centrally, automate dangerous goods ▪ Lower transportation planning cycle time by automating the verification of safety
classification, and leverage provided dangerous goods content requirements as part of transportation management
▪ Ensure all shipments comply with dangerous goods regulations with integrated ▪ Improve on-time delivery performance by avoiding delivery disruptions due to
dangerous goods checks that provide adequate packaging and accurate violations of dangerous goods regulations or missing dangerous goods documents
transportation modes and routing
▪ Automate the creation and provisioning of dangerous goods documents
R&D/Engineering

▪
Management
LoB R&D/Engineering – Product Safety and Stewardship – dangerous goods management

▪ Project Control

Dangerous Goods

▪ SAP intends to simplify dangerous goods ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ New data model for a future release
management functionality in a future release of SAP steps
S/4HANA.
R&D/Engineering

▪
Management
LoB R&D/Engineering – Product Safety and Stewardship – product marketability and chemical compliance
▪ Project Control

Dangerous Goods
Purpose Benefits
▪ Ensure compliance of products and chemicals to secure the right to market, sell, and ▪ Reduce noncompliance of products by implementing compliance controls across
ship products product lifecycle processes
▪ Manage material and ingredient information and satisfy legal and customer ▪ Cut time to market for new products by ensuring on-time registration and provision
requirements of all required information
▪ Collect compliance data from suppliers and customers and publicize compliance ▪ Increase revenue from new products and services by accessing existing and new
information markets despite increasingly complex regulatory and customer-driven compliance
requirements
▪ Track volumes of regulated substances automatically and assess and verify
products and materials for different compliance requirements, including required ▪ Reduce write-offs for uncollectible accounts receivable by providing a robust and
registrations and tracked-versus-allowed quantities auditable compliance assurance system
▪ Avoid penalties and fines by ensuring compliance with required registrations and
substance volume limits in import, manufacture, and distribution
R&D/Engineering

▪
Management
LoB R&D/Engineering – Product Safety and Stewardship – product marketability and chemical compliance
▪ Project Control

Dangerous Goods

▪ Provisioning of all product compliance capabilities in ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ New data model for a future release
one solution, covering all industries steps
▪ Analytics for assessment of product compliance For additional information on roles and apps, visit the SAP
based on real-time data Fiori apps reference library.
▪ SAP intends to simplify product marketability and

chemical compliance functionality in a future release
of SAP S/4HANA.
R&D/Engineering

▪
Management
LoB R&D/Engineering – Product Safety and Stewardship – safety data sheet and label management
▪ Project Control

Dangerous Goods
Purpose Benefits
▪ Manage safety data sheet and labeling requirements to ensure compliance and ▪ Reduce compliance and risk management costs by automating product
accelerate product introduction classification and creation, management, and automatic printing of compliant labels
▪ Manage substance and regulatory information centrally, streamline component and ▪ Improve on-time delivery performance by enabling timely generation of market and
product classification, and automate safety data sheet creation customer-specific compliance documentation and ensuring compliant and accurate
labeling, thereby avoiding holdup of products by authorities or carriers
▪ Use SAP content and authoring solutions to reduce effort and ensure ongoing
compliance ▪ Reduce penalties and fines by ensuring that safety data sheets and labels meet legal
and customer requirements
▪ Automate label printing and safety data sheet shipping integrated in logistics
processes
R&D/Engineering

▪
Management
LoB R&D/Engineering – Product Safety and Stewardship – safety data sheet and label management
▪ Project Control

Dangerous Goods

▪ SAP intends to simplify safety data sheet and label ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ New data model for a future release
management functionality in a future release of steps
SAP S/4HANA,
R&D/Engineering

▪
Management
LoB R&D/Engineering – Asset Operations and Maintenance – capital portfolio management

▪ Project Control
ASSET Monitoring of
OPERATIONS AND Capital
MAINTENANCE Investments
Purpose Benefits
▪ Identify new investment opportunities and rank them against existing projects by ▪ Optimize capital expenditure by prioritizing projects that have the greatest impact on
evaluating risk, benefits,, and commercial value revenue and ROI
▪ Invest in the right projects by aligning project portfolio with capital planning strategy ▪ Reduce management cost of corporate capital projects by linking strategies and
objectives with operational plans and execution of projects
▪ Include new construction and asset maintenance demand into yearly budget
planning ▪ Increase resource utilization rate by streamlining the process of allocating the right
resources to projects based on current workforce skills, rates, and availability
▪ Reduce the risk of failure and increase capital portfolio effectiveness with financial
and capacity planning and decision-making support ▪ Decrease unprofitable projects by managing capital projects at the portfolio level in
alignment with company strategy and long-term financial and capacity planning
▪ Gain insight into the performance of the entire capital project portfolio through real-
time analytics
R&D/Engineering

▪
Management
LoB R&D/Engineering – Asset Operations and Maintenance – capital portfolio management

▪ Project Control
ASSET Monitoring of

▪ Integration of portfolio management functionality into ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Stability of core data model to facilitate a simple
SAP S/4HANA, removing the need to install a steps migration for existing customers
▪ Embedded analytics to easily access project and ▪ Optimized data model to reduce data redundancy and
▪ Real-time access to budget availability and actual and portfolio information without changing the application to improve performance
planned project costs to support the portfolio context
decision process ▪ Linking of ideas with project proposals
▪ Live tracking of financial project KPIs by leveraging Fiori apps reference library.
the in-memory technology of SAP HANA
▪ Direct and accurate access to project’s financial and


usage, and progress
R&D/Engineering

▪
Management
LoB R&D/Engineering – Asset Operations and Maintenance – capital project management

▪ Project Control
ASSET Monitoring of
Purpose Benefits
▪ Standardize, integrate, and make the capital project lifecycle transparent for greater ▪ Increase percentage of projects on time, within budget, and within scope by
efficiency identifying project-related issues in time, managing project change requests, and
reducing the number of unapproved project changes
▪ Minimize delays and prevent business interruptions by centrally managing resources
and planning and executing capital projects in real time ▪ Optimize capital expenditure by efficiently planning and executing all aspects of
technical changes
▪ Provide transparency into cost, time, scope, and quality with seamless integration
into ERP processes ▪ Streamline communication related to project schedule, progress, and milestones
with internal parties and contractors
▪ Gain visibility into planned and actual costs and commitments for all projects in the
capital portfolio ▪ Reduce time to fill resource requests with advanced staffing process capabilities
tightly integrated with project scheduling and cost planning
▪ Lower the number of inefficient projects by providing optimized, end-to-end
business support and full transparency of project statuses across systems and
applications
R&D/Engineering

▪
Management
LoB R&D/Engineering – Asset Operations and Maintenance – capital project management

▪ Project Control
ASSET Monitoring of
▪ Integration of portfolio and project management ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Stability of core data model to facilitate a simple
functionality into SAP S/4HANA, removing the steps migration for existing customers
need to install a separate add-on as for previous ▪ Simplified access for project members to confirm
versions ▪ Optimized data model combining portfolio and
milestones and network activities using SAP Fiori apps project data into one view
▪ Simplified way to control and release work ▪ Ability to change the status of a WBS element through
breakdown structure (WBS) elements for project SAP Fiori apps.
execution
▪ Tracking of milestones and percentage of
— Project Financial Controller
completion through project progress monitor
— Project Manager
▪ Traffic lights to indicate issues with project
schedule, costs, staffing, and quality For additional information on roles and apps, visit the SAP
▪ Visibility of actual project costs by using one
▪ Direct and accurate access to project financial and

R&D/Engineering

▪
Management
LoB R&D/Engineering – Asset Operations and Maintenance – monitoring of capital investments

▪ Project Control
ASSET Monitoring of
Purpose Benefits
▪ Align projects with the overall portfolio strategy with monitoring of capital ▪ Increase asset availability by closely monitoring capital project budgets and
investments in SAP S/4HANA adjusting during project execution
▪ Mitigate risk by actively and objectively managing and controlling capital ▪ Reduce project delivery cost by tracking planning and forecasting to identify project
investments deviations and cost drivers to take timely corrective measures
▪ Gain insight into your complete investment portfolio using dashboards, including ▪ Increase percentage of projects on time, and within budget and scope by using
tabular and graphical representations project and resource management tools to structure projects, assign resources, and
plan and monitor costs
▪ Provide direct access to real-time cross-project analytics
▪ Reduce time to market for new products by providing transparency into financial and
capacity demands of high-priority projects, reallocating resources as needed
R&D/Engineering

▪
Management
LoB R&D/Engineering – Asset Operations and Maintenance – monitoring of capital investments

▪ Project Control
ASSET Monitoring of

▪ Live tracking of financial project KPIs by leveraging in- ▪ SAP Fiori–based user experience across all process ▪ Cross-application, multiresource staffing and
memory technology of SAP HANA steps scheduling availability
▪ Real-time access to resource availability, skill sets, and ▪ Simplified access for project members to confirm ▪ Accelerated access to project and task details
organizational assignment during project staffing milestones and network activities using SAP Fiori apps through the in-memory technology of SAP HANA
process (SAP Portfolio and Project Management application
▪ Ability to change the status of a work breakdown for SAP S/4HANA)
▪ Visibility of actual project costs by using one integrated structure (WBS) element through SAP Fiori apps.
application ▪ Sharing and collaboration on project documents in a
Direct and accurate access to project financial and secure cloud environment accessible anywhere on
▪ Fiori apps reference library.
logistic information any device (SAP Document Center solution)

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Speaker’s Name, SAP

Modern Architecture Role-based Design Smart Business

Robust and scalable People centric Built for scalability,

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Me-area Workspace Notifications

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Single entry point via SAP

Domain specific infos and

Enter details and

*on selected devices

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Inventory and Basic

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International Elec. Bill Present.,

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LoB Finance – Basic Financial Operations – international trade management

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