P2P – S4 Hana Simplifications

(Simplification Name)

15th January,2018

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 2265093 - Business Partner Approach
Solution highlights
• BP is the single point of entry to create, edit, and display
master data for business partners, customers, and vendors.
• Redundant object models in the traditional ERP system.
• vendor master and customer master are replaced by the
(mandatory) Business Partner
• Business Partner is capable of centrally managing master
data.
• The specific tables for customer data (KNA1) and vendor data
(LFA1) remain available and are not impacted
Required and Recommended Action(s)
• Execute the related conversion pre-checks. Adaption required
in dependency to the pre-check results
• Necessary CVI Business Partner transformation customizing
settings and checks must be performed
• Remove and avoid inconsistent customizing and inconsistent
data (for example: Missing customizing tax types or inconsistent
customer data like e-mail addresses without @-sign)
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Business Values
• Single entry point to maintain Business Partner
• Time-dependency on different sub-entities e.g. role, address,
relationship, bank data etc
• One Business Partner can perform multiple roles, e.g., Customer and
Vendor
• One Business Partner can have multiple addresses
• General data are shared across different roles
• Maximal data sharing and reuse of data which leads to an easier data
consolidation
Business Impacts
• It´s recommended but not mandatory that BuPa ID and Customer-ID /
Vendor ID are the same. Note: In case of overlapping number ranges
for Customer and Vendor in Business Suite start system additional
number range alignment is required!
• Specific transaction codes to maintain customer/vendor separately like
XK01, XD01 etc. are not available within SAP S/4HANA
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2267140 - Material Number Field Length Extension

Solution highlights Business Values

• Material number field length • Filed length extended from 18 to 40 characters

• Application level - Choice to GO or NO GO with extended • For all database fields that may be used to store a material
material length number
• Database level provide 40 length character • Some industries requirement for long material number like –
DIMP (Discrete Industries & Mill Products) is taken care

Required and Recommended Action(s) Business Impacts

• Conversion pre-check • The multi-system landscape need to be considered where not all related
• Activation of the Extended Material Number Functionality systems are able to deal with a 40 character material number
• Settings need to be adapted to allow a field length of more than 18 • Code in the system must guarantee that all relevant bits of code can handle
characters - Transaction OMSL 40 characters. It's especially important to ensure that the material number is
not truncated to its former length of 18 characters, because this would result
in data loss

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2267140 - Material Number Field Length Extension

ECC S/4 HANA

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 2204534 – 2267225 Material Master: Impact on Foreign Trade Functional Fields

Solution highlights Business Values

• Foreign Trade functionality deprecated

• Material Master: Impact on Foreign Trade Functional Fields in
Transactions- MM01/MM02/MM03

Required and Recommended Action(s) Business Impacts

• Some of the filed like Letter of Credit/ Legal control/ Export

control/ Preference management will only be supported
in Global Trade Solutions (GTS) is revoked from Material
Master- Foreign Trade Tab

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2204534 – 2267225 Material Master: Impact on Foreign Trade Functional Fields

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2224371 - Material Master: Impact on MRP functional fields

Solution highlights Business Values

• MRP Storage location replaced by MRP areas • Simplification of MRP Functionality is done for Material
• Material Master: Impact on Foreign Trade Functional Fields in Master
Transactions- MM01/MM02/MM03

Required and Recommended Action(s) Business Impacts

• Unit of Measure Group , Quota arr. Usage , Selection Method ,

SLoc MRP indicator ,Storage location Reoder Point ,
Replenishment qty. mentioned fields will not be functionally
supported

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2224371 - Material Master: Impact on MRP functional fields
ECC S/4 HANA

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2224371 - Material Master: Impact on MRP functional fields
ECC S/4 HANA

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2224371 - Material Master: Impact on MRP functional fields
ECC S/4 HANA

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2267247 - Material Type SERV

Solution highlights Business Values

• A new material type SERV(Service Materials) is introduced • Leaner and simplified look

Required and Recommended Action(s) Business Impacts

• SAP recommends to use SERV over DIEN, particularly in
scenarios such as lean service procurement , for scenarios
where the subtleties of lean service procurement are not
applicable, customers may use DIEN.
• Fields are not supported –like - EAN Category , Material freight
grp , Packaging material data , GR Processing time, Post to insp.
stock, Critical Part, Source list, Quota arr. usage, JIT delivery
sched , Moving price , Total Stock

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2267247 - Material Type SERV

DIEN SERV

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2267247 - Material Type SERV

DIEN SERV

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OBSOLETE TRANSACTIONS

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2210569 - Obsolete Material inventory management transactions

Solution highlights Business Values

• All existing IM transactions starting with MB** has been made • MIGO, a single-screen generalized transaction
obsolete (supports only for MIGO*) • New enhanced and improved lock concept for MIGO . Lock
• MB** - MB1B , MB1C , MB1A , MBST …etc concept is for
• The transaction MMBE_OLD has been replaced by transaction - Prevent parallel change of master data attributes
MMBE. Alternatively there is also the Fiori App Stock - Defined sequence of material documents (e.g. for moving
Overview average price).
• The double-maintenance of the transaction families MIGO - Consistency with stock quantity (check availability if
and MB* delays the processing of problems with MIGO and negative stock is not allowed )
other transactions, and reduces the development capacity
provided for continuous further development. Therefore, the
discontinuation of the double-maintenance is also in the
interest of all SAP customers
Required and Recommended Action(s) Business Impacts
• Use transaction MIGO and MMBE in dialog. • Replace customer coding using
• MB** transaction codes shall not be used in customer coding especially MB** by make use of BAPI_GOODSMVT_CREATE
with S/4HANA OP1610 and higher
MB03 by make use of MIGO_DIALOG
MBST by make use of BAPI_GOODSMVT_CANCEL

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2267740 - Foreign Trade within SAP S/4HANA Procurement

Solution highlights Business Values

• The foreign trade solution will be not available because SAP

Global Trade Services is the successor for the business
requirement
• Obsolete Transactions like VX99 , EN99 , VI09X , etc (VI**,
VX* , VE** )

Required and Recommended Action(s) Business Impacts

• Study the current foreign trade systems and decide the future plan of action
(Go or no Go for GTS )
• Additional functions for import and export management are available with
SAP GTS
• For Legal Control and Preference Management, you can use functions based
on SAP GTS
• Letter of Credit is planned to be covered by Treasury and Risk Management.
• Customers using 3rd Party software for foreign trade processing will need to
realign their software with the new S/4 HANA design

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2267298 - Logistics Batch Management Obsolete Transactions

Solution highlights Business Values

• MSC1, MSC2, MSC3 and MSC4 has been made obsolete

Required and Recommended Action(s) Business Impacts

• Use MSC1N ,MSC2N , MSC3n , MSC4N
• Custom programs which refer old T –Codes need to be • No influence on the business process – alternatively
remediated mentioned transaction codes need to be used

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2271189 – Authority Concept for Supplier Invoice

Solution highlights Business Values

• New Header authorization object that enables the system to • New authority concept for supplier invoice enables a
perform simplified handling especially for invoice items w/o PO
- Check header data against the header authorization object – reference
Company Code (M_RECH_BUK) • Simplify and standardize the authority concept for supplier
- Check item data against the item authorization object ex- invoices
Plant (M_RECH_WRK).

Required and Recommended Action(s) Business Impacts

• Users working with supplier invoices, additionally need the authorizations • The previous concept was based on checking header data against the item
based on M_RECH_BUK authorization object for all items.

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2271189 – Authority Concept for Supplier Invoice

Changes in the system

• Edit the values of the organizational levels for the new authorization object M_RECH_BUK.
• Regenerate the profiles related to the roles using PFCG

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2268069 – Simplified Sourcing
Solution highlights
• Reduced set possible sources of supply
- Production versions - Delivery schedules
- Purchasing contracts - Purchasing info records
• If sourcing determines several valid sources of supply for the same
material, plant, quantity, and date, but does not find any quota
arrangements, then it prefers production versions over delivery
schedules, delivery schedules over purchasing contracts, and
purchasing contracts over purchasing info records
Required and Recommended Action(s)
• For manufactured materials - Check if production versions exist for
those BOMs and routings that should be considered by MRP
• For externally procured materials - Analyze your source list entries
- No action if source list entries refer to contracts and delivery
schedules - •Activate the automatic sourcing indicator in the
corresponding purchasing info record if the source list entry only
refers to a supplier and if the supplier shall be selectable by MRP
• Quota arrangements can be used to prioritize sources of supply in
case several sources of supply are valid simultaneously
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Business Values
• Neither customizing nor source list records needed for
sourcing
• Reduced complexity: Reduced set of possible sources of
supply with a clear and symmetric definition
• Consideration of quota arrangements is not dependent
on any material master attributes
Business Impacts
• Production versions are only source of supply for in-house
production over material master attribute MARC-ALTSL
(selection method) which is no longer exists.
• MRP to source a purchase requisition from a certain supplier,
then no need to define a source list entry. It is sufficient to set
the indicator "relevant for automatic sourcing" in the purchasing
info record.
• Quota arrangement always considered
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2267834 Material Ledger Obligatory (Mandatory ) for Material Valuation

Solution highlights Business Values

• Mandatory to use the Material Ledger (ML) in all SAP • Flexible valuation methods in multiple currencies
S/4HANA plants . • Parallel accounting standards
• Actual Costing features like -value of inventories , cost of
goods sold , ..etc possible due to ML
• Cleaner and more consistent valuation
• Inventory account balances are calculated separately in multiple
currency

Required and Recommended Action(s) Business Impacts

• After S4 HANA conversion need to do Customizing migration and Data • If customers are not already using the material ledger, it will be activated
migration for material ledger . during the conversion process. In MM02 and MR21 material prices can now
• Migrate the Material Ledger even if already using the Material Ledger in be maintained in multiple currencies
source system

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