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SAP S/4HANA: An Overview and Key Considerations
What Is SAP S/4HANA?
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) has been the cornerstone of SAP solutions since the company was founded in 1972. SAP’s first packaged mainframe software application, SAP R/2, was released in 1979, and was followed by SAP R/3, SAP ERP Central Component (ECC) 5.0, and SAP ECC 6.0. SAP’s current flagship enterprise ERP solution, SAP S/4HANA, was released in 2015, and was a significant shift for the organization as it ran exclusively on the SAP HANA database.
Modules included in an SAP S/4HANA system include: Asset Management, Finance, Human Resources, Manufacturing, R&D/Engineering, Sales, Service, Sourcing and Procurement, and Supply Chain. Each of these modules consist of multiple applications that offer specific features and functionality, as well as industry-specific and enhanced line-of-business functions.
SAP S/4HANA: An Overview and Key Considerations
What Is SAP S/4HANA?
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) has been the cornerstone of SAP solutions since the company was founded in 1972. SAP’s first packaged mainframe software application, SAP R/2, was released in 1979, and was followed by SAP R/3, SAP ERP Central Component (ECC) 5.0, and SAP ECC 6.0. SAP’s current flagship enterprise ERP solution, SAP S/4HANA, was released in 2015, and was a significant shift for the organization as it ran exclusively on the SAP HANA database.
Modules included in an SAP S/4HANA system include: Asset Management, Finance, Human Resources, Manufacturing, R&D/Engineering, Sales, Service, Sourcing and Procurement, and Supply Chain. Each of these modules consist of multiple applications that offer specific features and functionality, as well as industry-specific and enhanced line-of-business functions.
Key Considerations for SAPinsiders
- SAP S/4HANA is the solution that SAP wants enterprise ERP customers to be running, but it is about more than simply adopting technology. According to Tom Janoshalmi, the former Global Head of SAP Digital Core Move, organizations need to look at their move to SAP S/4HANA to being about a connected story not just a technology upgrade. While SAPinsider research has shown that many organizations look at SAP S/4HANA largely because of the upcoming end of maintenance for core SAP ERP releases, more see a move to SAP S/4HANA as the opportunity to re-engineer and update processes and configurations. Janoshalmi agrees. He wants organizations to focus on the value they can derive from SAP S/4HANA and what they can achieve moving forward. You can hear more about why the move to SAP S/4HANA is important by reading SAPinsider’s interview with Janoshalmi.
- SAP S/4HANA is the core around which organizations can build their transformed landscape. When Eczacıbaşı Building Products needed to update their existing systems and processes, they looked at SAP S/4HANA as the central part of their update. The overall process involved a complete evaluation of all their current processes and implementing technologies that would increase agility while boosting customer brand experience. SAP S/4HANA was used to connect all the different parts of the business in that process. This article covers more about the Eczacıbaşı project, as does this event session where they discuss their results.
- SAP continues to enhance SAP S/4HANA by including it in RISE with SAP. RISE with SAP is not a new product, but an offering that includes assets that help organizations achieve transformation. The central part of this is SAP S/4HANA Cloud, the software-as-a-service version of SAP’s flagship ERP solution. Damien Johnson from SAP explains in this session what RISE with SAP is, and how it impacts organizations’ existing SAP S/4HANA projects.
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Lessons Learned on Sizing Deployments for SAP S/4HANAMar 31, 2023 — Click Here to View the Session Deck Is hardware sizing still relevant? Whether your SAP landscape may be on-premises, in the cloud, or hosted, proper planning is required. Business functions must run smoothly, while still being reliable and cost-effective. Learn about various best practices and hear examples from multiple customer cases. View this session deck […]
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How to Avoid License Cost Explosion with SAP S/4HANA MigrationMar 30, 2023 — It has been three years since SAP announced the oncoming end of Business Suite 7 mainstream maintenance in 2027. A recent Gartner report shows 31% of ECC customers purchased licenses to begin transitioning to SAP S/4HANA by the end of 2022. In short, the time to evaluate your SAP landscape and reassess software requirements to match future business needs is now – before it’s too late to implement necessary changes.
This calls for an accurate, holistic view of what is in your existing landscape and what you’re really using to make a solid case for the business value of adopting S/4HANA and SAP Cloud services before you fall behind. Only this type of high-level data accuracy can ensure your landscape aligns with business goals, and that you’re getting maximum ROI from your existing SAP investment. Maximizing this SAP investment doesn’t only entail preparing for long-term events like the migration to S/4HANA. It also includes making strategic decisions about positioning your landscape each day to improve efficiency while taking future demands and SAP enhancements into account.
In this session:
Better use your data to understand SAP investments on a higher level.
Position your SAP landscape for long-term organizational growth.
Map to S/4HANA while ensuring you are in the strongest possible position to have discussions with SAP.
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Eliminate Your SAP S/4HANA Operation Burden With Red Hat AutomationMar 30, 2023 — Automation is key when it comes to keeping up with the fast pace of innovation every company needs to adopt in order to be and remain competitive. Red Hat provides an ideal platform to automate the management of SAP workloads. The unique combination of Red Hat Ansible, Smart Management and Insights on top of RHEL eases the challenges present in the whole lifecycle of these critical workloads.
View this session deck to learn how to leverage Red Hat certified automation from Day 0 to Day 2 operations (from planning migration and new deployments to day to day administration operations) making repeatable processes much less complex and free of human error.
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Technical Considerations for Your Move to SAP S/4HANAMar 30, 2023 — Click Here to View the Session Deck Deployment models including Greenfield, Brownfield, and Selective data migration. SAP S/4HANA’s application architecture Data, integration, and conversion considerations. Archiving with SAP S/4HANA Integration options related to both cloud and on-premises environments Fiori UI and Single Sign–on. View this session deck to: Understand tools for S/4HANA. Migration Challenges. Fiori and SSO.
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Hear how Pixelle Paper Gained Business Success with SAP S/4HANAMar 30, 2023 — Greg Buehrle, IT Director at Pixelle Specialty Solutions, joined by Mark Lennie, Principal Consultant at Reply, will share the execution and delivery aspect of an S/4 project in a highly integrated environment. In this session, Pixelle will share the challenges and opportunities presented to the Business and IT teams during an SAP ECC to S/4 greenfield project with extensive 3rd Party integrations.
In this session, Pixelle will also discuss:
The benefits of utilizing SAP Best Practices workshops and predefined configuration
Business reception of value add S/4 features
Testing strategy success and progress tracking
The business impact and change management strategies associated with transitioning seasoned SAP GUI users to the FIORI UI
Unexpected challenges encountered while implementing both S/4 GUI and S/4 Fiori Processes
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How a Major Retail Chain Successfully Managed Multiple Integrators to Embed Compliance Objectives into Their S/4HANA ImplementationMar 29, 2023 — Click Here to View the Session Deck View this session deck to hear how our Retail customer kept compliance at the forefront of their S/4 transformation journey by identifying, documenting and providing guidance regarding security, GRC and automated controls throughout the implementation. Understanding the importance of these compliance workstreams, the customer selected Protiviti as a […]
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What You Need to Know about Group Reporting in S/4HANAMar 29, 2023 — SAP S/4HANA Group Reporting is the latest Financial Close and Consolidation software from SAP. The solution assists an organization with unifying and streamlining local and group consolidation closing activities. In addition, the solution supports an organization's finance department by collecting, processing and then presenting consolidated financial statements in accordance with GAAP requirement such as US GAAP or IFRS.
View this session deck to learn:
Basic Overview of Group Reporting consolidation.
Streamlining consolidation close process.
Matrix consolidation.
Legal consolidation for multiple consolidation groups.
Options and key design decisions for implementing Group Reporting.
Lessons learned from previous implementations.
Reporting options.
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Accelerate Global Business Readiness with Localized SAP S/4HANAMar 29, 2023 — Does scaling business processes across multiple countries sound ambitious to you? Did you know that SAP provides localized business processes out of the box? Join this session to learn how SAP localized solutions empower enterprises to run globally while operating in compliance with local regulations. With Regulatory relief as a service new legal changes such as the recent currency conversion in Croatia are provided by SAP for the lifespan of the solution.
This session covers:
Localization as a strategic differentiator for SAP.
Currently available and recently delivered local versions for SAP S/4HANA and SAP Document and Reporting Compliance
Regulatory Relief as a Service
Insights on the planned roadmap
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Tips to Master SAP Controlling Design in readiness for SAP S/4HANAMar 29, 2023 — Click Here to View the Session Deck Are you aware of the changes to the Controlling module with SAP S/4HANA? Is your SAP Controlling implementation optimized to make the most of the available functionality? Are you taking advantage of the integrated nature of the SAP system and making the most out of this module? View […]
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Impact20: Modernize Your Move to the Cloud: Your Roadmap to SAP S/4HANAMar 28, 2023 — Click Here to View the Session Deck There’s never been a better time to make the move to SAP S/4HANA and transform your company into an SAP Intelligent Enterprise. With full support for SAP ECC 6.0 ending in 2027, the clock is ticking. Companies that convert now can reap the rewards of SAP S/4HANA faster—and […]
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