S4 HANA SIMPLE An introduction to Sales Simplifications innovations and UX changes Flashcards
S/4 HANA Business Value Drivers
Strategic
Business Benefits
Total Cost of owernship
SS/4 HANA Business Value Drivers - Strategic
- Entry into new industry segments and markets
- Acquisitions and mergers accelerated
- Digital boardroom feature enhancing the boardroom meetings
- Quick realignment of strategies with immediate response
- Operations simplfied
S/4 HANA Business Value Drivers - Business Beneftis
- Customer Service enhanced End2End
- Increase in Productivity by 10-15% and Operation Margin betterment
- Reduction in Logistics Cost by 10-15% inventory Days by 10-15% Asset maintenance cost by 5-10%, Manufacturing Cycle time by 25-30%
S/4 HANA Business Value Drivers - Total Cost of Ownership
- Project Timeline accelearted
- 10x small data footprint
- Data Backup accelerated by 10 times
- 7x higher throughput
- Cloud and Fiori provide faster adoption
- Operational reporting up to 50-70%
S/4 HANA - Streamlined procure-to-pay
Helps to manage and collaborate with suppliers realtime reducing the over all purchase spend and bring efficiency in procurement operations
- supplier information and master data
- sourcing and contract management
- operational procurement
- inventory and basic inventory management
- invocie and payables management
S/4 HANA - Optimized order-to-cash
Helps to reduce manual effort, helps in exception handling, do automatic back order processing, enable segment credit management functionality in high volume order management scenarios
- Order and contract management
- New credit management
- Inventory and basic warehouse management
- Receivables processing
S/4 HANA - Enhanced requst-to-service
S/4 service management apps with their integration to Hybris provide optimized service operations to enterprises
- Service master data management
- Service management
- Service parts management
- Service agreement management
S/4 HANA - Accelerated plan-to-product
S/4 Planning and manufacturing apps help to collaborate with all supply chain stake holders to plan, produce and bring products to market quickly and in optimal manner
- Production planning
- Production Engineering
- Production orchestration and execution
- Inventory and basic warehouse management
- Project control and product development
- Maintenance management
S/4 HANA - Human resources foundation
S/4 Human resource apps with their integration to Success factors and field glass provide end-to-end functionality to manage talent supply chain of an organization
- Time and attendance management
- Core Human resources management and payroll
- Talent management
- Human capital analytics
S/4 HANA - Core Finance
S/4 Core Finance apps with their new digital board room runctionality and simplified data model significantly improve the finance and accounting operations of an organization
- Accounting and closing operations
- Cash management and profitability analysis
- Financial planning and analysis
- Treasury and financial risk management
- Finance operations
- Enterprise risk and compliance management
S/4 HANA - Key logistics
The key innovations and capabilities address the chnaging market, process and business models driven by disruptive digital technologies
- Real time inventory management and material valuation
- Accelerated material requirements planning
- Advanced availiability to promise
- Integrated quality management
- Effective order management
- Efficient procurement
- Embedded extended warehouse management
- Plan to produce in One system
Accelerated MRP - Materials requirement planning
MRP live is a key innovation in S/4 that dramatically improves the speed of materials requirement planning by 10X
- visibility of material flow leading to good responses to changing demand
- real-tiem inventory monitoring
- better resource / capacity utilization
- automatic generation of procurement proposals
Advanced Availability to promise
Checks in S/4 are very fast, real-time considering alternative plants, substitutes leading to optimal/desirable product and quantity confirmations
- Automatic product confirmations leading to high customer satisfaction
- Automatic back order processing
- Reduction in stock levels and hence capital costs
Real-time inventory management and valuation
Real time inventory visibility across the supply chain leads to optimization of on-hand stock levels and ability to respond to changing demand patterns
- Cost of inventory is reduced
- Ability to confirm customer delivery dates
- Ability to addresss segment of one / B2C scenarios
Inventory innovations
real-time imanagement has simplified data model, flexible analytics, 40 digit material number capability, JIT scenarios helping organizations to achieve the following business benefits
- Reduce stock levels and capital costs
- Eliminate locking and increase throughput
- On-time delivery capabilty
- Handling unit size of 1 or segment of one
Order management & Billing
Traditional systems require a lot of manual intervention in handling high order volumnes. Exception handling require running multiple reports to find root cause of the issue
- S/4 order-to-cash performance monitor (fiori app) with its embedded analytics proivdes the user with intsant insight regarding the order issues. This helps in speedy resolution
- Real-time insight into the entire order-to-cash cyle
- Reduction in the process costs owing to using agile order-to-cash appls
- new order fufilment apps
Production planning innovations
Production planning has improved MRP, predictive analytics and advanced ATP functionality helping organizations to achieve the following business benefits
- Reduce cycle times by optimized material flows using MRP live
- Real-time stock & material flow insight
- Simulation capabilities to find alternate suppliers
- Real-time confirmation of customer delivery dates using advanced ATP checks
Procurement simplifcations & innovations
Sourcing and procurement has seamless integration across purchase processes, procurement KPIS, integration to Ariba, shopping cart + purhcase requisition in one object, self-service requisitioning functionality helping organizations to ahcieve the following business benefits
- Reduce PO error rate
- Real-time analysis of spend, contracts and suppliers
- Seamless integration of purchase cycle with the hlep of Ariba business networks,
- Consumer grade UX in catalog searches in self service requistioning
Procurement
Procurement apps help to manage and collaborate with suppliers real-time reducing the over all purhcase spend and bring efficency in procurement operations
- Real-time noitoring of supplier performance
- Integration with business networks through Ariba
- Integration with Field glass for contingent labor management iand invoice integration
- Embedded pruchase analytics
User experience
New fiori Apps provide a consumer rade role based user experience enhancing the productivity and efficieny
- Role-based Transaction fiori apps improving the user productivity and accuracy.
- Analystics apps help in analyzing data real-time providing instant insight
- Fact sheets provide contextual information
New Sales Model
Sales has simplified data model leveraging the innovations in the database technology
- ERP SD Data model
- header, item, document flow tables
- Status header, item, business data, contract data tables
- Indices, LIS (rebates, credit managemnet, others)
- S/4 HANA SD Data model
- Header, item( incl. status, business, contract data), document flow simplified tables
- LIS (others), No indices
Transportation Planning Point
It is responsible for shipment processing and transportation planning enabling combining multiple deliveries in a shipment and selection of optimal routes during transportation
A controlling area
Manage the cost accounting for one company code or multiple company codes
Material Master Length
40 characters
