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
Document Pricing Procedure Indicator
In conjunction with customer pricing indicator for a slaes area determines the pricing schemea.
Pricing Schema
- Determined in a sales order based on customer pricing indicator set in sold-party for the sales area and document pricing indicator set in the sales document type configuration
- System allows different pricing procedures for different market segments and / or sales processes offered
- Pricing schema is first determined at the document entry and based on the condition types and pricing condition data defined in the procedure, system automaticallu determines the header and item level prices
Transfer of requirements
Requirement classes control the ATP checks and TOR for all sales document types
