Summary: Three financial closing applications are considered for new S/4HANA implementations.  Limitations on licensing,  compatibility,  availability, and roadmap innovation are discussed. Spoiler Alert:  SAP S/4HANA Cloud for Advanced Financial Closing (AFC) should be the primary consideration since it is functionally capable, flexible, as well as being  SAP’s strategic option. SAP has continued to evolve its product....

SAP has released the second “Feature Pack Stack” (FPS), SAP S/4HANA 2020 FPS02 for the 2020 release, on May 26, 2021. This is the second in a sequence of FPS’s that will be delivered twice a year and introduce new optional capabilities. And once again, it comes up with a new set of capabilities bringing....