Want to take advantage of intelligent automation in SAP S/4HANA?   Situation handling is a quick win feature to get your intelligent automation journey started. Working with the SAP S/4HANA RIG, one of the common questions we get from multiple customers nowadays is: I’m now on S/4HANA and I want to start using the intelligent....

Following a year of unprecedented uncertainty, organizations find themselves immersed in a world of dead budgets and unrealistic forecasts. A world in which senior managers look to the financial planning and analysis (FP&A) department to lead the way so that the organization can more readily adapt to fast–changing business conditions with unpredictable futures.    It is a situation that FP&A have been anticipating, demonstrated by the 7 top current FP&A trends discussed below. These trends, which started....

Column stacked 100 % chart is not among the options for S/4HANA Fiori Overview Page chart types. But usually this chart type goes hand in hand with column stacked chart. The moment user see column stacked chart their next ask will be column stacked % chart. Read the blog how to model column stacked 100 % chart....

Available from May 2021, the Manage Regulatory Graphics app has now been released to customers. With this app, you can get an overview of the graphics available including the graphics themselves, not just text. You can view graphics and enter additional information. You can search and sort graphics, or find information, such as the graphic....

On January 27th, 2021 SAP launched the new Business Transformation as a Service offering RISE with SAP providing the path to an Intelligent Enterprise for you, as SAP customer, at your individual terms, speed and timeline. According to the blog of SAP’s CEO Christian Klein Introducing RISE with SAP – Business Transformation as a Service SAP together with our....

Discrete Industries are described as the production of a discrete category of goods or items. This means goods or items can be individually or separately produced. Figure 1: Discrete Industries in SAP S/4HANA Cloud – The Link Collection Currently SAP S/4HANA Cloud focuses on solutions for the following two discrete industries: Industrial Machinery and Components and Automotive. For the later, specific focus....

SAP Project Coach is now available for partners and customers. SAP Project Coach is a chatbot which provides expert SAP S/4HANA implementation knowledge. Additionally, this tool offers coaching sessions provided by a global pool of SAP S/4HANA experts. The usage of the chatbot is free of charge, while the coaching session has a cost associated.....

We are excited to announce an upcoming SAP Intelligent Robotic Process Automation (iRPA) Webinar event with a focus on quick win use cases for S/4HANA and Rise with SAP. The event will take place on June 23rd, registration details can be found here. This represents a date change from June 2nd due to a clash with SAPPHIRE.....

This blog post is summary of rolling out FIORI application – Migrate Your Data   ID F3473 and detailed activities involved in setup. Limitations and tips on using FIORI “Migrate Your Data”. With this app, you can migrate business data to SAP S/4HANA 1909 on prem  from certain SAP source systems ERP. This blog post provides....

In my previous value blog post, I highlighted one of the self-service tools that can help customers build a business case for their migration from SAP ERP to SAP S/4HANA through a RISE with SAP contract. In this blog post, I will describe the value of using SAP Activate for RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private....

في غالب الأمر عندما نقرأ عن الذكاء الاصطناعي نعتقد أنه متعلق بشكل مباشر بالروبوتات وتكنولوجيا متقدمة ليست من ضمن حياتنا اليومية والحقيقة هي أن الذكاء الاصطناعي في عالمنا الحالي أصبح جزء لا يتجزأ منه  في البداية، ما هو الذكاء الاصطناعي؟ الذكاء الاصطناعي هو قدرة الحواسيب الرقمية على محاكاة نمط مهام يشابه نمط عقل الانسان، كالقدرة....

Value is a default presentation mode of Fiori Overview Page pie chart. If you want to know how to switch between value and % of total then this blog is for you. Below is pie chart default presentation mode. Using plot area data label chart property it can changed to % of total. This is....

It’s true, SAP S/4HANA Cloud can transform your business. When reviewing SAP’s comparable products, SAP S/4HANA Cloud Essentials Edition (Public Cloud) has three major advantages:   To start, the Public Cloud offers the lowest TCO (Total Cost of Ownership). Sharing your company’s infrastructure allows you to throw-out old physical servers and begin to free-up costly real-estate. The total....

Dear Digital Supply Chain Planning and Manufacturing Community, As our team further enhances and expands our Digital Supply Chain and Manufacturing S/4HANA product portfolio in support of Intelligent Enterprise, we are excited to announce a modular deployment option with Digital Supply Chain, Edition for S/4HANA including Manufacturing for planning and scheduling. SAP S/4HANA Manufacturing for planning and scheduling allows....

If you’re still following along, you’ve noticed there has been a very heavy focus on data in my pas blog posts. Specifically, on how we segment and prepare data for carve-outs from the source system using two general techniques: system clones or selective extractions. We’ve also covered some of the questions that will determine how....

Product Information Betty Guedez May 13th 2021 Situation Handling – Case Invoice Skipped in Payment Advice Updated as of release 2020 Hello there! For those who do not know me yet, I am Betty Guédez, Finance Product Expert at SAP S/4HANA RIG and our subject for today is about Situation Handling, with a solution for a....

I sort of “stumbled” into this feature of using Analysis Office with S/4HANA on premise (in this case, 1909).  I think it is a great feature, especially for finance users Start by using transaction RAAOE inside S/4HANA, “Launch Analysis Workbook” I selected the Asset History Sheet query At the selection screen, most of the prompt....

业务背景: 客户在使用app过账付款时,对于第一行的项目无法直接编辑项目文本,如何能实现这个功能呢? 全球来说已经有2个CIP提出这个需求,在参照这篇BLOG操作的同时,也可以同时去投票以便从根本上解决问题。 需求1  需求2 使用的应用: 由于历史原因,对于app过账付款来说,字段项目文本是隐藏在抬头部分的,所以借助Cloud上的调整UI功能来显示出来供编辑。 操作指引: 给一个用户A赋予管理员 和 应付会计 的角色,前者提供调整UI的权限,后者提供过账付款的权限; 使用用户A登陆系统,进入app过账付款,点击右上角的用户菜单,点击调整UI 如果有警告信息,点击 确认 假设想把项目文本加在抬头文本下面,移动鼠标到抬头文本,右键选择 +添加:字段 在可用内容:字段界面,搜索‘文本‘,勾选,点击确定 你会发现项目文本已经出现在哪里了。 点击‘保存并退出‘,那么当前系统 不要忘记再次进入调整UI,选择‘发布‘,才能保存并后续传输到P系统。 引申: 对于app 过账收款也可以使用同样的方法来实现。  

Welcome back to the blog series on Universal Parallel Accounting in SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2105. In the last blog Astr­­­id discussed Asset Accounting for Universal Parallel Accounting. This time I would like to cover Overhead Accounting for Universal Parallel Accounting. Parallel Accounting was already available in SAP S/4HANA Cloud but reached its limits when it came to....

Did you know that you can save a lot of time and stress by using SAP S/4HANA Accruals Management? A lot of businesses still face challenges with traditional approaches to getting their period end closing done. Accruals Management is an important part of this process. And the correct postings of accruals are essential for financial....

Accelerate Your Project by Using a Global Template Offering Preconfigured End-to-End Business Processes for Multinational Corporations   In a Nutshell The enterprise management layer is ideal for new and existing customers operating in multiple countries and looking for a global template offering standard, preconfigured end-to-end business processes to start their SAP S/4HANA journey. Combined with the SAP Activate methodology, the enterprise....

新季度,新版本。SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2105版本,即SAP S/4HANA Cloud产品2021年度第2次发布,已经GA。借助成熟的SAP S/4HANA Cloud解决方案,我们为您提供了一款易于使用的、具有众多集成功能的智慧云ERP,帮助您平稳运行业务。   一如既往地,SAP持续为您——我们的重要客户,改进解决方案包。通过这次2105新版本发布,我们就所有的业务线和在全行业上进行了创新,借助各种新功能和改进为智慧企业提供支持。此外,Built-in Support提供了高效、简化与引导式支持渠道,使得用户可以搜索信息、从智能聊天机器人处获取帮助、与SAP支持专家交流。在您使用SAP S/4HANA Cloud时,Build-in Support有望提供对实时支持的访问从而改善您对SAP 支持的体验。   下面,请跟随Sven Denecken(COO S/4HANA,Head of Product Success)的脚步,进一步了解SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2105版本在财务、销售、生产与供应链、寻源与采购这几大模块中他最喜欢的创新亮点。   Finance财务 借助SAP S / 4HANA Cloud 2105在财务模块中最重要的亮点——通用平行分类账(universal parallel accounting)中的创新,您可以使用分类账,跨端到端流程的不同会计标准集,准备和显示财务报表。您可以对每个分类账执行并行评估和报告,分别得到财务会计和管理会计的计算值。 这样可以确保一致的并行价值流和完整的审计跟踪,以满足本地和集团层面的报告要求。 通过这项创新,我们借助并行法律评估的高度自动化和准确性,提供了充分灵活性的同时减少了人力工作。   Manufacturing & Supply Chain 生产&供应链 在仓库管理领域中,生产&供应链模块包含了基于库存的序列号的序列号处理。 借助云仓库管理的功能,您现在可以在储存箱(storage bin)级别管理序列化产品,您可以使用基于库存的序列号来拣货、包装、计数、收货以及发货。此外,您可以使用带增强功能的仓库监视器对序列化库存项目过账并显示序列号,也可以在库存级别下对带序列号的库存进行迁移。   Sales 销售 以往更新销售订单列表,涉及大量耗时的手工步骤。 借助SAP S / 4HANA Cloud....

It is hard to imagine a technology that has changed the modern world more than the smartphone. Every day, millions of us use a single device to talk with friends, take videos, share photos, check email, get driving directions, or go shopping. It’s been a global revolution. As one of the world’s largest telecommunications companies,....

How can I order the enterprise management layer? The enterprise management layer for SAP S/4HANA is a service provided by SAP. This service is available whether you choose a deployment in SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition or on premise, including when provisioned by a hosting provider. In other words, as a customer, you can order the service and SAP will provide the....

For SAP S/4HANA Cloud, the latest release is always taking the best intelligent Cloud ERP to the next level, powering the customer journey to the Intelligent Enterprise with Innovations in Intelligent Technologies like Robotic Process Automation, Machine Learning, Situation Handling and Analytics. New innovations and broad sets of features prioritized by our clients and partners help to fuel....

The enterprise management layer is also available to SAP S/4HANA Cloud, extended edition customers. It is included in the subscription and can be ordered for deployment in the customer system landscape, be it in a sandbox system only or in all systems in the landscape, for example in the Development, Quality Assurance and Production systems. We recommend to deploy....

This blog describes the functionality of Intermediate Data Retention (IDr) in SAP Central Finance (CFIN). As we are aware that the Initial Load and Real time replication functionalities work technically different in SAP Central Finance although the purpose is same. With SAP S/4HANA 2020FPS01 SAP introduced the new feature called Intermediate Data Retention (IDR) with....

Co-author: Sahil Grover, Abhijit Bolakhe Welcome to the Two-Tier (Hybrid) ERP updates with new features available with SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2105 Release. If you missed the earlier release highlights click here. With SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2105, we give four scenario innovations in Two Tier ERP. Service Order Management  In this scenario, you get direct delivery of service from....

Just-in-time / just-in-sequence processing is important to the automotive industry. In my second blog, I will focus on the supply to the production process and how the next-generation JIT Supply to Production solution in SAP S/4HANA helps Manufacturers need to ensure that inventory levels are kept minimal due to limited space on the production line and line-side....

UX champions are the people and teams driving a better user experience for their companies. They inspire a mindset change and provide the tools, methods, and leadership their organizations need to effect a UX transformation. That’s why we’re excited to launch a new series dedicated to their stories. We’ve spent many hours interviewing both customers....

This procedure is Part 1 of the series which describes the very first steps to download the media. We will focus on creating Sandbox type instance with co-deployed (embedded) gateway. Please find other blogs as follows at S/4HANA SQUARE ONE SAP S/4HANA  SQUARE  ONE NEW INSTALLATION     PART1 – MP PART2 –  Installation PART3 –  BP Activation PART4 – Fiori Activation PART5 –....

This blog post describes how to set up integration between SAP Self-Billing Cockpit and an SAP S/4HANA system. The entire setup procedure involves the following tasks: Create a communication user for SAP S/4HANA. Check the availability of OData services. Subscribe to SAP Self-Billing Cockpit. Assign role collections to users. Configure data replication for units of....

In this blog, I am sharing basic overview of Implementing attribute view with material Attribute view: Attribute views are dimensions, BW characteristics or master data.Attribute views are used to join to a dimension or attribute view.In most cases used to model master data like entities (like product, employee, business partner)Highly re-used and shared in analytic....

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....

SAP FPSL and data load process for Banking scenario Couple of months back I wrote a blog providing an overview of the SAP FPSL solution (https://blogs.sap.com/2021/01/14/sap-financial-product-subledger-overview/) and received a good feedback on it. In this blog I want to talk about another aspect of SAP’s offering for FSI and talk more about data load. We....

Digital transformation creates agility and agility is essential to success. That’s why more manufacturers have made digital transformation a top strategic priority. Of course, digital transformation is no small task. If you’re running SAP applications, you understand the critical nature of your workloads and may wish to keep them in your data center. You’re not....

At the time of discussing client’s pain points and challenges which they are facing or reviewing the ABAP codes we have noticed that many variables are hardcoded or many Z-tables are present in the SAP system for maintenance of data to use in user exits, BADI’s, Reports, Forms, etc. Due to Hardcode, code changes is....

Hello Everyone, My name is Harish Mangtani and I work for the SAP S/4HANA Product Success team at SAP SE Germany. I would like to share with you, the key innovations in Sourcing & Procurement, which helps customers drive intelligence with SAP S/4HANA Cloud release 2105. The most significant advantage in Software as a Service....

This was a recent webcast from SAP’s Jan Meyer. Source: SAP Figure 1 Source: SAP   Jan is the head of learning systems at SAP with a new mandate – internal, external, and community learning Source: SAP Opportunities, challenges, provide learning to external learning Simplify discovery and learning at SAP Update experience from content perspective....

This year, perhaps more than any other, has shown how important it is for supply chains to be resilient, flexible, intelligent, and networked. That’s why I would like to invite you to SAPPHIRE NOW – our largest event for the SAP ecosystem of customers and partners. The kick-off for SAPPHIRE NOW is on June 2nd, with a virtual keynote by our....

Discrete Industries are described as the production of a discrete category of goods or items. This means goods or items can be individually or separately produced. Figure 1: Discrete Industries in SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2105 Currently, SAP S/4HANA Cloud focuses on solutions for the following two discrete industries: Industrial Machinery and Components and Automotive. For the later, specific focus is....

Digital transformation remains one of the most used buzzwords in enterprise development. As most business owners will attest, it’s more than just an empty term. Digital transformation is the only way for businesses to keep pace with industry trends. SAP S/4HANA migration forms a core part of that digital transformation process. The company will become....

Digital disruption is happening everywhere and changing everything. Disruption drives new business models, new ways of working, and new methods of collaborating and communicating. Today, overcoming disruption is often the top goal when a business transforms into an intelligent enterprise. That’s because digital transformation enables businesses to create a scalable, reliable, and flexible IT infrastructure....

Sometimes customers ask the way to design Document Numbering with Intelligence for the Sales Billings. They need to identify, by the document number, some characteristics from the operation. The reasons for all of them are different but useful for their business. For example, they want to know the company code, or Country/Region, or document type....

* Данная публикация является переводом статьи Shashidhar Thumma “Your journey to SAP S/4HANA – a practical guide” от 14.08.2020. Ссылка на оригинал. Всем привет! В 2015 году SAP представила S/4HANA – упрощенную ERP-систему 4-го поколения, которая с тех пор стала главным предложением SAP в части ERP-систем и сердцем «интеллектуального предприятия». (К интеллектуальным предприятиям SAP относит организации, которые....

* Данная публикация является переводом статьи Shashidhar Thumma “Your journey to SAP S/4HANA – a practical guide” от 14.08.2020. Ссылка на оригинал. Всем привет! В 2015 году SAP представила S/4HANA – упрощенную ERP-систему 4-го поколения, которая с тех пор стала главным предложением SAP в части ERP-систем и сердцем «интеллектуального предприятия». (К интеллектуальным предприятиям SAP относит организации, которые....

Climate Action – with the upcoming SAP Product Footprint Management product   Climate Action is one of the biggest challenges and opportunities of the 21st century. Industry increasingly recognizes the importance of climate action, and sustainability leaders are seeking solutions to innovate and grow through effective emissions and environmental footprint management including regulatory compliance and....

A podcast on this topic is also available here. Let us now continue into our series and understand the details behind consuming the machine learning services from SAP Cloud Platform. In the earlier blog, we discussed briefly the various use cases around embedding and consuming machine learning models with SAP S/4HANA by explaining the way these use cases are....

Introduction In past months, I was involved in a SAP Supply Chain Management 7.14 implementation project which mainly use APO-CTM and APO-PP/DS modules.  For PP/DS  part, this project has delivered custom scheduling heuristics for customer specific requirement such as schedule plan order and unreleased production order together, or set cross order constraint for the plan....

Build the skills that drive value Hello Community! Find here the SAP Enterprise Support Academy Update on latest news, achievements, and offerings.The SAP Enterprise Support Academy provides expert guidance and high impact knowledge transfer services that enable you to innovate and be successful with SAP solutions, no matter your choice of deployment. Subscribe to regularly receive latest news....

Introduction As we are moving to SAP S/4HANA the use of SAP Fiori Apps is going to be very popular and mandatory. SAP has delivered over 3000 standard Fiori Apps so it is very evident you might get lost with so many Fiori Apps and which one to choose from. The Blog covers all the....

I’m part of SAP S/4HANA Regional Implementation Group, my area of focus is procurement. The SAP S/4HANA RIG have been supporting several hundred customers on their journey to SAP S/4HANA. This allows us to get a good impression of the challenges customers face and which topics are important to them. The adoption of innovations is....

SAP continues to update their offerings to further improve the user experience. While this is great to ensure our ERP systems have the greatest capabilities possible, it can be hard to keep track that our own systems are up to date. That’s why we put together a list of the SAP versions and how your business can learn more about....

Welcome SAP procurement stakeholders, this blog provides insights on SAP S/4HANA Cloud release 2008 for Sourcing & Procurement. In case you do not need all the information below and just briefly want to get an overview on the release highlights, please watch this video: Before we start with the details, I would like to encourage....

  In any projects, testing is one of the key component and quality of testing defines the success rate during and post go live largely. In this blog, the discussion is focussed on how to plan the test strategy in Central Finance project. It is important to understand that Central Finance projects are different from....

Here, we are going to explain the creation of custom SAP UI5 application using BOPF consumed OData service. Pre-requisite– Please visit our previous blog posts for overview of the functionality and for the back-end creation. Develop Draft Capable Custom Apps Using BOPF Framework – Part2 In this application, we have implemented the basic functionality like user....

This blog explains about e-withholding tax in Thailand and SAP solution for e-withholding tax including additional customizations that you need to consider. What is e-withholding tax system in Thailand e-Withholding Tax system is a new service of the Revenue Department that listens to the needs of those in the process of reporting the amount of....

Business Value – Dimensions of Success The expected business value of customers moving to SAP S/4HANA traditionally focuses mainly on business process optimization and business model transformation. SAP S/4HANA Dimensions of Business Value Business Process Optimisation by realising quantifiable business benefits, like inventory reduction by improved MRP or dead-stock analysis. Or reduction of risk by closely....

Introduction This blog post will provide the detailed process on Two-Tier ERP solution for process where Service is delivered from Subsidiary against a Purchase order at Headquarter The Headquarter process the customer’s order and details of recipient of service  are communicated as service order to subsidiary, Services are directly delivered from Subsidiary with seamless processes....

Market survey data has shown that patient acquisition and loyalty increasingly is impacted by the consumer financial experience. Salucro’s online offering leverages SAP’s ERP capabilities and advanced automation to enable seamless transaction processing and payment collection across the entire revenue cycle, simplifying the patient payment experience. The solution works with SAP Extension Suite and SAP Integration Suite....

Introduction Most of the SAP Customers uses Procurement and Work Management Module. Now let me tell you in Layman language what is it. Procurement is generally dealing with Buying stuff for the Company and Work Management can be Planning before buying stuff. Now there are so many of SAP End users who create Purchase Order,....

This is a how-to blog post and part of our blog series on Understanding Business Roles. In this blog post we compare and contrast using familiar SAP GUI transaction tools such as PFCG, versus mass maintenance tools such as Mass Maintenance of Business Roles for SAP Fiori launchpad. You will see how the SAP Fiori launchpad content manager works for custom....

This is the 3rd blog post in our series on Understanding Business Roles. In the previous blog post How SAP Business Roles simplify deploying SAP User Experience, you learned you can use SAP Business Roles to: Scope relevant SAP Fiori apps and classic UIs to be deployed based on your current GUI transaction usage Map your business processes....

How we connect has changed so quickly in our personal lives over the last 30 years – we are a connected, global community. But how we communicate in the Supply Chain did not evolve at that same pace. SAP acquired Ariba in 2012 with a simple idea to help solve that problem – to connect....

Digital enabling capabilities Automotive Supply Chains evolved a great deal since Ford fundamentally transformed local supply chains with the first mass producing of Vehicles. From that time until now, automotive players in the aftermarket segment faced different disruptions.  Whether driven by innovation or crisis, the impact of that reinvention has often been felt on their supply chains. ....

Under the challenging business circumstances innovation is ever crucial to succeed. Service in S/4HANA Cloud 2008 brings exciting news to support that. We are introducing a new solution capability, Solution Order Management for higher-margin solutions offering Sales and Service products. You can also watch this 5 min video to get the first impression on Service in 2008.....

SAP S/4HANA Microlearning offers a new powerful learning opportunity! Microlearnings are self-contained, stand-alone knowledge bites covering key features of SAP S/4HANA (on premise and Cloud). They provide spot-on information that you can consume anytime – no registration or enrollment is required. The SAP S/4HANA microlearnings are designed as little how-to guides, include a system demo, and....

Have you ever thought about ‘going to the cloud’ wall-to-wall? With the full depth and breadth of industry capabilities? In this blog, I would like to share what ‘in the cloud’ means for an automotive supplier. No matter if you tend to go for a public or private cloud environment, SAP supports your endeavors with....

On average, a company has gone live on SAP S/4HANA once every business hour since 2020. The momentum of organizations transitioning from SAP R/3 or SAP ECC to SAP’s next-generation ERP is quite impressive. However, as with any migration, some organizations are learning that automation tools, which worked for R/3 and ECC, may no longer work for....