Sap S/4hana by Baumgartl, Axel,Bardhan, Devraj -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Dear Reader Notes on Usage Table of Contents Foreword from Uwe Grigoleit Foreword from Cameron Art Preface

Why Read This Book? Audience Structure of the Book Acknowledgments

1 The Digital Transformation: An Introduction

1.1 Defining the Digital Transformation 1.2 Business Value Scenarios

1.2.1 Customer Centricity and Experience 1.2.2 Customer Insight and Improved Decision-Making 1.2.3 Digitally Enabled Supply Chain

1.3 Architecture at a Glance 1.4 Summary

2 Finance

2.1 Industry Pain Points and SAP S/4HANA Benefits

2.1.1 Integration of Information 2.1.2 Enterprise Cost Reductions 2.1.3 Measuring Business Performance 2.1.4 Optimize Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting 2.1.5 Continuous Finance Process Improvements 2.1.6 Provide Inputs to Enterprise Strategy 2.1.7 Develop Talent in the Finance Organization

2.2 Key Functionalities

2.2.1 Universal Journal 2.2.2 Material Ledger and Transfer Pricing 2.2.3 New Asset Accounting 2.2.4 Cash Management 2.2.5 SAP BPC for SAP S/4HANA Finance 2.2.6 Profitability Analysis 2.2.7 Central Finance 2.2.8 Real-Time Data and Soft Close

2.3 Outlook 2.4 Summary

3 Manufacturing

3.1 Industry Pain Points and SAP S/4HANA Benefits 3.2 Key Manufacturing Functionality

3.2.1 MRP Live 3.2.2 Product Master Optimization 3.2.3 Embedded Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling 3.2.4 Complex Manufacturing 3.2.5 Demand-Driven MRP 3.2.6 General Process Optimization/Simplification

3.3 Outlook 3.4 Summary

4 Supply Chain

4.1 Industry Pain Points and SAP S/4HANA Benefits 4.2 Key Supply Chain Functionality

4.2.1 Data Model Simplification 4.2.2 Simplified Inventory Valuation 4.2.3 Embedded EWM 4.2.4 Transportation Management

4.3 Outlook 4.4 Summary

5 Sales, Marketing, Commerce, and Service Management

5.1 Industry Pain Points and SAP S/4HANA Benefits 5.2 Key Sales Functionality

5.2.1 Data Model Simplification 5.2.2 Sales Order Fulfillment Cockpit 5.2.3 Condition Contract Settlement 5.2.4 Advanced ATP 5.2.5 General Process Optimization/Simplification

5.3 Key Marketing and Commerce Functionality

5.3.1 Customer Relationship Management 5.3.2 SAP Billing and Revenue Innovation Management

5.4 Key Service Management Functionality

5.4.1 Optimized Service and Service Master Data Management 5.4.2 Service Parts and Service Agreement Management

5.5 Outlook 5.6 Summary

6 Sourcing and Procurement

6.1 Industry Pain Points and SAP S/4HANA Benefits 6.2 Key Sourcing and Procurement Functionality

6.2.1 Operational Purchasing 6.2.2 Invoice and Payables Management 6.2.3 Sourcing and Contract Management 6.2.4 Supplier Evaluation and Analytics

6.3 Outlook 6.4 Summary

7 Research and Development and Asset Management

7.1 Industry Pain Points and SAP S/4HANA Benefits 7.2 Key Research and Development Functionality

7.2.1 SAP Innovation Management 7.2.2 SAP Portfolio and Project Management 7.2.3 SAP Commercial Project Management 7.2.4 SAP Product Lifecycle Costing

7.3 Key Asset Management Functionality

7.3.1 Maintenance Planning and Scheduling 7.3.2 Maintenance Operation and Execution 7.3.3 Mobile Asset Maintenance

7.4 Outlook 7.5 Summary

8 Industry Solutions

8.1 Retail

8.1.1 Technical Simplifications 8.1.2 Available Functionality 8.1.3 Removed and Nonstrategic Functionality 8.1.4 Retail Integration 8.1.5 SAP S/4HANA 1709

8.2 Oil & Gas

8.2.1 Technical Simplifications 8.2.2 Upstream and Downstream 8.2.3 Trader’s and Scheduler’s Workbench 8.2.4 Transportation and Distribution 8.2.5 Secondary Distribution 8.2.6 SAP S/4HANA 1709

8.3 Summary

9 SAP S/4HANA Architecture

9.1 The Journey from SAP ERP to SAP S/4HANA

9.1.1 The Evolution of SAP S/4HANA 9.1.2 SAP S/4HANA as the Digital Core 9.1.3 The Roadmap to SAP S/4HANA and Innovations

9.2 SAP HANA Platform

9.2.1 SAP HANA Database 9.2.2 Virtualization 9.2.3 Scalability 9.2.4 Recoverability 9.2.5 SAP HANA Operations 9.2.6 SAP HANA Logical Deployment Options 9.2.7 SAP HANA Platform Services

9.3 SAP S/4HANA Security 9.4 SAP S/4HANA Core Data Models 9.5 User Interface and User Experience 9.6 Data Lifecycle Management 9.7 DevOps 9.8 Summary

10 Deployment Options

10.1 Cloud Concepts 10.2 SAP S/4HANA Versions

10.2.1 On-Premise SAP S/4HANA 10.2.2 SAP S/4HANA Cloud 10.2.3 Hybrid Model

10.3 Cloud Vendor 10.4 Integration 10.5 Summary

11 SAP S/4HANA Cloud

11.1 Value Proposition 11.2 Current Scope of the Solution 11.3 Deployment

11.3.1 Fit-to-Standard 11.3.2 Deployment Resources 11.3.3 SAP Best Practices Explorer 11.3.4 Self-Service Configuration User Interface

11.4 Extensibility 11.5 Content Lifecycle Management 11.6 Summary

12 Extending SAP S/4HANA

12.1 Extensions for SAP

12.1.1 Overview 12.1.2 In-App Extensibility 12.1.3 Side-by-Side Extensibility

12.2 SAP Cloud Platform 12.3 Internet of Things and Cognitive Analytics 12.4 SAP Leonardo and Machine Learning 12.5 Summary

13 Adopting SAP S/4HANA

13.1 New Implementation Options and Approach

13.1.1 Business Scenario Recommendations 13.1.2 SAP S/4HANA Value Advisor 13.1.3 SAP S/4HANA Transformation Navigator 13.1.4 Getting Started 13.1.5 Sizing Requirements 13.1.6 SAP S/4HANA Implementation Guidelines

13.2 System Conversion Options and Approach

13.2.1 Scenarios 13.2.2 Adoption Paths 13.2.3 Tools for System Conversion 13.2.4 Code Remediation, HANAtization, and Optimization 13.2.5 Application-Specific Conversion Steps

13.3 SAP S/4HANA Conversion Prerequisites

13.3.1 SAP S/4HANA Transformation Considerations 13.3.2 SAP S/4HANA Application Prerequisites 13.3.3 SAP S/4HANA Functional Restrictions

13.4 Housekeeping Activities 13.5 System Conversion Considerations

13.5.1 Greenfield Implementation 13.5.2 Brownfield Implementation

13.6 SAP S/4HANA Migration Cockpit

13.6.1 On-Premise SAP S/4HANA 13.6.2 SAP S/4HANA Cloud

13.7 Tools and Techniques for Minimizing Downtime

13.7.1 Data Volume Management 13.7.2 Optimizing Database Migration Option Performance 13.7.3 Near-Zero Downtime

13.8 Summary

14 Using SAP Activate

14.1 SAP Activate Overview 14.2 SAP Activate Methodology

14.2.1 Prepare 14.2.2 Explore 14.2.3 Realize 14.2.4 Deploy 14.2.5 Quality Gates

14.3 SAP Best Practices for SAP Activate 14.4 SAP Activate Tools

14.4.1 Self-Service Configuration 14.4.2 Expert Configuration 14.4.3 SAP Solution Builder Tool 14.4.4 SAP Solution Manager

14.5 Summary

15 SAP S/4HANA and the SAP Landscape

15.1 Sourcing and Procurement: SAP Ariba

15.1.1 Sourcing and Contracts 15.1.2 Requests and Purchases 15.1.3 Invoices and Payments 15.1.4 SAP Ariba and SAP S/4HANA

15.2 Contingent Workforce Management: SAP Fieldglass

15.2.1 Vendor Management System 15.2.2 SAP Fieldglass and SAP S/4HANA

15.3 Travel and Expense Management: Concur

15.3.1 Spend Management 15.3.2 Concur and SAP S/4HANA

15.4 Human Resources: SAP SuccessFactors

15.4.1 Employee Data 15.4.2 Talent Management 15.4.3 SAP SuccessFactors and SAP S/4HANA

15.5 Customer Relationship Management: SAP Hybris

15.5.1 Commerce 15.5.2 Marketing 15.5.3 Revenue and Billing 15.5.4 Sales and Service 15.5.5 SAP Hybris and SAP S/4HANA

15.6 Master Data Management: SAP Master Data Governance 15.7 Supply Chain Planning: SAP Integrated Business Planning

15.7.1 Sales and Operations Planning 15.7.2 Demand Planning 15.7.3 Inventory Planning 15.7.4 Response and Supply Planning 15.7.5 Control Tower 15.7.6 SAP IBP and SAP S/4HANA

15.8 Summary

16 Analytics and Reporting

16.1 Evolution of Analytics 16.2 Operational Reporting

16.2.1 ABAP-Based Reports 16.2.2 Embedded Analytics 16.2.3 Native SAP HANA Applications 16.2.4 Embedded SAP BW and SAP BPC

16.3 Enterprise-Wide Reporting

16.3.1 SAP HANA Enterprise Analytics 16.3.2 SAP Business Warehouse on SAP HANA 16.3.3 SAP BW/4HANA 16.3.4 SAP Analytics Cloud

16.4 Cognitive Analytics 16.5 Big Data Analytics and Data Lakes

16.5.1 Data Lake 16.5.2 SAP Vora

16.6 Summary

17 Building a Transformation Roadmap

17.1 Envisioning the What and the Why

17.1.1 Digital Transformation 17.1.2 Business Value 17.1.3 Making the SAP S/4HANA Case

17.2 Developing Your Roadmap

17.2.1 Engage Phase: Analyzing the Current Mode of Operations 17.2.2 Envision Phase: Exploring the Target Operational Model 17.2.3 Evaluate Phase: A Deep Dive into the Transformation Approach 17.2.4 Enable Phase: Build Your Roadmap

17.3 Understanding the Current Mode of Operations

17.3.1 Pain Points 17.3.2 Objectives 17.3.3 Approach

17.4 Defining the Future Mode of Operations

17.4.1 Considerations 17.4.2 Approach

17.5 Choosing How to Adopt SAP S/4HANA

17.5.1 Evaluate Phase 17.5.2 Enable Phase

17.6 Summary

18 Customer Case Studies

18.1 Multinational Industrial Company

18.1.1 Vision 18.1.2 IT Project 18.1.3 Benefits 18.1.4 Path Forward

18.2 Multinational Service Company

18.2.1 Vision 18.2.2 IT Project 18.2.3 Benefits 18.2.4 Path Forward

18.3 Manufacturing Company

18.3.1 Vision 18.3.2 IT Project 18.3.3 Benefits 18.3.4 Path Forward

18.4 Food Industry Group

18.4.1 Vision 18.4.2 IT Project 18.4.3 Benefits 18.4.4 Path Forward

18.5 Automotive Company

18.5.1 Vision 18.5.2 IT Project 18.5.3 Benefits 18.5.4 Path Forward

18.6 Summary

A The Authors Index Service Pages Legal Notes

← Prev
Back
Next →

← Prev
Back
Next →