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 Table of Contents
1. S/4 HANA
2. S/4 HANA Finance
3. Functional Changes
4. Technical Changes
5. Benefits to the Group
6. Features that can be explored

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 S/4 HANA
SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA (or SAP S/4HANA) is a business suite that is built on SAP's proprietary operational
database system and in-memory computing platform called SAP HANA.

SAP S/4HANA On-Premise is similar in terms of coverage, functionality, industry-specific support, and localization to the
erstwhile SAP Business Suite i.e. SAP ECC.

However SAP Business Suite 4 only runs on the SAP HANA database, and thus it is packaged as one product: SAP
S/4HANA. SAP's classical R3 based business suite and related products were designed to run on several database
platforms, including those from Oracle, Microsoft and IBM.

SAP S/4HANA Enterprise Management is SAP’s next-generation Digital Core and is a new product.

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 S/4 HANA
S/4 HANA Features

• SAP S/4HANA is running on SAP HANA for massive simplifications (simplified data model: no indexes, no
aggregates, no redundancies) and innovations (for example, open in-memory platform for advanced applications
predicting, recommending, and simulating)
• SAP S/4HANA is natively designed with SAP Fiori UX, offering an integrated user experience with modern usability
and instant insight on any device (role-based, three steps max to get the job done, mobile-first, consistent
experience across lines of business)
• SAP S/4HANA is natively connected to the Internet of Things and business networks for real-time collaboration
(planned: machine-to-machine, Ariba Network, Concur) in the networked economy
• SAP S/4HANA is natively engineered for providing choice of deployment (on premise, cloud and hybrid)
• SAP S/4HANA is natively born for easy adoption (guided, configuration, and easy on-boarding, from the discovery of
the solution through cloud trials to deployment with pre-configured best practices)

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 S/4 HANA Finance
S/4 HANA Finance

Simple Finance was the first part of the Business Suite to be rewritten to run on SAP’s new superfast in-memory HANA
database. Simple Logistics followed, and the combined new product, with New GL and New Asset Accounting as
prerequisite, became known as S/4HANA.

A lot of the ECC6 functionality is still available in S/4HANA in the SAP GUI; sometimes transactions are enhanced and easily
recognized and both the old and new co-exist (e.g. FAGLL03 and FAGLL03H), and sometimes you are redirected to new
functionality automatically (e.g. FK01->BP). It seems where the letter H is added at the end of the transaction, it tends to be a
new S/4HANA specific transaction, the letter N has often been added to new transactions anyway, including those introduced
with the New GL (and some are already available in later versions of ECC).

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 S/4 HANA Finance – Functional Changes
Functional Change

Universal journal
This is the name of the enhanced financial document in S/4HANA. A Universal Journal is created whenever anything is
posted to Finance from any module and each journal can be displayed as before using the display document transaction
FB03. Many of the journal entry, invoice entry and other posting transactions are still available in the SAP GUI

Single Source of Truth

Finance and Controlling are now merged, getting rid of data redundancies and the need for reconciliations, and making
visible the internal CO actual postings in FI as well. The real-time FI-CO integration is also obsolete and Controlling data is
stored in the new finance table ACDOCA.

Vendors and Customers

Customers and vendors can only be maintained using the Business Partner functionality (of which there is of course a Fiori
equivalent) and if you try to use the old codes e.g. FK01/2/3 or XK01/2/3 to create/amend/display a vendor or FD01/2/3 and
XD01/2/3 to create/amend display a customer you will be redirected to transaction BP.
Many of the screens are fairly similar to the old master data transactions, but a lot more data is available and one Business
Partner may have roles in MM, SD, and FI.

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 S/4 HANA Finance – Functional Changes
Functional Change

Credit Management
FSCM replaces the previous Accounts Receivable credit management transactions (e.g. F.28/F.31/F.32/F.33/FD32) and the
Sales transactions (VKM3/VKM5).

Materials
The Material Ledger is mandatory (although Actual Costing is still optional) and there are also new tables for material
documents (MATDOC), a Cost of Goods Sold variance split and no locking of tables. The material number field is extended
from 18 to 40 characters and this information is available in the Universal Journal document, and therefore the ACDOCA
table for reporting in finance.

Global trade Services (GTS)

GTS replaces the foreign trade functionality in Sales and Procurement. This allows the pulling in of data from different
systems, and is extensively integrated with SD and MM.

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 S/4 HANA Finance – Functional Changes
Functional Change

New Asset Accounting

Depreciation Areas - You no longer need to set up delta depreciation areas where you have additional accounting principles.
Transaction ASKB, (post additional depreciation areas periodically to finance), has been removed because you can post all
depreciation areas to Finance in real-time if required. Because all the postings are real-time, you can navigate and drill down
to most of the financial documents.

Postings – As with finance, a lot of the tables are now redundant and a lot of the asset information comes across via the
Universal Journal in table ACDOCA. The asset balance sheet accounts are now all reconciliation accounts – even those in
the additional depreciation areas, which prevents manual postings that are not updating the assets. The depreciation run
posting has been improved and the depreciation journal contains asset information at line item detail so in the GL line item
report you can see the amounts by asset.

Year-End – this is now carried forward as part of the finance transaction FAGLGVTR, in other words both the general ledger
and assets are carried forward together.

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 S/4 HANA Finance – Technical Changes
Technical Change

Data structure
HANA has the power to calculate on the fly, which means that for financial transactions, index tables such as BSIS, BSAS,
BSID, BSAD, BSIK, BSAK, BSIM, FAGLBSIS and FAGLBSAS, as well as aggregate tables such as GLT0, GLT3,
FAGLFLEXT, KNC1, LFC1, KNC3, LFC3, COSS, COSP are no longer required and have been removed. FAGLFLEXA and
some other New GL tables are now obsolete and there are also new customizing tables.

However, if you have your own ABAP reports using these tables, don’t worry as there are now Compatibility views with the
same name, which recalculate the same values as the tables would have had, allowing any bespoke programs reading the
information to continue to function.

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 S/4 HANA Finance – Benefits
Benefits

1. Simplified Material Ledger – Actual Costing

2. Simplified Asset Depreciation
3. Reduction in Master data maintenance making it less error-prone
4. Faster Close
5. Simplified reporting through available data structure
6. Faster Reporting

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 Areas for exploration
Features that can be explored

1. Embedded Analytics - SAP provides standard content that can be utilized out-of-the-box with SAP S/4 HANA, alongside
the ability to create custom content providing a huge scope of opportunity for embedded analytics. To make use of these,
SAP has introduced a number of new tools to provide additional functionality for users and to replace previous tools from
S/4.
2. Central Finance - Central Finance is a new concept introduced with S/4HANA. It allows users with a large and distributed
landscape to replicate both SAP and non-SAP finance data real-time to a central S/4HANA system, but still allowing
drilldown to the original document in the SAP systems.
3. Integrated Business Planning

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 New Features in Logistic
• Production version is mandatory to create Process Order after S4hana
migration.
• For Export customer, original country code with its region is
configured.
• Document Pricing procedure is in two digits.
• Letter of Credit has been discontinued and provided functionality in
GTS.

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 New Features BASIS
• 2 hardware box, Simplified design easy to handle all SAP System --No
hardware Clustering & SAN, big pain previously need outside agency
to resolve cluster issue every time. Now DATA on server itself easy to
maintain
• DB Size reduced Oracle 850 GB to 300 GB-- which on Server Disk not
of SAN easy to handle.
• disaster recovery is very fast system made live within 15-20
mins.(after reporting DC issue).
• DC to DR Replication made easy- no need of external agency to regain
the DR replication setup.

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 New Features BASIS
• No Performance issue on DR server as hardware config is same as DC.
• DB refresh is possible on Quality server which is not happening on old
Hardware/system.
• Backup & recovery made easy as previously it was taking more than 12 hrs. now it
will take only Backup time is only 20 mins. New Disk to Disk backup concept.
• GUI based monitoring using HANA studio (Time Saving & Easy to understand).
• Online hardware monitoring and automatic ticket generation by HPE.
• Mail alert for all HANA DB related issue.
• Early Watch report to preventive maintenance of SAP system+ HANA DB.

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 Screen Personas
• Screen personas allow for modifications of existing transactions both
standard and custom, while retaining existing business logic. They are
also easy to simplify and remove fields.

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 PERSONAS 3.0

URL LOGIN SAP Traditional Login

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 Traditional Screen – ME21N

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 Personas 3.0 Screen – ME21N

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 UI v/s UX
• User interface deals with intuitive screen design, screen flow, buttons
and colors.

• User experience deals with how users feel when they interact with
the technology. It includes integration between processes, people and
technology

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 When to use which Solution

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 SAP FIORI
• A collection of UX-driven apps renewing enterprise business functions
• Works seamlessly on desktops, tablets and smartphones
• The Smart tiles with analytical annotation and dynamic search
functionality are also great assets in this technology.

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FIORI LOGON Screen

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 FIORI Launch pad(Dashboard)

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 Customize FIORI App – VKM4

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 List of Apps
Module App Name App Type Form Factor
FI Manage Banks Transactional Desktop
FI Display Financial Statement Transactional Desktop
FI Display G/L Account Balances Transactional Tablet, Desktop
FI Display G/L Account Line Items Transactional Desktop
FI Display Vendor Balances Transactional Desktop
FI Manage Vendor Line Items Transactional Desktop
FI Display Customer Balances Transactional Desktop
FI Manage Customer Line Items Transactional Desktop
FI Display Chart of Accounts (Version 2) / Manage Chart of Accounts Transactional Desktop
FI Supplier Invoices List Transactional Tablet, Desktop
FI Manage Payment Blocks Transactional Tablet, Desktop
FI Production Cost Analysis Transactional Tablet, Desktop
FI Manage Internal Orders Transactional Tablet, Desktop
FI Clear G/L Accounts Transactional Desktop
FI Manage Bank Accounts FPM/WebDynpro Desktop
FI Trial Balance FPM/WebDynpro Desktop
FI Asset Balances (Accessible) FPM/WebDynpro Desktop
FI Fixed Asset (S/4HANA) Factsheet Desktop
FI Internal Order (S/4HANA) Factsheet Tablet, Desktop
FI Cost Center (S/4HANA) Factsheet Tablet, Desktop
FI G/L Account (S/4HANA) Factsheet Tablet, Desktop
FI Aging Analysis Analytical Tablet, Desktop
FI Overdue Receivables Analytical Tablet, Desktop
FI Days Payable Outstanding Analysis Analytical Tablet, Desktop
FI Future Payables Analytical Tablet, Desktop
FI Overdue Payables Analytical Tablet, Desktop
FI VKM4 Transactional Mobile

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 List of Apps
Module App Name App Type Form Factor
MM Procurement Overview Page Transactional, Analytical Phone, Tablet, Desktop
MM Material Factsheet Tablet, Desktop
MM Stock - Multiple Materials Analytical Phone, Tablet, Desktop
MM Stock - Single Material Analytical Phone, Tablet, Desktop
MM Purchase Requisition Factsheet Tablet, Desktop
MM Inventory Turnover Analysis Analytical Tablet, Desktop
MM Purchase Order Average Delivery Time Analytical Tablet, Desktop
MM Purchase Requisition Average Approval Time Analytical Tablet, Desktop
MM Supplier Evaluation by Price Analytical Tablet, Desktop
MM Supplier Evaluation by Quality Analytical Tablet, Desktop
MM Display Stock Overview SAP GUI TRANSACTION Desktop
MM Supplier Evaluation by Quantity Analytical Tablet, Desktop
MM Overdue Purchase Orders/ Open Purchase Orders Analytical Tablet, Desktop
MM My Inbox Transactional Phone, Tablet, Desktop

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 List of Apps
Module App Name App Type Form Factor

PM Request Maintenance Transactional Phone, Tablet, Desktop

PP Monitor Capacity Utilization Transactional Tablet, Desktop

PP Monitor Production / Planned Orders SAP GUI TRANSACTION Desktop

PP Monitor Process / Planned Orders SAP GUI TRANSACTION Desktop

PP Production Order Factsheet Tablet, Desktop

SD Manage Sales orders Transactional Tablet, Desktop

SD Customer Factsheet Tablet, Desktop

SD Manage Customer Master Data Transactional Phone, Tablet, Desktop

SD Manage Supplier Master Data Transactional Phone, Tablet, Desktop

SD Credit limit utilization Analytical Tablet, Desktop

SD Order-to-Cash Performance - Overview Analytical Tablet, Desktop

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 Thank You

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 Solution Delivery Approach

Questions & Answers

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