SAP S/4HANA : an introduction

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
The Authors
Index