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Introduction to SAP S/4HANA

Next Generation Business Suite


Curriculum Information

i Curriculum Version

 Global Bike 4.1


 Last Update: June 2022
 Software used
• S/4HANA 2020
• Fiori 3.0

 Prerequisites
• none

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Module Information

Authors

 Babett Ruß

Target Audience

 Beginner to advanced

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Module Information

Learning Objectives

At the completion of this module, you will:


 Describe the SAP vision of the Intelligent Enterprise
 Be able explain the basic concepts of an Enterprise Resource Planning solution based on the
SAP S/4HANA system.
 Explain how to use the SAP Fiori User Interface to interact with the S/4HANA system

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Agenda

 SAP – The Intelligent Enterprise

 Fast Facts about SAP S/4HANA

 What´s New?

 Transition to SAP S/4HANA

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SAP – The Intelligent Enterprise

 Market leader in enterprise application software


 One of the world largest independent software manufacturer
 400,000 satisfied Customers in 190 countries
 SAP enables companies to
• Streamline processes
Intelligence will reinvent industries and
• Use live data change business forever
• Predict customer trends
• Connect entire businesses

Best-run technologies and solutions


deployed end-to-end for your industry.
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SAP – Run Simple

 A Short History
 SAP joins the Internet 2002
 SAP R/3 can now be  30th Birthday of SAP
used online  3rd largest independent
1995/96 software provider
 Development SAP R/3 1993/94
 SAP presents at the  Partnership with Microsoft  connecting
CeBIT Hanover SAP R/3 with Windows NT operating
1986-89 system
1981/82  IBM Corporation is now using SAP R/3
 Introduction SAP R/2
1972
 Foundation of SAP
 Development of real-time
data application software

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SAP – Run Simple

 A Short History 2015


 Implementation of 1st SAP
in-memory computing product
2013
 SAP HANA platform
 SAP Business Suite moves to
 Data access possible in seconds SAP HANA  fastest growing
2011 product in history of enterprise
software
2009
 Launching Business Suite 7
 optimization of business
2005/06 performance
 Announcment of  reduce IT costs
release SAP ERP

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Agenda

 SAP – The Intelligent Enterprise

 Fast Facts about SAP S/4HANA

 What´s New?

 Transition to SAP S/4HANA

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What´s New?

 SAP S/4HANA …
… is the next generation Business Suite
1979
1992
… is the biggest innovation since SAP R/3 2004
R/2 2015
… connects people, business networks and devices R/3
ERP
… works in real time S/4HANA

… represents efficiency, simplicity and innovation

… master data is managed centrally, for example partners, customers


and vendors

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Fast Facts about SAP S/4HANA
Enterprise Resource Planning (SAP ERP)

 Enables a company to support and optimize its business processes

 Helps the organization run smoothly Buy


Track
(MM)
(CO)
People
 Real-time environment, Scalable and flexible Sell
(SD) (HCM)

Make Maintain
(PP) (EAM)
 Collections of logically related transactions within Track
Store
(WM)
(FI)
Projekt
Services
(PS)
identifiable business functions (CS)

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Fast Facts about SAP S/4HANA
Data Types in ERP Systems

? ? ?

… … …

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Fast Facts about SAP S/4HANA
Data Types in ERP Systems

Organizational Master Data Transaction


Data Data
Company Code Person Purchase Order
Plant Material Invoice
Storage Location Customer Quotation
Distribution Channel Vendor Sales Order

Purchasing Work Centre Transportation Order


Organization
… … …

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Fast Facts about SAP S/4HANA
Organizational Unit

SAP Terminology:

Enterprise
Client

Company Subsidiary Company Code

Plant Plant

Sales Organization
Sales Organization Sales Organization

Division

Storage Location Department Division Business Area Storage Location

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Fast Facts about SAP S/4HANA
Master Data

 Stored for a long time and seldom changed

 Represent logically grouped data like:

• Customer Master

• Material Master

• Vendor Master

• General Ledger accounts

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Fast Facts about SAP S/4HANA
Transaction Data

 Transaction data is the system record of business event.


 Depending on the business event, different master data and
organizational data will be referenced
 For example, during a sales order business event, the
following data is stored
• Organizational level: client, company code, sales organization

• Master data: customer, material, pricing (condition)

• Situational data: date, time, person, amount

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Fast Facts about SAP S/4HANA
Documents

 Transactions are data sets that are generated if a business transaction was executed.
 Is a record of the business transaction
 Includes all relevant predefined information from the master data and organizational entities
 Example:
• Sales Document

• Purchasing Document

• Material Document

• Accounting Document
Document Flow
 The document flow as well as the order status
allow the setting of the status at any point in time
 SAP revises the status every time a change in a
document takes place

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Fast Facts about SAP S/4HANA
Digital Transformation - Why?

Changing the s
Empowered &
way of life Simulation
Informed Customer Forecasting
Customer Research
Contact to the
New
companies by
possibilities
social media etc

Drivers of
Change
IoT
Companies
Technology Cloud
New Changing
organization customer
expections Big Mobility
units
Data

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Fast Facts about SAP S/4HANA

 S/4HANA is the digital core of the company


that enables digital transformation.

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Fast Facts about SAP S/4HANA

Back to Standard

Modifications Cloud

Simpli-
ERP fication

Any DB On-Premise

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SAP S/4HANA Architecture

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Fast Facts about SAP S/4HANA
On-Premise vs. Cloud

 SAP S/4HANA …
… Choose between Cloud and On-Premise

• Cloud and On-Premise can be used hybridly


without losing the company´s integration
SAP Fiori
• Possible migration of SAP Business Suite customers
SAP S/4HANA Core

SAP HANA

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Fast Facts about SAP S/4HANA
On-Premise vs. Cloud

Subscription Licensing Traditional licensing


 Deployment in the private cloud,  Traditional licensing with customer
maintained by SAP control of deployment and maintenance
• SAP provides system and controls • Private control of deployment and
maintenance maintenance
• Automatic participation in quarterly • Hardware at companies location
innovation upgrades • Privately controlled data
• In-App extensibility with limited ABAP • Fewer release cycles
• Current release cycles • Individual requirements possible
• SAP ERP embedded • Traditional ABAP extensibility up to core
modification

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Fast Facts about SAP S/4HANA
Optimization Levers

 What needs to be optimized?

Efficiency Effectiveness Agility


• Acclerate execution • Speed up action • Process flexibility
• Automate process • De-layer process • Organizational agility
steps
• Raise process • Assimilate process
• Digital out-tasking intelligence innovation

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Fast Facts about SAP S/4HANA
Optimization Levers - How?

 Optimization levers applied on … Market to the Segment of One

Business IT
• Real time performance and • Removing of locking issues
information • Simple data model
• Real time operation and • Removing of indices
collaboration
• Faster handling of more numbers of
• Data driven market documents
• Cross-channel integration • Higher volume of customer data
• Merge structured and unstructured • Easy maintenance
data

 Efficiency  Effectiveness  Agility

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Fast Facts about SAP S/4HANA
Optimization Levers - How?

 Optimization levers applied on … Real Time Inventory Management

Business IT
• Real time inventory management • No separation of data entities from
• Real time product availability different tables

• Increased inventory turnover • Parallel postings and processes

• Reduced batch size • Faster reporting

• Faster operational reporting • Frequent updates

• Fewer stock-outs • 1 document table instead of 26


aggregate tables
• Better order fulfillment
• Reduced memory footprint
• Lower safety-stocks
• New data based architecture

 Efficiency  Effectiveness  Agility

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Fast Facts about SAP S/4HANA
Optimization Levers - How?

 Optimization levers applied on … Accelerated Material Requirements Planning

Business IT
• Real time data • Single source of truth
• MRP run on request • Merging of OLAP & OLTP
• System based recommendations for • Better system handling
faster decision making • Opportunity to run MRP centralized
• State-of-the-Art cockpit • Better customer solutions
• Costs savings • Reduced data footprint
• Improved just-in-time delivery • Better system performance
• Increased inventory turnover

 Efficiency  Effectiveness  Agility

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Agenda

 SAP – The Intelligent Enterprise

 Fast Facts about SAP S/4HANA

 What´s New?

 Transition to SAP S/4HANA

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What´s New?

 SAP S/4HANA …
• Column Store
In-Memory • In-Memory Processing
Database •
… works with in-memory Compression
• Parallel Processing

Fiori • Hardware independence


… has a new and modern design • Mobile devices

• Real-time analytics on
current data
OLAP + OLTP
… works with new technology together
• Consolidated forecasts
including actual and planned
cash data

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What´s New?
Innovation & Simplification

Compression

Real-Time
SAP HANA
Simplified OLAP + OLTP
together

SAP FIORI

Any Attribute as an
Index

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What´s New?
SAP HANA

 SAP HANA is an In-Memory Database that allows you to process data very fast
 But SAP HANA can do way more with its different processing engines

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What´s New?
Real Time Simplification

• Example of data compression Traditional Database Architecture Principles of the S/4HANA Data
Model

Traditional DB • Normalized data modeling third • Storage of data in


normal form denormalized form
593 GB on HANA
• Avoid unwanted redundancies • Single source of data
118,6 GB S/4 HANA
• Avoid inconsistencies and • No longer need for redundant
42,4 GB anomalies data storage for tasks such as
aggregation
Disadvantages
• Processing of aggregation and
 Frequent use of redundant data
analytics on the fly
A typical booking transaction to increase the performance of
e.g. data aggregation • Check for inconsistencies and
addressed 15 tables. anomalies due to
 Now it only impacts 4 tables.  Higher effort to update
denormalization are no longer a
redundant data
critical task
BKPF BSEG BSEG BSEG BSIS

BSIS BSIK BSET LFC1 GLT0

GLT0 GLT0 COBK COEP COSP

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What´s New?
SAP FIORI

 SAP S/4HANA … provides SAP Fiori user experience and interface

• Independent of hardware
• Real-time

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What´s New?
SAP FIORI

 SAP Fiori offers three application types:

 Transactional Apps:
• Access to tasks like create, change or display process
with guided navigation

 Analytical Apps:
• Visual overview about business data

 Factsheet:
• View essential information about objects and contextual
navigation between related objects

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Agenda

 SAP – The Intelligent Enterprise

 Fast Facts about SAP S/4HANA

 What´s New?

 Transition to SAP S/4HANA

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Transition to SAP S/4HANA

New ERP System


Non-SAP System
Implementation

System
ERP System
Conversion SAP S/4HANA

ERP System – Region A


Landscape
ERP System – Region B
Transformation ERP System – Region C

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Transition to SAP S/4HANA
New Implementation

Scenario description
 New implementation of SAP S/4HANA 1. Installation SAP S/4HANA
 e.g. for customers migrating a legacy system 2. Initial data load from source system
(also known as “greenfield” approach)
Tools used are: SAP Data Services (SAP DS)
Benefits for the customer for On-Premise
 Reengineering and process simplification based on ready-to- SAP Landscape Transformation
(SAP LT) for Cloud
run business processes
 Predefined migration objects & best practices available with
guided configuration
 Reduce time to value and customer total cost of ownership Legacy
Any customer
 Rapid adoption of new innovations legacy system

Project duration parameters


SAP Fiori
 Number of data migration objects (Material, Customer, Vendor,
etc.) SAP S/4HANA Core
 Volume and complexity per data migration object SAP HANA

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Transition to SAP S/4HANA
System conversion

Scenario description
 Customers who want to convert their current system 1. Check add-ons and other solutions to ensure
into an SAP S/4HANA system compatibility
 Database, SAP NetWeaver and application transition 2. Check components and customer code to
in one step validate further prerequisites
3. Run the conversion
Benefits for the customer
 Migration without re-implementation
 No disruption for existing business processes
 Re-evaluation of customization and existing process SAP GUI
flows
SAP ERP Core

Project duration parameters Any DB / SAP HANA

 Technical: Number of systems and source database (SAP GUI) / SAP Fiori

size SAP S/4HANA Core


 Functional: Number of company codes, ledgers, SAP HANA
operating concerns, etc.

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Transition to SAP S/4HANA
Landscape transformation

Scenario description 1. Consolidation: Consolidate clients from different


 Customers who want to consolidate their landscape or to source systems into one new or existing SAP
selectively transform data into an SAP S/4HANA system S/4HANA system using the SAP Landscape
Transformation (SAP LT) tool.
Benefits for the customer 2. Selective Data Transformation:Migration of selected
 Selective data transformation allows a phased approach, SAP applications (e.g. Central Finance)
focusing on parts of the business with highest ROI and Tool used: SAP Landscape Transformation
lowest TCO
 System and landscape consolidation with
harmonized/simplified processes and unified master data
lead to lower TCO

Project duration parameters


 General: Depending on the selected sub-scenario (System (SAP GUI) / SAP Fiori
Consolidation, Selective Migration, Central Finance) SAP S/4HANA Kern
 Specific: Number of systems to be consolidated, volume of
SAP HANA
selected data

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