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Week 3: Introducing Intelligent Experiences to Business
Unit 1: Get Ready to Work Smarter

Get ready to work smarter
Course introduction | Overview | Week 3
Week 1: Managing UX Change with SAP 4. Managing scale with mass change
Fiori
Week 2: Fitting UX to Your Business Process 5. Reduce effort with process automation
Week 4: Making Adoption Easy for Your

Week 3: Introducing Intelligent Business Users
Experiences to Business
1. Get ready to work smarter
2. Bring predictive insights with AI
3. React faster with Situation Handling
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Learning objectives of week 3
▪ Identify available intelligent experiences in SAP S/4HANA.

▪ Understand technical and functional capabilities of
intelligent experiences such as:
− Predictive analysis and machine learning
− Situation Handling
− Mass processing apps
− Process automation
▪ Understand how you can benefit from implementing
intelligent experiences

Question 1
What does an intelligent

experience mean to our
business?

Common pain points when dealing with business processes
Intelligent experiences provide opportunities to improve your business
Unclear responsibilities Frustrated users
Manual activities Owning the process but not owning the change
No process insights Heterogenous landscapes
Complexity in business processes Data and process silos
Changes / new processes take too long Hard-coded process flows
Media breaks Start every time from scratch
Non-compliant processes Human errors

Question 2
Which intelligent
experience
technologies are
available for use in
SAP S/4HANA?

Intelligent technologies embedded in SAP S/4HANA and side-by-side with SAP BTP
Anticipate Situation Handling framework Optimize Machine learning
▪ Identify undiscovered issues in ▪ Learn from customer-specific

business situations history and exceptions
Detecting Self-learning bots
exceptions, and applications
notifying, and with dynamic
providing insight-to- adaptability
action options
Execute Process automation Predict Augmented analytics
▪ Execute repetitive and time- ▪ Make smarter and faster

Multiple bot consuming tasks automatically Data exploration decisions
workflows (attended Dashboards and
+ unattended) based visualization
on SAP Intelligent Automated analytics
RPA and
SAP Workflow Predictive planning
Management

Question 3
Do we need to consider
using SAP Business
Technology Platform
(SAP BTP) when
planning to implement
intelligent experiences?
Intelligent experiences deployment
Machine Learning Process

Augmented Analytics Automation
Embedded Side-by-Side
SAP S/4HANA SAP Business Technology Platform

Question 4
What are the outcomes

of implementing

Intelligent experiences accelerate value creation
Capabilities Outcomes
Visibility Do more with less and empower

The ability to collect and connect data that employees
was previously siloed and recognize unseen through process automation and freeing up
patterns people to do more meaningful work
Focus Deliver best-in-class

The ability to simulate the impact of potential customer experience
options and direct scarce resources to the by anticipating and proactively responding to
areas of maximum impact end-customer needs
Agility Invent new business models

The ability to respond faster to changes in the by applying core competencies in new ways
marketplace or the business and pivot
business processes towards the right
customer outcomes

Question 5
Is there a specific
methodology we must
consider when planning
to implement intelligent
experiences?

SAP Activate
Discover Prepare Explore Realize QG3
Deploy Run
QG1 QG2 QG4
Getting Started & Onboarding

Project Initiation & Governance Execution / Monitoring of Project
Project Management
Project Standards & Kick-off
Customer Team Team Self-Enablement & Tool Access Customer Execution of Standard Scenarios
Enablement
Test System Initial Prod System Initial
Technical Initial System Access – Starter, Release Cycles
Access Access
Architecture Dev, SAP Cloud ALM, SAP CBC, System Go-Live
other Implementation tools Ongoing Operations
& Infrastructure Release Cycles
Best Practices Installation Required Configuration Solution Walkthrough Continuous

Fit-to-Standard Analysis Improvements
Standard Content Scope Solution Configuration Activate New Country/
Application Design
Business-Driven Fit-to-Standard Documentation Scope
and Configuration Identity and Access Release Cycles
Configuration Assessment Output Management
Identity and Access Management Configuration
Fit-to-Standard Analysis Activate New
Preparation & System Preparation Best Practices Installation Country / Scope
Extensibility Extension Planning and Design Solution Extension Development & Deployment
Fit-to-Standard Analysis Std Integration Setup-Test Std Integration Setup-Prod

Integration Integration Planning and Design Ongoing Operations
Preparation
Custom Integration Setup-Test Custom Integration Setup-Prod
Regression Testing
Testing Test Planning Regression Testing
Test Preparation Test Execution
Data Management Approach and Strategy Data Load Preparation Data Migration Cutover Preparation Production Cutover
Release Cycles
Operations &Support Support Operations and Handover Plan
Ongoing Operations
Organizational Change Management

Solution Adoption User Experience
Enablement Strategy Learning Needs Analysis Enablement Content Development & Delivery
Management
Analytics Configuration in Test

Analytics Fit-to-Standard Analysis Analytics Planning and Design
Preparation Analytics Configuration in Prod
Quality Gates Task / Activity
Question 5
Are there any additional

considerations when
planning to adopt

Do not glorify aged processes
Process design in the 1990s and 2000s was limited by resources

Lived by people
The tough reality about traditional process design Working around inefficiencies
▪ Processes invented in the 1990s and 2000s carry the Shadow IT
performance workarounds that were required then. Mail, word, … to
without
Repeated
integration Human
mimic collaboration Repeated
task workarounds
▪ Incremental improvements did not change this substantially. task
▪ Many people learned the process from the system and do not
understand the difference between the process and what the Adjusted by companies
system asks them to do. with outdated technology as bolt-ons over time
▪ Many process variants stem from the predecessor systems

Replicate:
and are barely used. custom
Transform
data (XLS)
Special
analyses
Special
UIs
Non-
SAP
reports
▪ Many users have defined their own workarounds. But since

everyone is used to it, no one complains.
Traditional standard process
▪ Many processes contain buffers to cover up for inefficiencies. Work around performance needs with data manipulation steps
If you apply the process patterns from the past, you Replicate
Prepare
data
Plan Analyze Transact Reconcile
Handle
exception
treat SAP S/4HANA like SAP R/3.
Actual process Workarounds

Key takeaways
▪ Intelligent experiences offer options to improve and

innovate your business processes
▪ There are four main intelligent experiences:
− Machine learning
− Augmented capabilities
▪ Intelligent experiences might require additional
integrations to SAP BTP services
▪ Current business processes should not be glorfied;
there is always room for improvement and innovation

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Unit 2: Bring Predictive Insights with AI
Bring predictive insights with AI
Question 1
How can I benefit

from predictive
analysis and machine
learning in
SAP S/4HANA?

From daily routine to predictive insights
Predictive
Insights Predictive
Insights Insights
Forward
looking
Real-Time Advanced
Insights Analytics
Real-Time
Insights
Operations
Backward
looking
Automation /
Intelligence
Operations Operations
Run Deliver Plan Ahead

the Business Insights

Example: intelligent order-to-cash processes
1 RPA 2 Machine Learning 3 Machine Learning
Bot looks for System predicts sales System predicts

incoming sales performance to help quotations with most
inquiries and loads identify the potential potential to be converted
them into opportunities to increase into sales orders
SAP S/4HANA sales 4 Experience Management
QR Code on
quotation triggers
Intelligent Process Automation: Improve revenue and cash flow by Qualtrics Survey to
improve quotation
managing order-to-cash processes flawlessly across all touch points, experience
channels, and functions
4 Situation Handling
System alerts that

7 Machine Learning 6 RPA 5 Machine Learning some quotations are
expiring soon and
System monitors which For orders requiring System extracts content how likely the
sales order item will be down payments, from an unstructured quotation will be
delayed, navigates into bot creates sales source format (pdf) and converted into order
details to see why, and order billing plan creates a draft sales
takes appropriate action order autonomously in
SAP S/4HANA
Demo

Question 2
Where can I find more

released use cases?

Released use cases
1MV Receivables Line-Item Matching
1MV Receivables Line-Item Matching V10

Professional Services Goods Receipt / Invoice Receipt Monitor ML
ML220 Intelligent Staffing & Resource Matching 2ZS Status Proposal (GR/IR) – Financial Account
Reconciliation
Master Data Management
1MV Remittance Advice / Payment Advice Extraction
ML015 Business Rule Mining
1MV Payment Advice Extraction V8
Research and Development
Cash Application for FI-CA (Account
N/A
2YC Integrated Digital Content Processing for Content Mgt Classification)
N/A Tax Compliance Smart Automation / GRC
Supply Chain
20N Stock in Transit N/A Business Integrity Screening / GRC
Procurement 1KU Real Spend: Cost Center Anomaly Alerts
1QR Contract Consumption 1MV Lockbox
3FY Supplier Delivery Prediction 3NF Intelligent Accrual Recommendation
Quantity Contract Consumption Based on Planning
N/A 4LG Intelligent Intercompany Reconciliation
and Forecasting
Public Sector
N/A Behavioral Insights

2YJ Quotation Conversion Probability Rate
Demand-Driven Replenishment: Dynamic Buffer Level 2YJ Delivery Performance / Delivery in Time
1Y2
Adjustment
2YJ Delivery Performance / Delivery in Time V2
20N Defect Code Proposal
2YJ Sales Performance Prediction
20N Early Detection of Slow / Non-moving Stocks
4X9 Create Sales Orders from Unstructured Data
N/A Service Ticket Intelligence
SAP Signavio Process Navigator Intelligent Business Partner Creation Using
M/A
SAP S/4HANA Machine Learning Roadmaps Business Scan

Question 3
How does machine

learning work in
SAP S/4HANA?

Predictive analytics and machine learning approaches with SAP S/4HANA
Embedding predictive algorithms in SAP S/4HANA Consuming predictive and ML services from SAP BTP
(embedded) (side by side)
1 2
SAP Business
Technology Platform
Embed ISLM
SAP Data Intelligence
SAP S/4HANA
PAL and APL SAP AI PAL, APL, R,
Business Services Python…
Leveraging predictive analytics with SAP Analytics Cloud Enhancing and extending predictive analytics and ML
(side by side) services
SAP Analytics Cloud

3 4
SAP Analytics
Cloud Extending
Smart predict SAP BTP machine
and smart assist learning
SAP S/4HANA
SAP S/4HANA
ISLM – intelligent scenario lifecycle management; BTP – Business Technology Platform; PAL – Predictive Analysis Library; APL – automated predictive library

Question 4
Where can I find more

useful information?

Useful information
SAP Global AI Ethics Policy
openSAP Courses
▪ AI Ethics at SAP
▪ Building AI and Sustainability Solutions on SAP BTP
▪ SAP S/4HANA Embedded Analytics
▪ Delivering Value with Intelligent Innovations in
SAP S/4HANA
▪ Planning with SAP Analytics Cloud
SAP Microlearning
▪ Embedded Predictive Scenarios in SAP S/4HANA –
Cross-Topics – Intelligent Technologies
▪ Using the Power of Prediction in SAP S/4HANA –
Cross-Topics – Intelligent Technologies
References
Getting started Trial options

▪ SAP S/4HANA AI Incubation Sharepoint ▪ SAP S/4HANA fully activated appliance for Machine
▪ ISLM wiki for development guideline, implementation guide Learning
▪ Situation Handling ▪ Demo guides for machine learning
▪ Process Automation ▪ SAP S/4HANA fully activated appliance for Situation
Handling
Recent updates
Social channels
▪ SAP Community Webinar ISLM Intro, Details ISLM, building
with ISLM ▪ SAP Community topic page for SAP S/4HANA
▪ Venkata Raghu Banda’s blog, Resources and Journey to ▪ SAP Community topic page for intelligent scenario
Machine Learning with SAP S/4HANA lifecycle management
▪ Sven Denecken’s blogs on busting the myths on cloud ERP Spotify podcast:
▪ Latest SAP S/4HANA Cloud release blogs
▪ Machine Learning and AI applications

Key takeaways
Machine learning in SAP S/4HANA can help

customers automate operational tasks and make
smarter decisions with predictive insights.
Standard use cases based on machine learning are

being released and updated in different LoBs.
SAP S/4HANA leverages state-of-the-art artificial

intelligence capabilities powered by
▪ SAP HANA
▪ SAP BTP
▪ SAP Analytics Cloud
You can create custom scenarios as well.

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Unit 3: React Faster with Situation Handling
React faster with Situation Handling
Learning objectives
At the end of this unit, you will be able to:

▪ Explain what Situation Handling is and why it is a
useful tool in a business context
▪ Name the basic apps needed to have Situation
Handling up and running in a business process

Getting to know Situation Handling
What is Situation Handling

and how does it help me
react faster?

Getting to know Situation Handling
Situation Handling is one of the intelligent

technologies available in SAP S/4HANA to help you
increase the quality and the efficiency of your
business processes by raising alerts on exceptional
circumstances and by providing heads-up information.
Situation Handling informs individual users or groups

of users about issues requiring their attention:
▪ Automatically, with notifications or by email
▪ Indicating situations in apps
▪ Providing related data for informed decisions
▪ Proposing actions to fix the problem

Components
Single situation
Every Situation Handling
notification has at least the
following basic components:
Multiple situation
▪ Indicator: A specific icon and ▪ Texts: The situation is described

semantic color to show that a with 2 types of text:
situation is in a critical constellation. – Title: Summary to see at a glance
It also indicates the times the same what the situation is about
message has occurred in the – Description: Detailed in-app
specific timeframe. message explaining the situation
to the user

Getting to know Situation Handling with templated use cases
What is the easiest

way to get started with
Situation Handling?

Getting to know Situation Handling with templated use cases
▪ Upcoming deadlines and expiration dates, pending

tasks
▪ Exceeded limits and thresholds, unreached goals in
a period
▪ Expiring or consumed contracts
▪ Warning end error messages for system runs

Minimum UX for Situation Handling use cases
Which UXs do I need

to include to support
Situation Handling?

Minimum UX for Situation Handling use cases
For business users:

▪ Notification center must be available
▪ SAP Fiori app F4514 My Situations
▪ The nominated business app for the Situation
Handling use case
For people configuring situations:

▪ SAP Fiori app F2947 Manage Situation Types
▪ SAP Fiori app F3264 Monitor Situations
▪ SAP Fiori app F2412 Manage Teams and
Responsibilities

Standard framework
In our demo, we will follow the sequence

according to the standard framework
▪ Starting with app F2947 Manage Situation Types, we Monitor Situations
choose a standard situation template to copy it into a
new one, adjust conditions, and adapt notifications
according to business rules. Notification
▪ For demo purposes, we skip F2412 Manage Teams
and Responsibilities
▪ Notifications are seen in F3264 Monitor Situations
▪ Notifications are also seen in F4514 My Situations
Manage Situation My Situations
Types

Situation Handling in Treasury and Risk Management

Innovations on Situation Handling – Intelligent Situations (I)
SAP S/4HANA Cloud Analysis

Process Improvements &
Situation Handling Parameters
Tracking of Situation
Handling Status &
Data Context Data
Collection
Data Science /
Machine Learning
Rules
Situation Handling Series of
Situations
Machine
Learning
Application Situation Intelligent Model
Data Data Automation Actions & Automation
Recommendations

React faster with Situation Handling Intelligent Situation Automation
Innovations on Situation Handling – Intelligent Situations (II) service on SAP BTP
SAP S/4HANA Cloud Analysis

Process Improvements &
Situation Handling Parameters
Tracking of Situation
Handling Status &
Data Context Data
Collection
API
Data Science /
Machine Learning
Rules
Situation Handling Series of
Situations
Machine
Learning
Application Situation Intelligent Model
Data Data Automation Actions & Automation
Recommendations

Innovations on Situation Handling – Intelligent Situations (III)
All situations are tracked and analyzed on SAP BTP for business insights and solution automations
A B
A: Dashboard – analyze content
B: Related Situations Explorer – find

related issues across use cases
C: Rule Builder – build rules to

automate
D: Analyze Situations – identify

C D patterns, analyze details

Key takeaways
▪ Situation Handling is an out-of-the-box innovation that

can be consumed by business people on their own
▪ As business needs rise in complexity, intelligent
technologies like Situation Handling evolve to meet
those requirements with an enhanced scope of
functionalities

Documentation and links
SAP Help Portal Blog posts

▪ Situation Handling ▪ Situation Handling: Case Invoice Skipped in Payment Advice
− Pre-delivered use cases ▪ Situation Handling: Case Notification for Managing Financial
− Standard framework of Situation Handling Transactions
− Extended framework of Situation Handling ▪ Situation Handling: Use Case – Confirmation is Overdue for
▪ Responsibility Management PR Item
Intelligent Situation Automation

▪ Intelligent Situation Automation – The next big step in Digital
SAP Best Practices Transformation
▪ Situation Handling (31N) ▪ Intelligent Situation Handling with the Knowledge Graph
▪ Responsibility Management (1NJ)
Other blogs posts
Introduction series – standard framework

SAP Community ▪ Situation Handling: What is it and why do you need it? (1/5)
▪ Intelligent Situation Handling Introduction series – extended framework
▪ Custom Situation Cases: Configure Your Own Use Cases (1/6)

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Unit 4: Manage Scale with Mass Change
Manage scale with mass change
Question 1
Can I use the SAP S/4HANA

migration cockpit for mass
maintenance?

Can I use the SAP S/4HANA migration cockpit for mass maintenance?
The SAP S/4HANA migration cockpit has been

designed to:
- Migrate data to an SAP S/4HANA system

during the implementation phase.
- Migrate new data into the system after a 1st

Go-Live and/or
- Extend (not update) existing data of selected

objects (such as customer, supplier, product,
purchasing info record...)
The SAP S/4HANA migration cockpit tool and content is

***not*** built to be used as a kind of mass processing app to
change or update existing data.
2684818 - SAP S/4HANA migration cockpit usage for mass processing data or as interface
Question 2
Which options do I have for

mass maintenance?

Which options do I have for mass maintenance?
Although for some objects you still can use the old transactions like MASSD and MASS, our
recommendation is that you first explore the different SAP Fiori apps that we have delivered for mass
processing. For instance:
From transaction code MASSD… to SAP Fiori app Mass Change of Sales Documents…
2287723 - LSMW in SAP S/4HANA on-premise (S4CORE)

Some examples are:
Cross master data Finance
F3251 - Export Master Data (Business partner, Product F2548 - Upload General Journal Entries
F2505 - Manage Mass Maintenance (Business partner, Product) F0731A - Manage G/L Account Master Data
F1686A - Manage Mass Processes (MDG) (Business partner, F3041 - Import Supplier Invoices
Product)
F1711 - Import Financial Plan Data
F3779 - Import Statistical Key Figures Plan Data
Order to cash
F3073 - Import Group Journal Entries
F5091 - Mass Change of Sales Documents F3924 - Import Consolidation Master Data
F6192 - Import Sales Documents F3071 - Import Master Data for Consolidation Fields
F3068 - Create Credit/Debit Memos (Mass Processing) F3335 - Import FS Item Mappings
F5210 - Monitor Mass Changes of Sales Documents F4074 - Delete Financial Plan Data - with Timestamp
F4111 - Manage Prices – Sales F4851 - Delete Financial Plan Data
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Some of the apps may require an additional subscription 6
Some examples are:
Procure to pay Plan to product

F3792 - Mass Changes to Central Purchase Contracts F5238 - Manage Multilevel Bill Of Material
F2669 - Mass Changes to Purchase Contracts F5381 - Mass Maintenance Of Work Center Capacities
F2593 - Mass Changes to Purchase Orders F2825 - Mass Maintenance of Products (DD)
F2594 - Mass Changes to Purchase Requisitions F6862 - Mass Addition of Bills of Material Items
F2668 - Mass Changes to Purchase Scheduling Agreements / F6863 - Mass Maintenance of Bills of Material Headers
Mass Changes to Scheduling Agreements
F6578 - Mass Maintenance of Bills of Material Items
F2667 - Mass Changes to Purchasing Info Records
F3332 - Monitor Mass Changes / Monitor Mass Changes - F6764 - Monitor Mass Maintenance of Bills of Material
Purchase Orders F3445 - Maintain PIRs
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Mass maintenance examples

Question 3
Can I also maintain my custom

fields using some of the SAP
Fiori apps presented before?

Can I also maintain my custom fields using some of the SAP Fiori apps presented before?
As you learned in Week 2 Unit 6, through the SAP Fiori app F1481 – Custom Fields you can add your own
fields to different business processes. Some of the SAP Fiori apps listed before can display the new fields.
It means in some of those SAP Fiori apps you can also consider those fields for mass processing. For instance:
Custom field TrackSales01 can be updated using the SAP Fiori app Mass Change of Sales Documents

Mass maintenance of a custom field

Key takeaways
The SAP S/4HANA migration cockpit has been created for initial
loading of master data and open items.
In each SAP S/4HANA version we release new SAP Fiori apps

that you can use for mass maintenance.
Before thinking about using old SAP GUI features or creating

your own custom code, review the latest innovation for mass
processing in the SAP Fiori apps reference library.
Some of the SAP Fiori apps for mass maintenance will also
allow you to update custom fields created using the SAP Fiori
app F1481 - Custom Fields.
Involve your development team to evaluate options in case you

cannot see your custom field in the SAP Fiori mass
maintenance app.
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Unit 5: Reduce Effort with Process Automation
Reduce effort with process automation
Question 1
Which tools do I need

to consider to start
with the development
of automated
business processes?

Move to process automation at your own speed or make a fresh start
SAP Workflow Management

Starting from
■ All workflow management capabilities,
Looking for
same runtime – no migration efforts ■ Additional citizen developer
■ Workflow components, process steps,

user experience including
and business rules as reusable artifacts native RPA/process builder
■ Live process content plus
■ Side-by-side usage with reuse of existing
content and workflow editor growing new content artifacts
(templates, skills)
■ Migration Guide
SAP Intelligent Robotic Process Automation SAP Build

Starting from Looking for Process
■ All automation capabilities, same runtime
■ Additional citizen developer
– no migration efforts experience for automating
Automation
■ Automation components, application, data, E2E business processes
automations as reusable components ■ Additional artifacts such as forms,
■ Side-by-side usage with reuse of business decision rules, and process
existing bot content visibility
■ Migration Guide ■ RPA content plus growing new content
artifacts (templates, skills)
New customers
■ Explore no-code process automations with a citizen developer experience
■ Build simple forms and departmental process improvements
■ Benefit from a growing list of prebuilt business content and new skills

Question 2
What is SAP Build

Process Automation?

Simplify process and task automation
Automate processes and tasks

with drag-and-drop simplicity
Workflow management, robotic

process automation (RPA), and
embedded AI in a single solution
Leverage process expertise

without coding
SAP Build Process Automation

Question 3
What types of
challenges can we
solve by automating
business processes?

Common challenges and how automation can lead the way in technology innovation
Challenges How Automation Helps

Numerous manual tasks like sales order creation and manual Eliminate errors and cost from handling manual transactions.
matching processes for invoices, financial posting, accounts payable, etc. Free up employees’ time for higher-value tasks
Time pressures and large volume of Reduce process time drastically with automatic dispute
journal entries before period-end closing creation, claim extraction, and dispute matching processes
Handling transactions from various sources, such as Easily handle data from structured and unstructured
paper-based or electronic invoices through emails invoices, e-mails, PDFs, etc., with embedded AI
Optimize and simplify financial processes by connecting

Multiple (often legacy) applications
SAP to non-SAP systems even when APIs are unavailable
Keeping up with changing regulatory Ensure compliance with automatic logging of posting
and reporting requirements activities and an auditable workflow
Sample: Key SAP S/4HANA finance automation opportunities
Financial Accounting & Enterprise Risk &

Treasury Tax
Operations Financial Close Compliance
Key
Automation Receivables Financial Identity & Access
Payment Tax Filing
Opportunity Management Accounting Governance
Areas
Payables Bank International Trade
Financial Closing Tax Reconciliation
Management Communication Management
Automatic posting of Automatic G/L Bank Reconciliation Crawling agency

payment advices entries with statement between forms portals to retrieve
approval workflow upload data
Use Case Automatic posting Fill-in tax
Examples of invoices Financial closing Reconciliation returns & upload Automated
tasks & reporting generation of an
Automated Collection of tax audit plan
collection reminders certificates
5%-50% 20%-70% Reduce Improve Up to 100%

Process
reduction in customer reduction in manual errors working capital Audit & Governance
Automation
billing, credit, and days to close compliance
Benefits
collections costs annual books as per policy

Question 4
Does SAP provide

pre-built automation
content?

SAP S/4HANA Finance accelerators (1/2) – Available on SAP Build Process Automation Store
Accrual Object Creation Cancel Customer Customer Business Direct Supplier Down Fixed Assets Transfer
Approval Invoice Discontinuation Payment Request
Accelerates automation
Manual accrual objects Manage cancellation of Accounts Receivable Automates creation, of approval process for inter-
created in the SAP S/4HANA customer invoices with Automates accounst validation, and approval of company and intra-company
system with approvals through required validations, approvals receivable business down payment request asset transactions for high
the workflow discontinuation value items
[SAP Business Accelerator [SAP Business Accelerator
[SAP Business Accelerator Hub] [SAP Business Accelerator Hub] [SAP Business Accelerator
Hub] Hub] Hub]
General Ledger Automate Manual Manage Posting Monitor Collection Non Operated Joint
Master Record Entries Period Approval Reminders Venture Cash Call
Creation Process Automated upload of Accelerate automation Automate collection Approval
Helps users to create a manual entries via API of approval process to open reminders approval where Automate workflow for
general ledger account in a the already closed periods user can raise approval for non-operator cash call/billing
[SAP Build Process
transparent way due to some adjustments or customer invoice collection invoice and invoice requests
Automation Store]
corrections [SAP Business Accelerator
[SAP Business Accelerator [SAP Business Accelerator Hub]
Hub] [SAP Business Accelerator Hub]
Hub]
SAP S/4HANA Finance accelerators (2/2) – Available on SAP Build Process Automation Store
Capital Expenditure Purchase Requisition Business Partner Document Centric Manage Invoices without
Approval Process Approval and Release Payment Data Change Approval Purchase Orders
Managing investment Automate approval and Approval Automate document Manage the posting of
decisions in a release of line items Manage payment data approvals. invoices without purchase
transparent way [SAP Business changes and approvals [SAP Business orders
[SAP Business Accelerator Hub] [SAP Business Accelerator Hub] [SAP Business Accelerator
Accelerator Hub] Accelerator Hub] Hub]
Visibility on Visibility on Visibility on Maintain Purchase Vendor Onboarding

Order to Cash Accounts Payable Accounts Receivable Info Record Automate with approvals
Improve time to delivery Establish accuracy in Gain visibility into debt Avoid any rework from the respective
[SAP Business invoice processing management practices towards the end of the departments
Accelerator Hub] [SAP Business [SAP Business purchasing process [SAP Business Accelerator
Accelerator Hub] Accelerator Hub] [SAP Business Hub]
Accelerator Hub]

Question 5
Can the tool cover

completely custom
automation scenarios?

Demo: Custom scenario sample: automating end-user event registrations

Key takeaways
▪ SAP Build Process Automation is the recommended

low-code/no-code tool to automate business processes.
▪ SAP Build Process Automation is available on SAP BTP.
▪ SAP Build Process Automation allows you to enable
multiple automation technologies through a single tool.
▪ SAP provides much pre-built content (APIs, RPA bots)
which can help you set up your automated business
processes.
▪ With SAP Build Process Automation you can develop
custom automations with integrations to multiple SAP
or non-SAP systems.

Key takeaways of this course week
▪ There are four main intelligent experiences. Some of

them require integrations with SAP BTP:
− Machine learning
− Augmented capabilities
▪ Situation Handling helps you increase the quality and
efficiency of your business processes by raising alerts
on exceptional circumstances and by providing heads-
up information to critical users.
▪ SAP S/4HANA migration cockpit has been created for
initial loading of master data and open items only.
▪ In each new SAP S/4HANA version you will find new
SAP Fiori apps that you can use for mass maintenance.
▪ SAP Build Process Automation is an SAP BTP-based
tool which helps you automate business processes
through a low-code/no-code approach.
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Week 3: Introducing Intelligent Experiences to Business

Unit 1: Get Ready to Work Smarter

Week 4: Making Adoption Easy for Your

1. Get ready to work smarter

2. Bring predictive insights with AI

3. React faster with Situation Handling

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▪ Identify available intelligent experiences in SAP S/4HANA.

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What does an intelligent

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Intelligent experiences provide opportunities to improve your business

Unclear responsibilities Frustrated users

No process insights Heterogenous landscapes

Complexity in business processes Data and process silos

Changes / new processes take too long Hard-coded process flows

Media breaks Start every time from scratch

Non-compliant processes Human errors

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Anticipate Situation Handling framework Optimize Machine learning

▪ Identify undiscovered issues in ▪ Learn from customer-specific

Execute Process automation Predict Augmented analytics

▪ Execute repetitive and time- ▪ Make smarter and faster

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Machine Learning Process

SAP S/4HANA SAP Business Technology Platform

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What are the outcomes

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Visibility Do more with less and empower

Focus Deliver best-in-class

Agility Invent new business models

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Getting Started & Onboarding

Best Practices Installation Required Configuration Solution Walkthrough Continuous

Fit-to-Standard Analysis Std Integration Setup-Test Std Integration Setup-Prod

Organizational Change Management

Analytics Configuration in Test

Are there any additional

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Process design in the 1990s and 2000s was limited by resources

▪ Many process variants stem from the predecessor systems

▪ Many users have defined their own workarounds. But since

Actual process Workarounds

▪ Intelligent experiences offer options to improve and

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How can I benefit

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Run Deliver Plan Ahead

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1 RPA 2 Machine Learning 3 Machine Learning

Bot looks for System predicts sales System predicts

System alerts that

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Where can I find more

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1MV Receivables Line-Item Matching V10

N/A Behavioral Insights

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How does machine

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