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S/4HANA

SAP S/4HANA is a modern ERP system for an intelligent enterprise designed as a successor to older SAP ERP systems. It provides a modern user interface, business process optimization, and a range of new features and capabilities.

 

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SAP S/4HANA at a Glance

One of the main objectives of S/4HANA is to simplify business processes by eliminating unnecessary steps, reducing complexity, and increasing efficiency. This allows organizations to better manage their resources, finances, supply chain, manufacturing, and other aspects of their operations. S/4HANA also offers advanced analytical functions and integration with other SAP solutions and external systems, which allows for full digital transformation of the organization.

Application Fields

Examples of applications:

  • A large manufacturing enterprise with S/4HANA can gain better control over the supply chain, increase efficiency, and respond faster to changing market conditions
  • The service sector has the opportunity to better track project costs, increase team efficiency, and deliver better value to customers
  • S/4HANA allows for better integration of financial data, faster reporting, and precise analysis and enables better risk management
  • The retail chain gains the ability to better track product data, analyze customer preferences, manage promotions, and tailor sales strategies to individual customer needs
  • A hospital or medical institution may have better medical data management, access to up-to-date patient information, optimization of administrative processes, and improved patient care
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Digitally Supported Processes

Real-time analysis of the organisation’s efficiency allows optimising the processes in the company – from purchase and sales planning, through logistics chain management, to analyses, period closures and financial management.

Companies are increasingly experiencing a new level of market volatility, which is revolutionary in their approach to engaging with investors, customers, suppliers, regulators and employees. This volatility results not only from traditional areas such as the risk of currency prices or changes in the prices of raw materials but also from macroeconomic volatility, innovative methods of competition and ever-changing consumer and employee preferences. Moreover, the volatility of tax policy and complex regulatory requirements pose a challenge to obtain, analyse and provide detailed and more reliable information in real-time. The challenges faced by enterprises require that their processes be based on innovation, so as to flexibly adapt to changes, manage volatility and find new opportunities to create value. SAP S/4 HANA is a financial innovation platform that enables the digitisation of business by combining business processes and analysis into one seamless digital world. It is the foundation of a smart enterprise.

 

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S/4HANA Supports End-to-End Processes

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Record to Report

The overall financial scenario, which refers to a faster, continuous and correct financial closing. This scenario starts with the recording of accounting data for many companies, charts of accounts, etc. and ends with the closing of the books and the creation of financial statements (e.g. International Financial Reporting Standards, US GAAP or other local regulatory requirements).

Benefits:

  • The universal general ledger does not require any reconciliation
  • Full data transparency
  • Operations settled in real-time
  • Faster and more efficient, automated closing of periods
  • Real-time data consolidation
  • Reporting and analysis available on an ad hoc basis without the need for transfer to the data warehouse and aggregation
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From Order to Cash

A comprehensive scenario ensuring a smooth, automated processing of customer orders from the offer to the payment record.

Benefits:

  • Multi-channel access to a reliable central and up-to-date source of data on products, customers, price lists, promotions
  • Process automation and group work mechanisms
  • Mass data processing
  • Scalability of processes
  • Intelligent mechanisms for recognising and combining payments
  • Ergonomic service
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From Procure to Pay

Comprehensive process of effective cooperation between buyer and supplier and compatible and efficient processes of electronic data exchange of trading partners. This scenario includes purchase planning, demand management and order creation in accordance with the rules in force in the organisation, order execution from suppliers, delivery verification, handling of warehouse processes, settling supplier’s liabilities together with improving the processes of settling liabilities.

Benefits:

  • Total control in the supply chain
  • Standardisation and efficiency of purchasing processes
  • More efficient product life cycle management
  • Comprehensive management of market activities
  • Optimal adaptation to industry needs

Key Features of the S/4HANA system

Integrated solution - it was designed and created as a set of business applications running on one database and one data model. Internal integration of the system provides authorised users with a uniform and consistent view of data. The division into business applications (modules) is conventional - they form one whole. The system user goes through the registration process only once, after which they can use modules according to the roles and permissions assigned to the user. The real-time solution of single data entry makes the data immediately visible (as dictated by application logic) in all functional areas of the system, where it is required for other authorised users. It enables organisations to address all business issues in real-time at both operational and strategic levels.

 

The solution is delivered with open source code – customers are able to develop the product on their own with their own functionalities and applications generating competitive advantages. The “in memory” technology allows the use of advanced analytical and prediction tools based directly on the source data in the system, which allows for a faster and more accurate response to the market situation or the course of a specific process or operation.

Quo vadis or Migration to S/4HANA for Current SAP ERP Users
The decision to migrate to S/4 HANA is an important business decision for companies – it requires the involvement of teams and incurs project costs. An optimal decision requires an analysis of the situation of the company in

Three Quick Steps as shown below:

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Three Quick Steps to Making a Good Decision

Why? Purpose Definition

Analysis of the business strategy and the target system architecture supporting this strategy.

  • Defining goals in the perspective of several years: change in the scale of business, change in the scale of employment, change in the territory of operation (markets, geographical territory), change in the way of conducting business, reorganization of internal structures, dynamics of changes in the company and changes in the business environment, etc.
  • Evaluation of the current SAP ERP system in terms of the effectiveness of support for current processes and anticipated requirements
  • Development of an optimal target architecture of business applications optimally supporting current and future operations
  • Initial introduction to the possibilities/advantages of innovations of the S/4 HANA system
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What? Selection of the Optimal Migration Path

â–¶ Conversion (Brownfield)

SAP ERP System to SAP S/4HANA On-Premise or Cloud (PCE)

Migration to a new Platform

  • Complete conversion of the current SAP business Suite ERP System to SAP S/4HANA
  • Optimization with the use of S/4HANA innovations

â–¶ New Implementation (Greenfield)

SAP ERP or Third-party System to SAP S/4HANA On-Premise or Cloud (essential, PCE)

New Implementation | Re-Implementation
Process simplification and reengineering based on the most recent S/4HANA innovations

  • Implementation based on new platform best-practices
  • Migration

â–¶ Transformation

ERP System in Region A, B and C to SAP S/4HANA On-Premise or Cloud (PCE)

Migration to a new Platform
Consolidation of the existing instances of SAP Business Suite to a global SAP S/4HANA system or selective data migration to S/4HANA

 

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HOW? Development of a Preliminary Migration Plan

  • Selection of the expected implementation option ('on premise', private or public cloud – for the SAP ERP system itself and the infrastructure)
  • Defining the approach to license migration
  • Estimated project budget
  • Planned deadlines for the implementation of the project for the main tasks, organizational strategy, e.g. in relation to the order of countries, business units, implemented solutions

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Was ist das Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) - einfach erklärt?

Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) bezeichnet Computerprogramme, die wie ein menschliches Gehirn lernen und Aufgaben lösen können. Durch das Erkennen von Mustern in großen Datenmengen werden selbstständig Entscheidungen getroffen und Prozesse automatisiert.

Warum ist KĂĽnstliche Intelligenz wichtig?

KI steigert die Effizienz, indem sie Routineaufgaben automatisiert und präzise Analysen ermöglicht. Unternehmen können so schneller Entscheidungen treffen, Innovationen vorantreiben und sich Wettbewerbsvorteile sichern.

Wie verändert Künstliche Intelligenz die Arbeitswelt?

Sie übernimmt repetitive Tätigkeiten und schafft Raum für kreativere, anspruchsvollere Aufgaben. Gleichzeitig entstehen neue Berufsbilder rund um Datenanalyse, KI-Entwicklung und -Wartung.

Welche KĂĽnstliche Intelligenz ist die beste?

Die “beste” KI hängt vom Einsatzgebiet ab: Chatbots benötigen andere Technologien als Bilderkennungssysteme. Wichtig ist, dass eine KI-Lösung leistungsfähig, zuverlässig und auf die konkreten Anforderungen zugeschnitten ist.

Wie funktioniert KĂĽnstliche Intelligenz?

KI-Modelle nutzen Algorithmen, um aus Daten zu lernen und Muster zu erkennen. Je mehr qualitativ hochwertige Daten zur VerfĂĽgung stehen, desto besser kann ein KI-System Vorhersagen treffen oder Aufgaben automatisieren.

Was KĂĽnstliche Intelligenz nicht kann?

KI ist hervorragend in der Datenverarbeitung, hat aber kein menschliches Bewusstsein und keine echten Emotionen. Kreative und empathische Fähigkeiten bleiben – zumindest vorerst – weiterhin dem Menschen vorbehalten.

Was ist der Unterschied zwischen KI, Machine Learning und Deep Learning?

  • KI ist der Oberbegriff fĂĽr Technologien, die die menschliche Intelligenz nachahmen.
  • Machine Learning oder Maschinelles Lernen (ML) ist ein Teilgebiet der KI, bei dem Systeme aus Daten lernen.
  • Deep Learning ist eine spezielle Form von ML, bei der mehrschichtige neuronale Netze verwendet werden, um komplexe Muster zu erkennen.

Welche Branchen setzen bereits erfolgreich KI ein und warum?

Vor allem die Industrie, das Gesundheitswesen, der Finanzsektor und der E-Commerce profitieren von KI. Sie optimiert Produktionsprozesse, ermöglicht präzisere Diagnosen, verbessert Risikoanalysen und steigert den Verkaufserfolg durch personalisierte Empfehlungen.

Wie wird eine KI programmiert?

Zunächst werden die Daten gesammelt und aufbereitet, dann wählen die Entwickler*innen geeignete Algorithmen und Modelle aus. Anschließend wird das System trainiert und getestet, bevor es produktiv eingesetzt wird.

Welche Rolle spielt KI in der Zukunft?

KI wird immer wichtiger, da sie Innovationen beschleunigt und Unternehmen in allen Branchen effizienter macht. Sie spielt eine SchlĂĽsselrolle in Bereichen wie autonomes Fahren, medizinische Forschung oder Smart Cities ĂĽbernimmt sie eine SchlĂĽsselrolle.

Welche Möglichkeiten gibt es, KI-Strategien in Unternehmen zu entwickeln?

Unternehmen können Pilotprojekte starten, interne KI-Kompetenzen aufbauen oder spezialisierte Dienstleister hinzuziehen. Entscheidend für den Erfolg einer KI-Strategie ist dabei ein klarer Fahrplan mit definierten Zielen und messbaren Ergebnissen.

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