SAP S/4HANA 1610 Release Highlights

Table of Contents
3 Finance 8 Asset Management

4 Human Resources 8 Research And Development

5 Sourcing and Procurement 9 Enhancements Across Lines of Business:

Master Data
5 Manufacturing
9 Enhancements Across Lines of Business:
6 Supply Chain User Experience

7 Sales
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Accelerate Your Journey to a Digital Core
with the Latest Release of SAP S/4HANA,
Our Next-Generation ERP Suite
Unlock the next wave of productivity with the latest release (1610) of SAP S/4HANA.
Our next-generation ERP suite offers immediate insight, intelligence for better deci-
sions, and integration within your organization and beyond. It provides the digital core
you need to succeed in todays digital world. Built on SAP HANA, our industry-leading
in-memory computing platform, SAP S/4HANA can help you transform your organi-
zation, delivering a customized product or service to an audience of one, at global scale.

Highlights include:
Increased integration between the
SAP S/4HANA Finance solution and business
networks
Integrated business planning and real-time
consolidation
Advanced available-to-promise (ATP)
enhancements including sophisticated
back-order processing
Production planning and detailed scheduling
and extended warehouse management within
the digital core to simplify your landscape

Explore the highlights below, or view the complete

release information here.

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FINANCE
Connect your digital core for greater productivity
and deeper business insight with new functions
in SAP S/4HANA 1610.
Planning the Future
Use financial planning and analysis to create your
path for the future, all within your digital core.
Develop cost center, sales, and market segment
plans while capitalizing on ease-of-use features
such as comma separated values (CSV) file upload
and end-to-end extensibility that make it easy to
turn data into insights and plans of action.
Real-Time Consolidation
Take advantage of instant access to transactional
and master data in SAP S/4HANA for real-time
consolidation. You can easily trace back to source
data in SAP S/4HANA and other legacy source
systems for the finest granularity and confidence.
Parallel Valuation
Take a streamlined and consistent approach with
the universal journal to take advantage of parallel
valuation methods for legal, group, and profit
centers. Multinational groups need to report profit-
ability for the group as a whole as well as for the
individual units based on the operational flows,
and SAP S/4HANA makes this possible.
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For example:
Legal perspective looks at the transactions from
the point of view of the affiliated companies,
including markups.
Group valuation looks at the whole group,
eliminating markups (such as intercompany
profits).
Profit center valuation treats profit centers
as if they were independent companies, using
negotiated prices.
Production Cost Analysis
Add business reporting content to support vari-
ance tracking to identify potential issues through
production cost analysis. Isolate causes and help
ensure that costs are captured correctly in pro-
cesses and orders with insight into overall and
detailed costs to keep production costs in line
with budgeted costs.
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Insight from Integration with SAP RealSpend
and SAP Financial Statement Insights
Use new integration with the SAP RealSpend
solution and SAP Financial Statement Insights
Web application to enjoy real-time understanding
of your forecast while visualizing profit-and-loss
account group balances. You can now layer planned
future expenses over existing financial informa-
tion and tag expenses for new dimensions of ana
lysis. Armed with easy-to-access insights, youll
have a better picture of your financial situation
and be able to uncover trends and hidden irregu-
larities behind aggregated key performance
indicators.
Lease Accounting
Get structured insights into lease payments,
duration, timing, and uncertainty of cash flows
with direct finance integration with the new
International Financial Reporting Standards
compliant expense lease accounting in the
SAP Real Estate Management application. Reduce
manual effort and risk of error when calculating
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and posting leases according to the planned
new accounting standard from the International
Accounting Standards Board and Financial
Accounting Standards Board to support new
principles of reporting on lease-related payments,
contract durations, and uncertainty of cash flows.
Create a full inventory of leases, assess net present
values, and recognize leases as assets or liabilities
on the balance sheet.
Integration with Business Networks
Connect to business networks like never before.
Finance can now take advantage of additional
integrations with the SAP SuccessFactors Employee
Central Payroll solution and learning map, buyer-side
Ariba Invoice Management and Ariba Discount
Management solutions, Concur solutions, and
SAP Fieldglass solutions.
HUMAN RESOURCES
Reduce complexity with streamlined integration
and an improved user experience.
Simplified Environment
The SAP S/4HANA 1610 release simplifies
human resources for both IT and business users.
You can now simplify your IT environment with
streamlined integration between SAP S/4HANA
and SAP SuccessFactors solutions to support
end-to-end business processes. Business users
can now utilize object pages to present worker-
related data for both employees and contingent
labor forces. Additionally, users can take advantage
of enhanced search capabilities to quickly find
the information they need.
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SOURCING AND PROCUREMENT
Use new capabilities to digitize procurement.
New Insights and Less Procurement Friction
Reduce procurement hassle with catalog buying for
self-service requisitioning processes and increased
integration with business networks, such as the
creation of sourcing requests in SAP Ariba solu-
tions directly from SAP S/4HANA. Sourcing man-
agers can enjoy increased visibility into supplier
performance, purchasing spend, and business
events with the new procurement overview page.
New SAP Fiori apps enable increased productivity
for all users across collaborative sourcing, con-
tract management, and supplier management
functions. Daily activities such as managing pur-
chasing infocards, contracts, sources of supply,
and requests for quotes take full advantage of the
award-winning SAP Fiori user experience (UX).
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MANUFACTURING
Use the digital core for greater insights on the
shop floor.
Managing Production Planning in Your Digital Core
Cover product requirements with internal and
external procurement proposals, and reduce total
costs through optimal-order-for-shipment func-
tionality that automatically optimizes orders to
take advantage of transportation and capacity types.
Production planning and detailed scheduling has
been integrated with SAP S/4HANA, allowing you
to create production plans without relying on a
separate planning instance. You can now optimize
and plan resource schedules directly in the digital
core, taking into account bottlenecks and other
production challenges.
You can also speed and simplify production planning
cycles with the use of the production scheduling
board, a Web-based graphical scheduling tool that
harnesses the power of production planning and
detailed scheduling while simplifying and providing
a visualization of the work effort.
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Advanced ATP
Take advantage of the in-memory computing of
SAP HANA to find mass product availability for
sales, planned, and production orders, giving you
new levels of visibility. Use advanced ATP for scarce
product allocation based on almost any attribute
including underlying sales order, material, plant,
or customer to help ensure you maximize cus-
tomer satisfaction according to your individual
business rules.
You can complete back-order processing with
new SAP Fiori apps utilizing requirement classifi-
cations that help you identify and fulfill the most
critical orders in a timely fashion. The results can
be aggregated at different levels and drilled into
with complete granularity for easy identification
and resolution of issues.
Finally, the SAP Fiori app Release for Delivery
allows you to review critical shortages and the result-
ing business implications to enable timely, informed
decisions on short-term supply-and-demand
fluctuations.
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Helping Ensure Quality
Use integrated quality management to meet quality
targets and exceed customer expectations. Quality
inspection professionals including technicians,
engineers, managers, auditors, and others are
supported throughout the entire quality process.
The simplified inspection process is integrated
within the digital core to provide a seamless
process throughout the value chain.
SUPPLY CHAIN
Gain state-of-the-art warehousing in the digital core.
Digitizing Your Warehouse
Experience the power of the SAP Extended
Warehouse Management application built into
SAP S/4HANA, and unlock greater productivity
throughout your warehouse. This means your
warehouse clerks and operations personnel can
enjoy increased access to real-time data, while
IT can embrace a simplified technical landscape.
Your entire organization benefits from reduced
data duplication and replication to increase
accuracy and decrease cost.
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SALES
Analyze sales orders and help ensure compliance.
Easier Sales with SAP Fiori Apps
Increase sales productivity with new SAP Fiori apps
that make it easier than ever to create, modify, and
display sales orders on any device. Contextual infor-
mation helps ensure your sales and sales-support
teams have a comprehensive view of the customer
to maximize satisfaction, including resolution of
issues, at every step of the buying process.
Drive sales behavior and understand sales activity
on any device, at any time. Now, sales managers
can delve into sales performance and analyze
conversion rates, delivery status, and profit margin
with easy-to-use tools that deliver instant insight
for immediate business value.
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SERVICE
Achieve real-time revenue and cost recognition
for individual projects.
Soft Close and Prediction
Experience new levels of insight with real-time
revenue and cost recognition at the individual
project level. Utilizing the power of SAP HANA
and in-memory computing, you can now have
instant insight without relying on multiple data
sources or complicated reconciliation efforts.
Event-based revenue recognition supports the
matching principle without batch jobs at period-
end close, while helping ensure that profitability
reporting is always up-to-date.
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ASSET MANAGEMENT
Optimize maintenance planning and execution.
Comprehensive Information for Maintenance
Professionals
Simplify information access for technicians and
other maintenance professionals with information
sheets. Access historical information, including
previous maintenance activities and spare parts
usage. Executing the required maintenance or
repair is simplified with in-context documentation,
observation recording, and time reporting.
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RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Maximize the impact of your R&D spend.
Simplified Project Engagement
Give your entire team the visibility it needs to
complete projects in an effective, timely, and cost-
efficient manner. Tailored dashboards make it
easier for project managers and team members
to identify critical activities, browse upcoming tasks,
quickly review checklist items, and confirm work.
A Gantt chartbased project monitor makes it easy
for users to identify and explore project challenges.
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Embedded Software Management
Manage embedded software versions with the
SAP Product Lifecycle Management application
in SAP S/4HANA. Maintain compatibility infor-
mation and check product compatibility for easy
deployment of embedded software across
projects and products.
SAP Engineering Control Center
Take an integrated approach to accelerated prod-
uct design with a tool that integrates SAP software
for product lifecycle management with multiple
CAD authoring tools. Provide a 360-degree product
view, with total transparency across engineering
disciplines, through a harmonized and intuitive user
experience. Synchronize product metadata, struc-
tures, access, and file handling to bridge design
data with business data for a comprehensive
product description.
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ENHANCEMENTS ACROSS LINES OF BUSINESS:
MASTER DATA
Easily maintain master data for a single source
of truth across the enterprise.
Embedded Master Data Governance
Help ensure a single source of truth with enterprise-
wide governance using the SAP Master Data
Governance application embedded within SAP
S/4HANA. A new approach unifies industry mate-
rials and retail articles while using simplified master
data to provide an easily managed corporate
taxonomy. You can deploy user-friendly master-
data-quality worklists for consistent, accurate
data across the enterprise.
ENHANCEMENTS ACROSS LINES OF BUSINESS:
USER EXPERIENCE
Enjoy the award-winning UX in SAP Fiori 2.0.
SAP Fiori 2.0
Focused on a business users needs, SAP Fiori 2.0
extends the personalized paradigm of SAP Fiori,
enabling easier onboarding and greater productivity.
SAP Fiori launchpad is evolving into a viewport,
a personalized landing page with ready access to
individual notifications and profile information.
SAP CoPilot
SAP Fiori 2.0 also introduces SAP CoPilot, a digital
assistant for business users to help them make
timely, accurate decisions while supporting their
work throughout SAP S/4HANA. With SAP CoPilot,
users can quickly collaborate with shared, context-
relevant notes and screenshots.
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