 Master Data: Business partner is now capable of centrally manage data for

customers and vendors. BP is now the single point of entry to create, edit and
display master data.

Material Master Data: With SAP S/4HANA, the maximum field length of the material number is
extended from 18 to 40 characters

Material type “SERV” for services is introduced for Product Master in S/4HANA for
simplification purposes. When you use material type SERV, some fields and departments
that are irrelevant in S/4 are hidden from the screen. This gives all transactions relevant for
material master, a leaner and simplified look.

 MM-Inventory management data Model: With S/4HANA this data model has been
changed significantly. The new de-normalized table MATDOC has been introduced
which contains the former header and item data of a material document as well as a
lot of further attributes. Material document data will be stored in MATDOC only and
not anymore in MKPF and MSEG. Additionally the aggregated actual stock
quantities will not be persisted anymore in the hybrid or replaced aggregation tables.
Instead, actual stock quantity data will be calculated on-the-fly from the new material
document table MATDOC for which some of those additional special fields are used.
 Material Ledger Obligatory for Material Valuation: This simplification makes it
obligatory to use the Material Ledger in all SAP S/4HANA systems. When a system
is converted to SAP S/4HANA the Material Ledger will be activated if not active
already. Please take a note that though material ledger will be active for parallel
valuation of inventory and other purposes it is not mandatory to activate/use actual
costing.