7282019 SAP e-book Understanding SAP S/4HANA Central Inance LESSON OBJECTIVES After completing this lesson, you will be able to: + Understand the motivation to move to SAP S/4HANA + Understand the SAP S/4HANA Central Finance concept ‘SAP S/4HANA: Key Drivers ‘The following figure outlines the challenges that many customers face. Finance is complex, and not (digitally) connected. [eRe vcem Plan ‘Consolidate oo Geer] an co = a at a | SS sient = + S| em aC /| Signs of complexity, Business issue(s) "extractors and tantemations ite rersparency Mappegs ard harmenzzton Tred procucivty * Delays aremaieg inconettoncios Preanged prozess execution “Bata fecanaahon data vabsation ‘Sone ov! challenges "part provi at to peop) Figure | Divers or Mourg toa GarvalSAP S/aHANA tance ‘Additional drivers in S/4HANA adoption are as follows: + Lowering costs by centralizing processes and reducing source systern maintenance. + Outsourcing individual processes to shared services centers, which ensures one version of the truth, Somes agama 2 Dy 497rsro1g SAP e-book Lesson Understanding SAP S/AHANA Cetra France + Regularly scheduled batch jobs for extracting, ‘tansforming, and loading dota « Different data models require heavy transformations (f data for reporting High reconeilaton efforts + Data qualty issues: non-validated data Figure Sipliie Wusravon ofa Typesl Dr aated System Landscape ‘Typically, customers with a large, distributed systern landscape load financial data from their system into various data warehouses. For example, SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW). This 's often the only way to report on the figures of the entire cornpany. In order to load data into the data warehouse, long-running batch jobs need to be regularly ‘scheduled to extract data and transform it. This does not happen in real-time, but rather once a day or week. Asa result, the data that a ‘customer is looking atin the data warehouse is never up to date, OLAP systems, such as data warehouse, need to transform data to be able to flexibly and successfully report on it, This makes itaificult to reconcile with source systems, Furthermore, the data quality is often very poor. In contrast to an ERP system, a data warehouse accepts data without checking whether or not itis correct. Many customers build custom-logic to do similar checks, Ike ERP Financials does when a document gets posted, ust to improve data quality. Temnaweemee 287rsro1g SAP e-book a9