Unit 7: Central Business Configuration for

SAP S/4HANA Cloud

Central Business Configuration for SAP S/4HANA Cloud
Growing number of cloud installations and products

Central teams managing cloud installations and

implementations for:
▪ Different countries
▪ Different subsidiaries
▪ Different cloud solutions from SAP

High complexity:
▪ Manage company rollouts
▪ Manage implementation projects with different complexity
▪ Implement end-to-end business processes across cloud solutions from SAP
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Benefits of central business configuration

Central business configuration provides one central

place to:
▪ View and decide on cloud business processes
▪ Manage all of SAP’s cloud implementations
▪ Configure and deploy end-to-end business processes
▪ Manage company rollouts via templates
▪ Manage parallel implementation projects

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Target picture: central business configuration for the Intelligent Enterprise Suite

Allow a seamless implementation of end-to-end business processes across the Intelligent Enterprise Suite.

Central Business
Configuration

SAP Cloud
Platform apps

SAP S/4HANA
1 Cloud

SAP Concur
SAP Ariba

SAP SuccessFactors
…

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Target picture: central business configuration highlights – Part 1

Central Configuration of Business Processes Across the Intelligent Enterprise Suite

▪ SAP S/4HANA Cloud first; further Intelligent Enterprise Suite (IES) scenarios and SAP Cloud Platform apps
will follow
▪ Central configuration values (for example, organizational structure) are stored and maintained centrally only
once
Fast Company Rollouts
▪ Deployment of configuration into different cloud tenants will support an implementation approach based on
templates
▪ Parallel implementation projects are possible
Reduced Configuration Efforts
▪ Customer situation allows pre-scoping (for example, via processes, roles, industries, functional capabilities)
▪ Fine-granular scoping allows a higher grade of pre-configuration, reducing the need for self-service
configuration UIs

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Target picture: central business configuration highlights – Part 2

Partner Extensions
▪ One-off localization for low-complexity country localization in the customer workspace
▪ Partner extensions to the business adaptation catalog (BAC)
Proactive Customer Support
▪ System and configuration project status monitoring allows active support using
conversational UI and chatbot functionality
Shopping Experience Supporting the Right Product Decision
▪ Business scoping leads to a recommendation for a suitable SAP solution,
taking company size, industry, and scope into account

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Key components of central business configuration Central Business
Configuration

SAP S/4HANA
1 Cloud
Central business configuration is one central place to…

▪ Manage all cloud ▪ View and decide on ▪ Configure integrated ▪ Manage parallel
implementations SAP’s cloud portfolio end-to-end business implementation projects
processes ▪ Manage company
rollouts via templates

Project Scoping Configuration New Architecture (such as

Experience Experience Experience the workspace concept)

… in a customer-friendly way with a proactive support model.

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Project experience

The project experience allows you to

manage all your SAP cloud
implementations centrally.

Key features of the project experience

are:
▪ Project team management
▪ System-related project activity
management
▪ Access to scoping and configuration
experience
▪ Central access to SAP’s cloud installations
(SAP S/4HANA Cloud first)
▪ System status overview (SAP S/4HANA
Cloud first)
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Scoping experience

The scoping experience allows you to

scope your SAP cloud implementations
centrally.

Key features of the scoping experience are:

▪ Scoping of SAP S/4HANA Cloud first, including
the selection of non-standard scope
▪ Multi-country scoping

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Central configuration experience

The central configuration experience

enables a central definition of
business scenarios for the Intelligent
Enterprise Suite.

Key features in the central

configuration experience are:
▪ Central access to configuration options
▪ Status handling
▪ Implementation-phase-dependent
configuration activities

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Further learning opportunity – openSAP

You want to learn more about central business configuration?

Then visit the openSAP course about central business configuration:

Implementing SAP S/4HANA Cloud with the Central Business Configuration Capability

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