SAP ERP ESSENTIAL

TRAINING
A PROFESSIONAL’S GUIDE TO DELIVERING
BUSINESS VALUE USING SAP ERP
SAP ERP
Enterprise Resource Planning

SAP ERP helps large businesses streamline their

processes and support each segment of their
business, from sales to financial accounting.

To get the most out of SAP S/4 HANA, you'll want to

know what these new features are, how to use
them, and when to use them.
 GEORGE BOYLE

Hi everyone
I am George, a Information technology
professional service executive with 12+ years of
SAP expertise in leading service delivery
operation, managing business transformation
programs, transition, process
optimization/automation, driving continuous
improvement and competency build
programs.
WHAT YOU SHOULD
KNOW BEFORE
TAKING THE COURSE
You don't need to be a pro at SAP at all, but I'll be assuming
that you know how to work with different modules, and also
know how to work with transaction codes to do some basic
operations

SAP S/4 HANA ESSENTIAL TRAINING

BASIS FUNDAMENTALS

You don't need to be a pro at SAP at all, but I'll be assuming

that you know how to work with different modules, and also
know how to work with transaction codes to do some basic
operations

SAP S/4 HANA ESSENTIAL TRAINING

KEY ASPECTS OF SAP BUSINESS SUITE
(SAP ERP 2004-2015)
TO HELP YOU BETTER UNDERSTAND THE BUSINESS,
WE MODEL A COMPANY CALLED ORGANGE
KEY ASPECTS OF SAP SAP S/4 HANA
(2015 - NOW)
 BENEFIT
Reasons for and against
implementing SAP

Eliminate information silos SAP automates core Prioritize security and

and standardizes data processes compliance

SAP S/4 HANA ESSENTIALS

 LIMITATION
Reasons for and against
implementing SAP

High acquisition and Unexpected multi-year Steep learning curve for

implementation costs implementations end users

SAP S/4 HANA ESSENTIALS

IMPLEMENTATION APPROACHES

GREENFIELD RE- STRAIGHT CONTRACT FEDERATE PLATFORM PAIN-POINTS

IMPLEMENT MIGRATION TO CORE FIRST FIRST
"I don't have "I have SAP "I've tired to stay "I want to have "I think a new "I'm going to "I want to use
SAP today. I today. I don't close to less in-the-box deployment first convert to SAP HANA
might as well want to drag 20 standard over when I get to model makes the SAP HANA technology to
implement the years of best the years. I SAP S/4 HANA. sense. I'd like to database and address very
newest practices into should be able I'd like a new isolate major maybe use the specific pain
technology future. We'll stay to upgrade and model that processes and new HCP points, and I can
platform." inside-the-box migrate my includes cloud move them at technology as use that
this time." data pretty applications." different my first strp." success to build
easily." timings." support."

SAP S/4 HANA ESSENTIALS

KEY QUESTIONS TO
IMPLEMENTING SAP S/4
VALUE DRIVER BUSINESS RISK OPTIONS REMEDIATION COMPLIANCE

DEVELOP A ROADMAP FOR YOU

1. No standard roadmap for all clients

2. It depends on your specific tolerance to risk, investment, pain points.
3. The roadmap should be more than technical changes
4. It's critical to understand the compliance issue
KEY DRIVERS IN THE BUSINESS CASE
COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS
SAP S/4 HANA - BUSINESS USE CASE

10% 95%
improvement in sales order accuracy faster material requirments planning

20% 50%
Reduction in defects per unit Faster information access

SAP S/4 HANA ESSENTIALS

 SAP FIORI
a role-based, consumer-grade user
experience across all lines of
business, tasks, and devices

Free for all SAP customers Run on various devices Over 10,000 apps

SAP FIORI
SAP FIORI
App types
Transactional app
Analytical app
Fact sheet
Technical Functional
module module
Technical modules Functional modules
deal with SAP support transactions,
infrastructure, work these align with
done in technical business practices
modules will make
sure the system runs
correctly.
INDUSTRY
SOLUTION
SAP ENTERPRISE
MANAGEMENT

Digital core
To remove the complex
system redundancy
and overlaps, the new
modules in S/4 HANA
are more business
oriented instead of
technical oriented

SOURCE: SAP.COM
SAP ENTERPRISE
MANAGEMENT
S/4 HANA Enterprise
Management Suites
does encompass the
traditional logistics
modules of SAP mostly
SD, MM, and PP, but
it's transitioning them
and it's moving them
into more business
scenarios.

SOURCE: SAP.COM
SALES AND DISTRIBUTION
THE OVERALL PROCESS
PRESALES
Quotations
SALES
Sales order
 SHIPPING
Delivering document
 BILLING
Billing document
SAP Materials Management (MM)
SAP Production Planning
SAP Production Planning
S/4 HANA PROCUREMENT

Effiencient UI
increased efficiency in the procure-to-pay New fiori apps for procurement module

consumer grade transparent

consumer grade user experience for self supplier transparency and performance
service requisitioning monitoring based on KPIs
SAP ARIBA
overview
SAP Ariba is a cloud-based
innovative solution that allows
suppliers and buyers to connect
and do business on a single
platform

SCRS | BRAND GUIDELINES

S/4 HANA INVENTORY

Real time Efficient

real time processing of inventory posting Timely and detailed inventory posting leads
and values to higher accuracy

Principle of one Simple

Only one material valuation method Simplified data model
INVENTORY MANAGEMENT WITH
THE CLASSICAL DATABASE
STRUCTURE
SAP ERP Central Component up to SAP ECC 6.0
made use of the material management
inventory functionality to store all such
document data in two unique tables namely
the MKPF and MSEG.

INNOVATIONS IN INVENTORY
MANAGEMENT WITH THE SAP
S/4HANA
Separation of the MKPF information and MSEG
information in different tables has been done
away with in SAP S/4HANA as the
new data model uses the advantage of in-
memory columnar storage.
MATERIAL REQUIREMENT PLANNING

Prioritized Real time

Real time alerts based on current stock
Prioritized view on material flow issues
requirement

Frequently 10x faster

MRP can run as frequently as required MRP can run 10x faster
MRP INNOVATIONS

Typical KPIs

Inventory Turnover
Days on hand
Cycle time
Material Stock-out
situation
AVAILABLE TO PROMISE

Key innovations
1. advanced availability to
promise
2. integrated quality
management
3. embedded extended
warehouse management
4. efficient procurement
 BACKORDER PROCESSING CONFIRMATION

source: sap.com
Sales Order Management BENEFITS
and Processing

Integrate order management and processing, Increase sales by reducing days sales
from quote to shipment and from billing to outstanding and boosting overall sales
booking revenue effectiveness

Capture sales data from multiple channels Enhance sales productivity with a
         streamlined, redefined order management
Provide role-based access to information process

Improve customer retention through a better

flow of information on order status and
tracking
FOR SALES ORDER MANAGEMENT
AND PROCESSING FUNCTIONALITY SAP HYBRIS
Enhanced query
performance by reducing select statements
and by simplifying joins for headers
and items, such as status and business data
      
Smaller memory
footprint by streamlining document flow,
eliminating index tables, and requiring fewer
aggregates

SAP Fiori–based
user experience across all process steps
S/4 FINANCE
Overview
Recognize the scope and
function of financial
accounting module
Identify the sub-modules
Understand the organization
structure
Learn the integration of
financial accounting module
with the other modules
CORE FINANCE CAPABILITIES
Overview
 INTEGRATED FINANCIAL MODULES
real time data exchange

Inbound logistics Financial accounting Outbound logistics HANA database

(Materials management) (FICO) (Sales and Distribution)
Real time update
Purchase order General ledger Sales order between modules, which
Goods receipt Accounts Payable Delivery means no duplication no
Invoice receipt Accounts Receivable Invoice batch processing
Asset Accounting
Cost and Profibility
ORGANIZATION STRUCTURE
It is linked to every master data element and every
transaction in the system. It also helps drive operational and
business processes
 FINANCIAL ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE

All other SAP modules will make reference

to the financial organizational structure

It represents the structure The organizational Defining the

of the enterprise in SAP elements are arranged to organizational structure is
structure the corporation a core foundation step
into its component parts
FINANCIAL ORGANIZATIONAL ELEMENTS

Guide to correct icon usage

Financial accounting (FI) CONTROLLING (CO)

External requirements Internal requirements

General ledger Cost & profit analysis
Profit center/segment Profit analysis
Accounts payable Cost center accounting
Accounts receivable Product cost controlling
Asset accounting Project system
GENERAL LEDGER
Posting journal entries
Financial close operations
Account balance and line items reporting
ACCOUNTS PAYABLE
Manage and record financial transactions for supplier process
Subledger detail linked to the G/L via a reconciliation a/c
Ensure G/L + AP subledger are automatically in sync
ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE
Manage and record financial transactions for customer process
Subledger detail linked to the G/L via a reconciliation a/c
Ensure G/L + AP subledger are automatically in sync
ASSETS ACCOUNTING
Manage and record financial transactions for fixed assets
Subledger detail linked to the G/L via a reconciliation a/c
Ensure G/L + AP subledger are automatically in sync
FINANCIAL SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
Credit, collection and dispute management
In house cash and bank communications management
Treasury, liquidity planning and forecast

SOURCE: SAP.COM
 WHAT IS NEW
S/4 HANA FINANCE

Universal Journal Central Finance New Financial Closing

Capabilities

AI Automation SAP Cloud Platform User Experience

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Source: www.sap.com
SAP ANALYTICS

strategic analytics

cloud and on-premise

deployment

digital boardroom
HIGH LEVEL ARCHITECTURE
S/4 HANA Embedded Analytics
VIRTUAL DATA MODEL
Embedded Analytics
VIRTUAL DATA MODEL
Embedded Analytics

source: sap.com
CORE DATA SERVICES VIEW
Embedded Analytics

source: sap.com
SAP ANALYTICS SOLUTION

source: sap.com
SAP BI FRONT-END TOOLS

WEB ANALYSIS CRYSTAL LUMIRA SAP ANALYTICS

INTELLIGENCE EDITION REPORTS CLOUD
TEXT PROCESSING WITH SAP S/4 HANA

Text search
Text analysis
Text mining
SPATIAL ANALYSIS WITH SAP S/4 HANA

Use case

Live Traffic
Sport In-game
football analysis
Plant maintenance

source: sap.com
GRAPH PROCESSING WITH SAP S/4 HANA

A graph is basically a
network of vertices or
nodes interconnected by
edges. Vertices represent
entities of interest in a
specific domain and
edges represent their
relationships

source: sap.com
GRAPH PROCESSING WITH SAP S/4 HANA

E1: Lives in E1: Follows

V2: Mary V1: New York V2: Mary V1: Peter

source: sap.com
EMBEDDED ANALYTICS
SAP S/4 HANA

source: sap.com
HANA DISASTER RECOVERY

Backup storage
transaction redo log
savepoint

Storage replication
a backup of file system to a remote
and networked storage system

System replication
a secondary standby system is
configured as an exact copy of the
primary system
HOW TO SIZE HANA DATABASE

MEMORY CPU DISK SIZE

No memory over- Processing time Cost factor: data
commitment, Calculate in SAPS volume, retention
consider all operating (www.sap.com/bench period, disk IO, and
system and database mark) backup
requirements 1:1, vCPU:pCore

SCRS | BRAN GUIDELINES

SAP HANA IS AN IN-MEMORY, COLUMN-ORIENTED,
RELATIONAL DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

HANA database HANA studio

HANA appliance HANA appliance cloud

SAP HANA leverage  SAP HANA support
Low cost main memory or OLTP - Online transaction
RAM processing system
Multi-core processors OLAP - Online analytical
Solid state drives processing system
SAP HANA is 100% ACID compliant
SAP IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS
 SAP ACTIVATE

BUSINESS VALUE
Reduce time to value
Reduce TCO
SAP ACTIVATE FRAMEWORK
 SAP ACTIVATE BUILDING BLOCKS

Best Practices Tools Methodology

S/4 HANA reference content Guided configuration Agile project
Migration content Expert configuration
Integration content Integration with Solution Manager
3 TRANSITION SCENARIOS

source: sap.com
BEST PRACTICE FOR NEW IMPLEMENTATION

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BEST PRACTICE FOR SYSTEM CONVERSION

source: sap.com
BEST PRACTICE FOR LANDSCAPE TRANSFORMATION

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SAP S/4 HANA CLOUD

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