SAP S/4HANA COOKBOOK

The SAP S/4HANA Cookbook covers the most important aspects of implementing SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA (SAP S/4HANA). It consists of a small set of HTML landing pages that provide abstracts for specific topics, along with links to further deep-dive information. The content on these pages follows an iterative approach and will be updated regularly.

Table of Contents

1. What is SAP S/4HANA (this page)

• Overview
• What is available now ?
• Functional Capabilities
• Transition Options
• Extensibility & Adaptations
• Education & Service Offerings by SAP
  

2. SAP Simple Finance, On-Premise Edition 1503: Implementation Information

• This is the current on-premise version of SAP S/4HANA, therefore there's a separate page to dive into details

3. Transition to SAP S/4HANA: Know your options in detail

• Planned for Q4/2015 (see 'What is SAP S/4HANA > Transition Options' for currently available overview)
  
  

Note: For access to SAP Notes and roadmap information, an 'S-user' is required (see here).

SAP S/4HANA: Overview

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Getting Started with SAP S/4HANA SAP S/4HANA,the next generation business suite designed to help you run simple in the digital economy. This new suite is built on our advanced in-memory platform, SAP HANA, and offers a personalized user experience with SAP Fiori. Deployable in the cloud or on-premise, SAP S/4HANA is built to drive instant value across lines of business and industries with the ultimate in sophistication: simplicity.		Overview Presentation Product Roadmap > Product road maps > Cross Topics > SAP S/4HANA ('S-User' is required) Frequently Asked Questions

SAP S/4HANA: What is available now ?

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SAP Simple Finance, On-Premise Edition 1503: The current on-premise edition in detail 'SAP Simple Finance, on-premise edition' marks the first step in the SAP S/4HANA on-premise roadmap for customers. The current version was released in March 2015 (15=year, 03=month). Since this release is at high demand in our customer base, we offer a separate page with detailed implementation information around it. You will find a substantial list of assets on the 'Read on' page on the right.		SAP Simple Finance, On-Premise Edition 1503: Implementation Information
Try it out for yourself: There is a 30-day trial hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS) that lets you create a dedicated on-premise instance of SAP Simple Finance 1503 and explore the trial system with administrator rights. The SAP license is waived for this period, AWS hosting fees apply.		On-Premise Edition: SAP S/4HANA 30-day trial
SAP S/4HANA, Cloud Edition 1506 The current cloud editions in detail The current cloud edition of S/4HANA was released in June 2015 (15=year, 06=month) and comprises three different sub-editions: SAP S/4HANA, cloud marketing edition SAP S/4HANA, cloud project services edition SAP S/4HANA, cloud enterprise edition 1 & 2 focus on line-of-business scenarios (marketing, professional services), 3 offers a more generic ERP scope with enterprise-wide scenarios. All cloud editions are hosted by SAP.		Scope overview (blog): SAP S/4HANA, cloud edition 1506 Scope details (Help Portal):SAP S/4HANA, cloud edition 1506
Try it out for yourself: In the free trial of SAP S/4HANA, cloud edition 1506, you can experience SAP S/4HANA in a guided tour at your own pace. It covers both line-of-business and generic enterprise scenarios.		Cloud Edition: SAP S/4HANA Free Trial

SAP S/4HANA: Functional capabilities in detail

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Simple Finance Capabilities SAP Simple Finance, on-premise edition comprises SAP Accounting powered by SAP HANA and SAP Cash Management powered by SAP HANA. In addition, it brings necessary technical components for SAP Integrated Business Planning for Finance and SAP Central Finance. There is a separate page in this cookbook that shows the details of SAP Simple Finance.		SAP Simple Finance, On-Premise Edition 1503: Implementation Information
Simple Logistics Capabilities As part of the planned SAP S/4HANA 1511 delivery, Simple Logistics aims at providing the following key innovations and business scenarios: Material Requirements Planning: Fast MRP run, and new working model for MRP controllers based on decision support. Inventory Management: Simplified data model  resulting in increased through-put, flexible analytics at the most granular level Material Valuation: Elimination of locking, increased throughput for standard price utilizing Material Ledger, that way customers can use multi-currencies, valuation methods per different accounting laws like GAAP. Available-To-Promise & Back order processing: New ATP Algorithm based on HANA embedded in mass component check in production Capacity Planning: PP/DS side-by-side with SAP S/4HANA Order Management & Billing: end-2-end monitoring & exception handlung for order-to-cash process; data model simplification; support for the most recent versions of FSCM Credit Management, GTS Foreign Trade, SFIN Revenue Accounting; new analytical capabilities Procurement: Increased efficiency in the Procure-to-Pay processes, new Analytical Apps & Spend KPI’s, Ariba Network Integration for PO Order and IV.		Details coming soon
Further functional areas: SAP PLM, SAP HR, SAP CRM Finance and logistics are the first major areas that are addressed within SAP S/4HANA. Other functional areas will move into S/4HANA going forward or can be closely integrated with SAP S/4HANA.Since this is an ongoing roadmap discussion, please be sure to watch our materials for updates. The linked blog  gives an overview and further information on roadmap and strategy for further functional areas.		SAP S/4HANA and solutions of the SAP Suite: strategy and roadmap

Note wrt. naming: Final product names for both Simple Finance (sometimes abbreviated as sFIN) and Simple Logistics (sLOG) to be determined.

SAP S/4HANA: Transition Options

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Your transition options in a nutshell SAP S/4HANA can be deployed on-premise or in the cloud, offering customers a choice what fits best for them. Besides the decision what target infrastructure fits best, also the starting point of a project may vary. There are basically three different implementation scenarios how a customer can move to SAP S/4HANA (you might even find combinations of those within the same customer): System Conversion : Existing SAP customers who want to move a complete SAP Business Suite system to SAP S/4HANA Landscape Transformation: Existing SAP customers who want to optimize their system landscape and move to SAP S/4HANA New Implementation: Customers who want to move from non-SAP legacy systems to SAP S/4HANA (new and existing SAP customers) The linked documents explain the possible roads to SAP S/4HANA along typical customer scenarios, and give an overview how to technically deploy SAP S/4HANA and move data into the new infrastructure. The blog focuses on the on-premise edition of SAP S/4HANA for existing customers (i.e. 1. in the list above). The white paper takes a more comprehensive look on all three scenarios above for both on-premise and cloud deployments.		White Paper: The Road to SAP S/4HANA Blog: The road to SAP S/4HANA on-premise edition for existing customers

SAP S/4HANA: Extensibility, Adaptation, Integration

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Extending SAP S/4HANA (side-by-side or in-app) Extensibility covers a broad spectrum of topics that allows customers and partners to adapt standard business software to their business needs. It ranges from business configuration; layout adaptation of user interface (UI), forms, and reports; custom fields and logic; integration; and custom terminology and translation to customer-specific applications. Extensibility in the SAP® S/4HANA suite can be categorized into two main parts: side-by-side extensibility through SAP HANA® Cloud Platform, and in-app extensibility through built-in capabilities.		Overview blog about extending SAP S/4HANA White Paper: Extensibility for Customers and Partners
Custom Code Assessment and Adaptation As an existing SAP customer, you may have developed ABAP custom code in your source system. When converting your system to SAP S/4HANA, you need to assess and possibly adapt this custom code. This activity is mainly valid for on-premise transitions, since custom code can not be carried over that way into a cloud infrastructure. Many of the steps for custom code assessment and adaptation are similar compared to moving to SAP HANA in general. Specific steps for SAP S/4HANA will be detailed out as SAP S/4HANA evolves.		Converting an existing SAP system to SAP S/4HANA: What you need to consider for your custom code
Hybrid scenarios and SaaS integration capabilities Both the on-premise and cloud editions of SAP S/4HANA offer integration capabilities with other cloud-based SaaS products. This can be SAP solutions such as Ariba, SuccessFactors, Fieldglass, Concur, Hybris, SAP Cloud for Costumer, SAP Financial Services Network, or other third-party solutions depending on the detailed interfaces to those. The read-on document explains the general concepts of SaaS integration within SAP S/4HANA (e.g. the role of HANA Cloud Integration or SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration), further solution-specific integration information is planned to be published in a future version of the cookbook.		Integration Capabilities of SAP S/4HANA to SAP Cloud Solutions - what you need to know when it comes to S/4HANA integration

Education & Service Offerings by SAP

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SAP Education Offerings
There are a number of SAP education service offerings for SAP S/4HANA: openSAP is SAP’s learning platform for Enterprise MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses). Register for free and get access to learning materials about SAP S/4HANA and other SAP software.		openSAP course: SAP S/4HANA in a Nutshell openSAP course: SAP S/4HANA - Deep Dive
SAP Learning Hub provides immediate, cloud-based access to a vast selection of SAP learning content – and to our interactive learning rooms (subscription fee applies)		SAP Learning Hub Search for S/4HANA
Classroom trainings for SAP S/4HANA from SAP Education (training fee applies)		SAP S/4HANA Training & Certification Curriculum
SAP Service Offerings
Service offerings for SAP S/4HANA are evolving along the shipment cadence of the product. The blog gives you a first glimpse what services you can expect when walking on the path to SAP S/4HANA.		Blog: SAP S/4HANA Service & Support Offerings

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