5. FI-Integration

Whether it is Sales, Procurement, Marketing, Production, Inventory, Warehouse, Asset-Management, HR etc , EVERY line-of-business (LOB) is integrated with underlying Finance Document flow. This page is an attempt to capture Financial and Controlling Integration with various LOB processes.

With SAP S/4HANA, the Integration and touchpoint are further tightely getting integrated, and hence it is important that SAP S/4HANA Consultant should understand the End-to-End flow in Order to Cash (OTC – Sales), Procure to Pay ( PTP – Procurement), Forecast to Stock (FTS – Production, Inventory, Warehouse, etc)

Sales (Order to Cash)

Credit-Management (FSCM Credit Management ) becomes Finance Function in SAP S/4HANA
Revenue Accounting & Reporting (RAR) is aligned with Finance in SAP S/4HANA
“New Settlement” – TBD

SD-FI Account Determination KOFI
Account Determinationn in SD Billing during SD Billing, using Account Determination Procedure , Condition-Tecnique & Access-sequence

SD-FI Integ.Point 2
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Materials Management (Inventory)

In S/4HANA, Materials Management (Inventory) becomes tightly integrated with Finance, as Inventory Valuation is thru Material-Ledger

MM-FI Auto-Account Determination
SPRO –>IMG –>MM–> Valuation & Account Assignment –> Account Determination

Based on Valuation-Class & Movement-type

Inventory Valuation thru Material Ledger
In S/4HANA Inventory Valuation is thru Material Ledger.

(Actual Product Costing is NOT Mendatory – YET)

MM-FI Integ.Point 3
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Procurement (Procure to Pay)

MM-FI Integ.Point 3
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Production (Forecast to Stock)

PP-FI Integ.Point 3
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Other Multi-Stream Touchpoint

FI Integ.Point 3
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The list will keep adding as we continue with SAP S/4HANA exploration journey