The S/4HANA IMPACT can be categorized into 5 Areas –>
- DATA-MODEL Changes (S4TWL)
- Improved Processess (over existing processess )
- NEW-Innovations e.g. like Machine-Learning, Internet of Things (IoT)
- FIORI Apps – Transactional, Analytical, FactSheets
- New Analytics thru CDS Views
Below listing consists of a few KEY Areas which are impacted/changed in S/4HANA. For full listing, please refer to SAP Product Documentation.
Master Data
- Business-Partner (instead of Customer, Vendor etc)
- Material Master – Material# length, Changes in MM-Views, etc.
Finance
- Currency Types in S/4HANA Finance
- GL Account Changes, Secondary Costs as GL Accounts, Cost-Elements linkage in GL account
- Universal Journal – ACDOCA
- Extension Ledger
- Account Payables
- Account Receivables
- New Credit Management – FSCM Credit-Management
- Inventory Valuation thru Material Ledger
- NEW Asset-Accounting
- Bank – House Bank
- RAR – Revenue Accounting and Reporting
- New Settlement Management
- Finance-Close
- Central-Finance
- Central Reporting
- Central Payment
- Central Taxation (TBD)
Controlling
- Account based CO-PA
- Profit-Center Accounting in S/4HANA linked to Universal-Journal
- Transfer-Pricing
- Planning – ACDOCAP , Classical-Planning, BPC
- Budget Availability Control for Cost Centers (S4HANA 1909)
- Cost-Elements & Secondary-Costs (GL, linkage to GL & Universal-Journal)
Project-System (PS)
- Light ProjectManagement
- New-Tcodes
- PS Tcodes no longer supported in Project-Systems
- Portfolio & Project Management (PPM)
- Commercial Project Management (CPM)
Materials Management (MM)
- MATDOC – Material Document
- Inventory Valuation thru Finance (Material Ledger)
Sales (SD)
- Embedded CRM
- Sales Order Fulfillment
- AATP – Advance Availibility to Promise
- Data-Model Changes
- PRCD_ELEMENTS for Pricing Details, instead of KONV
- Sales-Order Status in respective tables of Sales-Order, Delivery & Billing
PP
- Production-Version Mendatory in S/4HANA
- MRPLIVE
- IBP instead of SOP
For FULL Listing please refer to these USEFUL links
- https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/sic/
- https://help.sap.com/viewer/product/SAP_S4HANA_ON-PREMISE/1909.000/en-US
- SAP What’s NEW Viewer
- https://help.sap.com/doc/474a13c5e9964c849c3a14d6c04339b5/100/en-US/8880de6dbfb94ea3b0de1f26b40816dc.html
- SAP Product Availibility Matrix : http://support.sap.com/pam
- SAP Best Practice : https://rapid.sap.com/bp/
- SAP-Product-Innovations-listing : https://go.support.sap.com/innovationdiscovery/#/innovations?pvnr=73555000100900002474
SAP S/4HANA 1909 – Links
- https://help.sap.com/doc/e2048712f0ab45e791e6d15ba5e20c68/1909.000/en-US/FSD_OP1909.pdf
- https://help.sap.com/doc/0080a18cdc1045638d31c87b839011e7/1909.000/en-US/SIMPL_OP1909.pdf
- https://help.sap.com/doc/b870b6ebcd2e4b5890f16f4b06827064/1909.000/en-US/WN_OP1909_EN.pdf
- https://help.sap.com/viewer/product/SAP_S4HANA_ON-PREMISE/1909.000/en-US
- SAP S/4HANA 1909 Release NOTE https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2769531
- SAP Best Practice for SAP S/4HANA 1909 https://rapid.sap.com/bp/#/browse/categories/sap_s%254hana/areas/on-premise/packageversions/BP_OP_ENTPR
MP's S/4HANA 