S4HC Overview and Roadmap
S4HC Overview and Roadmap
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Predictive Contracts Sales Overview ML GR/IR Cockpit Solution Order Manage Project Staffing
Manage Production Orders Manage Product Compliance Maintenance Cost aATP Release for Delivery SAC embedded
k
Clic
43 Local versions
Areas affected by globalization/localization
27 Languages
• New Markets • Save on Taxes
• Access to Talent • Competitive Advantage
• Foreign Investments • Digital Technologies
• Economy of Scale
Customers adopt
SAP S/4HANA Cloud
globally
Statutory
Payments Master Data Invoicing Languages Validations Taxes Reporting Benefits Time Data
Planned3
Rest of the World
1
As per current planning. Subject to change. Scope focuses on Finance-led ERP for service-centric industries
2
Current S/4HANA Cloud customers using SAP Central Business Configuration (CBC) can participate in early adoption program. See note 3077806 for participation and restrictions
3
With SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2111 rel, current customers using SAP CBC can participate in early adoption program. Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Venezuela and SAP delivered/planned
Local Versions are excluded. Crimea Region/Sevastopol, Cuba, Iran, North Korea and Syria are prohibited.
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Languages for new local versions on roadmap planned to be released with the corresponding Local Versions 11
SAP S/4HANA Cloud Localization Road Map
Available and Planned Local Versions
43 Local Versions delivered Local Versions for customer Local Versions delivered by Local Versions delivered by Local Versions delivered by Local Versions delivered by
by SAP implementation2: SAP for Headquarters4 SAP for Headquarters4 SAP for Headquarters4 SAP for Headquarters4
Colombia, Chile, Qatar Egypt Israel, Bulgaria, Argentina Croatia, Peru, Greece, Serbia,
Rest of World3 Slovenia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan,
Oman, Kuwait
Local Versions for customer Local Versions delivered by Local Versions delivered by Local Versions delivered by
implementation SAP for Subsidiary5 SAP for Subsidiary5 SAP for Subsidiary5
1
: Bulgaria, Croatia Israel6, Argentina Peru, Greece, Serbia, Slovenia,
Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Oman,
Bahamas, Bermuda, Belize, Kuwait
Botswana, British Virgin Languages delivered by SAP
Islands, Curacao, Dominican Bulgarian, Croatian
Republic, Ghana, Kenya, Languages delivered by SAP
Malawi, Mozambique, Serbian, Slovenian, Ukrainian,
Namibia, Nigeria, Tanzania, Kazakh
Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
*
This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time without notice.
1
Current SAP S/4HANA Cloud customers using SAP Central Business Configuration (CBC) can participate in early adoption program. See note 3077806 for participation and restrictions
2
Current SAP S/4HANA Cloud customers using CBC will be able to use CBC Configuration Localization tool (CLT) in early adoption program with SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud release 2111
3
5 local versions (Estonia, Lithuania, Belarus, Latvia, Venezuela) and SAP delivered/planned Local Versions are excluded from release for CLT and specific plans pending. Crimea Region/Sevastopol, Cuba, Iran, North Korea and Syria prohibited
4
Focuses on Finance-led ERP for Service-Centric Industries. It includes mandatory localizations to go-live for a subsidiary in the country/region
5
Focuses on Finance-led ERP for Service-Centric Industries. It includes mandatory localizations to go-live for a Headquarter in the country/region
6
Asset Accounting and Form 6111 are not included
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SAP S/4HANA Cloud Extensibility
Key User Side-by-side
Extensibility Extensibility
• UI field layout, custom forms and Local public CDS, API,
BADI …
templates Integration with SAP BTP services
• Custom analytics via CDS views
• AI business services
• Custom Business Objects
• Custom business logic using Cloud
• Process automation
BADIs remote • Data marts and analytics
SAP S/4HANA public API
Cloud • Data science and intelligence
• IoT and big data
Developer Develop custom code
Extensibility Local public CDS, API,
BADI … • Develop extensions and SaaS
(planned) solutions in ABAP, Java, or Node.js
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EXTENSIBILITY INTEGRATED IN SAP S/4HANA CLOUD SIDE-BY-SIDE EXTENSIBILITY
SAP S/4HANA Cloud: Scope Highlights as of 2202 Delivery
The Most Comprehensive, Integrated, and Intelligent Cloud ERP
Procurement of Direct Sell, deliver, bill, and monitor a Warehouse Outbound & Material Requirements Planning Product Compliance
Materials & Services combination of physical goods Inbound Processing with Demand Driven and/ or Enterprise Portfolio
Supplier Management and services as one solution Core Inventory Management predictive MRP
& Project Mgmt.
offering Make to Stock & Make to
Central Procurement (Advanced) ATP Processing Variant Configuration
Sell from Stock & Sell Services Order
Basic Transportation Mgmt.
Convergent & External Billing Environment, Health and Safety
Accounting & Financial Close After-sales services with Resource scheduling for Master Data, Data Migration, Professional Services
Financial Operations service contracts, service maintenance planner Data Protection & Privacy, Financial Services
deliveries, and billing with Enhanced collaboration and Information Lifecycle
Cost Management cost controlling and revenue Management Media
review
Treasury recognitions Integration & extensibility Public Sector
Combine sales & services as
Enterprise Risk & Compliance Legal Content Management Component Manufacturing
packaged solution offerings
*his is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time without notice.
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Road Map for SAP S/4HANA Cloud
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APPENDIX
Driving business
innovation together
McKinsey 2021
Become an intelligent,
sustainable enterprise in the cloud
Effective E2E business steering , agile and efficient processes including embedded compliance based on a single business foundation
“Our market will be very different in 10 years thanks “We never had this much information before. “From carbon savings for e-vehicles to
to AI, Industry 4.0, and the IoT. SAP S/4HANA What took us hours before now takes us identifying the greenest travel options and
Cloud and corresponding SAP products such as minutes, thanks to SAP S/4HANA Cloud.” tracking the environmental performance of
SAP Integration Suite give us the foundation we Carrier Corporation suppliers, SAP S/4HANA Cloud is helping the
need to harvest these innovations for our Mercedes-EQ Formula E Team reach its
customers.” sustainability goals.”
Komax AG
“50% Reduction in implementation time with Mercedes-EQ Formula E Team
181 standard processes adopted and rolled out in
weeks.”
“The ability to configure the production line for “25,000 paper forms eliminated due to
REHAU Polymer
new products quickly and without manual process digitalization”
intervention means that Smart Press Shop can Macmahon Holdings Limited
manufacture small batches of components much
more efficiently than a traditional production plant.”
Smart Press Shop GmbH & Co. KG
One order for bundled offering, incl. Lifecycle management of subscription Central view on profit
products, services, projects and subscriptions. contract and entitlement margin, following rev. rec.
Comprehensive end to end business processes delivered by preconfigured best-practices and industry-specific scenarios
ML GR/IR Cockpit Predictive Contracts Sales Overview Solution Order SAP Analytics Cloud embedded
Manage Production Orders Manage Product Compliance Maintenance Cost aATP Release for Delivery Manage Project Staffing
ML supported decision support for Purchase SAP Ariba Network integration for confirmation Invoice created after
Requisition approval of POs and collaboration with supplier checking order history in the
SAP Ariba Network
Optimize and simplify recording and Improve cash positions as well as working Analyze suppliers, working
managing accounts payable data from vendors capital and pay invoices efficiently capital or accounts payable
status and outlook
up to 84% up to 12%
reduction in time from improvement in days
invoice entry to release* payable outstanding*
Complex product configuration with MRP run based on forecast (ATO1) Seamless Warehousing
state-of-the art variant configurator and/or based on sales orders (CTO 2) and Transportation
40% 30%
efficiency gain in logistics
Fewer overdue orders through
management
supply chain improvements
Combine end to end best practice processes with Intelligent Technologies to drive bottom line efficiencies
Automate
Intelligent RPA 44% more efficient 14% more
business process teams invoices processed
Multiple bot workflows for execution (attended + unattended)
1
https://www.accenture.com/_acnmedia/PDF-119/Accenture-ERP-Report-2020.pdf (Accenture, 2020)
2
IDC Business Value Solution Brief, sponsored by SAP, The Business Value of SAP Intelligent Enterprise Suite, Doc. #US47205120, Jan. 2021
Order Entry Order Order Monitoring Delivery Billing and Finance and
Processing Payments Revenue
7 Times 42%
increase in order processing capacity of sales orders automated
Streamlining Order-to-Cash Integrating Solutions
processes increases capacity for for a real-time overview of
seasonal sales peaks the entire go-to- market channel
Place sustainability front and center. Embed sustainability insights into end-to-end processes extended throughout your
business network. This will ensure efficiency gains, social responsibility and compliance, while mitigating risk.
Manage assets more efficiently, eliminating a 1.5x more payment transactions managed Reduced administrative burden by Standardizing procurement processes and
daily three-hour manual asset management by the same number of employees applying robotic process automation minimizing human intervention, helping to
process and removing human errors in billing reduce costs and efficiently manage suppliers
Reimagined contact-to-cash Improve production and management Increase the inventory turnover rate by Savings of approximately one million in
process to improve project efficiency and increase the rate of on- 30%, shorten the turnover time from 30 to hardware maintenance costs and a 10%
profitability time completion to more than 95% 20 days, and reduce inventory cost by 10% improvement in IT operations
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Never stop improving
with continuous opportunities to optimize
business processes
• Explore the possibilities in an • Manage implementation and • Integrate solutions for seamless
interactive trial experience operations holistically with Cloud ALM processes beyond SAP S/4HANA Cloud
• Connect to SAP from the very • Automate end user onboarding and • Enrich processes to fit the individual
beginning via SAP for Me enablement for instant productivity needs of your business processes
• Identify the required scope to • Consume innovations through o In-App Extension
run your business best automated upgrade o Side-by-side Extension
• Configure and activate your • Run end-to-end business processes,
• Adapt and extend local requirements
business process empowered by AI
with localization extensibility
Get a first impression of how SAP S/4HANA cloud will optimize your business processes by leveraging the free trial.
Guided Tours
Explore the solution highlights
along expert-curated scenarios.
Comprehensive Scope
Run a broad range of processes
across Finance and Logistics.
Complementary Content
Consume complementary
content linked in the trial.
Manage and optimize your interactions with SAP through the 360-degree customer portal – SAP for Me.
Usage Adoption
Customer
History Support
Portfolio and products
Enablement
Account Content Get a 360-degree view of your products, including road maps and innovations.
Help
Invoices
Functional
Documents Finance and legal
Usage
Additional
Review your SAP orders, licenses, invoices, consumption, and balance statements.
Orders
Information
Knowledge
Legal
Docs
Base
Articles
Knowledge and learning
Licensed SAP
Customer
& SAP
Enhance your product skills and oversee learning journeys and trainings.
Materials Product
Contacts
License
Consumption
Release
Notes Users and contacts
Learning
Systems Access SAP contacts and manage roles in your company with self-service tools.
Journeys
Projects
OpenSAP
Courses Availability Systems and provisioning
Manage your cloud and on‑premise systems, as well as their availability and status.
Learning
Incidents
Videos
Timelines
Provisioning Maintenance and support
Requests
Review support incidents and manage maintenance and support issues.
Leverage a holistic toolset for optimization along your journey to SAP S/4HANA Cloud and prioritize the tools according
to your individual requirements.
Continuous innovation
Optimization
Discovery Accelerated core Fit-to-standard Fine tune Migrate, Monitor KPI
and sustainable
assessment implementation analysis and extend integrate, test performance
innovation
Digital discovery Rapid best practice Central business Business process Continuous Feature
Data migration cockpit
assessment adoption configuration intelligence Delivery
The Digital Discovery Assessment allows the initial identification of process optimization opportunities to
accelerate the customer journey to an intelligent, sustainable enterprise and to continuous innovation.
Accelerate implementation and improve business process execution by analyzing issues on process, integration,
user and application level.
Ensure a smooth and streamlined on-boarding and continuous enablement of users directly in the application.
Instant:
whenever a user needs it.
Context-sensitive:
exactly what is needed.
Seamless:
within the target application.
Productivity:
interactive user guidance.
Systems “continuously upgraded” and always on latest and greatest, eliminating major upgrade projects allowing
fast and cost effective adoption of new innovations.
Systems “continuously upgraded” and always on latest and greatest, eliminating major upgrade projects allowing
fast and cost effective adoption of new innovations.
Release Release Release Release
*This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time without notice.
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Secure your success
with a trusted partner for your business needs,
at every step of the way
421
Extensibility
500+
Open
Adaptable
Configuration Out-of-the-box
UI personalization integration for extended
business processes
On any devices Configuration Options Modular extensibility Available APIs
Innovation Trusted
250+
Partner
18.300+
Innovative Established
18 675
Compliance Processes
Reliable Scalable
43 33%
Ownership
Available Efficient
Let SAP, The World’s Largest Provider of Enterprise Application Software run your mission-critical operations
at global scale.
SAP has been named as a Leader for SAP S/4HANA Cloud, in the following analyst reports:
SAP is a Leader in The Forrester SAP is a Leader in the 2020 IDC SAP S/4HANA Cloud is a Leader in SAP recognized as Customers’
Wave™: Digital Operations Market Scape for worldwide SaaS the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant™ Choice in the December 2020
Platforms For Manufacturing and cloud-enabled large enterprise for Cloud Core Financial Gartner Peer Insights ‘Voice of the
Businesses, Q3 2020. ERP applications.1 Management Suites for Midsize, Customer’: Cloud ERP for
Large and Global Enterprises Product-Centric Enterprises.
1
IDC MarketScape: Worldwide SaaS and Cloud-Enabled Large Enterprise ERP Applications 2020 Vendor Assessment, Doc. #US45971820e July 2020
Magic Quadrant for Cloud Core Financial Management Suites for Midsize, Large and Global Enterprises, John Van Decker | Greg Leiter | Robert Anderson, 10 May 2021.
Gartner Peer Insights ‘Voice of the Customer’: Cloud ERP for Product-Centric Enterprises.
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Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
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Secure Your Success
Run your mission-critical operations at global scale
More flexibility to operate globally than ever before with a holistic approach towards localization.
New
with approa
CBC ch
CLT 2
Common Approach
Configuration and project experience operated via Central Business Configuration (CBC)
Generic and localization focused extensibility capabilities in S/4HANA Cloud
1
Refer to roadmap for specific timelines, subject to change
2
As per current planning(subject to change), to be available with S/4HANA Cloud 2208 rel, with 3-system landscape environment.
3
Belarus, Venezuela, embargo countries (Crimea Region/Sevastopol, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria) and SAP delivered/planned Local Versions are excluded.
4
As per current planning(subject to change), S/4HANA Cloud 2208 rel will support content creation as outlined in scope list and SAP plans to expand the scope in subsequent releases. .
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SAP S/4HANA Cloud
“CIOs say almost unanimously “52% of all CIOs are facing security “SAP S/4HANA Cloud gives us a
that privacy is their top data requirements and compliance digital foundation with the agility,
priority, followed by constraints as a top challenge in availability, and security we
cybersecurity and data infrastructure modernizations”3 need.”
ethics.”1 Edward Alarcon Ninapaytan, CIO, Hochschild2 Mining PLC
1
https://www.bcg.com/publications/2019/seven-forces-reshaping-enterprise-software.aspx (Boston Consulting Group (BCG), 2019)
2
https://www.sap.com/documents/2019/12/20f36941-787d-0010-87a3-c30de2ffd8ff.html
3
https://www.bcg.com/publications/2019/seven-forces-reshaping-enterprise-software.aspx (Boston Consulting Group, 2019)
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SAP S/4HANA Cloud
Agile, modular architecture providing… … solutions for business agility and regulatory compliance
“RPC began by building our digital financial core in “Cloud computing standards should not be designed
SAP S/4HANA Cloud. [...] The solution facilitates our as one-size-fits-all but rather as a tiered approach,
vertically aligned business to grow globally and where global, regional, and local templates,
innovate over time. The real-time insights will enable software code, and algorithms can be applied
our teams to be agile in decision-making.” based on country-specific regulations.”1
Alexandra Thorogood, ERP Program Manager, RPC Technologies
• Integrate out-of-the box into complementary SAP • Adapt the system to custom needs instantly by
solutions to cover business processes end-to-end adding custom elements to existing apps
• Connect to business partners by seamlessly joining • Customize processes by developing and
SAPs Business Network via out-of-the box integration implementing custom logic in-stack
• Specialize with the growing portfolio of SAP and • Consume platform services and custom
partner-developed Industry Cloud Solutions extensions from SAP BTP to keep the core clean
Support end-to-end business processes by integrating into SAP solutions, partner and/or 3rd-party solutions.
LEAD TO CASH
DESIGN TO OPERATE
DESIGN TO OPERATE
SOURCE TO PAY
SOURCE TO PAY
RECRUIT TO RETIRE
RECRUIT TO RETIRE
SAP S/4HANA Cloud supports critical business processes with SAP S/4HANA Cloud defines through SOAP or ODATA
predefined integrations for cloud and on-premise systems. Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).
Scope items with predefined integration content are available A full list of SAP S/4HANA Cloud APIs is available on
on SAP Best Practices Explorer. SAP API Business Hub .
Comprehensive extensibility capabilities to allow cloud lifecycle compliant innovation and differentiation whilst
retaining the benefits of a clean digital core.
SAP Activate provides a clear guided methodology to deploy, adopt and extend new capabilities across your
organization. Start fast, build smart, and run simple, while continuously innovating.
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