WHY ENTERPRISES NEED SAP

Many organizations move from stand‐alone business information systems applications to integrated enterprise‐wide systems, enterprise resource planning (ERP). The implementation of ERP packages has created an opportunity to re‐engineer business processes within and beyond the organizational scope. As the company grows, it gets to the point where the legacy systems are no longer providing the necessary visibility to effectively run their business. Too many different systems are used to manage the various processes, and these systems were not integrated with each other. This led to contradicting data sets, and inaccuracies in inventory, financial statements, as well as controlling and profitability analysis. That’s when SAP S/4 HANA with BI/BO is proposed to the client which addresses their Business needs as well as provided a platform for them to collaborate and perform proactive analysis.

• Finance & Controlling (FI/CO)
  • Organization structure, Acc. Payable & Receivable ,G/L, Chart of Account, BCS(Budget control system), Trial Balance, Balance sheet, Asset Accounting
• Material Management (MM)
  • Procure to Pay cycle W.r.t Project, Inventory Management, Release strategy for PO, PR & Contract, Services, Project based services, Dunning system for PO       Creation, Release, Import, Job work, Quotation comparison
• Production Planning & Quality Management (PPQM)
  • Discrete Manufacturing
  • Project based Scheduling
  • Batch Management
  • Variances in material consumption & Cost
• Sales & Distribution (SD)
  • Customer Master, Pricing, Sales Order Processing
  • Milestone billing, Periodic Billing
• GST (Goods & Services Tax )
  • GST & Withholding Tax, TDS

General Outline of End-to-End implementation of SAP S/4 HANA for an Enterprise : 

• Understanding the client's existing E2E business processes
• Identify the gaps from the business processes
• Map the business processes into SAP modules
• Configuration of business processes in SAP S/4 HANA for each module
• Fit the gaps into WRICEF objects
• Collecting & Validating Master & Transaction data with templates
• Unit Testing
• SIT
• UAT
• Cutover Activity & Data migration
• Go-Live and Support

Migration needs to be strategic and needs to be implemented in a step by step manner. Following are some of the sections that needs to be considered while migration.

Master Data

• Business Partner Approach
• Material Field Length Extension
• Foreign Trade Field in Material Master
• Logistics Batch Masters
• Customer Classification
• MRP Fields in Material Master

Sales & Distribution

• Rebates – Settlement Mgmt
• Credit Management (FIN-FSCM-CR)
• SD Revenue Recognition
• Data Model Changes in Pricing
• SD Complaints Handling

Financial & Controlling

• General Ledger Customization w.r.t. Preparation & Migration
• Add-on Financials Closing Cockpit 2.0
• New Asset Accounting Impact
• New Bank Account Master
• Technical Changes in Material Ledger with Activity Costing
• Version ‘0’ only supported for Activity Based Costing
• Currency & Valuation Profile for CO Area
• Credit Management (FI-AR,CR) replaced by SAP Credit Management (FIN-FSCM-CR)

Purchasing

• Classic MM – PUR Transaction Replacement
• RFQ Simplified Transaction
• Settlement of Vendor Rebates
• Simplified Pricing Data Model

Production Planning

• MRP Live
• Sub-contracting MRP Areas
• Storage Location level MRP deprecated
• Planning Horizon
• Line Balancing and Sequencing in ECC

Logistics

• Inventory Mgmt. Data Model Changes
• Material Ledger Activation Valuation Impact
• Goods Movement without exclusive locking
• New advanced ATP Check – Summarized requirement deprecated.
• Extend of usage of ECC WM and its transition to EWM

Impact on the Data Model

Technology

• No aggregates or redundant data
• No locking of transactions

Capability

• Operations in real time
• Elimination of data reconciliation
• More precision