Table of Content

Product Overview .........................................................................................................2

Key Benefits .................................................................................................................2
In-memory Computing .................................................................................................2
Pricing and Packaging..................................................................................................3
Security and Compliance .............................................................................................4
Business Services ........................................................................................................4
Key Capabilities ...........................................................................................................4
Other Lines of Business ...............................................................................................8
Additional Features .....................................................................................................9
SAP Software Accessibility ......................................................................................... 10
Basic License Types....................................................................................................10
Product Overview

S/4HANA is an intelligent ERP solution that enables companies to capture every

opportunity in today’s digital world. It removes common obstacles associated with legacy
ERP applications, such as batch latency, complex landscapes, and manually-driven
processes.

 Award-winning user experience

 Artificial intelligence capabilities
 Next-generation processes
 Cloud, on premise, or hybrid deployment

Key Benefits

User experience for the Digital Age: Provide an award-winning user experience across the
entire organization, including a context-aware, business-savvy digital assistant.

Automate Tasks: Add automation to key functions and signal users when input is required
with intelligent functionality and learning capabilities.

Run Next-Generation Processes: Unlock new business value with the latest innovations so
your employees can make better decisions, faster.

In-memory Computing

SAP S/4HANA is built to take advantage of SAP’s industry-leading in-memory computing

platform, SAP HANA. The result is incredible flexibility and speed through a dramatically
simplified data model.
Digital Your Finance Processes: Understand financial performance in real time, so you can
optimize finance processes – from planning and analysis to period end close and treasury
management.

Take control of Supply Chain: Increase visibility and agility across your digital supply chain
by leveraging machine learning for logistics, manufacturing, and asset management.

Procurement Needs: Use intelligent applications with machine learning to improve supplier
management, streamline purchasing, and deploy collaborative sourcing and contract
management.

Manage Product Lifecycles more effectively: Develop a fully-aligned product portfolio that
allows you to manage lifecycles, control production costs, and deploy resources effectively
from across your organization and beyond.

Material Management provides a way to manage materials in an organization’s integrated

supply chain. One of the largest components in SAP MMs functions includes Procurement
Process, Master Data (Material and Vendor Master), Inventory Management, Material
Requirements Planning, and Invoice Verification.

Achieve insights across business: Get a complete picture of operations and use customer
insights to help marketing, sales, and service team’s work more productively, grow
revenue, and accelerate opportunities.

Plant Maintenance is a software product that manages all maintenance activities in an

organization. Plan Maintenance module consists of key activities like corrective, preventive
and breakdown maintenance include inspection, calibration and other measures through
notification and order processing to maintain an ideal technical system

Develop Industry-specific functionality: Meet the specific needs of your individual

organization by customizing your core system without the typical challenges of integration
and custom coding.

Pricing and Packaging

Configure SAP S/4HANA to meet your individual business needs with capabilities for every
line of business as well as industry-specific functionality. With on premise and private
cloud environments, you can deploy a solution that suits the requirements of your
organization.
Security and Compliance

Data Protection: The European Union’s GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation, now
requires organizations that control and/or process personal data to take extra safety
measures. SAP S/4HANA can help you comply in time.

Network and Communication Security: SAP S/4HANA supports necessary communications

across your enterprise without allowing unauthorized access. A well-defined network
topology eliminates many security threats.

User Administration and Provisioning: SAP S/4HANA relies on the user management and
authentication mechanisms provided within the SAP NetWeaver platform and the SAP
HANA platform.

Business Services
Accelerate Innovation: Take advantage of proven innovation management methodology and
services, quickly deploy the latest digital business technologies, and keep your company at
the cutting edge with our business transformation services.

Ensure Implementation Success: Accelerate your deployment of SAP S/4HANA while

minimizing risk. Our SAP Value Assurance service packages combine best practices, tools,
methodologies, and solution expertise to accelerate time-to-value.

Benefits from continuous support: Get proactive, remote support for your SAP
S/4HANA implementation from day one. SAP Enterprise Support services cover the entire
solution lifecycle, whether your deployment is on premise, in the cloud, or a hybrid
scenario.

Key Capabilities

Finance:
ENHANCE FINANCIAL PLANNING AND ANALYSIS
Accelerate planning cycles, increase profitability, and make finance functions more
efficient. You can also run on-the-fly financial analysis at any level of granularity and
support ad hoc simulations of organizational changes or new business models directly
within your ERP system.

SIMPLIFY ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL CLOSE PROCESSES

Combine financial and management accounting and profitability data into a single
universal journal, for a single source of truth. You can close the books in real time,
improve compliance and control, and reduce closing effort, while running drilling down on
reports by any dimension.
IMPROVE TREASURY AND FINANCIAL RISK PROCESSES
Integrate cash flows, transactions, commodity positions, and market data, and accurately
forecast cash flow, manage liquidity, and mitigate risk. In addition, full-view and real-time
analysis, audit trails, and compliance reporting help you optimize straight-through
processing.

SUPPORT COLLABORATIVE FINANCE OPERATIONS

Automate receivables and payables processing and streamline shared services delivery.
You can improve working capital and financial health with real-time data to assess
customer credit risk, streamline billing, resolve disputes, and prioritize customer
collections to reduce days sales outstanding

MANAGE ENTERPRISE RISK AND COMPLIANCE EFFECTIVELY

Integrate and automate risk, compliance, and international trade activities to proactively
minimize risk and compliance violations and detect, investigate, and deter fraud. In this
way, you can optimize business operations, protect assets, and improve financial
performance.

Digital Supply Chain

INTEGRATE INVENTORY AND LOGISTICS PROCESSES
Lower operational and administrative costs by integrating the management of all inbound
and outbound freight and warehousing processes, and improving connectivity with
warehouse automation equipment and logistics service providers.
IMPROVE PRODUCTION PLANNING
Coordinate manufacturing operations across your organization including material
requirements, logistics, and receipts for proper material handling, work in process, and
inventory. You can also make plan adjustments based on real-time information from the
enterprise, suppliers, and the plant floor.

SUPPORT COMPLEX ASSEMBLY PROCESSES

Enable efficient planning for complex assembly including material requirements,
production, and capacity planning, as well as advanced functionality for bills of material
(BOM), routing, factory layout, and machine models.

ACCELERATE MANUFACTURING WORKFLOWS

Plan and schedule maintenance tasks synchronizing labor, material, equipment and
schedules. Execute planned and unplanned maintenance to ensure optimal operations
including improved safety and environmental impact.
ENABLE EFFICIENT MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT
Improve planned and unplanned maintenance operations, while optimizing safety and
environmental impacts, by planning and scheduling maintenance tasks to synchronize
labor, materials, equipment, and schedules.

ENHANCE QUALITY MANAGEMENT

Run enterprise-wide, closed-loop quality management processes – from quality planning to
quality operations – for continuing process improvement.

Research and Development

IMPROVE PROJECT CONTROL AND PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
Manage, translate, and integrate customer-driven innovations to optimize project efficiency
and deliver high-quality projects on time and within scope. You can enhance quality by
defining all design requirements and constraints while maintaining rigorous design
standards.

MANAGE ENTERPRISE PROJECTS EFFECTIVELY

Invest in the right projects by aligning your project portfolio with enterprise strategy. You
can identify the projects that can generate the most business value and manage the
resources, schedule, and financial performance for each project phase, from initiation
through closure.

STREAMLINE PRODUCT LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT

Simplify and accelerate the transition of engineering master data into manufacturing
production data. You can develop recipes and formulas rapidly, reuse existing ingredients,
and design packaging and labeling in a single, high-performance environment.

SPEED UP PRODUCT ENGINEERING PROCESSES

Accelerate time to market through efficient BOM management, including the specification
of work center details and listing of required production resources and tools. In addition,
you can develop closed-loop inspection planning to comply with industry standards such
as ISO/TS 16949 and ISO 9000

Sourcing and Procurement

GAIN IN-DEPTH PURCHASING INSIGHTS
Acquire extensive, real-time information on purchasing spend by analyzing purchase
orders, purchase requisitions, invoices, and contracts. You can also evaluate supplier
performance in real time with access to data, including on-time delivery, price, and
quantity accuracy.

STREAMLINE OPERATIONAL PURCHASING

Enable employees to purchase goods and services directly, following purchasing policies
and pricing agreements and using preferred suppliers. Users can bundle demands,
automate sourcing and order processing, and make approval and release procedures
easier.

AUTOMATE SOURCING AND CONTRACT MANAGEMENT PROCESSES

Collect, assign, analyze, and access all sourcing information in one system and support
automated and manual processes for creating and managing service contracts, source
lists, purchase information records, quotations, and requests for quotations.

GAIN AN IN-DEPTH VIEW OF YOUR SUPPLY CHAIN

Improve supply chain visibility to find the optimal mix of suppliers that will best serve your
business objectives and reduce overall supply risk. You can also classify and segment your
suppliers using multiple criteria to identify and pinpoint the right supply chain partners
for your organization.

SIMPLIFY PROCUREMENT PROCESSES

Consolidate requisitioning to reduce costs by establishing one central approval workflow
instead of multiple approvals in each back-end system. In addition, you can increase
catalog usage by offering a single, convenient access point across all available catalogs.

MANAGE COMMODITY PROCUREMENT EFFECTIVELY

Support commodity procurement and help create commodity contracts based on market
quotes. You can automate price calculations, streamline invoicing, and extend ERP
functionality to automate commodity-based contractual pricing and enable provisional,
differential, and final invoicing.

Sales
MAXIMIZE SALES WITH ORDER AND CONTRACT MANAGEMENT
Improve revenue and cash flow by managing the order-to-cash process flawlessly across all
touch points, channels, and functions. Get multichannel, role-based access to accurate,
real-time information on products, pricing, customers, and contracts to reduce day sales
outstanding and meet other KPIs.
DRIVE AND MANAGE SALES PERFORMANCE
Implement compelling variable compensation programs with incentive and commission
management. Manage sales performance, and build and maintain accurate, strategically
aligned compensation plans. Enable your organization to handle commission and incentive
programs.

ENHANCE AND MANAGE SUBSCRIPTION BILLING AND REVENUE

Manage receivables, payments, and reporting for high volumes of financial transactions.
Tailor credit decisions and collection management processes to customer profiles. Enhance
cash flow and customer care through simplified invoicing.

ENABLE A FLEXIBLE SOLUTION BILLING PROCESS

Gain visibility to determine the right mix of suppliers, best serve your business objectives,
and reduce your overall supply risk. Classify and segment your suppliers using multiple
criteria to flexibly identify and search suppliers.

SALES FORCE SUPPORT

Check pipelines and leads, coordinate and plan customer sales activities, and analyze
customers and territories. Drive sales from lead to close with opportunity and
pipeline management. Increase deal size through accuracy in solution sales configuration.

Other Lines of Business

From HR to sales and contract management, SAP S/4HANA helps you streamline,
automate, and simplify processes across your organization.

INTEGRATE ORDER AND CONTRACT MANAGEMENT

Improve visibility and efficiency by integrating contract management with sales, pricing,
and logistics processes. You can enforce rebate agreements with live insights into contract
conditions, and reduce days sales outstanding and boost sales effectiveness with
streamlined order management.

IMPROVE SALES PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT

Retain and motivate top performers by implementing compelling variable compensation
programs, while automating routine tasks for handling commission and incentives
programs for employees and partners.

STREAMLINE CORE HR AND PAYROLL PROCESSES

Integrate employee master data, organizational data, and cost-center-related information
from SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central to accelerate reorganizations and other end-
to-end business processes.
Additional Features

FUNCTIONS FOR MANAGING SAP S/4HANA

Configure your solution, test your business processes, migrate data, view the
solution scope, and access learning content.

BUSINESS EVENT HANDLING

Business event handling enables applications, partners, and customers to consume events
related to all S/4HANA business objects.

LEGAL CONTENT MANAGEMENT

Legal content management enables customers to manage all cross application processes
related to the creation and governance of legal content.

DATA AGING
With the data aging feature, you can manage the lifecycle of current and historical data.

EXTENSIBILITY COCKPIT
You can view extensible objects that correspond with a business context by selecting an
edition, solution scope, and one or more scope items

ANALYTICS
Define, manage, and leverage consistent KPIs across all your business functions, create
and manage reports, run analytical queries, and build predictive models.

MANAGE TEAMS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Manage team members associated with certain functions, and map their responsibilities to
an activity type in a workflow scenario.

DIGITAL ASSISTANCE
With the SAP CoPilot, users can exchange real-time information with co-workers and
directly include business or application data.
MASTER DATA MANAGEMENT
Manage enterprise master data across your organization with SAP Master Data
Governance and SAP S/4HANA.

SAP Software Accessibility

We are committed to delivering software that is usable by individuals with disabilities.

Although our applications include many accessibility features, they are currently not fully
optimized for accessibility. You may need to provide client-side, third-party assistive
technologies, such as the JAWS screen reader, to be used in conjunction with SAP
S/4HANA. Detailed documents such as the Voluntary Product Accessibility Template
(VPAT) or Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 are available for some SAP
applications from your account executive upon request.

Basic License Types

Professional User named user who is able to perform certain operational tasks such as
system administration or system management type roles that are within the agreed license
metrics. The user should also have the rights that are specified by the SAP Application
Limited User.

Limited Professional User named user who can perform limited operational roles as defined
by the software license

Employee User named user who has the ability to perform tasks purely for the individuals
own use and not on behalf of anyone else, task that are set out by the software license.