All You Need to Know About the Intelligent ERP: SAP S/4HANA 1909 Release

SAP S/4HANA 1909, one of the most extensive as well as intelligent ERP. In this blog article, I will explain the elements which develop the structure for a Digital Core, the three categories that make it intelligent, as well as some selected features of SAP S/4HANA 1909 release.

Foundation of a Digital Core

Before Starting to discuss the main part of this article, I’d prefer to reveal some insight into the product fundamentals. What is the foundation for a Digital Core? we considered these four perspectives: 

• An architecture that delivers a scalable structure to transact at the highest feasible automation.
• A system of intelligence that supports and guides the business making use of embedded analytics, simulation, prediction, and decision assistance to run LIVE business.
• An end-to-end experience that can be much faster implemented, consumed, and also adapted.
• Open architecture to allow connectivity as well as the adoption of micro-services.

What makes the Digital Core Intelligent?

• A digital age UX – Conversational UI ´ s and also natural language processing allows us to target a hands-free ERP by 2020.
• Automation of business procedures – Automation primarily addresses companies´ profits and assists to minimize prices. It pursues automation of 50% of all ERP business procedures within the next 3 years.
• The next generation of business processes – It offers a streamlined architecture as well as a technology that did not exist before. It intends to boost the leading line by supplying an infrastructure that allows us to completely rethink value creation and service tasks.

Highlights in SAP S/4HANA 1909

With SAP S/4HANA 1909 it has the innovations in the 5th wave. It has further broadened its core and continued to re-architect our data model making it possible for clients to benefit from the current technologies.

Manufacturing

In the area of Manufacturing, SAP S/4HANA provides a new Predictive Material and Resource Planning (pMRP) Application. With this, you are able to anticipate element needs with anticipating material and resource planning. The benefit here is to reduce inventory carrying costs. With pMRP, it is utilizing a simplified MRP logic that sustains interactive planning with simulations obtaining element and capacity needs on all levels. In order to process simulations, the system created simplified data based on your operative data for material resource planning. This data is used as referral data in pMRP. A set of defined reference data can be utilized to create several simulations.

Figure 1: Forecast component needs with pMRP.

One more highlight is the extended functionality for advanced Available to Promise (aATP). The most recent release enables additional vertical consumption strategies within product allocation sequences. Customers can utilize the same product allocation object numerous times in product allocation sequences to ensure that they can design further consumption approaches for the product allocation check. In the backorder processing, it supports the re-evaluation of choices in backorder processing.

Finance

In Business Finance, Companies generally face a variety of bottlenecks in the group close procedure which delays the time to close the books and report the financial results. SAP S/4HANA for team reporting has actually been available since September 2018. The latest release addresses two of these difficulties: Intercompany Reconciliation and Matrix Consolidation.

Figure 2: Group Reporting in SAP S/4HANA supports intercompany reconciliation and also matrix consolidation.

As the 2nd highlight in Finance, we deliver financial planning with SAP Analytics Cloud. This single point of access aids finance experts to analyze financial and also non-financial information in a transparent way. It has actually never been easier to get real-time, workable business insights, and all of that in a user-friendly way. With SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) being integrated with the SAP S/4HANA environment, it is a future-proof finance architecture.

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Sales and Distribution (SD)

With SAP S/4HANA 1909, it allows workflow for sales documents. The key benefit of this new feature is to increase sales force efficiency by providing the workflow for sale quotations, for sale orders as well as for credit memo requests. It is now possible to display and handle approval workflows in “My Inbox”. Along with this, you receive workflow notifications during the approval workflow processing, as well as you can adjust the workflow, for credit memo requests, to the new approval status for sale documents. Easy navigation to the sales order documents from the approval workflow is now also possible.

In addition, we also add intelligence to our Sales and Distribution processes. Monitoring delivery performance using predictive analytics in SAP S/4HANA allows for the on-time supply of procurement processes to transportation planning, picking, packaging, and shipping in the delivery process.

Extended Warehouse Management (EWM)

As part of Extended Warehouse Management, we currently offer better integration between the production and warehouse processes. With this feature, you can have a smooth integration between repetitive manufacturing and warehouse management.

Via kanban, a new replenishment technique is available for stock transfer. Having this replenishment approach in place, warehouse tasks to restore a kanban container are automatically created when you set the kanban container to empty. You can confirm the warehouse task either in a kanban app or in extended warehouse management. 

Environment, Health & Safety

The new emissions forecasting capacity as part of the environment, health & safety helps to envision environmental threats. Based on historical data, the system forecasts the emission data values using Machine Learning time-series predictive models. The values are shown graphically in the US for a provided period in the future.

Product Compliance

With the new analytics SAP Fiori app “Impact of Monitoring Lists”, you can keep track of compounds and analyze their effect on sales, distributors, and manufacturing. This integration of dangerous goods management into sales and delivering processing aids you to check appropriate classified products throughout sales quotation and sales order processing. In case no compliant transport is feasible, sales items will get blocked.

Inventory Management

Additionally, we have enhanced the SAP Fiori app “Slow or Non-Moving Products” enabling individuals to display a prediction for slow or non-moving materials when it comes to the future advancement of a material.

In addition, we have also released a new application for inventory analysis displaying obsolete stock. The “Dead Stock Analysis” application sustains you in your daily work, as an example, as an inventory manager, to achieve maximum inventory accuracy and subsequently to enhance the inventory scenario in your stock.

R&D/Engineering

Access-control management helps to boost compliance with internal and external (customer provided) guidelines as well as regulations. With this, you can protect data and control access in the early as well as detail-design phases, such as 2D and 3D design documents, components, or product structures, which are strictly confidential.

Sourcing and Procurement

Intelligence is brought to our Line of business Sourcing and Procurement by our digital aide the SAP CoPilot and the assistance to implement procurement procedures. On top, the LoB also utilizes new machine learning algorithms to automate processes and settle problems. It’s all about Intelligence.

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Industry to Core – Utilities

In order to minimize data redundancy, we have increased our core. With SAP S/4HANA Utilities Product Simplification brings new energy products. This gives product managers with an intuitive user experience as well as a central product management tool to define and manage energy products.

One more feature around is the simplified management of sales contracts for utilities. By eliminating the demand to replicate data and removing middleware you can conveniently simplify your system architecture. The feature enables simpler process configuration as well as a 360-degree overview of utility sales contract management.

Conclusion

SAP S/4HANA offers a streamlined architecture as well as a technology that did not exist before. It intends to boost the leading line by supplying an infrastructure that allows us to completely rethink value creation and service tasks.

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