SAP S/4HANA Cloud is a complete enterprise resource planning (ERP) system with built-in intelligent technologies, including AI, machine learning, and advanced analytics. It will your help company adopt new business models, manage business change at speed, orchestrate internal and external resources, and use the predictive power of AI. Benefit from tight, native integration between processes, industry depth, and a consistent in-memory data model. The end-to-end analytics make it possible to understand every aspect of your business at the most granular level, so you can steer your business in real time. Users can access SAP S/4HANA Cloud from any device with the award-winning user experience, SAP Fiori, and a context-aware digital assistant, SAP CoPilot.

Features and Capabilities

Asset Management

Achieve operational excellence by planning, scheduling and executing asset maintenance activities with integrated processes.

·         Complete planned and unplanned maintenance tasks in an efficient manner

·         Optimize operations and enable technicians to detect, report and resolve malfunctions 

·         Enhance maintenance efficiency with fast access to analytics on costs, breakdown rates and damages

·         Reduce potential costs, penalties, fines and unplanned downtime associated with environment, health and safety

Finance

Simplify accounting and financial close processes and improve treasury and financial risk management process.

• Assess profit and margin contribution with real-time reporting, predictive analytics, and integrated business planning
• Deliver consolidated invoices, manage credit scoring, and resolve disputes with a complete view of the customer
• Combine financial and management accounting and profitability data into a single universal journal
• Predict cash flow accurately, manage liquidity efficiently, and mitigate risk proactively
• Address financial risk stemming from market fluctuations by automating commodity-based contractual pricing, leveraging market quotes to create contracts
• Optimize space utilization, cost and occupancy by actively managing lease agreements, investments, and construction projects

Manufacturing

Improve production planning, support complex assembly processes, and enable seamless manufacturing engineering.

• Plan manufacturing operations – from material requirements to inventory
• Create efficient plans for complex assembly, covering areas such as material requirements, production and capacity planning
• Enable flexible and efficient manufacturing processes by using methods such as lean control, continuous improvement, and just-in-time replenishment
• Boost quality and lower costs by fostering collaboration between R&D and manufacturing teams
• Take swift action to prevent or correct issues by running closed-loop quality management processes – from planning to operations

R&D and Engineering

Improve project control and development, manage enterprise projects effectively, and streamline product lifecycle management.

• Manage, translate, and integrate customer-driven innovations to optimize project efficiency
• Invest in the right projects by aligning the project portfolio with your enterprise strategy
• Simplify and speed the transition of engineering master data into manufacturing production data
• Speed up time to market by increasing the efficiency of BOM management
• Achieve full traceability by linking requirements to product data, analyzing requirements and gaining insights from downstream processes

Sales

Maximize revenue with order and contract management, drive sales performance and support your sales force and sales manager.

• Improve revenue and cash flow by managing order-to-cash processes flawlessly across all touch points, channels and functions
• Implement compelling variable-compensation programs with incentive and commission management
• Analyze customers and territories, while increasing deal size, through precise solution configurations
• Improve customer satisfaction with real-time inventory information for advanced available-to-promise order commitment dates

Service

Deliver exceptional, personalized, and reliable service with holistic analytics and integrated service management.

• Gain a comprehensive view of solutions and services, and make decisions to optimize key dimensions
• Streamline spare parts fulfilment, procurement, transportation, and warehousing processes in one solution
• Consolidate business information across disparate source systems and produce actionable visualizations and business insights
• Manage break-fix service on an ad hoc basis, as well as recurring service, based on service plans and entitlements

Sourcing and Procurement

Streamlining operational purchasing, automate sourcing and contract management, and centralize procurement processes.

• Centralized purchasing that provides flexibility and visibility across an organization
• Embedded machine learning-based analytics to predict contract consumption for improved negotiations and material management
• Automatic recommendations for new catalogue items, contract creation for materials without an existing contract and matching material group for the required free-text item
• Evaluate supplier performance with access to real-time data

Supply chain

Provide more accurate commitment dates, integrate transportation management and streamline warehouse management.

·         One single harmonized MRP process for all materials, both unconstrained and those requiring advanced constraint-based planning

·         Define comprehensive freight agreements with complex calculation rules and perform accurate freight costing

·         Streamline material flows and reduce logistics costs

Pain Point/ Value to customer.

·         Upscale your business operations with SAP S/4HANA and simplify your business processes.

One of the advantages of the SAP ERP is that it restructures your IT environment in a more transparent and centralized way. After an integration, your entire workflow and all the corresponding business processes run more efficiently and become way easier to handle thanks to automation capabilities. As a result, all the departments of your company will benefit from SAP S/4HANA.

·         With SAP S/4HANA you can reshaped your business operations and now have clear insight across manufacturing and warehouse processes making them more efficient and transparent. This will lead to achieving 100% traceability of all semi and finished goods in your warehouse and also one source of truth across manufacturing and warehousing operations.

·         Customize your business and enjoy industry best practices. SAP S/4HANA is an all-in-one solution, but with one significant advantage: depending on the line of business you are operating in, you can adapt your SAP Business Suite in accordance with your industry. There are specific SAP S/4HANA modules that provide you with the exact functionalities needed for your organization and all its subsidiary departments.

·         Innovate your business by quickly deploying artificial intelligence (AI) and intelligent robotic process automation (RPA) to help every employee make faster, more informed decisions.

SAP S/4HANA and forward-looking technologies go hand in hand which makes your workflow more efficient. State-of-the-art innovations such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Internet of Things or Robotic Process Automation can be smoothly integrated into the platform. These solutions keep your business productive and make your company ready for the future.