In September 2018, the Enterprise Resource Planning software giant, SAP has launched its latest edition – SAP S/4HANA 1809. It is the 4th On-Premise release of SAP S/4HANA, after 1511,1610 and 1709. This new release too continued with the latest innovation and wanted to helps the companies, who were looking for digital transformation. With the release of SAP S/4HANA 1809, there were around 2389 innovations related to S/4HANA, 1048 user experience, and 552 innovations in digital transformation. The SAP’s next-generation digital core (SAP S/4HANA) laid the foundation for intelligent enterprise and comes with the latest invention, robust and scalable core ERP.
The SAP S/4HANA 1809 is built on 3 key ingredients, which made the digital core intelligent.
They are Digital age UX, Automation, and Next-generation processes.
*A Digital age UX: The Digital assistance provides a hands-free experience and also delivers value-adding experience by instant insight with latest SAP Fiori technology.
*Automation: This ingredient provides predictive analysis to increase efficiency and automation and the ERP is augmented by machine learning from SAP Leonardo.
*Next-generation processes: Redefine and reinvent the processes with the proven best practices built on the latest inventions.
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In this blog, we will try to focus on two questions
1)How things are different in SAP S/4HANA?
2)What are the key Transaction scenarios for SAP S/4HANA 1809?
First Thing First!!
1)How things are different in SAP S/4HANA?
SAP S/4HANA is a new product line and not a new/successor release of SAP Business Suite ERP system. Despite few incompatible changes between SAP Business Suite ERP System and SAP S/4HANA system, the support for the SAP Business Suite & SAP ERP will still be available.
What is SAP S/4HANA?
An SAP S/4HANA System is
1)Based on SAP’s innovative in-memory SAP HANA database.
2)It is built with new, simplified application architecture and data model.
3)Along with the application functionality, most of the SAP S/4HANA applications have been re-designed.
4)You can now use a new SAP Fiori based User Experience.
5)you can also choose among the two deployment models
- On-Premise Deployment Model
- Cloud Deployment Model (exist in both private & public cloud versions)
Now, let get into the primary question of our today discussion.
2)What are the key Transaction scenarios for SAP S/4HANA 1809?
SAP S/4HANA 1809 offers 3 main transaction scenarios
1)System Conversion
2)New Implementation
3)Landscape Transformation
System Conversion
What is the purpose to choose System Conversion?
There are 3 main purposes
- If your goal is to bring your present business processes to the new platform.
- or you want to keep your investment in custom code.
- Or you want to adopt new innovations and minimize the risk and investment of a conversion project by reducing the scope of the transition project to a pure technical conversion at a later point of time.
What is the technical view?
System Conversion approach is a reusing by in-place conversion type. Technically, System Conversion is a Software Update Manager tool based, in-place conversion of an existing SAP Business Suite ERP system to SAP S/4HANA.
- This approach facilitates migration from a classical database to SAP HANA database, if your current SAP ERP system was running on a classical database.
- It migrates your ERP data model into the SAP S/4HAN data model with all the invented data model simplifications and data volume reductions.
- It replaces the current SAP ERP application code with new SAP S/4HANA Application code.
- You can selectively migrate your classical SAP GUI UIs to Fiori App.
New Implementation
What is New Implementation?
It is a new installation of an SAP S/4HANA system either on On-Premise or Cloud model. It is also known as “greenfield” approach.
What is the purpose to choose New implementation?
If your primary focus is re-engineering and process simplification based on latest innovations.
This approach best suited for customers planning to migration services.
- A non-SAP or 3rd party legacy system.
- It is also a good option for an SAP System, which is an older release, or highly customized, or it does not match your system requirements for a technical system conversion.
Landscape Transformation: –
What is Landscape Transformation?
This scenario is a value-driven and selective data migration to the new SAP S/4HANA system. The main focus is on choosing and picking of entities which the customer wants to carve out and move on to the new S/4HANA platform, instead of migrating the entire system.
Few sub-scenarios are:
*Consolidation of several systems or selective clients of multiple systems into one global SAP S/4HANA.
*Selective data migration based on legal entities. Such as company codes.
*SAP Central Finance Scenario Implementation.
What is the purpose to choose Landscape Transactions?
If you want to consolidate your landscape or selective transform data into an SAP S/4HAN system.
*Value-based migration: Selective data transformation allows a phased approach focusing the first sap s/4hana migration phase on parts of the business with highest ROI and lowest TCI.
*Agility: Move gradually to SAP S/4HANA innovations while staying on your present business processes and move to SAP S/4HANA at your own pace.
*TCO reduction: System and landscape consolidation with simplified processes and unified master data lead to lower cost of operations.
