SAP S/4HANA Cloud

What can SAP S/4HANA Cloud do for asset management?

Maintenance execution

• Complete planned and unplanned maintenance tasks in an efficient manner
• Optimize operations and enable technicians to detect, report, and resolve malfunctions
• Address emergencies quickly and effectively

Asset operations and planning

• Enable maintenance planners to proactively monitor important and time-sensitive work across maintenance activities and spare parts inventory
• Enhance maintenance efficiency with fast access to analytics on costs, breakdown rates, and damages

Environment, health, and safety

• Help ensure safe working conditions for all employees in your maintenance department
• Adhere to environmental protection regulations
• Maintain the reliability of your technical systems

Capture and mitigate incidents

• Manage investigations and follow-up activities to reduce injury, illness, and incident rates
• Reduce potential costs, penalties, fines, and unplanned downtime associated with environment, health, and safety (EHS)

Maintenance scheduling

• Transform maintenance planning and scheduling
• Get an overview of due maintenance orders
• Build schedules by simulating scope and workload, and track work status

Cost management and profitability

• Improve profitably and cost with comprehensive analytics
• Assess profit and margin contribution with real-time reporting, predictive analytics, and integrated business planning
• Manage profitability and analyze customer experience strategies

Subscription billing

• Enable subscription-based revenue models
• Identify the product and service mix that best satisfies your customers
• Deliver consolidated invoices, manage credit scoring, and resolve disputes with a complete view of the customer

Accounting and financial close

• Simplify accounting and financial close processes
• Combine financial and management accounting and profitability data into a single universal journal
• Manage joint venture accounting and close your books in real time with less effort

Revenue Accounting and Reporting

• Comply with new statutory regulations for revenue recognition, such as IFRS 15, while supporting existing requirements
• Handle orders, invoices, and events from multiple SAP and non-SAP systems
• Gain flexibility by decoupling revenue recognition rules from order entry and billing systems

Treasury management

• Improve treasury and financial risk processes
• Optimize straight-through processing with real-time analysis, audit trails, and compliance reporting
• Predict cash flow accurately, manage liquidity efficiently, and mitigate risk proactively

Financial operations

Support collaborative and automated finance operations
Improve working capital and financial health with real-time data to assess customer credit risk, streamline billing, and resolve disputes
Prioritize collections to reduce days sales outstanding

Enterprise risk and compliance

Manage enterprise risk and compliance effectively
Integrate and automate processes for risk management, compliance assurance, and international trade
Optimize business operations, protect organizational assets, and improve financial performance

Real estate management

Simplify real estate management
Optimize space utilization, cost, and occupancy by actively managing lease agreements, investments, and construction projects
Automate processes for inspecting, maintaining, and restoring infrastructure

Commodity management

Manage commodities efficiently
Address financial risk stemming from market fluctuations by automating commodity-based contractual pricing, leveraging market quotes to create contracts
Streamline invoice processes

Enterprise contract management and assembly

Create and manage all your contracts in one solution
Deploy enterprise-wide legal document management for increased transparency
Simplify and automate contracting processes

What can SAP S/4HANA Cloud do for manufacturing?

Production planning

• Coordinate manufacturing operations – from material requirements to inventory
• Adjust plans based on real-time information from your business, supplier network, and plant floor

Support for complex assembly processes

• Create efficient plans for complex assembly, covering areas such as material requirements, production, and capacity planning
• Include bills of material, routing, factory layout, and machine models

Production operations

• Optimize production and material flow
• Enable flexible and efficient manufacturing processes by using methods such as lean control, continuous improvement, and just-in-time replenishment

Manufacturing engineering

• Boost quality and lower costs by fostering collaboration between R&D and manufacturing teams
• Leverage relevant data and smooth handovers of engineering documents, bills of material, and design changes

Quality management

• Take swift action to prevent or correct issues by running closed-loop quality management processes – from planning to operations
• Support continuous improvement across the enterprise

Project manufacturing

• Optimize operations for products and production processes on one platform
• Manage production logistics more efficiently and transparently
• Automate ‘true actual’ costing for highly engineered products and projects

What can SAP S/4HANA Cloud do for R&D and engineering?

Project control and product development

• Manage, translate, and integrate customer-driven innovations to optimize project efficiency
• Deliver high-quality projects on time and within scope
• Maintain rigorous design standards

Enterprise project management

• Invest in the right projects by aligning the project portfolio with your enterprise strategy
• Identify opportunities, manage resources, and analyze financial performance – from initiation to closure

Product lifecycle management

• Simplify and speed the transition of engineering master data into manufacturing production data
• Develop recipes rapidly, reuse ingredients, and design packaging in a high-performance environment

Product engineering

• Speed up time to market by increasing the efficiency of BOM management
• Enable closed-loop inspection planning
• Comply with industry standards, such as ISO/TS 16949 and ISO 9000

Requirement-driven processes

• Define, manage, and prioritize product requirements efficiently
• Achieve full traceability by linking requirements to product data, analyzing requirements, and gaining insights from downstream processes

What can SAP S/4HANA Cloud do for sales?

Order and contract management

• Improve revenue and cash flow by managing order-to-cash processes flawlessly across all touch points, channels, and functions
• Leverage multichannel, role-based access to accurate, real-time information

Sales performance management

• Implement compelling variable-compensation programs with incentive and commission management
• Monitor sales performance and build and maintain accurate, strategically aligned plans

Sales force support

• Check sales pipelines and leads
• Coordinate and plan customer interactions and activities
• Analyze customers and territories, while increasing deal size, through precise solution configurations

What can SAP S/4HANA Cloud do for customer service?

Technical service management

• Manage break-fix service on an ad hoc basis, as well as recurring service, based on service plans and entitlements
• Streamline in-house repairs – from logging calls and receiving returned products to dispatching repaired items
• Provide back-end capabilities for mobile field service engineers, including customer, asset, and inventory information

Commercial service management

• Oversee pricing agreements and discounts and automatically execute periodic billing to manage recurring revenue streams
• Maintain solution bundles in a single quote, including one-time and recurring services, physical products, and subscriptions
• Manage frame contracts that define entitled partners ordering services with specific conditions

Service analytics

• View real-time transactional data and customize visualization with flexible tools
• Consolidate business information across disparate source systems and produce actionable visualizations and business insights
• Gain reliable insights into expected sales volume, margin, and resource requirements based on machine learning-augmented predictive analytics

Service business planning

• Gain a comprehensive view of solutions and services and make decisions to optimize key dimensions
• Monitor KPIs and service performance in real time, and leverage the intelligence to act on continuous improvement
• Establish service organizations that support execution of service business strategy, while managing qualifications and certifications

Service parts management

• Manage spare parts ordering processes to ensure accurate availability information
• Streamline spare parts fulfillment, procurement, transportation, and warehousing processes in one solution
• Manage and monitor planning and execution of spare parts with a single supply chain data model

Service parts planning

• Optimize planning and distribution for high volumes of service parts and network locations
• Analyze and simulate data in real time, carry out planning version comparison, and monitor performance
• Manage complex supersession chains to improve planning for a high number of finished goods

What can SAP S/4HANA Cloud do for sourcing and procurement?

Purchasing insights

• Acquire extensive insights on purchasing spend
• Analyze purchase orders, purchase requisitions, invoices, and contracts
• Evaluate supplier performance with access to real-time data

Operational purchasing

• Buy goods and services directly, while following company policies for preferred suppliers and pricing agreements
• Bundle demands, automate processes, and simplify approval and release

Sourcing and contract management

• Collect, assign, analyze, and access every sourcing data point in one system
• Support automated and manual processes for creating and managing all types of procurement documentation

Central procurement

• Reduce procurement costs and increase catalog use
• Consolidate requisitioning across business units and geographies with one central approval workflow, instead of multiple approvals

Commodity procurement

• Support commodity procurement and create commodity contracts based on market quotes
• Automate price calculations, streamline invoicing, and extend ERP functionality across the business

Supply chain risk management

• Improve supply chain visibility to identify and form relationships with an optimal mix of suppliers
• Collaborate with partners that can best serve your strategic vision and reduce supply chain risk

What can SAP S/4HANA Cloud do for supply chain management?

Transportation management

• Consolidate shipping processes for inbound and outbound shipments
• Streamline material flows and reduce logistics costs
• Define comprehensive freight agreements with complex calculation rules and perform accurate freight costing

Warehouse management

• Automate inbound processing, cross-docking, outbound processing, warehouse storage, and physical inventory management
• Support workforce management, slotting, and advanced inventory optimization
• Improve asset utilization, throughput, and safety

Inventory management

• Coordinate goods movements across inbound, outbound, and physical inventory processes
• Minimize waste, loss, damage, and production interruption

Commitment date planning

• Consider business rules, material availability, and allocation guidelines when determining product availability and promise dates for customers