HeadsUP 1610 : Expected Innovations

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While we eagerly await for SAP S/4HANA Enterprise Management On-Premise  Edition 1610 innovation release  (ref. to blogs..)

HeadsUP : SAP S/4HANA Enterprise Management : OP 1610 Outlook

& a quick summarization of S4HANA 1511 Features & Limitations

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for people who are looking for detailed info about what to expect in 1610 - Innovations & benefits,  find

here Listed / attached a file containing the expected Innovations in 1610 (based on latest extract from SAP site & documentation).

Area	Innovation	Innovation Description	Innovation Benefits
ATP	ATP: backorder processing – results display (1610)	SAP Fioriapp that displaysthe results of one or severalback-order processing (BOP) runs:   Overview BOP runsaccording to variousselection criteria Drill downinto the results of individual BOP runs	Easy and intuitive overviewof multiple BOP runs Intuitive identification of issues thanks todrill-down capabilities
ATP	ATP: backorder processing – setup (1610)	SAP Fioriapp for creating and changing variants used in back-order processing (BOP):   Five predefined confirmation strategies –win, gain, redistribute, fill, and lose –for the requirements included in a BOP run may be used simultaneously in one BOP variant  Multiple filterandprioritizing pairs can be used to select and sort the requirements for each confirmation strategy  For ease of maintenance and to simplify each filter, a global filter can be used to determine the maximum set of requirements for a BOP variant  The standard priority of the confirmation strategies can be overruled  The confirmation strategies “win” and “gain” generate exceptions if the ATP check shows insufficient availability	Abilitytoperform a mass confirmation of sales orders according to acompany's business strategy  Easy setup and modeling
ATP	ATP: Release for Delivery (1610)	SAP Fioriapp driven by available-to-promise (ATP), which showsthe confirmation situation ofsales-order requirements: Workload is preselected by area of responsibility (for example, materialorplant)  Available-yet-unused stock is displayed graphically and can be assigned easily to one or multiple requirements (sales orderitems)  In case of a confirmation deficit, the confirmed quantities can be manipulated or reshuffled intuitively between individual salesorders	Interactive prioritization of sales orders due for delivery  Easy and intuitive identification of issues  Mass change capabilities
Billing	Billing plans for SAP Hybris Billing, invoicing	Allows definition and creation of recurring fees (billing plans) in the SAP Hybris Billing	Helps ensure inclusion of recurring fees to thecorresponding invoice   Allows changes and updates of recurring fees to thecorresponding invoice
Billing	Billing plans in SAP Hybris Billing, invoicing – UI, archiving concept, and integration with revenue accounting	Improved user interface (UI), integration with revenue accounting, and an archiving concept are to comprise the second wave for billing plans in convergent invoicing for recurring charges	UI based on the SAP Fiori user experience (UX) Integration of billing plans with the SAP Revenue Accounting and Reporting application  Ability to archive obsolete billing plans
Billing	Enhancements to SAP Fiori apps for billing clerks in SAP S/4HANA, enhancement 1	Display of contextual information about a billing document in the SAP Fiori object page Billing Documents; user navigation to related business objects and access to related transactions in the operational system    Ability to create billing documents from a billing-due list with SAP Fiori app Create Billing Documents    Ability to search and display billing documents, post a billing document to accounting, and send output to the customer with SAP Fiori app Manage Billing Documents	Fast data insights  Easy forward navigation
Billing	Functions for invoice correction in SAP Hybris billing, invoicing	Fiori applications for   Displayingbilling documentsand its details such as related billable and consumption items from SAP Hybris Billing, invoicing Displayinginvoicing documentsanddetails such as billing documents from SAP Hybris Billing, invoicing Additional functions for invoice corrections   CreatingCredit/ Debit notes	Quicker insight into key information related to invoice and billing documents  Simplified navigation steps for finding and display of invoice and billing document information  Easier creation of credit and debit notes withinSAP Hybris Billing, invoicing
Billing	Immediate billing	Automatic start of the billing process directly after the import of billable items	Technical benefits:   No saving of billable items that are in status “2”  No need for a separate billing run
Cash Management	Cash management in SAP S/4HANA, on-premise edition (2nd)	Enhancements for cash operations, bank account management, and liquidity planning  Centralized and decentralized bank account management – replication and reconciliation (master data maintained once and replicated to other systems)
Central Finance	Central finance – central reversal and correction capabilities	Centralized reversals with reposting of replicated documents  Improved error handling (with the application interface framework)	Improve flexibilityin correcting postings with incorrectmappings  Increaseefficiency in handling errors
Central Finance	Central finance – extended financial reporting scenarios	Central material ledger  CO-PA: replication from costing-basedprofitability analysis (CO-PA)  EC-PCA: replication from profit center accounting (EC-PCA)	Establisha single source of truth across yourentire company  Obtaina real-time, harmonized view ofwhat is going on in your company  Extend reporting functionalityto profit centers, profitability analysis, and material ledgers
Central Finance	Central finance – replication of changes to cost objects	Replication of changes to cost objects from the source to the target system	Consistency between the systemsasreplicated cost objects are kept up-to-date when they are changed in the source system
Central Finance	Central finance – simplified mass mapping maintenance	Simplified mass mapping maintenance that allows for uploading of mapping from a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet	Save time and avoid errors in maintaining a high number of mappings (especially before the initial load)
Central Finance	Central finance – support Shared Services by central Processes in Accounts Payables/Receivables	Centralize accounts receivable and accounts payable with collection management, credit management, and dispute management Centralize the payment process	Enable users in the area of accounts receivable and accounts payable to work in the central finance system and benefit from SAP S/4HANA capabilities  Streamline processes in accounts receivable and accounts payable through centralization Reduce costs in a shared service-center organization  Centralize and simplify bank connectivity and importing of bank statements
Central Finance	Central finance in SAP S/4HANA, on-premise edition (2nd)	Enhanced capabilities for the central finance deployment option:   Business integration functionality for 3rd-party runtime databases (DBs) (solving issues with 3rd -party DBs in SAP Landscape Transformation software) Simulation tools for the initial load (allowing users to check before the productive initial load takes place to prevent critical error situations)  Replication of document changes from the source to the target system Clearing of open AP and AR items through decentralized payments in the central finance system  Centralized reversal and reposting of replicated documents without having to reverse the document in the source system (for instance, for correcting inaccurate mappings)  Document enrichment with attributes of the source system before replication to the central system (additional fields in the line item of the central system  Replication of projects and replication of profit-center ledger postings into the universal journal  Mapping (usability, mass upload, and auditability improvements) Simplification of configuration and initial data load (simulation and error analysis)  Phased implementation of central AP/AR process orchestration (such as activation per company code)  Replication of open items and their clearing status into the central finance system for enhanced cross-company reporting on vendor and customer dimensions  Deployment of central collections worklists, central dispute lists, central credit exposure calculations
Collateral Management Banking	SAP Collateral Management for Banking software for use with SAP S/4HANA: enterprise services	Plans to offer enterprise services in the following areas of SAP Collateral Management for Banking for use with SAP S/4HANA:   Collateral constellation (maintain and simulate)  Collateral agreement processing (maintain and find) Individual valuable management (maintain and find)  Integration with current account contracts   Plans to offer selected services, which are already available in the banking services version of SAP Collateral Management for Banking, to SAP S/4HANA	Service-oriented architecture to reduce integration cost, reduce complexity, and increase flexibility regarding process changes Simplification of process orchestration and support of omnichannel architecture  Standardized interfaces
Contract AP AR	Contract accounts receivable and payable (FI-CA) connection to digital payment functionality in SAP S/4HANA Finance	Contract accounts receivable and payable (FI-CA) connected to digital payment functionalityin the SAP S/4HANAFinance solution	Avoid persistence of credit card data in an SAP software system  Store tokens for payment hubs that communicate with external payment service providers (incompliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard)
Convergent Invicing	SAP Fiori for FI-CA and convergent invoicing transactions in SAP S/4HANA	Visual harmonization for almost 100% of transactions
DIMP - MRO	MRO: inventory management with interchangeability	Enable parts interchangeability across industries independent of business functions"IS_AD_MPN" and "AD_MPN_STO"	Availability of parts-interchangeable functionalityfor SAP S/4HANA, with no need to activate a business function
DIMP - MRO	MRO: maintenance and service processing with "rotable" control	MRO enable maintenance and service processing with rotable* control across industries independent of business function AD_MRO_CI_3   *Rotable: an element or component that can be repeatedly restored to a working and serviceable condition	MRO-enabled maintenance and service processing with rotable control functionality for SAP S/4HANA, with no need to activate a business function
EHS	Environment management in SAP S/4HANA	Environment management functionalitynow available in SAP S/4HANA:   Recording of compliance requirements  Collection of raw data  Calculation of emissions  Data monitoring  Reporting of deviations	Use of existing environment management functionality in SAP S/4HANA through the SAP Fiori user experience
EHS	Incident management analytics	Incident management analytics for legal reporting Root-cause analysis of incidents and unsafe conditions
EHS	Site Survey (Simple Risk Identification), HS Interdivisional Analytics	Simple EHS risk assessment capability to enable every manager to perform risk analysis and risk assessment in a compliant and effective way for employees, locations, and processes	Easy assessment of workplace related risks for non subject matter experts like people manager
Embedded Analytics	Embedded analytics for classification and variant configuration	Framework for the creation of core data services (CDS) views for classification and variant configuration on thecustomer side Ability to adapt and combine the generated CDS view with other CDS views and then reuse or consumethemin the context of embedded analytics  Visualization of the combined CDS views throughtools like SAP Lumira software or analytics for Microsoft Excel	Possibility to analyze individual characteristics of classification and configuration. Possibility to analyze characteristic combinations of classification and configuration. Possibility to search transactional data based on classification and configuration characteristics. User ability to define analysis of sales orders in combination with configuration data, e.g. analysis of top-selling and non-selling value combinations Real-time searches of existing orders or batches based upon a product configuration or classification.
EWM	SAP Extended Warehouse Management Integrated in S/4HANA	Plans to bring the full scope of the SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM) application into SAP S/4HANA software, which willprovidecustomers with flexible deployment options to run all kinds of warehouses within a singleSAP solution  Simplified use of SAP EWM:   Accessbusiness partner data within SAP S/4HANA instead of replicatingbusiness partners to a decentralized EWM system   Usematerial andproduct data within SAP S/4HANAinstead of replicatingit to a decentralized EWM system  Managebatch master data within SAP S/4HANAinstead of replicatingitto a decentralized EWM system  Directly read purchase order data, process orderdata, and production order data instead of replicating those objects to a decentralized EWM system and storing them in an expected goods receipt (EGR) document  Skip warehouse request objectsand processonly outbound delivery orders without using outbound-delivery requests; process only inbound deliveries without having inbound-delivery notifications; process only posting changes withoutusing posting-change requests  Maintain only one quality document instead of working with a quality inspection document and a QM inspection lot  Eliminate the need toreplicateaccounting objects Directly read material values instead of making periodic replications fordecentralized storage	A best-of-breed warehouse management solution as part of the on-premise edition of SAP S/4HANA  Flexible deployment options to run an embedded EWM application or continue with a decentralized system  Lowertotal cost of ownershipwhen using an embedded EWM for small and less complex warehouses  Reduceddata footprint through eliminatedneed tostore redundant data Minimizedadministration effort expected formonitoring of systems interfaces compared to decentralized EWM systems
EWM	SAP Extended warehouse management Integrated in SAP S/4HANA	Plans to bring the full scope of the SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM) application into SAP S/4HANA software, which willprovidecustomers with flexible deployment options to run all kinds of warehouses within a singleSAP solution  Simplified use of SAP EWM:   Accessbusiness partner data within SAP S/4HANA instead of replicatingbusiness partners to a decentralized EWM system   Usematerial andproduct data within SAP S/4HANAinstead of replicatingit to a decentralized EWM system  Managebatch master data within SAP S/4HANAinstead of replicatingitto a decentralized EWM system  Directly read purchase order data, process orderdata, and production order data instead of replicating those objects to a decentralized EWM system  Skip warehouse request objectsand processonly outbound delivery orders without using outbound-delivery requests; process only inbound deliveries without having inbound-delivery notifications; process only posting changes withoutusing posting-change requests  Maintain only one quality document instead of working with a quality inspection document and a QM inspection lot  Eliminate the need toreplicateaccounting objects Directly read material values instead of making periodic replications fordecentralized storage	A best-of-breed warehouse management solution as part of the on-premise edition of SAP S/4HANA  Flexible deployment options to run an embedded EWM application or continue with a decentralized system  Lowertotal cost of ownershipwhen using an embedded EWM for small and less complex warehouses  Reduceddata footprint through eliminatedneed tostore redundant data Minimizedadministration effort expected formonitoring of systems interfaces compared to decentralized EWM systems
Finance IFRS	Treasury and financial risk management in SAP S/4HANA, on-premise edition (2nd)	IFRS 9:  a 3-year road map containing hedge management and hedge accounting for FX risk, plus hedge accounting for commodity risk and interest-rate risk More information sources integrated to one exposure:  sales distribution (SD) integration and material management (MM) integration Trade finance:  letter of credit and bank guarantee as new financial instruments in treasury and risk management; bank connectivity; and integration with different SAP solution functionalities (MM, SD, and the like)
Financial Planning	Financial planning in SAP S/4HANA focused on profitability simulation	Extensions to SAP BPC optimized for SAP S/4HANA: cost center trarif planning Activity consumption planning cost center fixed consumption planning basic sales and profitability planning end-to-end extensibility
Financial Planning	Financial planning in SAP S/4HANA, on-premise edition	Extensions to the SAP Business Planning and Consolidation application,optimized for SAP S/4HANA:   Costcenter tariff planning  Activity consumption planning  Costcenter fixedconsumption planning  Basic sales and profitability planning  End-to-end extensibility
FSCM Credit Management	Financial operations in SAP S/4HANA (part 2)	Simplified setup of the SAP Credit Management application in a single system landscape. This includes orchestration simplification as exposures can be updated with business documents from sales and distribution processes without requiring Web services or XML coding – thus lowering TCO and implementation complexity. Also, there is an elimination of data redundancy and configuration steps with accounts receivable.  Integration enabled by the Ariba Network Integration for SAP Business Suite rapid-deployment solution, in SAP S/4HANA software, without the need for further installation (installation required for the SAP S/4HANA Finance, on-premise solution)
HR	Employee integration in SAP S/4HANA, on-premise edition	Core data services views of the employee and employment data provided in support of the HR employee data model for the on-premise edition of SAP S/4HANA software  "HRALXSYNC" report – employee-employment model based on human capital management solutions from SAP in SAP S/4HANA, on-premise edition Employee factsheet migration to the smart template provided  Employee image – replication and persistency of the employee image into the SAP S/4HANA database, for use in enterprise search, employee fact sheet, and areas containing employee data  External OData interface receiving timesheet data, including work items  SAP Fiori app My Timesheet in SAP S/4HANA
IS - Education	Porting and enablement of SAP Student Lifecycle Management and SAP Fiori apps in SAP S/4HANA software	Functionalities of SAP Student Lifecycle Management including most recent developments around admissions and registrations enabled for and available in SAP S/4HANA  SAP Fiori apps for students, professorsand faculty members available in SAP S/4HANA
IS - Retail Merchandise Management	Merchandise management – business partner for sites	Availability of business partner and customer and vendor integration (CVI) for sites  Maintenance of customer and supplier data now assigned to sites through unified business partner maintenance  New integration scenario based on a state-of-the-art data replication framework (DRF)  User ability to keep a data model of the customer and supplier (which are synced with the business partner through the CVI)	Unified data model now also available for sites Beneficial functionalitiesofbusiness partner "inherited" by site, such as time-dependent address data Future innovations ofbusiness partners to be immediately and consistently available for sites and assigned customers and suppliers as well  Consistent user experience based on unified business partner maintenance Assignment of one business partner per site, thus definitively linking customer and supplier (optional) to a single business partner  Benefits of new integration scenario include, among others, direct and pooled output in addition to manual distribution, resulting in reduction of errors and improved performance  No need for adjustments to processes, as data models of customer and suppliers stay unchanged
IS - Retail Merchandise Management	Merchandise management – enhanced transportation chain processing	Schedule using transportation chains that automatically calculate important dates, for example, from the handover date or ex-factory date to the delivery date, between the generation of the purchase order and the arrival of the goods in the distribution center  Access  transportation chains for scheduling within the standard purchase order (ME21N) Communicate the scheduled dates of a transportation chain to external partners using intermediate documents (IDocs) Receive confirmations or corrections from external partners using IDoc  Receive confirmations, corrections, or actual dates from external partners using remote function call (RFC)  Use a workbench to manually update dates that were not transferred using IDoc or RFC Monitor standard purchase orders within the reactive PO monitor workbench	More precise planning and monitoring of procurement processes, resulting in improved stock availability Transparency of exceptions in the supply chain, which enables early risk mitigation  Ability to reflect and select transportation chain alternatives accordingly  Modeling of the complete supply chain, including delivery legs from the distribution center to the store  Automated electronic data exchange with business partners resulting in up-to-date, consistent information with no maintenance required
IS - Retail Merchandise Management	Merchandise Management - In-Store Merchandising - Fiori apps for store associates and managers	The following Fiori apps are planned to support store associates and store managers:   Look Up Retail Products  Adjust Stock, for stock adjustments and ad hoc counting  Count Stock, for associates  Count Stock, for managers  Transfer Stock  Order Products  Receive Products, to be executed in trusted or detailed mode  Print Labels  Perform Store Walk-Through
IS - Retail Merchandise Management	Merchandise management – master data management enhancements	Season management   Structure items according to seasonal attributes such as season year, season, collection, or theme  Maintain article-to-season assignments en masse (even as one article can have multiple assignments); define sales and purchasing periods through “season workbench” functionality  Determine the appropriate season in sales or purchase orders   Value-added services   Accommodate requests for special servicesfrom customers or to vendors, such as special handling (putting shirts on hangers, for instance) or additional articles that are needed to perform special services (such as hangers)  Add or execute services (articles) in addition to the ordered goods, with the ability to consider the costs involved in servicing the requirements Flexibly define rules for automatic determination of value-added services in sales and purchase orders by using the “condition” technique   Characteristic value conversion   Convert characteristic values depending on user, customer, or vendor reflecting regional specificities, for instance, garment sizes being assigned differently depending on geographic region   Distribution curve   Predefine the distribution of quantities of a generic article to the variants of the article  Trigger distribution of quantities either on demand or automatically for a sales or purchase order  Flexibly define rules for determining an appropriate distribution curve by the means of the condition technique	Efficient and convenient maintenance of seasonal (mass) data with granular, hierarchical structuring of merchandise Support for the concept in relevant, operational documents (such as sales order, purchase order, and delivery documents) with persistence of seasonal information, which enables precise reporting  Dynamic and highly configurable framework with capabilities to better fulfill specific customer requirements and thereby increase customer satisfaction Improved usability and reduced misunderstands when operating across various geographical regions where similarcharacteristic values might have different meanings  Increased usability when the distribution of ordered quantities of a generic article follows a predefined rule set
IS - Retail Merchandise Management	Merchandise management – valuation in the material ledger	Functionality to calculate actual costs for articles Leveraging of cost-component split Ability to make multiple parallel valuations in multiple currencies  Tracking of the historic exchange rates in the article master  Parallel valuation at retail sales price, including ERMA (extended retail method of accounting)  User ability to keep inventory at the level of the value-only article	More accurate cost calculations and increased transparency in analyses  Actual costing that allows for revaluation of stock and cost of goods sold  Cost component split that makes cost structure transparent group wide and facilitates execution of the group strategy Out-of-the-box availability of parallel valuation, for instance, for compliance with U.S. GAAP (generally accepted accounting principles)  Meaningful analyses based on historic exchange rates  Parallel valuation in multiple currencies, such as in group and in local currency  Retail sales-price valuation according to ERMA  Streamlining of certain business processes by using the concept of value-based inventory available through value-only articles  A single version of truth for valuation  Reduced data footprint through the removal of material management valuation
IS Oil & Gas	Oil and gas downstream with SAP S/4HANA, version 1610	Full enablement of oiland gas downstream functionalitieswith release1610 of SAP S/4HANA  Redesigned hydrocarbon product management (HPM) Unit-of-measuregroupenhancement solution based on simplified HPM data model  Inventory planning workbench (IPW) that is optimized for the SAP Trader's and Scheduler's Workbench application  Role in SAP Fiori for transportation schedulerswith apps forregional dashboards, nominations, and events  Oil andgas flavored roles in SAP Fiori for transportation schedulers, supply chain managers, inventory managers, shipping specialists and billing clerks	Oiland gas customerability touse release 1610 ofSAP S/4HANA forinnovations  Reduced risk of inconsistencies with simplified HPM, providing higher inventory reporting compliance  Faster adoption to business changes with unit-of-measure groupenhancement Improved user experience and real-time inventory planning for transportation schedulers  Improved user experience for specificroles includingtransportation schedulers, supply chain mangagers, inventory managers, shipping specialists and billing clerks with the SAP Fiori launchpad
IS Public Sector	Multichannel enablement for SAP S/4HANA for Public Sector	User management and integration to SAP Gateway technology   Submission of forms  Display ofopen and paid bills   Partial or full bill payment    Ability to maintain method of payment    Maintenance of address and contact data   Ability to view correspondence  Alert management  Co-browsing functionalities  Ability to switch between multiple business partners linked to an online account	OData services that allow customers to develop services independently with minimal effort   Faster customer implementation with an out-of-the-box user-interface template showcasing the various new OData services    Consistent constituentexperiences across channels
IS Utilities	SAP S/4HANA Utilities Analytics, part 2	Enhancements to the virtual data model for IS-U with the following analytic capabilities and KPIs:   Analytics for contracts to be billed  Analytics for contracts blocked for billing  Analytics for missing billing orders  "Cube for installed device" enabled for custom-specific fields	Analytics for planning IS-U billing runs Analytics for revenue assurance: ability to identifylocked contracts and missing billing orders  Ability to consider custom-specific fields of devices and device categories in analytics
IS Utilities	SAP S/4HANA Utilities, stock and transaction statistics	Plans to extend the virtual data model for IS-utilities based on core date services (CDS) views to support the following analytic functionalitiesof the previousutilities information system: Stock statistics –analytics related to business partners, contracts, installations, premises, and the like Transaction statistics –analytics related to "move in," "move out," won customers, lost customers (switch documents), and more	Ability to perform analytics oncustomer-related datadirectly on the operational data  Relevance for liberalized utilities markets – ability to gain deeper understanding of which customers have been lost or won
IS Utilities & Public Sector	SAP Multichannel Foundation for Utilities and Public Sector software and SAP S/4HANA: self-services for end customers	SAP Multichannel Foundation for Utilities and Public Sector software: a consumer self-services solution for the utilities industry that provides utilities with a powerful and cost-effective way to extend their customer interactions through various digital self-service channels, such as Web, mobile, and social media  Current method of delivery: as an add-on to the SAP ERP application (see SAP Community at http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-51663) Planned delivery of SAP Multichannel Foundation for Utilities and Public Sector within the IS-utilities solution in SAP S/4HANA, to provide utilities a consumer self-service solution	Benefits for utility customers:   A comprehensive self-service solution as part of IS-utilities in SAP S/4HANA  Over 55 self-service business processes that are pre-integrated with IS-Utilities and available in the form of easy-to-consume OData services  3 template apps – a desktop-only Web app, a mobile Web or responsive app, and a mobile app for Android and iOS devices Flexibility to extend the solution to meet specific customer requirements
IS-HealthCare Billing	First version of patient accounting for selected markets supporting value-based care	Automated patient-billing processincluding communication with external stakeholders  Role-specific workplace for the patient-account representative	Integration with any clinical information system Significantautomation ofpatient billing  Role-specific workplace with smart worklists supporting issue handling Lower implementation and overall operating costs
IS-Utilities	Enablement of SAP S/4HANA Utilities for large systems	Plans to optimizethe SAP S/4HANA Utilities solution for application to large systems and large volumes of data (technically)   Support of SAP S/4HANA Utilities for scale-out architectures to distribute database tables over different server nodes  Performance optimization for most-critical batch processes in the area of metering and billing	Increased flexibility – provision of scale-out capability as an option for system architectures in addition to scale-up architecture  Reduced TCO – scale-out TCO, which is considerably smaller than scale-up TCO
Master Data	Redesigned manufacturing part number master data for SAP S/4HANA	Redesign of manufacturing part number (MPN) master data:   Availability for SAP S/4HANA across industries with no specific business function needed  Concatenation of vendor or external manufacturer and material number up to 40 digits  Client-dependent customizing to activate an inventory-managed MPN  Client-dependent customizing of material types to enable concatenation  Client-dependent customizing of the manufacturer parts profile for inventory-managed MPN	Use of manufacturing part number master data across industries as part of the core material number solution, with no need to activate a specific business function; process that is controlled by client-dependent customizing:   Provision of easy-to-maintain search help and validation for external manufacturers Performance improvements with the ability to search, filter, and sort MPN numbers in reports Better-controlled processwith thedescription of the MPN as a unique key field in the material table (MARA) Use of standard business warehouse (BW) info cubes for material number MATNR, with no need to create new, custom info cubes for MPN
Master Data - Material	Field length extensions in classification and variant configurations	Accommodation of long material numbers and characteristics values for:   Classifications  Object dependencies  Variant configurations	Ability to use characteristic valueswith up to 70 characters
Master Data - Product Master	Manage Product Master	Create, edit, search, copyand display of product and article and mark the product for deletion	User ability tocreate master data in a "stateless" way; that is, as independent andunrelated to any previous request
Master Data Utilities	SAP Fiori app for utilities meter reading and billing	SAP Fiori apps for meter data specialists (utilities):   Resolve implausible meter-reading results (by researchingand processingimplausible meter reading results,with options torelease or correct them)   SAP Fiori app for billing specialists (utilities): Resolve out-sorted billing documents (by researching and processing out-sorted billing documents, with options to release, reverse, or change master and billing-related data)	New, intuitive user interfaces  Increased user productivity  Improved revenue assurance  Optimization of key processes in meter reading and billing
Master Data Utilities	SAP Fiori app for utilities meter reading and billing, part 2	SAP Fiori apps for billing specialists (utilities):   Overview Page for Periodic Billing: Different charts provide analytic content about the status and results of the periodic billing process. KPIs are displayed on high level. Drill down is available to analyze the data in details. Release Blocked Contracts (worklist to analyze blocked contracts with the functionality to release single or multiple blocked contracts)	New, intuitive user interfaces  Increased user productivity  Improved revenue assurance  Optimization of key processes in billing
Master Data Utilities	SAP Fiori app for utilities meter reading and billing, part 3	SAP Fiori apps for the business role meter data specialist (utilities)   Overview page meter reading   SAP Fiori apps for the business role billing specialist (utilities) Resolve out-sorted invoicing documents	New, intuitive user interfaces  Increased user productivity
Migration - sFIN - Special Ledger	Migration of special ledgers with document splitting to the universal ledger	Migration tools for migration of customer-specific special ledgers with document splitting to the universal journal with document splitting (fund accounting)	Enables existing customers who have different ledger and splitting processes in place to adopt to using SAP S/4HANA without having to go through the interim step of new general ledger – or “new GL” – migration
O2C	SAP Fiori apps for order-to-cash process managers in SAP S/4HANA	Display the current workload and the most important tasks for the order-to-cash process manager with SAP Fiori app Overview Page*  Get a comprehensive overview of the performance and conformity of all sales-order processes in your company with SAP Fiori app Order-To-Cash Performance Monitor*  Get a comprehensive overview of issues that impede sales orders from being fulfilled with SAP Fiori app Sales Order Fulfillment Monitor*   *SAP Fiori app names may be subject to change.	Identification of bottlenecks and areas of improvement throughcomparison of aggregated views of your current and past processes Strategic and operational control over end-to-end performance of order-to-cash processes  Benchmarking across a number of business attributes, such as sales organization, distribution channel, division, customer, and material
O2C	SAP Fiori apps for project financial and logistics controller	SAP Fiori apps for project financial controllers and project logistics controllers:   Object pages (fact sheets) and list reports for main project systemsbusiness objects  Selected analytical and transactional apps focusing on project financial control
O2C	SAP Fiori apps for returns & refund clerks in SAP S/4HANA	Display of contextual information about the customer returnin the Customer Return* object page  User navigation to related business objects and access to related transactions in the operational system   *SAP Fiori app names may be subject to change	Fast data insights  Easy forward navigation
Others	Equipment and tools management	Enablement of equipment andtools management
Plant Maintainance	Plant performance analytics	Plant performanceanalytics offer the following reports of aggregated transactional data in SAP HANA software in real time: Scrap reasons  Operation scrap  Material scrap  Processing durations  Excess component consumption	Identify root causes for issues like scrap, excessive processing durations, and excessive component consumption Compare planned-versus-actual parameters for scrap percentages and processing durations
Plant Maintainance	SAP Fiori app Respond to Breakdown in SAP S/4HANA	Manage maintenance processes using the design approach of the SAP Fiori user experience  Identify jobs that need to be performed  Prepare jobs for execution  Check availability of resources needed to perform a maintenance job Record consumed time, material,actions taken, androot cause of failure  Record unplanned activities  Complete jobs  Identify and initiate follow-up activities
PLM	Embedded software management	Manage embedded software versions in the SAP Product Lifecycle Management (SAP PLM) application  Manage embedded software in the engineering product structure Maintain compatibility information between software and other components of a product  Check product structure for compatibility of embedded software	Support of PLM processes for cyber-physical, particularly mechatronic, products  Compatibility of software embedded in a product
PLM	Engineering record management in SAP S/4HANA	SAP Fiori apps*   Engineering Inbox  Manage Engineering Records   *SAP Fiori app names may be subject to change.	Engineering Inbox app – allows the BOM engineer to monitor and process workflow tasks in the SAP Product Lifecycle Management (SAP PLM) application  Manage Engineering Records app – allows the BOM engineer to manage engineering changes;for instance, to monitor change progress on a regular basis and create new changes in response to certain events
PLM	PLM search enhancements	Enablement of additional search attributes within the product lifecycle management (PLM) search:   Document search with linked documents  Engineering-record search with custom engineering record types Ability to search with custom product specifications for manufacturing (PSM) types  Synchronization of searches from bills of materials (BOMs) tobills of materialswith assigned manufacturing BOMs (MBOMs) Synchronization of PSM-to-BOM searches with source PSM structure and target MBOMs  Specification and PSM searches with status data  MBOM, recipe, and PSM searches with assigned classification data  MBOM, recipe, and PSM searches with assigned document data  Label searches with recipe data origins	Execution of more precise and extensive searches, with the additional search capabilities
PLM	Product lifecycle management: Target-driven recipe development	Scope of target-driven recipe development –enable food, chemical, and consumer productdevelopers to incorporate targets in making formulations, including:   Formulation project: Contains the target and other settings, plus repository objects  Single-formula editor: Create and maintain single recipe to meet project targets and goals  Compliance: Validate during design of a recipe if fullfills regulations	Formulation Project   One-time setup of project context which can be reused  Enables grouping of required data  Setting targest of compliance targets  Object authorization  Reference to existing products  Briefing   Single Formula Editor   Compete with Excel on usability and performance  Consolidate formula, process, calculations and compliance check on one screen   Compliance   Customers can start to integrate compliance content into Target Driven Recipe Development
PLM	SAP Fiori enablement for PLM Recipe Development	Searches enabled for key activities for the recipe developer role:   Manage specifications  Manage recipes  Manage labels  Manage change master  Manage phrases
Production Execution	Enablement of work-in-process batch for order combination	Enhancementsto existing work-in-process (WIP)batch functionality for order combinations to support combined production and process orders in the areas of time ticket confirmations, WIP batch where-used list, and goods receipts	Allow WIP batch customersto usethe order combination functionality toincrease manufacturing efficiency
QM	QM: SAP Fiori apps for Results Recording in SAP S/4HANA	The new Fiori transactional app for results recording helps quality technicians to record inspection results easily and efficiently. With the user experience for Quality Management (QM) in SAP S/4 HANA, quality technicians can benefit from the following:  • Flexible and state-of-the-art worklists for inspection lots, samples, and characteristics  • Easy-to-use, but comprehensive user interfaces for recording the results of different types of inspection characteristics (qualitative, quantitative, single, mean values, and so on)
QM	Quality management (QM): object pages for quality planners	Role-based QM in SAP Fiori launchpadwith Quality Info Record for Procurement*and Sampling Procedure* object pages  Newly designed object pages with friendly and intuitive user interfaces that display information about the quality info record and sampling procedure   *SAP Fiori app names may be subject to change.	Flexible worklists with comprehensive filter criteria and adjustable table columns  Simple and intuitive UI  Information display about the QM object
QM	Quality management (QM): object pages for quality technicians	Role-based QM in SAP Fiori launchpad with QM object pages  Newly designed object pages with friendly and intuitive user interfaces that display information about samples	Flexible worklists with comprehensive filter criteria and adjustable table columns  Simple and intuitive user interface  Information displayabout the QM objects
QM	Quality management (QM): role-based SAP Fiori launchpads	Support for core QM processes withnew roles in the SAP Fiori user experience (UX) for:   Quality technicians  Quality engineers  Quality planners  Quality managers  Quality auditors  Calibration technicians	Role-based launchpad forSAP Fiori apps  Simple and intuitive user experience across the most frequently used business transactions in QM  Integrated search functionality inSAP Fiori with UI shells from SAP
RAR	Revenue recognition and accruals in the SAP Hybris Billing solution	Unbilled revenue accrual, which is frequently required but not yet provided as a standard functionality in the BRIM solution Ability to record expenses and revenues in the period they occur, and meet legal requirements to do so Functionality for unbilled evaluations, down to the contract level and on a daily basis, in order to offer unbilled revenue figures, also for management reporting
Sales Order Management	Enhancements to SAP Fiori apps for internal sales representatives in SAP S/4HANA, enhancement 1	Display of contextual information about a sales document with SAP Fiori object pages Sales Quotation, Sales Order, Sales Contract, Credit Memo Request, Debit Memo Request, and Customer 360 - Sales View; user navigation to related business objects and access to related transactions in the operational system  Ability to create, modify, or display sales documents with work lists in SAP Fiori apps Manage Sales Quotations, Manage Sales Orders, Manage Sales Contracts, Manage Credit Memo Requests, and Manage Debit Memo Requests  Enhancements to the SAP Fiori app Sales Order Fulfillment Monitor, which allows you to resolve issues that impede sales orders from being fulfilled  Ability to analyse the conversion rate of open quotations with SAP Fiori app Quotation Conversion Rates  Ability to analyse the sales contract fulfillment rate with SAP Fiori app Sales Contract Fulfillment Rates	Fast data insights  Easy forward navigation
SCM	SAP Fiori app Assign Product to Product Allocation for SAP S/4HANA	SAP Fiori app* for release 1610 of SAP S/4HANA for:   Time-dependent assignment of product-allocation data to products or to combinations of products and locations  Maintenance of product-allocation check strategy *SAP Fiori app names may be subject to change.	Simple app that is easy to learn and use Responsive user experience
SCM	SAP Fiori app Configure Product Allocation for SAP S/4HANA	SAP Fiori app* for release 1610 of SAP S/4HANA for creation and maintenance of product allocation objects   *SAP Fiori app names may be subject to change.	Simple app that is easy to learn and use Responsive user-experience design
SCM - Product Allocation Planning	SAP Fiori app Manage Product Allocation Planning Data for SAP S/4HANA	SAP Fiori app* for release 1610 of SAP S/4HANA for:   Creation, updating, and deletion of characteristic value combinations and their planned allocation quantities  Graphical presentation of the availability of characteristic value combinations  Managing of activation status, availability status, and lifecycle status of the product allocation objects and their characteristic value combinations *SAP Fiori app names may be subject to change.	Simple app that is easy to learn and use Responsive user-experience design
SCM - UseCAse Oil&Gas Transportation Scheduler	Hydrocarbon supply chain productivity	SAP Fiori launchpad – provide the complete SAP Fiori launchpad for the oil and gas transportation scheduler role and its linked SAP Fiori apps:   SAP Fiori app* My Nominations, based on the nominations worklist – helps schedulers perform mass updates and mass creations of nominations by providing new filter and selection capabilities  SAP Fiori app* Regional Inventory View – links to the inventory planning workbench (IPW) on the back end, displays the combination of location, material, and valuation type on the vertical axis, and displays each day of the date range on the horizontal axis  SAP Fiori app* Mass Change Events – enables centralized maintenance of multiple events en masse and helps the scheduler mass update and mass create events under multiple nominations with the support of new filter and selection capabilities  Enhancements to the inventory cockpit   *SAP Fiori app names may be subject to change.	Tailor the SAP Fiori launchpad and its linked SAP Fiori apps to the specific needs of a transportation scheduler: Provide a single point of entry for the user  Deliver a consistent look and feel for all apps with text menus and a responsive user interface (UI)  Improve scheduler productivity by reducing the need to use spreadsheets, as well as allowing for a single edit of each nomination, with the My Nominations app, which allows for mass copying and editing of nominations – a key requirement Deliver a single dashboard of inventory alerts through the regional inventory, which allows schedulers to monitor their products across locations and take corrective actions when necessary Improve the current system of event maintenance, which has to be done individually for each nomination and is especially time consuming when there are several nominations tagged to the same physical movement  Enhance productivity through mass change events  Enable user simulation of a full nomination run before publishing, through enhancements to IPW  Provide several business add-ins for customers to cover, create, copy, and maintain nominations  Allow for a more stable UI andenable usersto delete nominations
SCM - UseCase PPDS in S4HANA	Manufacturing planning: production planning and detailed scheduling (SAP S/4HANA)	Access production planning and detailed scheduling as part of the manufacturing planning functionalities in SAP S/4HANA Create procurement proposals for in-house production or external procurement to cover product requirements Optimize and plan the resource schedule and the order dates and times in detail by taking the resource and component availability into account  Plan critical products, such as products with long replenishment lead times or products that are produced with bottleneck resources  Create executable production plans  Use the “Create Optimal Ordersfor Shipment” app to order several materials in one purchase order and optimize the order quantities to best utilize the capacity of the means of transport
SCM - UseCase Production Scheduling Board	Manufacturing planning – production-scheduling board in SAP S/4HANA	Access Web-based graphical scheduling tool for production planning and detailed scheduling as part of the manufacturing-planning functionalities in SAP S/4HANA software  Customize the Web-based graphical scheduling tool for production planning and detailed scheduling according to various industry needs  Optimize and plan the resource schedule and the order dates and times in detail by taking the resource and component availability into account  Plan critical products, such as products with long replenishment lead times or products that are produced with bottleneck resources  Create executable production plans
SCM - UseCase Visual work Instructions	Manufacturing engineering: visual enterprise manufacturing planner, visual work instructions, variant configuration	Ability to create visual work instructions using camera positions to create steps exactly as in the assembly situation (simulation)  Automatic generation of visual work instructions for configurable materials according to the bill of materials (BOM) and routing structures  Display of configured (100%) visual work instructions in production order  Ability to manage changes to visual work instructions using the SAP 3D Visual Enterprise Author application  Processing of cases when the BOM is a variant BOM (150% BOM),in which casevisual work instructions will contain all possible variants and will, therefore, be configurable  Support of phantom assemblies to model complex variants  Assembly simulation combined with configuration simulation and phantom assembly roll-up	Improve manufacturing performance by streamlining the handover from engineering to manufacturing using 3D visuals Increase productivity of shop-floor workers by providing them with visual work instructions  Create configurable visual work instructions as part of the assembly planning process  Use variant configuration functionality to configure visual work instructions to be consumed on the shop floor
Shipping	Enhancements to SAP Fiori apps for shipping specialists in SAP S/4HANA	Schedule the creation of outbound deliveries from a list of sales documents (collective run that is executed in the background)  Schedule goods-issue postings for outbound deliveries (collective run that is executed in the background)	Ability to automate recurring tasks to be performed at a time that best suits the user, such as outside of business hours or before the start of a shift, even multiple times a day if necessary – without any further manual interaction
Sourcing & Procurement	Procure-to-pay, procurement overview page in SAP S/4HANA	Role-based and personalized entry page for buyers to monitor business issues  Plans for different card types to support various visualizations including analytical cards to view key performance indicators and list cards to monitor contracts; sample card types:   Contract monitoring  Urgent purchase requisition items – unsourced  Overdue purchase order items  Purchasing spend by material group  Purchasing spend by supplier  Purchasing spend trend  Non-managed spend by material group  Non-managed spend by supplier  Off-contract spend by material group  Off-contract spend by supplier  Supplier performance monitoring  Supplier evaluation trend   Contextual navigation to quickly open corresponding worklists, take immediate action, or show analytic drill-downs  Use of the global filter to filter all cards according to individual responsibilities	Provide the most relevant and important information at a glance  Monitor business issues in real time and react immediately  Configure individual layout and use the global filter to adapt cards to your individual responsibility  Navigate to related apps to resolve issues  Filter the entire page contentfor specific suppliers, material groups, and the like
Sourcing & Procurement	Procure-to-pay, real-time analytics in SAP S/4HANA (2nd)	Companies enabled to reduce supply costs through greater efficiencies and savings from their procurement operations Role-based and quick access to the procurement information purchasers need to analyze purchasing spend, suppliers, and contracts in real time, in SAP S/4HANA software  Available additional key performance indicators: Overall Supplier evaluation (combined hard and soft facts)  Operational Supplier evaluation  Supplier evaluation by Questionnaire (soft fact evaluation)  Value contract consumption  Quantity contract consumption  Purchase requisition item types  Purchase requisition item changes  Purchase requisition no touch rate  Purchase requisition average approval time  Purchase requisition to order cycle time   In Purchase Order Value KPI, a new measure is planned to visualize planned spend per purchasing category.	Real-time calculation of key performance indicators to analyze managed and non-managed spend, contracts, and suppliers  Fast and highly configurable KPIs  Instant insight-to-action functionalities through navigation to other SAP Fiori apps and object pages  Dynamic supplier-evaluation scoring based on procurement documents in real time  Insight into procurement efficiency throughpurchasing requisition KPIs
Sourcing & Procurement	Procure-to-pay, sourcing, and contract management in SAP S/4HANA	Holistic support for the operational purchaser across contract management and source assignment activities, such as managing schedule agreements and quota arrangements in addition to operational contracts or source lists with SAP S/4HANA software    Transactional apps: Manage Scheduling Agreements* and Manage Quota Arrangements*    Plans to provide a simple request for quotation processing and an external interface to initiate sourcing events in external systems outside of SAP S/4HANA *SAP Fiori app names may be subject to change	Dynamic and flexible search and filtering across the entire list of scheduling agreements and quota arrangements instead of time-consuming back-and-forth searching in list views    Grouping, filtering, and downloading of purchasing documents    Comprehensive overview across available sources of supply, such as contracts, purchasing info records, source lists, and quota arrangements in the SAP Fiori app Manage Sources of Supply    Extension ofsourcing capabilities of theSAP S/4HANA Sourcing and Procurement Cloud to external sourcing solutions
TM	Transportation Management integrated in S/4HANA	System and process integration in SAP S/4HANA with functionality from release 9.4 of the SAP Transportation Management application Harmonized and customized transportation master data  Provision of a user interface for SAP S/4HANA through the SAP Fiori launchpad Single-system integration functionality  Transportation planning and optimization  Transportation management real-time analytics  Integration of SAP S/4HANA Supply Chain for transportation management and SAP S/4HANA Supply Chain for extended warehouse management  Access to the transportation management collaboration portal	All processes coming together in one system Ability to Run Simple  Reduced data redundancy  User interface for SAP S/4HANA with tiles from the SAP Fiori launchpad  Harmonized master data  Direct-use customizing functionality of SAP S/4HANA  Integrated transportation process forSAP S/4HANA
W/H	Basic warehouse management in S/4HANA	Plans to bring the basicscope of the SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM) application into SAP S/4HANA software, which willprovidecustomers with flexible deployment options to run multiplewarehousescenarioswithin a singleSAP solution.SAP EWMenables companies to maximize their labor and space utilization and equipment investments by coordinating and optimizing resource usage and material flows. Following processes aresupported for distribution, manufacturing,service business and Cross dock/Transitwarehouses   Inventory management  Inbound processing  Outbound processing  Internal warehouse movement  Physical inventory  Reporting	Improve warehouse space utilization  Increase on-time shipments  Improve shipment accuracy  Improve inventory visibility  Increase inventory accuracy