SAP S/4HANA – Group Reporting

SAP has come up with the new Consolidation solution Group reporting for the release of S/4HANA On-premise 1809 solution.  This product has the following characteristics

• Consolidation solution embedded within SAP S/4HANA (on-premise and single- or multi-tenant cloud)
• Supports complete flow of collection, processing, analysis, publication
• Data categories and reporting cycles with varying levels of detail for plan, actual, simulation
• Modern API‘s to flexibly ingest data from any source and feed adjacent systems

What Comprises of this solution is described below

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The below has the additional features

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What are the advantages of real-time access?

Data Quality

• Postings can be checked continuously against central validation rules
• Shared Master Data and Rules for local and group closing

Speed

• Necessary adjustments can be done locally and results are provided immediately for consolidation
• Certain consolidation steps can be performed before the consolidation (e.g. currency translation)

Transparency

• Fully enabled Drill-through from consolidation to the line-items of the entity (instead of transformation in multiple systems) „Single Source of Truth“
• Consolidation with free-of-choice fields of the source system

Instant Data Insight for Group Reporting
Embedded analytics for operational accounting and consolidation

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