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Not Sure Which App to Use in Product Cost Planning or Inventory Accounting? Feature Comparison to the Rescue!
Are you a consultant or a customer and unsure about which apps to choose during implementation of SAP S/4HANA or SAP S/4HANA Cloud? Then, feature comparisons could be useful in your decision-making process.
What is a feature comparison exactly?
Product Cost Planning (in SAP S/4HANA) and Inventory Accounting (in SAP S/4HANA Cloud) both offer numerous apps. These apps may vary in their underlying technology (HTML GUI, WebDynpro, or Fiori) and features, but there may also be similarities in their functional scope.The feature comparison is designed in table format so you can easily see which features are available just like product comparisons on your favorite online shopping websites. The table also contains links to the SAP Fiori Apps Reference Library and the related app documentation.
Example: Apps for managing costing runs
Imagine that you need an app to create costing runs and you’re already familiar with the functionality of the classic SAP GUI transaction Edit Costing Runs (CK40N). But, did you know that the Fiori app Manage Costing Runs – Estimated Costs (F1865) offers additional features, such as filtering options (by status, costing variant, or valuation variant) and the possibility to schedule costing run steps for multiple costing runs at once?
| App Name | Manage Costing Runs – Estimated Costs | Edit Costing Runs |
|---|---|---|
| App ID | F1865 | CK40N |
| Cost mass materials in multiple plants or companies | Yes | Yes |
| Display an overview of your costing runs and their status | Yes |
Supports the following: Display single costing runs |
| Filter for criteria such as status, costing variant, and valuation variant | Yes |
No |
| Create new runs from scratch or by copying other runs | Yes | Yes |
| Have runs automatically repeat at regular intervals, such as monthly or quarterly (recurrence) | Yes | Yes |
| Schedule costing run steps for multiple costing runs | Yes |
No |
| Delete multiple costing runs at once | Yes |
No |
| Show scheduled job information | Yes |
No |
| Download results in a spreadsheet file | Yes | Yes |
| Navigate to selection list | Yes |
No |
Piqued your interest?
For SAP S/4HANA Cloud (as of release 2202) take a look at the following feature comparisons available for Inventory Accounting :
Feature Comparison for Managing Costing Runs
Feature Comparison for Inventory Balance Sheet Valuation
Feature Comparison for Material Valuations and Price Changes
For SAP S/4HANA (as of release 2021) the feature comparisons below are available for Product Cost Planning :
Feature Comparison for Managing Costing Runs
Feature Comparison for Material Valuations and Price Changes
Feature Comparison for Material Inventory Value Reports
Please note that these comparisons aren’t available for every single app. We’ll focus on apps whose scope actually overlaps.
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