SAP Simple Logistics is also called SAP S/4 HANA Enterprise Management. It consists of all the key modules under SAP ERP Business Suite – Material Management, Supply Chain, Demand Planning, Sourcing and Procurement, Contract Management, and Manufacturing.

Subsequent business processes can be managed using SAP S/4 HANA Enterprise Management with improved performance and efficiency for all these processes −

Inventory Management − SAP S/4 HANA Enterprise Management provides a simplified data model resulting in increased throughput and flexible analytics at the most granular level.
Procurement − With SAP S/4 HANA Enterprise Management, you’ll achieve increased efficiency in the Procure-To-Pay processes, new Analytical Apps and Spend KPIs, Ariba Network Integration for PO Order and IV.
Material Requirements Planning − You’ll perform fast MRP run, and a new working model for MRP controllers based on decision support.
Order Management & Billing − Using S/4 HANA Enterprise Management, you’ll perform end-to-end order-to-cash process and take action for any exceptions, information on the exceptions to resolve the issues, lower TCO due to data model simplification, support for the most recent versions of business features such as FSCM Credit Management, GTS Foreign Trade, SFIN Revenue Accounting, and new analytical capabilities.

ERP Model vs S/4 HANA Data Model

To manage large volumes of data, SAP has provided next generation Business Suite S/4 HANA, which uses computing power of HANA to process huge amounts of data at very high speed.

SAP S/4 HANA is not a successor of SAP ERP solution and represents a separate product line. SAP ERP solution is a separate product from SAP. With new S/4 HANA Data Model, you’ll achieve the subsequent benefits over ERP Data Model −

In new S/4 HANA Data Model, it drops all aggregate fields and history tables (in total 24 tables).
In the new model, there is no need to perform updates on aggregation tables.
Open for new stock types.
High speed evaluations.

With the recent business development, there has been exponential growth of information – social media, big data, and mobile. In the next 2 years, there will be growth in adaption of business networks. By 2020, there will be 9 billion mobile users worldwide and this will only increase with time.

SAP S/4 HANA Business Suite ─ Key Features

Subsequent are some of the key features of SAP S/4 HANA Business Suite −

SAP S/4 HANA is designed based on new Fiori user experience which provides a role-based integrated user experience.
S/4 HANA can be connected to different applications in real time to provide realtime data processing and analysis.
S/4 HANA runs on in-memory HANA database to provide simplifications – no indexes, no aggregates, and no redundancies.
SAP S/4 HANA provides a choice of deployment – On-Premise, Cloud, and Hybrid.
S/4 HANA provides new architecture and data models.
Customers can use the customization even after migration of the system. Migration of SAP Business Suite to S/4 HANA is done via implementation package in the form of SAP Simple Finance and Simple Logistics, and many more.
With SAP S/4HANA, SAP is providing a new product and a next generation of business applications – simple enterprise software for Big Data and is designed to help you run simple in the digital economy.

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In the subsequent image, you’ll see different sub-modules available with SAP S/4 HANA Business Suite.

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SAP S/4 HANA Enterprise Management has been designed by reintegrating portions of SAP CRM, SRM, and SCM into this solution. SAP S/4HANA Enterprise Management is available on-premise and in the cloud. It depends on different licensing/subscription models. SAP S/4 HANA solution can be a Cloud solution or you’ll also implement it as On-Premise system like SAP ERP.

SAP Simple Logistics – Main Components

In today’s business, it is one of the toughest challenges to meet the inventory requirements as per customer demands. Also, with the development of new technologies, the expectations have increased.

Inventory Management

With the use of S/4 HANA, an improvement in Inventory Management is observed with the creation of one document table (MATDOC).

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In the above image, you’ll see a simplified inventory management data model that led to the creation of Material document table MATDOC. Subsequent changes are implemented with this approach −

No need of saving aggregated tables, on fly aggregation
No joining is required with merging header and item level
Corrected Material Master Data Table

Material Valuation

In SAP S/4 HANA Enterprise Management, subsequent material valuation methods are supported −

Standard Price
Moving Avg. Price
Actual Costing

You have the clear separation of master data from transactional data. S/4HANA data model includes only 4 tables instead of multiple tables. You observe reduction of memory footprint and data footprint.

Reporting is not only based on material ledger tables and that contains data only related to material. No information is provided related to financial dimensions. The new reporting based on S/4 HANA data model includes both financial and material data.

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Material Requirements Planning Run and Analysis

Using SAP S/4 HANA, material requirement planning shows an overview of the innovations with performance improvement in MRP run. All the material flow is analyzed in real time and quickly identifies any disruptions in material flow and the impact of these issues in Material Requirement Planning Analysis.

Subsequent benefits can be achieved using the new support model −

Scenario dependent and 10 times faster.
Support for in-house production and delivery schedules.
Classic mode for capacity planning and discontinuation.
MRP run on any personal device.
Adoptable and personalization.
With SAP S/4 HANA Enterprise Management, you’ll use an exception-based working mode to detect issues earlier and this approach helps to improve customer satisfaction by using the Sales Order Fulfillment cockpit.

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SAP S4 HANA Simple Logistics Training

About the Course

SAP S/4 HANA Logistics 1909 is a one stop solution for new-age Material Management, Production Planning, Supply Chain Management, as well as sales and distribution of organizations with medium to large infrastructure. SAP S/4HANA Logistics is also known as SAP S4 HANA Enterprise Management which includes all the modules not only the Finance but also the modules like SAP MM, SAP SD and now they are available as a part of SAP S4 HANA as a product and enterprise management is the complete business street. SAP S4 HANA Logistics uses the data processing ability of S4 HANA to provide simpler, faster and more efficient approaches to logistics and supply chain problems.

Why Should you take SAP S4 HANA Simple Logistics Training?

The Average salary of SAP Consultant is $110,250 per annum – PayScale.com
S4 is a new tool to come from SAP HANA stables that can help simplify the domains of logistics, enterprise resource management, supply chain management, and more. Worldwide Business Intelligence and Analytics Market to grow to $22.8 billion in next 2 years – Gartner.

What you will Learn in this Course?

Overview of SAP and SAP HANA

Architecture overview of SAP HANA
History of SAP
Enterprise Architecture
Database, Application and Presentation Layer
Comparing row store and column store in SAP HANA
Overview on views (Attribute, Analytic, Calculation)
SAP HANA Modelling

Introduction to S4 HANA Logistics

How S4 HANA benefits the business enterprises in the logistics domain
SAP Business Suite to S4 HANA
SAP Navigation GUI
New User experience app SAP Flori for SAP software and applications
Deploying S4 HANA Logistics for premise in the cloud or as a hybrid application
Deployment options – On Premise, Cloud, Hybrid
Why go for Simple Logistics
SAP S4 HANA Simple Logistics – Key Innovations
ERP Model Vs S4 HANA Data Model
SAP Simple Logistics – Main Components
Hands On

SAP S4 HANA Implementation Scenarios

Transition to S4 HANA
System Conversion
New Implementation
Landscape Transformation
Hands On

Introduction to SAP Activate Methodology

What is SAP Activate
Why do we need SAP Activate
SAP Activate used in which projects
Advantages of SAP Activate
SAP Activate – Innovations for New Implementation
Hands On

Business Partner and Customer Vendor Integration (CVI) on SAP S4 HANA

Master data synchronization between Business Partner (BP) to customer and vendor
Synchronization control
Customer Vendor Integration (CVI)
Implementation/Migration from ECC to S4 HANA
Converting Customers/ Vendors into BP and Conversion Process & Tools, and Conversion Cockpit.
Configuring BP role
Configuration of number range and grouping
Defining account group
Hands On

SAP Fiori Apps

Introduction to SAP Fiori UX
SAP Flori Launchpad
UI Theme Designer
Innovations in Fiori for different modules
Generate new tiles for a custom/ standard tcode
Creating new catalogue, group & roles
KPI
Hands On

Sales on SAP S4 HANA

Sales Documents (customizing)
Billing process and Customizing, Smart Business
Basic Functions (customizing), Pricing and condition technique.
Sales process, Shipping Process and Customizing, Availability Check, Organizational Structures, Cross-functional Customizing, Master Data
Hands On

Output management on SAP S4 HANA

Prerequisite of output management
Configuration of new output management
- Manage application object type application
- Define output type
- Define business rule for output determination
- Assign output channels
- Define rules for determination of master form template
- Assign form template

Material Requirement Planning (MRP) on SAP S4 HANA

MRP_Live configuration prerequisite
Number range configuration for MRP_Live
Set Up and Creation of planning file entries
Planning Execution for Material Requirements
Concept of Requirements Planning and its Technical Processes
Processing and Assessment of MRP Results
Additional Processes in MRP
Simplification of MRP from storage location to MRP area level

Changes in SAP Simple Logistics Process:

Overview of New Functionalities in SAP Simple Logistics
Overview of SAP Flori Apps related to Logistics/Supply Chain
Architectural Changes for Product Master and Supplier Information
Architectural Changes / Configurations related to Sourcing and Procurement
Architectural Changes / Configurations related to Supply Chain
Architectural Changes / Configurations related to Manufacturing
Architectural Changes / Configurations related to Sales

Data Migration to SAP S4 HANA

Activate methodology for data migration
Guided configuration
Maintenance planner
ABAP Test Cockpit
Adaption note for adapting custom development
Data migration cockpit for new fresh implementation
New field adding in report
Synchronization between BP to customer or Vendor,
Migration of credit management, Migration of material ledger, migration of documented credited decision

SAP S4 HANA Logistics Implementation Projects

Configuring standard Flori apps
Order to Cash Performance monitoring
SAP S4 on premise
Integrating SAP S4 HANA with Design Studio

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