SAP Simple Finance provides huge cost and time saving to manage finance and accounting by leveraging the computing power of SAP HANA. Universal journal combines all the good qualities of accounting components. Within the previous SAP Finance Accounting tool, all the components are separately managed due to technical restrictions without HANA platform.

Before SAP Simple Finance there were a lot of challenges, such as −

Different level of details stored in respective components/tables
To move the data to appropriate table for reporting purpose
Multiple BI extractors to analyze full data in BI
Reconciliation needed for all components

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With the new architecture of SAP Simple Finance, Universal Journal serves as a single source for all components with one line item table.

Key Features of the New Architecture

Subsequent features are provided with new SAP Simple Finance architecture −

Multidimensional reporting on Universal journal without performing data replication to BI.
Universal Journal as one-line item table with full detail for all the components. No reconciliation is required and data is stored only once.
Improved structural capabilities of the financial solution – multiGAAP, additional currencies, etc.
Support for the existing ABAP programs or reports to prior tables with read access.

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Subsequent tables are replaced by compatibility views within the new architecture −

Index Tables Removed −

BSIS – Index for G/L account
BSAS – Index for G/L Accounts (Cleared Items)
BSID – Index for Customers
BSAD – Index for Customers (Cleared Items)
BSIK – Index for Vendors
BSAK – Index for Vendors (Cleared Items)

Aggregate Tables Removed −

GLT0 – General Ledger Totals
GLT3 – Summary Data Preparation for Consolidation
KNC1 – Customer Master (Transaction Figures)
LFC1 – Vendor Master (Transaction Figures)

Other Tables Removed −

COEP – Cost Line Items
ANEP – Fixed Assets: Line Items

Universal Journal Extensibility in New Architecture

You’ll easily extend Universal Journal with customer fields. Extensibility is available for all the components that use Universal Journal – G/L, Asset Accounting, and Material Ledger.

Extensibility for General Ledger coding block extensibility.

HANA based reporting of all the components – General Ledger, AA, and Controlling.

Extend G/L Coding Block

Subsequent are the steps to extend G/L Coding Block −

Step 1 − To extend G/L coding block, you have to navigate SPRO → IMG → Financial Accounting (New) → Financial Accounting Global Settings (New) → Ledgers → Fields → Customer Fields → Edit Coding Block.

Step 2 − Within the next window, click the tick mark to confirm incorporation of new fields in SAP coding block.

Step 3 − When you add a customer field to the coding block, structure CI_COBL and CI_COBL_BI are created. Select CI_COBL Coding Block Customer Include and click Add Fields (F6).

Step 4 − Within the next window, enter the subsequent details −

Field Name
Field Label
Data Type
Field Length

Step 5 − Select from the subsequent Data Type – CHAR or NUMC. Once you enter all the details, click the Execute button.

SAP Simple Finance – Deployment Options

You’ll deploy a simple finance system either on-premise or in a cloud environment. When you deploy central finance system in cloud deployment scenario, the data replication is performed using the same mechanisms that is used in on-premise installations – SLT. To perform data replication via SLT, SLT portions will have to be available on both, the sending (on-premise) and the receiving system (cloud).

Non-SAP reporting and analytics, and additional SAP Simple Finance, or partner products need to be connected to the cloud instance or be made available withwithin the cloud installation as required.

SLT Replication in HANA

SAP Landscape Transformation Replication is a trigger-based data replication method in HANA system. It’s a perfect solution for replicating real-time data or schedule-based replication from SAP and non-SAP sources. It has SAP LT Replication server, which takes care of all trigger requests. Replication server can be installed as a standalone server or can run on any SAP system with SAP NW 7.02 or above.

There is a trusted RFC connection between HANA DB and ECC transaction system, which enables trigger-based data replication in HANA system environment.

Advantages of SLT Replication

Subsequent are certain advantages of SLT Replication −

SLT Replication method allows data replication from multiple source systems to one HANA system, and also from one source system to multiple HANA systems.
SAP LT uses trigger-based approach. It has no measureable performance impact within the source system.
It also provides data transformation and filtering capability before loading to HANA database.
It allows real-time data replication, replicating only relevant data into HANA from SAP and non-SAP source systems.
It’s fully integrated with HANA System and HANA studio.

Limitations of SLT Method

In SLT method, you don’t have centrally executed processes that results in back-postings to the source systems in order to maintawithin the integrity and legacy system status of those systems.

The amount of configuration, customizing, and master data synchronization required within the central instance depends on the type of the process desired. Many scenarios, especially core GL scenarios, are achievable with a limited effort. More complex scenarios, or scenarios beyond (core GL) Finance might be challenging or in selected cases not feasible.

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What you will Learn in this Course?

Overview of SAP HANA

Basic HANA introduction
SAP’s Big thing
SAP Fi, SAP CO, SAP BW, SAP APO
SAP S4 Hana next generation business suite
On Premise edition and Cloud edition
S4 HANA simplifier of enterprise software
Functional scope
Roadmap
SAP Hana History
ECC and ERP Concepts
Profitability
SAP COPA
Different types of tables
MATDOC
Green Field Implementation
Transformation of SAP to different Version of HANA

SAP Hana Implementation and Finance Concepts

Customer Program
Quota Management
FIORI
Rationalization
Profit Center
IOT
ECC
New GL Concept
SAP Vs SAP Fi
WorkCenter and RECIPE
Column Based reading
Company Code
Production Order
Cost of Activity
Cost of Production

General Ledger Accounting and Master Data

Material Document
Kinds of Data
Master data and transaction
Sub ledger
ACDOCA
FIORI App
ECC V/s HANA
Rationalization

Integrated Business Processes

General Table Display
Document number, Company Code, Fiscal Year
Asset Accounting
Cost Center
Cost element
Profitability segment
Sales and Distribution
Type of accounting
Central finance
Credit Control area

Organization Structure

Creation of new company codes
Defining business area
Functional area
IFRS
Profit Center
Product hierarchy
Profit center finalization and profit center dissension
Financial accounting organizational structure
Group Currency

CO (Controlling)

Controlling organisation structure
Current and valuation profile
Controlling area
Operating Concern
Financial accounting global setting
Ledgers
Currency Types
Legal View

Concepts of General Ledger Accounting Continued

Fiscal year
Shortened fiscal year
Purchase to pay
Order to cash
Goods receipts
Invoice

Master Data Management and Migration

Upgrade and migrate
S4 HANA component
Deployment of SAP HANA
SAP HANA Database migration
Replicate to central finance
Fiori
Simplified data model in finance
Avoid redundancy
Data footprint

Management Accounting and CO-PA

Account before simple finance
Finance implication
COPA revenue
COPA cost
Revenue
The new architecture with simple finance
Cost element
Simple IT with SAP simple finance architecture
GL account and cost element details

Material Ledger and Centralized Master Data for GL

Material ledger
Prima Nota in simple finance
Mr21 and Mr22
Multi-dimensional income statement
Merge of account
GL Account
Customer account
System work through
Header table
Transaction code and parameter
TSRC table
FI/CO document
Variant related program
Difference between Tcode and program

Financials for SAP S4 Hana

Tax in SAP
Direct and Indirect Tax
Account
Document Type in SAP Fi
Posting Key
Purchase order
Checking controlling area and company code object

SAP Product Costing

Cost objects
Cost Management & Profitability Analysis
Checking scrapping document
What is scrapping means

Materials Management

Material Vs Asset
Receipts and consumption
Material price analysis
Two type of consumption
Cost center
Material price analysis
Changing cost components splits of a material

Functionalities in New Asset Accounting

SAP Hana Implementation
G/L Account
Cost Object
Revenue collector
Asset accounting
HANA road map
Standard optimized transaction
Service order
Consignment
Fault part return
Accrual Management
What is underlined process
How finance support other modules
Positive post to order and negative post to order
Go-live and post migration activities
KPI with HANA
Monitor business performance
Accrual entry
Pricing procedure
Expense and revenue account

Finance process improvement

Over absorption and under absorption
Types of cycle
SAP treasury and risk management
Functional changes in HANA

Migration to SAP S4HANA Finance and General Ledger Accounting Continued

Project system
Data archiving
Profit center
Reconciliation issue
Migration to S4 Hana
Enablement of SAP S4 Hana
Implementing new G/L
Document Splitting
Parallel accounting

SAP Central Finance on S4 Hana

Replication to central finance
Non ECC system
Central finance mapping
Type of deployment

S4 Hana project phases

Preparation phase
Feasibility check
Check Size
Active business function
Parallel valuation
Depreciation calculation
Consistency check
Customizing
Data migration
Post migration
Testing
Preparation phase
Important SAP notes
Scope – ABAP
Active business function
FI consistency check

Reconciliation Process in SAP Hana

Reconciliation of general ledger and account payable
Reconciliation of the general ledger with materials management
Reconciliation of the ledgers
Ledger Comparison
Consistency check
Migration of general ledger settings
Defining setting for the journal entry ledger

Other Key Topics

Document types for Co
Real time reconciliation
Execute consistency check of general ledger setting
Data migration
Universal journal entry table
Management accounting
Migrate secondary cost elements to the card of accounts
Migration of cost elements to G/L account
Automatic account determination

Material Valuation in SAP Hana

Automatic determination of the account
Material valuation
Migrate default account assignments

Customizing Financials in SAP S/4HANA

Reconcile transnational data
Types of reconcile
Enrichment of data
Migration of line items into new data structure
Universal journal entry structure

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