Best Practices for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Success

What are the best practices for SAP S/4 HANA Cloud?

With preconfigured templates for business processes, SAP S/4 HANA Cloud encompasses critical business functionalities such as finance, procurement, sales, and supply chain management. Users can access the SAP best practices from the SAP Signavio Process Navigator tool. Besides that, the SAP best practices are also supported on SAP Fiori, thus enabling a role-specific, intuitive, and user-friendly experience.

How are the best practices for SAP S/4 HANA Cloud organized? The hierarchical structure of these best practices is arranged according to the solution scenario, which acts as the central entity to group all the relevant solution-related processes according to the line of business (LOB) items, such as:

• Manufacturing
• Procurement
• Supply chains
• Finance

Each of these LOB items is further divided into subgroups for each business function. For instance, the finance group is primarily divided into subgroups such as:

• Accounting
• Financial closure
• Regulatory compliance
• Advanced financial functions

To navigate to each of these functions, users can use the SAP Signavio Process Navigator tool to expand the relevant group or subgroup. Additionally, the solution scenario describes each content piece in the “Description” section, which enables users to gain information about the scope of the solution, the organizational hierarchy, the chart of accounts, and the key master data delivered in each preconfigured solution.

Exploring the Accelerators tab

Additionally, the SAP Signavio Process Navigator tool provides the following key assets and resources on its “Accelerators” tab, namely:

• What’s New
• New information
• SAP road map explorer tool
• Release assessment discovery tool

• Getting started
• The current availability and dependencies of all scope items
• User access to the latest trial version of the SAP S/4 HANA Public Cloud solution
• Language availability
• Summary of SAP capabilities, including finance, analytics, and product compliance

• Implementation
• APIs
• Configuration-related questionnaires
• Configuration applications
• How to create master data
• Fiscal year variant accelerators
• How to prepare for public section management on the starter system.
• Navigational links to the “SAP Activate” methodology on the SAP roadmap viewer

• End-user information
• An overview of all the SAP S/4 HANA Public Cloud applications and transactions – and how to map them to solution-related activities (as described by the solution processes).
• Task-related tutorials

• Reference
• Chart of accounts
• Financial statements
• Forms
• Overview of master and organizational data
• Preconfigured master data for general ledger accounts for YCOA (local and global)
• Predefined tax codes

Each of these listed accelerators is provided with setup instructions, task tutorials, and test scripts. Besides, the description section for each accelerator is provided with a brief overview, a list of key process flows, and business benefits. For example, the “Requisitioning” solution process lists the key process flow for:

• Creating a purchase requisition.
• Making changes to existing purchase requisitions.
• Approving the purchase requisition.
• Converting the purchase requisition to a purchase order.

Exploring the Release Assessment & Scope Dependency tool

With the Release Assessment and Scope Dependency tool in the SAP S/4 HANA Public Cloud solution, SAP users can assess the complete list of new, modified, deprecated, and deleted objects, including:

• Applications and APIs
• Core data services
• Scope items

This tool is categorized into 5 main tabs, namely:

• The “Used Objects” tab provides information about deleted (or deprecated) extensibility objects based on the customer’s usage. Users can also access information related to deleted (or deprecated) business catalogues and applications.
• The “Used Scope Items” tab provides information about used scope items, including the impact of the scope item and new features.
• The “Activated Scope Items” tab provides information about the scope items activated by customers, along with the localization information about all the entities linked to the geographical location of the customer.
• The “Complete What’s New Information” tab provides information about the “What’s New Viewer” tool and includes information about activated scope items and UI/UX updates.
• The “Successor Companion” tab provides a bird’s-eye view of the customer’s scope items and their implementation numbers. It can also recommend the best successor for deprecated items (previously used by the customer).

Benefits of the best practices for SAP S/4 HANA Cloud

How do enterprises benefit by implementing the best practices for SAP S/4 HANA Cloud? By using this preconfigured solution, they can save a lot of time and effort in reconfiguring the solution according to their industry needs.

With these best practices, enterprises find it much less complex to implement and maintain the SAP S/4 HANA Cloud solution. This tool also provides region-specific information, thus allowing them to comply with domestic regulations. Many enterprises can also check and compare their best business practices with their peer companies from the same industry. This allows them to gauge their effectiveness or identify any areas of improvement.

Conclusion

By implementing the best practices for SAP S/4 HANA Cloud, enterprises can quickly activate their cloud-powered solution without any disruption. This allows them to leverage the full capabilities of this SAP cloud ERP solution for the benefit of their business.

As an industry-recognized and experienced SAP implementation partner, Praxis Infosolutions can assist you in transitioning to SAP S/4 HANA Cloud from your existing system. Through this business partnership, our team of SAP professionals can help you adapt SAP S/4 HANA Cloud to your business requirements and preferences.

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