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SAP S/4 HANA: Everything you need to

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S/4 HANA in a nutshell
Carsten Hilker
Solution Manager, SAP Labs
SAP S4/HANA, SAP’s next big thing

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SAP S/4HANA, the great simplifier of
enterprise software

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SAP S/4HANA, reimagines businesses for the
digital economy
Only SAP offers the complete platform for a
growth oriented digital future
Through organic innovations and strategic acquisitions, SAP has the best solution
portfolio and expertise required to enable your digital strategy. SAP is the preferred
choice to turn your digital vision into reality.
…interconnecting all aspects of the value
chain
Digitize beyond the core, embrace the
digital economy
S/4HANA Migration
Chris Kernaghan
Principal Consultant, Bluefin Solutions
What is SAP S/4HANA?
• The next version of SAP Business Suite
• New code base
 Only supported with the SAP HANA DB

• S/4HANA themes
 Renewed interface with Fiori UX
 Simplified structure with SAP HANA

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Deployment options
Public Managed On-
Cloud Cloud Premises

Shared HANA Managed HANA DB On-Premises or

multi-tenant DB and network Hosted

No customisations HANA Cloud Full ABAP

Platform Customization
Extensions available

HANA Cloud
Limited ABAP Yearly Release
Platform
Customization Schedule
Extensions

Quarterly Release 100% Managed by Managed by

Schedule SAP Customer/Partner

Update schedule
100% Managed by
Scheduled Updates defined by
SAP
customer

Subscription
Automatic Updates
pricing

Subscription
pricing

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Migration methods

Customer
Customer
New Suite with
using Suite
customer non-HANA
on HANA
DB

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New customer
Cloud
Deployment

Using RDS packages customer can be up and

running in days

Deploy new hardware

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Customer Suite on non-HANA DB

Cloud
Deployment

Transfer data to the Cloud

Upgrade, migrate database to HANA on new

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Customer using Suite on HANA

Cloud
Deployment

Transfer data to the Cloud

Upgrade and deploy innovations

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Defining the technical scope
• S/4 migration is very difficult to package as a pure technical upgrade
due to the differences in the capability of the platform
 Code changes are essential
 Reduction in data volumes should be performed
 Return to standard and removal of customisations is recommended
 New capabilities
 New user interface

• Are any of the existing systems going to need to be upgraded – or can

they be decommissioned
• Does S/4 require any new systems to be implemented to provide
additional functionality

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Pre-migration activities
• Housekeeping
 Basis Tables – change documents, logs etc…
 Transport and upgrade logs
 IDOCs

• Sizing
 Run the Sizing reports for ECC and BW
 Identify large tables – consider archiving or Data tiering
 Create action plan and execute

• Architecture
 Server specifications
 HA/DR
 Non-Functional requirements

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 Migration Stages
Optimise
Initial Remediation for HANA QAS Production
and

Planning Optimizations
Migration
Cut Over

Consistency is
critical

Development Transport Final

Sandbox
build for UAT Production
Migration Migration testing OaT testing

Production Remediate in Production like kit

Sized/Quality Data set Sandbox ASAP Clustering etc…

Second Round
Remediation UAT testing Mock Cut over
Plannning

No plan survives engagement

with the enemy
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SUM – Upgrade only

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Upgrade and migration – SUM DMO Step 1

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Upgrade and migration – SUM DMO Step 2

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Upgrade and Migration – SUM DMO Step 3

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Upgrade and migration – SUM DMO Step 4

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Upgrade and migration – SUM DMO Step 5

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Upgrade and migration – SUM DMO Step 6

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Migration tools – return to standard
• Return to standard confers many benefits
 Faster upgrades
 Reduction in time spent managing complexity
 Reduced effort in support

• Make sure you are on the latest latest SP!

 http://scn.sap.com/community/abap/custom-code-management

• Custom Code Management Tools (CCMT)

 Custom Code Management Cockpit (CDMC)
 Usage & Procedure Logging (UPL)
 CloneFinder

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Migration tools - testing
• Test Management is critical
 Technical not just functional – HANA is a radically different platform
 Some customers have a mature strategy

• Revise your test management strategy

 Test automation
 Test coverage
 Test prioritization

• Reduce your time to complete testing

 How long does it take to complete regression test?

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User Interface changes
Fiori and SAP UI5 are now the primary user interaction/interfaces for S/4
• Reduced requirement for SAP Gui
 Reduction in amount of desktop software

• Browser based interfaces

 Browser compatibility issues and frequent updates

• Mobile accessibility
 Planning needed for external access

• SAP HCP connectivity for extending applications

• Use of design standards for consistent look and feel
• User experience is of increasing importance
• Testing just became about a million times easier!

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Sum-up: Indicators of success
The biggest indicators of success in an upgrade/migration project are:
• Simplicity
• Repeatability
• Consistency
• Documentation
• Team work
• Planning

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What is Central Finance and why I
should use it?
Carsten Hilker
Solution Manager, SAP Labs
 What is central finance and its relationship
to Simple Finance, S/4 HANA
S4/HANA Finance brings together the latest Finance innovations and simplifications in
one market leading solution set based on SAP HANA for our customers. S4/HANA
Finance is Simple Finance (rebranded in Q4/2015)
Central Finance allows for non-disruptive adoption, particularly in heterogeneous
system landscapes

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Central Finance (formerly Central Journal)
Dedicated S/4 HANA Finance system (SAP HANA, SAP ERP, S/4HANA Finance)
connected to one or more ERP (SAP or non-SAP ERP) systems for single source
transaction recording, reporting, and planning / consolidation

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 Central Finance (formerly Central Journal)
Dedicated Simple Finance system (SAP HANA, SAP ERP, S/4HANA Finance) for
consolidated entity reporting, and central process execution. Catalyst for innovation
roll-out to source systems, foundation for M&A onboarding

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Key use cases to help identify the use of
Central Finance

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Limits of the system to explain what can and
cannot be done in Central Finance
How Central Finance is different from a BW,
BI or Hyperion environment
Limits of the system to explain what can and
cannot be done in Central Finance
Shared Services and Central Finance
The SAP Shared Services Framework today successfully supports Shared Services
operations globally
Central Finance provides the ability* to have “one face to the customer” and “one face
to the organization” by bringing data together enterprise wide and unify diverse
integration technologies required for optimized central process execution
SAP: Central Finance as platform and
playbook for shared services
Planning in SAP BPC for S/4HANA
Nick Carter
EPM Consultant, Bluefin Solutions
Key areas of Planning in S/4HANA

SAP BPC’s Pre-built

Real-time
powerful starter
Analytics with
modelling planning
SAP HANA
capability models

Simplified SAP Predictive

Analytics Accelerate
landscape
increases plan ROI
reduces TCO
accuracy

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 SAP BPC for S/4HANA
Workflow No duplication Push to ECC

Out of the box

Add
No data data
transparency
redundancy of retraction
to planning
Actuals functionality
cycle
to ECC

Driver-based planning Scenario analysis ECC Integration

Sharing of
Version
Powerful data and
management
scripting to master data
to plan for the
allow complex with ECC =
best and worst
calculations Real time
case
planning

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Real-time planning and reporting

Master Data Actuals + Disaggregation

structures Journals logic

Faster
planning and Reduced TCO
analysis

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Pre-built Planning Models
• Starter content to replace ECC Planning functionality
• SAP BO Analysis for Office
• Models, Workbooks, Planning Logic, Queries
• Planning functions such as disaggregation's, BPC to ECC copy and
more included
• Customisable

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Pre-built Planning Models
SAP BPC for S/4HANA Starter content includes:
• Cost Centre Planning
• Internal Order Planning
• Project Planning
• Profit Centre Planning
• Cost of Sales Planning
• P&L Planning
• Market Segment Planning
• Balance Sheet Planning

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Recap
• Simplification of planning process
• Reduced implementation costs through starter kit
• Predictive capability of SAP HANA easier to utilise
• Increase accuracy whilst reducing effort required
• Improve usability and user experience

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SAP S/4HANA Finance
Mark Chalfen
Director, Public Sector and Services, Bluefin Solutions
 SAP S/4HANA Finance

Financial Accounting and Treasury and Collaborative Enterprise risk and

planning and financial close financial risk finance compliance
analysis management operations management

Alignment Benefits Predictability

Data consistency across On-the-fly modelling of
solutions what-if scenarios

Agility
Insight-to-action with seamless access
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SAP S/4HANA building blocks
• Single source of truth (Universal Journal)
• Re-vamped user experience
• Streamlining of month-end
• Line-item based flexibility

All of the benefits without the loss of functional scope

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Revamped user experience
Business cockpits

Comprehensive view on key figures Insight Action

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Removal of redundancy

Tables vs Compatibility views approach

 Streamlining month-end
Period close
Traditional close

Within the period Period-end close

SAP S/4HANA Finance

Period close
Soft-close on demand

Continuous intercompany reconciliation

Reduction in number of batch jobs
Higher data quality

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 Line item-based flexibility

Static and
complex SAP S/4HANA Finance
Real time reporting with
drill down to line items

Current
Complex Data
reporting abilities Model

No drill
down
ability

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Building a business case for
SAP S/4HANA
Mark Chalfen
Director, Public Sector and Services, Bluefin Solutions
Approach

IT Business

Engage key business users

Non-cooperation Reduced ROI Missed synergies

Building the business case for S/4 HANA

IT cost savings Business process efficiencies

Data Reports
Hardware Software reconciliation preparation

Ease of use Month-end

Support Licences tasks reduction

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Cost savings for IT
Reduction in hardware costs
 Database size reduction at least 5:1
 Removal of a planning landscape

Reduction in support costs

 Fewer systems to support
 HANA databases more reliable

Migrate away from non-SAP systems

 Few systems to support
 Simplified user experience

Better use of licenses

 Reduction in non-SAP license costs

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Cost savings for the Business
Reduction in month-end tasks
 Increased speed
 Soft close tasks at anytime
Increased reporting flexibility
 Simplified data model
 Real-time data
 Single source of truth
 ‘What if?’ reporting
Reduction in manual effort
 Intuitive Fiori apps
 Task based
 25-40% key stroke reduction
Elimination of reconciliation effort
 Removal of reconciliation between Finance and Controlling

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Quantifiable business benefits

Source: SAP, 2015

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Business process efficiencies

Source: SAP, 2015

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Latest thinking
The SAP® Business Suite 4 SAP HANA® (SAP S/4HANA) FAQ – Read
By John Appleby

SAP BPC for S/4HANA - what does it mean for your Planning teams? – Read
By Nick Carter

SAP Universal Journal - how can you maximise the benefit – Read
By Mark Chalfen

Moving your applications to the Cloud: 11 tips – Read

By Chris Kernaghan

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Thank you!

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