SAP S/4 Hana: Simple Logistics overview
SAP Simple Logistics is also known as SAP S/4 HANA Enterprise Management. This includes all the main SAP ERP Business Suite modules, including Material Management, Supply Chain, Demand Forecasting, Sourcing and Procurement, Contract Management, and Manufacturing.
It is possible to use SAP S/4 HANA Enterprise Management with improved performance and productivity for all these processes following business processes.
Inventory Management
SAP S/4HANA Enterprise Management offers a simplified data model at the most granular level that causes increased productivity as well as scalable analytics.
Procurement
You will achieve improved efficiency in the Procure-To-Pay processes, new Analytical Apps and Spend KPIs, Ariba Network Integration for PO Order, and IV with SAP S/4HANA Enterprise Management.
Material Requirements Planning
Based on decision assistance, you can perform a fast MRP run, and a new working model for MRP controllers.
Order Management & Billing
Using S/4HANA Enterprise Management, you can carry out the end-to-end order-to-cash process as well as take action on any form of exceptions, information on the exemptions to resolve the issues, reduced TCO as a result of simplification of the data model, support for the latest versions of business functions such as FSCM Credit Management, GTS International Exchange, SFIN Sales Accounting, and modern analytics accounting.
S/4HANA Data Model vs ERP Model
SAP has introduced the future generation of Business Suite S/4HANA to take care of vast amounts of data, using HANA’s processing ability to process massive amounts of data at a very high speed.
SAP S/4HANA is not an SAP ERP Solution successor and stands for a separate product line as well. A different product from SAP is the SAP ERP Solution. You will achieve the following advantages over the ERP data model with the new S/4 HANA Data Model.
- It goes down all aggregate fields and even history tables in the current S/4HANA Data Model.
- There is no demand to perform updates on aggregation tables in the new model.
- Open up for new stock kinds.
- High-speed evaluations.
There has been a rapid growth of information, social media, big data, and mobile with the current business development. There will definitely be advances in the adaptation of business networks in the next 2 years. Globally, there will be 9 billion smartphone users by the end of 2021, and this will only increase over time.
SAP S/4HANA Business Suite Features
There are few main features of SAP S/4HANA Business Suite
- SAP S/4HANA is designed based on the latest Fiori user interface that offers an integrated individual experience based on a function.
To provide real-time data processing and analysis, S/4HANA can be linked in real-time to various applications.
- In order to provide simplifications, no indexes, no aggregates, and no redundancies, S/4HANA operates on in-memory HANA databases.
- On-Premises, Cloud, and Hybrid, SAP S/4HANA offers an option of deployment.
- New architecture and data models are offered by S/4HANA.
- Also, after the migration of the system, customers can use the customization. In the form of SAP Simple Finance and Simple Logistics, and much more, the migration of the SAP Business Suite to S/4HANA is done through an implementation package.
With SAP S/4HANA, SAP provides Easy Enterprise Big Data tools, a new product, and the next generation of business applications, and is designed to help you work easily in the digital business situation.
In the given image, you can see different sub-modules offered with SAP S/4HANA Business Suite.
By reintegrating portions of SAP CRM, SRM, as well as SCM into this solution, SAP S/4HANA Enterprise Management was created. On-premises and cloud access to SAP S/4HANA Enterprise Management are available. It depends on different models for licensing/subscription. A cloud implementation can be the SAP S/4HANA solution, or you can run it as an on-premises device such as SAP ERP as well.
Bottom line
You can conduct the end-to-end order-to-cash process with S/4HANA Simple Logistic (SAP S/4HANA Enterprise Management) as well as act on any kind of exceptions, information on the exceptions to deal with the issues, reduced TCO as a result of simplification of the data model.
