SAP S/4HANA Modules

SAP S/4HANA is the next-generation business suite 4 software built on the SAP HANA, an in-memory database platform. SAP S/4HANA Modules provides intelligent business applications for intelligent enterprises. In this blog post we will understand different SAP S/4HANA modules.

It’s predecessor SAP ECC is the most stable ERP software ever released by SAP. SAP ECC core modules have been restructured in SAP S/4HANA as Lines of Business (LoBs). The following section discusses the available LoBs in S/4HANA.

Asset Management
Finance
Human Resources
Manufacturing
Sourcing and Procurement
Sales
Service
Supply Chain
R&D/Engineering

1. SAP S/4HANA Asset Management

The SAP S/4HANA Asset Management LoB focuses on planning, scheduling, and executing the maintenance operations. With integrated and optimized processes in SAP S/4HANA, the maintance operations are much better. It includes following sub-modules.

– Plant Maintenance

The SAP S/4HANA Plant Maintenance aids in optimizing the resources such as people efforts, tools and materials for maitenance, and scheduled repairs. It also supports in responding repidly to reported faults.

– Environment, Health and Safety (EHS)

The SAP S/4HANA Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) helps in comprehensive management of business processes related to environment, health and safety of people. It provides support for the following main scenarios – Incident Management, Health and Safety Management and Environment Management.

– Resource Scheduling

The SAP S/4HANA Resource Scheduling provides necessary insights on current and forecasted maintenance activities along with available maintenance resources. From KPI dashboards to maintenance schedule simulations, Resourch Scheduling helps in reduing asset downtime by optmizing the maitenance resourcces.

– Management of Change

The Management of Change is flexible and auditable tool for monitoring and implementing changes.

2. SAP S/4HANA Finance

The SAP S/4HANA Finance LoB focuses on finance related activities of a company in following areas

Financial Planning and Analysis
Accounting and Financial Close
Treasury Management
Financial Operations
Billing and Revenue Innovation Management
Governance, Risk, and Compliance for Finance

3. SAP S/4HANA Human Resources

The SAP S/4HANA Human Resources focuses on the management of employees which includes Personnel Management(PA), Talent Management, Personnel Time Management(PT), Payroll(PY), and Training & Event Management(PE).

4. SAP S/4HANA Manufacturing

The SAP S/4HANA Manufacturing provides capabilities for planning and controlling production. It supports several manufacturing functions in following areas

Production Engineering
Production Operations (Executing and Control)
Extended Production Engineering and Operations
Data Management
Production Planning
Extended Production Planning and Scheduling
Quality Management

5. SAP S/4HANA Sourcing and Procurement

SAP S/4HANA Sourcing and Procurement provides centralize and scalable procurement activities. The embedded ML-based analytics provides the all necessary insigths to predict the contract consumption for improved negotiations and material management. It enables matching and clearing of automated payables with proposals for items that couldn’t be cleared automatically.

The following are the main functions of Sourcing and Procurement

Purchasing
Invoice Management
Invoice Processing
Invoice Collaboration
Supplier Management
Classification and Segmentation
Supplier Evaluation
Generic Features
Responsibility Management
Redistribute Workload
Flexible Workflow
Material
My Inbox
Batch Jobs in Sourcing and Procurement
Procurement Analytics
Real-Time Reporting and Monitoring
Spend Visibility
Sourcing and Contract Management
Source Assignment
Purchase Contract Management
Data Management
Data Aging in Sourcing and Procurement
Blocking of Personal Data in Sourcing and Procurement
Data Archiving in Materials Management
Operation Procurement
Self-Service Requisitioning
Requirements Processing
Purchase Order Processing
Purchase Order Collaboration
Service Purchasing and Recording
Further Functions
Conditions and Price Determination
Requirement Prioritization
Version Management
Approval Workflows
Entering Text Printing and Transmitting Documents
Release Procedures
Manufacturer Part Number
Consumption Based Planning
Reference Characteristics in Purchasing
Progress Tracking
Addresses in Purchasing
Evaluation
Document Management System
Central Procurement
Integration Landscape
Central Procurement Operations Monitor
Central Requisitioning
Central Purchasing Analytics
Central Purchase Contracts
Guided Buying for Central Procurement with SAP Ariba Buying
Central Purchasing
Central Sourcing

The information that was previously categorized under “Materials Management” in ECC is categorized now under SAP S/4HANA Sourcing and Procurement.

6. SAP S/4HANA R&D / Engineering

SAP S/4HANA R&D and Engineering includes following main areas to better manage enterprise-level projects, simplify product life cycle management, accelerate product engineering, and increase productivity using requirement-driven procedures, among other things.

Enterprise Portfolio and Project Management
Project Systems (PS)
Commercial Project Management
SAP Portfolio and Project Management
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
Product Safety and stewardship
Product Compliance

7. SAP S/4HANA Sales

Sales enables sales force support for your presales life cycle, from an appointment to the creation of leads and opportunities. Sales also supports your order and contract management, including pricing, sales quotations, and sales contracts. You can manage your data through data aging, by blocking and deleting personal data.

Customers can make claims, and you can process returns and refunds. Furthermore, fundamental features like availability checking and output management are at your disposal. Streamlining your business’s revenue-generating procedures is possible thanks to SAP S/4HANA’s integration capabilities.

The following are main areas in Sales

Sales Force Support
Order and Contract Management
Sales Master Data Management
Price Management
Sales Quotation Management
Solution Quotation Management
Sales Contract Management
Sales Order Management and Processing
Business Solution Portfolio
Sales Billing
Solution Billing
Sales Rebate Management
Incentive and Commission Management
Claims, Returns and Refund Management
Sales Monitoring and Analytics
Basic Functions
Special Business Processes
Integration
APIs
Situation Templates
Data Management

8. SAP S/4HANA Service

SAP S/4HANA Service facilitates the implementation and maintenance of procedures for handling service contracts, service orders, service requests, service billing, and customer engagement. The service solution is used in many different industries and features subscription order management.

Following are high-level topics covered in SAP S/4HANA Service

Core Service and Functions and Processes
Interaction Center
Service Contract Management
Recurring Service
In-house Repair
Integrate with SAP Field Server Management
Cash Management
Data Management
Service Monitoring and Analytics
Master Data

9. SAP S/4HANA Supply Chain

With SAP S/4HANA’s Supply Chain, businesses can manage complex business processes like inventory optimization, order fulfilment, and logistics management with a unified platform.

The following are main areas in Supply Chain

Logistics Cross Topics (LO)
Inventory
Delivery and Transportation
Warehousing
Advanced Order Promising
Business Order Scheduling
Extended Service Parts Planning (eSPP)
Data Management in Supply Chain

Conclusion

All of the SAP S/4HANA products are constructed on SAP’s in-memory HANA database. These products, built on the cutting-edge capabilities of SAP HANA, are tailored to your digital business and give you a constant, up-to-the-moment view of your operations through the use of a unified database, real-time procedures, and sophisticated analytics. They are built to be easy to use and to lessen your organization’s data footprint with features like the SAP Fiori user experience and a simplified data model.