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. It provides intelligent business applications for intelligent enterprises.
Table of Contents
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
graph LR
linkStyle default interpolate basis
A[SAP S/4HANA]-->B(Asset Management)
A[SAP S/4HANA]-->C(Finance)
A[SAP S/4HANA]-->D(Human Resources)
A[SAP S/4HANA]-->E(Manufacturing)
A[SAP S/4HANA]-->F(Sourcing and Procurement)
A[SAP S/4HANA]-->G(R&D and Engineering)
A[SAP S/4HANA]-->H(Sales)
A[SAP S/4HANA]-->I(Service)
A[SAP S/4HANA]-->J(Supply Chain)
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 areas.
graph TB
linkStyle default interpolate basis
A[Asset Management]-->B(["Plant Maintenance(PM)"])
A[Asset Management]-->C(["Environment, Health and Safety"])
A[Asset Management]-->D([Resource Scheduling])
A[Asset Management]-->E([Management of Change])
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 Managenment 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.
SAP S/4HANA Finance
The SAP S/4HANA Finance LoB focues 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
flowchart TD
A[Finance]-->B([Financial Planning and Analysis])
A[Finance]-->C([Financial Operations])
A[Finance]-->D([Accounting and Financial Close])
A[Finance]-->E([Treasury Management])
A[Finance]-->F(["Billing and Revenue Innovation Management (BRIM)"])
A[Finance]-->G(["Governance, Risk and Compliance for Finance"])
SAP S/4HANA Human Resources
The SAP S/4HANA Human Resources focuses on the management of employess which includes Personnel Management(PA), Talent Management, Personnel Time Management(PT), Payroll(PY), and Training & Event Management(PE).
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
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 Souricing 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 Sourucing and Procurement
- Blokcing of Personal Data in Sourucing 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 Textn Printing and Transmitting Documents
- Release Procedures
- Manufacturer Part Number
- Consumption Based Planning
- Reference Characteristics in Purchasing
- Pogress 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