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Functional improvements in S4 Hana Sales in comparison to SAP ERP Sales and Distribution

chandan_ramesh
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Hello,

I am a master student in Germany with an experience of 3 years in SAP Order to Cash business process (core SD)

For my master thesis, I have a high-level idea of what I want to research on.

As SAP S/4 HANA is SAP's latest generation business suite and It is my understanding that many companies would move to S/4 hana as it is built on HANA database and offers better user experience via SAP Fiori.

With this thesis, I want to take an opportunity to learn S/4 HANA OTC process and acquire skills to be ready to work in the Migration projects.

Main content will have the following

1, Master data maintenance e.g. Customer master

2. Transnational table system (VBAK/P, LIKP/PS, VBRP,RK)

3. Functionality changes (Order to the bill, credit management, ATP, Rebate )

4. Performance improvements

The thesis will from a functional consultant perspective and will focus on the business process rather than technical information.

I would really appreciate your suggestion on improvising my idea and what should my next step for example from where to start, materials for references, expected challenges,,,

Thanks you for your time,

Chandan

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Lakshmipathi
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Please do not use module specific tags to your personal career related queries. I have removed Sales and Distribution and S/4 HANA tags and changed it appropriately.

Lakshmipathi
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Not that much easy to list out the entire process change in S/4 HANA compared to ECC.

May be at high level, following are some of the salient features in S/4 HANA

  • Only one valuation method (material ledger) instead of 2 (inventory management plus material ledger)
  • Deployment of On-Premise and On-Cloud are available
  • Master data transactions like XD01 / XK01 are obsolete. Instead a common transaction BP for both Customer and Vendor
  • Many FI transactions like FD01, FD03, FK01, FK08 are obsolete
  • Credit Management (FI-AR-CR) not available. Instead, FIN-FSCM-CR Credit Management introduced
  • No VBUK / VBUP tables
  • Elimination of redundancies on index tables like VAKPA, VAPMA etc.,
  • Advanced ATP for Back order processing introduced
  • Rebate processing not available - instead Settlement Management introduced
  • New inventory table MATDOC introduced which has been replaced for MKPF and MSEG tables