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Welcome to a new era of innovation and seamless integration with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2502! As we usher in 2025, it's the perfect time to celebrate the incredible journey we've shared with our public Cloud ERP community. Over the years, our customers have quickly gained extensive upgrade experience, all thanks to our continuous and seamless feature delivery. Reflecting on this progress, it's astonishing to note that our 33 major SaaS ERP release upgrades are equivalent to encapsulating 130+ years of upgrade experience based on the traditional on-premise deployment models. This showcases the high standard of our SaaS model. With the clean core approach and full lifecycle compliance embedded, we enable customers to harness the latest features instantly.
As our technological landscape continues to evolve, SAP remains at the forefront, driving innovations that empower businesses. I am excited to walk you through my key highlights of the SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2502 release.
Get ready for an exciting array of updates, including powerful AI enhancements, expanded capabilities of our generative AI co-pilot, Joule, and groundbreaking ERP innovations. Our 2502 release is here to further automate your operations, underpin agility in a cloud-first environment and drive more of your processes towards zero touch. Stay tuned as we dive into these transformative developments.
If you prefer watching rather than reading, you are welcome to check out my product update video:
Figure 1: Check out my top highlights of the release in this video.
AI-Powered UX Enhancements: Transforming User Interaction with Joule
Joule, our generative AI co-pilot, revolutionizes user experience by streamlining tasks through instant insights and intuitive navigation via natural language input. One notable feature is the new personalized card creation, enabling users to swiftly access vital ERP data such as purchase orders and delivery updates, thus, enhancing decision-making processes.
Our AI-driven UX innovations, AI-assisted smart summarization and AI-assisted easy filter, initially released as beta shipments in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2408, have now become generally available. Smart summarization leverages artificial intelligence to condense complex data into easily understandable summaries, saving time and boosting efficiency. Easy filter allows users to apply detailed filters using natural language, simplifying data exploration.
As we progress with AI-assisted UX features, the upcoming SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2502 release introduces remarkable advancements in beta testing. These include:
- AI-assisted easy enterprise search,
- AI-assisted smart personalization of My Home,
- and AI-assisted error explanation.
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Enhancing Carbon Accountability with SAP Green Ledger
SAP Green Ledger is a transformative financial solution at the heart of carbon accounting. This is designed to integrate seamlessly with connected systems such as ERP and sustainability. By extending the scope of financial accounting to encompass carbon, it applies the principles of double-entry accounting to carbon quantities. These are posted on dimensions relevant to business steering, like profit centers and segments, offering a tangible perspective on carbon impact from provisioning through to delivery. The value proposition of SAP Green Ledger lies in its ability to track, value, and report the carbon footprint of end-to-end operations, with an emphasis on producing auditable and trustworthy reports. By analyzing carbon data alongside financial attributes, it generates insights pivotal for informed decision-making.
The key capabilities include integration support with other systems, replication of financial master data, importation and enrichment of material movements with carbon information and exporting carbon data for group reporting. Through its robust allocation management and comprehensive visualization, SAP Green Ledger allows businesses to compare carbon data directly with financial data, enhancing strategic understanding and operational transparency.
Enhancing Quality Management with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2502: Expanding the “Manage Certificate Receipts” App with Create Mode
The SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2502 release introduces the create mode in the “Manage Certificate Receipts” app, building on the foundation of innovations introduced in the 2408 release. The original app allowed users to manage and link quality certificates to purchasing documents and goods receipts which improves compliance and traceability. The new Create Mode adds flexibility by enabling users to record certificates received before goods arrive, e.g., by email, and link them to material records upon arrival.
This enhancement also improves traceability by providing access to existing certificates tied to purchasing documents and items, ensuring complete visibility across processes. Reduce potential error sources and strengthen both transparency and compliance processes with the further evolution of our certificate management capabilities. This enhancement solidifies the Manage Certificate Receipts App as a vital tool for higher efficiency.
Unlocking Transformation with GROW with SAP on AWS: A New Era in Cloud ERP
Having your Experience evolution on mind, I´d like to point you to GROW with SAP on AWS, an initiative that seamlessly integrates SAP's undeniable ERP expertise with AWS's expansive cloud infrastructure. With this, SAP is offering transformative solutions for organizations adopting SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition. This alliance is a milestone in delivering extraordinary value, tailored for a diverse array of industries, scalability, security, and innovation. GROW with SAP on AWS features a modular design with prebuilt, industry-specific capabilities which allows businesses to scale effortlessly. Rapid deployment is facilitated by proven methodologies such as SAP Activate. Businesses can transition to even swifter deployments.
The collaboration on AWS Marketplace simplifies procurement and accelerates adoption, empowering companies to thrive with agility and resilience in today's digital economy. GROW with SAP on AWS emerges beyond ERP, as a transformative enabler that drives the digital transformation frontier forward.
Expanding Opportunities with Scalable Solutions: Empowering Partners Through ABAP Cloud Add-Ons
With the general availability of scalable solutions on stack, partners are now equipped to build and extend solutions for their customers, creating significant value and expanding capabilities. This empowerment enables partners to develop, package, and broadly distribute their solutions as ABAP Cloud add-ons, reaching a larger customer base effectively. Partners begin by developing their extensions within their own landscape and under their own namespace. After thorough testing, the solution is registered and assembled into an installable package. Once published by the partner, it becomes available to customers on the SAP Store. Customers can explore all their purchased and available products using the Discover Product app and can subsequently deploy these solutions in their three-system landscape.
This approach greatly complements the existing side-by-side extensibility concept to scale applications according to growing demand, ensuring they stay agile and responsive to rapid market changes. Partners can leverage these capabilities to innovate and differentiate themselves in the competitive market, aligning their offerings closely with customer needs and business requirements as an additional option.
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Advancing Project Efficiency: Innovations in SAP Activate Release
In the ongoing evolution of SAP Activate, we are committed to enhancing our implementation and operational guidance, continuously leveraging insights from customer projects and, in this case, early adopters of Project Lines. Our latest release introduces refined guidance in project management, which enables teams to streamline their workflows and optimize resource allocation. We have also introduced improvements in receiving provisioned environments, making it easier and faster for customers to get started with their projects. Additionally, we have enhanced the identification of activities related to the GROW Adoption Plan, ensuring that users can seamlessly integrate these into their strategic roadmaps.
Another major advancement I’d like to mention is the integration of the “SAP Activate road map viewer” into the “SAP for Me” platform.
This transition simplifies access for all users of the comprehensive methodology content of SAP Activate. Seamless learning and efficient project planning are important ingrediencies of a transformed demand with 5 generations of users.
Key Summary
In a nutshell, The SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2502 release introduces a balanced mix of infrastructure and experience investments, enhanced AI-driven user experiences, embedded AI features, and new or enhanced ERP capabilities, rounded off by the innovative SAP Green Ledger for integrated carbon accounting within financial systems. Additionally, ABAP Cloud Add-Ons give partners an additional tool at hands to extend and differentiate solutions effectively.
Another release that paves the way for businesses to optimize efficiency, scalability, and sustainability in their transformed ERP operations. As all previous releases, it is our invitation to you to join us in the ERP revolution and start your transformative journey. Keep exploring us and keep challenging us to unlock your company's full potential in the evolving digital landscape. Stay tuned for further details in the individual blog posts diving deeper into selected lines of business and industries.
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Yours, Bert
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Between January 21 and January 24, we conducted a series of 21 engaging live sessions to showcase the thrilling innovations included in the SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2502 release. If you missed the live sessions, don't worry! You can still access the whole series or select the sessions that interest you the most. Seize this opportunity to watch them on demand at your convenience–anywhere, anytime.
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