
As we step into 2024, numerous industries are facing unique challenges that demand innovative solutions and agile strategies. From the Defense & Security sector grappling with evolving geopolitical landscapes to the Consumer Products industry navigating shifting consumer behaviors, each industry is encountering its own set of obstacles. In the Aerospace & Defense and Public Sector domains, the need for modernization and efficiency is more pressing than ever, while the Oil & Gas and Utilities sectors are contending with demands for sustainable practices and digital transformation. In this blog post, we explore the ways in which the latest release of SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition | 2023 FPS01 is composed to address these industry-specific challenges, revolutionizing processes and driving business success in the face of unprecedented change.
The blog for this new release is built as a series of 2 parts and present the key highlights for:
The picture below provides an overview of the key innovations that were shipped with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition | 2023 FPS01.
Picture 1: The highlights at a glance.
In the following second part, I will go into details for selected innovations for Industries that are new with the latest release SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition | 2023 FPS01.
With this new feature, you can enable fashion contract locking when mass processing release orders using the “Manage Sales Documents – Fashion” SAP Fiori application. The system enables a shared lock at the header level and an exclusive lock at the item level for the fashion contract, depending on the level of the order and the selected action.
For more information, see Sales Contracts.
With this feature, you can enable the system to use direct input calls using fashion APIs FSH_API_SALESDOCUMENT_CREATE and FSH_API_SALESDOCUMENT_CHANGE instead of batch data communication (BDC) calls for sales documents of category type Contracts (G (fashion contracts only)), and Free of Charge (I).
For more information, see Sales Documents Using Intermediate Documents (IDocs) or OData API.
With this app, you can reject the open quantities for confirmation and delivery for account assigned sales orders.
For more information, see Manage Excess Requirements App.
Picture 2: Reduce manual processes through the ability to reject open quantities for confirmation and delivery in mass using the SAP Fiori app.
With this feature, you can enable the system to process temporary assignments for the selected requirement documents as follows:
For more information, see:
With this app, you can specify the supply assignment rule before executing the transfer of assignments. Therefore, the functionality of supply assignment rules can now be leveraged in this app.
Picture 3: Base actions on the ordered quantity or confirmed quantity, according to your business needs, and improve flexibility with the ability to apply different logic to the availability situation of current stocks and future stocks.
For more information, see Monitor Supply Assignment Demand.
This new release integrates the sales orders in S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition with Utilities sales contract management in Customer Engagement to manage the contract lifecycle of the Utilities sales contract. The creation of a sales order will raise following lifecycle event: terminate contract e.g. related to a move-out.
Picture 4: Efficiently manage pricing changes while using integration between sales orders and utilities sales contracts.
The key features are:
For more information, see Utilities Life Cycle Events.
With this release, the utilities contract has been enhanced to enable the exact move-in and move-out time to be processed. These times can be captured as part of the move-in and move-out process and maintained at IS-U contract level. The exact move-in time and move-out time can be used in time-of-use (TOU) billing and real time pricing (RTP) billing to precisely observe the consumption for the first and final billing period.
Picture 5 : Consider consumption accurately in TOU and RTP billing upon move-in and move-out times.
Further details are provided in SAP note 3394464 Information published on SAP site. A specific logic that is dependent on the type of billing period involved has been considered for the Japanese market. Details are provided in note 2834512 Information published on SAP site.
For more information, see:
With this release, a new option for analytics based on SAP Datasphere has been introduced for SAP S/4HANA Utilities, which provides CDS views for the extraction of IS-U data. A delta extraction is supported.
The current scope covers master data for the utilities contract, utilities installation, and premise.
For more information, see:
As a business expert or implementation consultant, you can use the Custom Fields app to create your own fields for the utilities installation and premise master data. Using the Custom Logic app, you can create your own implementations to customize the following transactions and their UIs:
For more information, see:
For Master Data for Utilities Installations, please read SAP Note 3348558 Information published on SAP site, which contains further information about the CFL Extensibility.
The PRA Interest Processing (PIP) functionality provides apps for the calculation, review, and processing of interest on late royalty payments.
Late payments and interest rates are determined based on the state statutes. The interest calculation is supported for current payables, suspense balances (for escheat), and royalty payments made via previous payment runs.
With PRA Interest Processing, you can do the following:
Principal reduction alternative (PRA) interest processing (PIP) to enhance the PRA solution to systematically calculate and pay interest on late royalty payments to private royalty owners based on individual state statutes.
The business value here is that we enable upstream oil and gas operators to configure, calculate, and pay interest on royalty payments within the SAP solution, leveraging the data created in standard PRA processing.
Customers can enable automated behaviors for Delivery Network processing through the stages of Production Allocation, Contractual Allocation, Valuation, and Posting. Possible automated behaviors include executing processes, evaluating run outcomes in a trial mode, and controlling next steps based on detailed automated run observations.
This new release enables you to:
This new release enables you to perform goods receipt with 105 or 109 movement type in Process Receipts - Stock and Non-Stock Items application for stock, non-stock and rental items if 2-step goods receipt is used.
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Using this functionality, users can upload at a mass level the data for T&R 2.0’s History, Transactional, and where needed State Reported data gathered and formatted from a source system to a target system. Here, the source system could be a legacy system or a system from an acquired company. The scope of this functionality currently is limited to the state of Texas only.
Additional Details
This utility allows users to generate the required template in the Excel sheet format. Once it is populated, it can be executed to upload the data in the database tables. Users must have access to legacy data at the DB level. Legacy Data Extraction/Translation is the responsibility of the user. Master data setups in support of amended reporting must be in place. This utility has the needed validations around the Production and Revenue Accounting (PRA) entities such as WL/WC, V/DOI, MP, DN, Contracts, Product Codes, etc.
In this new release, we have redesigned a few CDS views and done optimization of database access. Too complex views have been simplified and adapted to customer needs. We have also simplified associations to improve performance.
Performance improvements have been made by use of derived parameters such as data and or timestamp for Position reports on Price Type, Premium, Slate, and Net Position reports in the Agricultural Contract Management (ACM) for S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition.
To optimize performance and to simplify implementation of logic, multiple Business Add-Is (BAdI) implementations of BAdI Trading Contract: Enhancement of Business Logic (WB2_BL_ENHANCEMENTS_EX) have been compressed into a single BAdI implementation Handle Business logic for Tolerance, DPQS, Optionality, Cancellation (/ACCGO/CMN_BI_GTM_BL_ENH). This BAdI implementation is used to validate ACM-related fields. These fields are used during create/update/read of a Global Trade Management (GTM) contract.
The load data capture (LDC) framework has been enhanced with respect to call-offs. You can disable call-offs that are created during creation of a purchase order, stock transfer order, or a sales order when LDC is created with reference trading contract (Application Instruction 03). The application process continues with reference to the contract specified on the LDC rather than the call-off on the order. This feature eliminates potential locking issues while updating the order during call-off and improves performance of the system. Furthermore, there is a reduced need for snipping as there is no call-off in this scenario.
A new reprocessing report has been created to process failed Orchestration Framework (OF) tickets. You can use this report to do mass processing of failed OF tickets either in the foreground or as a background job.
Once the reprocessing report has been executed, you can check logs for any OF ticket and review the follow-on documents. This new report replaces the existing Recovery Report (transaction /ACCGO/OF_RECOVERY), which is now deprecated and will be retired in the future.
This feature provides the capability to distribute selected data in the area of product safety between the SAP S/4HANA central system and a disconnected remote server. This enables an enhanced scope of business processes while operating at a remote site working offline in a communication-challenged environment.
The following data can be distributed in the area of product safety:
Since these business objects are considered to be master data without change protection, initial and delta data distribution from the central system to the remote server is supported, whereas creating or updating such data on the remote server is not permitted.
Picture 6 : Extend cross-system support for a broad range of maintenance and supply processes while working in communication-challenged environments.
In this new release, we provide following features:
This feature provides the capability for a system landscape administrator to manually set the connection status between the SAP S/4HANA central system and a disconnected remote server to offline and back to online. When systems have the offline connectivity status, they stop sending queues for created or updated data. Once they return to the online connectivity status, the queues can be triggered for processing to continue and complete the data distribution.
Picture 7 : Help ensure continued and consistent data distribution between the central system and a remote server at any point in time of communication uptimes.
The key features delivered with this new release are:
With this new release, we improve usability of the force element, the measures apps, and logistical apps such as authorized and actual comparison and PFEM:
With this new release, we introduce new capabilities in response to customer feedback from the most-recent customer roll-in workshop.
This feature enables additional extensibility capabilities. To increase solution flexibility and to better incorporate additional customer-specific business requirements, it allows the usage of customer fields and customer-calculated fields:
This feature improves analyses of site equipment by providing a dedicated tab in the Display Status Board list view and a dedicated detailed view. Both include cross-status board features, such as alert triggering, hyperlinks, or extensibility capabilities.
Since the management of site equipment is optional, the usage and appearance of the functionality is dynamically activated or deactivated in Customizing to improve usability.
This feature provides a dynamic integration that allows a navigation from the “Status Board” app to the “Controlled Usage Rate” app. In the list view, you can select equipment and compare their usage rates. This improves the decision-making process regarding equipment rotation.
This feature enables the force element structure and force element multiple selection to be used when searching for equipment.
The following functions are included:
You can use this feature to extract force element and flexible material planning object (FMPO) data to a local file. A selection screen is provided for the user to select either force elements and/or FMPOs. You can then select the file type and the destination for the file. The status of the download is displayed in a log overview. Customer-specific fields that are added to the objects are automatically incorporated into the download file.
With this new release, we provide following features:
With this new release, we made distribution-related enhancements for project manufacturing management and optimization (PMMO):
Production Orders that are account assigned to a grouping WBS element (PMMO relevant) should never be settled via the normal settlement process (using transaction code KO88 or CO88 or report RKO7CO88). Otherwise, the balance on the order will become negative and lead to reconciliation issues during period close.
PMMO provides a customizing option to set a Settlement Profile (which is marked to not trigger settlement) and a standard Badi implementation (in Standard Settlement) is provided which will overwrite the standard settlement profile.
Enhanced distribution balance check report to include checking exception WBS elements for undistributed balance, storing the results to the database and including additional fields in the report
With the new release, we enhance the scope of logistics and supply scenarios that are natively supported by SAP Project Manufacturing Management and Optimization with the following new features:
This feature enables you to display and maintain U.S. federal-specific fields in the SAP Fiori app “Manage Earmarked Funds” (F7564).
To use this feature, you have to activate the U.S. Federal fields in Customizing under Public Sector Management à Functions for US Federal Government à General Settings à Activate US Federal Fields in SAP Fiori apps.
This feature enables you to display and maintain profit centers in the SAP Fiori app “Manage Funds Center” (F0772A).
Picture 8: Use a modern user interface to display, maintain, and report U.S. federal-specific fields.
For more information, see:
This new release offers to trace any derivation of the central derivation tools (SAP_ABA TABADR and S4/CORE TKEDR), when working with SAP Fiori applications. The existing backend traces do not work for Fiori apps. Therefore, this new tool closes a gap to allow tracing of the backend derivation tools.
It consists of two SAP Fiori apps:
With this new release, we include:
You can use this function to immediately include a notification in the dialog using the Include Immediately action in CIC/IIS Management. The system immediately confirms whether the inclusion was successful.
When you execute the (existing) Include Notification action or the (new) Include Immediately action, the system exits processing mode.
Germany: Change of Insurer Certificate (CIC)
Austria: Insurance Information System (IIS)
Both Countries:
We would like to provide you with a comprehensive overview how and where you can raise your voice to influence developments in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition going forward.
For more information, see the blog post from Anja Wilde here.
For general roadmap information please check the SAP S/4HANA Roadmap.
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