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Overview


During ERP era Customer Service (CS) component supports all the processes related to Services which we provide to customers. We can Structure and create Technical Object, manage data for Warranties, Create Service Requests, bill the cost occurred during service processing. However, this is not part of long-term scope in SAP S/4HANA journey. CS will no longer available after 2025, hence no license and support would be provided as well. Moreover, SAP could choose to remove them at any time after 2025.

SAP is providing the solutions to cover the scope of CS within S/4HANA itself.

Until S/4HANA 1809 the new service functionality was an add-on for S/4HANA called Customer Management.

In September 2019, SAP S/4HANA 1909 has been released to customers. The add-on SAP S/4HANA for customer Management is now embedded into SAP S/4HANA core as S/4HANA Service. After that SAP has released many versions with additional functionalities to cover the Customer Service Functionalities and improve the user experience.

 

Key Features


SAP S/4HANA service is a future ready solution. This includes the following features:

Master Data maintenance – Fiori apps to maintain service related master data like  Business Partner, Material master etc.

Technical Object maintenance – Separate Section for maintaining the technical objects with the help of simplified Fiori apps

Interaction Center - This area in SAP S/4HANA Service provides you with tools to help you ensure efficient and consistent customer service by collaborating and communicating with your customers by using various channels.

On-site service and In-house Repair – With the release of latest version (S/4HANA 2020) service management is divided into two sections On-site repair and In-house services.

Service Contract – SAP S/4HANA Service provides Service Contract management as out of the box solution. Customer-specific price agreements can be defined and handled within service contracts. Service Contracts can be converted into services order and billed based on agreement with the customer.

Service Quotation – SAP S/4HANA Service provides this as a out of the box functionality. Once the quotation is accepted by the customer and released, it can be converted into a service order for processing and billing.

Field Service Management Integration (FSM) - SAP S/4HANA Service can be easily integrated with SAP C/4HANA Field Service Management. Thus, service orders are replicated as soon as they are released and saved.

 

Process Flow


 


 

Steps to perform Service Processing


 

1 - Click on On-site Service tab to create the service order

 


2 - Create a service order using Fiori App “Create Service Order”


 

3 - This will have two options.



    1. Repair order – In case of any repair in the equipment.

    2. Service order – In case of regular service





Select the service order and continue.

Input below data

  • External Reference

  • Description

  • Sold to party


Press enter to continue.

System will show a popup screen with the option to choose the partner.


Select the technician SRV_TECH_DE and continue.

Select the equipment no – 10000001

Go-to Items section and input items for the service.

  1. Labor Item –


Item no – 10

Part no - P700_SERV_ONS.

Qty – 3

  1. Part –


Item no – 20

Higher level Item – 10

Part no – P700-SC-100

Qty – 1

Save the Service order.


Service order is saved with Order no. – 8000000020

Go Back to home screen.


Open the Fiori app “Search Service Order”


Search for the service order created previously. Enter the Service order no in the Service Order Id field and click on search.


This will open the service order screen in display mode.


Click on EDIT button to change the order in case of any update required.


4 - Release service Order- Service order can be released at header level as well as item level.


Save the order.

5 - Create Service Confirmation.

Click on button “Create Follow-up” to create service confirmation.


System will show a pop-up screen with multiple option. Select the service confirmation option to convert the service order into service confirmation.



System will copy the header data from service order and go-to the Service Confirmation screen. In this screen system will show a pop up window to choose the items which are confirmed. Once user will select the item (s) choose button will appear on the screen.

Select the items and click on choose.


System will automatically copy the items from Service order into service confirmation.


Save the Service Confirmation.


System will create the service confirmation with no. 9000000000

 

Click on EDIT button to change the status of the service confirmation.



Change the status of service confirmation as “Completed” and save.


6 - After service confirmation is completed the next step is to complete the service order.

Go to Service Processing tab and open Fiori app “Service Order Search”



Enter the Service order no. and click on search to open the service order.


System will open the desired service order.


Click on Edit button to change the status of the Service order from Release to Completed.


Save the Service order.

Service order is saved with completed status.

7 - Release for Billing - Go to On-site Service tab and open Fiori app “Release for Billing”


Here we have multiple options to search for the documents. Enter sold-to-party to search for all the open items.


System will show all the open items for this customer


Select the row and click on Release for Billing


After the document is released it will disappear from the search list.

 


After service order status is completed it generates a Billing document in the backend.

 

8 - Create Billing - Go to Service Billing tab and open Fiori app “Create Billing Documents (Billing due list Items)”


 

Enter Sold to Party to get the Billing request.


This will show all the open items relevant for this Customer.

Click on settings icon to choose the additional fields to display the list.

This will show a pop up screen with multiple fields available to choose. Select the field “BDR Source Document” and click on OK.


This will show us the detail of previous document reference.

In our case the previous document reference was a Service confirmation no. 90000000000.


Select this line item and click on “Create” to generate Billing document.


System will show a screen with temporary billing document no. User can verify the document and proceed for final billing.

Click on Save button to generate final billing document.


System has generated the final Billing document as below.


9 - Invoice Preview – Click on preview button to view the invoice document.

 


 


 

Conclusion


It is obvious that CS module is a sunset module and S/4HANA is in the future roadmap of SAP. S/4HANA service is the Future ready solution from SAP for customer services. This is available as On-Prem and Cloud version as well. it is completely integrated into S/4HANA and uses the common data of the HANA database. For the integration, the best of the CRM and ERP worlds was combined in Service and Sales Management. Objects such as business partners, material (replaces CRM products) and equipment (replaces CRM IObjects) are used in common and the middleware is eliminated.

 

 

 

 

 
29 Comments
Eliel
Participant
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Hi Chandra,

Thank you so much for sharing such a valuable post.

Is there any planned S/4HANA Service configuration course in training.sap.com  or any official documentation available from SAP? I haven’t seen much in terms of Best Practices from SAP so far for this subject.

I also heard that CS is part of the compatibility packs product till 2030.

Best Regards
thangarajthomas
Participant
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Hi Chandra,

Excellent Information on SAP S/4 HANA Service overview.

Thank you for sharing.

Best Regards

Thangaraj Thomas

 
Hi Eliel,

 

Thanks for your feedback. I will try to find something related to S/4HANA Service configuration and post the same.

Yes CS is part of the compatibility pack till 2030 only and support would end after that.

 

Regards,

Chandra.
Eliel
Participant
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Thank you, Chandra!

Again, excellent content.

Best Regards
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Hi Chandra,

 

Very informative content .Thank you very much Just wondering can you also give some insight on S/4HANA Customer Management solution

Regards

Vyomakesh Bharadwaj Racherla
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Hi Chandra,

Its informative!!

Thank you for sharing.

Thanks,

Akhil

 
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Hi Chandra

Thanks for informative post

As you classified Onsite Service vs Inhouse repair do we have to activate this in Manage your solution scope or comes by default

How about VAN stock scenario for technicians carrying stock in S/4 HANA Service ( If FSM and C4C is out of scope)

Can standalone S4 HANA Cloud handles spare parts scenario as well

Appreciate your feedback

Best Regards

Waseem
former_member358553
Discoverer
Hi Chandra,

A very nice and complete overview of the service process in S/4hana service.

However, I have following question:

When creating the confirmation I have no field available to enter a batch number for the used materials. Do you have a solution for this omission?

Thank you and best regards,

 

Joep
Shobhitt99
Explorer
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Former Member

Thanks for sharing this blog. I have few queries

  1. What is the Standard Architecture for Service Management? We have S/4 HANA Service, C/4HANA Cloud for Service and FSM for Field service management.


2. What S/4HANA Service + FSM cover all Service business processes?

3. What is SAP strategy b/w C/4HANA Cloud of Service Vs S/4HANA Service? Are they similar products or having different functionality and use case. If later that what are those use case where customer need S/4HANA Service along with C/4 HANA Cloud for Service.

 

BR,

Shobhit
astrid27
Discoverer
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Wenn diese Transaktionen/Fioris eingestellt werden, was ist das Nachfolgeprodukt, das eine Fakturierung von Maintenance und Service-Aufträgen end-to-end zulässt?

Grüsse

Astrid
astrid27
Discoverer
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Wenn diese Transaktionen/Fioris eingestellt werden, was ist das Nachfolgeprodukt, das eine Fakturierung von Maintenance und Service-Aufträgen end-to-end zulässt?

Grüsse

Astrid
fsimovic
Explorer
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Hi Chandra,

Would you be so kind and indcate us which is the best way to cancel a biiling which is did in SErvice S4Hana? I mean the best way to cancel, the billing, the hours notificated of the technical people and spare parts?

Thanks in advance.

Fernando
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Dear Sir

I create Service order Error message


Please help me
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Dear Sir

 

I create service sales order

error message


Please help me
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Hi Chandra,

Thanks for sharing these valuable contents, I am trying to search the standard configuration document but there is no luck, Is there any possibility to share configuration document with us.

Thanks in advance

Regards,

Rizwan
youssef_smires
Explorer
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Any solution for this issue ?
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尊敬的先生

我執行應用程序創建服務訂單錯誤消息

 

錯誤信息 01

error message 2

錯誤信息 2

如何設置IMG,請告訴我IMG的下載路徑,我的版本是S4 HANA 2020

圖像路徑

fsimovic
Explorer
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Hi Chandra, nice information about the new Service.

I want to know how is the link (table or function module) between service order (for instance SRVO) and confirmation (SRVC).

Thanks so much for your collaboration

Fernando
Azahir_Rahim
Explorer
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Hi Chandra,

Thank you for sharing such valuable information.

In relation to services, is S/4HANA for Customer Management available for S/4 HANA Public Cloud or S/4 HANA Private Cloud? Thanks?
raghu_cs
Discoverer
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Hi Chandra,

For Onsite repair, we use Advance shipment function to trigger sales order from the service order & ship the parts to the customer site in ECC today. This seems to be not available anymore in S4.

Can you please confirm?
Bidhu
Explorer
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Hello Chandra,

 

If I need to send a spare parts to customer / to my technician on field, where I can create a delivery for this?

 

Thanks

Bidhu
former_member213901
Participant
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Thank you for the detailed explanation, Chandra
Ashutoshs1
Explorer
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Hi! Chandra Shekhar,

This thread provided us a in depth of the Service functionality. Can You guide on the scope items or any link for S/4 HANA Service for ON Prem , as these are avaliable for cloud but not for ON Prem. You suggestion will be very helpful.

Regards,

Ashutosh
Matthias038
Participant
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Hi Chandra,

thanks a lot for this almost e2e process description. Could share more information, maybe by a link, about the cost flow and the settlement of such an order?

As far as I heard, the CS order can't be a cost collector anymore, so it would be nice to see the new way of working too.

Thanks in advance

Matthias

Dear Matthias,

 

An internal order is created to collect the cost and settle the accounts. Please find the details as below. Internal Order settlement must be clear to you, I guess.

 

Regards,

Chandra.

Matthias038
Participant
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Hi Chandra,

thanks for the immediate answer. Yes, internal order I know.

so, I guess the relationship between internal order and CS order is quite variable, means one internal order can have many cs orders, but one cs order can have only one internal order - isn't it.

would you be able to share me a link where I can dive more into the topic of invoicing the cs, also maybe the more technical part / table wise? a link would be perfect.

Thanks again for your good work.

BR

Matthias
VonAspen
Explorer
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Thanks for this. I'd be interested in knowing what specifically is new for CS in S/4 and/or the release you reference.  All of this looks like the same CS functionality with some different Fiori screens.

Tom_Hoegh
Explorer
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Thanks a lot for this process description. Just wondering about down payment. Where to include this in the flow?

Dnyaneshward
Discoverer
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Please provide all configuration about Service Management - In-House repair Process, Onsite Repair Process, Recurring Process, Service Contract along with Integrated Master data configuration.