IT Partners, Inc provides a high-level overview to SAP S/4 Simple Logistics.

1. SAP S/4 Simple Logistics
A Brief Overviewand Introduction

2. SAP S/4 Enterprise Management

3. SAPS/4 EnterpriseManagement

4. SAPS/4 EnterpriseManagement Continued
• S/4 HANA offers simplifications in functionalities and data models across all the modules. This includes
logistics functions.
• SAP Simple Logistics is also known as SAP S/4 HANA Enterprise Management, comprised of essential
modules in the SAP ERP Business Suite, including manufacturing, contract management, sourcing and
procurement, demand planning, supply chain, and material management.

5. SAPS/4 EnterpriseManagement Continued
• Organizations can manage theirlogistics processes with better efficiency and performance with the following:
• Ordermanagementand billing will enable you to conduct end-to-end order-to-cash processes, while
letting you take action for exceptions.
• You can also reduceyour total cost of ownership resulting from data model simplification. In addition,
you will have support for the most currentversions of features like SFIN Revenue Accounting, FSCM
Credit Management, and more.

6. SAPS/4 EnterpriseManagement Continued
• Procurementwill help increase the efficiency of processes such as procure-to-pay, spend KPIs, and new
analytical apps.
• Inventory management offers a streamlined data model that increases throughput. Themodule also offers
flexible analytics at the lowest data level.
• Material requirements planning enables a fast MRP run anda simplified model for MRP controllers to make
better decisions.

7. The S/4 Simple Logistics Changes

8. The S/4 Simple Logistics Changes
• Meeting inventory challenges and customer
demands is a difficult balancing act. In
addition, as technology advances,
expectations for superiorperformance
increases.
• Simple Logistics enables you to meetthese
challenges easily with the modulechanges
orenhancements.

9. The S/4 Enterprise Management Customer Master
• Thewhole perspective of managing customer and vendormaster in S/4is by using the business partner
approach. Hence the traditional transaction codeslike XD01, XD02, XD03 orVD01, VD02, VD03 are
redundant in S/4.
• Similar is the case for XK01, XK02, XD03 and MK01, MK02 andMK03.
• Enterprise migrating to S/4 must ensure that they properly analyze this and use SAP S/4 HANA conversion
pre-checks.

10. The S/4 Enterprise Management MaterialMaster
• Thebiggest single change in the Material
Masteris that the material number field has
been extended upto 40 characters. This
was earlier18 characters in ECC.
• An enterprise with multiple systems in
landscape exchanging material data must
take this into account. This requires IMG
activation (seeleft).

11. MaterialValuationin S/4 Enterprise Management
• Simple Logistics supports the following material valuation methods:
• Moving average price
• Actual costing
• Standard price
• In addition, you will have a definitive separation of transactional data from masterdata. TheS/4 HANA data
model has only four tables rather than multiple tables, which givesyou a smaller data footprint and memory
footprint.
• Reporting occurs based on data related only to material, not the material ledger tables, and the newreporting
includes both material and financial information.

12. Inventory Management inS/4 EnterpriseManagement
• S/4 HANA Enterprise Management
produces onematerials document table
(MATDOC) for simplified inventory
management.
• There is no need to save aggregated tables
due to on-the-fly aggregation, and no
joining is necessary for merging item and
headerlevels.

13. Procurement inS/4 Enterprise Management
• With SAP S/4 HANA Enterprise
Management, you can achieveincreased
efficiency in the Procure-To-Pay processes,
newAnalytical Apps and Spend KPIs, Ariba
Network Integration for PO Orderand IV.

14. MaterialsRequirements PlanningandAnalysis in S/4Enterprise
Management
• S/4 Enterprise Managementwill also improve your MRP runs. The material flow is processedin real-time
(MRP LIVE), which quickly pinpoints potential disruptions in material flows.
• This gives you a variety of benefits, such as an exception-based working modewhich will identify issues
earlier.
• Personalization
• Ability to run MRP onany device
• Classing modefor capacity planning
• Support for delivery schedules and in-house production
• Scenariodependent and much faster speeds

15. BillingOutput Management inS/4 Enterprise Management
• Theentire NAST based output control has been modified to use the Business Rules Framework ( BRF+)
functionality together with output determination.
• BRF+ functionality doesn’t support the following transmission mediums. Hence if you areusing any of these
mediums in ECC, you may have to evaluate your currentsolution.
• T– Tasks
• A –Distribution (ALE)
• 8– Special Functions
• 9– Events

16. Inventory Management inS/4 EnterpriseManagement
• Credit Managementhas beendiscontinued
from S/4 HANA and the recommended
solution is Financial Supply Chain
Management(FSCM).
• Transactions like F.28, F.31, F.32, F.33are
no longer supported. Following are the new
transactions in this area.

17. BillingOutput Management inS/4 Enterprise Management
• Theentire NAST based output control has been modified to use the Business Rules Framework ( BRF+)
functionality together with output determination.
• BRF+ functionality doesn’t support the following transmission mediums. Hence if you areusing any of these
mediums in ECC, you may have to evaluate your currentsolution.
• T– Tasks
• A –Distribution (ALE)
• 8– Special Functions
• 9– Events

18. Improvements inSimplificationList andCustom Code
• In SAPS/4HANA EnterpriseManagement, yourbusinesscangenerateasimplificationlist forimproved managementand
estimation.
• The simplificationlist definesfunctionalcapabilitiesof theindividual transactions.
• A Simplificationlist containsalist ofsimplificationitems, which explainsthe businessandtechnical impact.
• Eachsimplificationitem hasasimplificationcategoryandprovides informationaboutpotentialimpacts.
• Byintegratingthe simplificationlist withcustomcodecheck tool,wecanpull a detailedreportwherecustomcodedoesn’t
meet the requirementandscopeofS/4HANA system.

19. Summary

20. Summary
• SAP Simple Logistics or Enterprise Managementworks by eliminating indexes and reducing redundancies,
which were required previously for aggregates. Thesystem also trades the traditional functionality with new
innovative solutions that are now included rather than optional additions.
• This data model simplification improves operational efficiency and provides for greatercontrol. Simple
Logistics in S/4 HANA transforms logistics from a “System of Record” approach to a “Decision Support
System” by utilizing data in a much moreproactive and intelligent way.
• SAP Enterprise Managementrepresents the next generation of applications by providing streamlined
enterprise-level software to harness Big Data. Your organization will operate more simply in the digital
landscape.

21. Thank You
AnthonyCecchini
Web: http://www.itpsap.com
E-Mail: ajcecchini@itpsap.com
Cell: (724)910-8982