SAP S/4hana Cloud: An Introduction (Hardcover)

... Foreword by Thomas Saueressig ... 15

... Preface ... 17

... Target Audience ... 17

... How to Read This Book ... 17

... How This Book Is Organized ... 18

... Acknowledgments ... 20

1 ... Introduction ... 21

1.1 ... Current ERP Challenges ... 21

1.2 ... A New ERP Paradigm: Cloud ERP ... 25

1.3 ... SAP S/4HANA: Deployment Options ... 29

1.4 ... SAP S/4HANA Cloud Use Cases and Business Value ... 33

1.5 ... SAP S/4HANA Cloud Solution Architecture ... 41

1.6 ... Summary ... 50

2 ... The Intelligent Enterprise Suite ... 51

2.1 ... From the Monolithic ERP to the Intelligent Suite ... 51

2.2 ... End-to-End Business Processes ... 60

2.3 ... SAP Business Technology Platform ... 64

2.4 ... Summary ... 73

3 ... Intelligent Technologies ... 75

3.1 ... Situation Handling ... 76

3.2 ... Robotic Process Automation ... 80

3.3 ... Machine Learning and Predictive Analytics ... 84

3.4 ... Internet of Things ... 90

3.5 ... Intelligent Technologies: An Example ... 94

3.6 ... Summary ... 96

4 ... User Experience ... 97

4.1 ... SAP Fiori Design System ... 97

4.2 ... Mobile User Experience ... 109

4.3 ... User Interface Adaptation ... 115

4.4 ... Summary ... 122

5 ... Analytics ... 125

5.1 ... Embedded Analytics and Enterprise Analytics ... 125

5.2 ... Embedded Analytics in SAP S/4HANA Cloud ... 132

5.3 ... Architecture and Integration with Other SAP Analytics Solutions ... 148

5.4 ... Summary ... 156

6 ... Business Capabilities ... 159

6.1 ... Sourcing and Procurement ... 159

6.2 ... Manufacturing ... 172

6.3 ... Logistics ... 186

6.4 ... Sales ... 203

6.5 ... Service ... 220

6.6 ... Maintenance Management ... 235

6.7 ... Finance ... 248

6.8 ... Cross Capabilities ... 258

6.9 ... Industry Variants ... 285

6.10 ... Industry Cloud ... 301

6.11 ... Globalization ... 306

6.12 ... Summary ... 314

7 ... Extensibility ... 315

7.1 ... In-App/Key User Extensibility ... 316

7.2 ... Side-by-Side Extensibility ... 323

7.3 ... In-App Developer Extensibility ... 333

7.4 ... Localization Toolkit for SAP S/4HANA Cloud ... 334

7.5 ... Summary ... 336

8 ... Integration ... 337

8.1 ... Integration Strategy ... 337

8.2 ... Application Programming Interfaces ... 340

8.3 ... Master Data ... 343

8.4 ... Summary ... 355

9 ... SAP S/4HANA Cloud Adoption and Lifecycle Ma