SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA (SAP S/4HANA) is a new product, which is fully built on the SAP HANA platform and designed with SAP Fiori user experience, delivering massive simplification and innovations to help reinvent businesses. SAP S/4HANA as a technology and platform will ensure a robust control over reporting and building confidence of all stakeholders through better monitoring of business, optimum utilization of resources and complete adherence to compliance.

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SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA (SAP S/4HANA) is a new product, which is fully built on the SAP HANA
platformanddesignedwithSAPFiori userexperience,deliveringmassive simplification and innovations
to help reinvent businesses. SAP S/4HANA as a technology and platform will ensure a robust control
over reporting and building confidence of all stakeholders through better monitoring of business,
optimum utilization of resources and complete adherence to compliance.
SAP HANA is an in-memory computing engine used for real-time processing of huge volumes of data,
building and deploying real-time applications. Adopting the row-based and column-based DB
technology,the bigdata exists on the main memory and not on the hard disk. The, columnar approach
allows linear searching and aggregation of data rather than two-dimensional data structure. If more
than one column is to be processed, each task is assigned to diverse processor. Operations on one
columnare thencollimatedbycolumndivisionsprocessedby different processors. It replaces the onus
of data maintenance separately on the legacy system and simplifies the tasks of administrators.
S/4HANA issimplifiedandre-designedbusinesssuite wherecustomerscanwork on the live data. There
are several instances, this innovation, helped businesses take the most appropriate decisions, as the
availability of information is accurate, live and analyzed.
Objects which use to run for hours are now being executed in seconds, for example MRP (Materials
requirement planning) in any kind of environment takes longer, in complex environments it will be
furtherlongerwhereaswithS/4HANA MRPislive.Speedisthe mantraof HANA, in-memory-computing
on a highly simplified, innovated (aligning to the speed of the DB) and accessible through all kinds of
devices (mobile and immobile).
There is a lot of learning in this digital transformation. Technology enablement is most advanced,
helpingcustomers workwithdatathatislive, as it happens and needless to mention of the speed, it is
very well defined.
S/4HANA is Performance, Resiliency and Flexibility. Latency (The time duration to perform data
replication starting from the source to the target system known as latency) is key to transaction
performance.Movingawayfromrelational databasestoinmemorycomputingisthe biggestinnovation.
Movingaway fromrow storage and accessingof DB throughthe rows in transparent tables to columnar
access of data is itself big change.

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Some of the simplifiedareasofS/4HANA are following:
1. Cost elements become part of the chart of
accounts. They are maintained in GL
account master data. Hence, there is no
separate cost element master data
maintenance. Account master record
includes new field for cost element
category which classifies GL accounts into
four types:
a. X – Balance Sheet Account;
b. N – Non-operating Expenses or
Income;
c. P – Primary Costs or Revenue;
d. S – Secondary Costs
2. Business Partner (BP) is now capable of
centrally managing the master data of
business partners such as customers, and
vendors, enabling “BP” as the single point
of entry to create, edit, and display master
data of the respective category.
3. All journal entry items are converted into
accounting interface for any of the
configured currencies, independent of the
source, where the business transaction
originates from.
4. Universal journal (ACDOCA) holds the data
for account assignments (cost centers,
profit centers, Product, Product Groups,
Customer, Customer Groups and so on)
whichare done incontrolling.Thisprovides
a profitand lossstatementwithadrill down
to the above reporting dimensions.
5. Materials with price control “Moving
Average” and all special stock types is an
optionavailable. The benefit of this option
is that no exclusive locking is required
anymore for material valuation, which
enables parallel material document
processing. However, exclusive locking is
still required, if material master data is
created or changed by a goods movement.
6. Web Dynpro Applications of SAP ERP are
replacedwithexistingSAPGUItransactions,
Fiori applications enabling ease of access
for a Smart Business.
7. Material type "SERV" for services is
introduced for Product Master in S/4HANA
for simplification purposes. Shopping cart
functionality is replaced by self-service
procurement.
8. MRP live creates many planned orders in
parallel.Lockingconflictswillbe eliminated
inparallel processing and reduce total MRP
runtime. MRP in HANA does not suffer
much from considering quota
arrangements.
9. If a BOM or routing is to be considered by
MRP, a productionversionwillbe required.
If MRP is to source a purchase requisition
from a certain supplier, defining a source
list entry is no longer required. It is
sufficient to set the indicator "relevant for
automatic sourcing" in the purchasing info
record.
10. Forecast demand (FD) and Planned
independent requirements (PIR) are
semantically very similar, whereas FD
belongs to S/4 & PIR belongs to ECC.
Creation indicator for Purchase requisition
generation (in MD01N) doesn't exist in
HANA
11. SAPFIORIwhen it is implemented for sales
orderprocess,salesrepresentatives will be
able to create salesordersovermobile from
customer’s location. Fiori facilitates online
business order fulfillment. Earlier ABAP
reports that were taking over 12 hours to
fetch the data have gone down to a few
minutes.