This presentation introduces a book about logistics processes in SAP S/4HANA. The book is aimed at business leaders, consultants, and IT professionals implementing or interested in SAP S/4HANA. It provides an overview of key logistics functions and processes in SAP S/4HANA and how they have evolved. It also covers new technologies like machine learning, blockchain, and cloud solutions and how they relate to supply chain management.

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Purpose of this presentation
Introduction of the book, Logistics with SAP S/4HANA An Introduction 550 pp. pages
second edition published by the SAP Press.
This book is a great product of expertise, collaboration and team work.
It is Highly recommended for those Subject Matter Experts and business leads that are
interested or starting an implementation of the SAP S/4 HANA Platform 1809.
Logistics with SAP S/4HANA
An Introduction
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2. Digital Technologies are changing rapidly and they require a steady digital platform. Selecting the right
technology platform is a fundamental step toward organizational transformation –and that’s where
Logistics with SAP S/4HANA comes in.
The Book helps understand how to adopt and transform Logistics operations, to manage inventories, to
improve quality controls, to connect, to sell, to manage customers and analyze business performance.
The Objective is to introduce the logistics functionality in SAP S/4HANA to Business Leads, functional
internal and external leads, for customers and SAP consulting partners and practitioners.
Logistics with SAP S/4HANA and Introduction
“I am confident that this book will be an excellent source to help you unleash the full
potential of next-generation logistics with SAP S/4HANA. I wish you the best”
Hasmukh Ranjan, CIO and Corporate VP, Synopsys Inc.
Authors
20 years average experience in SAP
Technology
SAP S/4HANA 1809
Revenue
Book Profits were offered to charity.
Highlights
Inclusion of Machine Learning and Block-
Chain concepts.
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3. Highlights
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Target Audience
This book is for anyone who seeks to understand supply chain business processes,
functionality, and analytics in SAP S/4HANA, and desires to plan a strategy for a business
and IT implementation. Our target group includes IT executives, managers, consultants,
power users and business process owners and subject matter experts involved in the
definition, planning, design, implementation and adoption of SAP S/4HANA 1809 in the
areas of logistics.
What is in the Book
Chapter 1, SAP S/4HANA for the Supply Chain, which highlights the data-base
technology, business process improvements and IT flexibility of SAP S/4HANA and we
analyzed how the suite evolved from SAP S/4HANA 1610 through SAP S/4HANA 1809
versions.
Chapters 2-10 address functional groups by topic. Each chapter follows standard
roadmap, it offers a short primer on core business concepts for each functional area,
discusses key master data simplifications that arrived with S/4 and analyzed the
corresponding SAP FIORI apps available in 1809.

4. Highlights
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What is in the Book
Chapter 11- Reporting and Analytics, the book explores business intelligence more
generally discussing the concept of Embedded Analytics and SAP FIORI standard repots.
The key highlights of this second edition are in Chapter 12 to Chapter 15.
In those Chapters we covered innovations with SAP Leonardo and we explained how
technology innovations apply to supply chain processes and introduces the corresponding
SAP Leonardo applications.
In Chapters 13 and 14 we talked about Industry trends and how the concept of the digital
supply network can help our SAP Customers respond to their current challenges. The
SAP S/4HANA and the Cloud examines cloud computing and explore how two peripheral
cloud suites impact logistics. SAP Ariba and SAP IBP.
Finally a star Chapter 15 that provide the first steps to SAP S/4HANA, provides an
overview of the elements of an SAP S/4HANA roadmap and strategy activities an
implementation team would perform

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