You will find as well industry innovations like: Retail and Fashion with new business scenarios including new planning strategies enhanced with segmentation functionality. Banking, coming this release with and Loans Management / Deposits Management enhancements.
2. Agenda
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• Why S/4 Hana? – Overview
• Single Source of Truth
• Changes at GL level
• Bank Account Management
• New Asset Accounting
• Changes in Controlling
• Obsolete and New Transaction codes in S/4 HANA
• Credit Management
• General
• Migration Guide for SAP S/4HANA 1809
3. Universal Journal - Single Source of Truth
• One line item table with full detail for all applications - for instant insight & easy extensibility.
• Data stored only once: no more reconciliation needed.
• Fast multi-dimensional reporting possible.
4. Universal Journal
• Ultimate single source of truth
for instant insight and easy
customer extensions.
• ONE line item table with full
detail for all applications.
• Secondary cost elements are now
G/L accounts.
• Data stored only once: no
reconciliation needed by design
• Reduction of memory footprint
through elimination of
redundancy.
• S/4 Hana Features
• Secondary cost element is now
part of the Trail Balance.
• No reconciliation required for the
FI and Co Transaction.
• Accounting Principle is now
introduced in S4hana for FI
Transaction
• Business Impact
5. S/4 HANA Changes and Business Impact
• General Ledger
• New Concept of Universal Journal
introduced in S/4 Hana. (ACDOCA Table
with full details of all Components).
• GL Account Master
• New “Account Type“ selection is
introduced with the Possible values like:
“X” Balance Sheet Account
“N” Non-Operating Expenses and
Income
“P” Primary Costs or Revenue
“S” Secondary Costs
• Cost Elements are part of Chart of
Accounts. New field “Cost Element
Category”. Merging Cost Element Master
Data with GL Master Data.
• S/4 Hana Features
• General Ledger
• Real Time Integration/Recon. Ledger not
required as CO is part of Universal Journal.
• Fast multi-dimensional reporting possible.
• GL Account Master
• For creating New GL accounts, correct Account
type need to be select for P&L accounts.
• T-code KA01/KA02/KA04 is no longer available.
In GL master itself, cost element will be define.
• Record account assignment indicator can be
set on reconciliation accounts for fixed asset or
material only
• The Profit and loss account which is not
created as Cost element are converted as non
operative exp or income
• Business Impact
7. S/4 HANA Changes and Business Impact
• Account Receivable / Account
Payable
• The mandatory target approach in
S/4HANA for Master Data is the
Business Partner approach.
• BP is the single point of entry to
create, edit, and display master data
for business partners, customers,
and vendors.
• Bank Accounting
• Account Creation is possible
through T.code NWBC and Fiori
App in the Bank management
• FI12 obsolete in S/4 Hana
• S/4 Hana New Features
• Account Receivable / Account Payable
• Customer/ Vendor/ Employee as a vendor Master data
has to be created through Business Partner. (T-code: BP)
• Bank Accounting
• In S4hana Account ID will be part of the Master data
• Cash Manager role is required to create the House bank
and account creation.
• Business can be defined as Account Type i.e. Current
account or Loan Account
• Attribute can be defined whether the bank account is an
operating account or a functional account
• Direction can be defined as operating account or a
functional account
• House Bank can be created with new
• T-code: NWBC & FI12_HBANK
• Business Impact
8. S/4 HANA Changes and Business Impact
• Asset Accounting
• Each Depreciation Area is accounting
principle specific.
• No Reconciliation step required in
Financial Close since it is Ensured by S/4
Hana Design.
• Asset Technical Clearing Account will be
trigger at the time acquisition of Asset.
• New data structures for Depreciation
run.
• Posting Document of Depreciation is at
Asset Level.
• S/4 Hana New Features
• Asset Accounting
• Accounting Principle specific entry is possible.
• Selection screen is simplified in Depreciation run as
the “reasons for posting run” (planned
depreciation run, repeat, restart, unplanned
posting run) are no longer relevant.
• Business can easily identified the Asset # in
Depreciation posting entry.
• AJRW is no longer has to be performed at fiscal
year change.
• Periodic Asset postings (ASKB) is no longer required
to run.
• Reconciliation program for FI-AA is obsolete.
(ABST2)
• Delta deprecation is not available
• Business Impact
11. Data Structure changes in Asset Accounting.
• The data structures of Asset Accounting have changed as follows..
• You have been using classic Asset Accounting until now and will be using New Asset Accounting in SAP
S/4HANA.
• Actual values from tables ANEP, ANEA, ANLP, ANLC are saved in table ACDOCA in New Asset Accounting.
• The values from table ANEK are saved in tables BKPF and ACDOCA in new Asset Accounting. Postings are
still made to the table BSEG.
• You can continue to use your existing reports and developments with the help of compatibility views.
• The Asset Accounting tables ANEA, ANEP, ANEK, ANLC and ANLP are no longer updated in SAP S/4HANA.
• Reconciliation postings are no longer necessary with closing operations as General Ledger Accounting and
Asset Accounting are reconciled permanently anyway due to the universal journal entry.
• New Asset Accounting makes it possible to post in real time in all valuations (that is, for all accounting
principles). You can track the postings of all valuations, without having to take into account the postings of
the leading valuation, as was partly the case in classic Asset Accounting.
12. S/4 HANA Changes and Business Impact within
Controlling.
• Cost Centre Accounting
• Ledger group option is available in
reposting's transaction
• T-Code: KB11N
• Product Costing
• Possible to see the Cost Component split
of COGS & Production Variances in FI
• Material Ledger
• Activation of Material Ledger is required.
• S/4 Hana New Features
• Cost Centre Accounting
• Manual Reposting's of Primary Costs at Ledger Group level is
possible.
• T-Code: KB11N
• Product Costing
• Possible to see COGS split with in FI or Account based
Profitability Analysis by assigning P&L Accounts to the cost
components of the cost component structure.
• Production Variances split can be seen by variance category's
in FI
• Material Ledger
• Obligatory to Use Material Ledger.
• Activation is required for inventories valuation perspective.
• Business Impact
13. Credit Management
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• If you are not using FI-AR-CR Credit Management there is no business impact for you.
• If you are using FIN-FSCM-CR SAP Credit Management already, there is no business impact for you.
• If you are using FI-AR-CR Credit Management you need to migrate to FIN-FSCM-CR SAP Credit
Management. S/4HANA provides various tools in order to support and automate this migration.
• FIN-FSCM-CR SAP Credit Management provides additional functionality compared to FI-AR-CR Credit
Management. The configuration and activation of the additional functionality is not required in the
context of the migration.
14. Financials – General
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Business Process related information
There are mandatory configuration steps in General Ledger, Asset Accounting,
Account-Based CO-PA, and Cash Management (if used).
IMG -> Migration from SAP ERP to SAP Accounting powered by SAP HANA
You should also consider adapting your reporting strategy to use the new
Fiori reports that are designed specifically to handle the many fields in the
universal journal, rather than continuing to work with the classic reports that
aggregate on the fly according to the fields in the old totals fields.
18. SAP S/4HANA Readiness Check
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Preparing Systems
• How much HANA do I need?
• Are my add-ons compatible with SAP S/4HANA?
• What SAP Fiori apps are available?
• What business functions are affected?
• What transactions are affected?
• Will my custom code work with SAP S/4HANA and if not, what do I do?
21. SAP S/4HANA Migration Cockpit
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• SAP S/4HANA Migration Object Modeller is part of the SAP S/4HANA Migration Cockpit.
• Design tool to easily integrate custom objects and enhancements.
• Integration of newly created objects.
• Custom objects.
• SAP standard objects that are not yet in the scope of the SAP S/4HANA Migration Cockpit
• Customer-specific enhancements (e.g. add new fields) to SAP standard objects delivered
with the SAP S/4HANA Migration Cockpit.