SAP offers preconfigured business process templates specifically designed for SAP S/4HANA Cloud. These templates encompass core functionalities like finance, procurement, manufacturing, sales, and supply chain management. This approach streamlines implementation by providing a solid foundation for these essential business processes.
SAP Fiori facilitates these processes to deliver a role-specific, intuitive, and straightforward user experience. Additionally, SAP S/4HANA Cloud incorporates SAP Best Practices to seamlessly integrate with other cloud solutions such as SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central, SAP Concur, SAP Fieldglass, and SAP Ariba. The SAP Best Practices for Data Migration package complements the core business processes, providing a simplified and non-disruptive transition of your data to SAP S/4HANA Cloud. In the subsequent sections, you will discover how to access these resources through SAP Best Practices Explorer.
The scope of SAP Best Practices content is continually evolving, with updates made by SAP multiple times throughout the year to align with SAP S/4HANA Cloud advancements. For the most current information, it is advisable to visit SAP Best Practices Explorer directly at http://s-prs.co/v502715.
Structure of the Content
The hierarchical structure of SAP Best Practices content begins with the package, which organizes related scope items into logical groups such as finance, sourcing and procurement, and manufacturing. Each group is further divided into subgroups corresponding to specific business functions. For instance, within the finance group, subgroups include accounting and financial close, financial operations, enterprise risk and compliance.
To navigate within SAP Best Practices Explorer, you expand the selected group and subgroups in the SOLUTION SCOPE section to access a specific scope item (also called a process). Furthermore, detailed package information and descriptions can be found in the Solution Information section under the Overview tab.
The package also includes various essential details that provide insights into the solution scope, organizational structure, chart of accounts, key master data delivered within the package, and additional package-wide pre-configuration specifics. These resources can be accessed in the Accelerators tab within SAP Best Practices Explorer.
The key assets in this area are the following:
- Scope presentation
- Availability and dependencies of scope items
- What’s new
- Task tutorials
- Organizational data overview
- Master data overview, financial accounting master data, and controlling master data
- Chart of accounts
- Preconfigured tax codes
- Account determination (global and local)
- Fiscal year variants
- Forms
- Configuration apps
- Application programming interfaces (APIs)
Each scope item within SAP Best Practices Explorer offers a wealth of information to guide your implementation. This information can be accessed through various tabs:
- Overview: Here, you’ll find a comprehensive breakdown of the scope item, including:
- Description: A clear explanation of the functionality provided by the scope item.
- Business Benefits: Understand the value proposition associated with implementing this scope item.
- Key Process Flows: Gain insights into the core business processes involved in the scope item.
- Country/Region Relevance: This section clarifies the applicability of the scope item for specific locations.
- Details: This section dives deeper into the functionality and capabilities of the scope item. Here, you’ll find valuable assets such as:
- Task Tutorials: Step-by-step guides for business users, helping them navigate the functionality through user-friendly tutorials.
- Test Scripts: Detailed scripts designed to test the scope item’s processes. These scripts provide information on business roles, sample data, and step-by-step execution instructions.
- Process Flows: Visual representations of the business process, depicting process steps within swim lanes assigned to specific business process participants.
- Setup Instructions: This section provides guidance on integration settings and any other setup procedures for scope items requiring additional configuration.
Example: Requisitioning (18J)
The figure showcases an example of a scope item, Requisitioning (18J), along with the various assets described above. The platform allows you to access the description in multiple languages using the on-screen Language selection. It’s important to note that some assets may only be available in English.
Suppose you are already acquainted with SAP Best Practices content and its organization. In that case, you can utilize the compact view of all assets included in the package by accessing the SAP Best Practices Content Library link (not displayed) in the Accelerators section of the package. This view enables direct access to all SAP Best Practices content from a single screen, eliminating the need for multiple clicks to navigate the hierarchical structure in SAP Best Practices Explorer.
SAP Best Practices for SAP S/4HANA Cloud are designed to cater to a wide range of markets, offering multiple languages and localized versions. Currently, there are 43 local versions available, supported in 27 languages. The regional versions cover countries such as Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Czechia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong (China), Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan (China), Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, and the United States.
The available languages include Arabic, Bahasa (Malaysia), Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, and Turkish.
To ensure you have the most current information on language support and local versions, it’s advisable to check the SAP Best Practices Explorer. For the latest updates, navigate to the Scope presentation under Accelerators in the Delivery and Positioning subsection.
Optimal Strategies for Integration, Extensibility, and Hybrid Deployment
Besides the SAP Best Practices centred around business processes, content is also available for integration, extensibility, and hybrid (or two-tier) deployment. To locate these scope items, select the relevant group in the selection box within the SOLUTION SCOPE section of the package’s Overview tab. For instance, you can display content for SAP S/4HANA Cloud – Integration. This selector also allows access to content focused on extensibility and hybrid deployment.
What's New Viewer
Regularly check the What’s New Viewer for updates, new features, and deprecated scope items in SAP S/4HANA Cloud. This tool is available on the SAP Help Portal at http://help.sap.com. To access it, type “SAP S/4HANA Cloud” into the search field, click on the SAP S/4HANA Cloud entry, go to the What’s New tab, and click the What’s New Viewer link. Utilize the search and filter options to find information on updated and changed scope items.
Release Assessment and Scope Dependency Application
If you are utilizing SAP S/4HANA Cloud, using the Release Assessment and Scope Dependency application is recommended to stay informed about new and modified functionalities in each product release. This tool offers insights and suggestions tailored to your specific scope. It provides the following details:
- Customized scope analysis based on your activated or implemented scope
- Categorization of changes into functional, API, deprecated items, core data services (CDS) views, authorizations, and Self-Service Configuration UIs (SSCUIs) for a quick impact assessment on your current scope
- Testing recommendations based on the extent and impact of changes to the scope items
- Information on new scope items that can be activated, considering the dependencies among scope items
The accompanying figure shows the tool’s landing page, which helps you understand the impact of new functionalities on your current scope and assess potential new capabilities for your solution. You can access the Release Assessment and Scope Dependency application directly from the SAP Best Practices Explorer entry screen.
Conclusion
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