What comes after SAP Business Suite? Can the new SAP can meet your existing business requirementsand if so, how? This book is your big-picture introduction to how SAP solutions address your day-to-day business and IT processes in the post-SAP Business Suite landscape. Learn about up-and-coming SAP applications, from SAP S/4HANA, to SAP C/4HANA, to SAP IBP. Follow a central business case to get a clear idea of how the new SAP portfolio can work for you, now and in the years ahead!Highlights include: 1) SAP S/4HANA2) SAP HANA3) SAP C/4HANA4) SAP Integrated Business Planning5) SAP Ariba 6) SAP SuccessFactors7) SAP Lumira8) SAP Analytics Cloud9) SAP Cloud Platform10) SAP Leonardo11) Administration 12) Digital transformation

Matthew Riches is the director of SAP S/4HANA at AgilityWorks Ltd., a UK-based consulting firm that is a partner of SAP-UK and SAP's SAP S/4HANA Center of Excellence. He conducts training for and regularly presents on SAP S/4HANA.

... Who This Book Is For ... 19 ... How This Book Is Organized ... 19 ... Acknowledgments ... 27 ... Conclusion ... 28 ... What Is Digital Transformation? ... 30 ... Digital Transformation Business Case ... 33 ... Learning to Read the SAP Landscape ... 37 1.1 ... Business Case ... 49 1.2 ... Marketing ... 51 1.3 ... Sales ... 62 1.4 ... Commerce ... 70 1.5 ... Customer Service ... 75 1.6 ... Data ... 83 1.7 ... The Road Ahead ... 85 2.1 ... Business Case ... 88 2.2 ... Order and Contract Management ... 90 2.3 ... Sales Planning and Performance Management ... 100 2.4 ... Billing and Revenue Management ... 105 2.5 ... Customer Service ... 111 2.6 ... The Road Ahead ... 117 3.1 ... Business Case ... 123 3.2 ... Sales and Operations Planning ... 124 3.3 ... Demand Management ... 132 3.4 ... Inventory Management ... 133 3.5 ... Response and Supply Management ... 137 3.6 ... Supply Chain Analytics ... 139 3.7 ... The Road Ahead ... 140 4.1 ... Business Case ... 144 4.2 ... SAP Portfolio Overview ... 146 4.3 ... Sourcing ... 150 4.4 ... Purchasing ... 161 4.5 ... Services Procurement ... 167 4.6 ... The Road Ahead ... 170 5.1 ... Business Case ... 174 5.2 ... SAP Portfolio Overview ... 176 5.3 ... Production Planning ... 178 5.4 ... Production Execution ... 184 5.5 ... Manufacturing Execution ... 186 5.6 ... Production Quality Management and Delivery ... 189 5.7 ... The Road Ahead ... 191 6.1 ... Business Case ... 195 6.2 ... Inventory Management and Basic Warehouse Management ... 196 6.3 ... Extended Warehouse Management ... 203 6.4 ... Transportation Management ... 206 6.5 ... The Road Ahead ... 209 7.1 ... Business Case ... 212 7.2 ... Maintenance Management ... 213 7.3 ... Asset Operations ... 228 7.4 ... The Road Ahead ... 230 8.1 ... Business Case ... 235 8.2 ... Innovation Management ... 235 8.3 ... Product Lifecycle Costing ... 238 8.4 ... Portfolio and Project Management ... 241 8.5 ... Commercial Project Management ... 242 8.6 ... The Road Ahead ... 245 9.1 ... Business Case ... 251 9.2 ... Financial Statements ... 252 9.3 ... General Ledger Accounting ... 258 9.4 ... Financial Close ... 265 9.5 ... Receivables Management ... 268 9.6 ... Invoice Management and Accounts Payable ... 272 9.7 ... Asset Accounting ... 275 9.8 ... Real Estate Management ... 277 9.9 ... Financial Consolidation ... 278 9.10 ... Governance, Risk, and Compliance ... 282 9.11 ... Treasury Management ... 284 9.12 ... The Road Ahead ... 286 10.1 ... Business Case ... 288 10.2 ... Cost Management ... 290 10.3 ... Planning and Control ... 293 10.4 ... Profitability Analysis ... 297 10.5 ... Project Accounting ... 300 10.6 ... The Road Ahead ... 303 11.1 ... Business Case ... 308 11.2 ... Hire-to-Retire Process Overview ... 309 11.3 ... Core Human Resources and Payroll ... 312 11.4 ... Time and Attendance ... 317 11.5 ... Recruiting and Onboarding ... 319 11.6 ... Learning and Development ... 324 11.7 ... Performance and Compensation ... 327 11.8 ... Workforce Planning and Analytics ... 330 11.9 ... The Road Ahead ... 331 12.1 ... Business Case ... 335 12.2 ... Simple Contingent Work ... 336 12.3 ... Complex Contingent Engagements ... 340 12.4 ... The Road Ahead ... 343 13.1 ... Business Case ... 346 13.2 ... Expense ... 349 13.3 ... Travel ... 352 13.4 ... Reporting ... 356 13.5 ... Monitoring ... 357 13.6 ... The Road Ahead ... 357 14.1 ... Business Case ... 362 14.2 ... Architecture Overview ... 363 14.3 ... Database Technology ... 366 14.4 ... Application Platforms ... 375 14.5 ... User Interface ... 383 14.6 ... The Road Ahead ... 388 15.1 ... Business Case ... 392 15.2 ... Data Warehousing ... 394 15.3 ... Big Data ... 406 15.4 ... The Road Ahead ... 408 16.1 ... Business Case ... 412 16.2 ... Business Intelligence ... 413 16.3 ... Enterprise Performance Management ... 427 16.4 ... Predictive Analytics ... 429 16.5 ... The Road Ahead ... 431 17.1 ... Business Case ... 436 17.2 ... Data Strategy ... 438 17.3 ... Data Governance ... 440 17.4 ... Data Quality and Remediation ... 445 17.5 ... Data Migration ... 451 17.6 ... The Road Ahead ... 458 18.1 ... Business Case ... 464 18.2 ... Cloud Integration ... 466 18.3 ... Process Orchestration ... 470 18.4 ... API Management ... 479 18.5 ... Process Mining ... 481 18.6 ... Operational Process Intelligence ... 485 18.7 ... The Road Ahead ... 488 19.1 ... Business Case ... 492 19.2 ... Business Processes and Best Practices ... 493 19.3 ... Portfolio-to-Project ... 496 19.4 ... Requirement-to-Deploy ... 500 19.5 ... Request-to-Fulfill ... 505 19.6 ... Detect-to-Correct ... 506 19.7 ... The Road Ahead ... 511 ... Business Case Conclusion ... 513 ... Emerging Business Challenges ... 518 ... The Road Ahead for SAP ... 519