Introducing SAP S/4HANA 1610
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Following on from the success of the on-premise 1511 edition of SAP
S/4HANA Enterprise Management, SAP released SAP S/4HANA 1610 on October 31,
2016.
With brand new functions and significant simplifications across lines of
business (LoB), the addition of the full SAP S/4HANA Finance scope, and the SAP
Fiori 2.0 user experience, SAP S/4HANA 1610 continues where its predecessor
left off on its mission to reinvent ERP for the digital age. Here we take a
look at some of these highlights in more detail.
From the start, SAP S/4HANA was designed to enable businesses to both
master the challenges and leverage the benefits of digitalization for
businesses. As the modern digital core, it serves as the nerve center of the
enterprise. Built on the SAP HANA platform, SAP S/4HANA has the power to
significantly accelerate the speed of both transactional and analytics
performance and radically reduce an organization’s data footprint. As a system
of intelligence, it offers decision-making support, simulation, pattern
recognition, and prediction capabilities to help organizations transform from
the reactive to the proactive.
Integration not only between departments, but also with suppliers,
customers, the workforce, and the Internet of Things makes immediate and
valuable insights across an entire business a reality. SAP S/4HANA 1610 has
built on and further advanced all of these capabilities to create the most
innovative on-premise release yet.
Next-Generation UX with SAP Fiori 2.0
Starting at the top, one key innovation in SAP S/4HANA 1610 is the SAP
Fiori 2.0 visual theme. Using tiles, links, or the search function, users
access all the applications they need from one single personalized entry point.
Overview pages, list reports, and work lists based on domain-specific
information provide tailored task overviews, with notifications alerting users
to priority issues. Drilling down, users can investigate and resolve open
issues – with the SAP Fiori visual theme applied across the board, even to own
developments.
Expanding the Core
Delivering on the simplification road map, a number of important
developments are now included in their entirety in the latest on-premise
release of SAP S/4HANA.
First, SAP has added the entire scope of SAP S/4HANA Finance. This
single source of truth for all financial data means reconciliation is a thing
of the past, and the optimized financial accounting processes help companies’
finance experts improve efficiency and ensure compliance. Highlights include
real-time understanding with SAP RealSpend and SAP Financial Statement
Insights, and parallel valuation methods for legal, group, and profit centers,
making reporting profitability for both the group as a whole and individual
units possible.
Second, SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM) is now part of SAP
S/4HANA. With flexible deployment options, customers can run SAP EWM either as
a centralized or a decentralized application with SAP S/4HANA 1610.
Innovations, such as the direct use of master data and the supported use of
40-digit material numbers, are now also available. The key benefit comes, of
course, with the central consistency that SAP S/4HANA provides. There are no
redundancies, no duplications, just a simplified SAP system landscape.
Following on from discrete industries and mill products being moved to the
core with SAP S/4HANA Enterprise Management, on-premise edition 1511, this
latest release includes the industry solutions for retail and oil &
gas.
Innovating the Core
SAP S/4HANA not only provides customers with the software to deal with the
new opportunities presented by the digital age, such as IoT, Big Data, business
networks, and machine learning, it also creates software for entirely new
technologies that are essentially the results of this digitalization.
In the age of the smart product, one of the new topics addressed by the
latest on-premise release, is that of embedded software. Whether it is in our
phones, cars, or household appliances, “built-in” software has become
ubiquitous. With SAP S/4HANA 1610, completely new capabilities support
manufacturers in the management of this kind of software across the entire
product lifecycle.
Businesses can accelerate new product development by responding quickly to
information gathered from their intelligent products, leverage
requirements-based product design and impact analysis, and monitor the product
development status, including design, quality, and development progress.
At a glance: The key innovations and
enhancements with SAP S/4HANA 1610
Another important new development with SAP S/4HANA 1610 is the optimized
portfolio and project management solution, an SAP S/4HANA add-on (subject to
separate licensing agreement) that focuses on supporting project managers and
portfolio managers. SAP has completely redesigned the way a user interacts
with the system to enable optimum efficiency.
Further additions include advanced availability to promise functionality,
integrated quality management, and SAP S/4HANA for international trade.
Enhancing the Core
SAP S/4HANA 1610 is not, however, just about the new additions to the
core. Building on the extensive simplifications delivered with SAP S/4HANA,
on-premise edition 1511, the latest on-premise release has also enhanced
solutions such as inventory management and accelerated material requirements
planning.
The Go-To Release
With its extensive set of new
functionality, this is, without doubt, the new go-to release for all companies
in all industries embarking on their digital transformation. To learn more, explore
the following links:
The 1610 page – everything you
need to know in one place: sap.com/s4-onpremiserelease
Simplification list for SAP S/4HANA 1610
Press release – SAP S/4HANA Enhancements Accelerate Digital
Transformation Adoption
Discover the best practice content for this release – to follow
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Rudolf Hois is vice president
and chief product owner for SAP S/4HANA On Premise
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