SAP S/4HANA Release 1809: Part 2

In Part 2 of our analysis of SAP S/4HANA Release 1809 we’ll start looking at a high level overview of some key innovations rolling out in the 1809 release.

As always keep in mind that these are previews of anticipated features and functionality and are subject to change by SAP.

Supply Chain

• aATP (advanced Available To Promise): with Alternative-Based-Confirmations
• Product allocations – calculate non-reserving availability

Embedded Transportation Management

•         Mixed palled Building and load optimization
•          Carrier invoicing through SAP Logistics Business Network

Utilities Industry

•          Analytical insight and exception resolution in utilities billing and invoicing
•          Analysis of meter reading

Retail and Fashion Industry

•          Merchandise Management – empties in warehouse management integration
•          Fashion & Retail – enhanced management of “season”

Customer Management

•          Embedded Service Management (Service Core) with eliminated middleware, a harmonized data model

Sourcing and Procurement

•          Centralized purchase requisition through hub and central contract management hub
•          Integration of SAP Ariba Buying

Digital Manufacturing

•          Demand-driven visibility and interactive planning
•          Capacity evaluation and adjustment for MRP controllers

Finance

•      Central Finance – Provide a finance data hub for real-time consolidation
• Intercompany reconciliation report

Asset Management

•          Overview Page for Planner
•          Technical Object Damage Analysis
•          Task list and operations

Sales & Distribution

•          Simplified Sales Order creation
•          Perform split analyses in Sales billing and invoicing
•          Approval workflow for credit memo requests

Inventory Management

•          Predictive analytics/machine learning for decision support
•          Posting goods receipt for production order

Quality Management

•          Quality Inspection – recording results
•          Complaint management recording/monitoring
•          Analyze KPI’s for quality management data

Extended Warehouse Management

•          Item Unique Identification
•          New report to classify products based on history warehouse tasks (ABC Calculations)

R&D/Engineering

•          Variant Configuration – multi-level; CPQ classification
•          Product marketability and chemical compliance

Migration Cockpit

•          Transferring Data to SAP S/4HANA Using Staging Tables
•          Adjust the migration objects that are used with the Object Modeler

Stay tuned for further articles previewing Release 1809s features and functionality.