What's in store in 2025 for SMEs running SAP ERP - Part 2: SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Public Edition.
Jan Bultinck
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In my first article, I took the Rainer Zinow information out of this video to extrapolate what is important for companies running (or aspiring to run) SAP ERP for SME. In this first part, I focused on SAP Business One, one of the two ERP for SME solutions we implement at Small & Medium Enterprise at Amista .
What is in store in 2025 for SAP S/4HANA CLOUD, public edition?
SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition is an out-of-the-box enterprise management solution. It's the cornerstone of GROW with SAP, which facilitates the adoption of cloud ERP.
What does Amista bring to SAP S/4HANA CLOUD, pe?
Amista revolutionizes SME's operations with the “Amista S4Scale” Package for Scale-Up Companies. With our SAP-certified solution, we disrupt the way ERP is being delivered.
How does Amista enable you?
As your company scales, streamlining operations is crucial for maintaining efficiency and driving future success. Our comprehensive ERP package is specifically tailored for companies like yours, offering a seamless solution to manage every aspect of your business. Based on SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public, this suite of benefits is designed to meet the unique demands of scale-up companies, focusing on operational efficiency, financial management, and scalability.
What is the disruptive angle that Amista brings?
In 16 weeks (!!) we deliver a centralized ERP, including
? SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition subscription
? Project implementation
? Project Management
? Change management
GROW with SAP
At the start of the video, Rainer discusses the "Grow" package. "Grow" is a complete offering of solutions, adoption acceleration services, community, and learning so any size company can successfully adopt cloud ERP. You can find more information on GROW with SAP here.
SAP S/4HANA CLOUD, public edition: Strengths
User Interface &Mobile capabilities
With SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2208, SAP introduced the Horizon visual theme to offer users a fresh and modern SAP Fiori experience and to help users get their job done faster, more intuitively, and with better outcomes.
SAP took every feedback to heart, and already made continuous improvements to the design in past releases. The UI will evolve even more with Artificial Intelligence capabilities.
Introducing SAP Joule
Joule is now seamlessly integrated into SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition as part of the November 2024 release after being in early adoption since February this year. This isn’t just another tool – it is a transformative experience designed to help address the everyday challenges customers face. This integration offers a more intuitive way for users to interact with SAP solutions. Instead of manually searching for information or navigating multiple interfaces, users can simply ask Joule for what they need – whether it’s insights on business data or guidance on performing specific tasks. Learn more about Joule
Joule can be used for:
SAP effectively introduces Joule as a sort of "CoPilot", which leverages Business Technology Platform (BTP) capabilities so-called AI Hub, and introduces it in every application that SAP has to offer. Joule, SAP’s generative AI copilot, revolutionizes how you interact with your SAP business systems, making every touchpoint count and every task simpler.
Collaborative AI agents from SAP will take us to the next era of business productivity.?Only Joule can bring together the expertise of multiple specialized AI agents in supply chain, finance, HR, and more to achieve common objectives, transforming how teams work. Dr. Philipp Herzig, Chief AI Officer, SAP SE
What is the benefit?
This marks a significant step in transforming how businesses operate by simplifying everyday tasks and making interactions more efficient and intelligent. The user does not need to know which Large Language Model (LLM) is better suited to your question. That is what SAP abstracts for the user through Joule, built upon the relationship SAP has with all of the leading AI providers.
SAP predictions on the use of Joule
Users will have massive time savings. Users don't need to have the transactional codes or the "menu paths" to easily find their way to a certain functionality. A user now just asks Joule and Joule takes over.
Compare it to navigating with your car: in the old days, you needed to have the right map, for the right region with the correct details. Now you use "Siri" or "Hey Google" to get to your destination.
What are the Main misconceptions on SAP S/4HANA CLOUD, public edition?
The main misconceptions SAP sees in customer interactions, as gathered by Richard Nagel - Presales "Blackbelt" an VP Presales Grow with SAP at SAP.
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Misconception Nr. 1: "SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition is only for service companies"
Rainer states: "Yes, we come from the service-centric side but we have amazing capabilities and nobody is even coming close to what we have when it comes to supply chain, manufacturing, and Logistics in general."
Find out more in these videos:
Or ask us at Amista to talk you through the industry focus in SAP S/4HANA CLOUD, pe.
SAP will only "Double-Down" even more on the Industry-specific capabilities to create the most comprehensive ERP for SMEs.
Misconception Nr. 2: "SAP cannot be implemented in a Lean Manner"
Rainer issued a warning to partners: "For Heavens' sake, don't implement SAP S/4HANA CLOUD, pe in the way you implemented SAP solutions before."
Why is this important?
SAP S/4HANA CLOUD, pe comes with a built-in implementation methodology, optimized to deliver the most lean implementation project. "No nine months pre-projects with months of blueprinting." The SAP Activate methodology provides a clear adoption process of structured and solution-specific best practices. You can choose your path to the cloud and extend new and differentiating capabilities across your organization.
SAP has invested millions of person-days into all of the content that comes with the solution and is all documented in Signavio. Go through the content and move as fast as you can in an agile way, skip the waterfall model.
What is Signavio and why should you care?
SAP Signavio, is a core component of the SAP portfolio for business transformation management. It can deliver the following capabilities:
The GROW with SAP offering comes exactly two years after the acquisition of Signavio, which was “one of the most strategic ones SAP has done” (Christian Klein). The SAP Signavio Process Transformation Suite plays a key role in SAP strategy, enabling organizations to understand their existing business processes and proactively manage and optimize those processes to achieve the agility needed to succeed and thrive.
Misconception Nr. 3: "You cannot extend, configure, or customize in a Cloud ERP solution."
Extended Configuration in SAP /4HANA CLOUD, public edition
Extensibility is a key capability of older SAP ECC and SAP S/4HANA. It enables customers to create a competitive advantage by customizing their business processes and allows partners to enrich core ECC or S/4HANA with tailor-made solutions.
There are many ways to extend, and is at least as extensible as older SAP solutions, with that side remark that these developments will never cause any problem in the next upgrade cycle. This is what SAP calls the "Clean Core" concept: a new upgrade-stable cloud extensibility model that separates SAP code and extensions.
Introducing the "Clean Core" concept - Developments in SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition
Clean core extensibility can be summarized as an extension methodology where extensions are kept strictly separate from the SAP application. Extensions access SAP business objects only through well-defined, upgrade-stable interfaces.
Why should you care - What are the benefits?
SAP uses the same principles for their solutions built in the same way, like:
SAP Solutions with "Clean Core" principle - examples
Sustainability Footprint Management (built on BTP)
SAP Sustainability Footprint management guides you towards highly accurate?footprint results on the most granular level.
SAP Digital Currency Hub - find a demo here
SAP Digital Currency Hub is a software-as-a-service solution that enables you to transact in digital currencies such as stablecoins, as well as manage your digital currency holdings for businesses. It leverages the power of blockchain technology to enable businesses to perform fast, affordable, and reliable digital payments to suppliers and receive digital payments from customers, even across borders.
Additionally, SAP Digital Currency Hub facilitates fully automated payment reconciliation. With this solution in place, the dependency on intermediary institutions such as banks is removed, and you can make peer-to-peer payments.
The solution is powered by Etherscan.io APIs and PolygonScan APIs.