Enhance financial planning and analysis

Accelerate planning cycles, increase profitability, and make finance functions more efficient. You can also run on-the-fly financial analysis at any level of granularity and support ad hoc simulations of organisational changes or new business models directly within your ERP system.

Simplify accounting and financial close processes

Combine financial and management accounting and profitability data into a single universal journal, for a single source of truth.  You can close the books in real time, improve compliance and control, and reduce closing effort, while running drilling down on reports by any dimension.

Improve treasury and financial risk processes

Integrate cash flows, transactions, commodity positions, and market data, and accurately forecast cash flow, manage liquidity, and mitigate risk. In addition, full-view and real-time analysis, audit trails, and compliance reporting help you optimise straight-through processing.

Support collaborative finance operations

Automate receivables and payables processing and streamline shared services delivery. You can improve working capital and financial health with real-time data to assess customer credit risk, streamline billing, resolve disputes, and prioritize customer collections to reduce days sales outstanding.

Manage enterprise risk and compliance effectively

Integrate and automate risk, compliance, and international trade activities to proactively minimise risk and compliance violations and detect, investigate, and deter fraud. In this way, you can optimise business operations, protect assets, and improve financial performance.

Integrate inventory and logistics processes

Lower operational and administrative costs by integrating the management of all inbound and outbound freight and warehousing processes, and improving connectivity with warehouse automation equipment and logistics service providers.

Improve production planning

Coordinate manufacturing operations across your organisation including material requirements, logistics, and receipts for proper material handling, work in process, and inventory. You can also make plan adjustments based on real-time information from the enterprise, suppliers, and the plant floor.

Support complex assembly processes

Enable efficient planning for complex assembly including material requirements, production, and capacity planning, as well as advanced functionality for bills of material (BOM), routing, factory layout, and machine models.

Accelerate manufacturing workflows

Plan and schedule maintenance tasks synchronising labour, material, equipment and schedules. Execute planned and unplanned maintenance to ensure optimal operations including improved safety and environmental impact.

Enable efficient maintenance management

Improve planned and unplanned maintenance operations, while optimising safety and environmental impacts, by planning and scheduling maintenance tasks to synchronise labour, materials, equipment, and schedules.

Enhance quality management

Run enterprise-wide, closed-loop quality management processes – from quality planning to quality operations – for continuing process improvement.

Maximise sales with order and contract management

Improve revenue and cash flow by managing the order-to-cash process flawlessly across all touch points, channels, and functions. Get multichannel, role-based access to accurate, real-time information on products, pricing, customers, and contracts to reduce days sales outstanding and meet other KPIs.

Drive and manage sales performance

Implement compelling variable compensation programs with incentive and commission management. Manage sales performance, and build and maintain accurate, strategically aligned compensation plans. Enable your organisation to handle commission and incentive programs.

Enhance and manage subscription billing and revenue

Manage receivables, payments, and reporting for high volumes of financial transactions. Tailor credit decisions and collection management processes to customer profiles. Enhance cash flow and customer care through simplified invoicing.

SAP Billing and Revenue Innovation Management

Enable a flexible solution billing process

Gain visibility to determine the right mix of suppliers, best serve your business objectives, and reduce your overall supply risk. Classify and segment your suppliers using multiple criteria to flexibly identify and search suppliers.

Sales force support

Check pipelines and leads, coordinate and plan customer sales activities, and analyse customers and territories. Drive sales from lead to close with opportunity and pipeline management. Increase deal size through accuracy in solution sales configuration.

Gain in-depth purchasing insights

Acquire extensive, real-time information on purchasing spend by analysing purchase orders, purchase requisitions, invoices, and contracts. You can also evaluate supplier performance in real time with access to data, including on-time delivery, price, and quantity accuracy.

Streamline operational purchasing

Enable employees to purchase goods and services directly, following purchasing policies and pricing agreements and using preferred suppliers. Users can bundle demands, automate sourcing and order processing, and make approval and release procedures easier.

Automate sourcing and contract management processes

Collect, assign, analyse, and access all sourcing information in one system and support automated and manual processes for creating and managing service contracts, source lists, purchase information records, quotations, and requests for quotations.

Gain an in-depth view of your supply chain

Improve supply chain visibility to find the optimal mix of suppliers that will best serve your business objectives and reduce overall supply risk. You can also classify and segment your suppliers using multiple criteria to identify and pinpoint the right supply chain partners for your organisation.

Simplify procurement processes

Consolidate requisitioning to reduce costs by establishing one central approval workflow instead of multiple approvals in each back-end system. In addition, you can increase catalogue usage by offering a single, convenient access point across all available catalogs.

Manage commodity procurement effectively

Support commodity procurement and help create commodity contracts based on market quotes. You can automate price calculations, streamline invoicing, and extend ERP functionality to automate commodity-based contractual pricing and enable provisional, differential, and final invoicing.

Improve project control and product development

Manage, translate, and integrate customer-driven innovations to optimise project efficiency and deliver high-quality projects on time and within scope. You can enhance quality by defining all design requirements and constraints while maintaining rigorous design standards.

Manage enterprise projects effectively

Invest in the right projects by aligning your project portfolio with enterprise strategy. You can identify the projects that can generate the most business value and manage the resources, schedule, and financial performance for each project phase, from initiation through closure.

Streamline product lifecycle management

Simplify and accelerate the transition of engineering master data into manufacturing production data. You can develop recipes and formulas rapidly, reuse existing ingredients, and design packaging and labelling in a single, high-performance environment.

Speed up product engineering processes

Accelerate time to market through efficient BOM management, including the specification of work centre details and listing of required production resources and tools. In addition, you can develop closed-loop inspection planning to comply with industry standards such as ISO/TS 16949 and ISO 9000.

From HR to sales and contract management, SAP S/4HANA helps you streamline, automate, and simplify processes across your organisation.

Integrate order and contract management

Improve visibility and efficiency by integrating contract management with sales, pricing, and logistics processes. You can enforce rebate agreements with live insights into contract conditions, and reduce days sales outstanding and boost sales effectiveness with streamlined order management.

Improve sales performance management

Retain and motivate top performers by implementing compelling variable compensation programs, while automating routine tasks for handling commission and incentives programs for employees and partners.

Streamline core HR and payroll processes

Integrate employee master data, organisational data, and cost-centre-related information from SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central to accelerate reorganisations and other end-to-end business processes.