Los cambios introducidos se distribuyen en nuevas funcionalidades en las LoBs (Líneas de negocio), cambios en la propia base del sistema y cambios en industrias que, estando ya disponibles en versiones anteriores, aportan nuevas funcionalidades.

SAP ha liberado un documento con las novedades de la más reciente versión de su suite de negocios. El documento, para quien le quiera dar un vistazo, es bastante rico, con 572 páginas donde explican al detalle las nuevas funcionalidades.

Bajo mi punto de vista, después de revisar el documento, estas son las novedades más interesantes agrupadas por módulos.

Embedded Transportation Management

• Mixed pallet building and load optimization
• Carrier invoicing through SAP Logistics Business Network

Supply Chain

• AATP (advanced Available To Promise): alternative-based confirmations
• Product allocation: calculate non-reserving availability

Industry to Core – Utilities

• Exception resolution in billing and invoicing
• Analysis of meter reading
• More Analytical insights

Industry to Core – Retail and Fashion

• Merchandise Management: empties in warehouse management integration
• Enhanced season management

Customer Management

• Embedded Service Management (Service Core)
• Eliminated middleware
• Harmonized data models

Digital Manufacturing

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

Finance

• Central Finance which provides a finance data hub for real-time consolidation
• Intercompany reconciliation report

Sourcing and Procurement

• Purchase requisitions are centralized through hub and central contract management hub
• Integration of SAP Ariba Buying with SAP S/4HANA

Asset Management

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

Sales and 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 reports which classify products based on warehouse tasks history (ABC calculation)

R&D / Engineering

• Variant Configuration: multi-level, CPQ, classification
• Product marketability and chemical compliance

Migration Cockpit

• Transfer Data using staging tables
• Ability to adjust migration objects used with Object Modeler

Me hubiese gustado el poder haber traducido las funcionalidades al español, pero de la mayoría no conozco el término en español.

Nos vemos en la siguiente entrada, en ella empezaremos con los caminos y nuevas vías que a día de hoy contamos para alcanzar el objetivo S/4HANA.