Who is it produced by
SAP S/4HANA is produced by SAP SE and is SAP’s ERP for large enterprises. It is the successor of SAP R/3 and SAP ERP and is optimized for SAP’s in-memory database SAP HANA. SAP is the largest and most powerful ERP suite in the world – there is no major company worldwide without SAP for some or all their processes.
Industries
SAP S/4 HANA is a solution that can help your business run better within these industries:
- Energy and Natural Resources
- Financial Services
- Consumer Industries
- Discrete Industries
- Service Industries
- Public Services
Features available
The offering is an Enterprise Resource Planning software package meant to cover all day-to-day processes of an enterprise (for example, order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, plan-to-product, and request-to-service) and core capabilities.
It integrates functions from lines of businesses as well as industry solutions, and also re-integrates portions of SAP Business Suite products such as SAP SRM, SAP CRM and SAP SCM.
- Continuous anytime close. Consolidation and reporting are automated for fiscal period-end close
- Continuous sales and operations planning (S&OP)
- Continuous Compliance
- Predictive liquidity
- Intelligent sourcing
- Intelligent cost optimization
- Intelligent legal contracting
- Intelligent product configuration
Resources
SAP S/4HANA can be deployed on premises, in the cloud, or through a hybrid model.
Versions available
Since its inception SAP has issued several releases, such as SAP R/1, SAP R/2, and SAP R/3, the R in these releases standing for “Real-Time” data processing. SAP S/4HANA It is the successor of SAP R/3