Logisitics with SAP S/4HANA An Introduction
- 1. PUBLIC Purpose of this presentation Introduction of the book, Logistics with SAP S/4HANA An Introduction 550 pp. pages second edition published by the SAP Press. This book is a great product of expertise, collaboration and team work. It is Highly recommended for those Subject Matter Experts and business leads that are interested or starting an implementation of the SAP S/4 HANA Platform 1809. Logistics with SAP S/4HANA An Introduction Picture Credit | Customer Name, City, State/Country. Used with permission. Guillermo B. Vazquez, Bhattacharjee, Desai , Walsh et All
- 2. Digital Technologies are changing rapidly and they require a steady digital platform. Selecting the right technology platform is a fundamental step toward organizational transformation –and that’s where Logistics with SAP S/4HANA comes in. The Book helps understand how to adopt and transform Logistics operations, to manage inventories, to improve quality controls, to connect, to sell, to manage customers and analyze business performance. The Objective is to introduce the logistics functionality in SAP S/4HANA to Business Leads, functional internal and external leads, for customers and SAP consulting partners and practitioners. Logistics with SAP S/4HANA and Introduction “I am confident that this book will be an excellent source to help you unleash the full potential of next-generation logistics with SAP S/4HANA. I wish you the best” Hasmukh Ranjan, CIO and Corporate VP, Synopsys Inc. Authors 20 years average experience in SAP Technology SAP S/4HANA 1809 Revenue Book Profits were offered to charity. Highlights Inclusion of Machine Learning and Block- Chain concepts. Picture Credit | Customer Name, City, State/Country. Used with permission.
- 3. Highlights Picture Credit | Customer Name, City, State/Country. Used with permission. Target Audience This book is for anyone who seeks to understand supply chain business processes, functionality, and analytics in SAP S/4HANA, and desires to plan a strategy for a business and IT implementation. Our target group includes IT executives, managers, consultants, power users and business process owners and subject matter experts involved in the definition, planning, design, implementation and adoption of SAP S/4HANA 1809 in the areas of logistics. What is in the Book Chapter 1, SAP S/4HANA for the Supply Chain, which highlights the data-base technology, business process improvements and IT flexibility of SAP S/4HANA and we analyzed how the suite evolved from SAP S/4HANA 1610 through SAP S/4HANA 1809 versions. Chapters 2-10 address functional groups by topic. Each chapter follows standard roadmap, it offers a short primer on core business concepts for each functional area, discusses key master data simplifications that arrived with S/4 and analyzed the corresponding SAP FIORI apps available in 1809.
- 4. Highlights Picture Credit | Customer Name, City, State/Country. Used with permission. What is in the Book Chapter 11- Reporting and Analytics, the book explores business intelligence more generally discussing the concept of Embedded Analytics and SAP FIORI standard repots. The key highlights of this second edition are in Chapter 12 to Chapter 15. In those Chapters we covered innovations with SAP Leonardo and we explained how technology innovations apply to supply chain processes and introduces the corresponding SAP Leonardo applications. In Chapters 13 and 14 we talked about Industry trends and how the concept of the digital supply network can help our SAP Customers respond to their current challenges. The SAP S/4HANA and the Cloud examines cloud computing and explore how two peripheral cloud suites impact logistics. SAP Ariba and SAP IBP. Finally a star Chapter 15 that provide the first steps to SAP S/4HANA, provides an overview of the elements of an SAP S/4HANA roadmap and strategy activities an implementation team would perform
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