Simplification List for SAP S/4HANA

Materials management

Procurement

Mass Changes to Purchase Requisitions

With this release, if you change multiple items in a purchase requisition, the changes are saved only if all of the items in that purchase requisition are processed successfully. If an error occurs with even one item, then none of the other changes for that purchase requisition are saved.

Mass Changes to Purchase Orders

With this release, if you change the header or items in a purchase order, the changes are saved only if all the changes are processed successfully. If an error occurs with either the header or any item of the purchase order, then none of the changes for that purchase order are saved.

Mass Changes to Purchase Requisitions

Mass Changes to Purchase Orders

Sales and distribution

Order and contract management

Number Range Prefixes for Billing Documents

With this feature, the number range intervals used for flexible billing document numbering can be combined with alphanumeric prefixes of up to five characters length. For example, use of the prefix ABC in conjunction with an interval ranging from 0000001 to 9999999 could result in a billing document number of ABC1234567.

Alternative-Based Confirmation in Sales Orders

With this feature, you can use alternative-based confirmation for availability checks in sales orders. This enables you to use flexible substitution strategies for plant determination based on actual product availability. This feature allows the system to assign alternative plants to fulfill the requested quantity of a product in a sales order.

Product Compliance Checks in Sales Documents

With this feature, product marketability, dangerous goods, and safety data sheet have been further integrated into apps for sales documents. The system now checks product compliance data as you are creating a sales document, rather than conducting the check when a document is saved.

Delivery Date Rule

In sales documents, you can now use a delivery date rule to indicate when the ordered goods should be delivered (on the requested delivery date or later, exactly on the confirmed delivery date, or by the confirmed delivery date).

Manage Deviation Profiles

With this app, you can create, change, and delete deviation profiles. In a deviation profile, you can define thresholds for deviations in order quantities and in cumulatively received quantities. The system uses these thresholds to determine the ranges of deviation levels (such as acceptable, warning, and alert).

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Manage Prices – Sales

With this app, you can flexibly set prices that you offer to your customers by managing all relevant condition records in one place. You can create, edit, copy, or delete multiple condition records simultaneously.

Situation Template: Sales Quotation Is Close to Expiring

You can now use this situation template to inform specific users about their sales quotations that are about to reach the validity end date but still have a low conversion rate. This situation template is now available for the sales quotation object page. When a situation occurs, the users can get an in-app message in the relevant sales quotations.

Situation Template: Sales Contract Fulfillment Alert

You can now use this situation template to inform specific users about sales contracts that are being fulfilled at a faster or slower rate than expected. This situation template is now available for the sales contract object page. When a situation occurs, the users can get an in-app message in the relevant sales contracts.

Situation Template: Delivery Insights for Sales Orders

You can now use a situation to inform specific users about what is happening with their deliveries. Prerequisite is that you add sensors which are configured in SAP Leonardo IoT to handling units that are part of a delivery. These sensors send specific values according to predefined rules to SAP S/4HANA. Based on a situation, you are notified about specific values in the sales order object page. This allows you to react fast in case a material is, for example, damaged, stolen, or delayed, so that you can get a replacement on the way.

Restricted Availability of IS-Beverage functionalities in S/4HANA

2224144 - Deprecation / Restricted Availability of IS-Beverage functionalities in S/4HANA

For the deprecated IS-Beverage functionality Sales Returns there is the successor Advanced Return Management available.
For the deprecated IS-Beverage functionalities Excise Duty (which is released for German alcohol tax only), Material Sorting, Extra Charge and Part Load Lift Order - there will be right now no successor available.

Billing Document Output Management

In SAP S/4HANA, a new output management approach has been implemented and is set as the default for newly created billing documents.

SD Rebate Processing replaced by Settlement Management

In general, SD Rebate Processing is not available within SAP S/4HANA. The functional equivalent of SD Rebate Processing in SAP S/4HANA is Settlement Management.

In SAP S/4HANA, Settlement Management replaces SD Rebate Processing, which means that existing rebate agreements can only be processed up until the end of the validity date of the agreement and must then be closed by a final settlement. New agreements can only be created based on condition contracts. Therefore, the corresponding transaction codes VBO1 resp. VB(D for the creation of rebate agreements is not available anymore.

SD Complaint Handling

The industry-specific SD complaints handling in ERP is not available within SAP S/4HANA. The functional equivalent to be used is the standard SD complaint handling (Transaction CMP_PROCESSING).

Data Model Changes in SD Pricing

In SAP S/4HANA, table KONV has been replaced in its data persistency role by the new table PRCD_ELEMENTS.
▪ IDOC COND_A for price condition records

Foreign Trade

With SAP S/4HANA 1709, letter of credit processing is provided by the integration of SAP S/4HANA Sales with Trade Finance. For Intrastat, Legal Control and Classification with Commodity Codes customers can leverage SAP S/4HANA for international trade functions within SAP S/4HANA. For Preference Management, you can use functions based on SAP GTS. SAP GTS can be natively integrated with SAP S/4HANA.Credit Management
Credit Management (FI-AR-CR) is not available as part of SAP S/4HANA. The functional equivalent in SAP S/4HANA is SAP Credit Management (FIN-FSCM-CR).SD Revenue Recognition

The newly available SAP Revenue Accounting and Reporting functionality should be used instead.The new functionality supports the new revenue accounting standard as outlined in IFRS15 and adapted by local GAAPs.