


Overall, there are some pretty significant changes in the S/4HANA functional scope. Examples include Central Finance, SAP Cash Management, and SAP BPC Optimized for S/4HANA. SAP is releasing a number of new functional capabilities which are designed to work with S/4HANA and in-memory computing. SAP Transportation Management and SAP Extended Warehouse management are two standalone solutions which S/4 HANA has brought into its core. Incorporation of stand-alone solutions in S/4HANA core:.Replacement of ECC and on-prem functionality with SAP cloud LoB solutions:Įxamples: Replacement of human capital management with SAP SuccessFactors and supplier relationship management with Ariba.But, this means that the enterprises migrating to S/4 HANA will have processes which are obsolete. SAP has stated that the functionalities in SAP ECC will be probable cases in the SAP S/4HANA roadmap. Some Functionality in ECC has no direct replacement in S/4HANA:.SAP S4 HANA also has Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) functionality embedded into the core-system instead of having a separate SAP SCM system as in SAP ECC. But, SAP S4 HANA uses the new General Ledger Accounting architecture implemented automatically as part of the S4 HANA migration.

SAP ECC has two general ledgers (GL) architectures. Elimination of duplicate functionality:.Other functional capabilities such as logistics have also been enhanced this way. This allows for extremely fast profitability analysis. In financials, SAP has changed the physical data architecture so that it can unify the previously separate accounting ledgers into a single physical table called the universal journal. The architectural changes have enabled new ways of working with data. The introduction of the new in-memory database platform SAP HANA means faster analytics and removal of unnecessary tables. The major changes in SAP S4 HANA compared to SAP ECC ERP are as follows: Introduction of a new database But, it is not a direct replacement for SAP ERP with respect to the functionalities and capabilities. SAP is now offering attractive discounts to nudge this adoption forward. SAP S4 HANA is positioned as the new digital core and a direct evolution from SAP ECC for existing ECC customers.
