Best Practices for SAP S/4HANA Cloud

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Reduce cost of operations by using standardized processes
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Drive operational efficiencies and comply with regulations
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Update and change customer specific configuration using SAP S/4HANA life-cycle management tools

Why SAP Best Practices for SAP S/4HANA Cloud?

The SAP Best Practices for SAP S/4HANA Cloud can enable you to improve:

Finance

Accounting and Financial Close - This scope item provides a comprehensive overview of external accounting and accounts.

Accounting and Financial Close - Group Ledger IFRS - This scope item provides additional scope for Accounting and Financial Close (J58). It provides ledger-specific operation postings and ledger-specific period-end closing steps.

Accounting and Financial Close - Group Ledger US GAAP - This process is an additional optional scope item to Accounting and Financial Close (J58). It provides ledger-specific operation postings and ledger-specific period-end closing steps.

Accounting for Incoming Sales Orders - This scope item provides a report of all incoming sales orders for a given fiscal period. It also provides the capability to display prediction journal entries along with actuals, and to analyze the expected results at period/quarter end.

Actual Costing - This scope item enables actual costing for material inventory without cost component split functionality. This supports legal requirement in some countries (such as Brazil).

Asset Accounting - Asset accounting is a subsidiary ledger of the general ledger and is used to manage and document fixed asset transactions in detail.

Asset Accounting - Group Ledger IFRS - This process is an additional scope item to Asset Accounting (J62). It provides ledger-specific transactions and reports for IFRS.

Asset Accounting - Group Ledger US GAAP - This process is an additional scope item to Asset Accounting (J62). It provides ledger-specific transactions and reports for US GAAP.

Asset Under Construction - This process describes the necessary steps that must be performed to acquire assets for constructed assets, starting with the acquisition of an asset and its monitoring until construction is finished. This can take place within a single period or over more than one period.

Asset Under Construction - Group Ledger IFRS - This process is an additional scope item to Asset Accounting (BFH). It provides ledger-specific transactions. This scope item describes the necessary steps to acquire assets for constructed assets in group ledger IFRS.

Asset Under Construction - Group Ledger US GAAP - This process is an additional scope item to Asset Accounting (BFH). It provides ledger-specific transactions. This scope item describes the necessary steps to acquire assets for constructed assets in group ledger US GAAP.

Cash Journal - The FI Cash Journal is a type of subsidiary ledger for Financial Accounting used for managing a company’s cash transactions. It can perform posting to G/L accounts, supplier accounts, and customer accounts.

Contract-Based Revenue Recognition - IFRS - This scope item supports revenue recognition according to IFRS 15 for contract accounting and invoicing.

Contract-Based Revenue Recognition - US GAAP - This scope item supports revenue recognition according to ASC 606 for contract accounting and invoicing.

Event-Based Revenue Recognition - Project-Based Services - Event-based Revenue Recognition calculates and posts revenues and cost adjustments to projects. Revenue recognition is either cost-based or time-based depending on project type.

Event-Based Revenue Recognition - Project-Based Services - IFRS - Event-based Revenue Recognition calculates and posts real time revenue and cost adjustment for professional service for fixed price, time and material, and periodic service projects using Parallel Ledger functionality.

Event-Based Revenue Recognition - Project-Based Services - US GAAP - Event-based Revenue Recognition calculates and posts real time revenue and cost adjustment for professional services for fixed price, time and material, and periodic service projects, using US GAAP Ledger functionality.

Event-Based Revenue Recognition - Sell from Stock - Event-based Revenue Recognition posts revenues and cost adjustments for sales orders in real-time when goods issue is posted for sale from stock. Revenue is calculated based on quantity, and costs are matched with revenues (posted as accrued revenue).

Event-Based Revenue Recognition - Sell from Stock - IFRS - Event-based Revenue Recognition posts revenues and cost adjustments for sales orders in real-time when a goods issue is posted for sale from stock, using Parallel Ledger functionality.

Event-Based Revenue Recognition - Sell from Stock - US GAAP - Event-based Revenue Recognition posts revenues and cost adjustments for sales orders in real-time when a goods issue is posted for sale from stock, using US GAAP Ledger functionality.

Event-Based Revenue Recognition - Service Documents - Event-Based Revenue Recognition analyzes recognition values for service contracts with customers. Revenue associated with service contract items is recognized periodically based on the referenced billing plan.

Event-Based Revenue Recognition - Service Documents - IFRS - Event-Based Revenue Recognition analyzes recognition values for service contracts with customers. Service contract revenue are recognized periodically based on the referenced billing plan, using group ledger IFRS functionality.

Event-Based Revenue Recognition - Service Documents - US GAAP - Event-Based Revenue Recognition analyzes recognition values for service contracts with customers. Service contract revenue are recognized periodically based on the referenced billing plan, using group ledger US-GAAP functionality.

External Tax Audit - The External Tax Audit functions enable External Tax Auditors to conduct detailed audits of a company's accounts using Auditor Direct Access.

Financial Planning and Analysis - Leverage a unique Financial Statement Version (FSV) to support financial planning and analysis.

General Ledger Allocation Cycle - During the business transaction based on the profit center mapping to the segment, the expenditure and income are captured under the business segment or common profit center that cannot be allocated. After doing the profit center distribution, the costs are transferred to the correct profit centers and the correct segment is derived from the profit center.

Intercompany Asset Transfer within Same Country - This scope item describes the necessary steps to perform intercompany asset transfers between company codes. For the individual companies, an intercompany transfer represents a retirement for the one company and an acquisition for the other.

Intercompany Financial Posting and Payment on Behalf - Domestic - This scope item enables the customer to post the journal entries for general ledger across company codes. In addition, one company code can pay invoices on behalf of another company code (central payment).

Inventory Valuation for Year-End Closing - Balance sheet valuation in Inventory Accounting enables you to evaluate your inventories at the end of reporting periods according to international accounting principles (such as IAS or U.S. GAAP).

Machine Learning for Accruals Management - Machine Learning helps you to improve the accuracy and timeliness of your purchase order accruals.

Machine Learning for Monitoring of Goods and Invoice Receipts - Machine Learning using SAP Cloud Platform can be used to expand the functionality of the SAP Goods Receipt/Invoice Receipt Monitor used with SAP S/4HANA. This scope item addresses the set up and configuration of machine learning for the GR/IR Monitor.

Managing Material Price Changes and Inventory Values - This scope item provides users with an example of a process description that they can use to change material prices, mark prices for change, and release prices for material valuation.

Monitoring of Goods and Invoice Receipts - The Goods Receipt/Invoice Receipt Monitor is a tool to make status proposals depending on a specific PO item's situation. The service can be used standalone or seamlessly integrated in the GR/IR Monitor.

Period-End Closing - Maintenance Orders - This scope item covers the period-end closing for maintenance orders.

Period-End Closing - Plant - This process ensures that all costs incurred during the manufacturing process are assigned to production activities.

Period-End Closing - Projects - This scope item supports the settlement of costs that are collected in projects temporarily, to one or more receivers as part of period-end processing for projects.

Purchase Order Accruals - This process supports automatic calculation, review, approval and posting of purchase order accruals.

SAP Fiori Analytical Apps for Asset Accounting in Finance - This scope item provides overview pages for the Asset Accounting functionality.

SAP Fiori Analytical Apps for G/L Accounting in Finance - This scope item provides overview pages for the General Ledger Accounting functionality.

Subsidiary Integration of SAP S/4HANA Cloud to Central Finance - Integrate your subsidiary running on SAP S/4HANA Cloud to your corporate SAP S/4HANA Central Finance system to centralize financial processes.

Advanced Financial Closing - As the cloud-based offering, Advanced Financial Closing supports the planning, automating, processing, monitoring, and analysis of tasks in financial close for the entities of the customer group.

Group Account Preparation for Financial Consolidation - This scope item provides Group Account preparation for external consolidation or reporting purpose

Group Reporting - Data from External Systems - This scope item enables the integration between SAP S/4HANA Cloud Group Reporting and the external systems.

Group Reporting - Data from SAP Group Reporting Data Collection - This scope item enables the integration between SAP S/4HANA Financial Group Reporting and SAP Group Reporting Data Collection (deployed on the SAP Cloud Platform).

Group Reporting - Financial Consolidation - This scope item provides statutory financial consolidation capabilities for SAP S/4HANA customers.

Group Reporting - Matrix Consolidation - This scope item supports consolidation for managerial organizational entities such as profit center and business segment. This functionality includes inter-unit eliminations and flexible management consolidation reports generated at report run-time.

Group Reporting - Plan Consolidation - This scope item allows the consolidation of plan data.

Group Reporting - Predictive Consolidation - This scope item enables integration of predictive accounting documents to SAP S/4HANA Group Reporting and subsequent consolidation of these documents to produce actual/predictive comparisons.

Intercompany Process for Sublease Accounting - This scope item allows the company to assign or give certain rights to the sublessee – an affiliate company – that are held under the terms of the own original lease with the landlord.

Lease-In Accounting - Lease contracts describe contractual agreements between two partners: the lessor and the lessee. This scope item helps you standardize and automate your lease-in credit contract management activities, like creating and managing new contracts, setting helpful reminder rules, and running reports that help you save time and effort and make more informed lease management decisions.

Lease-In Accounting - Group Ledger IFRS - Lease contracts describe contractual agreements between two partners: the lessor and the lessee. This scope item helps you standardize and automate your lease-in credit contract management activities, like creating and managing new contracts, setting helpful reminder rules, and running reports that help you save time and effort and make more informed lease management decisions.

Lease-In Accounting - Group Ledger US GAAP - This scope item helps you standardize and automate your lease-in credit contract management activities, saving you time and effort and letting you make more informed lease management decisions.

Lease-Out Accounting - This scope item helps you standardize and automate your lease-out debit contract management activities, saving you time and effort and making more informed lease management decisions.

Lease-Out for Sublease Accounting - This scope item supports the lease-out scenario in a sublease contract.

Lease-Out for Sublease Accounting - Group Ledger IFRS - This scope item supports the lease-out scenario in a sublease contract.

Lease-Out for Sublease Accounting - Group Ledger US GAAP - This scope item helps you standardize and automate your lease-out debit contract management activities, helping you save time and effort and make more informed lease management decisions.

Service Contract - Lease contracts describe contractual agreements between two partners: the lessor and the lessee. This scope item helps you standardize and automate your lease service credit contract management activities, like creating and managing new contracts, setting helpful reminder rules, and running reports that help you save time and effort and make more informed lease management decisions.

Accounts Payable - This scope item describes managing your open payable invoices that are automatically created from purchasing processes.

Accounts Receivable - This scope item enables you to manage your open receivables invoices that are automatically created from sales processes.

Automated Dynamic Discounts with SAP Ariba Discount Management - Boost efficiency in accounts payable and cash management as you integrate and automate payments. With dynamic discount capabilities on the Ariba Network, you can pay your suppliers early and save cash.

Cash Application Integration - The integration to SAP Cash Application Solution intends to automate the invoice-matching process and provide the prediction results to SAP S/4HANA with the help of Machine Learning.

Contingent Workforce Invoice Processing via SAP Fieldglass - Integrate SAP S/4HANA Cloud with SAP Fieldglass solutions for optimum total workforce mix. Address counter seasonal skill shortages, staff projects with outside experts, and augment staff strategically or for short-term needs.

Customer Payments - The scope item includes the integration between SAP S/4HANA Cloud and the customer payments solution, which handles electronic bill presentment and payment (built on the SAP Cloud Platform).

Digital Payments - The scope item enables the integration between SAP S/4HANA Cloud and SAP digital payments, which allows you to use credit card payment methods in SAP S/4HANA for incoming payments.

Direct Debit - In this scope item, you can use the direct debit payment method in the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) to collect payments from your customers in Euro and certain non-SEPA countries to collect payments from your customers in your local currency.

External Customer Payments - This scope item enables the payment method external payment, which can be used with the help of external billing systems.

External Digital Payments - The scope item enables the integration between SAP S/4HANA Cloud and SAP digital payments. With this, you can use external payment methods in SAP S/4HANA for incoming payments.

Integration of Payment Advice with Buyers and Suppliers - Exchange Payment Advice messages with your buyer and supplier using a set of robust SOAP APIs.

Provisioning of Overdue Receivables - During financial statement preparation, open overdue customer items are valuated. In addition to the foreign currency valuation, you can also calculate a flat-rate individual value adjustment for unsecured or overdue trade receivables. For this periodic task, you can schedule a valuation run.

SAP Fiori Analytical Apps for Financial Accounting - This scope item provides overview pages for the Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable functionality.

Travel Expense Processing with SAP Concur Expense Professional - Cloud-based travel and expense solutions enable users to plan trips and create expense reports. This information is typically transferred to financial systems for posting and integration with SAP S/4HANA Cloud.

Advanced Credit Management - In this scope item, you manage and calculate credit limits for customers automatically based on formulas. You can also check the credit limit when sales documents are created or changed.

Basic Credit Management - This scope item helps you to manage and calculate credit limits for customers. You can also check the credit limit when sales documents are created or changed.

Collections and Dispute Management - Streamline your debt collections processes by running our integrated software-and-service package for resolving customer invoice disputes and managing overdue receivables. With it, you can also reduce your exposure to the risks and costs of bad debt.

Contract Accounting - Company Initiated Payments - With this scope item, you can process payment documents and returns.

Contract Accounting - Contract-Based Revenue Recognition - In this scope item, you integrate contract-based revenue recognition with contract accounting.

Contract Accounting - Customer Initiated Payments - With this scope item, you can post authorized credit card payments.

Contract Accounting - Daily and Monthly Closing - With this scope item, you can create transfers to General Ledger and write-offs.

Contract Accounting - Variant Configuration - This scope item covers the creation of provider contracts for products with variant configuration.

Contract Accounting - External Tax Audit - With this scope item, you can view and extract accounting relevant data for tax auditors.

Contract Accounting - Group Ledger IFRS - This process is an additional scope item for Contract Accounting. It provides ledger-specific transactions and reports for IFRS.

Contract Accounting - Group Ledger US GAAP - This process is an additional scope item for Contract Accounting. It provides ledger-specific transactions and reports for US GAAP.

Contract Accounting - Open Item Management - In this scope item, you handle open item management for contract accounting.

Credit Agency Integration - The SAP S/4HANA Finance Cloud for Credit Integration solution enables the pulling of customer credit scoring data automatically from third-party credit agencies into SAP S/4HANA.

SAP Fiori Analytical Apps for Contract Accounting Manager - Analyze data in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable. Create worklists for clarification cases.

Commitment Management - Commitment management is part of the cost monitoring process. Commitment items for projects are triggered by material purchase requisitions and purchase orders and are reduced by goods receipt and other business transactions.

Financial Plan Data Upload from File - This scope item provides the functionality to load a flat file with PLAN data (.CSV format) from an external source into SAP S/4HANA Cloud.

Leveraging SAP Financial Statement Insight and SAP RealSpend - This scope item covers the setup of integration from SAP S/4HANA to SAP Financials Cloud API Integration, enabling the SAP Cloud Platform apps to read financial data from SAP S/4HANA for reporting purposes.

Overhead Cost Accounting - This scope item covers transaction-based actual postings that are used in overhead cost controlling. The purpose of overhead cost controlling is the planning, allocation, control, and monitoring of overhead costs.

Predictive Analytics Model Training - Finance - This scope item enables users to periodically train the preconfigured predictive scenarios with their own historical data to enable the model to reflect their particular business context and transaction /master data history.

Profitability and Cost Analysis - This scope item covers profitability analysis and reporting (normally performed after the period-end close process is completed).

Project Financial Control - This scope item supports scenarios where a project accounting structure is created as basis to record project costs and project execution. Project-related purchasing, financial activities, and period-end closing activities can be performed and monitored.

Real-time Production Cost Posting - This scope item updates work-in-process calculation, overhead calculation, and variance calculation in real time by linking the posting to the events in the make-to-stock scenario.

SAP BW Activation for SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation - This scope item delivers capabilities to activate SAP Business Warehouse for use with SAP BusinessObjects Planning Consolidation with SAP S/4HANA Cloud as a data source.

Standard Cost Calculation - This process enables you to update standard costs for products as part of annual operations planning.

Statistical Sales Conditions - This scope item enables the transfer of statistical conditions from SD to account-based COPA in SAP S/4HANA for better management reporting.

Universal Allocation - This scope item supports annual planning by redistributing the cost through predefined allocation cycles. Sender/receiver rules are defined by fixed amount and percentage within a specific company code.

Classification for Customs Tariff Number and Commodity Code - This scope item provides the ability to manage tariff codes and commodity codes and their assignment to products.

Compliance Management with SAP Global Trade Services - This scope item transfers relevant sales and procurement documents from SAP S/4HANA Cloud or on-premise to SAP Global Trade Services on-premise.

Continuous Control Monitoring with SAP Process Control - This scope item integrates SAP Process Control with SAP S/4HANA Cloud to support continuous control monitoring.

Customs Management with SAP Global Trade Services - This scope item integrates SAP Global Trade Services Customs Management with SAP S/4HANA Cloud and SAP S/4HANA on premise

Embargo Control - Ensure international trade compliance by preventing transactions with embargoed countries.

Intrastat Processing - This scope item provides system generated Intrastat declarations.

Key Risk Indicator Monitoring with SAP Risk Management - This scope item integrates SAP Risk Management with SAP S/4HANA Cloud to support risk monitoring across the enterprise.

Legal Control - This scope item supports global trade compliance with checks of relevant documents for adherence to the defined trade regulations.

Preference Management with SAP Global Trade Services - This scope item integrates SAP Global Trade Services Preference Management with SAP S/4HANA Cloud and SAP S/4HANA on premise.

Restricted Party Screening with SAP Watch List Screening - Screen SAP S/4HANA Cloud documents against a sanctioned party list utilizing SAP Watch List Screening as part of international trade compliance.

Transfer of Bill of Materials for SAP Global Trade Services - This scope item synchronizes the Bill of Material from SAP S/4HANA to SAP Global Trade Services on-premise.

Transfer of Contact Person for SAP Global Trade Services - This scope item synchronizes contact persons from SAP S/4HANA to SAP Global Trade Services on-premise.

Transfer of Primary Master Data for SAP Global Trade Services - This scope item synchronizes the primary master data (Customers, Suppliers, and Products) from SAP S/4HANA Cloud to SAP Global Trade Services on-premise.

Contract Accounting - Master Data and Basic Functions - With this scope item, you can create and manage master data of business partners and contract accounts.

Convergent Invoicing - Invoice Correction Processing - With this scope item, you can maintain amounts in existing invoices via credit and debit memos.

Convergent Invoicing - Invoice Creation for Usage and Service - With this scope item, you can bill and invoice usage of a service by a customer.

Convergent Invoicing - Rating of Consumption Items - With this scope item, you can rate the consumption of a service by a customer

Convergent Invoicing - Recurring and One-Off Items - This scope item enables the definition and creation of recurring fees (billing plans) in the invoicing component in SAP S/4HANA Contract Accounting and Invoicing.

Convergent Invoicing with SAP Subscription Billing - This scope item enables the replication of bills originating from SAP Subscription Billing to SAP S/4HANA Cloud Convergent Invoicing as billable items.

SAP Fiori Analytical Apps for Convergent Invoicing Manager - Analyze billed and unbilled items.

Sales Billing with SAP Subscription Billing - The integration scenario enables the replication of bills originating from SAP Subscription Billing to SAP S/4HANA Cloud Sales Billing as an external billing document request (EBDR).

Advanced Bank Account Management - This scope item provides extra functionalities for Bank Account Management.

Advanced Cash Operations - This scope item provides enhanced functionalities and comprehensive information with payments, bank transfers, and cash reports.

Automatic Market Rates Management - With this process, market data is automatically imported from the currency service provided by SAP Cloud Platform.

Treasury Workstation Cash Integration - This scope item facilitates the Two-Tier landscape by enabling the data communication between the treasury workstation and the remote systems.

Bank Connectivity via APIs - This scope item provides basic SOAP services for the connectivity between SAP S/4HANA Cloud and banks. APIs are used to send outgoing payment files to and receive electronic bank statements from the banks.

Bank Fee Management - This scope item provides comprehensive functionalities in bank fee management, such as the maintenance of the bank fee conditions and monitoring and validation of the bank fees.

Bank Integration with File Interface - This scope item uses files handled manually to exchange information about payments and bank statements with your bank.

Bank Integration with SAP Multi-Bank Connectivity - With SAP Multi-Bank Connectivity (MBC), SAP establishes connections with your banks to automatically send payment instructions, receive status notifications, receive bank statements, and receive lockbox messages.

Basic Bank Account Management - This scope item provides a platform to manage bank account master data.

Basic Cash Operations - This scope item helps you to manage daily cash operations and provides general information of your current cash position and liquidity forecast.

Bond Management - With the Bond Management process, you manage your bond issuance and bond investment, from the analysis of financial status to the accounting postings when the bond is mature.

Bond Management - Group Ledger IFRS - This process enables you to post the values calculated for Bond Management according to IFRS9 phase I (Classification and Measurement).

Bond Management - Group Ledger US GAAP - The parallel valuation process enables you to post the values calculated for Bond Management according to US GAAP.

Debt and Investment Management - With the debt and investment management process you manage your short-, medium- and long-term loans and investments, from the analysis of financial status to the final accounting postings when the financial transactions mature.

Debt and Investment Management - Group Ledger IFRS - The parallel valuation process enables you to post the values calculated in Debt and Investment Management according to IFRS9 phase I (Classification and Measurement).

Debt and Investment Management - Group Ledger US GAAP - The parallel valuation process enables you to post the values calculated in Debt and Investment Management according to US GAAP.

Foreign Currency Risk Management - The foreign currency risk management process helps you to better manage and mitigate FX risks arising from your operative business.

Foreign Currency Risk Management - Group Ledger IFRS - The parallel valuation process enables you to post the values calculated in Foreign Currency Risk Management according to IFRS9 phase I (Classification and Measurement).

Foreign Currency Risk Management - Group Ledger US GAAP - The parallel valuation process enables you to post the values calculated in Foreign Currency Risk Management according to US GAAP.

Hedge Accounting for FX Forward - Group Ledger IFRS - This scope item provides functions to handle Hedge Management and Hedge Accounting processes under IFRS 9.

Hedge Accounting for FX Forward - Group Ledger US GAAP - This scope item provides functions to handle hedge management and hedge accounting processes for FX risk using FX forward under US GAAP.

Hedge Accounting for FX Option - Group Ledger IFRS - This scope item provides functions to handle Hedge Management and Hedge Accounting process for European Style FX Option under IFRS 9.

Hedge Accounting for FX Option - Group Ledger US GAAP - This scope item provides functions to handle hedge management and hedge accounting processes for FX risk using FX option under US GAAP.

Hedge Accounting for FX Swap - Group Ledger IFRS - This scope item provides functions to handle the hedge management and hedge accounting process for FX Swap under IFRS 9.

Intercompany Debt and Investment Mgmt - Group Ledger IFRS - This scope item allows the company to handle loans with an affiliate company with the parallel Ledger IFRS.

Intercompany Debt and Investment Mgmt - Group Ledger US GAAP - This scope item allows the company to handle loans with an affiliate company with the Group Ledger US GAAP.

Intercompany Foreign Exchange - Group Ledger IFRS - This scope item allows the company to exchange the foreign currency with the affiliate companies and post the transactions with Group Ledger IFRS.

Intercompany Foreign Exchange - Group Ledger US GAAP - This scope item allows the company to exchange the foreign currency with the affiliate companies and post the transactions with Group Ledger US GAAP.

Intercompany Foreign Exchange Management - The process allows the company to exchange foreign currency with affiliate companies. The system helps to mirror the contracts and deals automatically when they are maintained in one Company.

Intercompany Process for Cash Concentration - This scope item enables the customer to transfer funds from diverse accounts into a central account to improve the efficiency of cash management.

Intercompany Process for Debt and Investment Mgmt - This scope item allows company to handle loans with affiliate company.

Interest Rate Derivatives Management - The interest rate derivatives management process helps you manage the interest rate risks that you are exposed to due to debt or investments, from the analysis of financial status to the final accounting postings when the financial transactions mature.

Interest Rate Derivatives Management - Group Ledger IFRS - The parallel valuation process enables you to post the values calculated in Interest Rate Derivatives according to IFRS9 phase I (Classification and Measurement).

Interest Rate Derivatives Management - Group Ledger US GAAP - The parallel valuation process enables you to post the values calculated in Interest Rate Derivatives Management according to US GAAP.

Liquidity Planning - The scope item supports the long-term plan of liquidity trend.

Market Rates Management - Manually via Upload - With this process, you can manually enter the relevant market data or import market data from spreadsheets needed for the processes in Treasury and Risk Management.

Money Market Mutual Fund Management - This scope item provides functions to handle process and accounting support for Money Market Mutual Fund Management.

Money Market Mutual Fund Management - Group Ledger IFRS - The parallel valuation process enables you to post the values calculated in Money Market Mutual Fund Management according to IFRS9 phase I (Classification and Measurement).

Money Market Mutual Fund Management - Group Ledger US GAAP - The parallel valuation process enables you to post the values calculated in Money Market Mutual Fund Management according to US GAAP.

SAP Fiori Analytical Apps for Treasury and Risk Management - This scope item provides an overview page for the treasury and risk management related scenarios.

Trade Finance Management - This scope item provides functions to manage trade finance provided by banks and financial institutions.

Trade Finance Management - Group Ledger IFRS - The parallel valuation process enables you to post the values calculated in Trade Finance Management per IFRS9 phase I (Classification and Measurement).

Trade Finance Management - Group Ledger US GAAP - The parallel valuation process enables you to post the values calculated in Trade Finance Management according to US GAAP.

Treasury Correspondence Integration with SWIFT Network - This scope item uses SAP Multi-Bank Connectivity to integrate treasury correspondence with the SWIFT network.

Treasury Trading via Trading Platforms - This scope item provides the integration between trading platforms and SAP S/4HANA automatically.

Treasury Workstation Accounting Integration to SAP Business Suite - This scope item provides the customer the standalone deployment option from SAP S/4 HANA Cloud to SAP Business Suite.

Treasury Workstation Payment Integration to SAP Business Suite - This scope item provides the customer the standalone deployment option from SAP S/4 HANA Cloud to SAP Business Suite or SAP S/4HANA system.

Human Resources

Core HR with SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central - The SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Integration to the SAP S/4HANA Cloud offers you predefined content for data integration to enable end-to-end business processes across your core Cloud HR - SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central - and SAP S/4HANA Cloud.

Employee Integration - SAP S/4HANA Enablement - This scope item covers the technical enablement of SAP S/4HANA to enable employee master data integration, and to store employee and employee-related data in SAP S/4HANA.

SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll Integration - Integrate your SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll with SAP S/4HANA Cloud. The payroll information is sent to Financials in SAP S/4HANA Cloud.

Time Recording - Time recording in enterprise services provides a quick time entry method for employees to record time for WBS elements, cost centers, and internal orders.

Time Recording - Project-Based Services - This scope item provides internal and external consultants a quick entry method for recording time against customer or internal projects.

Sourcing and Procurement

Activity Management in Procurement - This scope item supports you when collaborating with internal stakeholders on strategic topics, for example, supplier development, audits, supplier strategy, and so on.

Prediction of Delivery Date for Purchase Order Items - With this scope item, you can predict the supplier delivery delay to avoid delaying raw material availability or production rescheduling.

Supplier Classification and Segmentation - This process identifies suppliers that are strategically important and critical to a customer's business. It enables the appropriate allocation of resources to develop and manage business relationships.

Supplier Evaluation and Performance Monitoring - This scope item helps you, as a category manager, to determine a supplier’s performance. The scope item does not only evaluate an individual supplier, but rather the whole procurement process.

Blockchain-Verified RFQ Processing - Increase transparency and trust in the RFQ Process

Legal Content Management - SAP S/4HANA Cloud for legal content is an application that enables digitization and management of all legal content (for example, contracts) within an organization. This application facilitates creation and management of legal content in enterprises in alignment with core business processes. It provides an integrated platform to run enterprise-wide legal processes more efficiently.

Purchase Contract - This scope item describes the use of contracts in procurement activities. Contracts are agreements with suppliers to supply materials or services under negotiated conditions and within a certain period.

Request for Price - With this scope item, you can quickly create RFQs in the SAP S/4HANA system and send them to suppliers via e-mail or as a printed version by mail.

Sourcing with SAP Ariba Sourcing - Extend your SAP S/4HANA operational procurement processes to SAP Ariba Sourcing and select the most cost-effective bids from millions of suppliers on the Ariba Network. Once awarded, you can automatically convert bids in SAP Ariba Sourcing to purchase orders or operational contracts in SAP S/4HANA.

Batch Management - This scope item lets you work with homogeneous partial quantities of a material or product throughout the logistics quantity and value chain. This includes documentation of material properties, where-used information, and quality status.

Central Purchase Contracts - This scope item describes the central contract created in the central purchasing organization and distributed to other subsidiaries.

Central Purchasing - Central Purchasing in SAP S/4HANA caters to the needs of the headquarters to centrally manage their procurement business processes for all the connected plants. The Central Purchasing scenario provides a single point of access and visibility to purchasing documents, helping to reduce the TCO.

Central Requisitioning - Procurement departments across all company sizes are continuing to centralize their procurement processes globally or regionally. There is a trend to establish Shared Service Centers where buying is built over a centralized procurement system.

Real-Time Reporting and Monitoring for Procurement - Real time reporting and monitoring in procurement enables business users to perform their daily tasks quickly and effectively without requiring opening multiple reports and transactions.

Automated Invoice Settlement - This scope item can be used for procurement and enables the user to settle goods receipts directly, without an invoice from a supplier. The system posts the invoice document automatically based on the data in the purchase order and goods receipt.

Automated Purchase-to-Pay with SAP Ariba Commerce Automation - This scope item (for purchasing experts and accounts payable accountants) lets you focus on value-driving activities with SAP Ariba Commerce Automation integration with your suppliers in the Ariba Network, and lets you drive productivity with nearly touchless orders and invoices.

Complementary Procurement Functions - This scope item provides seamless processes for the procurement of operating supplies as well as for batch and serial number managed material, including the steps from the creation of a purchase order to the invoice creation.

Consumable Purchasing - This scope item enables the user to order consumables. A seamless integration is incorporated and ensures a stable and efficient process including all steps from the initial creation of a purchase requisition to the invoice creation and handling.

Cross-Company Purchasing Organization - This scope item enables the user to flexibly set up a cross-company purchasing organization.

Direct Procurement with Inbound Delivery - This scope item enables the user to order direct materials using inbound deliveries. A seamless integration is incorporated and ensures an efficient process including all steps from the initial creation of a purchase order to the invoice management.

Guided Buying Capability with SAP Ariba Buying - SAP S/4HANA Cloud and guided buying integration capability targets employee self-service procurement. This integration allows procurement organizations to scale their purchasing processes across spend categories while enforcing compliance.

Guided Buying for Central Procurement with SAP Ariba Buying - The integration with the guided buying capability targets employee self-service procurement. Integrated with Central Procurement it is possible to scale the purchasing processes across the whole unit by leveraging it over a centralized procurement system.

Image-Based Ordering - Order items based on an Image

Integration of Procurement with External Suppliers - Digitize your procurement data exchange with suppliers using a set of SOAP APIs. Use this scope item as starting point for mapping towards your supplier's EDI messages. In a Two-Tier scenario, you send your purchase orders and return purchase orders from subsidiary to headquarters.

Intercompany Stock Transfer - This scope item covers stock transfer process between two companies, including domestic and international processes.

Intercompany Stock Transfer Returns - This scope item describes the return process for intercompany stock transfer.

Logistics with Third-Party Warehouse Management - This scope item enables the integration of self-operated warehouses implemented with on-premise third-party warehouse management solutions (Warehouse Management Systems, WMS) to SAP S/4HANA Cloud.

Predictive Analytics for Contract Consumption in Procurement - This scope item lets you predict contract consumption by analyzing contracts. The Purchaser can analyze important information, such as expiring contracts, overdue purchase orders or urgent purchase requisitions etc.

Procure-to-Pay with SAP Ariba Buying and Invoicing - This scope item caters to SAP Ariba Buying and Invoicing customers who digitally transform their ERP. Users keep their favorite system of engagement while the new system of record, SAP S/4HANA Cloud, automatically receives purchase requisitions and orders.

Procurement of Direct Materials - This scope item enables the user to order direct materials. A seamless integration is incorporated and ensures a stable and efficient process including all steps from the initial creation of a purchase requisition to the invoice creation and handling.

Procurement of Materials with Variant Configuration - This scope item describes the process of externally procuring materials using the Advanced Variant Configuration feature, required in the manufacturing process.

Procurement of Services - This scope item enables an efficient process for the procurement of services. With seamless integration, this scope item ensures an easy-to-use process covering from the initial creation of a purchase requisition through invoice management.

Proposal of Material Group - Proposal of Material Group

Proposal of New Catalog Item - During purchase requisition creation, free text item entry can be interpreted as a catalog item, due to recommendations from the Machine Learning algorithm.

Proposal of options for Materials without Purchase Contract - This scope item provides options for the purchaser to create an RFQ if the materials do not have a purchase contract.

Purchasing Rebate Processing - This scope item covers the subsequent settlement of rebate conditions agreed on with suppliers. You can use supplier invoice amounts or goods receipts quantities as business volume for the rebate calculation.

Requisitioning - This scope item describes employee requisitioning activities. An employee creates a shopping cart. A purchase requisition is generated and converted to a purchase order. When the employee receives the goods, they perform a goods receipt confirmation.

Scheduling Agreement for Consignment Procurement - This scope item describes the process for consignment procurement with scheduling agreement.

Scheduling Agreement for Subcontracting Procurement - This scope item describes the process of subcontracting procurement with scheduling agreement.

Scheduling Agreements in Procurement - This scope item supports the scheduling agreement in procurement process.

Serial Number Management - This scope item helps you to identify material items in the supply chain and to track these during goods movement. It includes configuration settings for serial number management and provides serial number handling at finished goods level.

Subcontracting - The subcontracting process involves sending components to a supplier for manufacturing and receiving the finished materials. The seamless and efficient process includes all steps from the initial creation of a purchase order to the invoice management.

Supplier Consignment - By using the consignment process for procurement, the supplier provides the material and stores it at site of the procuring party. The supplier maintains the legal owner of the material until it is withdrawn from the consignment stores.

Supplier Quote Automation with SAP Ariba Commerce Automation - Before you buy materials or simple services, let your suppliers compete for the best price. Automatically select the supplier with the most favorable price bid. Automatically create purchase orders in SAP S/4HANA. Update Info records automatically.

Contingent Workforce Invoice Processing via SAP Fieldglass - Integrate SAP S/4HANA Cloud with SAP Fieldglass solutions for optimum total workforce mix. Address counter seasonal skill shortages, staff projects with outside experts, and augment staff strategically or for short-term needs.

Contingent Workforce Procurement via SAP Fieldglass - Integrate SAP S/4HANA Cloud with SAP Fieldglass solutions to optimize your optimum total workforce mix. Counter seasonal skill shortages, staff projects with outside experts, and augment staff strategically or for short term needs.

Invoice Processing by OpenText - Invoice Processing by OpenText enables SAP S/4HANA Cloud to extend the procure-to-pay process by incorporating an automated invoice document recognition solution. You use this solution to post supplier invoices or, when automatic posting is not possible, to create invoice drafts for manual completion.

Propose Resolution for Invoice Payment Block - Propose resolution for invoice payment block

Analytics - Purchase Order Visibility and Procurement Spend - This scope item provides procurement-related CDS views to leverage extensibility and reporting functionality.

Analytics for Stock Champion - The Stock Champion app simplifies the decision-making in the consumer product industry by providing a holistic, real-time view of both stock at risk (expiration) and short supply in one application.

Manufacturing

Demand-Driven Buffer Level Management - Demand-Driven Buffer Level Management, as part of demand-driven replenishment, helps to plan and manage supply chains based on customer demand by decoupling material flows and lowering inventory using dynamically managed stock buffers for relevant products.

Demand-Driven Replenishment Planning and Execution - Demand Driven Replenishment Planning and Execution helps you to monitor demand-driven replenishment using apps that provide dedicated views for Replenishment Planning and Replenishment Execution.

Change Manufacturing Bill of Material for Production - This scope item covers the process of executing change-number-managed BOM updates in the production process.

Mass Change Manufacturing Bill of Material for Production - This scope item covers the change-master-controlled change process for materials and components in the manufacturing bills of materials.

Analytics for Production Unit - Plan/Actual Production Cost - This scope item provides the foundation to produce pre-built finance analytics content using Core Data Services (CDS). Views help the customer understand business trends. A set of Key Performance Indicators allow for robust analytics.

Batch Management - This scope item lets you work with homogeneous partial quantities of a material or product throughout the logistics quantity and value chain. This includes documentation of material properties, where-used information, and quality status.

Enable Manufacturing Subsidiary to Handle Assembly for Headquarter - This scope item runs as a Make-to-Order scenario (assembly processing) at a subsidiary. During sales order, delivery, and billing processing, electronic messages are exchanged between a subsidiary and headquarters.

Inbound Storage Tank Management - Process Manufacturing - This scope item enables the storage tank management process, which supports the procurement of a new batch into the day tank and then mixing of this new batch with an existing batch in the main tank with a special mixing process order type.

Just-In-Time Supply to Customer from Stock - This scope item describes the Just-in-Time process (Supply to Customer from stock) for component manufacturers. The business process encompasses steps from receiving Just-In-Time calls to billing.

Make-to-Order Production - Finished Goods Sales and Final Assembly - This scope item encompasses the Make-to-Order process of batch managed finished goods from customer quotation, sales order creation, production planning and execution to the delivery and billing of the customer including the handling of components.

Make-to-Order Production - Semi-finished Goods Planning and Assembly - This scope item supports production planning for semi-finished components within a Make-to-order (MTO) environment before the receipt of incoming sales orders. This reduces the lead time of sales orders for finished goods that are received later.

Make-to-Order Production with Variant Configuration - This scope item shows a Make-to-Order Production scenario using the Advanced Variant Configuration for an efficient state-of-the-art configuration of a material ordered by a customer. It covers single-level and multi-level configurable materials.

Make-to-Stock - Process Manufacturing Based on Process Order - This scope item provides a platform for process manufacturing, supporting processes in manufacturing for the chemical, pharmaceutical, and food and beverage industries, as well as the batch-oriented electronics industry.

Make-to-Stock - Process Manufacturing Based on Production Order - This scope item provides a platform for process manufacturing, supporting processes in manufacturing for the chemical, pharmaceutical, and food and beverage industries, as well as the batch-oriented electronics industry.

Make-to-Stock Production - Discrete Manufacturing - This process supports the following: Requirements planning, production order releasing, goods movements, and production order confirmation including Available-to-Promise checks for serial number managed finished good.

Make-to-Stock Production - Repetitive Manufacturing - This process enables you to perform make-to-stock production based on run schedules. The production is controlled without a direct reference to sales orders. Run schedules determine the dates and quantities. Requirements are created in Demand Management.

Make-to-Stock Production with Variant Configuration - This scope item shows the Make-to-Stock Production with Variant Configuration in which Advanced Variant Configuration enables efficient state-of-the-art configuration for product variants that reflect common definitions of a configurable material.

Make-to-Stock with Co- and By-Products - Process Manufacturing - This scope item enables production planning in make-to-stock scenarios with joint production capability (the process of manufacturing two or more products in a single production run (for example, co- and by-products along with the main product)).

Make-to-Stock with Silo Material - Process Manufacturing - This scope item focuses on more complex process manufacturing scenarios with silo materials and phantom assemblies. Silo materials are generally stored in big silos or tanks. The silos are modeled as separate storage locations.

Manufacturing with Kanban Supply into Production - This scope item focuses on a lean production control method within a manufacturing environment using Kanban processing for lean replenishment. It includes Supplier Kanban, Move Kanban, and Flow manufacturing flavors.

Predictive Analytics Model Training - Finance - This scope item enables users to periodically train the preconfigured predictive scenarios with their own historical data to enable the model to reflect their particular business context and transaction /master data history.

Predictive Analytics Model Training - Supply Chain - Predictive Analytics Model training and activation for scenarios in Supply Chain

Production Operations with Manufacturing Execution System - This scope item provides an integration of SAP S/4HANA Cloud with an on-premise third-party Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) to production operation.

Production Operations with SAP Manufacturing Execution - Production Operations with SAP Manufacturing Execution offers you intelligence on the shop floor, enables a batch size of one, supports handover from engineering to manufacturing, and provides state-of-the-art production execution.

Production Order Processing with Third-Party Warehouse Management - This scope item enables the integration of self-operated warehouses implemented with on-premise third-party warehouse management solutions (Warehouse Management Systems (WMS)) to SAP S/4HANA Cloud to cover production processes.

Production Subcontracting - External Processing - Individual production steps (operations or sub-operations) are processed outside of your company by a vendor.

Rework Processing - Stock-Manufactured Material - This scope item focuses on rework activities and material postings after production execution for the original material (including goods receipt for the product), with an additional rework production order.

Rework Processing - Work-in-Process - This process takes care of defective materials within a production order.

Serial Number Management - This scope item helps you to identify material items in the supply chain and to track these during goods movement. It includes configuration settings for serial number management and provides serial number handling at finished goods level.

Subcontracting - The subcontracting process involves sending components to a supplier for manufacturing and receiving the finished materials. The seamless and efficient process includes all steps from the initial creation of a purchase order to the invoice management.

Subsidiary as Production Unit and Internal Supplier to Headquarters - This scope item runs as a Make-to-Order scenario at a subsidiary. During sales order, delivery, and billing processing, electronic messages are exchanged between subsidiary and headquarters.

Material Requirements Planning - This scope item describes the process for a Materials Requirements Planning (MRP) process to procure material using purchase requisitions or delivery schedules in case a scheduling agreement exists. Additionally, MRP material exceptions can be handled.

Production Capacity Leveling - The process of production capacity leveling enables the planning and scheduling (dispatching) of production and process orders and operations.

Production Capacity Planning and Evaluation - This process supports transparency on current and future capacity situations based on production plans. The user can detect bottleneck situations early within his area of responsibility.

SAP Fiori Analytical Apps for Production Planning - This scope item provides overview pages for the plant manager, with a focus on providing high level information to ensure smooth functioning of a plant or location.

Non-conformance Management - This scope item describes the management of non-conformances. The user enters defect data and documents defect processing. Afterwards, the quality engineer analyzes the current defect situation, and if needed, creates additional, manual inspection lots.

Quality Management for Complaints against Suppliers - This scope item describes the management of complaints against suppliers. The quality engineer captures basic information, informs the supplier, and manages defects and tasks. He can also capture the root causes identified by the supplier.

Quality Management for Complaints from Customers - This scope item describes the management of customer complaints. The quality engineer captures basic information given by the customer and starts a root cause analysis. The engineer can manage defects and causes, corrections, and corrective and preventive actions.

Quality Management in Discrete Manufacturing - This scope item describes quality inspection in discrete manufacturing. Quality inspection is relevant when a material is received from production or during the production process itself. The result of the inspection may trigger further processing.

Quality Management in Procurement - This scope item describes quality inspection in procurement. Quality inspection is relevant when a material is received from a supplier. The result of the inspection might trigger further processing, such as return to the supplier for inadequate quality.

Quality Management in Sales - This scope item describes quality inspection during the sales process (for example, high-quality materials are delivered to a customer). Once the inspection is accepted, the goods issue is posted, and the materials are delivered to the customer.

Quality Management in Stock Handling - This scope item implements quality inspection during the storage of goods. Quality inspection is relevant if a warehouse clerk identifies a potential issue with a material in the inventory that needs further investigation.

Quality Management of Internal Problems - This scope item describes the management of internal problems. The quality engineer captures basic information and starts a root cause analysis. The quality engineer can manage defects and causes, corrections, corrective and preventive actions.

SAP Fiori Analytical Apps for Quality Management - This scope item provides overview pages and analytical apps for the quality technician and quality engineer showing the most important information related to inspection and task management. Analytical apps enable in-depth analysis of the quality situation.

R&D/Engineering

Project Review - This scope item helps you to determine the right projects to work on by keeping all project stakeholders (such as the steering committee) informed, enabling the review and approval of project milestones, and accelerating central project review or ranking meetings.

Assess Dangerous Goods for a Product - Transporting chemical products on public transportation routes requires product classification for each applicable dangerous goods regulation. This scope item provides the means to identify these regulations and to classify your products efficiently.

Assess Marketability of a Product - Placing chemical products on markets with complex chemical regulatory landscapes requires an efficient system support for chemical compliance assessment. This scope item covers the main process steps for the assessment of the marketability of a product.

Chemical Compliance Approval for Purchased Material And Supplier - This scope item describes the compliance assessment process for purchased materials and suppliers. Only suppliers and purchased materials which fulfill the requirements can be approved.

Chemical Compliance in Sales - This scope item describes the compliance marketability check in sales order processing and during outbound delivery processes. A compliance marketability check is executed when a material is defined as relevant for compliance.

Dangerous Goods in Sales - This scope item describes the dangerous goods transport check in sales order and sales quotation. The check is performed for all compliance-relevant products. For chemical products that are added to sales orders, this ensures that an appropriate dangerous good classification is established.

Manage Safety Data Sheets for Products - Placing chemical products on the market requires an efficient system support for handling mandatory documentation as defined by regulators. This scope item covers the main process steps for the maintenance of Safety Data Sheets for products.

Safety Data Sheets in Sales - Placing chemical products on the market requires an efficient system support for handling mandatory documentation as defined by regulators. This scope item focuses on the maintenance of Safety Data Sheets for products during Sales processes.

Product Structure Management - This scope item lets you structure a product as a set of hierarchically ordered objects in SAP S/4HANA Cloud. Additionally, the definition and maintenance of product structures has been optimized for SAP S/4HANA Cloud.

Product Structure Template Management - This scope item enables you to build up templates to structure a product as a set of hierarchically ordered objects in SAP S/4HANA Cloud.

Advanced Ingredient Replacement for Recipes - This scope item provides advanced recipe analysis allowing efficient ingredient replacement for recipes powered by Recipe Finder.

Basic Handover of Bill of Material - Handover to Manufacturing allows the user to create a Manufacturing Bill of Material from an Engineering Bill of Material within one step.

Bill of Material - Mass Change - This scope item covers the follow-up material and component date effectivity-controlled mass change process of one or more bills of materials.

Embedded Software Management - Embedded Software Management enables the Systems Engineer to manage software parts of products together with hardware components in a Bill of Material.

Engineering Bill of Material - Change Master Management - This scope item covers two central PLM BOM processes: setup and release steps for change master controlled Engineering BOM, and change iteration.

Engineering Bill of Material - Versions Management - This scope item uses a new versioning technology. An engineering bill of material (EBOM) is a type of bill of material that reflects the product as designed by engineering, referred to as the as-designed bill of material.

Engineering Change Management with Change Records - SAP Engineering Change Management with Change Records flexibly supports the management of engineering changes with workflow support.

Formulation - Recipe Development - Manage and develop product data for products based on recipes.

Handover Engineering Product Structures - This scope item enables you to hand over a bill of materials or a product structure from a given source usage type (for example, Engineering) to a defined target usage type (for example, Production).

Handover of Product Information to SAP Asset Intelligence Network - This business process enables fast creation of the SAP Asset Intelligence Network model based on available product information by transferring this data from engineering to service.

Intelligent Content Processing for Document Classification - Intelligent Content Processing for Document classification is an automation of the Documents to Classification process that leverages intelligent services (Machine Learning).

Manage Documents - This scope item provides an intuitive way to search, create, and edit documents associated to a business object, such as a product.

Recipe Handover to Production - Bill of Material - This scope item covers the synchronization of development results with production by synchronizing the recipe to the bill of material.

Requirements Driven Development - Requirements Driven Development enable the user to link requirements to product life-cycle management objects such as engineering bills of material, document info records, materials, and configurable BOMs.

Set up Configurable Bill of Material using Variant Configuration - Advanced variant configuration enables efficient modeling of your configurable product model with a configurable BOM.

Software Compatibility Management - Software Compatibility Management facilitates the check of compatibility constraints between the software and the hardware components.

Specification Management for Recipes - This scope item supports the creation of specifications for product development and management.

Capital Investment Project Management - This scenario helps you to manage and control the enterprise wide project related investments. Starting with project creation, it covers project planning, budgeting, execution, and monitoring enabling an all-time transparency to all project stakeholders.

Predictive Analytics Model Training - R&D/Engineering - With this scope item, customers can utilize the embedded predictive analytics functionality in the SAP S/4HANA - R&D/Engineering scenarios such as PLM, EPPM, and so on.

Project Financial Control - This scope item supports scenarios where a project accounting structure is created as basis to record project costs and project execution. Project-related purchasing, financial activities, and period-end closing activities can be performed and monitored.

Research and Development Project Management - This scenario describes a project where the research and development activities related to the design of a new product are managed.

Supply Chain

Basic Available-to-Promise Processing - The basic ATP (bATP) functionality provides the standard availability check features. The standard SAP S/4HANA ATP comprises the features for Product Availability Check and Rescheduling.

Advanced Available-to-Promise Processing - The Standard ATP comprises the features for Product Availability Check and Backorder Processing. The aATP in this scope item focuses on performance, simplicity, and integration for Release-for-Delivery, Product Allocation Check, and Alternative-based Confirmation (ABC) ATP.

Automated Invoice Settlement - This scope item can be used for procurement and enables the user to settle goods receipts directly, without an invoice from a supplier. The system posts the invoice document automatically based on the data in the purchase order and goods receipt.

Automated Purchase-to-Pay with SAP Ariba Commerce Automation - This scope item (for purchasing experts and accounts payable accountants) lets you focus on value-driving activities with SAP Ariba Commerce Automation integration with your suppliers in the Ariba Network, and lets you drive productivity with nearly touchless orders and invoices.

Batch Management - This scope item lets you work with homogeneous partial quantities of a material or product throughout the logistics quantity and value chain. This includes documentation of material properties, where-used information, and quality status.

Complementary Procurement Functions - This scope item provides seamless processes for the procurement of operating supplies as well as for batch and serial number managed material, including the steps from the creation of a purchase order to the invoice creation.

Core Inventory Management - The scope item describes different transfer posting scenarios as well as stock and goods movement analysis.

Cross-Plant Transfer Posting - This scope item includes two processes for stock transfer between two plants in a company code: One-step stock transfer posting and two-step stock transfer posting.

Direct Procurement with Inbound Delivery - This scope item enables the user to order direct materials using inbound deliveries. A seamless integration is incorporated and ensures an efficient process including all steps from the initial creation of a purchase order to the invoice management.

Logistics with Third-Party Warehouse Management - This scope item enables the integration of self-operated warehouses implemented with on-premise third-party warehouse management solutions (Warehouse Management Systems, WMS) to SAP S/4HANA Cloud.

Physical Inventory - Inventory Count and Adjustment - This scope item describes the process of making necessary adjustments to stock on hand after a physical count.

Procurement of Direct Materials - This scope item enables the user to order direct materials. A seamless integration is incorporated and ensures a stable and efficient process including all steps from the initial creation of a purchase requisition to the invoice creation and handling.

Production Order Processing with Third-Party Warehouse Management - This scope item enables the integration of self-operated warehouses implemented with on-premise third-party warehouse management solutions (Warehouse Management Systems (WMS)) to SAP S/4HANA Cloud to cover production processes.

Quality Management for Complaints against Suppliers - This scope item describes the management of complaints against suppliers. The quality engineer captures basic information, informs the supplier, and manages defects and tasks. He can also capture the root causes identified by the supplier.

Quality Management for Complaints from Customers - This scope item describes the management of customer complaints. The quality engineer captures basic information given by the customer and starts a root cause analysis. The engineer can manage defects and causes, corrections, and corrective and preventive actions.

Quality Management in Procurement - This scope item describes quality inspection in procurement. Quality inspection is relevant when a material is received from a supplier. The result of the inspection might trigger further processing, such as return to the supplier for inadequate quality.

Quality Management in Sales - This scope item describes quality inspection during the sales process (for example, high-quality materials are delivered to a customer). Once the inspection is accepted, the goods issue is posted, and the materials are delivered to the customer.

Quality Management in Stock Handling - This scope item implements quality inspection during the storage of goods. Quality inspection is relevant if a warehouse clerk identifies a potential issue with a material in the inventory that needs further investigation.

Return to Supplier - This scope item enables the user to return goods to a supplier. A seamless integration is incorporated and ensures a stable and efficient return process including all steps from the initial creation of a return purchase order to the credit memo management.

SAP Fiori Analytical Apps for Inventory and Warehouse Management - SAP Fiori Analytical Apps for Inventory and Warehouse Management

Stock Transfer with Delivery - Transfer requested material automatically by MRP or manually by a buyer from one plant to another within the same company code.

Stock Transfer without Delivery - This scope item describes the business process of stock transfer without deliveries. Warehouse clerks and buyers can transfer material requested automatically by MRP or manually by a buyer from one plant to another within the same company code.

Subcontracting - The subcontracting process involves sending components to a supplier for manufacturing and receiving the finished materials. The seamless and efficient process includes all steps from the initial creation of a purchase order to the invoice management.

Supplier Consignment - By using the consignment process for procurement, the supplier provides the material and stores it at site of the procuring party. The supplier maintains the legal owner of the material until it is withdrawn from the consignment stores.

Quality Management in Warehousing - This process allows you to inspect products delivered from external suppliers and from production before put away in the warehouse.

Resource Management in Warehousing - This scope item helps you to increase the efficiency of warehouse processes by using resource management and mobile data entry.

SAP EWM Integration - Batch Management - This scope item enables a business process integration between SAP S/4HANA Cloud and on-premise SAP Extended Warehouse Management (EWM). It describes the basic integration of batches to the SAP EWM system.

SAP EWM Integration - Customer Returns - This scope item enables a business process integration between SAP S/4HANA Cloud and on-premise SAP Extended Warehouse Management to demonstrate returns order processing.

SAP EWM Integration - Delivery-Based Production Integration - This scope item enables a business process integration between SAP S/4HANA Cloud and on-premise SAP Extended Warehouse Management. You can integrate warehouse execution with manufacturing operations using a delivery-based production integration.

SAP EWM Integration - Inbound Processing from Supplier - This scope item enables a business process integration between SAP S/4HANA Cloud and on-premise SAP Extended Warehouse Management. It allows you to purchase goods from suppliers and subsequently execute the physical goods movements in your warehouse.

SAP EWM Integration - Outbound Processing to Customer - This scope item enables a business process integration between SAP S/4HANA Cloud and on-premise SAP Extended Warehouse Management. It allows you to ship ordered goods to external customers.

SAP EWM Integration - Stock Transport Orders - The business process integration between SAP S/4HANA Cloud and on-premise SAP Extended Warehouse Management enables you to execute a stock transfer process using stock transport orders.

SAP EWM Integration - Warehouse Stock Handling - This scope item enables a business process integration between SAP S/4HANA Cloud and on-premise SAP Extended Warehouse Management to demonstrate warehouse stock handling such as scrapping, physical inventory, and initial stock upload.

Warehouse Ad Hoc Goods Issue - This scope item can be used to post unplanned goods issues without reference to outbound deliveries. It can be used for various use cases, such as scrapping and goods issue to another storage location.

Warehouse Inbound Processing - This process enables you to receive products and to store them in your warehouse. The scope item allows different variants of inbound processing such as an inbound from supplier, inbound from other storage location, and inbound from other plant.

Warehouse Internal Repacking - This scope item allows you to repack stock in your warehouse.

Warehouse Kanban Supply into Production - This scope item allows you to supply material from your warehouse to production by leveraging the Kanban replenishment method as part of lean manufacturing.

Warehouse Outbound Processing - By performing this warehouse process, you can pick and pack products and send them from your warehouse.

Warehouse Physical Inventory - In this scope item, you can plan, conduct, and confirm regular counts of actual product quantities in the warehouse and compare the physical stock to the data in the system.

Warehouse Posting Changes - With this scope item, you can make posting changes (for example, unrestricted to blocked stock) in the warehouse.

Warehouse Production Integration - This scope item allows you to integrate the supply of products to production and the receipt of finished products from production into your warehouse.

Order-based Transportation Consolidation - Order-Based Transportation Consolidation enables transportation planning and execution in SAP S/4HANA Cloud in connection with a decentralized transportation management system.

Asset Management

Lean Incident Management Reporting - With this scope item, you can fulfill your incident reporting requirements by recording and processing incidents, near misses, and safety observations.

Corrective Maintenance - This process describes the maintenance of technical objects when a breakdown or failure occurs.

Emergency Maintenance - Process to document unforeseen and urgent maintenance work by creating and confirming an order in the same operation.

Integration with Asset Central Foundation - This scope item describes the steps required to integrate SAP S/4HANA Cloud with asset central foundation, which is based on SAP Cloud Platform.

Preventive Maintenance - This scope item describes the processes for preventing system breakdowns that have high repair and production breakdown costs.

Sales

Accelerated Customer Returns - This scope item encompasses the end-to-end returns and compensation process with automated creation of all follow-up documents.

Accelerated Third-Party Returns - In this scope item, materials are shipped to the customer via third-party delivery. The customer returns these materials directly to the supplier.

Accelerated Third-Party Returns from Seller to Supplier - This scope item outlines the accelerated customer returns process from seller to supplier while using EDI based message communication.

Analytics for Sales - Central Stock with Returns - This scope item provides sales-related Core Data Services (CDS) views to leverage extensibility and reporting functionality.

B2B Order Fulfillment with SAP Commerce Cloud - This scope item enables the integration of SAP Commerce Cloud with SAP S/4HANA Cloud for B2B use cases. A sales order is placed in SAP Commerce Cloud and replicated to SAP S/4HANA for order fulfillment.

Chemical Compliance in Sales - This scope item describes the compliance marketability check in sales order processing and during outbound delivery processes. A compliance marketability check is executed when a material is defined as relevant for compliance.

Convergent Billing - The Convergent Billing process enables the user to create billing documents that combine data from various sources in one billing document.

Credit Memo Processing - You can apply a credit to a customer account once you determine if a customer has been overcharged because of a pricing or sales tax rate error. The standard credit memo request can be created as stand-alone or with reference to a sales order or billing document.

Customer Consignment - This scope item describes the process for standard customer consignment processing. The products shipped to the customer are still owned by the company until they are sold by the customer to a third party. The materials, which are usually stored in the customer store or warehouse, are posted in a stock (consignment stock) that is assigned to the corresponding customer. This allows the current customer stock to be viewed at any time.

Customer Returns - This scope item describes sales order returns processing.

Dangerous Goods in Sales - This scope item describes the dangerous goods transport check in sales order and sales quotation. The check is performed for all compliance-relevant products. For chemical products that are added to sales orders, this ensures that an appropriate dangerous good classification is established.

Debit Memo Processing - The debit memo process is used for applying a debit to a customer account once a determination has been made that a customer has been undercharged as a result of a pricing or sales tax rate error. The standard debit memo request can be created as stand-alone or with reference to a sales order or billing document.

Delivery Processing without Order Reference - This scope item describes the entire process sequence for a standard delivery process where the customer does not need to create a preceding order (delivery without order reference). The business process encompasses all the steps from creating a delivery, to clearing a customer’s account once payment is received.

SAP Digital Payments Add-on - Sales - This scope item enables the integration between the Payment Hub and sales documents in an SAP S/4HANA system.

Extended Intercompany Processes for Sales - This scope item enables the sales-related intercompany business processes.

External Billing - This scope item enables the use of the external billing interface.

Free Goods Processing - This scope item describes the entire process sequence for a standard sales process with a customer, including free goods. The business process encompasses all steps from creating an order to the clearing of a customer account after payment is received.

Free of Charge Delivery - This scope item describes the process of providing goods to a customer at no cost (Free-of-Charge Sales Order).

Integration of Sales with External Buyers - Digitize your sales data exchange with buyers using a set of SOAP APIs. Use this scope item as starting point for mapping towards your supplier's EDI messages. In a Two-Tier scenario, you receive purchase orders and return orders from your subsidiary.

Intercompany Process for Customer Returns - This scope item allows the company to manage customer returns and refunds using affiliated plants in an effective and efficient way. This scope item enhances the "Accelerated Customer Returns (BKP)" scope item with intercompany capabilities.

Intercompany Sales Order Processing - Domestic - This scope item describes the process for the intercompany sales when an affiliate company directly delivers trading goods to customer. This intercompany sales scenario applies only when ordering and delivering companies are in same country, for example, Germany.

Intercompany Sales Order Processing - International - This scope item enables intercompany international transactions. As an example, the functionality is leveraged when a company (located in a specific country) sells products to a customer in the same country. The products are shipped from a separate location belonging to a company located in a different country.

Internal Commissions Settlement with SAP Sales Cloud - This scope item covers the settlement of internal commissions received from SAP Sales Cloud for the payout of the commission amount to an employee.

Invoice Correction Process with Credit Memo - You apply a credit to a customer account if you determine a customer is overcharged because of a pricing or sales tax rate error. The credit memo request is created with reference to the incorrect invoice previously issued to the customer.

Invoice Correction Process with Debit Memo - This process is used for applying a debit to a customer account if a customer has been undercharged because of a pricing or sales tax rate error. The debit memo request is created with reference to the incorrect invoice.

Logistics with Third-Party Warehouse Management - This scope item enables the integration of self-operated warehouses implemented with on-premise third-party warehouse management solutions (Warehouse Management Systems, WMS) to SAP S/4HANA Cloud.

Opportunity-to-Order with SAP Cloud for Customer - This scope item describes the steps required to integrate SAP S/4HANA Cloud with SAP Cloud for Customer using SAP Cloud Platform Integration.

Opportunity-to-Order with Third-Party Sales Force Automation Apps - This scope item covers setting up SAP S/4HANA Cloud and SAP Cloud Platform Integration to integrate with a third-party sales force automation system.

Order-to-Cash Performance Monitoring - This scope item is not in use anymore.

Planning Apps for Sales - Sales Planning Apps for Sales Manager

Predictive Analytics Model Training - Sales - With this scope item, you can utilize the embedded predictive analytics functionality in the SAP S/4HANA Sales business scenarios.

Return Order Processing for Non-Stock Material - This scope item handles return order processing of non-stock items and corresponding compensation.

Returnables Processing - This process enables the shipping of standard pallets and their return.

SAP Fiori Analytical Apps for Sales - SAP Fiori Analytical Apps for sales and distribution

Safety Data Sheets in Sales - Placing chemical products on the market requires an efficient system support for handling mandatory documentation as defined by regulators. This scope item focuses on the maintenance of Safety Data Sheets for products during Sales processes.

Sale of Services - This scope item covers sales order processing of service items without delivery and order-related billing.

Sales Commissions - External Sales Representative - This scope item covers the subsequent settlement of sales commission conditions agreed on with external sales agents.

Sales Contract Management - This scope item covers the creation and the call off of a sales quantity contract and a value contract for a certain product.

Sales Inquiry - This scope item describes the process for a standard sales inquiry.

Sales Order Entry with One Time Customer - This scope item describes the process of sales order creation without having a specific customer master record for the prospect/ customer available during the order process.

Sales Order Fulfillment Monitoring - This scope item describes the usage of the Sales Order Fulfillment Monitor. The monitor allows you to identify issues within sales order processing. You can then directly execute follow-up steps from the monitor to resolve these issues.

Sales Order Processing - SEPA Direct Debit Handling - This business process encompasses the check of the SEPA mandate during sales order processing, including exception handling if the SEPA mandate does not exist.

Sales Order Processing for Non-Stock Material - This scope item handles sales order processing of non-stock items with delivery and delivery-related billing.

Sales Order Processing for Sales Kits - This scope item supports selling products bundled into sales kits. There are two ways to process a bill of material in sales. Once you have entered a bill of material in a sales order, the system runs pricing and logistics execution at the header or item level.

Sales Order Processing with Customer Down Payment - In business, especially in a make-to-order environment, customers may be required to pay an amount in advance before the goods are delivered.

Sales Order Processing with Invoice List and Collective Billing - This scope item describes how to handle invoice lists and collective billing.

Sales Processing using Third-Party with Shipping Notification - This process enables your company to forward orders to third-party vendors who then ship goods directly to customers and bill you directly. Once vendors have sent a shipping notification, a statistical goods receipt can be posted.

Sales Processing using Third-Party without Shipping Notification - This process enables you to pass sales orders to a third-party vendor who then ships the goods directly to the customer and bills you. The standard sales order automatically creates a purchase requisition for the materials to be delivered by the third-party vendor.

Sales Quotation - This scope item describes the creation of a standard sales quotation with conversion to a sales order.

Sales Rebate Processing - This scope item is used where subsequent rebates are settled based on business volumes or quantities with a customer. Using Condition Contract Management, various functions are available to create and settle rebate agreements with customers.

Sales Scheduling Agreements - This scope item describes the sales scheduling agreement process for component manufacturers (Sell-from-Stock).

Sales of Non-Stock Item with Order-Specific Procurement - This process enables customers to place orders for goods that are not in stock. If this is the case, goods are procured from external suppliers.

Sell from Stock - This scope item describes the entire process sequence for a standard sales process (Sale-from-Stock) with a customer. The business process encompasses all the steps, from creating an order to the clearing of a customer account after the receipt of payment.

Service

Service Contract Management - The scope item describes the creation of service contracts in SAP S/4HANA Cloud along with additional capabilities.

Procurement for Service Management - This scope item covers the integration of service management with procurement. Purchase Requisitions are created with reference to the Service Order line item and subsequent processes are executed. Procurement costs are updated in the service order.

Service Order Management and Monitoring - This scope item encompasses the field services planning and execution comprising both Fixed Price and Time and Material services. The process incorporates service order creation, release followed by subsequent confirmations, and billing to customer.

Professional Services

Event-Based Revenue Recognition - Project-Based Services - Event-based Revenue Recognition calculates and posts revenues and cost adjustments to projects. Revenue recognition is either cost-based or time-based depending on project type.

Event-Based Revenue Recognition - Project-Based Services - IFRS - Event-based Revenue Recognition calculates and posts real time revenue and cost adjustment for professional service for fixed price, time and material, and periodic service projects using Parallel Ledger functionality.

Event-Based Revenue Recognition - Project-Based Services - US GAAP - Event-based Revenue Recognition calculates and posts real time revenue and cost adjustment for professional services for fixed price, time and material, and periodic service projects, using US GAAP Ledger functionality.

Customer Project Analysis - Customer Project Analysis is an analytical SAP Fiori application built using Analysis Path Framework in SAP S/4HANA embedded analytics. This application provides rich visualization and analysis of customer projects based on margin, revenue, cost, and so on. The application uses several predefined analysis steps such as country, service organization, profit centers, projects, and more.

Customer Project Management - Project-Based Services - This scope item manages the complete end-to-end process of selling and performing project-based services to customers.

Intercompany Processes - Project-Based Services - The Intercompany Processes - Project-Based Services scope item encompasses creation of intercompany invoices and simultaneous posting of intercompany invoice to the accounts payables of the ordering company.

Internal Project Management - Project-Based Services - This scope item manages the complete end-to-end process of project-based services inside the company.

Sales Order Processing - Project-Based Services - This scope item describes the entire process sequence for the sales order maintenance and the billing process within the project-based services scenario.

Service and Material Procurement - Project-Based Services - This scope item covers all relevant procurement processes of the professional services scenario, such as service procurement, consumption materials procurement, and procurement for third-party order processing.

Social Collaboration Integration - This prebuilt integration of SAP S/4HANA and SAP Jam delivers social collaboration work patterns where you work, bringing together people, information, applications, and processes to solve business problems and improve results.

Utilization Analysis - Utilization Analysis is an analytical SAP Fiori application built using Analysis Path Framework in SAP S/4HANA embedded analytics. This application provides rich visualization and analysis of utilization rate of employees across several predefined analysis steps such as company, service organization, cost centers, employee details, and so on. This ultimately leads to the analysis of billable versus non-billable employees in commercial project management.

Advanced Resource Management - Project-Based Services - For a resource manager, Resource Management for Project-Based Services allows you to monitor and manage the resource utilization and the staffing of resource requests, ensuring optimal resource utilization and efficient project staffing.

Basic Resource Management - Project-Based Services - For a resource manager, this scope item allows you to monitor the resource utilization and the staffing of resource requests, ensuring optimal resource utilization and efficient project staffing.

Application Platform and Infrastructure

Business Event Handling - Business Event Handling enables SAP S/4HANA Cloud applications to push business object events to the SAP Cloud Platform. Events are pushed in an asynchronous and reliable manner to ensure high availability, scalability, and responsiveness of cloud applications.

In-App Extensibility - This scope item offers the means to adapt the UI layout and context, create custom fields and tables, create and extend analytical reports and forms, and change and add to the business logic.

Output Management - This scope item provides best practice information to implement an end-to-end scenario for output management in SAP S/4HANA Cloud.

Side-by-Side Extensibility for SAP S/4HANA Cloud - This scope item provides a general overview of extension options and a detailed step-by-step guide based on sample scenarios for developing extension applications on the SAP Cloud Platform.

Situation Handling - Situation handling recognizes business situations by evaluating conditions (rules) on business facts. A business situation occurs when a business object changes a status relevant to a user, when critical deadlines are passed, or a KPI passes a threshold.

Database and Data Management

Automated Provisioning via SAP Cloud Identity Access Governance - This scope item automates compliant provisioning based on SAP SuccessFactors events via integration with SAP Cloud Identity Access Governance.

Business Partner and Product Master Integration - Integration of SAP S/4HANA Cloud to SAP Master Data Governance enables you to set up a master data replication for Business Partner and Product master data from an on premise SAP System to SAP S/4HANA Cloud utilizing whitelisted APIs.

Integration with SAP Distributed Manufacturing with SAP S/4HANA Cloud - The integration between SAP S/4HANA and SAP Distributed Manufacturing (SAP Cloud Platform) for collaboration on parts for additive manufacturing (DIM) solution provides the options to collaborate with suppliers, design, and produce parts through additive manufacturing.

Core Data Services-Based Extraction with SAP S/4HANA Cloud - CDS Based Data Extraction with SAP S/4HANA Cloud accessing CDS-ODP Source.

Core HR with SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central - The SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Integration to the SAP S/4HANA Cloud offers you predefined content for data integration to enable end-to-end business processes across your core Cloud HR - SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central - and SAP S/4HANA Cloud.

Customer Service Engagement with SAP Customer Engagement Center - The scope item sets up the integration of SAP CoPilot within SAP S/4HANA and the SAP Customer Service Engagement Center.

Data Aging - Data Aging helps manage SAP HANA in-memory storage by moving excess data to disk.

Data Migration to SAP S/4HANA from File - This scope item describes data migration to SAP S/4HANA Cloud for customers coming from any legacy system using a file-based approach.

Data Migration to SAP S/4HANA from SAP - Data migration to SAP S/4HANA Cloud for existing SAP Business Suite customers is currently performed with the file-based approach in Data Migration to SAP S/4HANA from File (BH5).

Data Migration to SAP S/4HANA from Staging - Customers can migrate data into SAP S/4HANA Cloud from legacy systems, using a staging area with staging tables as a source for the SAP S/4HANA Migration Cockpit.

Data Protection and Privacy - This scope item provides features and functions to support compliance with the relevant legal requirements and general data protection acts (such as EU-GDPR if applicable) for the processing of personal data (including person-related data).

Employee Integration - SAP S/4HANA Enablement - This scope item covers the technical enablement of SAP S/4HANA to enable employee master data integration, and to store employee and employee-related data in SAP S/4HANA.

Import Connection setup with SAP Analytics Cloud - Configure the connection between SAP Analytics Cloud for Planning and SAP S/4HANA in the Public Cloud.

Inbound Service for Predictive Analytics Integrator - This scope item helps setting up inbound services for Predictive Analytics Integrator.

Information Lifecycle Management - Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) allows for the blocking and deletion of data according to residence and retention rules.

Integration to SAP S/4HANA Cloud for Data Enrichment - The integration of SAP S/4HANA Cloud with SAP S/4HANA Cloud for Data Enrichment offers an out-of-the-box connector to enrich master data using data from one or more third-party vendors.

Legal Content Management - SAP S/4HANA Cloud for legal content is an application that enables digitization and management of all legal content (for example, contracts) within an organization. This application facilitates creation and management of legal content in enterprises in alignment with core business processes. It provides an integrated platform to run enterprise-wide legal processes more efficiently.

Mass Load and Mass Maintenance for Business Partner - Mass Load and Mass Maintenance of business partner data provides capabilities to load and update multiple business partner master data records at a time.

Mass Load and Mass Maintenance for Product - Mass Load and Mass Maintenance of Product Data provides capabilities to load and update multiple product master data records at the same time.

Mass Processing for Business Partner - Mass Processing for Business Partner supports the update of multiple master data records. To update, you select the records to change. The system then provides statistics on the changed fields and validates the data.

Mass Processing for Product - Mass Processing for Product supports the update of multiple master data records. To update records, select the fields and records to change. Once you enter your changes, the system provides statistics on the changed fields and validates the data.

Master Data Catalog for SAP S/4HANA Cloud - This scope item provides a central entry point to documentation on master data, for example, Customer, G/L Account, and so on. It gives an overview of how users maintain master data objects and what data is provided by SAP

Master Data Consolidation for Business Partner - Master Data Consolidation for Business Partner provides capabilities to load master data and to detect duplicates. For each of the resulting match groups, a best record is calculated using survivorship rules on the master data attributes.

Master Data Consolidation for Product - With Master Data Consolidation for Product, you can load master data and detect duplicates. For each of the resulting match groups, a best record is calculated using survivorship rules on the master data attributes.

Master Data Remediation for Product - Master Data Remediation for Product provides capabilities to validate product master data and to get the result of the validation into a worklist. In this worklist, the correction of the erroneous product master data can be triggered.

Order Management Data Replication to SAP Marketing Cloud - This scope item provides out-of-the-box integration between SAP S/4HANA Cloud and SAP Marketing Cloud.

SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll Integration - Integrate your SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll with SAP S/4HANA Cloud. The payroll information is sent to Financials in SAP S/4HANA Cloud.

Responsibility Determination - This scope item lets you flexibly determine correct contacts for various contexts to address tasks and activities with the working structure.

SAP Enable Now Integration - With the integration of SAP Enable Now, you enable the extensibility scenario for the Web Assistant. This allows you to change the SAP standard content, to create your own, and to add existing content to the help framework.

SAP Mobile Cards - SAP Mobile Cards allows users to mobilize and publish important business information instantly to their mobile devices.

Subsidiary Integration of SAP S/4HANA Cloud to Central Finance - Integrate your subsidiary running on SAP S/4HANA Cloud to your corporate SAP S/4HANA Central Finance system to centralize financial processes.

UI theme designer - Apply your corporate branding to SAP S/4HANA Cloud by using the UI theme designer on SAP Cloud Platform.

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Integration

Automated Dynamic Discounts with SAP Ariba Discount Management - Boost efficiency in accounts payable and cash management as you integrate and automate payments. With dynamic discount capabilities on the Ariba Network, you can pay your suppliers early and save cash.

Supplier Quote Automation with SAP Ariba Commerce Automation - Before you buy materials or simple services, let your suppliers compete for the best price. Automatically select the supplier with the most favorable price bid. Automatically create purchase orders in SAP S/4HANA. Update Info records automatically.

Automated Purchase-to-Pay with SAP Ariba Commerce Automation - This scope item (for purchasing experts and accounts payable accountants) lets you focus on value-driving activities with SAP Ariba Commerce Automation integration with your suppliers in the Ariba Network, and lets you drive productivity with nearly touchless orders and invoices.

Sourcing with SAP Ariba Sourcing - Extend your SAP S/4HANA operational procurement processes to SAP Ariba Sourcing and select the most cost-effective bids from millions of suppliers on the Ariba Network. Once awarded, you can automatically convert bids in SAP Ariba Sourcing to purchase orders or operational contracts in SAP S/4HANA.

Procure-to-Pay with SAP Ariba Buying and Invoicing - This scope item caters to SAP Ariba Buying and Invoicing customers who digitally transform their ERP. Users keep their favorite system of engagement while the new system of record, SAP S/4HANA Cloud, automatically receives purchase requisitions and orders.

Guided Buying Capability with SAP Ariba Buying - SAP S/4HANA Cloud and guided buying integration capability targets employee self-service procurement. This integration allows procurement organizations to scale their purchasing processes across spend categories while enforcing compliance.

Guided Buying for Central Procurement with SAP Ariba Buying - The integration with the guided buying capability targets employee self-service procurement. Integrated with Central Procurement it is possible to scale the purchasing processes across the whole unit by leveraging it over a centralized procurement system.

Travel Expense Processing with SAP Concur Expense Professional - Cloud-based travel and expense solutions enable users to plan trips and create expense reports. This information is typically transferred to financial systems for posting and integration with SAP S/4HANA Cloud.

Contingent Workforce Invoice Processing via SAP Fieldglass - Integrate SAP S/4HANA Cloud with SAP Fieldglass solutions for optimum total workforce mix. Address counter seasonal skill shortages, staff projects with outside experts, and augment staff strategically or for short-term needs.

Contingent Workforce Procurement via SAP Fieldglass - Integrate SAP S/4HANA Cloud with SAP Fieldglass solutions to optimize your optimum total workforce mix. Counter seasonal skill shortages, staff projects with outside experts, and augment staff strategically or for short term needs.

Opportunity-to-Order with SAP Cloud for Customer - This scope item describes the steps required to integrate SAP S/4HANA Cloud with SAP Cloud for Customer using SAP Cloud Platform Integration.

Order Management Data Replication to SAP Marketing Cloud - This scope item provides out-of-the-box integration between SAP S/4HANA Cloud and SAP Marketing Cloud.

Sales Billing with SAP Subscription Billing - The integration scenario enables the replication of bills originating from SAP Subscription Billing to SAP S/4HANA Cloud Sales Billing as an external billing document request (EBDR).

Convergent Invoicing with SAP Subscription Billing - This scope item enables the replication of bills originating from SAP Subscription Billing to SAP S/4HANA Cloud Convergent Invoicing as billable items.

Customer Service Engagement with SAP Customer Engagement Center - The scope item sets up the integration of SAP CoPilot within SAP S/4HANA and the SAP Customer Service Engagement Center.

Core HR with SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central - The SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Integration to the SAP S/4HANA Cloud offers you predefined content for data integration to enable end-to-end business processes across your core Cloud HR - SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central - and SAP S/4HANA Cloud.

Employee Integration - SAP S/4HANA Enablement - This scope item covers the technical enablement of SAP S/4HANA to enable employee master data integration, and to store employee and employee-related data in SAP S/4HANA.

SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll Integration - Integrate your SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll with SAP S/4HANA Cloud. The payroll information is sent to Financials in SAP S/4HANA Cloud.

Automated Provisioning via SAP Cloud Identity Access Governance - This scope item automates compliant provisioning based on SAP SuccessFactors events via integration with SAP Cloud Identity Access Governance.

Integration of Sales with External Buyers - Digitize your sales data exchange with buyers using a set of SOAP APIs. Use this scope item as starting point for mapping towards your supplier's EDI messages. In a Two-Tier scenario, you receive purchase orders and return orders from your subsidiary.

Integration of Payment Advice with Buyers and Suppliers - Exchange Payment Advice messages with your buyer and supplier using a set of robust SOAP APIs.

Integration of Procurement with External Suppliers - Digitize your procurement data exchange with suppliers using a set of SOAP APIs. Use this scope item as starting point for mapping towards your supplier's EDI messages. In a Two-Tier scenario, you send your purchase orders and return purchase orders from subsidiary to headquarters.

Logistics with Third-Party Warehouse Management - This scope item enables the integration of self-operated warehouses implemented with on-premise third-party warehouse management solutions (Warehouse Management Systems, WMS) to SAP S/4HANA Cloud.

Lease-In Accounting - Lease contracts describe contractual agreements between two partners: the lessor and the lessee. This scope item helps you standardize and automate your lease-in credit contract management activities, like creating and managing new contracts, setting helpful reminder rules, and running reports that help you save time and effort and make more informed lease management decisions.

Intelligent Content Processing for Document Classification - Intelligent Content Processing for Document classification is an automation of the Documents to Classification process that leverages intelligent services (Machine Learning).

SAP Enable Now Integration - With the integration of SAP Enable Now, you enable the extensibility scenario for the Web Assistant. This allows you to change the SAP standard content, to create your own, and to add existing content to the help framework.

Lease-Out Accounting - This scope item helps you standardize and automate your lease-out debit contract management activities, saving you time and effort and making more informed lease management decisions.

Service Contract - Lease contracts describe contractual agreements between two partners: the lessor and the lessee. This scope item helps you standardize and automate your lease service credit contract management activities, like creating and managing new contracts, setting helpful reminder rules, and running reports that help you save time and effort and make more informed lease management decisions.

Contract Accounting - Company Initiated Payments - With this scope item, you can process payment documents and returns.

Situation Handling - Situation handling recognizes business situations by evaluating conditions (rules) on business facts. A business situation occurs when a business object changes a status relevant to a user, when critical deadlines are passed, or a KPI passes a threshold.

Customer Payments - The scope item includes the integration between SAP S/4HANA Cloud and the customer payments solution, which handles electronic bill presentment and payment (built on the SAP Cloud Platform).

Digital Payments - The scope item enables the integration between SAP S/4HANA Cloud and SAP digital payments, which allows you to use credit card payment methods in SAP S/4HANA for incoming payments.

Automatic Market Rates Management - With this process, market data is automatically imported from the currency service provided by SAP Cloud Platform.

Leveraging SAP Financial Statement Insight and SAP RealSpend - This scope item covers the setup of integration from SAP S/4HANA to SAP Financials Cloud API Integration, enabling the SAP Cloud Platform apps to read financial data from SAP S/4HANA for reporting purposes.

Project Review - This scope item helps you to determine the right projects to work on by keeping all project stakeholders (such as the steering committee) informed, enabling the review and approval of project milestones, and accelerating central project review or ranking meetings.

External Customer Payments - This scope item enables the payment method external payment, which can be used with the help of external billing systems.

Cash Application Integration - The integration to SAP Cash Application Solution intends to automate the invoice-matching process and provide the prediction results to SAP S/4HANA with the help of Machine Learning.

Credit Agency Integration - The SAP S/4HANA Finance Cloud for Credit Integration solution enables the pulling of customer credit scoring data automatically from third-party credit agencies into SAP S/4HANA.

Treasury Trading via Trading Platforms - This scope item provides the integration between trading platforms and SAP S/4HANA automatically.

Integration with SAP Distributed Manufacturing with SAP S/4HANA Cloud - The integration between SAP S/4HANA and SAP Distributed Manufacturing (SAP Cloud Platform) for collaboration on parts for additive manufacturing (DIM) solution provides the options to collaborate with suppliers, design, and produce parts through additive manufacturing.

Requirements Driven Development - Requirements Driven Development enable the user to link requirements to product life-cycle management objects such as engineering bills of material, document info records, materials, and configurable BOMs.

SAP Mobile Cards - SAP Mobile Cards allows users to mobilize and publish important business information instantly to their mobile devices.

Managing Material Price Changes and Inventory Values - This scope item provides users with an example of a process description that they can use to change material prices, mark prices for change, and release prices for material valuation.

UI theme designer - Apply your corporate branding to SAP S/4HANA Cloud by using the UI theme designer on SAP Cloud Platform.

Restricted Party Screening with SAP Watch List Screening - Screen SAP S/4HANA Cloud documents against a sanctioned party list utilizing SAP Watch List Screening as part of international trade compliance.

Handover of Product Information to SAP Asset Intelligence Network - This business process enables fast creation of the SAP Asset Intelligence Network model based on available product information by transferring this data from engineering to service.

External Digital Payments - The scope item enables the integration between SAP S/4HANA Cloud and SAP digital payments. With this, you can use external payment methods in SAP S/4HANA for incoming payments.

Group Reporting - Data from SAP Group Reporting Data Collection - This scope item enables the integration between SAP S/4HANA Financial Group Reporting and SAP Group Reporting Data Collection (deployed on the SAP Cloud Platform).

Product Structure Template Management - This scope item enables you to build up templates to structure a product as a set of hierarchically ordered objects in SAP S/4HANA Cloud.

Opportunity-to-Order with Third-Party Sales Force Automation Apps - This scope item covers setting up SAP S/4HANA Cloud and SAP Cloud Platform Integration to integrate with a third-party sales force automation system.

Production Operations with Manufacturing Execution System - This scope item provides an integration of SAP S/4HANA Cloud with an on-premise third-party Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) to production operation.

External Billing - This scope item enables the use of the external billing interface.

Invoice Processing by OpenText - Invoice Processing by OpenText enables SAP S/4HANA Cloud to extend the procure-to-pay process by incorporating an automated invoice document recognition solution. You use this solution to post supplier invoices or, when automatic posting is not possible, to create invoice drafts for manual completion.

SAP EWM Integration - Inbound Processing from Supplier - This scope item enables a business process integration between SAP S/4HANA Cloud and on-premise SAP Extended Warehouse Management. It allows you to purchase goods from suppliers and subsequently execute the physical goods movements in your warehouse.

SAP EWM Integration - Outbound Processing to Customer - This scope item enables a business process integration between SAP S/4HANA Cloud and on-premise SAP Extended Warehouse Management. It allows you to ship ordered goods to external customers.

SAP EWM Integration - Stock Transport Orders - The business process integration between SAP S/4HANA Cloud and on-premise SAP Extended Warehouse Management enables you to execute a stock transfer process using stock transport orders.

SAP EWM Integration - Delivery-Based Production Integration - This scope item enables a business process integration between SAP S/4HANA Cloud and on-premise SAP Extended Warehouse Management. You can integrate warehouse execution with manufacturing operations using a delivery-based production integration.

SAP EWM Integration - Batch Management - This scope item enables a business process integration between SAP S/4HANA Cloud and on-premise SAP Extended Warehouse Management (EWM). It describes the basic integration of batches to the SAP EWM system.

SAP EWM Integration - Customer Returns - This scope item enables a business process integration between SAP S/4HANA Cloud and on-premise SAP Extended Warehouse Management to demonstrate returns order processing.

SAP EWM Integration - Warehouse Stock Handling - This scope item enables a business process integration between SAP S/4HANA Cloud and on-premise SAP Extended Warehouse Management to demonstrate warehouse stock handling such as scrapping, physical inventory, and initial stock upload.

Bank Integration with SAP Multi-Bank Connectivity - With SAP Multi-Bank Connectivity (MBC), SAP establishes connections with your banks to automatically send payment instructions, receive status notifications, receive bank statements, and receive lockbox messages.

Subsidiary Integration of SAP S/4HANA Cloud to Central Finance - Integrate your subsidiary running on SAP S/4HANA Cloud to your corporate SAP S/4HANA Central Finance system to centralize financial processes.

Social Collaboration Integration - This prebuilt integration of SAP S/4HANA and SAP Jam delivers social collaboration work patterns where you work, bringing together people, information, applications, and processes to solve business problems and improve results.

Key Risk Indicator Monitoring with SAP Risk Management - This scope item integrates SAP Risk Management with SAP S/4HANA Cloud to support risk monitoring across the enterprise.

Business Event Handling - Business Event Handling enables SAP S/4HANA Cloud applications to push business object events to the SAP Cloud Platform. Events are pushed in an asynchronous and reliable manner to ensure high availability, scalability, and responsiveness of cloud applications.

Legal Content Management - SAP S/4HANA Cloud for legal content is an application that enables digitization and management of all legal content (for example, contracts) within an organization. This application facilitates creation and management of legal content in enterprises in alignment with core business processes. It provides an integrated platform to run enterprise-wide legal processes more efficiently.

Continuous Control Monitoring with SAP Process Control - This scope item integrates SAP Process Control with SAP S/4HANA Cloud to support continuous control monitoring.

Transfer of Contact Person for SAP Global Trade Services - This scope item synchronizes contact persons from SAP S/4HANA to SAP Global Trade Services on-premise.

Transfer of Primary Master Data for SAP Global Trade Services - This scope item synchronizes the primary master data (Customers, Suppliers, and Products) from SAP S/4HANA Cloud to SAP Global Trade Services on-premise.

Transfer of Bill of Materials for SAP Global Trade Services - This scope item synchronizes the Bill of Material from SAP S/4HANA to SAP Global Trade Services on-premise.

Compliance Management with SAP Global Trade Services - This scope item transfers relevant sales and procurement documents from SAP S/4HANA Cloud or on-premise to SAP Global Trade Services on-premise.

Business Partner and Product Master Integration - Integration of SAP S/4HANA Cloud to SAP Master Data Governance enables you to set up a master data replication for Business Partner and Product master data from an on premise SAP System to SAP S/4HANA Cloud utilizing whitelisted APIs.

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Extensibility

Side-by-Side Extensibility for SAP S/4HANA Cloud - This scope item provides a general overview of extension options and a detailed step-by-step guide based on sample scenarios for developing extension applications on the SAP Cloud Platform.

In-App Extensibility - This scope item offers the means to adapt the UI layout and context, create custom fields and tables, create and extend analytical reports and forms, and change and add to the business logic.

SAP S/4HANA Cloud for Hybrid Deployment (2-Tier ERP)

Subsidiary Integration of SAP S/4HANA Cloud to Central Finance - Integrate your subsidiary running on SAP S/4HANA Cloud to your corporate SAP S/4HANA Central Finance system to centralize financial processes.

SAP BW Activation for SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation - This scope item delivers capabilities to activate SAP Business Warehouse for use with SAP BusinessObjects Planning Consolidation with SAP S/4HANA Cloud as a data source.

Financial Plan Data Upload from File - This scope item provides the functionality to load a flat file with PLAN data (.CSV format) from an external source into SAP S/4HANA Cloud.

Group Reporting - Data from External Systems - This scope item enables the integration between SAP S/4HANA Cloud Group Reporting and the external systems.

Group Reporting - Plan Consolidation - This scope item allows the consolidation of plan data.

Group Reporting - Financial Consolidation - This scope item provides statutory financial consolidation capabilities for SAP S/4HANA customers.

Customer Payments - The scope item includes the integration between SAP S/4HANA Cloud and the customer payments solution, which handles electronic bill presentment and payment (built on the SAP Cloud Platform).

Compliance Management with SAP Global Trade Services - This scope item transfers relevant sales and procurement documents from SAP S/4HANA Cloud or on-premise to SAP Global Trade Services on-premise.

Treasury Workstation Accounting Integration to SAP Business Suite - This scope item provides the customer the standalone deployment option from SAP S/4 HANA Cloud to SAP Business Suite.

Treasury Workstation Cash Integration - This scope item facilitates the Two-Tier landscape by enabling the data communication between the treasury workstation and the remote systems.

Sell from Stock - This scope item describes the entire process sequence for a standard sales process (Sale-from-Stock) with a customer. The business process encompasses all the steps, from creating an order to the clearing of a customer account after the receipt of payment.

Sales Processing using Third-Party with Shipping Notification - This process enables your company to forward orders to third-party vendors who then ship goods directly to customers and bill you directly. Once vendors have sent a shipping notification, a statistical goods receipt can be posted.

Sales Processing using Third-Party without Shipping Notification - This process enables you to pass sales orders to a third-party vendor who then ships the goods directly to the customer and bills you. The standard sales order automatically creates a purchase requisition for the materials to be delivered by the third-party vendor.

Accelerated Customer Returns - This scope item encompasses the end-to-end returns and compensation process with automated creation of all follow-up documents.

Integration of Sales with External Buyers - Digitize your sales data exchange with buyers using a set of SOAP APIs. Use this scope item as starting point for mapping towards your supplier's EDI messages. In a Two-Tier scenario, you receive purchase orders and return orders from your subsidiary.

Analytics for Sales - Central Stock with Returns - This scope item provides sales-related Core Data Services (CDS) views to leverage extensibility and reporting functionality.

Procurement of Services - This scope item enables an efficient process for the procurement of services. With seamless integration, this scope item ensures an easy-to-use process covering from the initial creation of a purchase requisition through invoice management.

Procurement of Direct Materials - This scope item enables the user to order direct materials. A seamless integration is incorporated and ensures a stable and efficient process including all steps from the initial creation of a purchase requisition to the invoice creation and handling.

Return to Supplier - This scope item enables the user to return goods to a supplier. A seamless integration is incorporated and ensures a stable and efficient return process including all steps from the initial creation of a return purchase order to the credit memo management.

Integration of Procurement with External Suppliers - Digitize your procurement data exchange with suppliers using a set of SOAP APIs. Use this scope item as starting point for mapping towards your supplier's EDI messages. In a Two-Tier scenario, you send your purchase orders and return purchase orders from subsidiary to headquarters.

Central Purchasing - Central Purchasing in SAP S/4HANA caters to the needs of the headquarters to centrally manage their procurement business processes for all the connected plants. The Central Purchasing scenario provides a single point of access and visibility to purchasing documents, helping to reduce the TCO.

Central Purchase Contracts - This scope item describes the central contract created in the central purchasing organization and distributed to other subsidiaries.

Analytics - Purchase Order Visibility and Procurement Spend - This scope item provides procurement-related CDS views to leverage extensibility and reporting functionality.

Subsidiary as Production Unit and Internal Supplier to Headquarters - This scope item runs as a Make-to-Order scenario at a subsidiary. During sales order, delivery, and billing processing, electronic messages are exchanged between subsidiary and headquarters.

Enable Manufacturing Subsidiary to Handle Assembly for Headquarter - This scope item runs as a Make-to-Order scenario (assembly processing) at a subsidiary. During sales order, delivery, and billing processing, electronic messages are exchanged between a subsidiary and headquarters.

Production Operations with SAP Manufacturing Execution - Production Operations with SAP Manufacturing Execution offers you intelligence on the shop floor, enables a batch size of one, supports handover from engineering to manufacturing, and provides state-of-the-art production execution.

Make-to-Order Production - Semifinished Goods Planning and Assembly - This scope item supports production planning for semifinished components within a Make-to-order (MTO) environment before the receipt of incoming sales orders. This reduces the lead time of sales orders for finished goods that are received later.

Logistics with Third-Party Warehouse Management - This scope item enables the integration of self-operated warehouses implemented with on-premise third-party warehouse management solutions (Warehouse Management Systems, WMS) to SAP S/4HANA Cloud.

Production Operations with Manufacturing Execution System - This scope item provides an integration of SAP S/4HANA Cloud with an on-premise third-party Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) to production operation.

Business Partner and Product Master Integration - Integration of SAP S/4HANA Cloud to SAP Master Data Governance enables you to set up a master data replication for Business Partner and Product master data from an on premise SAP System to SAP S/4HANA Cloud utilizing whitelisted APIs.

Transfer of Primary Master Data for SAP Global Trade Services - This scope item synchronizes the primary master data (Customers, Suppliers, and Products) from SAP S/4HANA Cloud to SAP Global Trade Services on-premise.

Transfer of Bill of Materials for SAP Global Trade Services - This scope item synchronizes the Bill of Material from SAP S/4HANA to SAP Global Trade Services on-premise.

Transfer of Contact Person for SAP Global Trade Services - This scope item synchronizes contact persons from SAP S/4HANA to SAP Global Trade Services on-premise.

SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll Integration - Integrate your SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll with SAP S/4HANA Cloud. The payroll information is sent to Financials in SAP S/4HANA Cloud.

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