SAP S/4HANA Features

Accelerate planning cycles, increase profitability, and make finance functions more efficient. You can also run on-the-fly financial analysis at any level of granularity and support ad hoc simulations of organizational changes or new business models directly within your ERP system.

Integrate cash flows, transactions, commodity positions, and market data, and accurately forecast cash flow, manage liquidity, and mitigate risk. In addition, full-view and real-time analysis, audit trails, and compliance reporting help you optimize straight-through processing. 

Automate receivables and payables processing and streamline shared services delivery. You can improve working capital and financial health with real-time data to assess customer credit risk, streamline billing, resolve disputes, and prioritize customer collections to reduce days sales outstanding.

Integrate and automate risk, compliance, and international trade activities to proactively minimize risk and compliance violations and detect, investigate, and deter fraud. In this way, you can optimize business operations, protect assets, and improve financial performance. 

Simplify IT by consolidating data silos and creating a central hub for managing financial products data between operational and finance systems with a dedicated, multi-GAAP, multicurrency, and multi-entity accounting subledger built for your digital business.

Acquire extensive, real-time information on purchasing spend by analyzing purchase orders, purchase requisitions, invoices, and contracts. You can also evaluate supplier performance in real time with access to data, including on-time delivery, price, and quantity accuracy.

Enable employees to purchase goods and services directly, following purchasing policies and pricing agreements and using preferred suppliers. Users can bundle demands, automate sourcing and order processing, and make approval and release procedures easier.

Collect, assign, analyze, and access all sourcing information in one system and support automated and manual processes for creating and managing service contracts, source lists, purchase information records, quotations, and requests for quotations. 

Improve supply chain visibility to find the optimal mix of suppliers that will best serve your business objectives and reduce overall supply risk. You can also classify and segment your suppliers using multiple criteria to identify and pinpoint the right supply chain partners for your organization.

Consolidate requisitioning to reduce costs by establishing one central approval workflow instead of multiple approvals in each back-end system. In addition, you can increase catalog usage by offering a single, convenient access point across all available catalogs.

Support commodity procurement and help create commodity contracts based on market quotes. You can automate price calculations, streamline invoicing, and extend ERP functionality to automate commodity-based contractual pricing and enable provisional, differential, and final invoicing.

Improve revenue and cash flow by managing the order-to-cash process flawlessly across all touch points, channels, and functions. Get multichannel, role-based access to accurate, real-time information on products, pricing, customers, and contracts to reduce days sales outstanding and meet other KPIs.

Implement compelling variable compensation programs with incentive and commission management. Manage sales performance, and build and maintain accurate, strategically aligned compensation plans. Enable your organization to handle commission and incentive programs.

Manage receivables, payments, and reporting for high volumes of financial transactions. Tailor credit decisions and collection management processes to customer profiles. Enhance cash flow and customer care through simplified invoicing.

Gain visibility to determine the right mix of suppliers, best serve your business objectives, and reduce your overall supply risk. Classify and segment your suppliers using multiple criteria to flexibly identify and search suppliers. 

Check pipelines and leads, coordinate and plan customer sales activities, and analyze customers and territories. Drive sales from lead to close with opportunity and pipeline management. Increase deal size through accuracy in solution sales configuration.

Improve visibility and efficiency by integrating contract management with sales, pricing, and logistics processes. You can enforce rebate agreements with live insights into contract conditions, and reduce days sales outstanding and boost sales effectiveness with streamlined order management.

Retain and motivate top performers by implementing compelling variable compensation programs, while automating routine tasks for handling commission and incentives programs for employees and partners.

Integrate employee master data, organizational data, and cost-center-related information from SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central to accelerate reorganizations and other end-to-end business processes.