Innovations SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2202

Manufacturing
Planning strategies are key for manufacturing companies and represent the business procedures for the
planning of production and procurement quantities. With our SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2202 release we
enable new planning strategies for products together with a selection guide. The new selection guide is
available in the ‘Manage Product Master Data’ app under ‘Plants’ –> ‘MRP Data’ –> ‘Strategy Group’.

The planning strategies are listed as predefined content in the configuration environment. The new selection
guide makes it easy for your business to choose and understand the delivered planning strategies. A set of
questions guide you step-by-step to find the appropriate planning strategy group.

Finance
With the advanced valuation processes we deliver into our SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2202 Release, time
consuming and cumbersome period-end closing tasks for valuations of invoices now belong in the past. You
carry out the processes in the form of jobs. All jobs and their results have a single point of entry via
the ‘Schedule General Ledger Jobs’ app. You can start and schedule them here and you can also access the
results using this app.

New and existing customers will now benefit from a new generation of advanced valuations that simplify and
enhance the work while providing insights and the ability to comply with the latest international accounting
standards. The new advanced valuation processes in finance offer you a range of capabilities that you need to
not only accelerate period-end closing activities, but also to complete them in a much smarter way.

Environment, Health, and Safety

For Environment, Health, and Safety our SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2202 release includes the ‘Greenhouse Gas
Report’ template with formatting and additional functions. With this feature, our customers can specify the
location and data classifiers that apply to a greenhouse gas report before generating the report file. They also
can also edit the unit of measures used for the report or convert values of different units to respond to specific
requirements. The system supports the conversion and helps to convert the data automatically. This innovation
tremendously improves the look and feel of the report and enhances the filtering and refinement for the data
selection for the report.

Staying in the context of Sustainability, it’s important to mention some already existing highlights running on
the SAP Business Technology Platform, which is tightly connected to our SAP S/4HANA Cloud core:
• SAP Product Footprint Management, is your solution to get insights into the environmental impact of
products, as it allows for calculation of product footprints.
• SAP Responsible Design and Production which helps to design products sustainably and build a
regenerative business in a circular economy.
• SAP Sustainability Control Tower which enables organizations to holistically steer, report and
perform in order to succeed in their sustainable business ambitions.
Supply Chain Management
With SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2202, we introduce a new end-to-end process as part of Supply Chain. Using manual
planning with freight booking documents in the transportation cockpit, businesses are enabled to perform
manual transportation planning even for ocean freight. This extension increases the business scope in the
area of maritime transportation and adds a freight booking scenario that gives companies the opportunity to
subcontract to freight forwarders.

Furthermore, from now on it is possible to create sales orders and freight units according to freight unit building
rules (FUB rules). Companies can now directly assign freight units to a freight booking and distribute to the
selected containers. The new release also includes a dangerous goods check for marine.

Service
Service Order Management extends the capability by integrating the service process with agent desktop in
SAP Service Cloud. This pre-integrated solution enables service agents to launch processes in SAP S/4HANA
Cloud directly from the agent console, eliminating the need to switch applications.

Additionally, this innovation simplifies project implementation, as core processes stay in SAP S/4HANA Cloud
and surface in SAP Service Cloud contextually through mashups. All together our SAP products are connected
as one pre-integrated solution that presents a true front to back-office story. We also add a timeline
microservice in SAP Service Cloud which captures key events of service orders such as create and status
change with configurable events.

Governance, Risk, and Compliance

Another integration scenario we release with Governance, Risk, and Compliance is SAP Cloud Identity Access
Governance with SAP S/4HANA Cloud for advanced financial closing. This integration supports managing user
access and ensuring access compliance. User assignments can be provisioned through access requests and
access risk analysis can be performed.

The key benefits for SAP S/4HANA Cloud for advanced financial closing are automated access management
using auditable access requests and improved risk management that comes with role-level user access risk
analysis and cross-system risk analysis.

Enterprise Portfolio and Project Management

Until today, only internal employees could record their time on enterprise projects in the SAP Fiori app
‘Manage My Timesheet’. With the new enhancement, we enable service performers to book their time on
the activities of enterprise projects by using the same application. With that, we deliver a true single access
point for time bookings for all employees across your organization’s projects.
As the time bookings are posted further in Finance, these bookings will be available in your standard finance
monitoring and reporting capabilities, which generates additional transparency.

Professional Services
As part of our project billing capabilities, we enable process extensibility through the timesheet to project
billing request and invoice. This feature enables administrators to create a new custom field across multiple
business contexts so that the information can flow end-to-end in the Professional Services scenario. Our
customers can now leverage in-app extensibility for more flexibility in introducing critical custom fields in the
end-to-end billing processes. The innovations of this release will enhance end-user productivity, increase
efficiency during project billing and ease the transfer of custom fields detail from the time of the recording to
the billing document output.

Sales
For every sales business unit we enable the triggering of mass changes to sales documents across document
categories. For example, you can make changes to multiple sales orders and sales quotations at the same time
and in only one step. We also add user-friendly capabilities to filter and prepare the changes, and we allow for
transparent job monitoring and efficient postprocessing. Furthermore, the ‘Mass Change of Sales Documents’
app now supports consumption of multiple addresses for a customer for all the sales document categories.

Sourcing and Procurement

Our SAP Central Invoice Management, inbound processing module, complements SAP Central Invoice
Management visibility capabilities with supplier invoice inbound processing. Deployed on our SAP Business
Technology Platform (SAP BTP) and tightly integrated to SAP S/4HANA Cloud, it enables our customers to
manually upload and edit draft invoices. Additionally, it automatically reads the invoice content through a
document information extraction service using optical character recognition (OCR) and provides seamless
integration to SAP S/4HANA Cloud for further processing. It is an application designed particularly for accounts
payable accountants working centrally in an organization, e.g., shared services center.

Asset Management
For Asset Management, our SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2202 release enables external collaboration with service
providers and subcontractors. The new ‘Manage Components and Services’ app allows you to view and
manage all externally-procured materials and lean services that are required to execute your maintenance
orders, in a single place.
You can filter for externally procured components and services by one or more maintenance planning buckets,
pending procurement activities, and other criteria. Furthermore, the system displays all non-stock components
and lean services that match the selected filter criteria.

Product Compliance
As for Product Compliance, our release features the new SAP Fiori app ‘Manage Poison Centre
Notifications’. This innovation supports poison centers in identifying a mixture in question and providing the
best possible assistance to save people’s lives. With this feature, you can add the compliance pattern ‘Poison
Centre Notification’ for unpackaged products and raw materials. Moreover, our customers are now able to
assess products and indicate whether European poison center notification is applicable and assign unique
formula identifiers to unpackaged products.

SAP User Experience in SAP S/4HANA Cloud

With SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2202, SAP is introducing a preview of the new product homepage in SAP S/4HANA
Cloud.

Based on Horizon, the latest visual theme for SAP Fiori, and Spaces & Pages, that organize your apps
efficiently, the new product homepage provides everything SAP S/4HANA Cloud business users need to be
the most efficient at their job. It:

· Draws attention to required actions and important tasks

· Launches favorite, frequently and recently used apps with a single click

· Provides ‘Quick APP Launch’ based on the search field

· Leverages Spaces & Pages to facilitate the access to your apps

· Features company-specific and business-relevant content

Two-Tier ERP
As part of our Two-Tier ERP with SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2202 we make the predictive maintenance with service
integration in the subsidiary-headquarter model available to our customers. Predictive maintenance enables
data analytics through Internet of Things and ensures zero downtime of the equipment which enhances
customer satisfaction. Additionally, it makes real-time condition monitoring possible for our customers. Our
customers experience greater automation for maintenance orders in Two-Tier ERP due to seamless
integration of transactional steps like the creation of service orders at the subsidiary. Overall, it reduces the
data entry points from the business users and enables higher degrees of scalability thanks to process
efficiency gains.

SAP Activate for SAP S/4HANA Cloud

We keep SAP Activate up-to-date and aligned with the product to provide our customers with the best guidance
for their SAP S/4HANA Cloud implementation. In this release we have added more coverage for customers
deploying Two-tier ERP, including the publication of the new white paper “Two-Tier ERP Deployment for SAP
S/4HANA Cloud” that provides four-step path to public cloud.

We invite you all to download this new asset to learn about the Two-Tier ERP, business scenarios available for
your organization and to understand how you can maximize your current IT investment while bringing your
organization to the cloud.
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