SAP S/4HANA Cloud to Futureproof Your Business!
October 07, 2019

SAP S/4HANA Cloud to Futureproof Your Business!

David Cassel | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with SAP S/4HANA Cloud

In the last two years, we have implemented our own SAP S/4HANA Cloud development environment internally as well as brought SAP S/4HANA Cloud to two other customers. The most powerful piece of the software I think, is definitely how it manages to keep consistent and workable documentation throughout all the functional areas it covers. Being from a solution manager/BASIS background personally, I found it much more straightforward to work with and upgrade to newer service packs at our clients. The powers of SAP S/4HANA Cloud extend beyond that too, as I found it very impactful in providing template roles and functionalities for the supply chain specifically. Although Fiori and the groups/catalogs remain new information to me, our team was able to leverage this base functionality and extend it for our biotech client, who now uses the supply chain and warehouse management sections in a productive environment. Also, we found that the migration from EHP8 was made quite painless by the SAP S/4HANA Cloud team, as all we needed to fix up at the client was the Business Partners (there is a fair amount of manual work there), as well as some of the finance tables. Otherwise, the migration went smoothly and the client has been happy with their environment since. If you're not on SAP S/4HANA Cloud yet, look at getting it started, as official support ends in 2025 I believe!
  • The upgrade path from SAP ERP EHP8 is well documented and easy to follow.
  • Fiori provides a much smoother experience than jumping in/out of transactions.
  • The templated applications which are pre-built, offer very useful functionalities.
  • There is a "Best Practice" package with documents, processes, transactions and the like that you can download using Solution Manager 7.2 into your landscape. Then you can re-engineer this later to add value to your clients' lives.
  • It's not necessarily clear to me how SAP S/4HANA Cloud itself makes transaction speeds faster, as I have used SAP S/4HANA Cloud ontop of ASE and it seems about the same.
  • The business partner reconfiguration for the upgrade path SAP S/4HANA Cloud is a little bit unwieldy.
  • Development using the Eclipse tools is more difficult to set up and learn versus the traditional SE80 design.
  • We are one of the first providers of the technology inside of Canada, so we have acquired more clients because of it.
  • Our development team has grown as we now need more UI5 developers to work with Fiori/Webapps. This has lead to quicker project cycles (and more money).
I haven't used any alternatives to this one, except maybe some small business CRM's on the internet.
SAP S/4HANA Cloud is well suited to LARGE enterprise-scale businesses where the volume of transactional data is high. This is important because as I understand, this system shines when dealing with large data sets, especially when importing things through LMSW and the like. As for alternatives, there are none really as your company really should not be implementing old ERP at this point. If you want the bells and whistles of having a mobile-friendly front end, quick dev tools, and the new built-in applications, please jump into SAP S/4HANA Cloud.

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Feature Ratings

Accounts payable
Not Rated
Accounts receivable
Not Rated
Inventory tracking
10
Automatic reordering
10
Location management
10
Pricing
Not Rated
Order entry
Not Rated
Cost of goods sold
Not Rated
Pay calculation
Not Rated
Benefit plan administration
Not Rated
Direct deposit files
Not Rated
Dashboards
Not Rated
Standard reports
Not Rated
Custom reports
Not Rated
Not Rated
API for custom integration
Not Rated
Plug-ins
Not Rated
Role-based user permissions
10
Single sign-on capability
10
Not Rated