SAP S/4HANA Cloud - One of the first few organizations to embrace SAP in the African continent
November 18, 2019

SAP S/4HANA Cloud - One of the first few organizations to embrace SAP in the African continent

Juzar Badami | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with SAP S/4HANA Cloud

We are in the migration journey from SAP ERP (ECC) to SAP S/4HANA Cloud. Apart from the technical benefits like reduced DB size, faster real-time reporting, etc. our business core team sees a lot of benefits with the simplification from features like business partner. It allows for faster closing of accounts (driven by single finance table ACDOCA), reporting in different currencies, reduction in payroll processing time, new SD processes like settlement process, credit management, and so on and so forth.
  • Definitely faster.
  • Reduced DB size.
  • Analytical Fiori applications are plenty and give much more real-time flexibility.
  • Role-based process design. App focused on a role rather than a complicated TCode (e.g. MIGO replaced by focused inventory apps).
  • Screens can definitely be improved further to the likes of SuccessFactors.
  • The delta features that come with every release are quite difficult to interpret. Needs simplification.
  • On the P2P layer features of Ariba could be embedded.
  • Fiori improves user adoption considerably.
  • It definitely reduces change management and training efforts due to the same screen across solutions.
  • Savings on the DB size is a direct saving on hardware costs.
Coupa provides a strong S2P2P solution. The 2 biggest advantages for SAP is that Vim integrates well with SAP S/4HANA Cloud (new version 16.5) and has seamless integration with the downstream processes.
The best time is aligning the implementation when a hardware refresh is due. It is the best option for business viability. Organizations having trouble with financial closure issues can definitely look at the simplification brought in by simple finance. Multi-currency multi-geography scenarios are also much better managed in SAP S/4HANA Cloud with quite a few limitations from the SAP ERP (ECC) rectified.

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Feature Ratings

Accounts payable
9
Accounts receivable
9
Inventory tracking
9
Automatic reordering
7
Location management
9
Pricing
9
Order entry
9
Cost of goods sold
9
Pay calculation
9
Benefit plan administration
9
Direct deposit files
8
Dashboards
9
Standard reports
9
Custom reports
9
API for custom integration
9
Plug-ins
9
Role-based user permissions
9
Single sign-on capability
9
Not Rated