SAP S/4HANA Cloud - A user's perspective from Bangalore
November 14, 2019

SAP S/4HANA Cloud - A user's perspective from Bangalore

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with SAP S/4HANA Cloud

SAP S/4HANA Cloud is being used for a few of the business entities namely company codes within the organization and it addresses the issues of real-time visibility of different data across the enterprise by way of a two-tier enterprise network which is well connected with the help of integration of traditional SAP R3 ECC with SAP S/4HANA Cloud.

Pros

  • SAP S/4HANA Cloud offers real-time analytics by way of live views which harness the power of HANA database and are displayed to the user over Fiori UX dashboards.
  • The users can perform analysis viz reporting as well as action of tasks based on the analysis within from the same Fiori interface since OLAP and OLTP are unified in SAP S/4HANA Cloud.
  • AATP - Advanced available to promise and Accelerated MRP features of SAP S/4HANA Cloud are significantly helpful for users as they can perform MRP of one even for a single procurement scenario without waiting for batch program at the end of the week, enabling real-time order management and bagging more orders of customers in real time using the new data model of SAP S/4HANA Cloud.

Cons

  • SAP S/4HANA Cloud should support all traditional scenarios which were supported in the R/3 ECC environment.
  • SAP S/4HANA Cloud can enhance the product in terms of more rich features in areas of convergent billing, etc.
  • SAP S/4HANA Cloud can improve in the areas of returnables processing features for bottler industry as well as work on embedded route optimizer solution within the delivery.
  • The ROI has improved tremendously over the last fiscal year.
  • There has been an increase in sales across various lines of products.
  • TCO has been lower as the training costs for the end users has come down due to a unified user interface of Fiori.
SAP S/4HANA Cloud is way superior to Oracle Cloud since SAP S/4HANA Cloud harnesses the power of HANA database which is the world's fastest database since it reads data row-wise as well as column-wise. SAP S/4HANA Cloud gives users the flexibility to work from any device on the move on its Fiori UX which won the best User Interface award by RedDots in 2015.
SAP S/4HANA Cloud is specifically well suited for organizations which are looking at moving to a two-tier model wherein finance is on one tier and the second tier is for the other areas of the enterprise such as sales or procurement or production which are integrated to each other.

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Feature Ratings

8.0
Accounts payable
8
Accounts receivable
8
Subledger and Financial Process ()
Not Rated
9.0
Inventory tracking
10
Automatic reordering
9
Location management
8
9.0
Pricing
10
Order entry
10
Cost of goods sold
7
7.7
Pay calculation
8
Benefit plan administration
8
Direct deposit files
7
9.7
Dashboards
10
Standard reports
10
Custom reports
9
10.0
API for custom integration
10
Plug-ins
10
9.5
Role-based user permissions
10
Single sign-on capability
9
Grants Management ()
Not Rated
Project Financial Management ()
Not Rated
Project Execution Management ()
Not Rated
Procurement ()
Not Rated
Risk Management ()
Not Rated
Logistics ()
Not Rated
Manufacturing ()
Not Rated
Supply Chain ()
Not Rated
Product Lifecycle Management ()
Not Rated

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