Item: SAP S/4HANA Cloud
Rating: 10
Author: Fernando Roque

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SAP S/4HANA Cloud is a complete solution to control all the business cycles: -Purchases -Inventory -Sales -Taxes -Account Receivables and Payables -Banking -Customer Relationship Management -Production -Project Management It does a vertical integration of the company by giving real-time information on the inventory capacity to deliver the items to the clients and that all the materials items are ready in the warehouses to start a production cycle.

Pros and Cons

Inventory management
Client item delivery fulfillment ontime
Strategic reports using 360 and Business Analysis finding the items with best revenue.

Improve the interface for Project Management.
More documentation about the database tables affected in transactions.
More documentation for ABAP developers.

Return on Investment

Daily calculation of revenue for every client invoice.
Live inventory control for client fulfillment and production orders.
Dashboards for items revenue and the find the providers with best deals.

Usability

SAP S/4HANA Cloud on-premise could be very IT resources demanding because you need to invest in security and continuous monitoring of disk and memory performance. The best approach is to have SAP S/4HANA Cloud on Amazon and control your daily demand for resources with flexible pricing. You will focus on the business reports without worrying about the IT local infrastructure.

Key Differentiators

SAP S/4HANA Cloud has the best ecosystem of solutions for Machine Learning and Business Intelligence. Hana database can serve the daily processes and complex machine learning calculations at the same time. You can work with Business Intelligence integrated into the database without the need for migration to a third-party product. The SAP S/4HANA Cloud solutions for Human Resources is another plus to deciding on a SAP ERP solution.

Alternatives Considered

Oracle Cloud ERP

Oracle Cloud ERP and SAP S/4HANA Cloud are in the same price and market range. Oracle Cloud ERP has a good vertical infrastructure with JAVA, MySql, and all the expertise of Sun Microsystems that they acquired years ago. However, I think the SAP S/4HANA Cloud database design running on memory gives SAP a technological advantage.

Key Insights

Do you think SAP S/4HANA Cloud delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with SAP S/4HANA Cloud's feature set?

Yes

Did SAP S/4HANA Cloud live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of SAP S/4HANA Cloud go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy SAP S/4HANA Cloud again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Python IDLE, SAP Business One, Visual Studio IDE, ArcGIS, Amazon SageMaker

Likelihood to Recommend

The best case scenario for SAP S/4HANA Cloud is a company that includes the Production and Project Management areas. SAP S/4HANA Cloud provides excellent integration for Inventory and Production to be sure of completing the cycle without problems of lack of inventory that could stop a process. However, SAP S/4HANA Cloud is not appropriate for companies where the professionals do not have training in accounting and engineering processes to understand the software flow.

SAP S/4HANA Cloud to control Inventory for Production and Sales

Overall Satisfaction with SAP S/4HANA Cloud