SAP S/4 No Release for 2024 ? and skip forward to 2025 ?

 There is no version release for 2024 for on-premise S/4 ERP. Does it mean there is not future functionality or updates coming up? No, SAP has released public cloud February 2025 (2502) version.

This version has gained the AI capability momentum and SAP  digital core strategy. 

There are a lot things which makes S/4 a sweet deal.

Split valuation is typically niche topic in Supply Chain, however when comes to reporting and certain Fiori apps, this was a missing attention. S4 2502 release covers some of functions to make business (and implementation team) happy to include split valuation in reporting and Fiori Apps. However there is still a lot too be modernised for this topic. Hope upcoming S4 releases gives modern approach to split valuation functionality.   

Moving to S4 HANA

 Latest release of S4 offers much flexibility and interfacing for simple shopping experience and supplier management. Complex and lateral / horizontal functionality across is offered in SAP cloud products, which now integrate better.

So stay tuned to my S4 blog as it will be more relevant for this. Here is link,

 https://saps4hanaerp.blogspot.com/

SAP SRM and technology innovations

 SAP SRM had been technology innovative and had been offering the art of possibility. It could not offer only best for outside connectivity where cloud flourished. 

SAP SRM had been innovative in workflow, UI/UX, integration with other modules, ability to tweak / enhance. robust support mechanism. The licensing was really sweet deal.

The only hope is cloud take forward this innovative legacy.   

SAP SRM and S4HANA

 SAP SRM7 with backend of SAP S4HANA : how to acheive best out of this?

SRM 7 What a wonderful decade

I have been writing on SAP technology more than decade now and a decade back moved to blogspot platform for content publishing.

I must say what a proudest moment for complete that moment to complete this movement.

SRM 7 - Follow trend or complement or top-up or refresh !

SRM 7  - Follow trend (Ariba) or complement (Fiori Apps) or top-up (Enhancement) or refresh (HANA) !

SRM 7 - value of SRM in 2020

Usually being on premise system customer have flexibility to tweak system to niche requirements. This results in number of objects being customised. For example, views, enhancements, forms, workflow, reports has some flavour of customisation.

So it's worth visiting customisations as these may develop some bugs/ issues similar to .standard SAP. Also, standard objects used by these changes might have changed/ improved, which mean there is scope for improvement for custom objects as well.

Go and start tinkering these objects and you may get some juice from those.

SRM 7 - Almost last year of decade !

SRM and re-using assets for green environment

Do you want to rotate some of assets within company before procuring new one and get maximum utilization? SRM can provide in-house stock before you procure it.

SRM & and HANA database

SAP HANA provides the multiple oppurtunities of optimization at database core.

SRM 7 and possible way forward

SRM 7 and possible way forward to move your estate into new realm of Supplier Relationship Management under P2P and S2P.

SAP SRM and migrating to new technology

SAP SRM 7 how to protect your investment in SAP SRM

If you had invested in your SAP SRM system then it is wise to get returns before you invest in other future system. Here is how,

-Use  this time to investigate your business processes
-Identify key business challenges
- Existing system could be used to proto type / sanbox those improvement ideas
- Offload the back end system related enhancement and make more technology agnostic changes if any planned (i.e. avoid hard wiring / hard coding)

Change

I will be contributing more to other blog, still I will post a new thread once I get time.
Meanwhile check out my other blog,

http://newsaps2p.blogspot.com/

SRM 7 system barriers

Although SAP has stopped to plan any future enhancements for SRM, existing SRM capabilities can be run at optimum.

SAP SRM new direction in coming years

The SAP SRM has the license life till 2025 (latest EHP), which means the organisation with complex (and highly complex) development can plan and prepare for the transition to new generation supplier relationship management applications (Ariba, S/4) with block by block approach.

Large organisation may need a time to migrate and stablis in new house, it is crucial that they plan such big migrations.

SAP P2P Single system to multiple system landscape

The system management is a tidious job. The test data plays the critical role in success of any support, development requirement.

There are various tools out of box from SAP (for example client copy) and third party to automate the data setup.

Well, based previous experience these tool needs to be tweaked (many be customised) to suit the organisation needs.

my new S2P and P2P blog

Please visit my blog, I will be taking deep dive into SAP S2P & P2P arena - with complete stories of SAP landscape.

https://newSAPs2p.blogspot.com

SAP SRM 7- BRF (Business Rule Framework)

SRM 7 comes with the Process Controlled workflow for all the objects. Although the Application Controlled Workflow can be used, for customer aspiring to go for new technology (and better) they are recommended for the new workflow.

SAP had been tweaking with business rules based technology and now it is integrated part of NetWeaver since EHP 2.

SAP Ariba

I will be covering topics on SAP Ariba. This will complete the procurement portfolio of cloud offering.

Ariba was founded almost 20 years ago. It was a niche name in Procurement and eventually acquired by SAP.