Implementing SAP S/4HANA Finance: System Conversion Guide to Implementing SAP S/4HANA Finance, 3rd Edition
- Length: 632 pages
- Edition: 3
- Language: English
- Publisher: SAP Press
- Publication Date: 2020-07-29
- ISBN-10: 1493219537
- ISBN-13: 9781493219537
- Sales Rank: #3130535 (See Top 100 Books)
Every SAP S/4HANA journey begins with a single step so get all the steps you need for your finance system conversion project! Follow the implementation path through preparation and post-migration testing, with special attention to data migration and functional configuration. From the general ledger to asset accounting and beyond, you’ll align your new system with existing finance requirements and go live. Get the nitty-gritty details and pro tips with this go-to-guide and make your brownfield project a success!
- Plan your SAP S/4HANA Finance brownfield project
- Migrate your financials data from SAP ERP to SAP S/4HANA
- Preview key finance changes and innovations in SAP S/4HANA
Migration
It’s time to migrate your data from SAP ERP Financials. Learn what to do and what to watch out for at each step of the SAP S/4HANA Finance migration, from installation through testing.
Configuration
Customize your new SAP S/4HANA Finance system with key configuration settings for general ledger accounting, the accrual engine, controlling, asset accounting, credit management, and more.
Project Planning
Set realistic project timelines and manage critical project documentation! Consult and adapt a sample project plan for your on-premise implementation project.
- Migration preparation
- Installation
- Data checks
- General ledger
- Asset accounting
- House bank accounts
- Controlling
- Credit management
- SAP Fiori applications and roles
- Key finance innovations
- Central Finance
- Implementation checklist
Dear Reader Notes on Usage Table of Contents Preface About This Book Acknowledgments Introduction Evolution of the Chief Financial Officer Benefits of SAP S/4HANA Finance Functional Changes with SAP S/4HANA Finance System Architecture with SAP S/4HANA Finance Summary Part I Defining the SAP S/4HANA Journey 1 Selecting Your SAP S/4HANA Finance Project 1.1 Value Creation with SAP S/4HANA 1.1.1 Growth 1.1.2 Profitability 1.1.3 Agility 1.2 Alignment with Key Stakeholders 1.3 Transformation through the Lens of C-Suite Executives 1.3.1 Chief Executive Officer 1.3.2 Chief Financial Officer 1.3.3 Chief Information Officer 1.4 Executive Decision-Making Process 1.4.1 Greenfield versus Brownfield Projects 1.4.2 System Conversion 1.4.3 New Implementation 1.4.4 Central Finance 1.4.5 Data Transition 1.4.6 Cloud 1.5 Key Drivers 1.5.1 Organization Ecosystem 1.5.2 Business Process Design 1.5.3 Intuitive User Experience 1.5.4 Existing Customizations 1.5.5 Master Data Management 1.5.6 Reporting and Analytics 1.5.7 Future Innovations 1.6 Hardware Planning 1.7 Organization Readiness and Change Management 1.8 Decision-Making Process 1.8.1 Classic General Ledger versus New General Ledger 1.8.2 Align with Fiscal Year Close 1.8.3 Asset Accounting 1.8.4 Business Partner Conversion 1.8.5 Credit Management 1.8.6 Material Ledger 1.8.7 Treasury and Cash Management 1.8.8 Source System Financial Data Reconciliation 1.9 Summary 2 System Conversion Project Planning 2.1 Path from SAP ERP to SAP S/4HANA 2.2 Transition from SAP ERP to SAP S/4HANA 2.2.1 System Conversion 2.2.2 New Implementation 2.2.3 Selective Data Transformation 2.2.4 Decoupled Conversion 2.2.5 Comparing All the Options 2.3 Elements of a Successful SAP S/4HANA Adoption 2.4 SAP S/4HANA Infrastructure Options 2.4.1 Choice of Application 2.4.2 Choice of Infrastructure 2.5 SAP S/4HANA Deployment Options 2.6 SAP Readiness Assessment 2.6.1 Guiding Principles 2.6.2 Prerequisites 2.6.3 Maintenance Planner 2.6.4 Source System Check 2.6.5 Custom Code Check 2.6.6 Key Activities and Timeline 2.6.7 Assessment Approach 2.6.8 Technical Impact Assessment 2.6.9 Functional Impact Assessment 2.7 Business Case for Simplification Details 2.7.1 Data Model Changes in Finance 2.7.2 Obsolete or Replaced Transaction Codes and Programs in Finance 2.7.3 General Ledger 2.7.4 Cost Element 2.7.5 Data Structure Changes in Asset Accounting 2.7.6 Asset Accounting 2.7.7 General Ledger Planning 2.7.8 Manual Accruals 2.7.9 SAP Cash Management 2.7.10 SAP Credit Management 2.7.11 Profitability Analysis 2.7.12 Material Ledger 2.7.13 Customer Vendor Integration 2.8 Key Tools to Facilitate System Conversion 2.8.1 SAP Transformation Navigator 2.8.2 SAP Readiness Check 2.8.3 ABAP Test Cockpit 2.8.4 Software Update Manager 2.8.5 SAP Solution Manager 2.8.6 Simplification Item Catalog 2.9 Project Phases for Conversion to SAP S/4HANA 2.9.1 Preparation 2.9.2 Installation 2.9.3 Customizing 2.9.4 Data Migration 2.9.5 Post-Migration 2.9.6 Testing 2.10 System Conversion: Recommendations and Lessons Learned 2.11 Summary Part II SAP S/4HANA System Conversion 3 Preparation 3.1 Planning and System Requirements 3.2 Check Functional Scope and Restrictions 3.3 Feasibility Checklist 3.4 The Maintenance Planner and Prechecks 3.5 Simplification List 3.6 Check Custom Coding 3.6.1 Check Custom Code and Modifications 3.6.2 Handling Custom-Defined Fields and Interfaces 3.7 Check Sizing 3.8 Prerelease Checks 3.8.1 Validation of Add-ons 3.8.2 Validation of Business Functions 3.8.3 Prerelease Checks and Analysis of Errors 3.8.4 Error Messages and Their Significance 3.9 Precheck for Migration to New Asset Accounting 3.10 Activate Business Functions 3.10.1 Activate Business Functions for Asset Accounting and Parallel Valuation 3.10.2 Activate Enterprise Financials Extension (EA-FIN) 3.10.3 Business Function FIN_AA_CI_1 3.10.4 Activate Business Functions for Cash Management 3.11 Check and Activate New Depreciation Calculation 3.11.1 Execute the Periodic Depreciation Posting Run 3.11.2 Execute Year-End Closing 3.11.3 Fiscal Year Change 3.12 Consistency Checks 3.12.1 Data Consistency Checks and Reconciliation 3.12.2 Reconciliation of the General Ledger with Accounts Payable/Accounts Receivable 3.12.3 Reconciliation of the General Ledger with Asset Accounting 3.12.4 Reconciliation of the General Ledger with Materials Management 3.12.5 Reconciliation of Ledgers 3.13 Perform Period-End Closing Activities 3.13.1 Copy Number Ranges 3.13.2 Lock Periods in Materials Management 3.13.3 Perform Closing for Periodic Asset Postings 3.13.4 Execute the Periodic Depreciation Posting Run 3.13.5 Verify Held Documents Status 3.13.6 Carry Balances Forward to the Current Fiscal Year 3.13.7 Reset Valuations for Periods in the Current Fiscal Year 3.13.8 Lock Prior Periods in SAP ERP Financials and Controlling 3.13.9 Batch Jobs 3.13.10 Execute Report to Confirm Asset Accounting Prerequisites 3.13.11 Lock Users 3.14 Consistency Check before Activation of SAP S/4HANA Finance 3.15 Execute Business Reconciliation 3.16 Summary 4 Installation and Upgrade 4.1 Installation and Upgrade Checklist 4.1.1 SAP HANA and Minimum Versions 4.1.2 Software Update Manager 4.1.3 SAP HANA Live 4.1.4 Administrator’s Guide, Release Information Note, and Browser Support 4.1.5 SAP Cash Management, Cost Objects, and Cost Object Hierarchies 4.1.6 Industry Solutions and Add-Ons 4.1.7 Maintenance Optimizer 4.1.8 Target Stack XML and SAP NetWeaver Kernel 4.1.9 Customer Code 4.1.10 Data Definition Language Statement Corrections 4.2 Review Data Model Changes 4.3 Use the Maintenance Planner 4.4 Install the Related Software Component Version 4.5 Apply SAP Notes 4.6 Content Deployment with SAP HANA Application Lifecycle Management 4.7 Perform SAP HANA-tization 4.7.1 SAP HANA-tization Checks 4.7.2 SAP HANA-tization Tools 4.8 Optimization 4.8.1 Optimization Approach 4.8.2 Optimization Tools 4.8.3 Optimization Best Practice 4.8.4 SAP HANA Modeling 4.9 Lessons Learned 4.10 Summary 5 Preparation and Migration for SAP General Ledger 5.1 Check and Adopt Fiscal Year Variants 5.2 Define Currency Settings for Migration 5.3 Migrate General Ledger Customizing 5.4 Define Settings for Ledgers and Currency Types 5.5 Define Ledger Groups 5.6 Assign the Accounting Principle to the Ledger Group 5.7 Review the Assignment of Ledger and Company Code to Accounting Principles 5.8 Define the Ledger for the Controlling Version 5.9 Define Document Types for Postings in Controlling 5.10 Define Document Type Mapping for Controlling Business Transactions 5.11 Check and Define Default Values for Postings in Controlling 5.12 Define the Offsetting Account Determination Type 5.13 Define the Source Ledger for Migration of Balances 5.14 Check and Define Settings for Substitution for Cost of Sales Accounting 5.15 Check and Define Settings of Controlling Area 5.16 Execute Consistency Check of General Ledger Settings 5.17 Activate Business Functions 5.18 Lessons Learned 5.19 Summary 6 Preparation and Migration for the Accrual Engine 6.1 Migration Precheck for Customizing 6.2 Migrate Customizing for the Accrual Engine 6.3 Manual Migration Steps for Account Determination 6.3.1 Define Set of Rules 6.3.2 Define Values for Set of Rules 6.3.3 Extended Account Determination 6.3.4 Create and Edit Account Determination Post-Migration 6.4 Migrate Validation Checks 6.5 Preparing to Migrate Transactional Data 6.5.1 Specify Account Used for Migration 6.5.2 Create Mass Data Project for Migration of Accrual Engine 6.5.3 Assign Migration Project to Company Codes 6.6 Summary 7 Preparation and Migration for Asset Accounting 7.1 Prerequisites 7.2 Install SAP S/4HANA Finance with New Asset Accounting 7.3 Migrate Charts of Depreciation 7.4 Display Migration Log 7.5 Perform Additional Manual Activities 7.5.1 Define Asset Balance Sheet Accounts of Parallel Valuation 7.5.2 Define the Depreciation Area for a Quantity Update 7.5.3 Define the Technical Clearing Account for Integrated Asset Acquisition 7.5.4 Specify an Alternative Document Type for Accounting-Principle-Specific Documents 7.5.5 Specify Revenue Distribution for Asset Retirement 7.5.6 Post Net Book Value Instead of Gain/Loss 7.5.7 Check Transaction Types 7.6 Check Prerequisites for Activating New Asset Accounting 7.7 Determine Active Charts of Depreciation 7.8 Change Definitions of Depreciation Areas 7.9 Specify Transfer of Acquisition and Production Cost Values 7.10 Specify Transfer of Depreciation Terms 7.11 Activate New Asset Accounting 7.12 Adjust Parameters in Charts of Depreciation 7.13 Lessons Learned 7.14 Summary 8 Preparation and Migration for Controlling 8.1 Execute SAP Business Warehouse Delta Extraction for Account-Based Profitability Analysis 8.2 Adapt Settings for Profitability Segment Characteristics 8.3 Maintain the Operating Concern 8.4 Activate Account-Based Profitability Analysis 8.5 Transport Operating Concern 8.6 Summary 9 Preparation and Migration for Material Ledger 9.1 Migrate Material Ledger Customizing 9.2 Check Assignment of Material Ledger Types to Valuation Areas 9.3 Summary 10 Preparation and Migration for House Bank Accounts 10.1 Define Number Ranges for Bank Account Technical IDs 10.2 Define Number Ranges for Change Requests 10.3 Assign Number Ranges 10.4 Define Settings for Bank Account Master Data 10.4.1 Bank Account Types 10.4.2 Define Sensitive Fields to Be Protected from Changes 10.4.3 Define Import Methods for Bank Statements 10.4.4 Define Signatory Groups for Payment Approvals 10.4.5 Define the Signatory Groups and Approval Sequence for Approval Patterns 10.4.6 Assign Approval Patterns 10.5 Lessons Learned 10.6 Summary 11 Preparation and Migration for SAP Credit Management 11.1 Define Settings for SAP Credit Management Migration 11.2 Migrate SAP Credit Management Customizing 11.3 Define the Credit Analyst Group as a Business Partner Group 11.4 Assign the Credit Representative Group to the Credit Analyst Group 11.5 Define the Customer Credit Group 11.6 Assign a Credit Management Group to a Customer Credit Group 11.7 Assign an SAP Credit Management Processor to a Credit Analyst Group 11.8 Check and Define SAP Credit Management Customizing 11.9 Check Customizing Settings 11.10 Lessons Learned 11.11 Summary 12 Data Migration 12.1 Partitioning of the Universal Journal Entry Line Items Table 12.2 Regenerate Core Data Services Views and Field Mapping 12.3 Analyze Transactional Data 12.4 Display Status of Analysis of Transactional Data 12.5 Start and Monitor Data Migration 12.6 Migration of Cost Elements 12.6.1 Check Consistency of General Ledger Accounts and Cost Elements 12.6.2 Migrate Secondary Cost Elements to the Chart of Accounts 12.6.3 Display Status of Migration of Cost Elements 12.6.4 Migrate Default Account Assignments 12.6.5 Display the Status of the Default Account Assignments Migration 12.6.6 Adopt Authorizations 12.6.7 Define Authorizations and Profiles 12.7 Technical Check of Transaction Data 12.7.1 Reconcile Transactional Data 12.7.2 Display Status of Technical Reconciliation of Transactional Data 12.8 Material Ledger Migration 12.8.1 Migrate Material Ledger Master Data 12.8.2 Check Material Ledger Master Data 12.8.3 Migrate Material Ledger Order History 12.8.4 Check Material Ledger Production Order and Purchase Order History 12.9 Enrichment of Data 12.9.1 Enrich Transactional Data 12.9.2 Display Status of Transactional Data Enrichment 12.9.3 Check of Migrated Documents 12.9.4 Display Status of Migrated Documents Check 12.10 Migration of Line Items into the New Data Structure 12.10.1 Migrate Accounting Documents to the Universal Journal Entry Structure 12.10.2 Display the Status of Document Migration to the Universal Journal Entry 12.10.3 Check Migration of Accounting Documents to the Universal Journal Entry 12.10.4 Display Status of Accounting Document Migration Check 12.11 Migration of Balances 12.11.1 Migrate Balances 12.11.2 Display Status of Migration of Balances 12.11.3 Check Migration of Balances 12.11.4 Display Status of Migration of Balances Check 12.12 Migrate SAP General Ledger Allocations to Journal Entry 12.13 Calculation of Depreciation and Totals Values 12.13.1 Calculate Initial Depreciation Values 12.13.2 Display Status of Calculate Initial Depreciation Values 12.13.3 Check Initial Depreciation and Total Values 12.13.4 Display Status of Check Initial Depreciation and Total Values 12.14 Migrate House Bank Accounts 12.15 SAP Credit Management Migration 12.15.1 Migrate Credit Management Master Data 12.15.2 Display Status of Migration of Credit Management Master Data 12.15.3 Migrate Credit Management Exposure 12.15.4 Display Status of Credit Management Exposure Migration 12.15.5 Initialize Documented Credit Decisions 12.15.6 Display Status of Initialization of Documented Credit Decisions 12.15.7 Reconcile Documented Credit Decisions 12.16 Complete the Migration 12.16.1 Reconcile and Compare Migrated Data 12.16.2 Set Migration to Completed 12.17 Migration with Near-Zero Downtime 12.17.1 Near-Zero Downtime 12.17.2 Restrictions on Business 12.17.3 Activities in the Clone System 12.17.4 Delta Migration 12.18 Data Migration Tools 12.18.1 Legacy System Migration Workbench 12.18.2 Rapid Data Migration 12.18.3 SAP S/4HANA Migration Cockpit 12.19 Lessons Learned 12.20 Summary 13 Post-Migration Activities 13.1 Run Reconciliation Reports to Check Data Consistency 13.2 Validate Business Process to Ensure Successful Migration 13.3 Transfer Application Indexes 13.4 Display Status of Application Indexes Transfer 13.5 Fill Due Dates in FI Documents 13.6 Display Status of Filling Due Dates in Financial Documents 13.7 Fill the Offsetting Account in Financial Documents 13.8 Display Status of Filling Offsetting Account in Financial Documents 13.9 Enrichment of Balance Carryforward 13.10 Manual Activities for Credit Management 13.11 Migration of Accrual Engine Data 13.12 Deactivate Reconciliation Ledger 13.13 Additional Post-Conversion Manual Activities 13.14 Post-Conversion Changes 13.14.1 Changes Needed for Authorizations 13.14.2 Changes Needed for Customers Using SAP Fiori 13.14.3 Changes Needed for Data Warehousing Applications 13.15 Lessons Learned 13.16 Summary 14 Post-Migration Testing 14.1 Test SAP HANA-Optimized Report Transactions 14.2 Test Multidimensional Reporting Capability 14.3 Test Database Footprint Reduction 14.4 Test Intercompany Reconciliation 14.5 Test the New Process Redesign 14.6 Test Closing Improvement 14.7 Test the Universal Journal 14.8 Execute Performance Testing 14.9 Execute Change Management 14.10 Summary Part III Finance Transformation 15 Key Changes in SAP S/4HANA Finance 15.1 Process Overview and Changes in Financial Accounting 15.1.1 Universal Journal/General Ledger Accounting 15.1.2 Profit Center Accounting 15.1.3 Accounts Receivable 15.1.4 SAP Credit Management 15.1.5 Collections Management 15.1.6 Dispute Management 15.1.7 Accounts Payable 15.1.8 Bank Accounting 15.1.9 SAP Bank Communication Management 15.1.10 New Asset Accounting 15.1.11 Tax Accounting 15.1.12 Inventory Accounting 15.1.13 Revenue Accounting 15.1.14 Joint Venture Accounting 15.1.15 Contract Account Receivables and Payables 15.1.16 Funds Management 15.1.17 Real Estate 15.1.18 Special Purpose Ledger 15.1.19 SAP S/4HANA Finance Cloud for Customer Payments 15.1.20 Travel Management 15.1.21 Country Localization 15.1.22 Profitability Analysis 15.1.23 Financial Close and SAP Financial Closing Cockpit 15.1.24 Central Finance 15.2 SAP General Ledger 15.2.1 Architectural Impact 15.2.2 Functionality Impact 15.2.3 Configuration Impact 15.2.4 Customer and Vendor Master Data 15.2.5 SAP Credit Management Impact 15.3 Period-End Closing 15.3.1 Architectural Impact 15.3.2 Functionality Impact 15.3.3 Security Impact 15.4 Asset Accounting 15.4.1 Functionality Impact 15.4.2 Architectural Impact 15.4.3 Configuration Impact 15.4.4 Closing Process Impact 15.5 Controlling 15.5.1 Functionality Impact 15.5.2 Configuration Impact 15.6 Cost Center and Profit Center Accounting 15.6.1 Architectural Impact 15.6.2 Functionality Impact 15.7 Profitability Analysis 15.7.1 Architectural Impact 15.7.2 Functionality Impact 15.7.3 Configuration Impact 15.8 SAP Cash Management 15.8.1 SAP Business Client 15.8.2 Functionality Impact 15.8.3 Security Impact 15.8.4 Configuration Impact 15.9 Business Planning and Consolidation 15.10 Summary 16 SAP Fiori User Experience 16.1 Project Phases 16.2 Architecture 16.3 Configure SAP Fiori 16.4 Install SAP Fiori Apps 16.4.1 Transaction and Fact Sheet Apps 16.4.2 Analytical Apps 16.5 SAP Fiori Launchpad 16.5.1 Frontend User Screen 16.5.2 Backend Configuration Screen 16.5.3 SAP Smart Business Key Performance Indicators 16.6 SAP Fiori Applications and Roles 16.6.1 General Ledger Accountant 16.6.2 Accounts Payable Accountant 16.6.3 Accounts Receivable Accountant 16.6.4 Controller 16.6.5 Cash Manager 16.6.6 Cost Manager 16.6.7 Asset Accountant 16.7 SAP Smart Business Application and Roles 16.7.1 For Accounts Payable 16.7.2 For Accounts Receivable 16.7.3 For Chief Financial Officers 16.7.4 For SAP Cash Management 16.8 Summary 17 Innovations in SAP S/4HANA Finance 17.1 Financial Accounting 17.1.1 Accruals Management 17.1.2 Goods Receipt and Invoice Receipt Reconciliation 17.1.3 Time-Dependent Tax Code 17.1.4 Display Journal Entries as T-Accounts 17.1.5 SAP Account Substantiation and Automation by BlackLine 17.2 Financial Close 17.2.1 Group Reporting 17.2.2 SAP S/4HANA Cloud for Advanced Financial Closing 17.3 Management Accounting 17.3.1 Universal Allocations 17.3.2 Where-Used List 17.3.3 SAP RealSpend 17.4 Financial Planning and Analysis 17.4.1 Margin Analysis 17.4.2 Predictive Accounting 17.5 Summary 18 Central Finance 18.1 The Business Case for Central Finance 18.1.1 Key Benefits 18.1.2 Central Finance Candidates 18.2 Key Program Principles 18.2.1 Architecture 18.2.2 New Capabilities 18.2.3 Prerequisites 18.2.4 Mapping 18.2.5 Initial Load 18.2.6 Replication: Procure to Pay 18.2.7 Replication: Order to Cash 18.2.8 Error Handling 18.3 Lessons Learned 18.4 Summary A Project Plan for SAP S/4HANA Finance Conversion B The Author Index Service Pages Legal Notes
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