SAP S/4HANA Fundamentals

Explore SAP's product landscape and discover SAP S/4HANA, the flagship ERP launched in 2015 to replace ECC, with 85 of the top 100 customers.

SAP S/4HANA eliminates information silos, creates a single source of truth with real-time, automated processes and robust security, while enabling compliance reporting yet incurring high total cost and long implementations.

Compare master data and transactional data to understand their roles in SAP S/4HANA. See how accurate master data underpins reliable transactions such as purchase orders, sales orders, and invoices.

SAP S/4HANA uses customizable security roles to map user profiles to access, controlling transactions and organizational levels for segregation of duties, as shown by the Plant Manager New York example.

Artificial intelligence powers SAP S/4HANA by automating payment matching with cache and enabling Jewel, a co-pilot that uses natural language to answer questions from S/4HANA data.

Explore how SAP FI captures real-time financial transactions, uses the universal journal to reconcile the general ledger, and enables real-time reporting with integrated subledgers for AP, AR, and asset accounting.

Explore the SAP Controlling module (CO), its plan-versus-actual cost analysis, and its five sub-modules—profit center accounting, cost center accounting, internal orders, product costing, and profitability analysis—to drive profitability.

Analyze the materials management MM in SAP S/4HANA, tracking material flow from manufacturer to customer. Explore master data, purchasing, inventory management, and physical inventory to optimize stock and reduce costs.

Explore the SAP quality management module, covering quality planning, inspection, and control; configure inspection plans, measure characteristics, and manage inspection lots to ensure supplier and in-house quality.

Explore the SAP Plant Maintenance PM module in SAP S/4HANA Fundamentals, covering inspection, preventive maintenance, and repair to keep production facilities in optimum condition. Review a sample preventive maintenance order with a $750 cost and medium priority.

Discover SAP project system (PS), an integrated tool for planning, executing, and completing projects using a work breakdown structure (WBS) to bucket tasks, costs, and internal and external financing.

Explore SAP human capital management, covering personnel management, time management, and training and event management, to recruit, pay, manage benefits, and schedule employees effectively.

Explore SAP GUI and SAP Fiori, two interfaces for S/4HANA, comparing desktop transaction codes with tile-based, browser-based navigation, and showing they deliver the same results with different experiences.

Log in to the SAP GUI by launching SAP Logon, selecting a connection, and entering client, user, and password. These GUI skills translate to navigating and reporting in Fiori.

Navigate the SAP menu tree on the SAP Easy Access screen to post incoming payments in accounts receivable with F-28, drilling down through accounting, financial accounting, and document entry.

Adjust and personalize the SAP S/4HANA GUI with theme customization, tooltips, and display of technical names to streamline navigation, remember login-bound settings, and reveal transaction codes like VA03.

Learn to manage SAP S/4HANA favorites on the easy access screen by adding, deleting, downloading, and uploading favorites, sharing them with colleagues, and using VA01, VA02, and VA03.

Explore icons, buttons, and system messages in the SAP GUI, demonstrated via material change (MM02) and a sales order, including required fields, checkboxes, tabs, and warning, error, and success notifications.

Discover how to manage multiple SAP GUI sessions, open new windows, and switch between transactions using slash N and slash O, with VA03 and ME23N.

Learn to locate data in SAP S/4HANA by using the match code button, exploring material descriptions like forklift, and applying asterisk wildcards to find partial matches.

Create and save search variants in SAP S/4HANA to streamline recurring reports, such as open sales orders for a specific sales organization, using VA05 and the get variant icon.

Learn how to customize SAP report layouts by editing the display variant, rearranging columns, optimizing width, and saving a global layout for reuse across colleagues.

Sort sales order reports in SAP S/4HANA using VA05 to view oldest, newest, biggest, or smallest values, then filter by material FG111_A.

Export SAP reports to Excel (xlsx) for analysis, noting edits won’t update SAP. Print List of Sales Orders via VA05, using print preview and PDF1, then save as a PDF.