SAP S/4HANA Capabilities & Legacy Modules
1. Finance & Management Accounting (The Digital Core)
FI (Financial Accounting): General Ledger (G/L), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Bank Accounting, Fixed Asset Accounting (FI-AA).
CO (Controlling): Cost Center Accounting (CCA), Profit Center Accounting (PCA), Internal Orders (IO).
CO-PC (Product Costing): Product Cost Planning, Cost Object Controlling, and Material Ledger (Mandatory in S/4HANA).
CO-PA (Profitability Analysis): Account-Based (Margin Analysis) and Costing-Based analysis.
Group Reporting: The next-generation financial consolidation tool embedded in S/4HANA (replacing legacy BPC/BCS).
TRM (Treasury & Risk Management): Cash Management, Liquidity Planning, and Financial Risk Management.
FSCM (Financial Supply Chain Management): Credit Management, Collections Management, and Dispute Management.
cFin (Central Finance): Architecture for replicating financial documents from multiple ERP systems into a central S/4HANA instance.
2. Sourcing & Procurement (formerly MM/SRM)
MM (Materials Management): Purchasing, Inventory Management (IM), Invoice Verification, and External Services Management.
SAP Ariba: Strategic Sourcing, Contract Management, and Supplier Lifecycle & Performance (SLP).
Supplier Self-Service: Vendor portals and collaboration networks.
3. Supply Chain & Logistics (formerly LE/WM/APO)
EWM (Extended Warehouse Management): Advanced warehouse operations, slotting, and labor management (replacing classic WM).
TM (Transportation Management): Freight order management, planning, and cost settlement (replacing LE-TRA).
IBP (Integrated Business Planning): Cloud-based demand, supply, and inventory planning (replacing SAP APO).
LE (Logistics Execution): Shipping, delivery processing, and transportation (Legacy).
4. Manufacturing & Production (formerly PP)
PP (Production Planning): Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP), MRP (Material Requirements Planning), Shop Floor Control.
PP-PI (Production Planning for Process Industries): Process orders and recipes for batch-oriented manufacturing.
PEO (Production Engineering and Operations): Advanced manufacturing execution bridging engineering and production.
QM (Quality Management): Quality planning, inspections, notifications, and certificates.
5. Sales & Service (formerly SD/CS)
SD (Sales and Distribution): Order management, pricing, billing, and shipping.
Settlement Management: Rebate processing and condition contract management (replacing SD-Rebate).
CS (Customer Service): Service notifications, warranties, and repair orders.
SAP CX (Customer Experience): Modern CRM solutions including Sales Cloud and Service Cloud.
6. Asset Management (formerly PM)
PM (Plant Maintenance): Maintenance processing, preventive maintenance, and technical objects.
EAM (Enterprise Asset Management): Asset lifecycle management and performance monitoring.
ASP (Asset Strategy and Performance): Reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) and predictive maintenance.
7. R&D and Engineering (formerly PS/PLM)
PS (Project Systems): Work breakdown structures (WBS), networks, project costing, and budgeting.
PLM (Product Lifecycle Management): Recipe development, specification management, and document management system (DMS).
ePPM (Enterprise Portfolio and Project Management): High-level project portfolio management.
8. Human Experience Management (formerly HR/HCM)
SAP SuccessFactors: Employee Central (Core HR), Payroll, Talent Management, Learning (LMS), and Recruiting.
HCM (Human Capital Management): Legacy on-premise Personnel Administration (PA), Organizational Management (OM), and Time Management.
9. Technology & Platform (BTP & Basis)
SAP BTP (Business Technology Platform): The foundation for integration and extension.
Integration Suite: Connecting SAP and non-SAP systems (Cloud Integration/CPI).
Extension Suite: Side-by-side extensibility to keep the core clean.
ABAP & ABAP Cloud: Classic RICEFW development and modern RESTful ABAP Programming (RAP).
SAP Basis: System administration, security, and authorizations.
SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC): Business Intelligence (BI), Planning, and Predictive Analytics.
SAP Datasphere: Business data fabric and data warehousing (replacing SAP BW).
SAP Signavio: Process mining, modeling, and business process transformation.
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