SAP S/4HANA Features: What Enterprise ERP Should Deliver
SAP S/4HANA runs your business on one real-time platform, from finance and supply chain to manufacturing and sales. Here are the features that matter when you are weighing enterprise ERP.
Built for real-time business at scale
The features that set S/4HANA apart from older ERP systems.
Real-time data, not overnight batches
S/4HANA runs on the HANA in-memory database, so transactions and reporting work on the same live data. You see stock, cost and orders as they happen instead of waiting for a nightly run.
- One source of truth across every function.
- Live analytics without a separate reporting system.
- Faster postings, faster queries, faster close.
Finance and controlling in one place
The universal journal holds finance and controlling in a single table, so reconciliation between ledgers goes away. The month-end close gets shorter because the numbers already agree.
- One record for financial and management accounting.
- Less reconciliation, fewer period-end surprises.
- Drill from a report straight to the source document.
A role-based experience your team will use
SAP Fiori gives each role a clean set of apps for the tasks they do, on desktop or mobile. It replaces the dense old screens with views built around the work, which shortens training.
- Role-based apps and dashboards out of the box.
- Works on desktop, tablet and phone.
- Less training time for new users.
Everything an enterprise platform needs
Coverage, compliance and flexibility across the whole business.
End-to-end process coverage
Finance, procurement, supply chain, manufacturing, sales and service run on one connected platform, so a process flows without handoffs between systems.
Industry depth
Process and discrete manufacturing, pharma, automotive, chemicals and more, with capabilities built for how each industry actually works.
Flexible deployment
Run S/4HANA in the cloud with RISE with SAP, in a private cloud, on premise or as a hybrid, so the model fits your control and budget needs.
Built for global operations
Multi-company, multi-currency, multi-language and multi-ledger support, so a group can run many entities and countries on one system.
Compliance and governance
Audit trails, statutory and tax handling, and segregation of duties are built in, which keeps the system ready for audits and regulators.
Integration and extension
Open APIs and SAP BTP let you connect other systems and add extensions while keeping the core clean and easy to upgrade.
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