With SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition, you can run intelligent, highly automated finance processes to unify transactions, analytics, and planning. These processes cover everything from accounting and cost management to enterprise risk and compliance.

Key Features

• Management Accounting and Margin Analysis: Enables to adjust plans and allocate resources to accommodate rapid market changes and align performance with strategy.
• Financial Operations: Consists of functions in the areas of Receivables Management, Invoice Management, and Settlement Management.
• Accounting and Financial Close: supports you in effectively carrying out your daily business in financial accounting, performing your closing operations, and reporting on your accounting data.
• Billing and Revenue Innovation Management: provides flexible billing processes, enables multi-sided business models, and manages resulting revenues and expenses with high automation and throughput.
• Treasury Management: managing cash and liquidity efficiently across the enterprise, in identifying, quantifying, and managing financial risks, and valuating financial transactions in compliance with (inter)national accounting principles.
• Governance, Risk, and Compliance for Finance: Enable to review trading partners, complying with regulations on foreign trade, minimizing the risk of fines and financial penalties, and speeding up clearance of goods.
  

With SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition, you can become more responsive to customers, develop real-time visibility and transparency over manufacturing operations, optimize manufacturing processes, and collaborate in global networks while lowering total manufacturing costs.

Key Features

• Production Planning and Control involves the organization and planning of the complete
• Quality Management enables you to ensure the quality of your products, processes, and services right from the start that helps you to prepare, execute, and monitor different types of quality inspections
• Environment, Health, and Safety supports you in managing business processes related to the safety of the environment and the health and safety of people
• Extensibility enables you to adapt the standard business software to your business requirements
• Data management enables you to effectively manage data that is no longer needed for productive use
• Application programming interfaces (APIs) enable you to connect business processes across your system landscape

SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition offers solutions to streamline these processes into intelligent, demand-driven, and responsive supply networks. These networks can help businesses minimize costs against fluctuations in inventory, warehouse management, transport logistics, and order promising. 

Key Features

• Logistics Cross Topics: The capabilities of the Logistics Cross Topics area contain functions for managing batches, serial numbers, and handling units, as well as using process flow transparency, value chain monitoring and APIs.
• Warehousing: Provides capabilities for managing material movements in your warehouse with real-time transparency. You can run Warehouse Management as part of SAP S/4HANA Cloud, or integrate a separate SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM) system for your warehouse.
• Availability Checks: Available-to-Promise (ATP) enables you to check the availability of a requested material in the required quantity at a requested date in order fulfilment requests.
• Delivery and Transportation: Include capabilities for managing your outbound and inbound deliveries as well as planning and executing transportation, both manually and using an integrated decentral transportation management system.
• Inventory: Assist inventory managers and warehouse clerks in moving stock as cost-effectively and efficiently as possible for your supply chain process where you can manage, track, and analyze your stock by both quantity and value. 
• Data Management in Supply Chain: Enable displaying object changes, blocking and deletion of personal data and data destruction in Supply Chain.

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition enhances sourcing and procurement with integrated applications like guided buying and supplier management, streamlining processes and providing near real-time insights into spending and suppliers.

Key Features

• Out-of-the-box integration flows for an end-to-end digital customer experience
• Advanced sourcing tools and cognitive sourcing capabilities
• Contract authoring and management
• Guided buying experience
• Procurement of material and services
• Configuration of flexible workflows streamlining purchasing for each line of business
• Intelligent approval workflows
• Digitalized processing of supplier invoices to ensure limited human intervention
• Business process integration, leveraging SAP cloud integration gateway with native APIs

SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition offers sales solutions to help you streamline your sales processes. With intelligent tools, you can track data around sales quotes, contracts, incentives, commissions, and other sales variables.

Key Features

Order and Contract Management

• Create incentives for your sales agents
• Handle claims and process return and refunds for your customers
• Monitor and analyse your sales business processes
• Manage your output for sales documents and billing documents

Solution Business Management

• Solution Order Management: Support an end-to-end process that includes creating solution orders to delivering products of different categories (e.g. physical goods, one-time services, long-running services, and subscriptions)
• Solution Business Analytics: Make data-driven business decisions based on sales and financial key performance indicators (KPIs) at the level of solution orders and selected items

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Professional Services, a comprehensive solution for effectively managing different aspects of a professional services business. Key components of this cloud-based solution include Project Management, Workforce Management, and Finance Management.

Key Features

Customer and Internal Project Management

• Manage customer or internal projects during the planning and execution phase
• Maintain work package staffing of customer or internal project
• Procure external services for customer or internal project
• Record times for customer or internal project
• Create customer invoices
• Analyse customer or internal projects
• Perform accounting and financial close activities
• Perform period-end closing activities

Time Recording 

• Record actual working times
• Access time sheet on behalf of employees
• Transfer time recordings to target components
• Approve time sheet entries
• Notify the missing time
• See an overview of team utilization for line managers

Event-Based Revenue Recognition

• Monitor event-based revenue recognition for projects
• Manage real-time revenue recognition issues
• Run revenue recognition for projects in period-end closing
• Manage revenue recognition issues for projects
• Report projects actuals
• Report projects WIP details (relevant only for time and material projects)
• Inspect revenue recognition postings

Intercompany Processes

• Create debit memo requests for intercompany billing based on intercompany travel postings and time confirmation from the delivering company
• Create billing document (intercompany invoice)
• Post intercompany invoice automatically from company to accounts payables of ordering company

Intercompany Billing for Cross-Company Cost Accounting Postings

• Create an intercompany sales order in the affiliated cost sending company where the customer represents the affiliated cost receiving company
• Create a debit memo request for cross-company cost accounting postings in the affiliated cost sending company
• Create a customer invoice in the affiliated cost sending company
• Create an accounts payable document in the affiliated cost receiving company