Business Areas for S/4HANA Cloud

The functionality of S/4HANA Cloud is made up of different Scope Items.

Finance

Achieve excellence in financial management & accounting with regulatory compliance and improved margins. Achieve instantaneous financial insight at any time, from anywhere using best practices and machine learning automation, in place of excel.  See SAP S/4HANA Cloud Finance Scope Items for detailed descriptions.

Human Resource

Integrate HR services to grow in a sustainable way: empower your competitors on the global market and ensure growth and sustainability by deploying next-generation HR services with SAP solutions. THE SAP S/4HANA  Cloud contains simplified HR. which allows you to combine local requirements with global integration and real-time visibility, so you can provide fast, efficient and accurate HR services across the globe. See SAP S/4HANA Cloud Human Resource Scope Items for detailed descriptions.

Sales

SAP S/4HANA Sales functionality provides real-time capabilities to engage with empowered customers through insights into their digital behavior, for binding and a unique experience, reducing customer acquisition costs. Companies today need to adapt to this new reality to engage customers and succeed. See SAP S/4HANA Cloud Sales Scope Items for detailed descriptions.

Sourcing & Procurement

Companies often focus on revenue; Understanding the organization spends and removing inefficiencies with machine learning can increase profits by five times. The key to maximizing procurement’s success in this critical role is to deliver consistent quality, savings, and compliance over time. See SAP S/4HANA Cloud Sourcing & Procurement Scope Items for detailed descriptions.

Manufacturing

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. See SAP S/4HANA Cloud Manufacturing Scope Items for detailed descriptions.

R&D Engineering

Early time to market of new products and services, based on value-driven investment decisions leads to market share gains. Align product development, manage production costs, and coordinate resources across the entire lifecycle from sales, supplier sourcing, service. See SAP S/4HANA Cloud R&D Engineering Scope Items for detailed descriptions.

Supply Chain

Enable demand-driven, responsive supply networks, by preparing for variability at the lowest cost, using automation. Real-time responses to supply. Increase profits, shorten lead times and provide visibility with the intelligent response and supply orchestration. See SAP S/4HANA Cloud Supply Chain Scope Items for detailed descriptions.

Asset Management

Foster reliable business growth: Reduce risk, improve operational safety, enhance product quality, maximize return on production assets, avoid unplanned downtime, and gain competitive advantage by optimizing energy use. See SAP S/4HANA Cloud Asset Management Scope Items for detailed descriptions.

Professional Services

Delivering Client Value Profitably: Clients are more demanding than ever. To grow profitably, professional services firms must align every aspect of their operations to deliver consistent quality and high-value services to their clients. See SAP S/4HANA Cloud Professional Service Scope Items for detailed descriptions.

Application Platform and Infrastructure

Build, run, and extend your applications on a consistent application platform and infrastructure Rely on your network of business applications to support every aspect of your business. With SAP application platform and infrastructure, you can ensure common standards, robust interoperability, and flexible extensibility Access a solid set of underlying technology platforms and related infrastructure services such as integration, collaboration, and interface management. See SAP S/4HANA Cloud Application Platform and Infrastructure Scope Items for detailed descriptions.

Database & Data Management

Run your business in real-time by modernizing your data platform and technology: Drive the way your business works and how well it delivers by staying ahead of business needs with platform and technology solutions from SAP. See SAP S/4HANA Cloud Database & Data Management Scope Items for detailed descriptions.

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