SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition

• SAP S/4 HANA Cloud Public Edition is designed for mid-size customers with few customizing requirements.
• It is also suitable for small-sized customers using predelivered SAP Best Practices.

Product-Centric Industries Business Processes

• Idea to market
• Procure to pay
• Plan to fulfill
• Order to cash

Building the Implementation Team

• Fit-to-Standard Analysis workshops involve partner and SAP LOB configuration experts demonstrating business processes on the Digital Discovery Assessment within the SAP S/4HANA Cloud Starter System.
• Customer Projektmanager and Partner Projekt Manager are responsible for setting up the implementation project in SAP Cloud ALM.
• Customer Executive Sponsors build a business case for purchasing SAP S/4HANA Cloud.

Defining Systems Landscapes

• Starter System is preconfigured with all SAP Best Practice business processes active and existing master data.
• February and August are the months when upgrades are released for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition.
• Customizing Tenant is the SAP S/4HANA Cloud tenant that serves as the main project for business process configuration and key user extensibility.
• SAP Central Business Configuration is used to activate business process content in the SAP S/4HANA Cloud systems.
• SAP Central Business Configuration is the system where content upgrades are released first.
• SAP S/4HANA Cloud System is upgraded to the latest software release version first.
• The RASD (Release Assessment Scope Dependency) Tool compares release upgrade information against the customer's landscape to provide the “day 1 impact” of a release.

Setting up Systems and Authorizations

• Business Role includes one or more business catalogs that grant access to data and applications.
• One person can be assigned the role of the IT Contact.
• The partner project manager aligns the scope in SAP Cloud ALM with the Digital Discovery Assessment.
• Two projects need to be created in SAP Central Business Configuration for the Starter System.
• Enterprise Management is the scope bundle, which is automatically selected for the Evaluation Projekt in the starter system.
• When creating users in the SAP S/4HANA Cloud starter system, the User Name should match the Login Name in the Identity Authentication Service system.
• Master data and configuration Values are populated in the Starter System after activating business process content in SAP CBC.
• A deployment plan in SAP Cloud ALM contains releases and System Group.
• The partner lead configuration expert should be assigned the role SAP_CBC_COSUMPTION_PROGRAM_LEAD.
• SAP CBS and SAP S/4HANA Cloud Produktion System need to be provisioned via SAP for Me.

Gathering Data in Fit-to-Standard Workshops

• Requirements are documented in SAP Cloud ALM in the Processes APP.
• Process Flow diagrams, Tutorials, and Test Scripts should be demonstrated in SAP Signavio Process Navigator during Fit-to-Standard workshops.
• Gathering L2 BDCQ responses and identifying customer LoB experts to participate in Fit-to-Standard workshops are important activities in the Prepare phase.
• Documenting customization requirements in SAP Cloud ALM and demonstrating where to find business process documentation are important activities in the Explore phase.
• Setting up manual test cases in SAP Cloud ALM and entering configuration values in SAP CBC are important activities in the Realize phase.

Configuring Business Processes with SAP Central Business Configuration

• Business processes and Country Versions determines the organizational entities required in SAP CBC.
• Initiate Change functionality allows turning on a new business process and activating an additional country version.
• LoB configuration experts are responsible for entering configuration values in SAP CBC.
• The SAP CBC & Implementation Activities app in the Test system maintains configuration values for "current settings" configuration activities.
• SAP CBC & In SAP for Me activates integration scenarios by creating a case.
• The Process in the SAP Cloud ALM application displays the finalized list of business processes and countries/regions for implementation.
• The Configuration Localization Toolkit in SAP CBC can deploy business process content for a country/region not supported by SAP Best Practices.
• Customized business roles are transferred from the customizing tenant of the Development system to the Test system in a software collection
• Partner lead configuration experts can create 2 Projekts in the SAP CBC for the Development system.

Working with the SAP Fiori Launchpad

• Procurement & Distribution are examples of Team Categories in Responsibility Management.
• The Diamond icon allows access to Joule from the launchpad.
• Tasks assigned to agents are work items in business workflows.
• Integration with SAP BTP & Intelligent Situation Automation Service is required for automated situation resolution.
• SAP Build Work Zone is used to set up the SAP Monitor Start app.
• The Graduation Cap Icon provides relevant simulation for an app being worked on.
• One or more pages are contained in a launchpad space.
• Multidimensional reports, review booklets, and SAP Analytical Cloud Stories can use an analytical query as the data source input.
• Core Data Services provides languages and services for defining and consuming rich data models in SAP S/4HANA Cloud.

Customizing Authorization

• A business catalog can include access to data and access to one or more applications.
• Limiting access through the business role restricts certain users from entering data in specific fields of an application (Write, Read, Value Help: Restricted).
• A launchpad page includes one or more sections and one or more apps.

Customizing Application

• A custom business object and a custom field are examples of in-app key user extensibility.
• The Transport Organizer app & Import Collection app transport extensions built in the development tenant of the Development system to the Test system.
• The Output Parameter Determination app allows changing recipients of a form template.
• Tools to build custom mobile apps in JavaScript: SAP Business Application Studios & SAP Software Developer Kits.
• The Export Software Collection app can transport a custom form template, a customer-specific CDS view, and an adapted Fiori UI.
• The Extensibility Inventory app is the master library of all key user in-app extensions made in a SAP S/4HANA Cloud system.
• The Adapt UI within an app tool adds a field that already exists to an SAP Fiori app.
• The Custom Catalog Extensions app assigns an app to an existing business catalog.
• The Manage Launchpad Pages app adds the app to a launchpad page for end-users if a custom app UI from a custom business object exists.

Setting up Integrations

• Holistic integration is the principle of SAP's integration strategy, including the Integration Solution Advisory Methodology.
• Capabilities of SAP Cloud ALM for Operations: Integration & Exception Monitoring + Configuration & Security Analysis.
• Setting up SAP Best Practices integrations in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition requires communication Arrangement & System.
• The Integration Advisor (part of SAP Integration Suite) identifies the most efficient integration interface for B2B scenarios.
• The SAP Fiori App, Custom Communication Scenarios, defines inbound/ outbound services for later use in a Communication Arrangement.
• SAP Best Practices integration scenarios can be found in: SAP Signavio Process Navigator – SAP Help Portal – Cloud Integration Automation Service.

Migrating Data

• The Situation Handling Framework supports notifications when a migration object completes a guided migration process step.
• Migration can fail if a predecessor object wasn't migrated or if the required business role to migrate the data is missing.
• Extended Statistics captures source values, target values, and target IDs to audit migrated data.
• Data migration procedure: Remote SAP HANA Database Schema + Migration using staging tables.

Testing Configured Business Processes

• The Manage Upgrade Test app customizes the scope of a post-upgrade test.
• The check button captures values, error messages, or labels during test automation.
• Regression tests in the Run phase identify how the latest release upgrade affects customer configurations or customizations.
• The post upgrade test is executed by SAP on behalf of a customer if consent is provided.
• Communication Users are used in the Test Automation Tool for integration scenarios.
• The test plan status is in preparation can cause issues if a test plan isn't displaying in the Test Execution app in SAP Cloud ALM.
• In the Manage Your Test Processes app, the default test user for a process step can be changed.
• Lead configuration experts and LoB configuration experts helps with adapting a user interface, adding application logic and Exposing data

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition is for mid-size customers with few customizing requirements and small customers using SAP Best Practices. The implementation team performs fit-to-standard analysis workshops. The SAP S/4HANA Cloud Starter System is preconfigured with all SAP Best Practice business processes active.