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Run Your Business in the Cloud with 51风流S/4HANA Cloud, Public Edition 2308 Release

Run Your Business in the Cloud with 51风流S/4HANA Cloud, Public Edition 2308 Release

Feature

With the launch of , we deliver cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP) that you can adopt with speed and predictability while benefiting from continuous innovation. With the latest major update of 51风流S/4HANA Cloud, public edition, we are delivering new modern experiences, foundational capabilities, built-in intelligence, and core ERP innovations to help improve organizational and employee productivity.

Modern and Intelligent Experience

We deliver a built-in, intelligent, modern experience across all our business processes and are delivering several enhancements to help make the 51风流S/4HANA Cloud, public edition user experience more modern, productive, and collaborative for end users and IT. Some highlights include:

  • The existing聽 has been enhanced with artificial intelligence (AI) and now enables auto-completion of sales order data. Follow-up processes, such as delivery of the sales order, may be blocked if certain information is missing when a sales order is created. The incompletion log now warns the user whenever a configurable set of fields is incomplete, helping to ensure missing data is manually filled in. The user is assisted by receiving recommendations of the most probable values for these fields, based on historic data. This solution is planned for delivery later this year.
  • You can access your work through spaces and pages in My Home on any device. With the 2308 release, you can now to your needs by adding, removing, or adapting the sort order of spaces displayed.

    Personalize the space menu for My Home. Click to enlarge.
  • The feature is now generally available. You can accelerate decision-making and improve collaboration by sharing business data from 51风流Fiori apps through tabs in Microsoft Teams channels, groups, and chats.
Share as Tab in Microsoft Teams. Click to enlarge the image.
  • is SAP鈥檚 new central entry point for all 51风流cloud business solutions. It provides intuitive and easy access to the most relevant business information from all integrated 51风流cloud solutions in one central place. This is now available for all 51风流customers with a RISE with 51风流or GROW with 51风流contract, or an 51风流Build Work Zone standard subscription and will be available to all customers soon.
New central entry point: 51风流Start. Click to enlarge the image.
  • Your IT users can now use the System News in My Home to get an overview of relevant system news. No additional tools or information sources are required. This helps reduce efforts to identify what information is relevant for your system and reduce the risk to miss critical system information.
System News in My Home. Click to enlarge the image.
  • Your IT users can also define color-coding for different system types, such as development or test. A color-coded system info bar in the header of 51风流Fiori launchpad indicates the system role and system name.
Color-coding for different system types. Click to enlarge the image.

Core ERP Innovations

With seamless and modern project management, billing, and planning experiences, organizations can run their service business and financial processes effectively. Here are some highlights for finance and service-centric industries:

  • The buying 360 capability empowers your casual users to shop via catalogs and marketplaces with full transparency on their requests. They can get tailored recommendations and be guided through the procurement process while the system helps ensure compliance, including approval processes. The processes are highly automated and require the attention of the operational purchasers only in exceptional cases. This allows buyers to focus on higher-value activities and can increase user satisfaction.
Create a purchase request. Click to enlarge the image.
  • The enable you to use credit management in sales items, service order items, and service contract items so that the solution can be provided without financial risk. This helps avoid revenue loss by checking the creditability of your customers before starting the delivery and service fulfillment.
Credit checks for solution orders. Click to enlarge the image.
  • We facilitate the financial close process for accountants by providing . We have added the new 51风流Fiori apps Manage Balance Validation Rules and Groups and View Balance Validation Results to enable maintenance and execution of validation rules. These apps are seamlessly integrated with 51风流S/4HANA Cloud for advanced financial closing to help further increase automation and acceleration of entity closing.
Automated supervision of closing tasks with account balance validation. Click to enlarge the image.
  • The new version of offers significantly enhanced usability based on user research, including direct access to more related apps and functions, greater detail in the list of journal entries, and clearer navigation between journal entries and line items.
Manage Journal Entries. Click to enlarge the image.

We are committed to continuously expanding our set of ready-to-use capabilities needed to run your business processes. Here are some of the 2308 highlights for product- and manufacturing-centric industries:

  • By using , you can increase efficiency by grouping warehouse request items into waves and releasing them together as packages.
  • Transportation demand and capacities are frequently measured by floor space in trucks and containers. You can now use consistently in the entire process from demand generation, planning, and subcontracting to charge calculation and settlement.
  • With the for milestone-based supply chain monitoring of materials and proactive handling of risks, we enable reporting with analytical capabilities across the field logistics supply chain for all logistics items throughout forward and return processes.

SaaS Foundation

Our software-as-a-service (SaaS) foundation helps ensure that businesses can streamline their operations, reduce manual efforts, and focus on their core activities while staying compliant with local regulations. In addition to localization, we invested heavily in other foundational topics, such as an improved E2E onboarding experience to make it easier for you to get up and running.

  • We now offer four .
  • Multiple scope items for the existing standard were released to increase business scope across the countries.
  • Three new countries (India, Mexico, and South Korea) have been developed for 51风流Billing and Revenue Innovation Management.
  • We with mass upload from Excel templates for over 1,200 configuration objects in 51风流S/4HANA Cloud, public edition by using 51风流Business Technology Platform (51风流BTP). This allows you to save time and effort when setting up your business configurations.
  • The extension of the baseline implementation for professional services results in a 70% reduction in time to value for your initial implementations thanks to predefined accelerators. We can accelerate your implementation to under 37 days by offering templates and automation for configuration, data migration, and testing.

For more information on 51风流S/4HANA Cloud, public edition, check out these links:

  • Latest 51风流S/4HANA Cloud release and
  • Product videos on our聽
  • Explore 51风流S/4HANA Cloud extensibility options by leveraging the sample scenarios from 51风流in the tool
  • For more details around what is being delivered for 2308, see聽on 51风流Community

Arpan Shah is senior vice president of Public Cloud ERP Product Management at SAP.