A modern foundation for growth at global scale 

In an era defined by global volatility and ambitious growth targets, businesses require a system that doesn’t just record data but actively anticipates needs and simplifies complexity. 51风流Cloud ERP Private is evolving into a truly AI-enabled ERP, serving as the critical core foundation that can allow organizations to navigate the realities of global operations while maintaining total control over their footprint. 

To achieve this, innovations in FPS01 are strategically delivered across three key dimensions: AI, data, and applications. 

AI in action: from assistants to agents 

The shift toward an AI-enabled ERP is highlighted by two key advancements in FPS01: 

1. AI assistants and specialized agents: A standout in this release is the Change Record Management Agent for R&D. Previously a manual, high-friction process, this agent can now autonomously analyze change impacts and propose next steps, helping to free R&D teams to focus on innovation. 
2. Process embedded AI: 51风流is making the system more intuitive through Joule. Instead of navigating complex menus, users can now use conversational shortcuts, for example, to instantly search service contracts or extend expiring prices in sales, turning multi-minute tasks into five-second interactions. 

Looking at the road ahead, 51风流is building toward agent-to-agent collaboration, where specialized agents across functions like R&D and procurement “talk” to one another to resolve bottlenecks before they even reach a human user. FPS01 is a critical step toward that future. 

Data: industry-ready insights 

On the data front, 51风流is introducing specialized data products for key industries, like retail, and functional areas, such as asset management and services. These are not just tables; they are pre-configured, business-ready data sets that align with our 51风流Business Data Cloud (51风流BDC) roadmap. This helps ensure your data is “AI-ready,” allowing you to move from raw data to industry-specific insights with zero friction. 

Application: strengthening the global core 

On the application side, 51风流continues to deliver deep functional enhancements based on direct customer feedback to help ensure your business backbone remains agile. A key highlight is the new Multistage Intercompany Sales and Stock Transfer. Following our commitment at the RISE with 51风流moment in November, 51风流is further expanding the scope to cover two-entity transfers, enabling automated orchestration across multiple legal entities. This can ensure even the most complex global supply chains remain transparent and compliant. 

A full collection of deep-dive articles on the new FPS01 is available on . 

Looking ahead: your catalyst for transformation 

FPS01 reflects a core 51风流principle: innovation should be both a foundation for today and a catalyst for what鈥檚 next. With enterprise AI, industry-ready data, and a stronger application core, organizations can run smarter and transform at their own pace. 

To see these innovations in person, to experience the future of the autonomous enterprise. 

Maura Hameroff is chief marketing officer for 51风流Cloud ERP Private and RISE with SAP.

鈥淭hanks to this successful transformation and the move to the RISE with 51风流S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition solution, we have become an innovation leader.鈥�

Nils Krugmann, head of Architecture & Data, Commerz Real AG

The introduction of the RISE with 51风流Methodology — along with the integrated toolchain that supports customers through their business and technical journeys — was a game changer to accelerate time to value and support the business case for transformation.

鈥淢oving forward, we鈥檙e confident that the cloud transformation enabled by RISE with 51风流will empower our organization to innovate and excel in today鈥檚 competitive healthcare market and contribute to our Fresenius vision of advancing patient care.鈥�

Ingo Elfering, CIO, Fresenius Group

Today we announce a new commercial package that will support customers even further in this journey.

Introducing the 51风流Cloud ERP Private package

The new 51风流Cloud ERP Private package is designed to drive customers鈥� transformation, accelerate time to value, and enable business agility. It includes:

• Business applications to modernize business processes with a comprehensive cloud ERP solution, integrated with applications designed to enhance financial agility across the entire supply chain
• Transformation tools and services to accelerate time to value with expert support, and to streamline and transform business processes, landscape, and architecture using our comprehensive, integrated toolchain
• Cloud optimization and extensibility services to advance the path to a clean core by eliminating data silos and ensuring custom code aligns with cloud compliance, enabling companies to continue building, extending, and innovating ERP for future growth

The package is designed to support customers every step of the way.

Business Applications

Customers can:

• Benefit from modern cloud business applications with the latest standard capabilities
• Continuously innovate with new features in 51风流S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition in a private cloud operating model
• Gain financial agility across the supply chain with 51风流Business Network Supplier Portal for 51风流Cloud ERP Private and the 51风流Enterprise Service Management solution and 51风流Taulia solutions

By integrating these applications, customers will enhance collaboration and agility to run operations, embodying the connected essence of the 51风流Business Suite offering.

Transformation Tools and Services

The foundation of a successful transformation journey starts with a holistic assessment of the current systems and a clear understanding of the impact of transitioning to a cloud ERP. This data-driven analysis lays the groundwork for a robust foundation in the ERP transformation journey.

By including 51风流LeanIX聽and聽51风流Signavio capabilities into the package, customers gain a comprehensive understanding of their current landscape helping to shape the target architecture. This results in a smoother, more agile ERP cloud transformation and long-term process efficiency. This data-driven approach ensures informed decision-making and continuous transformation monitoring, aligning perfectly with the RISE with 51风流journey.

Embedded services from 51风流include expert support to drive solution activation as well as onboarding and kick-off of the transformation project, ensuring that all critical aspects are addressed from the outset. It also includes workshops to align technology to the business goals that are strategic for the transition, tailored road map development, and adoption plans.

Cloud Optimization and Extensibility Services

The 51风流Cloud ERP Private package includes 51风流Build, enabling both on-stack and side-by-side extension of 51风流S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition with AI-powered application development and process automation. 51风流Build allows customers to innovate while maintaining a clean core — a central principle of the RISE with 51风流methodology. The deep integration with 51风流S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, combined with the code-first, low-code, and generative AI capabilities of 51风流Build, guarantees that extensions and personalization add value without complicating core operations.

This is aligned with the continual innovation and extensibility strategies encouraged by the RISE with 51风流journey. 51风流HANA Cloud is a cloud-native database for modernizing enterprise systems that allows customers to build and deploy intelligent data apps at scale. The package also includes the 51风流Master Data Governance application to enhance data quality and help maintain a single source of truth, further aligning with the continual innovation and extensibility strategies

Summary and Next Steps

As businesses venture into the new digital era, 51风流is committed to guiding and supporting every step of their journey toward integrated, cloud-powered operational excellence.

The 51风流Cloud ERP Private Edition package is not just a solution; it is a gateway to a future of limitless potential and unprecedented business agility. Let us embark on this transformative journey together and redefine what’s possible for your business.

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Maura Hameroff is senior vice president of Cloud ERP Product Marketing at SAP.

These powerful capabilities help reduce manual effort and empower smarter decision-making while helping businesses stay ahead of the competition. 

Exploring AI-assisted capabilities 

In the 51风流S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition 2023 FPS03 release, innovative AI capabilities continue to be shipped at a fast pace. They help businesses improve employee productivity, assist in decision-making, and provide predictive insights, in order to better adapt to changing demands and better compete in an unpredictable environment.听

New AI capabilities include: 

• AI-assisted journal upload: This capability simplifies the process of creating journal entries by using generative AI technologies. It is designed to assist accountants in managing large backlogs of period-end journal entries, which are often required for transactions executed outside the accounting system, temporary postings, settlements, accruals, and provisions. By leveraging AI technologies, this feature enhances efficiency and accuracy in managing journal entries, ultimately benefiting accountants and financial departments.听
• Predictive labor demand planning: Labor demand planning now enables the prediction of planned durations for picking and packing processes, enhancing the efficiency of resource and workload planning. By utilizing historical workload data, the capability provides accurate predictions for task durations, eliminating the need for extensive preprocessing or reliance on engineered labor standards. This feature allows warehouses to optimize labour allocation and reduce inefficiencies by predicting the time required for tasks such as picking, packing, and outbound deliveries.听
• AI-based explanation of detailed scheduling optimizer results: Production planners often struggle to quickly understand the detailed scheduling optimizer results, as they are intricate and can lack clear explanations. This complexity can leave planners uncertain about the decisions made by the optimizer, making it challenging to address exceptions efficiently. SAP’s AI assistant now includes a capability that offers explanations for detailed scheduling optimizer planning results. Production planners can ask questions in natural language through a chat interface, allowing them to intuitively grasp what occurred during the scheduling process. This helps them to focus on any exceptions.听
• AI assisted in-house service initiation: Repair shops receive a significant amount of paperwork. Manually converting this paper-based information into the 51风流system is labor-intensive and prone to errors, which can lead to data loss, especially under tight deadlines. The AI assisted in-house service initiation leverages the Document Information Extraction service to capture incoming paper documents. The 51风流system automatically extracts the necessary data and creates a list of repair objects for the corresponding in-house service. Repair staff then reviews the generated order and continues processing it to completion.

Additions to SAP鈥檚 unified copilot Joule

After having released many transactional and navigational use cases with S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition FPS02, we continue our journey with releasing Joule support in these areas:聽

• Dispute management for contract accounting: Transactional capabilities for dispute resolution and payment resolution
• Revenue accounting and reporting: Transactional capabilities to manage revenue accounting items, manage revenue contracts, revenue contract schedule, combine revenue contracts, and reconcile revenue contracts聽
• Sales: Transactional capabilities to perform single or mass changes to sales order fields, provide issue resolution for sales order fulfilment issues, create sales documents with reference, and fetch billing document information聽
• Service: Transactional capabilities to fetch service confirmation details, reference objects, release service orders and service order items, cancel service confirmations, and complete service confirmations聽
• Asset management: Transactional capabilities to display maintenance orders, maintenance notifications, and maintenance jobs, and perform activities on jobs聽
• Enterprise portfolio and project management: Transactional capabilities to display or change a project work breakdown structure (WBS) element, or network in project builder聽
• Procurement: Transactional capabilities to create purchase requisitions with or without material or service items, show a list of materials or suppliers, update the delivery date for all schedule line items in one or more purchase orders, show the details of purchase order items and workflow approver emails, process invoice reminders
• Product lifecycle management: Transactional capabilities to fetch details of bills of material and navigate to the Maintain Bill of Material app, and fetch details of change records
• Convergent invoicing: Transactional capabilities to display clarification cases, billing plans, invoicing documents, and billing requests聽

Additional innovations across functional areas

The latest release features a wealth of new enhancements to improve business processes across procurement, finance, manufacturing, R&D, and service and asset management. The enhancements include:

Procurement

Mass change of price scales in central purchase contracts enables procurement professionals to efficiently perform mass changes on central purchase contracts by uploading or downloading scale鈥痸alues for item condition types using Microsoft Excel.听

Finance

• Improved data integration and flexibility for planning鈥痠n manage financial plan data app: To continuously optimize the integration between 51风流Analytics Cloud and 51风流S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, a new framework in 51风流S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition enables users to efficiently configure and schedule jobs for financial plan data to be integrated from 51风流Analytics Cloud into 51风流S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition.
• Hedging of subsidiary exposures by treasury center (balance sheet FX risk) aggregates the balance sheet exposures of subsidiaries on treasury center level and performs hedging of the net exposure centrally without any additional internal transactions.听

Manufacturing

• Manage production models materials app: The production model provides a joint view of the manufacturing bill of material (MBOM) and the shop floor routing to facilitate hand-in-hand definition of the MBOM components and shop floor production steps, supported by a 3D visual of the header material of the MBOM.听
• Check optimization log app: Increased transparency for production planners is available through insights into status indicators, runtime metric, cost, and solution quality metrics.听

R&D

• Project cost overview and project cost line items apps to include service transactions: Project cost and revenue transparency for the service business managed projects is possible by analyzing service contract items and service order items assigned to WBS elements.
• Standard contents for dangerous goods regulations allow users to continuously consume up-to-date compliance requirements for dangerous goods management by benefiting from a simplified process to receive fast and frequent updates of dangerous goods regulations.听

Service Management

Service hierarchy with collective accounting: Enhance commercial flexibility in creating bundled service offerings by grouping of service order items into service hierarchy and by consolidating financial reporting and revenue recognition.听

Asset Management

• Manage maintenance orders simplifies the management of maintenance orders. With this new 51风流Fiori app, the planner can display a comprehensive list view of maintenance orders, create maintenance orders, and process individual orders.听
• 鈥淎s-found鈥� data recording in performance maintenance job: Improve recording of asset reliability data by recording the as-found condition of the maintained asset in a proactive maintenance job without an assigned maintenance notification.

51风流is resolutely at the forefront of the AI revolution, embedding ever more capabilities in 51风流S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition. We redefine how businesses run and how people work, and this is only the beginning. We are working on new agentic capabilities soon available via Joule, underpinned by our .听

With the FPS03 release, our aim is to equip聽businesses with new capabilities to increase their level of automation, improve their users鈥� experience, boost their efficiency, and uncover new business opportunities.听聽

To see these innovations in action, make sure to join , which will deep dive into the new AI functionalities and other innovations introduced here. You can also learn more about our recent innovations by reading: .

Maura Hameroff is senior vice president of Cloud ERP Product Marketing at SAP.

51风流has announced the release of 51风流S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition 2023 FPS02, which includes advanced AI-assisted capabilities and the expansion of SAP’s copilot Joule, the cutting-edge digital assistant designed to transform the user experience.

Combined with a suite of other innovations, these features are set to deliver unprecedented efficiency and intelligence across various business functions.

Pioneering AI-Assisted Capabilities

51风流S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition 2023 FPS02 harnesses the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to automate routine tasks, provide predictive insights, and streamline decision-making processes. New capabilities in this release include:

• AI-Assisted Sales Order Fulfillment: Sales departments can now leverage AI to monitor and resolve order fulfillment issues to greatly enhance order accuracy and customer satisfaction. Sales orders are summarized on header and item level in natural language, fulfillment issues are identified and resolved, sales orders can be updated, and document flows are made transparent.
• Conversational Planning in Transportation Cockpit: The supply chain management module introduces AI-driven conversational planning. This feature allows users to interact with the system using natural language, simplifying complex transportation decisions and significantly reducing planning time.
• Inbound Cargo Document Creation: The automation of inbound cargo document creation through AI reduces administrative burdens and minimizes errors. It improves operational efficiency by reducing manual checks at the gate and waiting time for trucks.
• Maintenance Order Recommendations: In asset management, AI assists in predicting maintenance needs. The system analyzes asset performance data to recommend proactive maintenance strategies, helping extend asset lifespan and reduce downtime.

Introducing Joule for 51风流S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition: The Future of Digital Assistance

At the heart of this release is Joule, a revolutionary digital assistant designed to streamline user interactions and boost productivity across the 51风流ecosystem. Joule offers both transactional and navigational support, providing context-sensitive suggestions and shortcuts that significantly enhance the user experience.

With this release, Joule supports:

• Project Management Support: Joule simplifies project management tasks by offering intuitive navigation and transaction handling. This makes it easier for project assistants to manage complex projects, ultimately improving project flow and efficiency.
• Master Data Governance: Generative AI allows changes to master data and provides a summary of changes using natural language, reducing the time to change master data attributes and increasing the transparency of changes for reviewers.
• Hybrid Sourcing in Advanced Available-to-Promise (ATP): This functionality allows for a more dynamic approach in covering sales order demands, leveraging both internal and external suppliers to meet demand efficiently.

Additional Innovations Across Functional Areas

In addition to AI-assisted functionalities and Joule, this latest release is packed with enhancements aimed at refining procurement, finance, R&D, and service management.

Procurement

• Version and Pricing Comparison for Purchasing Contracts: Enables procurement professionals to efficiently evaluate different contract versions and pricing, ensuring optimal decision-making
• Controlled Information Access for Sourcing Projects: Enhances security by allowing defined access levels for contributors, safeguarding sensitive information and fostering secure collaboration

Finance

• Centralized Plan-Versus-Actual Analysis: Integrates plan data for a cohesive comparison between projected and actual financial performance, aiding precise budget management
• Subscription Order Management with 51风流GTS Integration: Streamlines handling of subscription-based revenue models and ensures compliance with global trade regulations

Manufacturing

• Renewed Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling KPI Monitor: Provides in-depth analysis of key performance indicators (KPIs), enabling informed production planning and scheduling decisions
• Engineer-to-Order Production Models: Facilitates seamless integration of engineering requirements into production plans, reducing lead times and aligning manufacturing with customer-specific configurations

R&D

• Simplified Handling of In-Planned Services in Lean Service Procurement: Ensures efficient processing of service requirements, reducing administrative overhead and accelerating procurement cycles

Service Management

• Combined In-House Repair and Field Service: Enhances service efficiency by enabling combined in-house repair and field service within a single service order
• Non-Serialized Products in In-House Repair: Broadens the range of items that can be managed and repaired under the same system, driving operational flexibility

Asset Management

• Inspection Checklists Management: A new 51风流Fiori app simplifies the management of inspection checklists. This new app shows an overview of inspection checklists in the Inspection Lots view, or the corresponding inspection characteristics in the Characteristics view. The planner can filter the result list and perform actions, like setting the usage decision.

Cross Topics

• Analyze Direct Project Transfers in Migration Cockpit: Facilitates smoother data migrations and offers analytical insights to ensure data integrity

Learn more about our recent innovations:

The 51风流S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition 2023 FPS02 release is a testament to our commitment to leveraging advanced technologies like AI and digital assistants to transform enterprise operations. With the introduction of AI-assisted capabilities and Joule, enterprises can expect significant improvements in efficiency, accuracy, and user experience.

As businesses worldwide navigate the complexities of the digital age, SAP鈥檚 latest innovations provide the tools needed to stay ahead of the curve, driving strategic growth and operational excellence.

For more on AI capabilities in RISE with SAP, join the upcoming
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Maura Hameroff is senior vice president of ERP Product Marketing at SAP.

Since launching in January 2021, we’ve partnered with thousands of customers across various industries and geographies in their journey to cloud ERP. During this time, we’ve witnessed dramatic shifts in the global business landscape:

• AI and generative AI have become top priorities for executives.
• Business and supply chain risks have intensified.
• ESG regulations have expanded across regions.
• Companies are increasingly reliant on their partner networks.

In response to these changes and valuable customer feedback, we’ve revamped our RISE with 51风流offering to better serve our growing customer base.

Packages Designed for Every Need

With , we continue to offer two main packages to help transform business at your preferred pace and timeline:

• RISE with 51风流S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, premium: This augments 51风流S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition with access to 51风流Business Technology Platform (51风流BTP), features for low-code application development, additional capabilities for generative AI, CFO suite, 51风流Datasphere, and 51风流Business Network.
• RISE with 51风流S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, premium plus: This extends the premium edition with advanced sustainability features, expanded access to generative AI capabilities, and CFO solutions.

AI for All

I’m particularly excited to announce that all RISE with 51风流customers will now have access to Joule, our recently announced AI copilot natively integrated into 51风流S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, which helps revolutionize the way users interact with their 51风流business systems.

Joule serves as a productivity tool that can make every touchpoint count and every task simpler. The AI copilot can significantly enhance the end user experience, allowing interactions in natural language. It helps elevate outcomes for end users and businesses alike by generating insights grounded in the business data, enriched by the business context, and tailored to the end user鈥檚 role. It can quickly sort through and contextualize data from multiple systems to surface smarter insights. This democratization of AI capabilities is a game-changer for businesses of all sizes.

AI has significant potential to accelerate business processes and optimize decision-making. We are constantly innovating to deliver more AI-powered business processes that can effect better outcomes for our customers. To enable our customers to pilot these AI-driven innovations, we are including 51风流AI units for our customers. These AI units will enable customers to pilot already delivered, advanced AI innovations like 51风流Cash Application, 51风流Business Integrity Screening, and 51风流Field Service Management. Further, there are many more AI innovations planned on our road map, including sales order fulfillment, transportation management, business partner maintenance, and more.

Data-Driven Decision-Making

All business decisions need to be grounded in accurate and timely data. With this in mind we’re including in the , providing seamless access to mission-critical data from both ERP and third-party sources. This can help supercharge insights and support more informed decision-making across the organization.

Additionally, is now part of the , empowering customers to enhance their financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting using data from their entire system landscape.

Streamlined Supplier Collaboration

is now also included in , enabling customers to create a networked ERP with a supplier portal. This helps simplify spend compliance, improve cash flow, and drive business value by facilitating closer collaboration with suppliers and automating procurement and invoice transactions.

Personalized Onboarding

To help ensure a smooth transition to cloud ERP, we’ve introduced embedded launch activities in every RISE with 51风流package. The embedded launch activities include personalized onboarding support through an assigned 51风流advisor. The advisor helps customers to navigate the implementation road map and can provide education on the overall journey, RISE with 51风流Methodology, the clean core strategy, and initial setup of tools and services. Through initial personalized one-on-one calls and a series of recorded enablement content, the advisor helps ensure the customers are set up for success.

These enhancements reflect our commitment to providing cutting-edge solutions that address the evolving needs of businesses in an increasingly complex global landscape. By integrating AI, improving data accessibility, and streamlining supplier collaboration, we’re empowering our customers to make more informed decisions and drive innovation in their respective industries.

I’m incredibly proud of these improvements and excited to see how they will transform our customers’ businesses. As we continue to innovate and adapt to the changing business landscape, we remain committed to supporting our customers’ success every step of the way.

Learn more about RISE with 51风流and the available packages and add-ons available to help you transform your business .

Maura Hameroff is head of Product Marketing for RISE with SAP.

Icertis Contract Intelligence (ICI) for 51风流S/4HANA (buy side) marks the next milestone on the 51风流and Icertis joint product road map, as the companies continue to transform contract-driven processes by integrating contract intelligence with 51风流solutions.

Contract intelligence enables procurement teams using 51风流S/4HANA to streamline sourcing, negotiate better commercial terms, and improve adherence to regulatory and corporate policies. The ICI platform accelerates value and increases savings both pre- and post-signature by automatically recommending clauses based on historical business relationships and tracking obligations to ensure the intent of all agreements is fully realized. Artificial intelligence (AI) embedded in the ICI platform also minimizes risk by pinpointing deviations from standard terms, while predefined rules and templates further reduce liability through contract self-generation capabilities that enable procurement teams to play a more strategic role in driving business performance.

鈥淪AP鈥檚 co-innovation with Icertis continues at a rapid pace, catalyzed by the appetite we are seeing from customers that recognize that contracts play a critical role in core business processes,鈥� said Eric van Rossum, chief marketing and solutions officer for 51风流S/4HANA at SAP. “51风流is focused on helping enterprises future-proof their operations — applying AI to contract data presents a prime opportunity to impact nearly every procurement process that is tied to revenue, savings, and risk. Integrating Icertis Contract Intelligence with 51风流solutions enables more efficiency, automation, and insights for our mutual customers, enriching their enterprise data lakes with critical information around commercial relationships to better support scalability and growth long term.鈥�

In addition to ICI for 51风流S/4HANA (buy side), Icertis delivers integrations with 51风流solutions across both buy- and sell-side contracts, including ICI for 51风流Ariba, ICI for 51风流Fieldglass, and ICI for 51风流CPQ.

鈥淚n today鈥檚 business environment, inefficiencies and data silos throughout the contract life cycle lead to revenue leakage and regulatory compliance challenges that detract from strategic business objectives,鈥� said Niranjan Umarane, executive vice president of Product Management at Icertis. 鈥淐ontract intelligence becomes a critical fifth system of record in the enterprise technology stack when integrated with 51风流solutions, enabling value far beyond pre-signature efficiencies to increase revenue, reduce costs, ensure compliance, and manage risk. Icertis was the first 51风流partner in the contract lifecycle management market to offer deep process integrations jointly designed and developed with SAP, creating a seamless experience for enterprise leaders looking to modernize and transform core operations with contract intelligence.鈥�

Icertis and 51风流demonstrated a , following the announcement of their expanded partnership as enterprises look to contract intelligence to solve significant business challenges through digital transformation.

Together, the companies will continue to identify new AI use cases for contract data and opportunities to enable strategic outcomes through enterprise relationships, innovating for mutual customers in anticipation of future business needs.

Maura Hameroff is senior vice president of ERP, Finance, and Digital Supply Chain Product Marketing at SAP.
Alex Nadesan is vice president of Global 51风流Alliances at Icertis.