As a leader in the SaaS and cloud-enabled midsize business ERP applications market, , we are committed to delivering continuous value to our customers. Let’s dive in and explore the exciting new enhancements of 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2408 update.

Improved Productivity with AI

The latest are redefining the way businesses operate. With embedded AI capabilities, companies can now streamline operations, make data-driven decisions, and ultimately drive growth and success in today’s competitive market.

Embrace the future of business with these state-of-the-art AI innovations:

Our AI copilot enables users to express their business need in natural language and supports with answers based on 麻豆原创 Help Portal documentation, with fast navigation to applications and with role-based insights on business objects.

The features in 麻豆原创 Fiori enhance the user experience for business users. These features allow for efficient natural language filtering of business data and seamless summarization capabilities, enabling users to quickly extract relevant information and jump-start subsequent collaboration. This leads to faster decision-making, improved productivity, and more effective communication across teams.*

reduces the time to find skilled resources by providing advanced skill matching.*

Leveraging generative AI, the enables faster analysis and understanding of cost center data, facilitating quicker insights and more informed decision-making.*

*These features are currently available in beta;

Modern and Collaborative User Experience

This update is set to transform the way users work with user experience enhancements, enabling direct access to important applications and intelligent decision-making features.

allow direct actions on workflow items, saving time and reducing the need to switch between applications.

With the , users can collaborate with colleagues directly from an app and share live information using Microsoft Loop components. Cards can be copied between Microsoft applications; for example, from Microsoft Teams to Microsoft Outlook.

The , in combination with share as authenticated card-based loop component, enables users to collaborate, share live data, and access business data directly from their daily applications and activities.*

*This feature is currently available in beta

include enhanced workflow-relevant information and in-place actions for daily tasks鈥�, an intelligent homepage experience to boost productivity鈥�, intelligent app recommendations, and pre-delivered cards for new cloud customers鈥�. The updates allow business users to execute their tasks in My Home with speed and precision.

麻豆原创 Mobile Start allows direct access to the most important applications on the start screen with , displaying , and to support the decision-making process.

Intelligent and Sustainable Finance

Propel your business toward a more intelligent and sustainable future with the latest finance enhancements, providing tools to achieve transparency, analyze financial data, and streamline processes to improve your business performance.

The provides overhead cost accountants with transparent cost-center reporting, enabling daily analysis of actuals, plan data, commitments, and statistical key figures in one report, with the ability to switch between guided views and adaptable slicing, dicing, and pivoting based on business needs.

The provides an interactive and comprehensive view of the financial KPIs related to the service profitability.

The streamlines processes and increases performance with a modern 麻豆原创 Fiori app, providing a user-friendly interface and efficient workflows that enhance overall productivity and accuracy in managing general ledger accounts.

Powering Service-Centric Companies

The latest updates for service-centric companies support your business growth and improve your operational effectiveness.

Professional services companies can implement and automate a new business model in which they can negotiate a with their clients. This leads to more accurate real-time profitability and reduces the need for manual effort when a lower cost rate is negotiated for additional work.

and simplifying the sales order process as part of the modern order management journey improves efficiency for internal sales representatives. This reduces administrative efforts and provides seamless support for business users in their daily work.

By leveraging , businesses can facilitate the transition from selling products to higher-margin services and solutions, using pre-defined configurable bundle products which consist of various components in one order.

provide flexibility in defining business roles through segregation of duties for solution order capturing and sales order fulfilment, improving business user productivity. Additionally, minimizes the subscription master data required to accommodate the variations of a subscription business model.

The guides users to the right contract item during the creation of service entry sheets. This supports compliance with contract-based buying for unplanned services and offers flexibility to suppliers for selecting products and services from contracts when submitting proof of service.

Boosting Manufacturing and Product-Centric Companies

Elevate operational efficiency, streamline processes, and unlock new revenue opportunities with updates for product-centric companies.

enables the warehouse staff to receive the handling unit and start the put-away process immediately after unloading it, instead of checking the complete inbound delivery first. By allowing immediate action on received goods, warehouses can streamline their workflows, improve accuracy in inventory recording, and optimize resource utilization — ultimately leading to better overall productivity and reduced operational costs.

Automate the based on assigned handling units to effectively track stock count and manage packaging materials. Integration with 麻豆原创 Returnable Packaging Management enhances supply chain transparency and operational efficiency by facilitating accurate exchanges and account reconciliation with business partners.

now supports advanced scenarios for efficient transportation planning for supplier returns. This enhancement optimizes logistics, ensuring timely and cost-effective return shipments, ultimately improving supply chain efficiency.

Enhancement of the increases order fulfillment rates and flexibility in sourcing, based on availability information, and minimizes logistical steps and costs by directly shipping from the supplier to the customer.

Establishing a Solid SaaS Foundation

The latest SaaS foundation enhancements are designed to improve your experience and workflow efficiency:

• Localization investments have been made to ensure compliance with local regulations and cultural norms, including the introduction of and functional enhancements to our standard 59 local versions
• Providing a ensures regulatory compliance and compliance with security standards
• The master data simplifies data separation of master data along with data controller and purpose attributes (legal entity) for most business processes dealing with personal data

Arpan Shah is senior vice president of Public Cloud ERP Product Management at 麻豆原创.

Over the last year, artificial intelligence (AI) has taken the world by storm and captured our collective imagination 鈥� and it has been a clear focus for us. We see a lot of potential in how AI can improve user and organizational productivity: doing things faster, making better decisions, and automating business processes. We have been embedding intelligent capabilities in our product regularly and will continue to invest in AI to help organizations be successful. 

Simply Ask Joule

Available through the , Joule, our AI-powered copilot, can redefine user interaction, streamline business processes, and enhance productivity. It can offer quick, contextual access to content and applications; users can simply ask Joule for guidance and get pointed in the right direction.

Catch a glimpse into the future of AI in ERP and find more information about the development of AI and Joule in 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition .

Improve Productivity with Embedded AI

The 2402 update also enhances productivity across various business processes through embedded AI capabilities. Examples include:

• helps accelerate sales order creation and processing by providing smart input field recommendations.

• helps streamline material inspection for customer returns, enhancing logistical efficiency and flexibility.

Adopt a Modern and Collaborative User Experience

The launch of spaces and pages in the 麻豆原创 Fiori design system can offer a more intuitive user experience, enabling better task organization and quicker resource access. Highlights include:

• The helps enhance personalization for end users, including personalization export/import and improved language support for System News. Watch a to learn more.
• facilitates information sharing in Microsoft Teams, helping to enhance collaborative efforts across platforms. Watch a to see it action.

• Contact card collaboration is now possible by initiating chats, calls, or video meetings directly from the . Watch a to see how.

Transforming to Intelligent and Sustainable Finance

One important aspect is treasury and risk management, . Our latest finance enhancements are specifically designed to help elevate businesses into sustainable, intelligent enterprises:

• can increase transparency and process health, helping to ensure a more robust compliance structure in your financial operations.

• in 麻豆原创 Analytics Cloud allows planning alongside economic sustainability goals. This can provide a dual perspective on financial metrics and environmental impact, aiding in the development of eco-responsible strategies and identification of related financial risks.

• The focuses on seamless data management for enhanced efficiency in real estate and contract management processes.

Powering Service-Centric Companies

We have seen a spike in service-centric companies using 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition and were named a leader in this area by . Based on feedback from our customers and partners, we are continuously improving the product experience. Examples include:

• The can offer a detailed project overview, enabling managers to monitor project health and address issues like missing time entries, pending invoices, or unassigned roles. This can allow for more proactive and efficient project management.

• The improved billing solution helps prevent revenue losses and streamline billing processes for increased flexibility and accuracy. Enhancements include , , and , all within the Manage Project Billing app.
• The 麻豆原创 Business Technology Platform (麻豆原创 BTP)-based module of 麻豆原创 Subscription Billing is tightly and seamlessly integrated. It can support customers鈥� transitions to subscription-based commercial models. Effective and detailed profitability analysis becomes instrumental to maximize revenue with tailored subscription-pricing models with the . Take a look at our brand-new .
• Advanced solution order management can elevate your sales strategies. By , we provide the tools to help enhance your solution selling approach, working to ensure that every sales opportunity is maximized for optimal results, enhancing the process from ordering to billing and accounting.

Boosting Manufacturing and Product-Centric Companies

The enhancements for product-centric companies help elevate operational efficiency, streamline processes, and unlock new revenue opportunities. . Highlights of the 2402 update include:

• For manufacturing sectors operating under the produce and sell standard products model, we now offer . This synergy allows you to leverage comprehensive data insights for precise production planning, helping to ensure that your manufacturing processes align seamlessly with market demand.
• is tailored for businesses in a two-tier ERP setting and can simplify direct shipments from suppliers to customers with enhanced order fulfillment, greater sourcing flexibility, and reduced logistical expenses.

• The helps improve the combined sales of a physical good and a service and enables you to increase revenue by selling combinations of physical products, one-time services, and recurring services. This also helps to avoid errors and reduce manual effort.

Enhancing Global Reach

We further invested in localization, so our software complies with local regulations and cultural norms:

• With the 2402 update we are to meet specific regional requirements.
• We , responding to customer needs and enhancing local compatibility.
• We enhanced scope in our Customer Local Version countries (formerly CLT) to include baseline, finance, and now product-centric capabilities, catering to a wider range of customer needs.

And So Much More鈥�

Throughout this year, we will deliver many more innovations that help bring value to your business. For more details around what is being delivered for the 2402 update, see the . For more information on 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition:

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• Learn more about

Arpan Shah is SVP of Public Cloud ERP Product Management at 麻豆原创.

Over the last year, we have been pleased to see an increase in user adoption and customer satisfaction, and we always look for ways to make the product better based on customer and partner feedback.

Modern Experience

We are taking collaboration and user experience to the next level, enabling users to collaborate easily and make better decisions based on business data and processes. Some of the 2302 highlights include:

• The feature released through an : As the name suggests, users can collaborate with their colleagues directly in Microsoft Teams by adding live data based on 麻豆原创 Fiori elements as tabs in their Teams channels.

• , initially delivered with 2208, that orchestrate information, tasks, and applications and allow users to do their daily activities more effectively and efficiently.

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• The provides functional usage and experience data in an automated way in to help customers to understand their investment return value, monitor their adoption and consumption, and make data-driven decisions based on their own company usage.

Core ERP Innovations

We strive to enable users to get up and running with out-of-the-box business processes based on industry best practices. We are committed to expanding our set of ready-to-use capabilities customers need to run their businesses.

Highlights for product and manufacturing-centric industries include:

• Innovations to enhance end-to-end process visibility and efficiency such as the to support business transformations from products to higher-margin services and solutions by offering听combined quote and orders including products and service contracts.
• Increased flexibility, granularity, and ease in selecting the orders that are relevant to the user with a new that allows users to choose their area of responsibility with respect to the orders.
• With the new and modernized , relevant data can be intuitively accessed with quick views and an additional column through a modernized look and feel and a flexible materials list.

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Highlights for finance and service-centric industries include:

• Functionality to improve project planning and project resource management by providing to increase efficiency in building ESG data collection forms by using sample forms as reference鈥�.
• Increased flexibility in billing preparation through a released to enable external applications and resource related billing processes.
• With the new , flexible options for capacity analysis are provided, delivering insights about offered or available capacity within a flexibly defined timeframe, and about offered or available capacity, based on flexible aggregation options.

听SaaS Foundation

Customers operate globally and keep up with ever-evolving legal mandates. We are committed to delivering a global service and now support 51 local versions. In addition to localization, in release 2302, we heavily invested in other foundational topics, such as two-tier ERP, in-product accelerators, and extensibility, including:

• The addition of three new 麻豆原创-delivered local versions in 2302 for听.听听with general availability to all customers planned for 2308.
• The switch to Euro in Croatia was effective January 1, 2023. Financial reports have to be compiled using Euro and a is now available.
• Global organizations are increasingly adopting a multi-site ERP strategy to run their global businesses on two or more ERP systems to meet their market needs. The following are now available: , for better coverage on the material demand and supply planning of replenishment elements between tier-1 and tier-2 systems; and , which enables the system to predict future cash flows that can be used as reference data in long term liquidity planning.
• The released and in-product accelerators — including automation bots, templates, and bundles — reduce time to value and accelerate customer implementations.
• Extensibility is a key attribute of every scenario, and we deliver an extensive range of cloud and tools to support these scenarios without compromising innovation updates.

And So Much More

Throughout this year we will deliver many more innovations that bring value to our customers. For more details around what is being delivered for 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud 2302, see Bert Schulze鈥檚 .

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Arpan Shah is senior vice president of 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud Product Management at 麻豆原创.

That is what 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud is all about.

We deliver innovation on a regular basis, and we do not just deliver ERP capabilities that support new business processes and models, but also modern experiences that simplify the way people and businesses work. It is humbling to be able to do this, as many customers — such as and — trust 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud to run their businesses. (.)

I want to share some of the innovation highlights from the most recent August (2208) release.

Modern, Fast, Intuitive User Experience

The user experience (UX) of 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud lets users easily access business processes and data. We deliver tailored experiences across a wide range of devices, including laptops, tablets, and phones.

Our customers want an easy way for their user base to collaborate and make better decisions based on business data and processes. For example, there may be blocked sales orders or supply chain issues; you may need your sales team to review metrics or your marketing team to be aware of product delays. We make it easy for any user to collaborate using their preferred productivity tools, such as Microsoft Teams, Office, and Google Workspace.

Some of the new UX highlights in the 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud 2208 release include:

• New that delivers a clean, beautiful user experience across devices in a light and dark mode.
• Building on the functionality of 麻豆原创 Fiori launchpad, orchestrates information, tasks, and applications so that you can do your job with speed and agility.
• offers easy sharing, plus a new , and an Excel add-in for analytics.

Best-in-Class Product and Service-Centric Functionality

We are committed to enabling all organizations to operate globally. Whether you are an organization that sells services or products, we deliver out-of-the-box pre-configured business processes built on industry best practices. We focus on time to value so you can be up and running quickly. We have even been recognized as cloud ERP leaders, both service-centric and product-centric, by analysts including IDC and Gartner.

Other 2208 highlights include:

Support for , meeting business and legal requirements, including Bulgaria, Colombia, Chile, and Qatar.

For service-centric industries, we are releasing functionality to improve project planning and project resource management. You can now . It is also possible to improve and .

For product-centric industries — alongside innovations to enhance the end-to-end process visibility and efficiency such as the and stock transfer — we are introducing capabilities such as that reduce risk and costs of changes. To accelerate the pace and quality of decisions with an integrated information flow from planning to execution of an outbound transportation process, we are introducing the .

Designed for Extensibility and Lifecycle Management

While 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud delivers a wide range of ready-to-use core capabilities, we know that customers and partners want flexibility to extend based on their business needs. With that in mind, extensibility is a key attribute of every scenario — not an afterthought. We deliver an extensive range of cloud and tools to support these scenarios without compromising innovation updates. If you are curious about the different extensibility capabilities, check out the sample scenarios on the 听The allows the building of extensions directly in 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud and makes extension options even more powerful.

Extensibility and lifecycle management highlights include:

麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud already offers extension capabilities for business users with a low-code/no-code tooling and the possibility to add functionality by . We will also provide an offering to implement new functionality directly on the 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud stack to realize development projects that need a tight coupling of business processes — in-app available via a three-system landscape (3SL).

We expect to make generally available in the near future. In addition to quality and production systems, we are adding a dedicated development system to the 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud system landscape, giving you a more powerful, granular, and transparent distribution of developments and configuration changes. You can continuously implement, test, and deploy, even during a software update period.

Immersive Analytics and Intelligence

Whether it is quick actions and insights on the home page, embedded analytics in different places, or recommended actions and automation based on your data and goals, we strive to make our users more productive.

Highlights of this release include:

The supports accountants by automating payment advice processing. This artificial intelligence-supported capability enables automatic matching and clearing of invoice and payment items while creating more transparency and reducing otherwise time-consuming tasks.

With , purchasers can gain more transparency on the carbon footprints of their products with material movements. The data can be analyzed across various dimensions, such as by product category or plant. A trend view analyzes the carbon footprint across a timeline.

And Much More

At 麻豆原创, we stand on the shoulders of giants: 50 years of leadership in industries, 50 years of business applications innovation, 110,000 employees, 23,500 partners, and more than 100 development locations worldwide. The numbers are impressive, but what matters most is how we can help our customers run their businesses efficiently and securely.

Arpan Shah is senior vice president of 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud at 麻豆原创.

By empowering employees with little to no development skills to play a key role in their organization鈥檚 success, businesses can tap a fresh community of innovators to personalize workflows, automate processes, and create new applications. And while increasing their organizational capacity to innovate, they are joining a LCNC movement that will likely produce 65% of new applications by 2024, according to .

Giving Everyone the Power to Reimagine Everything

When organizations first consider letting employees participate in innovation without IT intervention, questions about the difference between low-code and no-code inevitably arise. The main difference between the two approaches lies in how much coding knowledge is needed.

Low-code development allows users to develop and integrate complex applications with intuitive graphical tools and embedded functionalities, requiring only some basic coding skills. On the other hand, no-code development methods apply the same user experience without any need for coding and programming knowledge.

There are countless LCNC tools available that promise to deliver on those capabilities with easy-to-use interfaces. However, most of them can only be used for very well-defined use case scenarios, such as the development of mobile apps, machine learning applications, or workflow automation.

With the low-code and no-code tools available through听听(麻豆原创 BTP), 麻豆原创 partners and customers do not need to worry about such restrictions. Instead, they can access a combination of LCNC tools on one platform, along with intelligent processes and technologies, to build critical solutions quickly and profitably.

Accelerating the Pace of Meaningful Innovation

Many 麻豆原创 partners are taking this opportunity to 鈥渋nnovate big鈥� by tackling challenges that, when solved, can significantly improve their customers鈥� business opportunities and operating models. They are setting new bars for a variety of industries, despite the increasingly fast-paced, dynamic nature of today鈥檚 markets.

For example, an 麻豆原创 partner created a fashion rental solution that integrates with e-commerce platforms and core 麻豆原创 solutions, such as听, , and the听 portfolio. The partner鈥檚 solution enables retailers and their manufacturers to create and operate under a business model that reduces waste and preserves resources 鈥� improving sales, driving sustainable operations, and helping preserve our planet’s future.

By leveraging LCNC services available through 麻豆原创 BTP, the partner underpinned the solution’s processes with intelligent technologies. It included: 1) machine learning to improve decision-making and quality checks and 2)听artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled听image recognition to identify damages, support the returns process, and provide accurate billing. The听services are also leveraged to help accelerate transaction processing and automate return cycles and other back-office operations, enabling orders to be booked or returns to be processed within seconds.

Integrating the cloud solution with automated store pickup, return, and billing capabilities makes the fashion rental model simple enough to manage from beginning to end transparently, efficiently, and profitably. Best of all, the user experience 鈥� for employees and customers alike 鈥� is meaningful and productive, an industry benchmark for efficiency and sustainability.

Turning Business Challenges into Long-Term Opportunities

As the hype about LCNC tools intensifies, organizations can get lost in the excitement. So rather than choosing a platform that can expand their innovation potential, hasty decisions can result in platforms that pigeonhole use case scenarios and open potential issues down the line.

麻豆原创 partners can play a critical role in leveraging LCNC technologies in ways that go beyond accelerating innovation. They are also helping customers fulfill their potential by improving operational performance, service quality, and revenue growth while addressing their resource challenges. And when you think about it, that influence is incredibly powerful as it empowers employees, regardless of their skill, to deliver personalized experiences that build long-term business success.

To learn more about how 麻豆原创 partners help businesses transition to the cloud with a unified technology platform, explore these articles:

• 鈥�Turning the Cloud into a High-Powered Innovation Engine鈥�
• 鈥�Business Planning and Analytics: The Difference Between Surviving and Thriving鈥�
• 鈥�Turn Business Process Intelligence into the Next Frontier for Growth鈥�

If you’re interested in software partnership opportunities with 麻豆原创, check out听. If you’re already a partner, check out these exciting initiatives:听听and听.

Tom Le is global vice president of Partner Solution Advisory at 麻豆原创.