Unit 1: SAP S/4HANA Production Planning Overview
Unit 1: SAP S/4HANA Production Planning Overview
As the figure, Digital Value Network shows, the digital value network starts with a digital core,
which interconnects all aspects of the value network in real-time to drive business outcomes.
The digital core gives consumer-product companies the opportunity to re-platform core
business processes and bring together business processes with analytics in real-time. This
enables a smarter, faster, and simpler enterprise, which includes connecting every aspect of
internal operations. It also enables real-time processes such as the following:
Workforce engagement to retain and grow existing talent, attract new talent, and preserve
enterprise intelligence with a smarter, engaged workforce.
Supplier collaboration through business networks to mitigate supply risk, accelerate growth
and help ensure global compliance, all while maximizing product availability and margins.
The Internet of Things and Big Data, combining internal, external, social, and sensor data to
enable real-time visibility to quantifiable measures of consumer demand and other market
dynamics with qualitative measures of consumer sentiment, intent, and behavior.
This entire value chain, including the core, is digitized, and serves as the platform for
innovation and business process automation.
Portfolio for The Digital Value Network from SAP
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The figure, Portfolio for the Digital Value Network from SAP, shows how the SAP solutions
C4C and SAP Hybris support the customer area, while the supplier area is supported by
Concur, SAP Ariba, and SAP Fieldglass.
In terms of workforce, you find the SAP Fiori, Fieldglass, and SuccessFactors solutions.
Finally, the area of Assets is covered by the SAP HANA Cloud Platform.
SAP S/4HANA is a new product. With SAP S/4HANA, we are building on the success of the
SAP Business Suite, powered by SAP HANA, with a completely new and re-imagined suite.
SAP S/4HANA runs on SAP HANA and provides simplicity. For example, a simplified data
model with no indexes, no aggregates, no redundancies. It also promotes innovations. For
example, open in-memory platform for advanced applications predicting, recommending, and
simulating.
SAP S/4HANA is natively designed with SAP Fiori UX, and offers an integrated user
experience with modern usability and instant insight on any device (role-based, a maximum of
three steps to complete a job, mobile-first, consistent experience across lines of business
(LoB).
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