S/4HANA Sales

S/4HANA Sales: Maximize revenue and cash flow by managing and integrating the order-to-cash processes across all touch points, channels, and functions. Improve outstanding sales with multichannel, role-based access to accurate, real-time information. Learn more about how SAP S/4HANA Sales helps your company to be more connected and how its capabilities simplify your whole sales processes.

Introduction to S/4HANA Sales

In the dynamic landscape of business, S/4HANA Sales emerges as a robust ERP solution designed to streamline and optimize sales processes. It goes beyond traditional ERP systems, offering real-time analytics, simplified data models, and an enhanced user experience. The significance of adopting S/4HANA Sales cannot be overstated, especially in an era where agility and data-driven decision-making define success.

Evolution from SAP ERP to S/4HANA Sales

Understanding the journey from SAP ERP to S/4HANA Sales is crucial. The historical context reveals the need for a more efficient and responsive ERP system. S/4HANA Sales builds upon its predecessor’s foundation, introducing key improvements that cater to the evolving demands of modern businesses.

Key Features of S/4HANA Sales

One of the standout features of S/4HANA Sales is its simplified data model. This not only reduces complexity but also facilitates faster data processing. Real-time analytics empower businesses with actionable insights, enabling them to make informed decisions promptly. The enhanced user experience ensures that navigating and utilizing the system is intuitive and efficient.

Key Functionality of SAP S/4HANA Sales

SAP S/4HANA brings about many innovations, including multiple upgrades to sales functionality over SAP ERP Sales and Distribution.

Most of today’s pain points in this area relate to the lack of real-time analytics and visibility across the entire order fulfillment process. In this blog post, you’ll learn how innovations such as the sales order fulfillment cockpit can help internal sales order representatives significantly in performing more efficient and effective work.

Other areas of innovations are related to the condition contract settlement, which will enable enterprises to be more flexible due to the more rule-based and flexible architecture of the solutions.

New Sales Functions in the SAP S/4HANA 2021 Release

With the Delivery 2021, there are currently astonishing new highlights presented in the Deals region. In this blog entry I will provide you with a fast see of a portion of these points.

Fiori App for order entry

Long expected and presently accessible in the principal rendition, a smoothed out Fiori Application for request section. The VA01 exchange obviously stays the norm for key clients who need the entirety of the definite data and capabilities. However, for more fundamental section prerequisites, the less difficult and instinctive Fiori Application “Make Deals Request” is presently accessible. As per SAP, this is focused on deals representatives in their day to day work.

Figure 1: Fiori App “Create Sales Order” Basic Data

The most important functions and differences with the VA01 are summarized in the following summary.

 

Figure 2: Functional comparison of S/4HANA applications for order processing

Excel import of sales orders

Numerous clients have exclusively extended their request passage by adding an import interface for Microsoft Succeed tables. This empowers mass request creation involving table layouts as a premise. SAP has now integrated this methodology into the norm, as the “Import Sales Orders” presently gives the format download. A mass import of deals requests can then be performed on this premise. The necessary tests are finished at transfer and the important mistakes are recorded for revision.

Figure 3: Error message during the Excel import of sales orders.

Once the necessary corrections have been made, the sales orders are created in the system and are stored in an import history.

Automated creation of sales orders from PDF files

A further step towards computerization is taken with the new capacity of producing sales orders from PDF documents sent by the client. Indeed, even uninitiated messages with joined client orders can be consequently taken a look at utilizing an iRPA bot and imported to the framework for additional handling and checking. Be that as it may, for this interaction, which is more confounded than it might at first show up, various parts should be utilized. The accompanying flowchart shows how they cooperate.

Figure 4: Creating a sales order from a PDF file

Fiori app for mass changes to sales orders

Notwithstanding the capacity to make mass requests referenced above, you can likewise perform mass changes to sales archives midway with the application “Mass Difference in Deals Reports”. The accompanying sales archives can be changed along these lines:

  • sales orders
  • sales quotations
  • sales contracts
  • customer returns
  • sales scheduling agreements
  • debit and credit memo requests

The changes are planned with a background job and are then carried out.

Figure 5: Mass change of sales orders

Utilizing numerous addresses of the colleague in the request to-cash process

Figure 6: Example of business partner with multiple addresses

With the new capability, the saved addresses can be utilized in the altering system of the sales archives. For this reason the location outline can be gotten to and the ideal location can be chosen. Here is a model from the production of a sales request.

Figure 7: Example of address selection in the sales order

It’s exciting to see how this new function is being adopted by SAP customers and how it works with the existing capabilities and may even replace them.

The complete list of latest SAP Notes for SAP S/4HANA Sales which got released in May 2023.

Following is the rundown of How To’s delivered that gives bit by bit directions or direction on the most proficient method to play out a particular undertaking or achieve a specific objective inside the SAP framework.

1636749Sender E-Mail address is overwritten
3138834How to delete unnecessary MARC entries?
3276107Credit check with order/requested quantity instead of confirmed quantity (FSCM)
2764257Credit blocked documents missing from VKM1
2743292Display credit account from the sales order in SAP Credit Management (FSCM)
2689991“Next date” (VBAK-CMNGV) is not updated after changing the sales document
2207394FSCM less credit checks in OVA8
2725532Field ADRDA in table VBPA is not updated
3237691Basics on  SD document header pricing fields
3250335VAT number is missing in billing document if GB is involved
2873874Unable to send plant and storage location values using IDOC_INPUT_ORDERS
2694876Sales document creation with reference to billing document is not supported using FM IDOC_INPUT_ORDERS
3330672Field KONP-ZAEHK_IND not filled if condition record is created via IDoc.
2895702Changing Sales Orders in Transaction MASS (BUS2032)
1613527Viewing Archived Text from VA03
3332652WBS element field is greyed out in the sales order line item
3329271Usage of Import Parameter LOGIC_SWITCH in SD BAPIs

Upgrade Information

2267348S4TWL – Simplification in SD Analytics

Others

3291178Missing CO-PA documents from global trade ( LO-AB ) or SD billing
118125Transfer billed quantity to CO
3337394SD/FI-CA: Incorrect document flow for integration with invoicing in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable
3328297SD/FI-CA: Tax items in accounting document are not summarized
3336892PO can be created from PR (based on SO) despite Sales Order status should not allow PO creation
504161Transaction DP90: The dump BCD_FIELD_OVERFLOW occurs in LVPKSDF20
3328671DP93: Error message DPICB004 or DPICB007
3041858DP91 with billing plan: Items are processed without billing plan date
3007320DP93: Not possible to influence selection criteria to source “Intercompany – Line Items”
204874Settled costs in resource-related billing
3338068Displaying ATP quantity in sales order II
3328399Displaying ATP quantity in sales order
3266835ATP: No storage location check during batch determination
3090858Message “Availability check was carried out” not displayed after pressing the “Check item availability” icon
3301737V_V2 : Variant lost when back from ALV-list
3314758FSCM credit block messages are not displayed for blocked sales order due to the field – gv_no_popup being set to ‘X’
3087209DCD remains open after the credit release
3048220Credit overview and Credit master sheet menu grayed out in  VKM1/VKM4 or Manage Credit Decisions Blocked SD Documents APP in S/4 HANA
2742146RVKRED77: Incorrect open delivery value
2655276Enable Change Logs for transaction OVA8
2473178Checked Credit Value and Open Credit Amount in DCD – FSCM
3315535D11339 – Condition Change Log Report for sales – GETWA_NOT_ASSIGNED_RANGE
3335770Check for Multiple Partner Address in NAST
1870783Error SSFCOMPOSER034 during print preview
3336894Runtime error during processing of OPPS response occurs (ITAB_ILLEGAL_SORT_ORDER)
3335838Alternative Partnersuche auf  der Positionsebene
3329388Auftragsbezogene Adresse: Abfrage der Adressnummer
362861ALV variant: Field not filled in partner dialog box
3308135Incorrect currency conversion during transfer of shipment costs from shipment
3055955Sales Order Pricing conditions become greyed out in create/change mode after manual change
1954566Data exchange from CRM to ERP : Conditions with Interval scales are lost
3322660Brexit NIP: Alternative Tax Countries in Sales
72692SD-FI reference number without leading zeros
3295118Empties Management and Down Payment processing leads to duplicates in the stock entries
3331957Dump in CL_SDBIL_VBRP_ANALYTICS when creating invoice lists 2
3214284Dump GETWA_NOT_ASSIGNED Occurs in Transaction VF26 (Cancel Invoice Lists)
3338348Report RVV05IVB nicht für EBDR
3337603In one step STO process, VPRS condition value is determined wrongly by adding up preceding GR and GI values.
3331243Search help in VF02/VF03 changed in S4HANA  compared to ECC
3283428Transfer price not transferred for batches
3208287Error log missing upon navigation to item selection
214623Cancelation: Billing document with a different document currency
3144862Milestone billing plan cannot be copied from one sales document to another document successfully
3319329S4 Pricing API: GETWA_NOT_ASSIGNED in Price details of Search Opportunities App
3016665Status is set to A for FAS dates even though billing has already taken place
3337659Cancellation of intercompany billing cannot get triggered by RVIVAUFT in order-related intercompany billing scenario
3334242Advanced Intercompany: Pro forma invoice for billing as part of an Advanced Intercompany Sales process
3326194(Advanced Intercompany Sales) Support of Company-Specific Supplier Numbers
833115Pro forma invoice for order-related intercompany billing
3326970Billing document request (EBDR) can not be created due to error VF016-the document is not relevant for billing
3328405Payment Card CVV data entry issue
3335691Operational Load: Authorisation check before selection criteria input
3329211Short dump MESSAGE_TYPE_X in RAR Inbound Processing
3167019Incorrect Invoice RAIs for SD Invoice in CI scenario
2512943Settlement2Invoice:  Wrong Accrual reversal for multiple settlements in one BDOC
619498Transfer of quantity fields and value fields
3336552In Fiori app ‘Create Billing Documents’,  generic error is raised instead of specific error like using transaction VF01 before
3297059Manage billing documents Performance issue with fuzzy search
3329415Successor for deprecated F5309 Fiori app (Sales Order Fulfillment – Analyze Issues)
3284751Sales Volume – Flexible Analysis App (F1250) does not display the Customer Reference field for all sales orders
3138511Sales document types are not available for creating new document when using relevant SD fiori apps
3332809INTRASTAT: Invoice items with no value and no quantity should be skipped
3328364INTRASTAT: Commodity code must be valid in the reporting country
3327975INTRASTAT: Currency key is not assigned correctly in transactions VE01 and MEIS
3039285INTRASTAT: double reporting for countries IT and FR
3013986The Intrastat relevance flag is set although the document is not relevant for the Intrastat declaration
3323703Popup für Auswahl der Konditionstabellen zeigt zu wenige Tabellen an
3333203Unable to a add new item in the advance shipment
3327797Kurzdump DYNPRO_MSG_IN_HELP nach Fehler V1392
3324643SDOC: Transaction Manager Downport
3203749No document detailed data in My INBOX fiori app when clicking  the sales document workflow item
2784152V1028 is raised with type ‘information’ instead of ‘Error’ even though material status is ‘B(Error Message)’ in TVMS
3304896LORD API – CSL ASSERTION_FAILED Dump
3302774A2X Sales Order API – Long text line break
3298532A2A Sales Order API – Message sent when you have multiple provider systems
3289066A2A Sales Order API – Customer with credit block has V1(849) as error
3319371Customizing can be changed in transaction VOVS, even though the client has the status “Not Modifiable”.
3278680Incorrect net value of the order during data exchange
3317274Sales – Status management – Standard behaviors guide and How-to scenarios
3332385Materialvariante wird nicht zur Auswahl für Ersetzung des konfigurierbaren Materials angeboten
1639529Missing Configuration (CUOBJ) in VA01: error message V1469
3334134Document Type Column displays only description of the field in Mass Change of Sales Order Without Charge
3323470Reject not working properly for Mass Change of Sales Documents
3303994Adjustments of Shipping Point in Mass Change of Sales Documents
3303277Actions not working when extension fields are added by modifying the structure
2954507VA32 dump: DBSQL_DUPLICATE_KEY_ERROR; SAPSQL_ARRAY_INSERT_DUPREC
3326997API_ReturnsInspection_2: Error MSR_INSP_MESSAGES 358 after selecting valid follow-up activity
3236473Inspection API: Target product now available for FLU “Transfer to Specified Stock”
2723385Performance of serial numbers
3321050F4 Help of Sales Unit field not transferring the selected value
3317036V23 – Delete Billing blocks – Authority-check not called
2684337How first date (RV45A-ETDAT) is determined in Sales Documents
1485562Short dump DDIC_TYPES_INCONSISTENT in sales or shipping

Benefits of Adopting S/4HANA Sales

The benefits of adopting S/4HANA Sales are multi-faceted. Improved efficiency is a direct outcome of streamlined processes and real-time analytics. Businesses experience enhanced decision-making capabilities, thanks to the system’s ability to provide accurate and timely insights.

Conclusion

In conclusion, S/4HANA Sales is not just a software upgrade; it’s a strategic move towards a more agile, efficient, and data-driven future. Businesses that embrace this transformative ERP solution position themselves for sustained success in an increasingly competitive market.

FAQs

  1. Is S/4HANA Sales suitable for small businesses?
    • Yes, S/4HANA Sales can be scaled to meet the needs of small businesses, providing a tailored solution for growth.
  2. How long does it take to implement S/4HANA Sales?
    • The implementation timeline varies based on the complexity of the business processes, but it is generally a phased approach.
  3. Can existing SAP ERP users seamlessly transition to S/4HANA Sales?
    • Yes, SAP has provided tools and resources to facilitate a smooth transition for existing ERP users.
  4. What kind of training is recommended for employees using S/4HANA Sales?
    • Comprehensive training covering system navigation, data input, and interpretation of analytics is recommended for employees.
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