SAP S/4HANA: An Introduction, 5th Edition

SAP S/4HANA: An Introduction (Fifth Edition) (SAP PRESS)

SAP S/4HANA: An Introduction (Fifth Edition) (SAP PRESS)

Author: Devraj Bardhan (Author), Axel Baumgartl (Author), Mark Dudgeon (Author), Piotr Górecki (Author), Asidhara Lahiri (Author), Bert Meijerink (Author), Andrew Worsley-Tonks (Author), Richard Maund (Author), Madalina Dascalescu (Author)

Publisher finelybook 出版社:‏ ‎ SAP PRESS

Edition 版本:‏ ‎ 5th Enlarged ed. edition

Publication Date 出版日期:‏ ‎ 2025-01-29

Language 语言: ‎ English

Print Length 页数: ‎ 640 pages

ISBN-10: ‎ 1493226533

ISBN-13: ‎ 9781493226535

Book Description

Whether you’re making the move to SAP S/4HANA, or just curious about what the suite has to offer, this introductory guide is your starting point. Explore your business processes in SAP S/4HANA, now optimized by AI: finance, manufacturing, supply chain, sales, human capital management, and more. Get insight into SAP S/4HANA’s architecture and key features for reporting, sustainability, extensibility, and artificial intelligence. Build your business case, choose your adoption path, and get ready for your implementation!

  • Learn what SAP S/4HANA offers your company
  • Explore your key business processes, elevated with AI
  • Assess the system architecture, extensibility tools, deployment options, and more


Key Capabilities
Learn about SAP S/4HANA’s core offerings. Explore new-and-improved features such as the Universal Journal, advanced intercompany sales, centralized procurement, and much more. Discover how embedded and generative AI capabilities enhance your business processes and reporting options.

System Architecture
Understand how SAP S/4HANA is built from the ground up. Compare SAP S/4HANA’s on-premise, private cloud, and public cloud architectures. Then see how to extend and optimize your system using a clean core strategy and SAP Business Technology Platform.

Your SAP S/4HANA Journey
Take your first steps towards implementation. Navigate your adoption path, whether you’re planning a new implementation, system conversion, or selective data transition. Follow the SAP Activate methodology to plan your SAP S/4HANA project.

  • Finance
  • Manufacturing
  • Supply chain
  • Sales, marketing, and commerce
  • Sourcing and procurement
  • Sustainability
  • Clean core
  • Intelligent technologies
  • Reporting and analytics
  • Architecture
  • Deployment
  • Case studies

About the Author

Devraj Bardhan is an accomplished global leader for SAP Innovations at IBM. He has led several large transformation projects, driving business growth agenda through innovation and digital efficiencies. He is an established subject matter expert (SME) for SAP S/4HANA, SAP Ariba and SAP Business Technology Platform, growing IBM’s digital transformation capability by designing and implementing global templates and intelligent workflows. He is part of the global SAP Center of Competence at IBM and works very closely with SAP incubating the next big idea. Devraj can be reached via X @devbard or via http://www.linkedin.com/in/bardhan.

Axel Baumgartl is leading the transformation office for the Global Partner Organization of SAP. In his role, he focuses on accelerating the transformation of operations, processes, and applications to support the activation and enablement of the SAP ecosystem based on his 20 years of experience with SAP transformation projects. He is the author of several publications and books about SAP products and he developed a method for enterprise architecture blueprinting.

Mark Dudgeon is the Global SAP CTO of IBM Global Business Services, SAP Service Line. He has more than 23 years of experience in architecture design and delivery for some of IBM’s largest SAP deployments. Mark’s role also includes ensuring that IBM has the right partnerships, capabilities, and offerings to support its customers in their digital transformation journey with SAP. You can reach Mark via X @MarkPDudgeon.

Piotr Górecki is a program manager and enterprise architect working at IBM Global SAP Center of Competence. He has more than 20 years of experience in planning and delivering complex business transformation programs based on SAP solutions. Piotr has been working on global and local SAP projects in several industries, including consumer products, life sciences, retail, and telecommunications. In his current role, he helps customers define their road maps to SAP S/4HANA and identify new solutions and technologies that enable reaching their business goals. Piotr can be reached via http://www.linkedin.com/in/piotrgorecki/.

Asidhara Lahiri is an SAP Enterprise Architect in IBM India, working on complex SAP implementations for global clients in industries such as consumer products, oil & gas, airlines, and utility. She has more than 24 years of work experience, out of which 20 are in SAP. She advises client executives on digital road maps for their SAP landscape, and is a global subject matter expert (SME) in SAP HANA in IBM. She has also led the SAP HANA competency for IBM India, designing and reviewing client architecture, defining IBM services, and growing IBM’s SAP HANA capability. Asidhara has filed two patents and is a member of the IBM Academy of Technology. She is also a coauthor for the book SAP Cloud Platform: Cloud-Native Development (SAP PRESS). Asidhara can be reached via X @AsidharaL and http://www.linkedin.com/in/asidharalahiri.

Bert Meijerink is the SAP S/4HANA Finance lead in the IBM SAP Global Center of Competence. He has more than 35 years of working experience in implementing financial systems worldwide and over 25 years of experience in designing and implementing SAP global templates.

Andrew Worsley-Tonks is an IBM distinguished engineer and the global SAP S/4HANA leader for IBM Services. Andrew has led multiple complex SAP business transformation, modernization, and upgrade projects. In his current role, he leads the delivery of SAP S/4HANA projects while helping existing SAP ERP customers define their SAP S/4HANA adoption strategy and business case. You can reach Andrew via X @A_WorsleyTonks.

Richard Maund has spent 25 years as an IT consultant specializing in SAP architecture, and has worked in a variety of senior architectural roles with clients on some of the biggest and most complex SAP implementations. He has been responsible for developing and implementing highly complex and innovative roadmaps and solutions to meet the needs of some of the largest clients, often supported by complex integration landscapes. Since 2011, Richard has been focused on developing proposals and delivering projects underpinned by SAP HANA, enabling clients on their journey to SAP S/4HANA and the cloud.

Madalina Dascalescu is an associate partner at IBM. With more than a decade of experience, she contributed to numerous SAP transformation projects, aiding clients in optimizing their operations and orchestrating robust enterprise architecture to facilitate sustained growth. Madalina had held various consulting roles, supporting the implementation of materials management, transportation management, yard logistics, and extended warehouse management solutions from SAP. As part of NDT Global, an SAP customer, Madalina was responsible for the SAP S/4HANA solution architecture team both on the implementation project and within the global center of excellence. Additionally, Madalina played a pivotal role within SAP, notably as part of SAP 4.0 popup factory, where she led the setup and showcasing of integrated digital supply chain and Industry 4.0 solutions, aimed to demonstrate their efficacy to customers.

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