SAP Central Business Configuration

Overview
December 2023

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SAP Central Business Configuration
Vision and Business Value

SAP Central Business Configuration is a tool

envisioned to let you configure a business process
spanning different SAP cloud solutions from one central
place based on your business needs.

Key Benefits
▪ SAP Central Business Configuration envisioned as
central configuration tool for the Intelligent
Enterprise, starting with SAP S/4HANA Cloud,
public edition
▪ Increased business process flexibility and reduced
configuration efforts
▪ Reduced time to value & total cost of ownership
thanks to faster implementation
▪ Flexibility through go-lives in smaller iterative steps

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SAP Central Business Configuration
Solution Characteristics

Key Solution Characteristics Preconfiguration

Content Strategy
▪ Access a preconfigured, ready-to-run system quickly
▪ SAP Central Business Configuration
▪ Be guided through your implementation via Project Experience
is built on the foundation of SAP Best
▪ Adapt preconfiguration content to your company’s needs Practices preconfiguration content
▪ Make additions to your project later on (for example, additional solution
scope or countries/regions with preconfiguration)
▪ Extend configuration for areas not equipped with preconfiguration
content

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SAP Central Business Configuration
Key Components

Project Experience Scoping Organizational Structure Configuration

Be guided through your SAP cloud Define your solution scope by selecting Set up and maintain your company’s Tailor business processes to meet your
implementations countries/regions, languages, business organizational structure company’s requirements
processes, and solution capabilities

Preconfiguration Content
Fueled by the available SAP Best Practices preconfiguration content

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SAP Central Business Configuration
Process Overview

SAP Central Business Configuration allows you to manage your configurations for SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition implementations and
ongoing operations centrally via Project Experience. You can initiate change anytime to make additions to your scope, countries/regions,
and organizational structure or make changes to your configuration settings.

Scope Organizational Structure Product-Specific

Configuration
Define scope Specify primary finance settings Perform configuration activities
Assign deployment target Set up organizational structure
Deploy settings to development system

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Evaluation Project
Explore your business processes before starting the implementation project

1. Create an evaluation project and assign it to a suitable system such as the SAP S/4HANA Cloud starter system.

2. Explore your business processes with a preselected scope and sample data.

3. Begin the implementation project anytime.

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Implementation Project
Manage your initial implementation and ongoing operations

Project Experience
Define Scope app
Manage configurations
for implementations Define the solution
and ongoing scope for your
operations centrally implementations.
and be guided through
your project.

Set Up
Organizational
Configuration
Structure app
Activities
Easily create and
Centrally configure
adapt your
business processes to
company’s
meet your company’s
organizational
requirements.
structure.

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Project Experience

Project Experience allows you to manage your

configurations and ongoing operations for
implementations centrally.

Key features:
Project guidance and activity management

Central access to further apps

(for example, Define Scope or configuration activities)

Central access to SAP cloud installations

(SAP S/4HANA Cloud first)

User-driven change projects

(to enhance scope, countries/regions, languages,
organizational structure, or configuration settings)

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Define Scope

The Define Scope app allows you to define the

solution scope for your implementations
centrally.

Key features:
Scoping of SAP cloud solutions
(SAP S/4HANA Cloud first)

Scoping of multiple countries/regions at once

Selection of a bundle with predefined scenarios of a

certain business focus

Flexible selection of non-standard (optional) and license-

dependent scenarios per country/region

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Organizational Structure Management

The Set Up Organizational Structure app allows

you to easily create and adapt your company’s
organizational structure (org structure).

Key features:
Graphic view – graphical, scope-dependent, and guided
creation of organizational units

Table view – all org units are listed in a table

Org structure can be set up as draft and reviewed before

activation. Deleting and changing units and assignments
is possible anytime before confirming them.

Checks in place to make sure all mandatory

organizational units and relations based on the selected
scope have been created

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Product-Specific Configuration

By performing configuration activities, you can

centrally tailor business processes via SAP
Central Business Configuration to meet your
company’s requirements.

Key features:
Configuration activities take your scope and country
selections into account

Flexible ledger setup and assignment of accounting

principles

Flexible chart of accounts and renumbering of G/L

accounts

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In-App Help

Embedded help for instant context-sensitive user

assistance. Users can open the in-app help by
clicking on the question mark icon at the top of the
screen.

Key features:
On-screen descriptions for quick assistance

Interactive learning tutorials that take you step-by-step

through the project activities

What’s New information about the latest features and

changes

Context-sensitive direct links to relevant sections of the

comprehensive documentation on the SAP Help Portal
(depending on your current screen)

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SAP Cloud ALM & SAP Central Business Configuration
Whereas SAP Central Business Configuration enables you to manage the configurations for your project, SAP Cloud ALM (SAP's cloud-based
tool for application lifecycle management) focuses on the broader implementation and operations. For every task concerned with configuration,
SAP Cloud ALM will seamlessly guide you to SAP Central Business Configuration. The tasks are synchronized between the two tools.

Configuration of the Implementation and

Intelligent Enterprise Operations of the
Business Scope
▪ Central business-driven scoping Intelligent Enterprise
and Tasks
▪ Org structure setup & configuration ▪ Processes & requirements
▪ Configuration deployment ▪ Implementation tasks
SAP Central Business
SAP Cloud ALM
Configuration ▪ Manual & automated tests
▪ Deployment orchestration

References Based on
▪ Intelligent Enterprise scenarios
▪ Intelligent Enterprise scenarios
▪ SAP Best Practices process
▪ SAP Best Practices process
content
content
▪ SAP Activate methodology
▪ SAP Activate methodology
SAP Solution

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3-System Landscape
For New Customers Since Sept. 2022

▪ Besides a starter system, the 3-system SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition
landscape consists of a development
system, test system, and production
SAP Central Business Development System Test System Production System
system Configuration

Deploy Export
Development Development
Workspace Tenant
▪ Transports to the development system
Import Import
are handled via SAP Central Business Workspace
Customizing
Tenant
Test Tenant
Production
Tenant
Configuration
Import your code Forward
with abapGit
▪ Transports from the development
system to the test system and to the Starter System

production system are handled in SAP Deploy Starter

Development
Development
S/4HANA Cloud Workspace
Tenant
Starter
Workspace Customizing
Tenant

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Additional Resources

SAP Central Business SAP S/4HANA Cloud

Configuration Product Page Community Page openSAP Course

Check out the product page for SAP Central Visit the community page for SAP Central Take part in the free openSAP course about
Business Configuration on the SAP Help Business Configuration to access additional SAP Central Business Configuration to get
Portal to find documentation and further resources, such as overview slide decks, a clear overall picture and deep dive into
learning content: blogs, and recorded live sessions. various aspects.

• User Setup and Access guide

• Project Experience guide SAP Customer Influence Portal
• Security guide
• What’s New information
• Tutorial Library with click-through tutorials Any ideas about how to improve our software? SAP customers and partners can submit and vote on
• FAQs improvement requests for SAP Central Business Configuration on the SAP Customer Influence
Portal (S-user required). To learn more, you can read this blog.
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SAP Central Business Configuration
Relevance for SAP Customers and Partners

Customers With CBC1 Implementation Partners Customers Without CBC1 / 3SL

▪ SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition customers ▪ Implementation partners who guide new SAP ▪ SAP will determine the sequence of SAP
based on license contracts: S/4HANA Cloud, public edition customers S/4HANA Cloud, public edition customers to be
converted from Manage Your Solution to SAP
▪ since January 2021 use SAP Central ▪ Implementation partners who want to make Central Business Configuration and from 2-system
Business Configuration with SAP themselves familiar with upcoming changes landscape (2SL) to 3-system landscape (3SL), as
S/4HANA Cloud 2-system landscape early well as when the conversion will take place
(2SL)
▪ Conversion is planned to be executed by SAP and
▪ since September 2022 use SAP will not affect the customer’s existing configuration
Central Business Configuration with
SAP S/4HANA Cloud 3-system ▪ After the switch, all future configuration changes
landscape (3SL) (for example, activating new business processes,
rolling out a new country/region) will take place in
▪ Deviations from that might apply SAP Central Business Configuration

▪ More information regarding conversion will be

shared once available and you'll be contacted

1SAP Central Business Configuration is abbreviated to CBC in this

slide deck wherever space does not permit the full name.

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2-System Landscape
For Customer Contracts Prior to Sept. 2022

Besides a starter system, the 2-system landscape consists of a quality system and a production system. Transports from SAP Central Business Configuration to the
quality system and from the quality system to the production system are handled via SAP Central Business Configuration.

SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition

Quality System Production System

SAP Central
Business
Configuration Deploy Release Transport (Q2P)
Production
Quality Tenant
Tenant

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Manage Your Solution
For new customers with contracts as of January 2021, the configurations performed in the Manage Your Solution app via Configure Your
Solution are now carried out using SAP Central Business Configuration, whereas the testing and data migration apps can now be accessed
from the SAP Fiori launchpad.

Moved to in-app help

Moved to CBC

Moved to CBC

Moved to dedicated groups of the SAP S/4HANA Cloud launchpad

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