SAP S4 HANA FINANCE

Major differences between SAP

ECC and SAP S4HANA Finance
Indexes tables and total tables are
Converted to CDS views
 What are the indexes tables
 The tables which are used to record the primary values in
➢ BSIK BSAK (Vendors)
➢ BSID BSAD (Customers) and
➢ BSIS BSAS (G/Ledgers)
• What are the total tables
➢ FAGLFLEXA
➢ FAGLFLEXT
• Now all these functionalities are part of ACDOCA Table
• Foreign Currency revaluation
• Old t-code as FAGL_FC_VAL Has been obsoleted and new T-code FAGL_FCV has been
added for the above-mentioned functionality apart from new T-code new screen with
Extension ledger and Simulation Accounting functionality have also been added
Fakhar Abbas SAP Finance Control, CMA (IMA)
USA
 SAP S4Hana, there are total 10 Currencies can be maintained/Configured
➢ Company Code Currency/Local Currency
➢ Global /Group currency
➢ Freely defined Currency 1 to Free defined Currency 8
• New T-Code: FINSC_LEDGER
• Currency Settings
• In SAP ECC there are just 3 Currencies can be customized/Configured Old T-Code: OB22
➢ Company Code Currency/Local Currency
➢ Global /Group currency
➢ Hard /Index currency
• Changes in Master Data
• ➢ G/L Accounts
• There are number of pre-defined G/L Account Types from there you select its type
• No need to separately make Cost elements via KA01 and KA06 just need to execute FS00 for both requirements
• ➢ Customer and Vendor Master data
• In SAP S4HANA ,you don’t need to run after separates t-codes for Customer and Vendors Masters instead a single
Function can be used called as BP (business Partner) function can be used.
• Apart from these new t-code, A very demanding Business Process Customer is a vendor and vendor is a customer
can be achieved with a single code for both of the customer and vendor.
Credit management
 In SAP S4HANA credit management is mandatory and comes under the domain of FSCM
instead of SAP SD domain
 Material Ledger
 In SAP S4HANA material ledger has been made mandatory for every enterprise but Actual
costing is still under the optional umbrella for the business needs.
 Universal Journal.
 A new table called as universal journal has been added in S4HANA system What the ate
characteristics.
 ➢ ACDOCA has fields from CO, CO-PA, ML, AA that are not in BSEG. BSEG has dedicated
fields for open item management / payment that are not in ACDOCA. Due to 999 line items
limitation, BSEG is usually aggregated. This limitation is not applicable for
ACDOCA(DOCLN field length is 6)
 ➢ Apparently BSEG is used for the “entry view” of documents, as well as open item
management. The Note points out that some postings do not require the “entry view” so they
are only contained in ACDOCA (which is the “G/L view”). So ACDOCA has all documents,
but not so BSEG.
Real time Integration between SAP FI and SAP CO
 In SAP S4HANA system, There is real time integration Between FI and CO as you will
see there is no separate document for Co domain but with a encrypted type way a one
document is posted for CO domain. This is possible because of Universal Journal added
in the S4HANA system
 Technical clearing Accounts/asset Accounting
 New Functionality named as technical clearing Account has been added in S4HANA
➢ The Technical clearing account is a reconciliation account
 Furthermore, you can also have more than one technical clearing account.
➢ The Technical Clearing Account is a new account that you introduce for accounts and
cannot post to a single ledger only.
➢ If you are using Accounts Payable, you can take advantage of the following benefits of
integration: For an asset acquisition (without reference to a purchase order), you can post
the asset acquisition and the corresponding payable due from a vendor in the same
transaction. This reduces data entry.
Major Differences found in Material Management
Module (MM ECC Vs MM S4)
1. Material number Length.
 In S4Hana material number Length has been increased to 40 digits
2. Multiple units of Measure.
 In SAP S/4 HANA, such as the ability to manage multiple units of measure for a single
material has been made possible.
3. New Screen/Advance Planning view in material Master .
 This is for Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling (PP-DS). PP-DS is the production
planning part of SAP APO, which is integrated into S/4HANA. SAP APO is an additional
module from SAP.
4. New warehouse management related views
 These are due to the integration of the basic version of Extended Warehouse Management
(EWM) into S/4HANA. The basic version is capable of managing an average warehouse
 The latest version of S/4HANA even has a full Fiori dashboard that makes it easy to manage
your warehouse. It’s a good idea to start thinking about this, because SAP WM will stop in
2027
Changes to the Import and Export view
 The name of the view has changed, and the commodity code field is no longer visible.You
must now assign the commodity code to a material with a start and end date. In addition,
these data are no longer stored in MARC, which means that the data are no longer site
dependent.
1. MRP areas are more important.
• This has to do with MRP subcontracting. In S/4HANA you must use an MRP area for
subcontracting. Also, the MRP area is now an active part of SAP: you cannot deactivate it
2. Change in MRP planning.
• In S/4HANA the MRP planning can only be done on plant level and on MRP area level. So, it
can no longer be done on the basis of storage locations
• MRP in ECC is run through batch jobs and during off peak hours. However, there is no need
of batch job in S4H and MRP can now be run in real time with HANA.
3. New Material type SERV introduced.
• In addition to the above changes, SAP introduces a new material type, SERV.
• an alternative to – or actually the improved version of – the DIEN material type.
• You can use both material types for the same purpose. The main difference is that
you can only use SERV based on Fiori.
Some of Technical Changes in S4 MM
1. Restructuring of back-end tables and transactions
Few transactions are made obsolete such as MB01, MB02...MB05, MB0A, MB11, 1A....MBSU.
They have been replaced by Fiori apps for the better user experience and improved performance and less load
on data bases.
2. Technical tables Replacements.
Inventory Management is reduced is reduced from 26 tables to a single table MTDOC
3. Post Goods Receipt against the Inbound Delivery
An additional feature of the SAP Fiori app is the ability to search by Inbound Delivery and other
attributes.
Serial numbers and batch managed material cannot be used to do goods receipt in Fiori at the moment
4. Stock Transfer between Storage Locations (One step transfer)
In ECC while doing the one step transfer the transaction code used is MIGO with movement type 311.
In Fiori it is the "Transfer Stock- In Plant".
This app will pull in information such as material details and shows the material stock overview.
Major Differences found in Sales &
Distribution Module
 Functional changes occurred in S4hana.
1. Credit management with FSCM
 SAP had two system solutions for credit management – one is credit management (FI-AR-
CR) with Sales & Distribution and another with financial supply chain management (FIN-
FSCM-CR) which has more advanced functionalities
 In S/4HANA, FIN-FSCM-CR is mandatory to be used for credit management as stated in
note 2270544.
 Sales order blocked for credit cannot be approved with ECC transaction code like VKM3
2. S&D Rebates.
 Customer rebates through existing SD rebate processing in ECC have been replaced by
settlement management-rebate condition contract through condition contracts in S/4HANA
 SAP’s new Revenue Accounting and Reporting (RAR) solution is in S4H. for fundamental
changes with IFRS 15 and also to meet the requirement of parallel accounting and cost
recognition.
Some of Technical Changes in S4HANA
1. Elimination of Index tables
• Document index tables VAKPA, VAPMA, VLKPA, VLPMA, VRKPA, VRPMA
• Rebate index table VBOX
• LIS tables S066, S067
2. Elimination of status tables (VBUK,VBUP)
• Status information moved from VBUK to VBAK , VBUP to VBAP for Sales order, to LIKP &
LIPS for delivery, to VBRK for billing documents
• Selection of document header data and document header status requires one SELECT
statement (VBAK) instead of two SELECT statements (VBAK and VBUK). Similarly for the item
tables.
3. Simplified document flow
• Extension of Sales document category (Data element VBTYP) from Char1 to Char4
• Only direct relationships are stored, not indirect relationship (STUFE) in initial release of
S/4HANA
• Indirect relationship with STUFE (Level of the document flow record) restored for the
purpose of Archiving in later release of /4HANA