SAP S/4HANA Primary Use Case
There are a lot of options for deploying S/4HANA. It depends on the industry and the customer's budget. It is usually deployed on-premise in the public sector, but tech companies mostly choose the cloud option.
SAP provides you with single-tenant and multi-tenant options when you opt for the public cloud. When it is a single tenant, it's typically a private cloud managed by SAP, but the customer's budget also factors in. If they're working with a large budget, a customer might opt for a public cloud, but government clients might opt for a completely on-premise solution because of data security regulations.
Most of our customers plan to move to S/4HANA. We usually start with central finance and later prepare a migration plan. By the time we're ready to deploy, SAP may have released a new version, so the customer might choose the latest edition depending on their budget go for the latest version, or they may only be interested in whatever version was on the market when we were in the planning stage.
View full review »I have implemented many different versions of SAP S/4HANA (since 1511) with the latest version being S/4HANA 2021
Led Transformation Projects covering core processes such as P2P, O2C, R2R, A2R, D2O,H2R, etc.
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VINCENTWU
Project Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
We use the solution to import master data. We use classic resolution to collect local US company material masters and align HQ material masters' numbers. We import FI/CO/MM/PP/SD IMG and opening posting accounts and stock.
We use it to import transactional data. We collect purchase orders and sales orders into S4H
We also use it to import security. We collect user roles and permission objects.
We provide training requirements for logistic modules for sales orders to intercompany purchase orders and make production orders for goods issued and goods received. Finally, we run production order confirmations for cost variants.
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SAP S/4HANA
April 2024
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Most of our customers have their applications hosted on SAP. Therefore, they have stored the data on SAP S/4HANA database.
View full review »Customers reach out to me when they have challenges related to licensing and contracting costs associated with it.
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Feghouli Sofiabe
Co-owner / Board Member at ITS
Our company implements the solution for customers. It is used for order management, finance, purchasing, and manufacturing. We currently have two customers using the solution.
View full review »Our organization is into the technology stack. Our customers are big companies from around the globe that all use SAP, either hosting it on public cloud, private cloud or on-premise. Personally, I have 22 years of experience. I deal with the operating systems, databases and the installation of the applications.
S/4HANA is an ERP package that runs on HANA database and LINUX operating systems. Most big companies are running their ERP on SAP.
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SanjeevKumar12
Director at ApON India
SAP S4HANA is used as an enterprise resource planning solution.
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Puneet
Senior Manager at Capgemini
SAP S4HANA is a product that can be used for any hyper-scale, such as AWS, Google, or Azure. It can even be used on-premises.
SAP S4HANA is part of an Intelligent Enterprise and the solution is used for various things.
View full review »I have been a consultant for SAP retail, SAP Fashion as well as generic. I also have been exposed to many business sectors.
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Guillaume-PIERRE
Senior Partner at AGLC Consulting
Most of my clients use it for controlling finances and for BI (purchasing and sales). Depending on the activity, we can also use it for logistics and plan management, like in energy module ISU — it's a specific module for energy, oil and gas distribution.
View full review »Many look for companies and partners who can help them implement SAP S/4HANA. So, we help in the implementation phase. We provide ongoing support as well.
View full review »SAP S4HANA is used as a complete resource planning solution for our organization.
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Ali Mirnia
Chief Executive Officer at Redment
SAP S4HANA is a resource-plaining solution that can help with digital transformation by using features, such as robotic process automation. It has very useful functionality but, at the moment, AI is not very natural in the world.
Our company is very large and out of the largest six modules in SAP S4HANA, we use Material Management, Sales and Distribution, Plant Maintenance, Quality Management, Customer Service, and Production Planning.
We use all modules in accounting, for example, Financial Supply Chain Management, Treasury Management, and Project System. In the warehouse, we use Transportation Management and Extended Warehouse Management and in the HR system, we use Personnel Administration, Payroll, and Time Administration.
View full review »I use the solution in the retail and manufacturing industry.
View full review »It's mainly for business enterprise planning and enterprise resource management.
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reviewer1601094
Senior Media Strategist at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We use it for our financials and ERP.
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Rahul Lamba
Senior Functional Consultant at Cognitus Consulting
I'm a senior functional consultant and we partner with SAP.
View full review »We use this solution for ERP in our business. The solution is deployed on-prem. We have a backup on the cloud through Azure.
View full review »SAP S4HANA can be used for many things such as financials, accounts payable, accounts receivables, set accounting, management accounting, and banking.
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reviewer1377633
Vice President, Corporate IT at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
We are in the food business so the solution helps with our business processes as well as the financial aspect - sales, purchasing, manufacturing - all the core business processes across all these modules. I'm the vice president corporate IT and we are customers of SAP.
View full review »I am the Director of Operation of SAP Support Company dedicated is support and can see how SAP is very stable and adding great value to different business areas.
View full review »I work for a consulting company. Globally, we have clients in oil and gas, construction, and other industries.
We have about 26 people using this solution.
View full review »This solution is installed in the customer's system, and we perform SAP Basis administration.
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Tim
System & Network Engineer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Our company implements the solution for customers in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries. We manage transformational projects that include selection, upgrade, or replacement of systems that require ERP solutions.
Our biggest implementation was for a chemical company's software hub that was custom-built on an AS/400 mainframe and they wanted to move to an ERP system. After a six-month package selection process, we chose the solution combined with extensions provided by an implementation partner that added specific functionality and narrowed down customizations.
Across all of our projects, there are 5,000 users of the solution.
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Shilin Yan
Customer Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
I do pre-sales, or sell the SAP solutions to the customer. I need to know the requirements and match the SAP solution. I am not an expert on SAP HANA or SAP S/4HANA
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reviewer1717746
SAP Technology Manager at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
We are implementing SAP S/4HANA for our customers.
We are dealing with firms who are into manufacturing, retail, and pharmaceutical.
Nowadays, people are choosing the cloud solution only, and are probably going with AWS or Azure. It varies from case to case.
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Daniel Paiva
IT Coordinator at Cooperativa Central Dos Produtores Rurais De Minas Gerais Ltda.
We use SAP S4HANA for our main backup processes. Most of the backups processes if for sales, supply, accounting, and financial.
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reviewer1487229
Head of Procurement at a retailer with 501-1,000 employees
This product is the ERP. I'm on the procurement side. Therefore, I leverage it for purchase orders and finance and have all the processes together.
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DiaaHussein
Digital Transformation Director at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
We use SAP S4HANA in a distribution business. We have the main site which purchases all material for management and then it goes through the main warehouses to the distribution sites. Finance controls, sales, and distribution are already there with the treasury added on top of the project.
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Shankar Agarwal
Senior Manager at Mazars India
I am a consultant and SAP S4HANA is one of the products that I work with.
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reviewer1397796
Director at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
It is used for financial accounting. We are a system integrator, and we have some customers using it. Some customers are on-prem, and we also have some customers on Azure.
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ArifKundi
Chief Executive Officer at Biz Tech Resources
We are consultants who help supervise our customers' implementation projects. Two of our customers use S4HANA. The older ones are on the ECC platform.
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SheerazA786
Administrator at HCI
We are using SAP S4HANA for the OIL and GAS industry.
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Eman El Bakry
Individual Contributor at EJADA
My main use of this product is for finance and controlling.
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reviewer1579086
Associate director at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution can be used for many things in an organization, such as managing sales, operations, supply chain logistics, master data, and product management.
View full review »I'm an SAP solution architect and we are partners with SAP.
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reviewer1676889
Project and Service delivery Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
I used S/4HANA as a classical ERP system, so I used it to manage the data feeds of enterprise companies. One of them was an IT services company and the other was in the pharmaceutical business. They were two different businesses, but S/4HANA has so many modules and adjustments that you can generally adjust it to any kind of a business.
S/4HANA can be cloud-based or deployed on-premises, but in both of my implementations, it was on-prem.
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Dinesh Kumar
IT & SAP Head at kudos chemie limited
We are in the progress right now in achieving the maximum utilization of the SAP HANA. We are exploring most of the available features.
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reviewer1773648
Director Comercial at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
the primary use case is to support business processes, ensure the operation of the company and compliance with regulatory and tax requirements. Provide management information in real time to improve decision making
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reviewer1589064
Works at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
We are using SAP S4HANA for supply chain management, production planning, and material management. We have connected systems that have intelligent optimization for production planning outside of SAP S4HANA.
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reviewer1403493
Lead Consultant at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
We are a pre-sales team and I have been working as a consultant for SAP S4HANA.
Most often, we deal with manufacturing CPG customers. We prefer the complete SAP S4HANA Suite, with all of the functionalities, and the use cases are typically everything that is offered from the processes in that suite.
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reviewer1646739
SAP Data and Analytics Leader - Technology Consulting and Advisory at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
We have used SAP S4HANA as a complete enterprise resource planning solution for almost every use case you can think of.
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AmitShah3
Mechanical Engineer at a real estate/law firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Our company analyzes material inventory and then processes the financial accounting which is handled by the system we created using the product.
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Jayaprakash Kuppusamy
Associate IT Consultant at itcinfotech
S/4HANA BASIS administration and technical architect solutions.
View full review »We are partners with SAP S4HANA and I'm company director.
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reviewer1800138
IT Director at a wholesaler/distributor with 51-200 employees
We use SAP S4HANA for manufacturing and financials because we are a manufacturing firm.
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reviewer1687422
SAP Consultant at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Mostly I have dealt with project-based manufacturing companies where they do custom product builds, like heavy equipment, compressors, steam turbines, and stuff like that.
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Carlos Guzman
CEO at CJG Consulting
With our customers, we are currently administering their solution over SAP HANA and with different infrastructures such as cloud computing, AWS, Azure, GCP, and others that are also on-premise.
We have customers with new implementations and we offer this product to them. We handle the technical installation, then the high availability solution, the disaster recovery, et cetera. We are doing the administration of all the landscapes and a sub-basic administration.
In all the other cases we have, the customers are immigrating their solution from SAP HEC. That is the other server for SAP. We bring it to the cloud with public clouds like AWS. Those cases are the most common.
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reviewer1391076
Technical Lead / Solution Architecture / Software Development - SAP at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We use this solution for our manufacturing processes, sales, finance, pretty much everything.
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reviewer1751868
Head of Information Technology at a energy/utilities company with 51-200 employees
My primary use of this solution is for FICO supply, distribution, and inventory.
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reviewer1750017
Gerente SAP at a pharma/biotech company with 201-500 employees
My primary use case is to create solution architectures, including solutions in the cloud and on-premise.
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reviewer782994
Senior IT Manager with 501-1,000 employees
We use the solution to comprehensively manage our business.
MC
reviewer893631
Head of PMO at a tech company with 1-10 employees
We are using using almost all of SAP S4HANA's modules, from production and planning to finance and controlling.
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reviewer1570197
CTO at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Most of the modules in our corporation is on the finance module. We also use it for HCM.
View full review »SAP S/4 HANA has cloud facilities. Also, it has Fiori apps. This tool helps us to manage business in a faster and smarter way.
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SAP S/4HANA
April 2024
Learn what your peers think about SAP S/4HANA. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
769,789 professionals have used our research since 2012.