Foreword from Uwe Grigoleit |
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Foreword from Cameron Art |
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Preface |
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1 The Digital Transformation: An Introduction |
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1.1 Defining the Digital Transformation |
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1.2 Business Value Scenarios |
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1.2.1 Customer Centricity and Experience |
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1.2.2 Customer Insight and Improved Decision-Making |
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1.2.3 Digitally Enabled Supply Chain |
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1.3 Architecture at a Glance |
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2.1 Industry Pain Points and SAP S/4HANA Benefits |
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2.1.1 Integration of Information |
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2.1.2 Enterprise Cost Reductions |
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2.1.3 Measuring Business Performance |
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2.1.4 Optimize Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting |
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2.1.5 Continuous Finance Process Improvements |
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2.1.6 Provide Inputs to Enterprise Strategy |
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2.1.7 Develop Talent in the Finance Organization |
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2.2.2 Material Ledger and Transfer Pricing |
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2.2.3 New Asset Accounting |
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2.2.5 SAP BPC for SAP S/4HANA Finance |
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2.2.6 Profitability Analysis |
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2.2.8 Real-Time Data and Soft Close |
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3.1 Industry Pain Points and SAP S/4HANA Benefits |
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3.2 Key Manufacturing Functionality |
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3.2.2 Product Master Optimization |
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3.2.3 Embedded Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling |
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3.2.4 Complex Manufacturing |
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3.2.6 General Process Optimization/Simplification |
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4.1 Industry Pain Points and SAP S/4HANA Benefits |
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4.2 Key Supply Chain Functionality |
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4.2.1 Data Model Simplification |
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4.2.2 Simplified Inventory Valuation |
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4.2.4 Transportation Management |
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5 Sales, Marketing, Commerce, and Service Management |
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5.1 Industry Pain Points and SAP S/4HANA Benefits |
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5.2 Key Sales Functionality |
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5.2.1 Data Model Simplification |
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5.2.2 Sales Order Fulfillment Cockpit |
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5.2.3 Condition Contract Settlement |
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5.2.5 General Process Optimization/Simplification |
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5.3 Key Marketing and Commerce Functionality |
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5.3.1 Customer Relationship Management |
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5.3.2 SAP Billing and Revenue Innovation Management |
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5.4 Key Service Management Functionality |
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5.4.1 Optimized Service and Service Master Data Management |
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5.4.2 Service Parts and Service Agreement Management |
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6 Sourcing and Procurement |
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6.1 Industry Pain Points and SAP S/4HANA Benefits |
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161 | (3) |
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6.2 Key Sourcing and Procurement Functionality |
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164 | (9) |
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6.2.1 Operational Purchasing |
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6.2.2 Invoice and Payables Management |
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6.2.3 Sourcing and Contract Management |
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6.2.4 Supplier Evaluation and Analytics |
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7 Research and Development and Asset Management |
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7.1 Industry Pain Points and SAP S/4HANA Benefits |
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7.2 Key Research and Development Functionality |
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7.2.1 SAP Innovation Management |
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7.2.2 SAP Portfolio and Project Management |
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7.2.3 SAP Commercial Project Management |
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7.2.4 SAP Product Lifecycle Costing |
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7.3 Key Asset Management Functionality |
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7.3.1 Maintenance Planning and Scheduling |
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7.3.2 Maintenance Operation and Execution |
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7.3.3 Mobile Asset Maintenance |
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8.1.1 Technical Simplifications |
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188 | (2) |
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8.1.2 Available Functionality |
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190 | (2) |
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8.1.3 Removed and Nonstrategic Functionality |
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8.2.1 Technical Simplifications |
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8.2.2 Upstream and Downstream |
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8.2.3 Trader's and Scheduler's Workbench |
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8.2.4 Transportation and Distribution |
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8.2.5 Secondary Distribution |
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9 SAP S/4HANA Architecture |
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203 | (58) |
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9.1 The Journey from SAP ERP to SAP S/4HANA |
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203 | (13) |
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9.1.1 The Evolution of SAP S/4HANA |
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9.1.2 SAP S/4HANA as the Digital Core |
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209 | (3) |
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9.1.3 The Roadmap to SAP S/4HANA and Innovations |
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212 | (4) |
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216 | (29) |
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216 | (4) |
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220 | (4) |
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224 | (2) |
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226 | (8) |
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9.2.5 SAP HANA Operations |
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234 | (5) |
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9.2.6 SAP HANA Logical Deployment Options |
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9.2.7 SAP HANA Platform Services |
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242 | (3) |
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9.4 SAP S/4HANA Core Data Models |
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9.5 User Interface and User Experience |
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9.6 Data Lifecycle Management |
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10.2 SAP S/4HANA Versions |
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264 | (11) |
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10.2.1 On-Premise SAP S/4HANA |
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264 | (7) |
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11.2 Current Scope of the Solution |
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284 | (7) |
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11.3.2 Deployment Resources |
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286 | (4) |
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11.3.3 SAP Best Practices Explorer |
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11.3.4 Self-Service Configuration User Interface |
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11.5 Content Lifecycle Management |
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298 | (10) |
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12.1.2 In-App Extensibility |
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12.1.3 Side-by-Side Extensibility |
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12.3 Internet of Things and Cognitive Analytics |
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312 | (2) |
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12.4 SAP Leonardo and Machine Learning |
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314 | (5) |
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13.1 New Implementation Options and Approach |
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13.1.1 Business Scenario Recommendations |
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13.1.2 SAP S/4HANA Value Advisor |
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324 | (1) |
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13.1.3 SAP S/4HANA Transformation Navigator |
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13.1.5 Sizing Requirements |
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13.1.6 SAP S/4HANA Implementation Guidelines |
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327 | (2) |
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13.2 System Conversion Options and Approach |
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329 | (16) |
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13.2.3 Tools for System Conversion |
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13.2.4 Code Remediation, HANAtization, and Optimization |
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339 | (5) |
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13.2.5 Application-Specific Conversion Steps |
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344 | (1) |
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13.3 SAP S/4HANA Conversion Prerequisites |
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345 | (9) |
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13.3.1 SAP S/4HANA Transformation Considerations |
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346 | (1) |
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13.3.2 SAP S/4HANA Application Prerequisites |
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13.3.3 SAP S/4HANA Functional Restrictions |
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348 | (6) |
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13.4 Housekeeping Activities |
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13.5 System Conversion Considerations |
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356 | (4) |
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13.5.1 Greenfield Implementation |
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356 | (2) |
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13.5.2 Brownfield Implementation |
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358 | (2) |
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13.6 SAP S/4HANA Migration Cockpit |
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13.6.1 On-Premise SAP S/4HANA |
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13.7 Tools and Techniques for Minimizing Downtime |
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364 | (4) |
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13.7.1 Data Volume Management |
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13.7.2 Optimizing Database Migration Option Performance |
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13.7.3 Near-Zero Downtime |
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14.1 SAP Activate Overview |
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14.2 SAP Activate Methodology |
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14.3 SAP Best Practices for SAP Activate |
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14.4.1 Self-Service Configuration |
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14.4.2 Expert Configuration |
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14.4.3 SAP Solution Builder Tool |
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14.4.4 SAP Solution Manager |
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15 SAP S/4HANA and the SAP Landscape |
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389 | (36) |
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15.1 Sourcing and Procurement: SAP Ariba |
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15.1.1 Sourcing and Contracts |
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15.1.2 Requests and Purchases |
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15.1.3 Invoices and Payments |
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394 | (2) |
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15.1.4 SAP Ariba and SAP S/4HANA |
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15.2 Contingent Workforce Management: SAP Fieldglass |
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15.2.1 Vendor Management System |
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15.2.2 SAP Fieldglass and SAP S/4HANA |
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15.3 Travel and Expense Management: Concur |
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15.3.2 Concur and SAP S/4HANA |
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15.4 Human Resources: SAP SuccessFactors |
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15.4.3 SAP SuccessFactors and SAP S/4HANA |
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15.5 Customer Relationship Management: SAP Hybris |
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15.5.3 Revenue and Billing |
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15.5.5 SAP Hybris and SAP S/4HANA |
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15.6 Master Data Management: SAP Master Data Governance |
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15.7 Supply Chain Planning: SAP Integrated Business Planning |
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417 | (6) |
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15.7.1 Sales and Operations Planning |
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15.7.3 Inventory Planning |
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15.7.4 Response and Supply Planning |
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15.7.6 SAP IBP and SAP S/4HANA |
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16 Analytics and Reporting |
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425 | (24) |
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16.1 Evolution of Analytics |
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426 | (3) |
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16.2 Operational Reporting |
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429 | (9) |
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16.2.1 ABAP-Based Reports |
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430 | (1) |
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16.2.2 Embedded Analytics |
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430 | (5) |
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16.2.3 Native SAP HANA Applications |
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16.2.4 Embedded SAP BW and SAP BPC |
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436 | (2) |
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16.3 Enterprise-Wide Reporting |
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438 | (4) |
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16.3.1 SAP HANA Enterprise Analytics |
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439 | (1) |
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16.3.2 SAP Business Warehouse on SAP HANA |
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439 | (2) |
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441 | (1) |
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16.3.4 SAP Analytics Cloud |
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442 | (1) |
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16.5 Big Data Analytics and Data Lakes |
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444 | (4) |
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17 Building a Transformation Roadmap |
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17.1 Envisioning the What and the Why |
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17.1.1 Digital Transformation |
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451 | (7) |
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17.1.3 Making the SAP S/4HANA Case |
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458 | (4) |
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17.2 Developing Your Roadmap |
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17.2.1 Engage Phase: Analyzing the Current Mode of Operations |
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17.2.2 Envision Phase: Exploring the Target Operational Model |
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17.2.3 Evaluate Phase: A Deep Dive into the Transformation Approach |
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467 | (1) |
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17.2.4 Enable Phase: Build Your Roadmap |
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17.3 Understanding the Current Mode of Operations |
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17.4 Defining the Future Mode of Operations |
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17.5 Choosing How to Adopt SAP S/4HANA |
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474 | (2) |
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18.1 Multinational Industrial Company |
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18.2 Multinational Service Company |
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18.3 Manufacturing Company |
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486 | (3) |
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The Authors |
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Index |
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