What is your primary use case for SAP S/4HANA Cloud?

I work with SAP S_4HANA Cloud solution. We have experience with Cloud ERP as we are using SAP S_4HANA Cloud here in my current organization. We are mainly using SAP S_4HANA Cloud for recording all our financial transactions, purchase orders, payroll processing, employee timesheets, and monitoring the project plans versus actuals; almost every activity related to my current company is recorded through SAP S_4HANA Cloud.

We are using SAP S/4HANA Cloud with different modules such as PM, FICO, and PS. These are the modules we are presently using. Based on my recent experience, I have observed that Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) appears to offer a more mature and user-friendly approach to financial transaction processing compared to SAP S/4HANA Cloud. Specifically, Oracle's financial modules often provide a more intuitive and streamlined interface for entering and managing financial data, which can enhance user productivity and reduce training time. Oracle provides more control over subledger-level accounting rules through tools like SLA (Subledger Accounting), users typically see more granular control and visibility during data entry and posting. Whereas in SAP S4 Hana transactions are posted directly into the Universal Journal (table ACDOCA), ensuring real-time impact across financials and controlling. Offers simplified data models, eliminating many reconciliation steps between subledgers and the general ledger. However, I must acknowledge that my exposure to SAP S/4HANA Cloud is relatively recent, and my current perception may evolve as I gain deeper insights into the system's capabilities, configuration options, and best practices.

Some of the use cases for SAP S/4HANA Cloud include the transition from ECC 6.0 to the S/4HANA version where they started by building out their finance ledger in S/4HANA, also known as Simple Finance, which allowed them to move their ECC systems, including order to cash and procure to pay functions into the S/4HANA system. It began as an S/4HANA system only taking financial transactions, then part of a business line was moved fully into S/4HANA, and over time they are addressing other major systems managing regions like Europe and Asia, with a complete transition mandated by 2027.

With SAP S/4HANA Cloud, we are doing migrations, spin-offs, starboards, and implementations. We are doing end-to-end migration in SAP S/4HANA Cloud.

The main use case for SAP S/4HANA Cloud for my clients revolves around its ERP capabilities. Companies often opt for SAP because it is a leading product in the market. The choice is sometimes predetermined due to its widespread usage among large enterprises. Clients primarily look for better controls and main ERP functionalities.

I am currently working as an SAP EWM consultant. I am also involved in sales and distribution, and I work with SAP S4HANA Cloud in supply chain management.

We use the product for handling configurations and managing user requirements across different modules.

Our primary use case for SAP S/4HANA Cloud is managing and coordinating theatre productions, including handling logistics, accommodations, and technical requirements. It supports our environment by streamlining communication and ensuring seamless event execution across various venues.

The primary use case for SAP S4HANA Cloud is to support my business, PeerSpot, by enhancing various business processes.

We were migrating from our in-house ERP solution to the solution, which was a more corporate-centralized solution. My role was to lead the team in mapping our processes with the central team. We aimed to find synergies and learn how to handle processes that weren't directly covered.

The use cases are for ERP, for manufacturing, for sales, for finance, HR, material management. Normally, all the basic modules of any ERP package.

I work with SAP S/4HANA Cloud with two major clients: one in the UAE and one in UK. I already work with the cloud-based S/4HANA and ECC. Use cases also depends on the business process. It's personal to what the use of the previous business process was, what they want, what they get from ECC, and what they want in S/4HANA. Everything in S/4HANA is related to the business processes. It depends entirely on the customer's or client's requirements. If you want to check the software via ALV report, S/4HANA can deliver it. If you want to show everything graphically, S/4HANA can deliver that capability, too. If anyone wants to check data, like dashboards, S/4HANA also provides those facilities via Fiori apps. S/4HANA delivers everything related to the business process.

SAP S/4HANA Cloud streamlines my client's business and, with the move to the cloud, it is more flexible and efficient.

In my consulting work, clients commonly use SAP S/4HANA Cloud for finance and logistics. Some integrate additional applications through the Business Technology Platform, while others streamline manufacturing processes with Digital Supply Chain functionalities.

Speaking about use cases, it is a whole ERP system for a medical tech company.

We use SAP S/4HANA Cloud for claims portal applications in more than 25 countries. It is used to work on customer complaints after the sale order has been created. Once the customer or distributor raises their complaint, it goes into different levels of approval. Then, based on whether the different levels of approval have been accepted or rejected, an order gets created in the back end of the SAP system, and a cash memo or part exchange is given to the customer. Before the final approval, different approvals and IDs are created in the SAP cloud database instead of the SAP on-premise database to help reduce the number of users.

We're a manufacturing company that uses S/4HANA for managing finances and other business processes.

SAP S/4HANA Cloud has been used in manufacturing, for niche industries, such as automotive utilities, higher education, and oil and gas.

Its use cases are related to financial management, asset management, ERP, logistics, and sales.

We use SAP S/4HANA Cloud to pull data and analyze it in Excel.

Our primary use case for the solution is processing funds. All active sales and sales activities are managed on SAP S/4HANA, which is production, packing, outbound, and inbound.

Our company deploys the solution for our customers as a business ERP for daily operations. We work primarily in the construction, service, and manufacturing industries. Our company has 120 users, administrators, and developers who use the solution.

I use S/4HANA Cloud to manage our business and maintain our raw materials and finances, accounts, employee details, supplier details, invoices, payments, and all supply-chain management details.

I primarily use SAP S4HANA Cloud for production planning.

It's an information management system and can have all your company's information.

SAP S/4HANA Cloud can be integrated with other non-SAP applications. Our company wants to elevate the core user experience and wants users to use the SAP favourite mobile applications.

We use this solution to do a lot of mock up applications to mimic the user scenarios for a couple of our current clients. We try to use those scenarios to see how S/4HANA could be used as a system to better authorize the current client's ability. I'm using version 1909. The cloud provider is AWS. There are around 20 people using this solution in my organization.

We are resellers of this product.

The solution is used to solve many activities. We use it, for example, for backoffice, to solve the problem in control and governance. It gives us more "information control". That's the main mission of ERP software.

We are into little segments and we are using SAP's little option. We are using five models in that S4HANA, and this is just the backend. On the front-end side, we are using both applications and both are integrated together.

My primary use case is for organizational design, especially for payroll.

We primarily use the solution for data governance. It is a lot of mastering data and depends on the organization and how the organization is structured. There can be more centralized data or data structured for the organization. You can work on the localization where it's an expanded version of oversight for data governance. It varies, however, it's really driven by master data maintenance and product compliance behind that maintenance, managing, and governing of master data.

We use it for our manufacturing and sales.

The business suite that I have got the most experience with is SAP, but they are making that transition into S/4HANA. With S/4HANA, they got both an on-premise and a cloud-based solution, so you can buy it in the cloud on a subscription service or you can have it on-premise. On-premises allows you to manage your own site solution, which a lot of big companies might prefer to do. But then Microsoft Dynamics 365 is also a cloud-based solution that you pay a monthly subscription per person fee — or whatever arrangements you can work out. I think NetSuite is the same way. Unfortunately, I have not been directly involved in developing any larger use cases for S/4HANA or 365 or NetSuite. That has been a frustration for me over the last seven or eight years. My move to do an independent consultant was actually to get back into the ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) environment and the opportunities just have not been there to further explore the possibilities. It has been kind of frustrating because I have had to focus mostly on continuous improvement and other areas. But even though I spent 10 years in the SAP space, it seems like now I am too far away from where I should have been in working with the product. When I look at these cloud-based solutions in comparison, I have been following SAP and S/4HANA since it started. At least from my point-of-view, SAP is leaps and bounds ahead of anybody else in that space by far. They are not going to be a perfect ERP solution for everyone, but they look like they are going to try to stay as close to that as anyone can. What they are doing as a total ERP package can support the whole enterprise.