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SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition ERP for Professional Services

Professional Services - Industry Focus 

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition

An Agile, Secure and Scalable SAP Cloud ERP Solution

 

What is S/4 HANA Cloud for Professional Services?

As a Professional Service organization, you must anticipate market demands and quickly intervene and adapt within ongoing projects. To optimize performance, improve margins, and enhance customer satisfaction, day-to-day efficient project management and control are crucial. SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition ensures smooth operations throughout project-centric processes.

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SAP S/4HANA Cloud for Professional Services brings real-time accounting and in-depth analytical solutions to your whole organization to plan, execute, and control profitable projects. This cloud-based ERP provides the data-driven insight to effectively allocate the right resources to the right projects while delivering advanced billing capabilities with streamlined revenue forecasting.

The SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition is the ideal solution for organizations that are looking to build their book of business, anchored on a rock solid ERP system, starting with industry-best practices and configured to support their unique business needs.  SAP S/4HANA Cloud is an agile system that works equally as well with single entity/location firms as more complex large multi-entity, multinational enterprises. Wherever your organization’s starting point lies, SAP S/4HANA Cloud has been designed to meet you there, then scale, configure and connect to deliver the right system to support your strategic plans.

Solution Orders

One of the latest features designed to enhance support for the professional Services Business is Solution Orders. You can use solution orders to sell to your customers any combination of different products, such as physical goods, one-time services, long-running service contracts, subscription-based services, and project-based services.

  • Sales of Physical Goods
  • Service, Expense, and Service Parts for one-time services
  • Service Contracts for long-time agreements
  • Subscription Billing
  • Customer Projects, including Project Items for Services

These features are only available within SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition.

Learn more about the latest Solution Orders releases.

Solution Orders

Resource Management

Drive profitability and client satisfaction with efficient Resource Management in SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud. Gain full visibility into resource availability and skillsets to assign the best talent to each project. Improve utilization, reduce bench time, and make data-driven staffing decisions that boost margins and ensure successful project delivery.  

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Billing & Revenue▶️ | Projects & Resources ▶️

Professional Services End-to-End Business Functions

Professional Services - Industry Specific

  • Project Billing for Project-Based Services
  • Sales Order Processes for Project-Based Services
  • Service and Material Procurement for Project-Based Services
  • Utilization Analyzes
  • Core Inventory Management

Order to Cash

  • Sales Quotation
  • Customer Project Analyses
  • Inter-Company Processes for Project-Based Services
  • Inter-Company Billing for Cross-Company Coast Account Postings
  • Internal Project Management
  • Intrastat Processing

Source To Pay

  • Resource Management for Utilization & Staffing
  • Resource Management
  • Procurement of Services
  • Supplier Invoice Processing

Record To Report

  • Accounting and Financial Close
  • Event-Based Revenue Recognition
  • Accounts Payable
  • Accounts Receivables
  • Financial Planning & Analysis
  • Cost Management & Profitability Analysis
  • Treasury Management

Real-Time Insights

  • Sales Order Fulfillment Monitoring
  • Analytics for Project Planning
  • Procurement Monitoring
  • Purchase Order and Spend Visibility
  • Analytics for Finance

General Features

  • Real-Time Standard Reports & KPIs
  • Standard Layout for Available Forms
  • Output Management
  • User Identity Management
  • Solution Management Cockpit
  • Data Migration Tools

Included in the Professional Service Scope

  • Order-to-Cash
  • Source-to-Pay
  • Record-to-Report
  • Master Data Management
  • Standard Forms with own Logo
  • Standard Real-Time Analytics
  • Standard Best Practice Business Roles
  • Localization Support for 48+ Countries
  • Language Support 29+ Languages

Navigator's Approach to Successful Clients

  • Industry-Experience-Driven Phased Implementation Approach
  • Industry Models for Quick Scope Confirmation
  • Workshops for Rapid SAP Best Practice Adoption
  • Pre-Defined Project Planning
  • Working Instructions
  • Data Migration Tooling & Support
  • Test Procedures for Quality and Acceptance
  • Solution Management Cockpit

Solution Details

  • SAP S/4HANA Cloud,  Public Edition*1
  • Optional SAP Cloud Solutions:
    • SAP Concur for Travel and Expense Management *a
    • SAP Fieldglass for Contingent Workforce Management *a
    • SAP Business Technology Platform for Authorization,  Access, Extensibility, and Integrations *a
  • 3 Tier Environment: Development, Quality and Production Systems
  • Configured  Best Practice End-to-End Solutions
  • Standard Forms
  • Dashboard with your Industry KPI’s
  • Twice Yearly Major Scheduled Updates
  • 24/7 Product Support by SAP
*a: Additional subscription-based licensing

Covered

  • Subscription-based License costs
  • Average of 200 named users*
  • Minimum Implementation time of 16 weeks to Go Live
  • Fixed price Implementation costs
  • Starting from 25 Full Usage Equivalent (FUE)*
*a: Additional subscription-based licensing



Business Features for Professional Services

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Sell and plan engagement

  • Bid management: Profitable bids based on previous engagements
  • Project planning: Creation and revision of engagement budgets

 Recruit and staff

  • Resource management: Intelligent resource management and matching of demand and supply
  • Project Execution: Tracking milestones, time, effort, and expenses 

Work and Deliver

  • Project Forecasting: Monitoring of progress throughout service delivery and forecast outcomes
  • Project Insights: Real-time insights into financials, resources, margins, and risks

 Forecast and Bill

  • Billing and Revenue: Support for multiple different revenue recognition and billing models in real time and reconciliation free
  • Financial Operations: Automated and optimized financial operations and real-time universal ledger

 Sourcing & Procurement

  • Sourcing and contract management
  • Operational and service procurement
  • Invoice and payables management
  • Supplier management
  • Procurement Analytics

 Finance

  • Accounting and financial close
  • Cost management and profitability analysis
  • Advanced accounting and financial close
  • Treasury and risk management
  • Enterprise risk and compliance

 Sales and service

  • Sales performance management
  • Subscription billing and revenue management
  • Order and contract management
  • Direct store delivery
  • Multichannel billing

S/4HANA Cloud - Release Highlights  

SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2208, Feature Scope Description

S/4 HANA Cloud, Public Edition Best-Practice Processes

Check out these value references for each aspect of your business. 

Asset Management

50% reduction in lead time, more accurate assessment of asset capacity, and potential for overload work

Manage assets more efficiently, eliminating a daily three-hour manual asset management process and removing human errors

 

Information Technology

Lower total cost of ownership with reduced IT costs, minimized risk, and a path for future enterprise growth

Savings of approximately one million in hardware maintenance costs and a 10% improvement in IT operations

Finance

84% reduction in time required to release invoices, freeing up employees for core business processes

1.5x more payment transactions managed by the same number of employees

Procurement

$2 million saved by reducing duplicate purchase orders

Standardizing procurement processes and minimizing human intervention, helping to reduce costs and efficiently manage suppliers

R&D / Engineering

Improved processes for product development

Reimagined contact-to-cash process to improve project profitability

Supply Chain

97% of deliveries made on time - up from 90% increased customer satisfaction

Increase the inventory turnover rate by 30%, shorten the turnover time from 30 to 20 days, and reduce inventory cost by 10%

Why Should Midsize Businesses Move to Cloud ERP?

Cloud ERP can help midsized businesses accelerate their growth with a solution that can allow them expand as their business evolves, innovate faster and always be compliant with any regulation in any country.
SAP S4 HANA

 

Take the lead with business innovation for top-line, bottom-line, and green-line growth.

Top-line Growth

Grow revenue by introducing transformative business models in your industry. Our cloud ERP software offers the capabilities you need to be an innovator, a visionary – and a disruptor.

Bottom-line Growth

Unlock new efficiency with automated business processes across your mission-critical processes so you can always be agile and ready for what’s next.

Green-line Growth

Manage sustainability with enterprise-wide transparency and controls. Our cloud ERP software allows you to embed sustainability into your core business processes and operations.

Resources

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