SAP S/4HANA 1511 - Initial Version (SPS 00) -
This document is an effort to captures a summarized view of "Simplification-Listing" & the restrictions of KEY Functionalities.
Base information has been referred from SAP Notes, Release Information, S/4HANA 1511 sap help.
| Application Area | Area | Item Description |
|---|---|---|
| Financials | ||
| General | Simplified Data Model in SAP S/4HANA Financials | With SAP S/4HANA, on-premise edition identically-named DDL SQL views (compatibility views) replace totals and application index tables in Finance. These views are generated from DDL sources. The replacement takes place during the conversion using SUM. Related data is saved to backup tables. The compatibility views ensure that database SELECTs still work. However, write access (INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, MODIFY) was removed from SAP standard, or has to be removed from custom code. For more information, see SAP Note 1976487 |
| Asset Accounting | Asset Accounting | Data structures in Asset Accounting have been changed massively |
| Controlling | Profit and Loss Planning and Profit Center Planning | CO-OM planning, profit and loss planning, and profit center planning are now covered by Integrated Business Planning. For more information, see SAP Note 2081400 |
| Controlling | Transfer Prices/ Parallel Delta Versions | With the merge of FI and CO into the Universal Journal a new approach for parallel valuations has been implemented. Existing solutions based on parallel delta versions for actuals in Controlling have to be adapted. |
Cash Management | Cash Management | Classic Cash Management is replaced by the new SAP Cash Management powered by SAP HANA. If you used the classical Cash Management and convert to SAP S/4HANA, on-premise edition, you need to activate the new SAP Cash Management. For a more information, see SAP Note 2149337 |
| Credit Management | Auto-Migration | The tools that support an automated migration from FI-AR Credit Management to FIN-FSCM Credit Management cannot be used in SAP S/4HANA, on-premise edition 1511 |
Restrictions 1511 sps 00 |
CO EC-CS |
2233501 - SAP S/4HANA, on-premise 1511: Restriction Note for S/4HANA Finance
2127080 - Release restrictions for SAP Simple Finance on-premise edition 1503 apply to 1511 too
Fiori Fact Sheets in the area of Accounting cannot be used
CO allocation do not support multiple currencies (this restriction is planned to be resolved with SP01)
For the consolidation solution EC-CS, you can no longer define a custom characteristic using the data element or domain MATNR (or any derived). If you are already using a custom characteristic based on the data element or domain MATNR, you cannot upgrade to S/4 HANA. Appropriate transition pre-checks are in place to give the customer the opportunity to check such a situation already on start release |
| Master Data | ||
| Business Partner | Business Partner | The Business Partner approach is mandatory in SAP S/4HANA. The Business Partner is now capable of centrally managing master data for business partners, customers, and vendors. With current development, the Business Partner is the single point of entry to create, edit, and display master data for business partners, customers, and vendors. • maintenance of recipient master data is not possible because Application Equipment & Tools Management is not released with this release • ONLY 85 customer & supplier fields in transaction BP are delivered, others cannot be maintained. |
| Product Master | MRP in Material Master | The MRP functionality has been optimized for Material Master in SAP S/4HANA for simplification purposes. For rmore information, see SAP Note 224371 . Restrictions : (sNOTE# 2237351) • Source list is not considered by MRP sourcing. As workaround use purchasing info records relevant for automatic sourcing. • HANA MRP does not yet create capacity requirements. As workaround use classic MRP (transaction MD01). |
| Logistics | ||
| MM-IM Inventory Management | Simplified inventory management data model | Significant changes of the data model. The new de-normalized table MATDOC has been introduced which contains the former header and item data of a material document as well as a range of other attributes. Material document data is stored in MATDOC only. Actual stock quantity data will be calculated on-the-fly from the new material document table MATDOC for which some of those additional special fields are used. Adoption effort on DDIC level for customer appends and coding adjustments for performance critical parts may be required Restrictions : Printing & Archiving of Material Documents is not possible. It is planned to be realized for the next Service Pack. (snote# 2237351) |
| MM-IM - Inventory Management | Material Valuation | To achieve a significant increase of transactional data throughput for goods movements, we recommend to deactivate the statistical moving average. Caution : The deactivation is not reversible. The deactivation of the statistical moving average is the consequence of a new lock behavior for materials with price control "Standard". |
| PLM - Product Lifecycle Management | BOM, Routing, and Production Version | Only BOMs with valid production version are considered during BOM explosion. Therefore, it is mandatory for manufacturing BOMs to maintain the product version for correct BOM explosion. For all BOMs in the system, we recommend to maintain product versions using the report Product Version Migration for BOM (transaction code CS_BOM_PRODVER_MIGRATION). |
| QM - Quality Management | ITS services for results recording, quality notifications, and quality certificates | The ITS services for the Internet Application Components (IAC) in QM are not available SAP S/4HANA, on-premise edition 1511. Instead, use the corresponding QM transactions in SAP GUI for HTML, or use the Web Dynpro applications, which are part of the PFCG role for NWBC Quality Inspector (SAP_SR_QUALITY_INSPECT_5). |
| PP - Production Planning | Process Control Messages Control Instructions | These functions will be consolidated. Once the successor functions are available, these transaction codes will be replaced in a future release |
| Procurement | ||
| General | Co-Deployment with SAP Supplier Relationship Management (SAP SRM) | If you run SAP SRM and SAP Business Suite on one server, you cannot convert your system to SAP S/4HANA. It is not possible to install the SAP SRM software components within the SAP S/4HANA stack. Accordingly, the related conversion pre-check prevents such systems from being converted. If you run SAP SRM and Business Suite on separate servers, you can continue to integrate SAP SRM with the converted SAP S/4HANA system |
| DIMP | ||
| Automotive | Long Material Number | The industry solution for long material numbers has been replaced by a native long material number in SAP S/4HANA. That replacement has a technical impact, no business impact. Both Material# & Material Description are now 40Char. Extended Mat# - is not visible in LIS (snote# 2232362) Customer and supplier mat# mainly used in communication remain 35Char (snote#2232366) Concatenated Mat# in archived data (snote# 2232391) – is being worked on |
| General | DIMP Added to the CORE | Migration of software component ECC-DIMP to S/4 HANA |
| Sales & Distribution | ||
| Analytics | Logistics Information System (LO-LIS) for Analytics obsolete | Simplification in SD analytics follows the overall analytics strategy in SAP S/4 HANA. Instead of prebuilt aggregates and redundant data for analytical purposes, the SAP S/4HANA Analytics approach is based on ODATA and Open CDS (ABAP-managed CDS = Core Data Services) directly on top of the original database. Corresponding analytics content will be provided within SAP S/4HANA |
| Foreign Trade | Foreign Trade process covered by SAP GTS | With SAP S/4HANA on-premise edition 1511, the business requirements for foreign trade are covered by SAP Global Trade Services (GTS).
SAP GTS can be natively integrated with S/4HANA with limitations.
Please refer sNOTE# 2226408 - Global Trade Services and S/4HANA oP: compatibility information & SAP #sNOTE 2238122 , 2214213
With S/4HANA on-premise edition 1511, the following restrictions apply:
Not Supported - Automatic creation of Intrastat declarations : • SD dispatches and receipts (report RVEXST00, transaction VE01) • MM receipts (report RMIMST00, transaction MEIS) • MM dispatches (report RMEXST00, transaction VI99) • Intercompany billing receipts (report RVIVST00, transaction VI98)
Not Supported - Transfer of S/4 Docs to an external GTS System • SD dispatches and receipts (report /SAPSLL/IS_SD, transaction /SAPSLL/IS_SD • MM receipts (report /SAPSLL/IS_MM, transaction /SAPSLL/IS_MM) • MM dispatches (report /SAPSLL/IS_MM_RET, transaction /SAPSLL/IS_MM_RET) • intercompany billing receipts (report /SAPSLL/IS_SD_IB, transaction /SAPSLL/IS_SD_IB)
Not-Supported Intrastat Declarations : • third party declarants • Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) • Greece • Services in Intrastat declarations are not supported |
| Commodity Management | Commodity Management Sales | If Commodity Business Functions are active in your system, you cannot convert the system to SAP S/4HANA. A conversion pre-check will check the use of these Business Functions and prevent the conversion if they are active |
| Billing | Output Management Simplified output management in SD Billing | With SAP S/4HANA a new output management approach is in place. The target architecture is based on Adobe Document Server and Adobe Forms only.
Billing documents that are migrated from legacy systems and for which NAST based output have been determined, can be processed with this technology. For all new billing documents the new output management is used.
Therefore, in the area billing / customer invoice you need to adapt the configuration settings related to output management. |
| Contract Billing | Contract Billing | Contract Billing is not available in SAP S/4HANA, on-premise edition 1511. If you used Contract Billing in SAP ERP and plan to move to SAP S/4HANA, you have to remodel your business processes. |