Overview of SAP OTC(SD) in SAP S/4 HANA

 How does the SAP OTC process look like in SAP S/4 HANA?

With respect to….

1) Master data changes

• The customer/vendor master will soon cease to exist in its current form to be replaced by Business Partner functionality.

2) Functionality changes

• Foreign Trade: Currently, there are 2 options to implement International trades: Foreign trade and GTS (Global Trade Services). In the S/4HANA world, SD-FT will be phased out and businesses must use the GTS functionality.
• Credit Management: The traditional FI/SD Credit Management will be phased out in S/4HANA, and users will need to use FSCM.
• Rebate Management: replaced by Settlement management in S4HANA. There had been SD rebates with customers and MM rebates with suppliers. These are now redundant and have been replaced by the much more flexible approach around Settlement Management, where the user handles all of the customer and supplier rebates in one unified tool.
• Revenue Recognition: SD-Revenue recognition is not available within S/4HANA. The new functionality SAP Revenue accounting and reporting functionality have to be used instead. – Revenue recognition had a simpler process in ECC6.0 SD: During the process, the user amends a setting against the item category to trigger milestone or periodic revenue recognition and then posted the revenue recognition by using VF44. In 2014 when the IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards) introduced IFRS 15 in association with US GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles), these principles became mandatory in the US and much of Europe in 2018, and SAP revamped its revenue recognition offering. This means that the possibility of using old revenue recognition settings is no longer possible in S/4HANA – for revenue recognition, the new Revenue Accounting and Reporting must be followed; this is a big change for SAP and the approach follows five steps as laid out in the diagram below.

• AATP Check: ATP has been around since the dawn of SAP, but with S/4HANA comes to the optional extension ATP
• Output Management- will use BRF+ functionality: This functionality has been around before S/4HANA, but the default output management is now through BRF+ in S/4HANA. The approach is very different from the NAST approach to outputs and provides a web-based portal to manage outputs. BRF+ is an all-encompassing tool where business rules can be defined to drive specific outcomes.
• Sales Analysis: Simplification in SD Analytics: Core Data Services (CDS) basic views represent the core entities in SD: Sales Orders, contracts, quotations, deliveries, and Invoices.

3) Data model simplification

• Status tables VBUK/UP moved to respective documents: VBAK/VBAP for a sales order, LIKP/LIPS for deliveries,
• VBRK/VBRP for billing documents
• Document flow table VBFA simplified- new user interface combining doc flow and status
• Document index tables: VAKPA, VAPMA, VLKPA, VLPMA, VRKPA, VRPMA eliminated and replaced by equivalent
• Compatibility CDS views with the same performance
• Rebate index table VBOX eliminated
• VBTYP field length extended to 4 character
• NAST table phased out and a new Business Rules Framework based output control. The old documents created in SAP ERP will continue to have entries in NAST
• Pricing tables – pricing tables in S/4HANA have been simplified. Table PRCD_ELEMENTS has been introduced to replace table KONV – this is essentially a tidy up by SAP with an associated improvement in system performance. Change of Pricing result persistency enhancements: Some fields are being extended- DZAEHK, KOLNR.

Most of the SD is the same in S4 HANA as it was in earlier versions of SAP. So, what changed….

Fiori, BP, Reporting, BRF+, Status tables, ATP, and finally Activate.

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