SAP Central Business Configuration is a tool that allows you to configure business processes for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition today, as well as further SAP cloud solutions in future, from a single, central location, based on your business needs.
SAP Central Business Configuration runs on the SAP Business Technology Platform and is connected to a customer's SAP S/4HANA Cloud starter and development system tenants. In the future, the goal is for SAP Central Business Configuration to be used to configure and deploy content across multiple SAP Cloud solutions, but at this point in time, it exclusively supports SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition.
SAP Central Business Configuration provides guidance throughout the sequence of activities completed to activate business processes in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition. There is a central overview page where you can see activities that have been completed, and those that need to be completed.
When a release upgrade occurs, new business processes become available and a customer may want to turn on one or more new processes. Whether this occurs in the middle of an implementation or after go-live, customers and partners use SAP Central Business Configuration to move the workspace to the phase where business processes can be selected, select the relevant processes, and move forward through the guided activities to ensure additional follow-up tasks related to the activation of new processes are completed.
For example, a new process may require an additional organization entity to be added to the organizational structure, and will likely include one or more configuration activities where data needs to be entered. Business content in SAP Central Business Configuration is automatically released to the SAP S/4HANA Cloud development system, where it can be further transported to the test and production systems to be used productively.
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SAP Central Business Configuration was launched in January 2021, which means customers who implemented SAP S/4HANA Cloud prior to this date use a different method of activating business processes and maintaining configuration values for those processes. These customers will be contacted by SAP individually to have an SAP Central Business Configuration system deployed.