Introducing SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Public Edition for Asset Management

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Cloud ERP is at the core of digital value:

• Digital has disrupted the world and changed the way businesses operate, creating a new level of complexity and speed - businesses must adapt and transform to achieve a new level of agility to stay competitive.
• Digital has created a desire and need for simple yet powerful user interaction among employees.
• Cloud ERP combines power of end-to-end capabilities with the speed of cloud delivery allowing digital transformation and agility.
• Cloud ERP has the scope to empower talent across daily work and strategic decision making.
• In a nutshell: It frees up resources for innovation, allowing a business to adapt rapidly.

SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition is your intelligent Cloud ERP. SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition is not the future - it's the intelligent Cloud ERP you need now:

• Intuitive: Delivers next-generation contextual experiences and interactions across all devices.
• Instant: Go live in weeks, not months or years; fit-to-standard and quarterly updates to provide the latest innovations.
• Intelligent: Machine learning or AI reduce manual work along with predictive analytics; Co-Pilot (aka a digital assistant) is aware of business context and effectively collaborates for increased efficiency.
• Innovative: Native integration with other SAP apps; real-time insights via the HANA in-memory database.

SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition provides a platform to provide growth at the lowest possible total cost of ownership.

SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition offers unique native integration and side-by-side extensibility with SAP's full portfolio.

Predelivered integrations simplify implementations and reduce integration costs.

• SaaS - A service that is automatically updated, managed and serviced by SAP.
• PaaS - Enables customers to extend SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition for truly unique and differentiating capabilities that customers leverage for full digital transformation and disruption.

Users of a combined SaaS and PaaS solution on SCP see a single consistent user experience (FIORI). Extensions are not limited to SCP, but we believe the best solutions and experiences can be provided by SCP.

Intelligent enterprises effectively use their data assets to achieve their desired outcomes faster – and with less risk. These enterprises can maximize the value of their data assets and insights, empower employees, benefit customers, and operate with increased visibility, focus, and agility.

Some of the benefits are as follows:

• Increase enterprise and ecosystem visibility.

  Eliminate data silos and automate data wrangling and integration. Recognize unseen patterns – and provide new intelligence to service customers and employees.

• Focus resources on today and tomorrow.

  Direct scarce resources to areas where they will have the greatest impact. Simulate the outcome of potential options – run your business today and innovate for tomorrow.

• Gain the agility to disrupt and outmaneuver.

  Build flexibility and insight into your business processes to rapidly respond to change, pivot towards the right outcomes, and guard against disruptive competitors.

First, watch the video to learn more about the scope of SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition. Then get an overview of the capabilities of SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition.

Watch the video to learn more about the challenges in asset management.

The SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition Asset Management solution allows organizations to manage their asset-related cost, risk, and performance holistically.

Organizations can implement proactive maintenance strategies that are enriched with the analysis of real-time data, as well as predictive and other forecasting methods, to increase the return on assets and reduce unplanned downtimes. The solution helps in bridging the operational silos by integrating processes from top floor to shop floor, as well as managing the complete asset lifecycle.

Some of the key benefits of SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition Asset Management are:

• Provides real-time insights into asset performance data for timely, relevant decisions.
• Enables use of prediction, simulation, and analysis to evaluate asset behavior, plan budgets, and forecast maintenance cost.
• Provides a common view of Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT) data for a holistic asset management system approach as outlined in ISO 55001.
• Supports and promotes proactively managing asset-related risks to minimize disruption.
• Enables access to one common view on process risks related to workers, assets, or the environment.
• Facilitates the use of analysis, prediction, and simulation, to achieve greater insight, for example, converting incident reporting and risk assessments into actionable knowledge.
• Integrates fully with the capabilities of S/4HANA Enterprise in the areas of finance, human resources, manufacturing, materials management, and so on.

Accelerate and simplify the adoption of SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition for faster time to value, using best practice business processes with the knowledge of being legally compliant in different countries. The SAP Best Practices for SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition provide preconfigured content for core business processes in EAM and other modules such as finance, sourcing and procurement, manufacturing, sales, and supply chain. In addition, the cloud offers SAP Best Practices for integration to other cloud solutions, such as SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central, SAP Concur, SAP Fieldglass, and SAP Ariba.

The benefits of SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition include the following:

• Reduce cost of operations by using standardized processes.

• Manage multiple geographies, divisions, subsidiaries, and ledgers with global and country specific content.

• Drive operational efficiencies and comply with regulations.

• Empower business and IT users equally with guided configuration.

• Allow a first-hand experience of SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition with instant guided trials.

• Update and change customer specific configuration using SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition lifecycle management tool.

Asset Management handles all maintenance activities like to find the damages, identify causes, and take actions to repair technical objects as well as perform preventive maintenance. To perform these activities, it contains sub-modules for the following:

• Management of technical objects and equipment master record.

• Planning of maintenance task.

• Management of workflow notifications and work orders under maintenance order management.

Asset information is needed in many different departments and is fundamental for many business processes. An enterprise must have a common system of reference to identify all of its assets, for example, to fulfill corporate governance regulations. This is done by creating unique master records for each technical object and is the base for structuring asset data and information.

SAP S/4HANA Asset Management enables you to plan and perform the maintenance of operational systems, such as machines or production installations. It comprises the inspection, maintenance, and repair measures that need to be taken to keep your assets in working order. These activities are typically performed by maintenance planners and maintenance workers.

Watch the video to learn more about the key features in asset management.

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You can accelerate and simplify the adoption of SAP S/4HANA Enterprise Management in the cloud for faster time to value, using best practice business processes with the knowledge that you are legally compliant in different countries.

SAP Best Practices for SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition is a key component of the SAP Activate innovation adoption framework. SAP Best Practices provides ready-to-run business processes optimized for SAP S/4HANA, thus supporting customers with various system requirements or maintenance scenarios. SAP Best Practices for SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition includes a selection of scope items covering the scope of pre-configured ready-to-run business processes so that you can choose the capabilities and options of the solution, such as business processes, analytic content, and so on.

Scope items are typically predefined business processes, such as sales order processing. They represent a best practice implementation choice for a customer. Each scope item has a set of accelerators delivering detailed documentation that is used during the implementation project. Each scope item has a unique ID that makes it easy to identify, for example, 4HH or 43R.

The scope items for SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition Asset Management are described below:

You can now integrate SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition with asset central foundation for key master data and organizational data that is required to run asset management processes for customer service in the following SAP Cloud Platform solutions:

• SAP Asset Intelligence Network
• SAP Predictive Maintenance and Service solution
• SAP Asset Strategy and Performance Management application

With this functionality you can:

• Manage asset information to support asset life cycle activities from planning to executing maintenance tasks.

• Collaborate with external partners to resolve repetitive issues by selectively sharing information from maintenance-execution processes

SAP Asset Intelligence Network is an Internet of Things (IoT) application that is seamlessly integrated into the SAP Cloud Platform.

The main aim of SAP Asset Intelligence Network is to maintain a global directory of pieces of equipment that uses general definitions. These general definitions are shared between different business partners, for example, manufacturers, original equipment manufacturers (OEM), users, or service providers to deliver new cooperative business models and therefore to achieve optimized operative business processes. The typical user of the SAP Asset Intelligence Network is a constructing engineer. SAP Asset Intelligence Network also provides administrators and end users roles.

You can use SAP Intelligent Asset Management to maximize productivity, improve operational safety, and reduce maintenance costs. It provides a suite of solutions that bring collaborative asset intelligence to equipment maintenance and operations.

You can collect and track equipment information in a central repository. This cloud-based business network, part of the SAP Intelligent Asset Management solution portfolio, facilitates collaborative asset management and lets you take full advantage of the IoT. Operators access up-to-date maintenance strategies and manuals from manufacturers – and manufacturers automatically receive asset usage and failure data.

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