Exploring the Capabilities of Localization as a Self-Service

Objective

After completing this lesson, you will be able to explore the Capabilities of Localization as a Self-Service

Exploring the Capabilities of Localization as a Self-Service

There are various tools and frameworks enabled for customers to meet their requirements in combination with the standard extensibility offering of SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition.

Extensibility Options

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition offers robust extensibility options, enabling businesses to tailor and enhance their cloud solutions to meet unique operational needs.

Key-User Extensibility

  • Customize standard apps without external tools.
  • Options include field extensibility, business object extensibility, UI adaptation, and more.
  • Facilitates scenarios like customizing forms to meet localization requirements and translating UI labels for local languages.

Side-by-Side Extensibility

  • Develop dependent extensions, custom applications, or utilize existing apps available on the SAP Business Technology Platform.
  • This extensibility aims for loosely coupled yet seamlessly integrated extensions.
  • Scenarios include tax service calculations for both cloud and on-premise solutions.

Developer Extensibility

ABAP based tightly-coupled and more complex extensions and apps inside the SAP S/4HANA Cloud system

Virtual Data Model and CDS Views

  • Built on SAP HANA database tables/views for efficient data modeling.
  • Utilized for analytics, queries, and reporting.
  • Localization extensibility involves reusing subsets of existing CDS views in the VDM and defining own views for specific use cases.

SAP Document and Reporting Compliance

The range of capabilities for SAP Document and Reporting Compliance encompasses the following key areas:

Statutory Reporting

  • Overview of statutory reporting tasks.
  • Enables creation of new reports and extension of existing reports.
  • Extensibility options range from creating new report definitions in various formats to using custom business objects for creating ACR schema.

Electronic Documents Processing

Transforms documents into predefined exchange formats for electronic transfer to external systems.

Payment Medium Workbench

  • Addresses settings related to payment medium formats.
  • Capabilities range from creating payment medium formats to defining instruction keys for payment orders to banks.
  • Business Configuration:
    • Manages settings and master data required for business operations.
    • Configure the solution using the activities in the configuration environment, including country-dependent, localized, and global configurations.

Official Document Numbering (ODN) Framework

The Official Document Numbering (ODN) Framework assists companies in adhering to specific mandates from legal authorities. ODN refers to the unique number that must be assigned to certain business documents distributed to customers and tax authorities.

As part of the Localization as a Self-Service offering, the ODN framework is primarily targeted at countries or regions without a standardized ODN solution.

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