Machine Learning Makes SAP S/4HANA® Even More Intelligent

Machine Learning Makes SAP S/4HANA® Even More
Intelligent

·  Latest version also adds new industry and
line-of-business capabilities

·  Integration of SAP® Leonardo Machine Learning
and predictive capabilities provides real-time insights and business context

SINGAPORE — Sept. 21,
2017 — SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today announced SAP
S/4HANA® 1709, a new
release of SAP’s next-generation ERP suite that incorporates SAP®
Leonardo Machine Learning
capabilities and predictive analytics into core business processes to help
organizations stay competitive in a rapidly changing business environment. SAP
S/4HANA 1709 also is available customized for lines of business and industries.

“This latest release is the next step in
providing our customers the innovations they need for successful digital
business strategies,” said Uwe Grigoleit, SAP S/4HANA Go-to-Market general
manager and senior vice president, SAP. “It delivers enhancements that make
it easier than ever for companies to run live by integrating new intelligent
applications using SAP Leonardo Machine Learning and predictive capabilities
directly into the digital core.”

New Applications in
SAP S/4HANA powered by SAP® Leonardo

SAP S/4HANA is SAP’s
next-generation ERP suite, designed specifically for SAP HANA®, a
market-leading in-memory platform to help run a live business. The new
applications included in SAP S/4HANA 1709 provide real-time insights and
business context while simultaneously freeing resources from repetitive tasks.
Examples include:

·  SAP Cash Application software learns matching criteria from a
company’s historical financial clearing data to automatically pair invoices
with incoming payments. This creates more efficient shared service centers and
allows finance professionals to be deployed to more strategic activities.

·  The SAP Fiori® apps for contract
consumption predict contract
expiration or goods consumption ahead of time, which enables more effective
supplier negotiations and relationships. As a result of the SAP Predictive
Analytics integrator, customers can now forecast contract consumption directly
within the application and update the model using their own data, retraining
with a single click.

Increased Support for Industry and Line-of-Business
Needs

In recognition of the individual needs of
specific industries, SAP S/4HANA 1709 delivers new capabilities for the mining
and mill products industries and retail companies, while also easing adoption
for companies in every industry.

Enhancements with the
SAP S/4HANA 1709 release also address the needs of line-of-business users.
Examples include:

·         Finance: SAP Financial Closing cockpit is a core part of SAP S/4HANA
1709, giving customers the ability to achieve faster entity close while meeting
regulatory requirements. Business users can achieve more transparency and
better insights throughout the closing cycle, while improving productivity with
automated closing tasks and enhanced user experience.

·         Supply chain: Continuing the digital supply chain conversion path of earlier
releases, the SAP Transportation Management solution is now integrated into the
core. This delivers a converged supply chain and manufacturing system from
planning and forecasting all the way to downstream production, execution, and
transportation.

·         Sales and marketing: The new release helps companies harmonize
billing, pricing, service and other customer-driven processes for companies
with distinct on-premise or private cloud strategies.

·  Manufacturing: Available with the new release, the SAP S/4HANA Manufacturing solution for production engineering and
operations combines manufacturing engineering, extended production operations
and complex assembly solutions into a single, powerful, intuitive user
experience across production planning and operational business processes.
Manufacturing companies now can minimize production disruptions resulting from
changed routings, work instructions and production orders through proactive use
of manufacturing impact analysis while using the latest engineering design and
real-time enterprise data.

For more information, visit the SAP News Center or the SAP
S/4HANA website. Follow
SAP on Twitter at @sapnews.

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mobile device — SAP empowers people and organizations to work together more
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