Configuring business processes across different SAP cloud solutions is a herculean task. This is especially true for organizations with cloud installations spanning different countries and subsidiaries. But what if you could configure and manage distinct implementations from one central place? That’s what SAP Central Business Configuration helps you achieve.
Read on as we give you a detailed walkthrough of SAP Central Business Configuration, including its top benefits, key components, and configuration process, and how you can use it to streamline your projects and ongoing operations.
SAP Central Business Configuration – An Introduction
SAP Central Business Configuration enables the configuration of different business processes across different SAP clouds from one central location. Right now, the tool supports the provisioning and configuration of the SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition.
But very soon, the tool is expected to support the implementation of all solutions in SAP’s Intelligent Enterprise — to facilitate end-to-end provisioning and configuration of various cloud solutions, including SAP SuccessFactors and SAP Ariba, among others.
Using SAP Central Business Configuration, you can scope, configure, and implement end-to-end business processes for SAP S/4HANA Cloud. The tool allows you to maintain your SAP S/4 HANA cloud implementation after go-live while also allowing you to make changes or additions as needed.
Evaluating the Benefits of SAP Central Business Configuration
SAP Central Business Configuration aims to increase the flexibility of business processes while supporting their roll-out in smaller, iterative steps. By completing relevant configuration activities and easily maintaining necessary production system settings, SAP Central Business Configuration paves the way for:
- Quicker and more streamlined configuration of business processes across the enterprise.
- Faster, company-wide roll-outs that can be monitored and managed from a single place.
- Reduced configuration efforts via the ability to quickly initiate changes to enhance the selected scope, organizational structure, and configuration settings directly via the user interface
- More efficient scoping of a predefined bundle with the option to add scenarios and modify countries or regions as needed.
- Increased guidance on the organizational structure setup via a graphical user interface that allows companies to change and delete units until they’re confirmed.
Understanding the Key Components of SAP Central Business Configuration
SAP Central Business Configuration is built to allow businesses to manage their diverse SAP solutions, reducing time to value and total cost of ownership (TCO). The tool offers four key capabilities:
1. Project Experience
The Project Experience aspect of SAP Central Business Configuration allows you to manage configurations and ongoing operations centrally. You can get necessary project guidance, effectively manage activities, and enjoy central access to various apps. You can also enable customer-driven projects to enhance the scope, strengthen the organizational structure, and modify configuration settings.
2. Define Scope
The Define Scope capability of SAP Central Business Configuration enables you to clearly define the solution scope of the SAP implementations centrally. You can enable the scoping of multiple regions and countries at once. You can also select a bundle with predefined scenarios for a specific business focus while enjoying a flexible selection of non-standard and license-dependent scenarios for every country or region.
3. Set Up Organizational Structure
The Set Up Organizational Structure app enables you to seamlessly create and adapt your company’s organizational structure. Using a graphical, scope-dependent, and guided view of organizational units, you can better understand the company hierarchy while making and reviewing changes via a table view. You can also delete or change units and assignments and ensure all mandatory organization units and relations based on the selected scope are created.
4. Configuration Activities
Configuration Activities allow you to centrally tailor business processes via the SAP Central Business Configuration tool. The app takes scope and country selections into account, enabling you to flexibly set up your ledgers and accounting principles. You can also enjoy a flexible chart of accounts and renumbering of G/L accounts.
SAP Central Business Configuration Implementation Process
The SAP Central Business Configuration implementation process is extremely simple and straightforward. All you need to do is:
- Create an evaluation project and assign it to a suitable system, such as the SAP S/4HANA Cloud system.
- Choose business processes with a preselected scope and sample data. Once you select the scope and define the organizational structure, the content gets automatically deployed to the development system tenants and activated.
- Begin the implementation project anytime. You can customize your requests or assign changes to a new request as needed. You can also create custom workflows or teams and have them all recorded as customizing requests.
If you face any issues, you can easily seek assistance either via the in-app help that offers links to detailed information and tutorial videos or via SAP Help portal links that offer access to interactive graphics, concepts, and descriptions.
Streamlining SAP S/4 HANA Implementation with SAP Central Business Configuration
If you are struggling to configure business processes spanning different SAP S/4 HANA installations, SAP Central Business Configuration offers the perfect solution. Built specifically for the intelligent enterprise, the tool reduces configuration efforts while improving flexibility.
Embrace SAP Central Business Configuration with Sapours today to reduce time-to-value, optimize TCO, and enable quick and seamless deployments of critical business processes across regions and subsidiaries.