Simple Finance, and now?

At the beginning of 2016, "S/4 Hana Finance On-Premise Edition" was introduced to replace a legacy system that no longer met the Group's requirements.

The new general ledger, reporting directly from the ACDOCA table, and thus the elimination of separate reports for FI-CO and PC reports are advantages that could be leveraged right from the introduction of S/4 Hana Finance.

Fast, multidimensional reporting is possible without the use of business warehouses. The new asset accounting facilitates the evaluation according to different points of view and the improved evaluation of profitability is a welcome innovation.

These innovations were easy to establish and put into production during the new rollout. This was supported by the use of Microsoft Azure as a cloud solution, which offers high agility in the infrastructure.

Planning for the future

Now the plan is to migrate to S/4 Enterprise Management (also referred to as S/4core in the documentation). After the experience with S/4 Hana Finance, Alegri will use version 1610 to benefit from the high maturity level.

In addition to the improved functionality in Finance, S/4 Enterprise Management also includes Materials Management & Operations (formerly known as Simple Logistics).

Alegri also expects improvements from this - especially from the modernized data models in the SD area, the new material type "SERV", the resulting simplified handling and the business partner approach.

The material number field length extension is seen as non-critical, as there have been no in-house developments in this area to date. Thus, Alegri is on the cutting edge of S/4 Enterprise Management and can offer clients valuable practical and cutting-edge experience.