SAP for Beginner: Learn SAP S/4HANA Overview

Jumpstart your SAP S/4HANA learning! Start as a Beginner and develop basic SAP S/4HANA Business Process understanding with this simplified and short SAP learning course!

Welcome to the SAP S/4HANA for Beginner: Learn SAP Overview 2022 course. This is a basic SAP Overview course, which is designed for anyone who want to start learning and using SAP S/4HANA and looking forward to developing a high-level process understanding of various business process in an enterprise. This course covers the basic business process in Purchase to Pay, Plan to Produce, Order to Cash, Record to Report, and Recruit to Retire with short step by step demonstrations.

This course is based on SAP S/4HANA 2020 using SAP Easy Access and SAP Fiori.

Purchase to Pay: The end-to-end business processes in purchasing that involves the activities of requesting, purchasing, receiving, paying for goods and services. This course covers the key basic process theory and demonstration of the key process steps in Purchase to Pay.

Plan to Produce: The end-to-end business process in producing goods that involves the activities of production planning, scheduling, production order processing, shop floor execution and the necessary postings. This course covers the key basic process theory and demonstration of the key process steps in Plan to Produce.

Order to Cash: The end-to-end business process in receiving and processing customer orders that involves the activities of sales, shipping, transportation, and billing.  This course covers the key basic process theory and demonstration of the key process steps in Order to Cash.

Record to Report: The end-to-end business processes in financial accounting and management accounting that involves the activities of accounts payable, accounts receivable, general ledger and cost accounting. This course covers the key basic process theory and demonstration of the key process steps in Record to Report.

Recruit to Retire: The end-to-end business processes in human capital management that involves the activities of hiring, education, training, and development, payroll compensation and benefits. This course covers the key basic process theory.

This course also provides you basic overview on Embedded Analytics, SAP Best Practices and SAP Activate to help you get started in the SAP journey.

From an SAP S/4 HANA components perspective, this overview course walks you through the key basic functionality from Materials Management (MM), Sales & Distribution (SD), Production Planning (PP), Financial Accounting (FI), Controlling (CO) and Human Experience Management (SAP HR) enough to cover the course scope.

What is the course goal?

The goal of this course is to teach the participants an overview of SAP S/4HANA including navigation, basic concepts such as organization structure, master data, transaction data and various business process in Purchase to Pay, Plan to Produce, Order to Cash, Record to Report, and Recruit to Retire.

By the end of the course, you will be very confident in the basics of navigating and getting the work done in SAP S/4HANA with good process understanding of various business process and hungry to learn more. You will also develop basic understanding of Embedded Analytics, SAP Best Practices and SAP Activate.

What do you get out of this course?

In just 6 Hours you will learn all the Essentials of SAP S/4HANA through theory, case study, examples and with over 4 hours of demonstrations. This took me MONTHS to learn through multiple formal courses and many years of SAP project implementations!

This course will help you to get started in SAP S/4HANA and develop an overview about SAP and an overall understanding of basic concepts and Purchase to Pay, Plan to Produce, Order to Cash, Record to Report, and Recruit to Retire business process. The demonstration included in this course are based on SAP S/4HANA 2020 using SAP Easy Access and SAP Fiori.

What is the summary of course content?

This course is both case study-based and demonstration-based. Starting with the basic navigation both in SAP Easy Access and SAP Fiori, you will be learning the system fundamentals, organization structure, master data and transaction data, business process such as Purchase to Pay, Plan to Produce, Order to Cash, Record to Report, and Recruit to Retire with a case study on a company called Bicycle Inc which is implementing SAP S/4HANA. You will learn about the organization structure, master data, transaction data and end to end business process on how SAP S/4HANA is implemented in Bicycle Inc with a demonstration of the roles and system tasks involved for each of the end-to-end business process.

Is there anything else you should know before you enroll?

This course is aimed at anyone who wants to become familiar with the SAP S/4HANA or get an overview of the most important functions and components. Some of the Subject Master Experts in one process area in SAP S/4HANA may also find this course useful to develop overall understanding of other process areas. If you’re already very familiar with the SAP S/4HANA and want to specialize in one of the various SAP S/4HANA components, or if you’re looking for the very detailed information, that's beyond the scope of this course and this is probably not the best resource for you.

This is not a technical course, neither a configuration course, nor a very detailed process review. The emphasis is to deliver SAP S/4HANA process understanding in an easy to follow format in a short time.

This course is going to be continuously updated in response to student suggestions in quarterly revisions, so check back in for free updates!

What is SAP S/4HANA?

SAP S/4HANA is a complete, intelligent ERP system with embedded AI and machine learning. It is SAP's ERP for large enterprises. It is the successor of SAP R/3 and SAP ERP and is optimized for SAP's in-memory database SAP HANA and inherits all the capabilities of this powerful in-memory data management and application platform.

SAP S/4HANA is an entirely new generation of SAP Business Suite that is characterized by simplifications, massively increased efficiency, and compelling features such as planning and simulation options in many conventional ERP transactions.

SAP S/4HANA can be deployed on premise, in the cloud, or a combination of both, to provide flexible consumption options to customers.