Preparing for your sourcing and procurement exam? Make the grade with this SAP S/4HANA Sourcing and Procurement Application Associate Exam certification study guide! From stock material to purchasing, review the key technical and functional knowledge you need to pass with flying colors. Explore test methodology, key concepts for each topic area, and practice questions and answers. Your path to SAP S/4HANA Sourcing and Procurement certification begins here! 1) Learn about the SAP S/4HANA certification test structure and how to prepare 2) Review the key topics covered in each portion of your exam 3) Test your knowledge with practice questions and answers 4) Exams C_TS450_1809 and C_TS452_190 In this book, you'll learn about: a. The Test Whether this is your first certification or your third, you need to know what's going to be tested. This guide follows the exact structure of the exam, so deepen your knowledge on sourcing and procurement with SAP S/4HANA and walk through topics new to C_TS450_1809 and C_TS452_1909. b. Core Content Review major subject areas like purchasing optimization, planning, inventory management, and configuration. Then master important terminology and key takeaways for each subject. c. Q&A After reviewing each chapter, solidify your knowledge with questions and answers for each section and improve your test-taking skills. 1) Exams C_TS450_1809 and C_TS452_1909 on SAP S/4HANA 2) Procurement 3) Stock material 4) Direct consumption 5) Sources of supply 6) Procurement optimization 7) Consumption-based planning 8) Inventory management 9) Valuation and account determination 10) Invoice verification 11) Special functions

Materials management has transitioned to SAP S/4HANA--let us help you do the same! Whether your focus is on materials planning, procurement, or inventory, this guide will teach you to configure and manage your critical processes in SAP S/4HANA. Start by creating your organizational structure and defining business partners and material master data. Then get step-by-step instructions for defining the processes you need, from creating purchase orders and receiving goods to running MRP and using batch management. The new MM is here! Material master data Business partner master data Batch management Purchasing Quotation management Material requirements planning (MRP) Inventory management Goods issue/goods receipt (GI/GR) Invoicing Valuation Document management Reporting

"Interested in what SAP S/4HANA has to offer? Find out with this big-picture guide! Take a tour of SAP S/4HANA functionality for your key lines of business: finance, manufacturing, supply chain, sales, and more. Preview SAP S/4HANA's architecture, and discover your options for reporting, extensions, and adoption. With insights into the latest intelligent technologies, this is your all-in-one SAP S/4HANA starting point!"--

Transform your logistics operations with SAP S/4HANA! With this introduction, see what SAP has in store for each supply chain line of business: sales order management, manufacturing, inventory management, warehousing, and more. Discover how SAP Fiori apps and embedded analytics improve reporting, and explore the intersection between your supply chain processes and new SAP Leonardo technologies. Take your first look at SAP S/4HANA logistics, and see where it will take your business! a. Key Processes Advances in SAP S/4HANA are changing your supply chain. Explore planning and scheduling, transportation management, inventory management, manufacturing, warehousing, sourcing and procurement, plant maintenance, and more! b. The Future of Logistics Uncover what's new and improved in SAP S/4HANA for your logistics LOBs, such as centralized procurement to demand-driven MRP. See how technologies like IoT and machine learning can accelerate your core supply chain processes. c. Migration Once you see the logistics big picture, you can plan your next steps. Learn how to design your roadmap, evaluate your technical and functional conversion steps, and prepare your system for your desired migration path. 1) Sourcing and procurement 2) Inventory management 3) Warehouse management 4) Production planning 5) Manufacturing operations 6) Plant maintenance 7) Quality management 8) SAP Fiori applications 9) SAP Leonardo technologies 10) Implementation and migration 11) SAP S/4HANA 1809

This is your comprehensive guide to SAP Ariba: implementation, configuration, operations, and integration! Get step-by-step instructions for each functional area, from contract and invoice management to guided buying and beyond. See how each SAP Ariba application fits into your procurement landscape and how they connect to SAP S/4HANA and SAP ERP. Get your cloud procurement project started today! a. Configuration See how SAP Ariba interacts with the procurement landscape and then set it up! From loading master data to configuring purchasing policies and approvals, this step-by-step guide has you covered. b. Functionality After go-live, learn how to use each piece of SAP Ariba! Follow detailed instructions and screenshots to master your core SAP Ariba tasks like creating invoices and analyzing your spending. c. Integration Understand how SAP Ariba connects to peripheral solutions, and start your integration project today! Dig into integrating Ariba Network, SAP Ariba Sourcing, SAP Ariba Supply Chain Collaboration for Buyers, and SAP Fieldglass. 1) Implementation 2) Configuration 3) Integration 4) Ariba Network 5) SAP Ariba Supply Chain Collaboration for Buyers 6) SAP Ariba Supplier Lifecycle and Performance 7) SAP Ariba Supplier Risk 8) SAP Ariba Sourcing 9) SAP Ariba Contracts 10) SAP Ariba Buying and Invoicing 11) SAP Ariba Spend Analysis 12) Guided buying

Meet your BI needs with SAP S/4HANA embedded analytics! Explore the system architecture and data model and learn how to perform analytics on live transactional data. Business user? Walk step-by-step through SAP Smart Business KPIs, dashboards, and multidimensional reporting. Analytics specialist? Master the virtual data model and report creation. Jack of all trades? Create CDS views, apply custom fields and logic, and learn to integrate SAP S/4HANA with SAP Analytics Cloud. This is your complete guide to SAP S/4HANA embedded analytics! Highlights include: 1) Architecture 2) Virtual data model (VDM) 3) CDS views 4) SAP Fiori apps 5) SAP Smart Business 6) Key performance indicators (KPIs) 7) Dashboards 8) Reporting 9) Data warehousing 10) SAP Analytics Cloud 11) Machine learning

Originally published under the title: SAP Ariba and SAP Fieldglass

Preparation -- Installation and upgrade -- Customizing for the general ledger -- Customizing for new asset accounting -- Customizing for controlling -- Migration of house bank accounts -- Data migration -- Post migration -- Testing and migration results -- New cash management -- Sap integrated business planning for finance -- SAP Fiori applications -- Impact on general ledger accounting -- Impact on new asset accounting -- Impact on controlling -- Impact on cost center accounting -- Impact on profit center accounting -- Impact on profitability analysis -- Impact on period end closing -- Impact on cash and bank management -- Appendix

"An intuitive proven planning and execution method for today's complex and volatile supply chains"--Cover.