Understanding the Differences between S/4 HANA and ERP

Synnove Systems
2 min readApr 8, 2021

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Before we get to distinguish the differences between S/4 HANA and ERP, knowing the uses and benefits of these tools may help us in a bettering understanding. Although you are aware of SAP, SAP S/4 HANA, and other advanced software in this array to support the business activities, knowing their enhanced forms and advantages with a comparative study can lead to better selection.

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Although S/4 HANA and ERP serve the businesses in their enhancement and growth, their fundamental architecture varies a lot. The ERP systems Malaysia and SAP ERP system Malaysia provides a detailed scenario of these tools before installing them into your existing business tools.

What is S/4 HANA?

Ø This is a SAP business suit similar to R/2 and R/3 with the new code line

Ø This is the future of ABAP programming language

Ø This is a non-ECC Business application, which moves back to SAP ERP core. This feature can reduce the required number of services and middleware requirements

Ø This is a simplified model, with highly compressed data and few tables

Ø Compared to ERP it reduces objects amount from application layer in S/4 HANA

Ø Features semantic data structure with New SAP Fiori UX and Core Data services for all types of devices including desktop, mobile and tablet

How S/4 HANA Differ from ERP software Malaysia?

The factors that distinguish S/4 HANA from ERP are:

Ø Data model

Ø User interface

Ø Reporting structure and

Ø Functionalities

Every newly introduced version of S/4 HANA and ERP features various innovations along with simplifications.

SAP S/4 HANA is the next generation ERP designed to suit all types of companies. This benefits company that is yet to be installed with SAP system and seeking to adopt best business practices. This as a result reflects in the functioning of the system and IT development.

ERP software is designed to interoperate with an on-disk database. Therefore, several caching mechanisms, and extensive tables and data processing implementations are performed at the application server level. In other terms, this architecture of ERP tool is also called as Data-2-Code concept.

S/4 HANA is based on the business solution, SAP ERP 6.0. This is the reason that SAP ERP 6.0 is able to convert to SAP S/4 HANA with any need to implement newly. Compared to SAP ERP, SAP S/4 HANA contains many innovations including changes in the functionalities, simplifications, add new functionalities, replace old functionalities, unify functionalities in one system, and much more. With many advantages to gain from, most of the businesses are now converting their old ERP tools to the latest SAP ERP and SAP S/4 HANA, which brings many highlighting advantages.

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Synnove Systems
Synnove Systems

Written by Synnove Systems

Synnove Systems provides quality SAP Consulting Services in the region with our regional offices in Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia.

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