SAP Cloud ERP Private 2025 FPS1 Release Highlights

Hello and Welcome back to the SAP Cloud ERP Private 2025 FPS1 Product Release Highlights!

I'm Harish Mangtani from Product Experience at SAP SE. After the fantastic response to our FPS0 highlights, I am thrilled to continue sharing a hands-on view of the newest innovations delivered in this FPS1 release—designed, as always, to help organizations run smarter, faster, and more connected.

What continues to stand out in FPS1 is how intelligence and automation are becoming even more deeply embedded into your daily business processes. SAP’s strategy remains steadfast: putting AI at the center of the enterprise while strengthening our clean core foundation. AI and our Joule copilot are driving unprecedented productivity, automation, and real-time analytics across the enterprise, empowering business users to make better decisions and execute with absolute confidence. Alongside these AI breakthroughs, this release delivers robust industry-specific capabilities, expanded global localization coverage, and cross-functional enhancements for ongoing innovation.

This blog focuses on how these strategic principles translate into tangible innovations—ranging from sophisticated conversational AI agents to core functional enhancements across key business areas—that bring immediate, meaningful improvements to the ERP experience.

As a reminder, SAP Cloud ERP Private 2025 refers to the umbrella of our cloud ERP offering, encompassing both SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition 2025 and SAP S/4HANA 2025. While both products share a common foundation, our innovation scope remains consistent:

AI-powered capabilities and intelligent agents are available exclusively in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition.
Core functional enhancements are delivered across both the Cloud Private Edition and the on-premise SAP S/4HANA deployments.

Release Planning Our overarching release strategy for 2023–2025 remains unchanged. This strategy is ultimately designed to help customers maximize their system's potential while keeping them informed about the latest technological leaps.

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Before we get into the details, I’ve put together a quick executive summary slide below. This gives you a bird's-eye view of the most impactful innovations across all our key Lines of Business for this FPS1 release.

In the sections that follow, I will walk you through my curated highlights across our Lines of Business—starting with Finance and moving through Sales, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Localizations, and beyond.

Let's dive in!

Finance

AI-Powered Innovations (AI capabilities available in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition only)

Cash Management Agent*

The Cash Management Agent empowers treasury professionals by utilizing Joule to interact seamlessly with cash and liquidity data. Users can check if all due bank statements are successfully received and processed, gather opening balances, and consider expected cash flows. The agent can calculate expected closing balances, identify potential cash shortages and surpluses, derive bank transfer proposals, and provide comprehensive end-of-day summaries. By leveraging this agent, users save a significant amount of time getting to correct cash positions and can start utilizing cash in the most efficient way possible.

Learn more by accessing the SAP Help Portal.

* This AI offering is currently in Beta and available at no cost. Pricing will be communicated once the AI offering becomes generally available. A separate subscription is required for use or testing. Learn more.

AI-assisted accrual object creation

AI-assisted manual accrual object creation streamlines the entity close process through the Joule copilot. It enables users to ask for accruals by scenario using natural-language input, and Joule automatically generates a proposed accrual object—including category, amount, life term, and GL account—using historical patterns. Users can edit these proposed attributes, and Joule adapts future proposals based on these edits. This functionality reduces the time needed to prepare manual accruals, lowers variance, ensures greater consistency, and significantly reduces missed or misstated accruals, empowering business users while improving proposal accuracy over time.

AI-assisted fixed asset key figures explanation

This innovation introduces AI-assisted text in natural language that explains fixed asset key figures. It provides the ability to explain the origin of displayed values and exactly how fixed asset values are calculated—for example, illustrating in detail how the depreciation value results after midyear acquisitions when a specific depreciation key is used. This leads to an impressive 75% reduction in the effort required for analyzing fixed asset values and answering related questions, ultimately reducing the risk of noncompliance. NOTE: This AI feature is currently only available for customers with the activated business function “Universal Parallel Accounting” (FINS_PARALLEL_ACCOUNTING_BF).

AI-assisted settlement rule proposal for asset capitalization

The AI-assisted settlement rule proposal streamlines the capitalization process by proposing settlement rules for investment measures (projects or internal orders), as well as those not linked to an Asset under Construction (AuC) that still settle to a fixed asset. It proposes rules for full settlement, where receivers are always fixed assets, and allows users to easily edit proposals with percentages and receivers. This reduces the manual effort needed to create full settlement rules for investment measures and improves the accuracy of the asset class determination used for final assets. NOTE: There is no automatic asset master data creation yet. The functionality is only available for customers without the activated business function “Universal Parallel Accounting” (FINS_PARALLEL_ACCOUNTING_BF).

Please note that certain Joule features described in this blog may not yet be available in your system and are planned for release as part of the upcoming Joule release cycle scheduled for April 2026.

Core functional innovations

Transparency in intercompany processes using Financial Chains

This feature allows organizations to define commercial chains to structure intercompany business, supporting buy or sell relationships to address tax regulations, legal requirements, and group accounting principles. It simplifies master data for value flows by connecting multiple entities in commercial chains for intercompany logistics. This provides a strong foundation for future innovations in inventory value flows and delivers essential transparency into stock ownership across an intercompany commercial chain. NOTE: You need to activate business function VALUE_CHAIN_ANALYSIS to use the Financial Chains process.

Integrating results analysis with optimized contract management and inbound processing in revenue accounting

This integration smooths the connection between results analysis and optimized revenue accounting and reporting. It allows WBS elements to function as billing elements, assigns WBS elements to sales order items, and utilizes the cost-based percentage of completion method. This significantly improves financial transparency by accurately reflecting the financial state of ongoing projects and helps ensure that revenue recognition perfectly aligns with actual project completion.

Cost settlement for real estate scenarios, such as automated cost classification (Private Cloud)

This introduces a new cost-settlement process to allocate costs to participating real estate objects using a new master data object called “service group”. Customers can set up their settlement hierarchy based on architecture objects, usable and rentable objects, and contract lifecycle management (CLM) contracts. By classifying incoming invoices and journal entry items to prepare for cost settlement, organizations can vastly increase efficiency and enhance the experience for users running real estate and contract management processes.

Central overhead cost planning and central price determination

This innovation ensures ongoing replication for activity types and actual activity rate replication from the central finance system directly to the source systems. This creates a holistic overview of planned costs by collecting all planned costs from various source systems. It results in a much more accurate activity rate calculation by incorporating all collected costs across system boundaries, allowing centrally calculated activity rates to be seamlessly replicated back to the source systems.

Copy functionality for interest rate swaps

Users can now copy existing interest-rate-swap transactions using new functionality that mirrors the experience in other SAP treasury and risk management solutions. This allows treasury teams to save considerable time and effort by taking advantage of prefilled fields when replicating existing interest-rate-swap transactions.

FX exposure management as an additional data source in the hedge management cockpit

This feature enables users to intuitively administer foreign exchange (FX) exposures tailored specifically to hedge-management use cases. Users can maintain FX exposures manually using the new SAP Fiori app “Manage FX Exposures” or load them via file upload functionality. By introducing FX exposure management as an additional data source in the Hedge Management Cockpit, teams can maintain exposures through a guided procedure, leverage a dedicated authorization concept, and make confident hedging decisions based on reliable source data.

Expanded usability in optimized contract management for revenue accounting

This update delivers broad improvements to revenue accounting capabilities to enhance usability, transparency, and alignment with modern UI standards. It includes extensions to the contract viewer report to display revenue accounting items and conditions, enhancements to the “Manage Revenue Contracts” app for creating time-based performance obligations, and a modernized “Manual Fulfillment” app upgraded to SAP Fiori with RAP. These updates ensure a more modern, consistent user interface while optimizing the handling and display of profitability segments.

Greater flexibility in contract combinations and performance obligation reassignments

This innovation enhances the functionality for contract combination, performance obligation reassignment, and contract splitting. By effectively processing suspended performance obligations, it provides users with greater flexibility in revenue contract lifecycle management, adapting more easily to evolving business agreements.

Accounting indicator for service with item-based accounting

The system now supports using an accounting indicator to differentiate actual costs and expenses when they are posted in the context of service in SAP S/4HANA with item-based accounting and event-based revenue recognition. This helps organizations understand and increase the profitability of contracts and services, improving service margins by providing clear insights into cost and revenue drivers while automating revenue recognition for service management.

New revenue recognition methods for execution order items with itemized billing

This feature expands revenue recognition by supporting the completed contract method for execution order items with itemized billing (both with and without planned revenue), as well as the revenue-based PoC method. This further automates and refines revenue recognition specifically for service management scenarios.

Revenue recognition for execution order items with resource-related cost items

Service management is further enhanced by supporting completed contract, cost-based PoC, and revenue-based PoC revenue recognition methods for execution order items with itemized billing using planned revenue based on Dynamic Item Processor-based (DIP-based) revenue lines. This drives higher automation in revenue recognition for complex service processes.

Support for individual settlement of maintenance orders

Users can now run settlements on maintenance orders where the order is part of a service hierarchy and the root element is subject to event-based revenue recognition (EBRR). This ensures accurate financial tracking and continues to automate revenue recognition for service management.

Event-based revenue recognition for sales orders with milestone billing (private cloud)

This update allows the use of sales orders with a milestone billing plan for sell-from-stock and third-party drop shipment scenarios, perfectly combined with event-based revenue recognition based on the completed contract method. This dramatically streamlines milestone billing processes and ensures accurate revenue tracking.

Enhancing the Manage Allocations and Manage Allocation Changes apps with improved definition of cycles and segments

This enhancement to the Manage Allocations app enables a more robust definition of allocation cycles and segments. Additionally, the introduction of the Manage Allocation Changes app allows users to seamlessly trace changes made to the definitions of these cycles and segments, supporting commonly used business processes within modern, intuitive user interfaces.

Support for early termination of performance obligations

Revenue accounting teams can now terminate individual performance obligations directly within a revenue contract. This provides crucial flexibility and supports customers in strictly meeting international accounting regulations.

Including joint venture accounting production month in universal allocation

This enhanced solution is designed for oil and gas companies that frequently use the production month to reflect actual usage dates. It captures journal entries with respect to the production month, allowing universal allocation to select costs for assignment through the production month rather than the posting period. This enables JVA customers to execute universal allocation with proper production month support for highly accurate JVA partner reporting.

App for managing closing run results for advanced foreign currency valuations

A new SAP Fiori app allows users to display and analyze the run results of advanced foreign currency valuations. It features an overview dashboard showing high-level statuses (Complete, Partially Complete, Failed, Running) and allows users to drill down into specific runs to understand valuation postings and highlight errors with root-cause messages. This provides a superior user experience through a centralized single source of truth, enabling end users to investigate root causes and take corrective action much faster.

*For a comprehensive list of all new features, technical details, and specific release notes for this LOB, explore the SAP Cloud ERP Private 2025 FPS1 What's New Viewer on the SAP Help Portal. and filter by the line of business to see the full scope of innovations!

Billing and Revenue Innovation Management (BRIM)

AI-Powered Innovations (AI capabilities available in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition only)

Joule for invoicing specialists to enable more-seamless navigation and transactional actions within billing documents

This innovation increases usability for the Joule copilot by providing intuitive navigational content to convergent invoicing SAP Fiori apps. Furthermore, it supports transactional content directly for convergent invoicing billing documents. By enabling these seamless conversational interactions, businesses can significantly reduce manual tasks and effort, increasing overall operational efficiency. Ultimately, this leads to an elevated customer experience and satisfaction, while actively helping to decrease days sales outstanding.

Additional machine learning features and enrichment of SAP Fiori apps for the private edition for behavioral insights

This release introduces time horizon improvements to machine learning features within the event and feature catalog, alongside improved usability in SAP Fiori apps that now feature additional filters, range buckets, and intent-based navigation (drill-down). AI-assisted behavioral insights for contract accounting analyzes historical customer behavior to accurately predict and explain payment risk, with results seamlessly integrated into your dunning and collections functionality. This empowers organizations to maximize collections success, increase cash flow by collecting sooner, and deeply understand the unique nature of each customer's journey. Teams can deploy these machine learning scenarios quickly and with lower risk by keeping data in place, requiring absolutely no data extraction or replication.

Joule for Internal Sales Rep – Subscription Contract Change Management with TCV impact overview

This feature enables advanced capabilities for subscription contract management, providing internal sales representatives with a clear overview of the impact of change processes on Total Contract Value (TCV). It allows for manual human validation of the financial impact on the customer contract before proceeding with any changes. By empowering representatives with a simplified change process based on conversational Joule, users receive accurate details on pricing benefits before confirming modifications. This natural language chatbot interaction dramatically improves user experience, satisfaction, and efficiency, while also highlighting better cross-sell opportunities and deals.

Core functional innovations

Extension of Scope Item for Subscription Order Management (7WB) to support sales item and change processes

This update provides the organizational structure and master data setup required for the creation of a subscription order. It allows internal sales representatives to create a subscription order with subscription products and multilevel AVC subscription products to create a subscription contract. Furthermore, it enables the transfer of the subscription contract to the follow-up system, such as Convergent Invoicing, via the order distribution interface. This replication triggers a billing plan and generates recurring and one-time charge BITs in SAP CI for the contract. Users can leverage the subscription contract lifecycle app to display the new subscription contract , and can now also execute change processes directly on the subscription contract. By leveraging this ready-to-run content for subscription order creation scenarios, organizations can reduce implementation time, minimize customization, and support faster time-to-value while promoting consistent and scalable deployment of subscription-based business models.

Ability to maintain payment card data during subscription order entry processing

This feature allows for the management of customer payment card data directly during order entry instead of relying on master data. Users can now register payment cards directly at the header and item level of a subscription order during order creation. The payment cards registered for a specific transaction are not registered for the business partner associated with the subscription order, which means that individual payment cards can be associated with each specific item. This functionality significantly enhances flexibility and transparency in subscription order entry processing.

SALES

AI-Powered Innovations (AI capabilities available in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition only)

AI-assisted detecting of expiring prices using Joule

This AI feature helps pricing specialists detect prices that will expire within a specified time frame using the Joule copilot. The role-based assistant can fetch and display expiring prices and condition records based on a given time frame, extend the validity or amounts of condition records, and perform mass changes while displaying progress and a log file of the changes. By automating follow-up activities like prolongation or handling expiring prices, this innovation significantly reduces the time and cost associated with detecting expiring prices and creating new ones. It removes repetitive, time-consuming tasks and reduces human-prone manual errors, ultimately increasing the efficiency and work quality of pricing specialists.

AI-assisted fetching and listing of open sales documents

This feature enables internal sales representatives to effortlessly fetch a list of open sales documents using Joule. Joule displays open sales orders based on available sales document data—such as sales order type, sold-to party, document date, material, customer reference, and creation date—as well as organizational data like sales organization, distribution channel, division, and sales office. By allowing users to interactively fetch this list through a conversational assistant, it significantly increases the efficiency of internal sales reps by reducing manual effort.

AI-assisted Sales Quotation Changes using Joule

This innovation enables AI-assisted changes to sales quotations directly through the Joule copilot. It provides users with the capability to easily update line item quantities, modify the price of a line item via condition type, and adjust critical dates such as the requested delivery date, quote valid-to date, and customer reference date. Additionally, it allows users to update delivery plants or set reasons for rejection. Enabling these sales quotation changes through Joule increases the efficiency of internal sales representatives by substantially reducing manual data entry and effort

Core functional innovations

Multistage (Multilevel) intercompany sales*

This release introduces a new business process for multistage intercompany sales, enabling two or more affiliated companies running in the same system to participate in a single intercompany process. The selling company can sell a product from a stock owned by an affiliated company, buying the goods directly from the delivering affiliate or intermediate companies. This involves drop shipments where goods are directly delivered from the stocked plant to the customer, utilizing valuated stock in transit for a smooth change of control. Organizations gain a comprehensive, highly automated process that is deeply embedded into product compliance, trade compliance, transport management, revenue recognition, profitability reporting, product costing, and group reporting. This consistently applies changes in customer-facing sales orders throughout the end-to-end document flow while providing a robust process monitor for issue detection.

*Additional license/premium SKU maybe required for this feature.

Configuration of role-based access to price and cost details in sales quotations and sales contracts

Organizations can now configure exactly which user roles can access specific price and cost details of a pricing procedure within sales inquiries, sales quotations, sales contracts, and scheduling agreements. The system controls access based on your configuration of access levels (No access, Display access, or Change access). This restriction capability is highly beneficial when sensitive information, such as profit margins, should stay hidden for certain users or when editing specific price elements needs to be limited, helping to secure sensitive price and cost information across your sales documents.

New sales order triggered by a customer returns order

Customer returns processing has been enhanced to offer customers a discount on a new sales order during a return where they are not entitled to a credit note (such as when the product guarantee has expired). The system can now automatically trigger the creation of a new sales document—which can be either a Sales Order or a Delivery Free of Charge—based directly on the return order. This allows businesses to manage returns orders more efficiently, significantly simplify follow-up processing, and increase transparency during complex returns scenarios.

OData V4 API for returns orders

Users can now manage returns orders more efficiently using the Customer Return OData V4 API to create, read, update, and delete returns orders from external systems. This includes operations on basic entities such as the returns order header, items, pricing elements, partner entities, and text. By leveraging the new features offered in the ABAP RESTful application programming model framework and the latest OData V4 protocol, this API utilizes a lightweight JSON format that improves processing time and reduces resource consumption for both clients and servers. Users also gain the flexibility to process requests in either synchronous or asynchronous mode.

Sales contract OData API new version

This update introduces an OData version 4 service that enables users to create, read, update, and delete single entities (such as items) in sales contracts directly from external systems. This drastically improves holistic contract management and ensures a future-proof, stable architecture that is consistent across objects using the RAP framework. Organizations benefit from improved processing times and reduced resource consumption thanks to a lightweight JSON format. The framework also allows for minimal responses containing only the keys of created entities, direct filtering of subentities, and requires no additional effort to set up a communication arrangement, as it is directly included in existing configurations.

Sales Order OData v4 API support of sales orders with configurable items

The modern Sales Order OData v4 API has been enhanced to support the creation of sales order items with Advanced Variant Configuration (AVC). This improves holistic sales order management by enabling the seamless integration of sales orders containing variant configuration with external systems. Built on the ABAP RESTful application programming model framework, it assures a future-ready and stable architecture. Just like the sales contract API, it allows users to choose between synchronous or asynchronous modes, request minimal responses to improve performance, directly filter subentities, and operates without any additional communication arrangement effort.

Navigation to NAST output control in the Manage Sales Quotations – Version 2 and Manage Sales Contracts – Version 2 apps

This update allows navigation to new application server technology (NAST) output control directly within SAP Fiori apps for sales. Users can now seamlessly view a PDF version of the output document for order confirmation printing in the “Manage Sales Quotations – Version 2” app, and for invoice printing in the “Manage Sales Contracts – Version 2” app. This enhances overall operational efficiency by providing single-point access to critical data, which in turn reduces time and effort and accelerates processing times.

Usage of business rules to determine default item categories in sales documents

Organizations can now embed flexible business rules in advanced field control using Business Rule Framework plus (BRFplus) to automatically determine the default item category for sales orders, sales quotations, and sales orders without charge. This feature provides a standard BRFplus application template, enabling customers to select predefined criteria to build decision tables and efficiently define their own applications. This provides a highly flexible solution for determining default item categories and increases efficiency during setup by simply copying the standard template.

For a comprehensive list of all new features, technical details, and specific release notes for this LOB, explore the SAP Cloud ERP Private 2025 FPS1 What's New Viewer on the SAP Help Portal. and filter by the line of business to see the full scope of innovations!

Supply Chain

Core functional innovations

Ability to consider product allocations during an availability check for sales quotations

This feature enables the use of the characteristic catalog for sales documents directly within sales quotations, allowing users to activate a product allocation object and create planning data used by quotations. By checking maintained product allocations during an availability check for the sales quotation, and considering these reservations during the check for a subsequent sales order referencing the quotation, organizations significantly increase their order planning and fulfillment capabilities.

Support of sales quotations in supply protection

Users now have the option to define supply protection for quotations based on the characteristics catalog for sales documents. This provides an option to set up protection that is not only considered as a restriction from the perspective of a sales quotation but also acts as active protection, thereby increasing the flexibility and reliability of supply protection.

Cut-off times for product availability check

In the advanced ATP product availability check (PAC), supply elements planned to arrive after a certain time of the day can now be moved directly to the beginning of the next day using fine-granular configuration levels (including plant, document purpose, and ATP category). This improves the balance between a progressive and a conservative ATP check, thereby substantially increasing the accuracy of ATP confirmations.

Interactive backorder processing (iBOP): Support for rounding and additional features

This update enables support for quantity rounding during availability checks within the interactive backorder processing (iBOP) application, allowing users to use delivery proposal results when performing manual confirmation adjustments. It also introduces a monitoring feature for requirements and order items that underwent unrestricted checks during previous runs. This prevents shipping bottlenecks by ensuring confirmed quantities align with packaging constraints, enhances decision-making by showing the actual system situation, and tracks unrestricted check history to facilitate faster troubleshooting.

Plant determination in master data substitution

Organizations gain highly configurable behavior for plant substitution during the advanced availability check. While the classic behavior determines alternative plants based on the requested plant, a new option allows the system to determine a list of alternative plants independent of the originally requested plant, either including or excluding it. This new substitution type dramatically eases the maintenance of plant substitution master data and provides the flexibility to optionally ignore the originally entered plant during the advanced ATP check.

Providing analytics for safety stock levels with embedded SAP Fiori app

A new SAP Fiori analytical app delivers enhanced safety stock analysis, offering real-time visibility into safety stock levels across products and locations. It features flexible filtering, displays both quantity and financial values, provides insight into key safety stock drivers (demand, supply, service variability), and allows drill-down capabilities with data export options. This provides real-time, actionable insights to facilitate data-driven network-wide decision-making, increases planner productivity, and helps align safety stock levels with demand forecasts while addressing root causes of variability. NOTE: This road map item also applies to SAP Digital Supply Chain Management, edition for SAP S/4HANA.

Cost optimization in safety stock calculation

This feature enables cost optimization in safety stock calculation by allowing users to maintain stockholding costs, handling costs, and transportation costs for products. The system calculates safety stock for products at each network location while finding the optimal balance between these associated costs. Planners get a cost-optimized result for Target Service Levels and safety stock amounts, lowering the total costs for stockholding and distribution while ensuring customer orders are fulfilled with minimal costs. NOTE: This road map item also applies to SAP Digital Supply Chain Management, edition for SAP S/4HANA.

Dealer product copying and deletion

Users now have options in the SAP Fiori apps (Manage Dealer Product and Application Jobs – eSPP) to copy single or multiple dealer products from one dealer location to another, as well as new reports and job templates to mark and delete outdated products. This empowers users to create new dealer products quickly and consistently while improving data quality by keeping only the necessary master data. NOTE: This road map item also applies to SAP Digital Supply Chain Management, edition for SAP S/4HANA.

Mass maintenance for dealer products

This introduces a new data type to create and maintain dealer products in the SAP Fiori app “Manage Mass Maintenance – eSPP Data,” supporting both active and simulation version updates. Additionally, dealer products are added as a data type for file upload using the “Manage Mass Processing – eSPP Data” app. This reduces the effort and time needed to maintain master data and provides a consistent, central framework for mass maintenance. NOTE: This road map item also applies to SAP Digital Supply Chain Management, edition for SAP S/4HANA.

Mass maintenance for product group types and product groups

Similar to dealer products, a new data type is added to maintain product group types and product group assignments within the “Manage Mass Maintenance” and “Manage Mass Processing” SAP Fiori apps. This greatly reduces the manual effort needed to maintain these assignments while offering a centralized mass maintenance framework. NOTE: This road map item also applies to SAP Digital Supply Chain Management, edition for SAP S/4HANA.

Simplified maintenance of bill of distributions (BODs)

This provides a modernized user experience based on SAP Fiori design for the maintenance of extended service parts planning (eSPP) bills of distributions (BODs). It includes CSV upload/download capabilities, mass creation options to input multiple child locations, and a search utility to find specific locations quickly in large BODs. This aligns with the strategic UX direction of SAP applications, improving navigation, reducing clicks, and simplifying the maintenance of the bill of distribution structure. NOTE: This road map item also applies to SAP Digital Supply Chain Management, edition for SAP S/4HANA.

Ability to use complex selections with product group types and product groups in service parts planning processes

A new SAP Fiori app allows users to define, alter, and delete complex selections combining product group types and product groups using AND/OR logic. Users can simulate results to see matching products and use these combinations directly in the planning service manager (PSM) framework. This adds immense flexibility, saves handling effort for defining specific groups, and improves overall planning quality by considering product-specific segmentation. NOTE: This road map item also applies to SAP Digital Supply Chain Management, edition for SAP S/4HANA.

Intermittent time series forecast model

This feature leverages the Intermittent Time Series Forecasting (ITSF) algorithm of the predictive analytics library (PAL) to generate forecasts for products with intermittent, hard-to-predict demand. It uses automatic model selection to determine if ITSF is the best fit and visualizes the results graphically and tabularly, vastly improving forecast quality for spare parts in upcoming periods. NOTE: This road map item also applies to SAP Digital Supply Chain Management, edition for SAP S/4HANA.

Warehouse Management

AI-Powered Innovations (AI capabilities available in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition only)

AI-assisted predictive labor demand planning, feature enrichment

This enhancement expands planned workload and forecast capabilities to the outbound staging process while refining the forecast UI to provide functional drill-downs. It enables the WO/WT API for picking workload execution and downports the AI feature to SAP S/4HANA Cloud for extended warehouse management, private edition 2022 and higher releases. By leveraging this feature, warehouse supervisors can better plan shifts according to current workloads, gain deeper transparency into warehouse operations, and reduce potential delays by identifying disruptions, ultimately promoting higher customer satisfaction in delivery fulfillment.

Joule feature integrated with warehouse outbound processes

This innovation integrates the Joule copilot directly into warehouse outbound processes, enabling continuous delivery of new AI functions across upcoming releases. Users can now utilize natural language to easily search for outbound delivery order headers, items, and properties, as well as search for warehouse orders and tasks. The intelligent agent can also seamlessly summarize outbound delivery orders and items (with future updates planned to allow users to create, confirm, and cancel warehouse orders, and set statuses on outbound deliveries). By enabling direct conversational interaction with Joule, organizations can greatly enhance the overall user experience, dramatically improve the operational efficiency of monitoring outbound processes in SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM), and enhance decision-making through real-time insights.

Core functional innovations

Advanced shipping & receiving: Perform ad-hoc loading

This innovation allows the loading of Handling Units without prior assignment to Freight Orders. The assignment of the Freight Unit to a Freight Order is created directly during EWM loading processing via EWM mobile transactions (RFUI), removing the need for previous planning/consolidation steps in Transportation Management. Supported for embedded and decentral ASR scenarios, this reduces process steps and enables warehouse logistics-driven decision-making.

Advanced shipping & receiving: Warehouse-driven outbound delivery order splits

This enables a warehouse-driven EWM Outbound Delivery Order (ODO) split for Advanced Shipping and Receiving. Users can split an ODO item, a Handling Unit, or remaining parts into a new ODO (until the “Ready for Shipping” status is set). Supported for embedded and decentral ASR scenarios, this drastically increases flexibility in warehouse processing to adjust deliveries based directly on operational reasons.

Value chain analysis integration in logistic EWM: avoiding quantity changes for stock transfer orders (stock-in-transit)

This enables intra-company and cross-company STO processes of SIT stocks in EWM-managed receiving storage locations. It introduces a new customizing setting “Prev. Qty Upd STO” and supports PGR via the Inbound Delivery A2X API, ensuring goods receipts with quantity differences are not allowed in EWM and LE. This effectively resolves previous restrictions to handle valuated Stock-in-Transit with EWM-managed receiving locations, providing a standard solution comparable to SAP Note 3211234.

JIT call-triggered supply-to-customer process for component group materials

This streamlines the outbound process for S2C calls by enabling capabilities on Modular Assemblies extending the approach of LE and TM. While the LE Delivery manages both Component Materials and Component Group materials, EWM works strictly on Component Group Materials, with nJIT controlling the JIT-Call specific BOM. Supported for embedded EWM deployments, this simplifies the S2C process and enhances flexibility for inventory management.

Quality management: enabling the quality management process in the warehouse outbound process for decentralized EWM

This introduces a synchronous RFC check of completed quality inspections at goods issue posting in EWM. It prevents successful goods issue posting for EWM Outbound Delivery Orders with open inspection lots (origins 10, 11, and 12) if the quality inspection is not completed, utilizing a new “Relevant for Q-Inspection in Outbound” indicator. This improves compliance with quality standards, increases the flexibility of inspection processes, and simplifies the user experience.

Perform quantity correction process in Advanced Returns Management in EWM

After the goods receipt of customer returns, a quantity correction can now take place at material inspection (e.g., if a customer returns less quantity than advised). This enables the logistical follow-up action “0023 – Goods Receipt Quantity Correction” so that discrepancies between returned and inspected quantities are accurately reflected in the system. Supported for both embedded and decentral EWM deployments, it significantly enhances exception handling capabilities in goods receipt processing.

Modernization and simplification updates for SAP Extended Warehouse Management

This feature delivers a suite of updates, including improved RF Receiving for delivery-based goods movements against assets, a new BADI for stock list extension, synchronous Goods Issue from HU from an external MES system, and support for alternative units of measure (AUoM) for the warehouse stock migration object. Organizations can take advantage of these innovations to manage complex logistics with unparalleled service levels, drive efficiency, optimize processes, and thrive in a competitive landscape.

Additional features for warehouse APIs in FPS01

This enhances the existing ODATA-service Warehouse Order and Task (A2X) with new ‘Lock/Unlock Warehouse Order’ actions. This enables real-time updates of SAP EWM data to integrated systems, providing deep transparency throughout the logistic supply chain while enhancing the user experience when connecting SAP EWM to platforms like automation or robotic integration.

Transportation Management

AI-Powered Innovations (AI capabilities available in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition only)

AI-assisted goods receipt analysis for bordero documents

This feature introduces AI-assisted goods receipt analysis for bordero documents powered by SAP Document AI. It empowers the system to support the automatic creation of a freight order based directly on information extracted from the bordero document. Furthermore, it can intelligently compare the content of an existing freight order with the results of the uploaded, AI-analyzed bordero document to instantly identify any discrepancies. By automating these critical checks, organizations can significantly accelerate processing times, minimize manual errors, and reduce manual effort. This leads to enhanced overall operational efficiency, reduced waiting times for logistics carriers, and a potential reduction in costly yard space requirements due to highly optimized turnaround times.

NOTE: These features are only available in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition 2025 FPS1 Release.

Core functional innovations

Charge calculation for the consignment order process in less-than-truckload (LTL) scenarios

This enhancement to the consignment order business document enables the grouping of several transportation requirements based on specific criteria (such as source/destination location, delivery date/time, or business partner). It allows users to calculate charges for the consignment orders assigned to a freight order specifically in less-than-truckload (LTL) scenarios, greatly improving the user experience for charge calculation.

Transportation planning and network capabilities: load consolidation, alternative packaging materials, and more

Users can now utilize load consolidation during the creation of capacity documents based on groups, choose among alternative top-level packaging materials during package building optimization, and enable free positioning for load consolidation. This improves the accuracy of transportation planning, allows the selection of optimal packaging materials, and enhances space utilization in containers/trucks while minimizing overall transportation costs.

Advanced shipping and receiving – ad hoc loading without a preplanned load in transportation management

For cases where freight is ready for shipping at the staging area and needs to be loaded ad hoc to the next capacity document (truck, trailer, or container), this feature provides the ability to load additional cargo or unassign load to free up space. This enables an entirely new process for ASR that easily accommodates scenarios such as the ad hoc filling of a shuttle truck.

Enhancements in lean services-based settlement of freight costs from transportation management

This update supports the invoice process for self-billing and process-level communication with carriers through SAP Business Network for Logistics. It supports the collective settlement process and settlement integration with lean services in a sidecar mode (SAP S/4HANA to SAP S/4HANA). This harmonizes service procurement functionality, enables invoice reduction and unplanned cost handling directly in invoice management, and seamlessly integrates freight costs with universal parallel accounting.

Sales order scheduling with transportation management respects or determined means of transport

This feature allows the system to take over the means of transport during sales order entry and hand it over to sales order scheduling and transportation requirement routing and scheduling (TRS). If no MTR is provided, it determines the means and mode of transport based on TM data, ensuring consistent results between scheduling and logistics integration. This improves the overall accuracy of sales order scheduling and ensures promised delivery dates align perfectly with transportation management planning.

Paperless intracompany transports within the advanced shipping and receiving process

Users gain one central view of necessary printed, mailed, and EDI-based transportation documents. It allows users to define which output documents (PDFs) are automatically stored in the attachment folder (and whether they should be visible externally), which are printed, and which must be made available as attachments for certain process steps. This drastically improves the output management process for TM, paving the way for a fully paperless workflow.

Enablement of eCMR for Transportation Management

This feature provides the ability to print a CMR for each consignment order of a freight order and digitally sign a CMR for multiple parties, including the shipper, carrier, and consignee. By enabling electronic communication between involved parties, businesses can successfully reduce manual paperwork and modernize documentation tracking.

Advanced shipping and receiving: making loading not mandatory

This enhancement to the loading of goods within the advanced shipping and receiving (ASR) process offers a variant where explicit loading is not mandatory. By allowing customers to be flexible with the physical loading process within ASR, it enables organizations with smaller warehouses to run a much leaner and more agile ASR operation.

Customer Return with SAP Global Trade Services for the advanced shipping and receiving scenario

This integrates SAP Transportation Management with SAP Global Trade Services (SAP GTS) specifically for the customer return process. This enables further process integration for TM, easily allowing customs procedures to be handled within the customer return workflow.

Service Management

AI-Powered Innovations (AI capabilities available in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition only)

Search, navigate and update service contracts with Joule

Users can now leverage the Joule copilot to search for and navigate directly to service contracts. Through the Joule AI interface, profitable service contracts can be fetched using specific parameters like sold-to party, contact person, and currency, or searched by providing a status or time frame. Furthermore, SAP Joule can be used to update the status of a service contract directly to “Released” or “Completed”. This empowers users to manage service contracts using natural language requests, allowing them to get specific answers and navigate quickly and intuitively to service contract details.

Joule for transferring in-house service objects

This feature utilizes the Joule copilot to create the delivery required to transfer an in-house service object from one plant and storage location to another. Operating as a conversational chatbot, Joule helps users create the delivery to receive an in-house service object with an inbound delivery, and add the target plant and storage location for the transfer. By initiating the transfer and receipt of an in-house service object through a seamless conversational approach, organizations can significantly simplify and accelerate these logistics processes.

Core functional innovations

Direct maintenance plan creation from the service contract

This feature enables the automatic creation of a new maintenance plan when releasing a service contract item. Users can add an existing maintenance plan to a service-contract template as a copy-template reference, which is then seamlessly copied when creating a contract from that template. If templates are not used, a reference to an existing maintenance plan can be added directly in the service contract. This significantly accelerates and simplifies the creation of service contracts with maintenance plans, especially for large contracts with many line items, by automatically managing plans for recurring services.

Enriching service contract header & item with multilevel categorization

Organizations now have a flexible taxonomy framework for service contracts that allows for the classification of contracts into specific categories without needing custom fields. This supports seamless data replication and direct impacts on downstream processes—such as “auto-complete” features where service contract items can automatically be added from predefined templates. Standardizing these taxonomies across service processes enhances user experience, increases compliance, and allows businesses to manage and analyze data more effectively for better operational decision-making.

Advance shipment stock monitor

You can now proactively manage unused stock and track service parts shipped in advance to customers using the new Monitor Advance Shipment Stock app. It provides real-time visibility into the lifecycle of consignment stock at customer locations, displaying the service order, shipped quantity, consumed quantity, and unutilized pending quantity. By effectively tracking these in-advance shipments, organizations ensure more efficient service operations and vastly improved inventory control.

Applying lists of serial numbers to in-house service objects

Service objects can now have multiple serial numbers and pieces of equipment assigned to them when quantities are larger than one. This update also allows users to smoothly transfer serial number lists between in-house service objects and logistics transactions, such as customer returns and delivery documents. This drastically reduces the number of individual in-house service objects required, increases the usability of In-House Service apps, and standardizes handling to match serial number processes across SAP S/4HANA.

Intercompany repair and logistics for in-house service

This innovation enables organizations to launch intercompany processes for in-house service objects directly from the Manage Service Objects and Manage In-House Services apps. Users can trigger intercompany goods movements for objects in customer stock, seamlessly sending service objects to specialized repair centers regardless of whether the repair center is in the same company code. By generating an intercompany service order and a linked in-house service in the receiving company, this provides full transparency and efficiently manages the financial flow across company boundaries.

Process flow in service transactions at the header level

A graphical process flow is now available within the Manage Service Quotations and Manage Service Orders apps at the header level. This visual overview clearly displays the sequential steps and follow-up processes related to service transactions—such as service quotations, service orders, billable maintenance orders, service confirmations, and billing documents. This enables users to gain an immediate, easy-to-understand overview of the end-to-end document lifecycle at a glance.

Service team and enterprise service organization determination

New customizing profiles and access sequences have been introduced to greatly improve the flexibility of service team and enterprise service organization determination. The system can now determine the service team by member based on partner functions, and determine the enterprise service organization directly from the service team attributes or via a new Business Add-In (BAdI). This reduces the time and manual effort required to set up service teams and organizations, while optionally making the enterprise service organization obligatory in specific transactions.

Service with advanced execution: change of profit center in billable maintenance order

This feature provides crucial financial flexibility for intracompany scenarios within SAP S/4HANA Service with advanced execution. It enables users to set different profit centers on the execution order item (which handles revenue) and the billable maintenance order (which handles cost). It also allows users to disable the transfer of the profit center value to billable maintenance orders if values change in the service order, or manually edit the profit center value directly within the billable maintenance order.

Service with advanced execution: RRCO subitems in Service Order

Resource-Related Cost (RRCO) subitems can now be included directly in service orders. These subitems can be brought in by taking them over from a service quotation or by utilizing the Refresh Planning button in the Service Order. This provides a robust alternative method for calculating cost conditions (like PCO4) and planned revenue on the execution order item, directly impacting event-based revenue recognition (EBRR).

Splitting and merging in-house service objects

To streamline the in-house service process, users can now restructure service objects by splitting and merging their quantities and assigned serial numbers into new service objects. Splitting ensures consistent handling when parts of a service object need to be sent to a specialized repair shop or require specific services. Conversely, merging multiple objects into a new single service object dramatically simplifies lists and enhances the overview in SAP Fiori apps, which is particularly useful when dealing with a large volume of in-house service objects.

New BAdI in Recurring Service

Customers can now enhance the business logic for the scheduling of maintenance service plans to better control the generation of call objects. Using a suite of new Business Add-Ins (BAdIs), organizations can implement custom validations on scheduling, add service items to an existing service transaction, and enable standard contract determination at the item level. This ensures that customers can precisely control the creation of call objects based on their unique criteria and efficiently reuse existing service documents.

Advanced execution in SAP S/4HANA Service solution: OData API support for billable maintenance order

This update enhances the OData API for maintenance orders (API_MAINTENANCEORDER) to explicitly support billable maintenance orders, allowing users to easily change a billable maintenance order directly through the API. This seamlessly enables the standard SAP Enterprise Asset Management solution API to be used with the SAP S/4HANA Service solution with advanced execution.

Service with advanced execution: changing capability for billable maintenance order

This innovation enables users to change billable maintenance orders and operations for both single and multiple maintenance orders (for certain fields) across various SAP Fiori apps, including Find Maintenance Orders, Find Maintenance Notifications and Orders, Find Maintenance Orders and Operations, and Manage Maintenance Order. Additionally, it supports SAP GUI mass-change transactions from asset management (such as IW72, IW38, and IW37N) and the BAPI_ALM_ORDER_MAINTAIN BAPI to change billable maintenance orders or set the billable flag to convert a maintenance order. This provides robust functionality to easily execute single changes and mass changes on billable maintenance orders using familiar asset management tools.

Asset Management

Core functional innovations

Improvements for Manage Maintenance Order app

This release introduces multiple features to the Manage Maintenance Order app to improve its usability and efficiently manage the planning process. It provides an improved hierarchical search for material groups for nonstock parts and services, an improved selection task list, and the ability to perform mass changes of maintenance orders including custom fields. Furthermore, it delivers improved extensibility for adding customer field content from technical objects to maintenance orders or notifications. This improves overall efficiency in maintenance planning and significantly reduces the number of clicks and navigation required to access various other SAP Fiori apps.

Improvements for phase control code and analytics based on phases

Organizations can now benefit from an improved definition of Phase Control Codes so that the same codes can be used across multiple order types, along with simplified translation of these codes and descriptions. Additionally, this update provides the ability to analyze the throughput of various backlogs based on the average time each backlog takes to move through nine phases. This leads to the harmonization of phase control codes and user statuses, improves usability when different teams use the same code in different languages, and gives better visibility and control over bottlenecks to manage backlogs and identify root causes.

Enhancing system status management for reference and event-based planning buckets

This feature enhances system statuses for reference and event-based planning buckets by adding actions to cancel technical completion, cancel “do not execute” designations, and reset the deletion flag. This vastly improves the tracking and management of operational and event-based planning buckets.

Ability for technicians to perform after-job recording of maintenance activity – Confirmation of Unplanned Work

This innovation allows maintenance technicians to record ad-hoc or remote jobs in the system after the physical job processing is already complete. It guides technicians through the creation, planning, and confirmation process, allows customization for phase- and non-phase-enabled processes, and lets users start after-job recording directly from a list page as an action. This enables immediate job-related artifact creation using master data, provides immediate job confirmation after ad hoc work, and enables one-click goods movement posting through a state-of-the-art user interface.

Display of associated work permits in the Manage Maintenance Orders app and more

The Manage Maintenance Orders app has been updated with new features to help maintenance planners easily find and display associated work permits. It includes new filter groups, a dedicated section for associated work permits with semantic object drill-down, and visual indicators of overall work permit status. Additionally, users can set up an application job to automatically create work permits and utilize a new direct “Create Work Permit” action. This enables an integrated view of associated work permits, increases transparency with processing statuses, and simplifies the identification of relevant maintenance orders.

Extension of scope for reference- and event-based planning buckets

Users can now extend the Manage Maintenance Planning Buckets (New Version) app with custom scope attributes and cross-app navigation links. It allows you to expand the set of scope attributes using standard or custom fields, display custom cross-app navigation links in the Execution Objects table, and use user statuses for Event-Based Planning Buckets. By providing simplified creation of linked events, it helps organizations optimize and reprioritize the scope of maintenance backlogs based on available capacity and budget.

New features for inspection checklist processing in maintenance management

This release introduces several new features for maintenance inspection checklist planning and processing, including checklist type creation with associated authorizations and object list generation in the Manage Maintenance Orders app. It also delivers material-based checklist enhancements like a material checklist indicator across UIs and APIs, additional filters in the Manage Inspection Checklists app, and new fields in the checklist report output format. This provides feature parity from classic SAP GUI, increases SAP Fiori handling of inspection plans, and improves the overall usability of managing checklist types.

New features for the SAP Fiori app “Perform Maintenance Jobs” (F5104A)

The Perform Maintenance Jobs app has been enhanced to allow maintenance technicians to add a reason code when pausing a job, introduce a new “Degree of Progress” field during time recording, and provide closeout long-text templates using a Business Add-In. It also enables technicians to see associated order object list entries, handle SAP Extended Warehouse Management and batch-managed materials, and benefit from a revised notification quick view. This increases the transparency of paused jobs, improves goods movement usability, enhances job completeness processing, and increases the data quality of recorded notification long texts.

Providing a custom logic (BAdI) to add e-mail recipients on output items of a job pack regarding work packs

This feature allows organizations to use a custom logic to add additional e-mail recipients (To, CC, and BCC) to output items of a job pack when a work pack gets created. By creating a custom e-mail distribution list and implementing a BAdI, this enhances the flexibility of custom e-mail recipients using a low-code approach and increases the overall usability of output item e-mailing from a job pack.

Isolation management in permit to work (lockout tagout)

Organizations can now manage the lockout tagout (LOTO) lifecycle as part of a modernized isolation management process. This includes a new SAP Fiori app for industrial hygienists to prepare isolation templates, and another app for operations teams to create isolation certificates independently or with reference to templates. A configurable approval object acts as an integral part of the isolation to facilitate the four-eyes principle and control work-permit processing. This helps users achieve safety compliance by reducing overall risk, improves communication between operations and maintenance, and enhances the management of technical objects during maintenance windows.

Ability to use notification processing context from the Maintenance Notification API

You can now define the notification processing context directly via the Maintenance Notification API, supporting contexts like standard notification, minor work, emergency work, minor work with screening, emergency work with screening, and confirmation of unplanned work. This improves automation, lead time, and data quality by allowing external channels to directly trigger the correct maintenance processing context, supporting a wider range of maintenance scenarios for more accurate reporting.

Change scheduling action and change log in the Screen Maintenance Requests app

A new change scheduling action in the SAP Fiori app “Screen Maintenance Requests” allows users to update open notifications with scheduling and prioritization details such as final due date, maintenance event and revision, required start/end dates, and priority. The app also logs changes to consequence and likelihood values in the history tab. This empowers users to update key scheduling fields without navigating to individual object pages and strengthens auditability, accountability, and analysis with an audit trail of risk changes.

Added functionality to the Manage Maintenance Plans and Manage Maintenance Items apps

This update allows users to display the maintenance plan status directly within the Manage Maintenance Items app and enables search capabilities based on a description in the Manage Maintenance Plans app. These enhancements improve end-user productivity and enable better visibility of the entire maintenance plan lifecycle.

Additional capabilities of OData API for maintenance plan

The OData API for maintenance plans has been enhanced to enable the fixing of a maintenance plan call and the ability to release an already scheduled call. This improves integration by facilitating real-time updates from different systems, enhances operational efficiency, and helps ensure that maintenance data is synchronized across multiple systems to reduce discrepancies.

Enable maintenance activity type (MAT) in task list operation for auto-population in PM orders without OAA activation

This introduces the maintenance activity type (MAT) field in task list operations and sub-operations, allowing the MAT value defined in the task list to automatically populate the corresponding field when a PM order is created. This works without requiring operation account assignment (OAA) activation. It standardizes planning at the task list level, increases automation by eliminating manual entry, and reduces complexity and IT costs by removing custom logic.

Expanding task list OData V4 API to include lean service capabilities

The Maintenance Task List OData V4 API has been enhanced to support creating and updating lean services information. It introduces new fields such as ProductTypeCode, OverallLimit, ExpectedValue, and ServiceDuration to enable smooth processing of lean services. This streamlines procurement and maintenance processes, consolidates material and service-related information into a unified API, and leverages a future-ready architecture aligned with SAP’s OData V4 standards.

Exposing compatible unit functionality as OData V4 APIs with future terminology for integration and scalability

This release exposes key business objects related to compatible units through OData V4 interfaces on the SAP Business Accelerator Hub, including Compatible unit, Compatible unit design, and Construction measure. To support broader use cases, it implements future-ready terminology changes where “Compatible unit” becomes “task planning element” and “Compatible unit design” becomes “task planning design.” This enhances integration with third-party systems, streamlines data exchange, and enables consistent, secure API access.

Enabling compatible units for maintenance orders

This feature enables compatible unit (CU) support within the Web Dynpro app for maintenance orders, allowing users to maintain relevant master data in the backend system and create or assign released CU designs directly within the app. It provides the flexibility to assign, view, remove, and reassign CU designs, ensuring continuity for existing customers while laying a solid foundation for future enhancements in the SAP Fiori-based user experience.

Flexible column layout for Screen Maintenance Requests and My Maintenance Requests apps

To improve the user experience, the “Screen Maintenance Requests” and “My Maintenance Requests” SAP Fiori apps now support a flexible column layout (split-screen). This enables users to maintain full visibility of their request lists while simultaneously viewing or editing specific object details. This reduces page navigation and “click-fatigue,” allowing users to process high volumes of requests and make faster, more informed decisions with full context.

Reference equipment as a new technical object

Reference equipment (REQ) has been introduced as a new technical object that acts as a master object for the creation of individual equipment and consistency checks throughout its lifecycle. A new SAP Fiori App provides all necessary options to create, display, change, and search reference equipment, alongside features for classification, reference measuring points, and partner data. This improves efficiency in maintaining individual assets, simplifies mass change handling, and ensures consistency between individual equipment and the superior reference equipment.

Reference structures with hierarchy structure view for reference objects

Users can now utilize a hierarchical reference structure view for reference functional locations and reference equipment, which can be expanded into sub-elements. Serving as a master structure for complex individual technical asset structures, this acts as the basis for creation, mass changes, and consistency checks. This improves compliance, speeds up asset creation, reduces the risk of inaccurate master data, and minimizes errors inherent with manual interactions.

Allows you to create Reference Designation Schemas (RDS) as per IEC ISO 81346-2: 2019 Standards

This feature provides the ability to refer to foundation classes or build standardized class libraries to classify objects according to their purpose, tasks, or infrastructure. By grouping objects by tasks/purpose to ensure similarity, organizations can create Reference Designation Schemas (RDS) in alignment with IEC ISO 81346-2: 2019 standards for comprehensive and standardized classification.

Industrial system: a new master data object

This introduces “Industrial System” as a new master data object designed to model complex industrial systems adhering to ISO 81346-1:2022 standards. It provides a framework for describing various aspects of an object, identifying them using a reference designation system (RDS), and defining product occurrences linked to functional locations, equipment, or materials. This complements existing structures, enhances data consistency, and provides deeper insights to optimize maintenance strategies and overall operational efficiency.

Extending OData API with Linear Data Fields

The OData API for linear assets has been extended to allow users to read linear data fields. While it currently does not support creating, updating, or deleting linear data fields, this read capability significantly enables the integration of third-party applications with SAP S/4HANA for spatial asset management, making it easier to manage linear assets.

Reuse value help app for equipment, functional location, and technical objects

A new SAP Fiori value help app streamlines the selection of equipment, functional locations, and technical objects across v2-based and v4-based Fiori apps. It features multiple value help templates for flexible selection, fuzzy search for improved usability, and contextual information auto-populated in the target UI. This provides a consistent user experience, enhances productivity, and makes it much easier to find exactly what you need even with approximate inputs.

Enabling configuration of auto-scheduling algorithm in simulated schedules

This feature provides users with the ability to influence or configure the automatic scheduling logic available in simulated schedules through a Business Add-In (BAdI). It enables users to influence scheduling logic rules, change the sequencing criteria of the existing algorithm, and include additional custom criteria. This allows organizations to change the existing automatic scheduling logic to account for special custom-specific requirements.

Replanning operations in status “in process”

Maintenance planners and schedulers can now change the scheduling of operations that are already in process (where a time confirmation exists and work has started). This empowers users to reschedule in-process operations in time via dialog or drag-and-drop, reassign operations between work centers or to other responsible personnel, and consider the calculation of remaining work to gain the most accurate utilization insights.

Procurement

Core functional innovations

Multistage (Multilevel) intercompany stock transfer

This release introduces a new business process for multistage intercompany stock transfer, which enables a company to receive goods in its own plant from stock owned by an affiliated company of the same group running in the same system. The receiving company can buy goods directly from the affiliated company that delivered them, or from one or several additional affiliated intermediate companies. This involves a direct shipment where goods are delivered directly from the stocked plant to the receiving plant. By providing a comprehensive, highly automated process embedded into areas like product compliance, revenue recognition, and group reporting, organizations can enable valuated stock in transit, ensure a smooth transition of control between affiliates, and consistently monitor end-to-end processes.

Contract reference for limit service items in central purchasing (private edition)

Users can now display the reference to a contract against which services may be performed up to a specified value limit. This is available at the line-item level for both centrally managed purchase requisitions and purchase orders. This significantly increases transparency into the contract reference of a limit item, ensuring it is only possible to enter services against the existing contract and strictly at the prices specified therein.

Editability of purchasing group in central purchase contract after initial distribution (private edition)

This feature extends the existing editing functionality for purchasing groups beyond the central contract's first distribution. It supports subsequent changes to purchasing groups and automatically updates them in the already distributed contracts within the connected system. This increases flexibility in managing purchasing group changes over time, giving users the ability to update existing contracts rather than needing to generate completely new, distributed contracts.

Editability of storage location in central purchase contract after initial distribution

Organizations can now display the plant and storage location in the distributed outline agreement facet when the storage location is used as part of custom split criteria during customization. Furthermore, users can now change the storage location for this facet. This increases operational flexibility when managing storage location changes over time in central purchase contracts.

Extending the editability of distributed outline agreements to mass change transactions (private edition)

This enhancement extends the possibility to edit a controlled set of fields within distributed contracts or scheduling agreements directly to mass change transactions in the connected system. It allows the mass editing of a set of fields within the distributed outline agreement that are not necessarily part of the central purchase contract. This vastly increases process efficiency and flexibility by empowering users to perform mass maintenance of the distributed outline agreement's fields within the connected system.

Split of central purchase contracts by partner functions

Users can now configure and customize the distribution of central purchase contracts based on partner functions. By streamlining the process for distributing central purchase contracts by partner function, organizations ensure greater relevance and accuracy in their contractual obligations.

New app to help central purchasers monitor workflow issues

A new SAP Fiori app empowers central purchasers to seamlessly monitor and troubleshoot flexible workflow issues related to centrally managed purchase requisitions and purchase orders. It provides flexible workflow configuration checks (such as scenario activation, document type activation, and authorization checks) alongside business document checks (like agent determination failures and status inconsistencies). This empowers central purchasers to proactively address flexible workflow issues without relying entirely on IT teams, improving communication across departments to quickly resolve workflow bottlenecks.

New app to help purchasers monitor workflow issues

Similar to the central purchaser app, this new SAP Fiori app gives standard purchasers the ability to monitor and troubleshoot flexible workflow issues related specifically to local purchase requisitions and purchase orders. Providing the same robust configuration and business document checks, this empowers business users to proactively monitor flexible workflow issues, streamline the resolution process, and improve communication between purchasing teams and IT.

Provisioning of contract reference for limit service items in the SAP Fiori app “My Purchase Requisition – New”

This feature enables the provisioning of limit contracts and limit contract items directly at the service-enhanced limit item level within the “My Purchase Requisitions – New” SAP Fiori app. It includes the ability to easily search these fields using value help. This improves user productivity and usability by allowing users to quickly assign a contract reference to a central purchase requisition containing a service-enhanced limit item.

Workflow assistant for procurement: new tool in SAP GUI to monitor and resolve flexible workflow issues

Network administrators gain a powerful new tool in the SAP GUI to monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve flexible workflow issues for centrally managed purchase requisitions and orders, as well as standard purchase requisitions and orders. Providing deep access to workflow configurations and business documents, it introduces crucial workflow restart functionality to resolve issues like agent determination failures or enqueue lock issues. This improves overall efficiency in identifying and resolving workflow-related errors and enhances the ability to maintain smooth, uninterrupted purchasing operations.

Parked supplier invoices in document flow of self-service purchase requisitions

The document flow for self-service purchase requisitions has been enhanced to display parked supplier invoices in addition to fully booked invoices. This improves transparency and gives users complete visibility into the follow-on document history of their self-service requisitions.

Two-envelope bidding

This update supports the two-envelope bidding process, providing the possibility to define separate commercial and technical envelopes. It includes the ability to define an opening date and assign responsible bid openers. This ensures organizations can perform critical bid-opening activities in a highly compliant and streamlined way.

Expedited creation of a sourcing project using a sourcing template

New authorizations now enable assigned users to easily create and edit sourcing templates, while allowing sourcing managers to browse available templates to rapidly create sourcing projects based directly on their selection. This dramatically expedites the creation of sourcing projects and ensures improved sourcing governance across the organization.

Adding flexible workflow e-mail notifications for purchase scheduling agreements

Organizations can now utilize new e-mail templates within the flexible workflow for purchase scheduling agreements. These include templates to inform approvers that an overdue notification has been sent, as well as templates to immediately inform the creator when a scheduling agreement has been approved or rejected. This minimizes delays in the approval process by dispatching overdue notifications and keeps stakeholders swiftly informed about significant decisions or required actions.

Manufacturing

Core functional innovations

Ability to create action handlers for hold actions during shop floor operations

Production process specialists can now configure action handlers to perform additional actions after an “Apply Hold” or “Release Hold” action is triggered. For example, the system can automatically invoke follow-on actions or require production operators to perform additional checks. By combining human oversight with automated task execution, this streamlines operations, reduces manual intervention, and significantly improves process efficiency.

Managing the components in order-specific shop floor routings in tabular format

Production engineers can now add multiple components to the order-specific shop floor routing (OSR) by entering them directly into a table. This feature also makes it possible to easily edit and replace existing components in a dedicated table, while ensuring that components with a “Not Editable” state remain protected from changes. This enables much faster and more efficient management of the OSR and order change process, especially in the context of rework where multiple components need to be added, replaced, or edited.

Ability to define flexible rework routing

Production engineers can now create rework routings for which flexible processing is enabled simply by checking a box during creation. This setting eliminates dependencies between operations during production execution and allows for the definition of predecessor relationships between the operation activities of different operations (cross-operation relationships). This delivers improved flexibility by granting added freedom in the sequence of performing rework operations on the shop floor.

Ability to manage composition of alternative components in order-order specific shop floor routing

Users can now utilize alternative item groups (AIGs) in the order-specific routing (OSR) to define alternatives for non-visual components. Production engineers can add, edit, or remove alternative components in an existing AIG, add an existing component to a new AIG, or create entirely new groups for new components. This provides the crucial flexibility to use alternative components on the shop floor without having to change the core production master data.

Extensibility to allow a custom text format for headings in work instructions

A new Business Add-In (BAdI) allows organizations to define custom text formatting for the headings used in the rich text editor when managing standard texts and authoring work instructions. This enables the strict alignment of work instructions with specific corporate branding standards through configurable formatting options. It also provides huge time savings, as users no longer need to explicitly set the font type, font size, and font color for each individual heading.

Creating alternative operation sequence for shop floor routing

Production engineers can now create alternative sequences to easily model alternative production processes—such as work that can be performed on an alternative machine, different required inspections, bypassing certain production steps, or defining different lot sizes. Production supervisors can then switch seamlessly from the standard sequence to the alternative sequence in the shop floor order, and even replicate these sequences to a classic routing in SAP ERP. This grants greater process and scheduling flexibility to reduce production time, better utilize resources, and handle emergent situations on the shop floor.

Specify long text for relevant external processing operations in shop floor routing

In the shop floor routing, production engineers can now create detailed long texts for operations that are to be processed externally. When the production order is created, the system automatically transfers this text to both the production order and the corresponding purchase requisition, making it visible in the Manage Production Orders and Manage Production Operations apps. This streamlines the process of sharing instructions, drastically reduces the time spent searching for information, and minimizes execution errors.

Ability to configure multiple code groups for defect recording during shop floor order operations

Production supervisors can now define further reason code groups for defect recording in the Manage Action Settings app, in addition to the default code group. Production operators can then choose a defect reason code from any of the reason code groups defined by the supervisor. By offering a wider selection of code groups, organizations benefit from more accurate and highly flexible quality management.

“Embedded analytics” through application-based production planning and detailed scheduling KPI monitor

Users can now pull production planning and detailed scheduling-relevant KPIs—such as capacity utilization—interactively while working directly within the apps. Planners can drill down to a more detailed composition of a respective KPI directly out of the application. Leveraging these improved abilities to evaluate production plans interactively allows teams to easily compare alternative plans and instantly understand differences like resource overloads or order delays.

Evolution of multilevel time buffers (MLTB): display of limiting order and category

This feature provides advanced decision support for multilevel planning through the calculation and visualization of multilevel time buffers (MLTB) in multitier supply chains. It provides additional details describing the exact limiting order for each MLTB key figure and its specific ATP category. This substantially improves the transparency of multilevel order chains and helps increase overall customer service levels.

Assignment of Master Inspection Characteristics in Master Recipe using Odata API

With this update, you can now seamlessly assign master inspection characteristics (MIC) for the specific operations and phases for which an inspection is to be carried out using the OData API. Assigning MICs directly to operations or phases in a recipe perfectly takes care of the in-process manufacturing inspection process.

Enablement of the Handling Unit in Production Order Confirmation OData API

The Production Order Confirmation OData API has been enhanced to support handling units. This enables a production operator to scan the handling unit (HU) in a third-party Manufacturing Execution System (MES), allowing the stock from the corresponding HU to be instantly consumed in both the MES and the SAP S/4HANA system. This ensures perfect synchronization and consumption of the exact same handling unit across integrated systems.

New functions in RAP BOs for production order confirmation and process order confirmation

Two additional functions have been added in the RAP Business Objects for production order confirmation and process order confirmation. Users can use GetConfProposal to retrieve proposal data for quantities, activities, dates, times, and personnel data for time ticket confirmations, and GetGdsMvtProposal to get proposal data for goods movements. This enables users to precisely confirm production-related work afterward, if desired.

Printing sample drawing instructions

Organizations can now easily print a shop paper for physically drawing required samples as soon as an inspection lot is created and specifications are determined. These sample-drawing instructions contain all the information required for drawing samples and distributing them to work centers, including header data, unit quantities, and partial sample details. Users can manually print these instructions—including a preview—directly from the corresponding applications. This increases productivity through the automatic calculation of sample sizes and the clear documentation provided in the instruction sheets.

R & D / Engineering – PLM

AI-Powered Innovations (AI capabilities available in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition only)

Change management traceability using Joule copilot

This feature enables users to find relevant changes and change records using the Joule copilot based on the product master as a change item, along with a combination of change record attributes. By leveraging this AI capability, organizations can ensure the full traceability of changes and drastically increase overall efficiency in change management.

Summarization of Change Records using Joule

Change coordinators can now use Joule to summarize the detailed content of change records. For example, Joule can intelligently summarize the complex details of a problem report into a short, structured, and easy-to-read format. This massively boosts the efficiency of R&D engineers and change review boards, ultimately helping to reduce time to market

Core functional innovations

Additions to the change record services

This release delivers enhancements to change record services designed specifically to support a clean core API. By leveraging these additions, organizations can gain crucial flexibility by automating change record operations, ultimately saving time to market.

Custom change item object types in change records

Organizations can now add custom change item object types directly to Change Records. This allows businesses to easily customize additional object types per change record type to support their unique, customer-specific use cases. This provides the flexibility needed to automate change-record operations, improving development efficiency and reducing product development costs through the highly effective management of changes across the entire product lifecycle.

New options for change item handling in change records

To improve efficiency when managing change items within change records, users can now set default item relevance directly in the Manage Change Records app. This streamlines workflows and significantly reduces time to market by ensuring highly efficient change management processes in R&D.

Mass assignment of change items to change record

This feature empowers users to add multiple change items, such as products, to change records in a single step. By enabling the mass assignment of items rather than requiring individual entries, organizations can save critical time to market through a vastly more efficient change management process.

Digital signature process tied to a change-record process route in SAP software

Organizations can now implement a digital signature step for process route task decisions within change records to significantly increase process security. This helps enable R&D engineers and change coordinators to improve development efficiency and reduce product development costs through the secure, effective management of changes across the lifecycle.

R & D / Engineering – EPPM

AI-Powered Innovations (AI capabilities available in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition only)

Project assistant capabilities for the Joule copilot: read cost and revenue details of project objects

This innovation allows users to query and display cost and revenue details for project objects (such as projects, WBS elements, networks, or network activities) based on their ID or description. Users can request details for a specific fiscal year and receive a breakdown by fiscal year, cost component, and value category through conversational natural language interactions. This improves user experience and efficiency, simplifies data collection through intelligent search, and allows users to easily access project financial information across projects without having to open heavy financial reports.

Core functional innovations

Analysis of planned revenues for projects from billing plans and sales documents based on the central planning table

This enhancement enables the saving of revenues planned for projects in sales documents, as well as revenues planned through WBS billing plans, directly into the central planning table ACDOCP. It provides the display of related planned revenues within the SAP Fiori apps “Project Cost Overview” and “Project Cost Line Items”. This enables comprehensive analytics of project revenues based on a single source of truth, and allows users to seamlessly utilize planned revenues from billing plans and sales documents in follow-up processes based on the central planning table.

Deletion report for object-based authorizations in project system

A new report allows users to effortlessly display and delete object-based authorizations for a selected project or network. It provides the option to delete object-based authorizations completely from a project or network, or alternatively, retain admin authorizations while clearing others. Users can also display and export the list of object-based authorizations in various formats prior to deletion. This provides a comprehensive overview of granted authorizations and enables much more flexible handling of object-based authorizations for projects.

Visualization of project and WBS elements on a map

Project and Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) elements are now integrated with the SAP Geographical Enablement Framework, allowing elements with geospatial data to be displayed directly on a map. Users can search for elements in the Geo Editor and Geo Explorer, see basic attributes of selected objects on the map, and create, modify, or remove geospatial information. This enables the map to function as a central communication platform—displaying projects alongside other geo-enabled objects like equipment and maintenance orders—empowering users to make better decisions by correlating information visually and increasing efficiency through intuitive, map-based navigation.

Customer-driven updates from SAP Continuous Influence: portfolio management and project control

Based directly on feedback from the SAP Continuous Influence program, this release enables selected continuous improvements. These include customizable sorting of views, categories, and groups in portfolio planning, the option to disable the button used to create multiple items in the portfolio item dashboard, and the usage of user parameters to default a purchasing organization in product-component planning for networks. These updates drastically improve transparency and usability in portfolio planning, enhance the interface by deactivating unused functions, and reduce manual maintenance efforts in the project system.

Creation of portfolio item and related project using an API

This introduces an API for creating a portfolio item from a template and enhances the API for the creation of related projects to leverage different templates. By engaging one semantically aligned domain model across SAP solutions and end-to-end business processes, this increases the stability of integration scenarios, improves process flexibility, and simplifies the exchange of business objects to ensure higher data consistency for your intelligent, sustainable enterprise.

Additional capabilities for reading of portfolio initiative information using an API

The API has been further enhanced to enable the reading of responsible roles and resources for portfolio initiatives and their decision points, as well as reading the roles and staffings of an initiative. Like the creation API, this improves process flexibility, increases integration stability, and simplifies the exchange of business objects using a semantically aligned domain model.

Updating portfolio financial and capacity planning information for portfolio initiatives using an API

Organizations now have a dedicated API for creating, updating, and deleting financial and capacity planning values for a portfolio initiative. This heavily improves process flexibility by providing complete CRUD functionality for portfolio information APIs, streamlining the exchange of business objects and driving consistency across the enterprise.

Additional capabilities for report to import portfolio items from external file

The report to import portfolio items from Microsoft Excel sheets has been enhanced to include the ability to create a project with project profiles or a project type. Additionally, it now has the ability to create a project in SAP Commercial Project Management if the item is already linked to a project in the project system or SAP Project Management. This increases user efficiency and dramatically simplifies the creation of projects related to imported portfolio items.

Releasing CDS views for project management

This release makes CDS views for reading distribution values for roles and role staffings for project management available and extract-enabled. These are intended for use in developer extensibility scenarios, strictly following the extensibility approach for SAP S/4HANA Cloud. This strongly enhances extensibility options and effectively reduces the total cost of ownership of custom extensions.

Ability to copy a commercial project from an existing commercial project

Users can now create a new commercial project by directly copying an existing project. This copy includes critical project details such as reporting attributes, financial plans, risks, opportunities, issues, change requests, and team structure. This minimizes project setup effort and time, improves data accuracy and standardization, and enables a much faster turnaround for similar projects.

Quick financial plan: analytical and functional capabilities

The quick financial plan pages have received robust usability and functional enhancements. Users can now easily import planning data from the project system and utilize enhanced distribution functionality for the planning of quantity-based resources. Functionally, it introduces version comparison reports for financial plans, and allows project managers to plan both output quantities and cash flow directly. This reduces manual effort, improves data accuracy, enhances control over execution and forecasting, and supports superior financial oversight through informed, comparative decision-making.

Risk management: tracking of document history for risk and opportunity records

This feature enables the detailed tracking of the history of changes to risk and opportunity records, allowing project managers to see exactly what was changed, when, and by whom. This maintains a clear trail of decisions and changes, helping ensure total accountability, enhancing transparency across stakeholder reviews, and significantly reducing the risk of noncompliance.

Support of network account-assigned purchase requisitions and orders in Manage Project Procurement app

Users can now list purchase requisitions and purchase orders that are account-assigned directly to networks or network activities within the Manage Project Procurement app. Additionally, the app's filters have been extended to enable specific filtering on these networks and network activities. This significantly enhances the visibility of purchasing documents related to a project and increases overall user efficiency

HCM

Core functional innovations

Redesign of the My Bank Data app

This feature provides an employee self-service experience based on an SAP Fiori app, allowing employees to easily view and maintain their own bank information directly. Furthermore, it enables users to utilize country-specific subtypes for viewing and maintaining this information. By empowering employees with direct maintenance capabilities, organizations can significantly increase efficiency when managing employee master data and reduce the workload for professional HR roles.

Redesign of the SAP Fiori app “My Profile”

Through an enhanced employee self-service experience based on the SAP Fiori app “My Profile”, employees can now view their own profile across different information sections such as personal, bank, and address information. It also provides visualizations for missing or incomplete time recordings, and allows employees to easily maintain their own personal data through connected apps. This helps to keep employee data consistently up to date and further reduces the manual administrative workload for professional HR roles.

Redesign the SAP Fiori apps “My Overtime Requests” and “Approve My Overtime Requests”

This update adds the ability for employees to smoothly request an overtime quota, save a request as a draft to send later, or send overtime requests directly. Employees can delete a draft or unapproved request, change and resubmit rejected requests, and easily view what overtime has already been requested on the overview screen. For managers, it enables receiving approvals of requests directly through the SAP Fiori app “My Inbox,” after which overtime hours are automatically added to the attendance quota infotype. This drastically saves time for both employees and managers by using one single request for a bundle of overtime periods.

Payment posting to bank account ledger

This innovation introduces a clearing process for payment posting specifically with G/L accounts that have the account type “cash account” and the subtype “bank reconciliation account” or “bank subaccount”. This allows customers to easily use the functionality of bank accounts as cash accounts, ultimately reducing configuration efforts and complexity.

Payroll Result Deletion (transaction PU01) using the New Infotype Framework (nITF)

Organizations can now use the new infotype framework in transaction PU01 to update master data with highly reliable, consistent database handling. By leveraging this new, decoupled infotype framework—which separates the application logic from the user interface—it helps guarantee consistency in database updates while remaining completely transparent for users. This prevents any negative impact on business operations, as PU01 functions exactly as before from a user’s perspective.

Enhanced log for Transfer to Accounting report (RPCIPP00)

In report RPCIPP00, which is used for transferring payroll posting results into accounting, a detailed log has been included to streamline tracking and verification. This provides a well-organized view of posting results for much easier analysis and offers quicker, more intuitive access to key information. By enhancing clarity for customers reviewing posting results transferred into accounting, this significantly reduces the effort and complexity involved when analyzing transfer logs.

Enhanced log for Completeness Check reports (RPCIPC00, RPCIPC00_PNP)

An enhanced application log has been included directly in reports RPCIPC00 and RPCIPC00_PNP, enabling easier tracking and analysis while drastically simplifying the process of identifying payroll results that have not yet been posted. This enables a structured and organized review of payroll results through the application log, providing faster and easier access to essential result information. By providing greater clarity and transparency, it reduces complexity and makes payroll result verification highly efficient.

Industries

Industry – Public Sector

Core functional innovations

U.S. federal financial management capability framework: BIE interfaces and financial statement apps

This feature provides interfaces to various U.S. federal business information exchange (BIE) platforms, including the Collection Information Repository (CIR) and Cross-Servicing (CSNG). It also introduces additional SAP Fiori apps to support financial statements such as the balance sheet, statement of net cost, statement of changes in net position, statement of budgetary resources, and statement of custodial activity. By offering an upload tool for the configuration of cross-walks to financial statements, this capability streamlines communication with government platforms, eliminates the need for agencies to develop individual interfaces, and reduces configuration time through a more efficient process.

Ability to archive form data stored in the business document service (BDS)

Organizations can now enable the archiving of form data stored directly in the business document service (BDS). This significantly optimizes storage and system performance by archiving BDS form data while ensuring long-term accessibility.

Ability to disable the creation of new versions when updating existing form data

A new customization option allows organizations to prevent the creation of new data versions when an existing form is modified. When enabled, changes to a form will update the existing version instead of creating a new one. This effectively reduces the further increase of disk space consumption.

Integration between transportation management and public sector financials

Users can now integrate accounting fields into the header of freight and forwarding orders, validate funds availability for charges in a freight order, and post a forecast of revenue for any charges when a forwarding order is saved. Furthermore, it enables posting an earmark funds document to validate and commit funds when a freight order is saved, and includes U.S. federal government Trading Partner Treasury Account Symbol (TP TAS) fields. This improves transparency in expected revenues, enhances compliance and auditability by checking funds availability earlier, and enables more-accurate reporting of transportation costs and revenues by public sector account assignments.

Virtual data model for tax and revenue management analytics

This innovation introduces a virtual data model for analytics in tax and revenue management that provides streamlined and harmonized access to the underlying data model. It includes content with form bundle headers and form data for tax and revenue management analytics. This provides access to crucial data from embedded as well as external analytical tools for SAP S/4HANA, enabling tool usage without requiring deep technical knowledge of where the data is located

Industry – Waste and Recycling

Core functional innovations

New API for waste disposal order data

A new API allows users to read all waste-disposal-order-related data, including both order header and item data. This provides robust support for integration with read operations on waste disposal order data across external systems.

Industry – Consumer Products

Core functional innovations

Custom program development for accessing check-in data

This feature enables users to upload check-in data from a third-party solution, download check-in data to a third-party solution, edit uploaded check-in data, and trigger intermediate settlement for uploaded check-in data. This delivers greater flexibility during the check-in process by smoothly leveraging data from a third-party solution.

Ability to release multiple visit list schedules for later visit list generation

Transportation planners and technical users can now release multiple visit list schedules for future visit list generation, including the ability to release them using an OData service. This optimizes the visit list generation process and smoothly integrates the release of schedules from third-party solutions.

Additions to customer sales transaction types for settlement

Users can now utilize additional key fields in settlement configuration settings and enable additional parameters for business partners, original document types, and route categories. This allows businesses to benefit from additional parameters to configure the final settlement run and enables highly flexible use of settlement configurations to cover custom processes.

Editing of visit lists before final route planning

This feature allows users to update the driver and vehicle in a visit list, as well as add and remove individual customers to or from a visit list. This increases flexibility for last-minute changes of drivers and vehicles, and allows organizations to benefit from optimized logistical operations through ad hoc changes to visit lists before final route planning.

Enhancement of requested delivery date determination by using visit list schedules

Organizations can now enable the determination of requested delivery dates for sales orders by considering visit list schedules, and allow configuration of visit list schedule types for requested delivery dates. This reduces dependencies on visit lists by determining requested delivery dates with schedules, providing a robust alternative method when no visit lists are available.

Processing of order-related billing documents

This feature enables the processing of order-related billing documents created for sales orders and allows the configuration of settlement for order-related billing. This increases flexibility in using billing documents created for sales orders and allows teams to create billing documents early on in the process

Fashion and vertical Business

Fashion and vertical business: added functionality for the logistics and purchase order processes

This release delivers crucial enhancements to the direct-ship alignment process (including OData API result visualization in the Monitor Alignment app and exact quantity-match scenarios) as well as generic article (GA) generation during purchase order consolidation. This enables organizations in the fashion and retail industry to gain much-needed flexibility in the alignment process and when using important features of general article creation.

Fashion and vertical business: added functionality to the Monitor Supply Assignment Demand app

The Monitor Supply Assignment Demand app has been enhanced to allow users to perform product availability checking on manually selected items, define which supply is to be assigned using selection criteria, and trigger the inbound for outbound (IFO) process directly within the app. This allows planners to work on order items and optimize supply usage, better define which supply is used for manual assignment, and seamlessly trigger IFO handling without needing a separate SAP GUI interface transaction.

Fashion and vertical business: additions for PP/DS for segmentation integration

This update increases integration capabilities for planning scenarios using segmentation and production planning and detailed scheduling (PP/DS), offering more functionality regarding planned orders and material reservations. This supports comprehensive processes to ensure smoother operations across fashion and vertical businesses.

Fashion and vertical business: SAP Fiori apps for use in segmentation management

This release introduces three new SAP Fiori apps for managing segmentation: an app for setting up segmentation structures and strategies, an app for defaulting segmentation values in business documents (with more fields for determination than the previous transaction), and an app to create a field catalog for the defaulting app. Assigned to the new role of master data specialist, these apps make it much easier to manage segmentation and drastically increase the flexibility of defaulting segmentation values.

Fashion and vertical business: SOAP API for application variants

A new Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) API using the data replication framework (DRF) and the SAP Application Interface Framework is now available to create, edit, and delete application variants for the inbound and outbound process. This enables smooth communication with external systems for different activities involving application variants.

Retail

Retail merchandise management: enhancements for POS outbound communication

The ProductMerchandiseViewReplicationBulkRequest SOAP service has been enhanced with additional fields, providing the ability to choose fields from the article basic data view and the store logistics view by implementing simple logic in a business add-in. This enables retailers to meet country-specific requirements for POS solutions and realize customer-specific scenarios easily.

Retail merchandise management: monitoring of POS confirmations using SAP Application Interface Framework

This feature brings enhancements to point-of-sale (POS) inbound communication using the SALESCONF and FINCONF interfaces. These can now be used in the Overview Message Monitoring app for message monitoring. This significantly improves the monitoring and visibility of POS inbound confirmations sent to external systems and enables administrators to easily re-trigger any failed confirmations.

Retail merchandise management: 2D barcode information for POS inbound communication

This enhancement provides the batch number read from a 2-D barcode to POS inbound sales data using the POS Sales Transactions – Create SOAP service. It enables the POS inbound to consider the batch number so it can accurately post goods movement on the batch level for batch-managed articles. This greatly improves inventory accuracy for batch-managed articles and enables POS inbound support for 2-D barcode adoption.

Retail merchandise management: efficient product cost planning

This feature provides support for fashion retailers and other businesses coping with very high data volumes introduced by seasonal aspects, sizes, and colors. It introduces a sophisticated mechanism to enable product cost planning at default instances (“golden” article and “golden” site), which are then copied to all related article-site combinations. By allowing customer-specific logic to determine these “golden” instances, organizations can heavily optimize the execution of product cost planning and harmonize product cost prices for different stores and variants.

Utilities

Archiving of utilities installations and premises and deletion of unused device information records

This feature introduces new archiving objects for utilities installations and premises, alongside the ability to efficiently delete unused device information records. By properly managing and archiving this lifecycle data, organizations can significantly improve overall data quality and system performance while actively reducing their data footprint.

Enterprise search for utilities master data

Users can now enable enterprise search for utilities master data objects—such as premise, installation, point of delivery, utilities contract, device, and device information record—directly in the SAP Fiori launchpad. It provides utilities-specific search models for fast access to the most frequently used master data objects, as well as providing direct access to frequently used apps and transactions for each object type. This provides a highly efficient new approach to accessing business objects and transactions, greatly improving usability and increasing user productivity.

Graphical display of utilities interval data

This feature provides the capability to graphically display interval data of profiles within SAP Energy Data Management, considering both measured profiles as well as factor and price profiles. This provides a highly user-friendly and comprehensive graphical display of interval data, effectively supporting back-office agents in seamlessly analyzing and evaluating complex interval data.

Oil and Gas

ONRR to OGOR comparison

Organizations can now generate a comparison report between Office of Natural Resources Revenue (ONRR) and Oil and Gas Operations Report (OGOR) volumetric reporting data directly within the ONRR workplace to thoroughly check for data consistency. It enables users to compare ONRR and OGOR data during the reporting process using preconfigured tolerance values, easily view unreported data included in the report, and automatically generate warning messages for discrepancies that fall outside of tolerance. This delivers a robust compliance tool, allowing teams to efficiently finalize reports even without resolving all discrepancies immediately.

Cross Components and Master Data

AI-Powered Innovations (AI capabilities available in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition only)

Using Joule in batch management

This feature enhances the user experience by allowing direct, natural language interactions with the Joule copilot to query batch master information. Users can effortlessly retrieve crucial details from the batch master record using specific fields such as batch, material, plants, batch status, manufacturing date, shelf-life expiry date, and supplier. Furthermore, it provides seamless navigation directly from Joule to the batch master object page within the Manage Batches app, empowering users to gain deeper insights, modify details, or take immediate follow-up actions. By delivering instant batch master insights through intuitive conversational queries, organizations can significantly improve their overall operational efficiency.

Supporting code-based agentic AI applications with intelligent scenario lifecycle management

This feature enables code-based agentic AI applications in SAP S/4HANA with an approach native to ABAP, including custom AI support. It supports SAP-delivered and custom agentic AI use cases tailored to specific line-of-business needs, providing ABAP development tools for reasoning, execution, and tool access. With enhancements to support new modules for the orchestration service in the SAP Generative AI Hub on SAP AI Core (such as translation modules and filters for prompt injection), this accelerates innovation by centralizing lifecycle management to manage and operate code-based agents. It empowers developers to build faster, more intelligent agentic solutions natively in ABAP.

Core functional innovations

Initiate Business Communication out of business processes

Users can now initiate e-mail communication with relevant stakeholders directly out of a business document, such as a sales, service, or purchase order. By providing contextual communication patterns—like requesting information, giving feedback, or submitting a complaint—the system automatically generates an e-mail containing all relevant information from the business document that can be sent directly. This enables smarter business collaboration by unifying data and dialogue, minimizes the time and effort required to communicate, reduces errors by eliminating manual data entry, and helps ensure that communication always reflects the expected brand experience.

Use staging tables as intermediate storage for the migration approach “Migrate Data Directly from SAP System” (Cloud)

Organizations can now use staging tables as intermediate storage to facilitate the adjustment of selected data when migrating data directly from an SAP system to SAP S/4HANA. This significantly increases transparency and validation capabilities by allowing data migration teams to easily adjust and cleanse the selected data directly within the created staging tables before finalizing the migration.

SAP Fiori app for exploring the migration object dependencies of a specific migration object or a specific scope item

The new “Explore Migration Objects” SAP Fiori app allows users to seamlessly explore migration object dependencies for a specific migration object or a specific scope item. This provides a clear overview of prerequisite objects, helping teams make highly informed decisions during project scoping and ensuring a smoother, more predictable data migration process.

Business partner A2X OData API operation for duplicate check

A new OData API operation is now available to execute a business partner duplicate check. It enables external applications to invoke checks on potential duplicate business partner records in SAP S/4HANA—for example, checking for duplicates before the direct creation of a business partner via an API. This proactively prevents the creation of duplicate business partners, customers, and suppliers, ensuring organizations retain the highest master data quality across their system landscape.

For a deeper look into the intelligent capabilities delivered in this release, you can explore the full documentation on the SAP Help Portal.

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