What is SAP S/4HANA?
SAP S/4HANA is a future-ready enterprise resource planning (ERP) system with built-in intelligent technologies, including AI, machine learning, and advanced analytics. It transforms business processes with intelligent automation and runs on SAP HANA – a market-leading in-memory database that offers real-time processing speeds and a dramatically simplified data model.
- On-premise, public/private cloud, or hybrid deployment
- Embedded AI, analytics, and intelligent process automation
- In-memory database and simplified data model
- Capabilities and best practices for a wide range of industries
- Consumer-grade UX
Explore SAP S/4HANA ERP capabilities
Choose and deploy from a wide range of SAP S/4HANA ERP capabilities – all of which leverage the latest technologies and intelligent automation to transform your business processes. Capabilities span lines of business, from finance, supply chain, and manufacturing to sales, distribution, and more.
Features and business benefits
of SAP S/4HANA
See how cloud ERP can help you become a best-run business and sharpen your competitive edge.
50% reduction in data footprint
Due to in-memory, columar database
Embedded AI technology
Enables improved insight and performance
Streamlined data display
By eliminating clunky aggregates and indexes
Consumer-grade UX across devices
Reduces errors, increases productivity
100 times faster reporting
Allows for resilient, agile decision making
Real-time advanced analytics
Better forecasting and faster decisions
Competitive edge and better workflows
With Industry-specific business processes
Flexible deployment options
Offer reduced FTEs and faster implementations
Transform Automotive with
Intelligent ERP
Learn how SAP S/4HANA provides automotive firms with a
proven framework to adopt industry best practices while
attaining operational excellence. Discover how SAP supports
the automotive value chain with intelligent solutions and
integrated, automated processes that are transparent and
connected to the real world, delivering a superior customer
experience.
Transform Aerospace and
Defense with Intelligent ERP
Learn how a digital strategy can help A&D companies
streamline complex programs, optimize their global supply
chain, and standardize core processes.
Transform Banking with
Intelligent ERP
Learn how banks are using SAP S/4HANA as a digital core to
build a more flexible and intelligent enterprise – enabling them
to adapt to changes in M&A activity, business models, and
customer demand.
Transform Building
Products companies with
Intelligent ERP
Discover why building products businesses can lay solid
foundations for their digital initiatives with SAP S/4HANA.
Achieve customer centricity, offer small lot sizes and
individualization, run smart factories and distribution
networks, and ensure worker safety on the spot – and in
real time.
Transform Chemicals with
Intelligent ERP
Learn how SAP S/4HANA provides chemicals companies with
a proven framework to adopt industry best practices while
attaining operational excellence – across core customer
engagement, asset management, and financial processes.
Transform Consumer
Products with Intelligent
ERP
See how SAP S/4HANA software provides consumer products
companies with a proven framework to adopt industry best
practices while attaining operational excellence.
Transform EC&O with
Intelligent ERP
Learn how SAP S/4HANA provides a framework and digital
core to help EC&O companies adopt best practices and
optimize operations. See how real-time transactions and
analytics, the ability to work with Big Data, and connectivity to
LoB extensions enable alignment between project
management and financial controls.
Transform Fashion with
Intelligent ERP
Find out how fashion companies are becoming intelligent
enterprises using SAP S/4HANA as their digital core, enabling
employees to provide more personalized services to
customers and gaining a competitive edge in the digital
marketplace.
Transform High Tech with
Intelligent ERP
Learn how SAP S/4HANA provides high tech companies with a
proven framework to adopt industry best practices while
attaining operational excellence. Explore innovation-led digital
road maps and use cases for delivering a smart factory,
service-centric business models, and smart products.
Transform IM&C with
Intelligent ERP
Learn how SAP S/4HANA can help your IM&C company as you
compete in the new digital reality. Deliver worldwide, including
data as a service, based on highly-customized, digitalized
products that address the segment of one to improve
customer experiences.
Transform Insurance with
Intelligent ERP
Get ready to take advantage of the latest ground-breaking
technology that will revolutionize the insurance industry.
Pursue new digital business models and improve and protect
your customers’ health, property, and business.
Transform
Telecommunications with
Intelligent ERP
Succeed in a competitive market with a coherent digital
strategy. Discover how SAP S/4HANA provides telcos with a
proven framework to adopt industry best practices while
attaining operational excellence and revenue and margin
optimization across core financial, engagement management,
and procurement processes.
Experience the value of SAP HANA and SAP
Fiori in your cloud ERP system
Run on the SAP HANA database
The SAP S/4HANA ERP system is built for the SAP HANA in-memory database. This market-leading columnar database enables a dramatically simplified data model and incredible speed. Run analytics and transactions on a single database without separating OLTP and OLAP.
- No more batch processing
- Faster business processes and simplified IT landscapes
- Powerful granularity for data-driven decision-making in real time
Deliver an exceptional user experience with SAP Fiori
SAP Fiori – our modern, award-winning user interface – is built into SAP S/4HANA and provides a consistent look and feel across the entire ERP system, on all device types. Based on how people actually work, SAP Fiori delivers an intuitive, role-based UX that improves both employee productivity and satisfaction.
- Personalized SAP S/4HANA launchpad
- Insights at the point of action
- Conversational UI and digital assistants
Navigate challenges and build resilience with
Intelligent ERP
Build resilience in uncertain times by delivering speed, agility, and visibility through deeply integrated ERP systems. Connect networks, deploy artificial intelligence, and enable new business models.
Keep systems connected
Adjust supply chains quickly, deploy new operating models, and realign workforces with a connected ERP system.
Tightly manage finances
Understand changing needs and manage resources to preserve capital, while building balance sheet reserves.
Manage change with AI
Find new patterns and enable decisions in order to seize opportunities with artificial intelligence.