Version Management in SAP S/4HANA for central procurement – Central Purchase Contracts

Version management – Introduction

In the case of procurement transactions extending over a longer period of time (for example, in the procurement of capital goods), you may need to differentiate between various versions of the purchasing document. You may also need to refer to one particular version when corresponding with the supplier

Version Management enables you to generate and manage versions of purchasing documents. A version groups together the change documents generated  during subsequent processing of relevant documents. A version thus indicates the revision level of a document (version 0 = original document, versions 1 + = revisions) and provides the user with an overview of the various changes that may have been made in the course of time.

Creating HANA (Cloud Foundry) connection with SAP Data intelligence and Applying Random Forest

Data being one of the most important assets for any Enterprise , its exploration and analysis becomes very crucial.

SAP Data Intelligence is a very powerful tool , which lets you do those complex processing on the data .

What is SAP Data Intelligence and how does it relate to Data Hub?

In this blog, you will be able connect HANA database as a service with Data Intelligence, explore the data via meta explorer and apply Random Forest Classifier algorithm on it.

Alexa, ask (on-Prem) HANA …

Voice Assistants such as Apple Siri, Google Home, Amazon Echo and Microsoft Cortana are coming around to be a common sight in various personal aspects. We often use them for asking about weather and news updates, looking up local businesses, getting directions, etc. It is indeed a convenient user interface for on-demand updates without having to open up an app, sign-in, navigate menus, etc.

This article presents a general architecture for enterprises that can leverage SAP Cloud Platform to integrate Amazon Alexa to on-Prem SAP applications, specifically SAP HANA in this case.

Avoiding HANA Enterprise Cloud Headaches!

A source told me that one of the largest SAP customers in the (ANZ) region is moving from HANA Enterprise Cloud (HEC) back to an on-premise infrastructure model. Well, this was not surprising for me as I already knew some customers in Europe also moved from HEC to on-premise or other cloud offerings, due to unexpected and unforeseen issues with the HEC model.

I am aware that the majority of the businesses still can’t simply justify the business case for HEC, and it is disappointing to see that some existing customers don’t get the expected business benefits from this model.