Introduction

The SAP S/4HANA migration cockpit facilitates the transfer of business data from an SAP ERP source system to SAP S/4HANA. The SAP S/4HANA migration cockpit uses migration objects to identify and transfer the relevant data.

Today’s day-to-day business processes are complex, particularly in accounts payable (AP), where supplier invoices are received, processed, paid and posted to general ledger.  For businesses with high volumes of invoices, AP tasks can become cumbersome, with large volumes of paperwork, manual data entry, and complex approval flows that can result in process bottlenecks.

SAP Business Objects Data Services deliver a powerful, enterprise-class data integration and data quality solution. They provide one development, run-time, and management environment that allow you to integrate, transform, improve, and deliver data anywhere, at any frequency.

Market basket analysis, as used in business intelligence, is a set of statistical affinity calculations that helps retailers better understand and assist their customers through forecasting their purchasing habits over the time.

Today, retailers are being confronted with a host of challenges to stay competitive. Changing customer behavior, shifting sales channels, diversified payment methods, and fierce market competition make retailing more challenging than ever. The frequent shift of retail trends on-demand challenges the retailer to deliver a consistent customer experience and upends the sales cycle.

What is a Slowly Changing Dimension

A Slowly Changing Dimension (SCD) is a dimension that stores and manages both current and historical data over time in a data warehouse. It is considered and implemented as one of the most critical ETL tasks in tracking the history of dimension records.

Rapid Deployment Solutions

SAP Rapid Deployment Solutions is a "PACKAGED SOLUTION" that includes pre-configured content, best practices, and fixed-scope implementation service, resulting in fast and predictable software deployments.

The objective of this blog post is to introduce you to the fit-to-standard approach for use in implementation of SAP S/4HANA in the cloud or in on-premises.

Accounts payable (AP) automation best practices evolve as time and technology define business processes in new dimensions. Some of the basic tenets of AP best practices that have stood the test of time are saving time, effort, and cost while maintaining a high level of quality.