Maximize End-User Knowledge and Productivity

SAP Knowledge Acceleration Bundle for SAP S/4HANA

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3 Train and Support Users with Role-Based Scenarios and Activities

7 Apply the Power of SAP Knowledge Acceleration to SAP S/4HANA

9 Showcase Financial and Planning Processes

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SAP Education organization exists to help you with this challenge. Our SAP Knowledge Acceleration software uses state-of-the-art e-learning technology to provide preconfigured, scalable, hands-on training and enable-ment – anytime, anywhere. The preconfigured content is suitable for novice users in specific roles and for sea-soned help-desk staff and user support teams who need cross-training. You can deploy it rapidly and flexibly, on a PC or mobile device, through a central file server or learning management system. Training modes range from demos and interactive simulations to self-tests and assessments. And SAP Knowledge Acceleration covers all your training needs, from going-live basics to full support for on-the-job performance and pro-fessional development, in an attractive and accessible user interface. See Figure 1 for a sample page.

SAP S/4HANA® is the ideal core for your 21st-century digital transformation. Now you can bring users up to speed quickly and efficiently with the SAP® Knowledge Acceleration bundle for SAP S/4HANA. This set of four e-learning courses provides role-based training scenarios and activities for use as is or with easy customization. They help speed adoption, boost productivity, and maximize return.

When implementing SAP solutions, you must ensure that end users acquire the skills and knowledge they need to unlock the power of the new software. The


Train and Support Users with Role-Based Scenarios and Activities


Figure 1: Introduction to the Accounts Payable Unit in the Core Finance Course

MEETING THE NEEDS OF A DIVERSE USER BASE

With SAP Knowledge Acceleration, you can help speed user adoption by educating all levels of end users. Every user can access effective, self-paced training content appropriate for his or her skill level and duties. Whatever their contribution, staff members everywhere can engage in role-specific tasks focused on key software functionalities. New hires can complete onboarding and gap training requirements, and power users can cross-train to master additional functions or newly enhanced capabilities. To accommodate their personal schedules and performance objectives, users can start, stop, and restart training at any point. Using built-in activities and achievement checks, they can:


BOOSTING PRODUCTIVITY AND REALIZING VALUE QUICKLY

SAP Knowledge Acceleration, true to its name, helps you shorten time to proficiency. Since the software can be used as delivered with little or no implementation time, you can quickly get your workforce ready for maximum productivity. And you can significantly decrease support costs as well. Because we deliver the courses online, you can reduce training costs, eliminate travel expenses, and empower your staff members to learn on their own – without help from IT. Finally, by offering your workforce user-friendly, 24x7 training and support for the key func-tionalities you deploy, you can foster acceptance of the software and boost user adoption rates. In short, you can attain measurable value in record time and reduce the total cost of ownership for all your SAP solutions.

• Gain hands-on practice and take assessments in a secure, self-contained training environment

• Review explanation frames, step-by-step lists, and training documentation at will

• Choose from playback modes of increasing complex-ity to help ensure comprehension

SAP Knowledge Acceleration supports project teams across the full lifecycle of SAP solutions. When all key players understand the functionalities of the target system, blueprinting moves more smoothly. Informed power users can help consultants and project managers drive the realization phase, and trained user-support teams can help maintain open discussions during the transition to production. Upgrades are also easier to deploy with readily available materials for delta training.


CUSTOMIZING MATERIALS WITH SAP WORKFORCE PERFORMANCE BUILDER

Many organizations have successfully deployed SAP Knowledge Acceleration without customization. But when you do want to customize the training material to suit your specific needs, SAP Workforce Performance Builder software provides the means to do so quickly and easily. Because you start with preconfig-ured content, you save the time and effort to research how SAP solutions work, design a role-based curricu-lum, and develop course materials. Your subject-matter experts can then enhance the existing content to optimize the efficiency of training and shorten your time to value.

When implementing SAP solutions, you must ensure that end users acquire the skills and knowledge they need to unlock the power of the new software.


Apply the Power of SAP Knowledge Acceleration to SAP S/4HANA

• Create purchase requisitions, purchase orders, and stock transfers

• Manage the product creation process from concept to reality

Screens presented in the course units reflect the latest technologies and software in SAP S/4HANA and, within the limitations of your browser, the attractive look and feel of the SAP Fiori® user experience. See Figure 2 for a sample page from the general ledger unit in the core finance course.

With the SAP Knowledge Acceleration bundle for SAP S/4HANA, we help you prepare users for their various roles through a set of four e-courses centered on the end-to-end processes of core finance, order to cash, procure to pay, and plan to product. These e-learning courses help your stakeholders: • Master key aspects of general ledger accounting, bank accounting, and closing operations

• Analyze and fulfill incoming sales orders


Figure 2: Page from a Core Finance Simulation on Creating a Vendor Master Record

Training modes range from demos and interactive simulations to self-tests and assessments.


Showcase Financial and Planning Processes

• General ledger (G/L) accounting – Maintaining G/L master records – Posting transactions in the G/L

• Accounts payable – Maintaining vendor master records – Maintaining accounts payable transactions – Performing accounts payable closing operations

• Accounts receivable – Maintaining customer master records – Managing accounts receivable transactions – Managing customer correspondence – Creating accounts receivable dispute cases – Performing accounts receivable closing operations

BUILDING SKILLS IN FINANCIAL OPERATIONS

The first course in the bundle is SAP Knowledge Acceleration, version for SAP S/4HANA, core finance option (S4KA1e), which covers the full scope of enter-prise financial operations. The units describe core financial operations in the SAP S/4HANA Enterprise Management solution by showcasing the functionality that supports general ledger accounting, accounts payable, accounts receivable, asset accounting, bank accounting, cost center planning, and general-ledger closing operations. Users typically take 20 hours to complete the units in this course, which are organized as follows:


TEACHING ORDER PROCESSING, PROCUREMENT, AND PRODUCT PLANNING

Three additional courses in the SAP Knowledge Acceleration bundle for SAP S4/HANA build skills for order to cash, procure to pay, and plan to product.

Order to Cash SAP Knowledge Acceleration, version for SAP S/4HANA, order to cash option (S4KA2e), provides hands-on experience with the software functions that govern sales relationships with business partners. The course runs approximately five hours and has the following contents:

• Asset accounting – Maintaining asset master records – Executing asset transactions – Executing asset accounting period-end closing activities

• Bank accounting – Maintaining bank accounting master records – Managing bank accounting transactions

• Closing operations in G/L accounting – Performing G/L closing operations

• Planning in management accounting – Identifying planning and cost allocation methods


Procure to Pay SAP Knowledge Acceleration, version for SAP S/4HANA, procure to pay option (S4KA3e), covers relevant soft-ware functionality that supports sourcing, procurement, and inventory management. Users typically take five hours to go through the content in the following units: • Master data in SAP S/4HANA

– Business partner approach • Procurement in SAP S/4HANA

– Operational procurement – Invoice and payables – Sourcing and contract management

• Inventory management in SAP S/4HANA – Operational inventory management

Every user can access effective, self-paced training content appropriate for his or her skill level and duties.

• Master data – Business partner approach

• Order fulfillment – Sales order fulfillment

• Real-time analytics – Analyzing incoming sales orders

• SAP Best Practices package for SAP S/4HANA in sale from stock

– Sale from stock • Managing accounts

– Managing accounts receivable transactions


• Inventory management in SAP S/4HANA – Procurement and transfer stock – Invoice and payables

• Production in SAP S/4HANA – Discrete production with production orders – Make-to-stock production – Make-to-order production – Planning on the assembly level

Plan to Product SAP Knowledge Acceleration, version for SAP S/4HANA, plan to product option (S4KA4e), helps users master the software functionality in SAP S/4HANA Enterprise Management that supports various stages of planning and manufacturing. The units represent about six hours of study and are organized as follows: • Planning in SAP S/4HANA

– Create a demand plan in SAP S/4HANA – Execute material requirements planning in SAP S/4HANA

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Reap the Benefits

• Simplify the creation and management of learning content

• Enhance user competency and confidence • Lower training and help-desk support costs • Realize value quickly for new software functionality • Reduce the total cost of ownership for SAP solutions

LEARN MORE

To learn more, contact your SAP Education representative or visit www.sap.com/knowledge-acceleration.

The SAP Knowledge Acceleration bundle for SAP S/4HANA provides training content preconfigured by SAP Education experts with the express goal of help-ing you increase the productivity of users at any level and in any role. While the bundle is designed to be easily customizable by your own or third-party training and support staff, its standard, built-in features empower you to: • Accelerate the rollout of major implementation projects

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