Implementing SAP S/4HANA Cloud with the Central Business Configuration Capability

Join this free online course to learn about SAP Central Business Configuration and how it affects the implementation of SAP S/4HANA Cloud (Essentials Edition, formerly known as multi-tenant edition).

This course was retired in October 2022.

Self-paced since April 16, 2020
Language: English
Subtitles (auto-generated): Deutsch, English, Français, Español

Course information

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This course was retired in October 2022.

Course Summary

With this course, you’ll learn about the capabilities of SAP Central Business Configuration, the customer value it brings, which key features it comprises, and how it affects the implementation of SAP S/4HANA Cloud (Essentials Edition, formerly known as multi-tenant edition).

SAP Central Business Configuration is a new capability that will make it possible to configure a business process that spans across different SAP solutions from one central place. The SAP Central Business Configuration capability will allow the configuration of SAP S/4HANA Cloud, but it aims at a seamless implementation of end-to-end business processes across SAP’s Intelligent Enterprise Suite.

SAP S/4HANA Cloud will be the first solution to be supported by SAP Central Business Configuration. You’ll learn how the SAP Central Business Configuration capability will bring reduced configuration efforts, higher flexibility, faster company rollouts, and partner extensions. You’ll also learn about key features such as Scoping and Project Experience and the Organizational Structure app. These guide users through all the necessary steps to decide which business processes should be in scope, to manage your projects, or to set up the organizational structure of your company.

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Course Characteristics

  • Starting from: March 11, 2020, 09:00 UTC. (What does this mean?)
  • Duration: The course is open for 5 weeks
  • Effort: 4-6 hours in total
  • Course assignment: You can take the course assignment at any time while the course is open.
  • Course closure: April 16, 2020, 9:00 UTC
  • Course language: English
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Course Content

Unit 1: Vision and Customer Value
Unit 2: Impact on Implementation Activities for SAP S/4HANA Cloud
Unit 3: System Landscape and System Request Process
Unit 4: Project Experience
Unit 5: Scoping Experience
Unit 6: Configuration Experience in the Explore Phase
Unit 7: Configuration Experience in the Realize and Deploy Phase
Unit 8: Future Outlook

Target Audience

  • Project managers
  • Implementation consultants
  • Key users
  • Architects

Course Requirements

General understanding of customer implementations of SAP S/4HANA Cloud and the SAP Activate methodology.

Further Learning

About Further Content Experts

Christoph Hergenröder

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Christoph Hergenröder is a product expert for the consumption experience in SAP Central Business Configuration. He has been with SAP as a consultant for nearly 10 years and has held various roles in financial planning and consolidation projects for large customers such as Daimler AG, Bosch, Nestlé, Lidl, and E.ON.

For nearly two years, he has been working as a product manager focusing on configuration. Within SAP Central Business Configuration, he is topic product owner of the activities within the Project Experience.

Christoph Köble

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Christoph Köble is a product expert for the consumption experience in SAP Central Business Configuration.

He has been with SAP for over 22 years and has held various roles in support, development, consultancy, solution and product management in industry financial services, and several cross areas.

Within SAP Central Business Configuration, he is topic product owner of User and Project Experience.

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Certificate Requirements

  • Gain a Record of Achievement by earning at least 50% of the maximum number of points from all graded assignments.
  • Gain a Confirmation of Participation by completing at least 50% of the course material.

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This course is offered by

Fabian Ackermann

Fabian Ackermann works in product management for SAP Central Business Configuration and is in charge of enabling users to work in Project Experience.

He acts as an instructor for openSAP courses and further training sessions, and drives internal communication together with content and project management. Fabian also leads the how-to video production for SAP Central Business Configuration and acts as stakeholder manager.

Felix Peter

Felix Peter is the chief product owner for SAP Central Business Configuration.

His vision is to ensure a business-driven experience for customers when implementing SAP’s cloud solutions. Felix’s current focus is on SAP S/4HANA Cloud, specifically the scoping, organizational structure setup, and configuration functionalities.

Meltem Kahraman

Meltem Kahraman is product owner of primary finance settings and configuration for the consumption experience in SAP Central Business Configuration.

She has been with SAP for more than 13 years, working in various roles in consulting, development, and quality and product management.

Susanne Knopp

Susanne Knopp leads the Solution Onboarding Architecture team in SAP Central Business Configuration. She has been with SAP for more than 19 years and has held various roles in sales, business development, solution launch, and product management.

Susanne is well known to the SAP community through SAP Community blogs, conference presentations, and webinars.

Axel Kuehl

Axel Kühl is a product expert for the Project Experience in SAP Central Business Configuration. He has been with SAP for 20 years and has held various roles in development and product management.

Previously, Axel focused on defining and improving the system delivery process for SAP S/4HANA Cloud, including lifecycle events like update and upgrade. In a customer environment, this delivery process is tested as an end-to-end interaction between product, operations, and lifecycle processes.

Joerg Rupprecht

Jörg Rupprecht leads the Project Experience area within SAP Central Business Configuration. He is responsible for the design and development of a consistent project experience for customers and partners.

Prior to this, Jörg led the end-to-end SAP Activate Cloud Deployment Experience team, with the aim of developing efficient customer self-services for SAP S/4HANA Cloud. In previous roles, he gained management and consulting expertise and extensive knowledge in leading teams, programs, and other facets of SAP solutions.

Steffen Wolf

Steffen Wolf is a product expert for the consumption experience in SAP Central Business Configuration.

He has now been with SAP for more than 12 years. He has worked in areas of software modeling, SRM development, data type modeling, and SAP S/4HANA Cloud product management.