SAP S/4 HANA for Oil and Gas

[Former Member]

Hi All,

When SAP is announcing its road map for SAP S/4 HANA for Oil and Gas strategy. Which functionalities they are keeping from R/3, which they are dropping and which they are adding. How they are planning to simplify this area!!

Cheers

[Former Member]

i would love to know about this asap

thanks for the post

[former_member435090]

All O&G solutions (TSW, PRA, Is-Oil, JVA etc.) are available Now on the S/4HANA on premises edition.  The solutions are partly optimized for HANA but not yet "simplified" (analog to simple Finance).

We are currently working on a industry specific roadmap together with our customers to define the scope and time line of a "simplified" version of the Oil and Gas solutions.  

[Former Member]

Dear Phillips,

whats your view on , All O&G solutions will come on HANA on cloud too?

or due to nature of industry, the customer would prefer more of on-premise HANA than cloud.

what is the market share of SAP in O&G and how good is the solution and how suitable is it

[former_member435090]

Dear Saee,

you are right, the O&G industry might be a little bit more conservative compared to others. However, we do see an increasing trend towards cloud based solutions in our industry, too. Most customers are targeting for a hybrid landscape (cloud + on-premises) in the near future. Shifting all (or the majority) of the solutions into the cloud will be the exception. Long-term that might change of course.

One of the guiding principles of S/4HANA is "cloud first". That does Not mean that the functionality/solutions is only available for the S/4HANA cloud editions but that is developed (simplified) in a way that the solution can easily be deployed in the cloud fulfilling required "cloud qualities"  such as UI web-access, cloud printing, self-service configuration etc. . Cloud enabled software can be easily deployed on-premises but not vice versa.

Therefor the simplifications that come with S/4HANA comprise the "cloud qualities" and are an important prerequisite for a cloud deployment. A "simplified" version of the O&G solutions will ensure cloud qualities.

Cheers,

[Former Member]

Dear Phillip,

Cloud enabled software can be easily deployed on-premises but not vice versa.

this could probably be the deciding factory, for every customer : - )

no one would want to block their future...

so even for on-premise, its better to start with cloud and go for hybrid model and i believe

if this lock is there.....

then every on-premise solutions will have a cloud solution.....  

want to see your argument on, any one thinking, i want only on-premise, and i will not be needing

cloud solutions in near future..... also for hybrid customers, cloud first and then on-premise would be pain area.

[Former Member]

hi,

is the roadmap ready yet?  Can yo direct me to more specifics on S/4H for O&G ?

thanks,

Andrew

[former_member435090]

Hi, The current plan is to make the existing O&G solutions compatible with the innovatiopns and simplifications coming with the next S/4 release in November this year (on prem edition). This step is basically a technical enablement without major simplifications or changes in the Oil solutions (like-for-like).  This will lower the barrier for SAP's existing customers to implement S/4 and allow them to immediately benefit from the innovations coming with the S/4 core. In a second step we will tackle the simplifications for the O&G solutions, e.g. UI renovation (FIORI enablement) or other potential innovation topics that are currently discussed. Cheers.

[kiichiro_okajima]

Hi Phillip,

Thank you for your Info.

S/4 HANA OP1511 plus O&G solution is ready to run ?

Best Regards,

Kiichiro Okajima 

[former_member435090]

Hi Kiichiro,

no, the O&G solutions are not available in the S/4HANA OP1511 release. We are planning to enable the O&G solutions with the innovations/simplifications (e.g. new data model in MM) first shipped with the 1511 release by the end of next year (2016).

Cheers,

[former_member435090]

See reponse to Seaa Sai

[former_member215587 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

I am recently checking if the FIN-AA-Parallel could be used in JVA, and see your question, maybe below link could give you some clues.

New Asset Accounting: Ledger Approach and Accounts Approach - SAP ERP - SAP Library

Migration to New Asset Accounting (FI-AA (New)) - SAP Library

New Asset Accounting is available as of SAP Accounting powered by SAP HANA 1.0 (EA-FIN 700).

With SAP Accounting powered by SAP HANA 1.0,the following constraints apply:

Joint Venture Accounting, the Lease Accounting Engine, Classic RE, and requests from component PSM-FM and IS-PS are not compatible with new Asset Accounting.

Regards,

Annika

[former_member489223]

Philip, please ...

could you give me a link where I can find the roadmap about this?

Thanks

Elisabetta

[former_member435090]

Elisabetta,

please find the offical O&G roadmap here:

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/website/roadmaps/en_us/industry/SAP%20Road%20Map%20for%20Oil%20a...

In case you are looking for soemthing in particular that is not covered please let me know.

Regards,

Phillip

[former_member489223]

Hello Phillip, thanks

I could make a mistake, but I remember that the last week I saw a presentation with a plan where the SAP S/4 HANA for IS-OIL industry were released on January 2016.

Is it true?

Thanks a lot

Cheers

Elisabetta

[former_member435090]

Hi Elisabetta,

the answer depends on the S/4 release. All O&G functionality (incl. downstream IS-Oil) is available with S/4HANA Finance 1511 and 1605. S/4HANA 1511 is NOT compatible with the O&G solutions.

With S/4HANA 1610 the full Oil scope is shipped and enabled (except UOM - Upstream Operations Management) which is committed for the 2017 S/4 release. 1610 is shipped end of October this year. All of the above referes to the on-premises edition of S/4. The O&G functionality is NOT part of the S/4HANA cloud edition.

Regards,

Phillip