Designing Operational Procurement for SAP S/4HANA®: From Business Evidence to Fit-to-Standard Functional Design

A purchase order is approved for GBP 47,175. After a change raises its value to GBP 51,000, it reaches the supplier with the earlier approval still in place.Following Atlas, a fictional industrial company, this book examines how situations like this should shape functional design for SAP S/4HANA.Its sixteen chapters cover organizational structures, master data, requisitions, sourcing, purchase orders, services, receipts, invoices, and approval workflows. They also address testing, migration, cutover, and the responsibilities that remain after go-live.Worked examples show how to: - turn workshop observations into requirements with clear acceptance criteria;- record design decisions and explain the alternatives considered;- define controls for changes, exceptions, and recovery;- connect requirements to tests and operational measures.Five appendices provide reference material, artifact structures, and traceability examples for use during design reviews.Written for functional consultants, business analysts, procurement specialists, and process owners, the book follows the work from business evidence through to a design that another team can inspect and test.The worked baseline is SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2608. SAP-documented behavior, Atlas design choices, and checks requiring a tenant are identified separately.This is an independent publication, not affiliated with or endorsed by SAP.