Coming Soon! SAP TRBK1.0/Process Orchestration integration & SAP Transaction Banking S/4HANA 1909 suite FS-BP BCA CML CMS configuration and function demo in 60 screenshots

Submitted by Haining_Zhang on Fri, 01/08/2021 - 00:24

SAP TRBK1.0/Process Orchestration integration & SAP Transaction Banking S/4HANA 1909 suite FS-BP BCA CML CMS configuration and function demo in 60 screenshots

Recently, I finished the main configuration of SAP Transaction Banking HANA 1909 suite version from an “empty” S/4HANA client for functions of: Business Partner/FS-BP, Bank Customer Account/FS-BCA, Loans Management/FS-CML, Collateral Management/FS-CMS, and integration with SAP FICO.

SAP TechEd 2020 follow-up 2-hour Sessions: Live & free & zero waitlist

Submitted by Haining_Zhang on Sat, 12/19/2020 - 16:34

Many attendees of TechEd 2020 provided feedback that the registration of 2-hour sessions in TechEd 2020 had been that difficult... Waitlist too long. Now, as part of SAP TechEd 2020 follow-up events, SAP is holding some “live sessions” in the coming days!

If you are interested in this, do not miss this chance: you may search them in SAP Learning Hub. Here, I selected some of them, which are relevant to HANA Cloud and might be relevant for function consultants as well.

Cloud Platform Integration & Business Application Studio Introduction: Concept & Demo

Submitted by Haining_Zhang on Sun, 12/13/2020 - 17:13

This article---- an introduction to SAP HANA Cloud Platform ---- has 9 parts:

  • Four parts regarding SAP Cloud Platform Integration (the successor of XI/PI/PO, released in March-December 2020);
  • Five parts regarding SAP Business Application Studio (a cloud IDE, released in Dec. 2019/Q1 2020).

Here is an overview of these 9 parts. For more details, may refer to the links below.

Overview of New Features of SAP Bank: S/4HANA 1610/1709/1809/1909/2020 and Outlook to Future (Part Four): Future outlook: the coming decade for SAP Bank

Submitted by Haining_Zhang on Sun, 12/06/2020 - 01:05

Outlook to the coming decade, three trends of SAP Bank / Banking Services from SAP are in expectation.

1.   SAP Bank should transform into a more easy-to-use software. This means the interaction between users and the software becomes more like the interaction between a user and his intelligent assistant, even it appears to be non-logical and non-database software, although certainly it is logical and based on database.

Overview of New Features of SAP Bank: S/4HANA 1610/1709/1809/1909/2020 and Outlook to Future (Part Three): Flexible and easier customization and reporting: SAP Bank implementation is faster than ever

Submitted by Haining_Zhang on Sun, 12/06/2020 - 00:47

SAP Bank becomes more flexible for customization than ever, this could be reflected through many new BAdIs in IMG. Here some examples. SAP Banking ---- Loans Management ---- BAdIs for Enterprise Services ----- BAdIs for Business Object LoanContract:

Overview of New Features of SAP Bank: S/4HANA 1610/1709/1809/1909/2020: and Outlook to Future (Part Two): Loans decision-making becomes more intelligent:  SAP Bank with machine learning

Submitted by Haining_Zhang on Sun, 12/06/2020 - 00:12

SAP introduced “intelligent loans management” in S/4HANA, with this step SAP Bank becomes more intelligent than ever. New customization itemss in S4H 1909 shows SAP is trying to build an “intelligent bank” (The Intelligent Enterprise for the Banking Industry). In the S/4HANA 1909 easy access menu, SAP introduced the following two transactions in the folder “intelligent loans management”. 

Hedge accounting: two main scenarios and their accounting entries respectively

Submitted by Haining_Zhang on Sat, 12/05/2020 - 23:45

1.   Definition, regulation and business approach

Definition of hedge accounting

A hedge accounting means designating one or more hedging instruments so that their change in fair value offsets the change in fair value or the change in cash flows of a hedged item.

Regulations on hedge accounting in Germany

HGB §254 Bildung von Bewertungseinheiten; Bilanzrechtsmodernisierungsgesetz (BilMoG)

International financial reporting standard (IFRS) 9 Financial Instruments.

Overview of New Features of SAP Bank: S/4HANA 1610/1709/1809/1909/2020 and Outlook to Future (Part One): Stronger integration with other modules: Banking concept goes beyond banking

Submitted by Haining_Zhang on Sat, 12/05/2020 - 22:37

Background

This article tries to provide a overview of the new features of Banking Services from SAP during the past five years — 2016 till 2020 — in S/4HANA 1610/1709/1809/1909/2020 as well in specific banking modules, with comments on its outlook. Overview is organized from the viewpoint of system characteristics or the development trends, not by timeline from year to year, nor by function modules. In this article, “Banking Services from SAP”, “SAP Banking”, and “SAP Bank” these three concepts are equivalent and can be used interchangeably.