Make business reporting easy with this all-in-one user guide! Explore the SAP Fiori user experience and see how its role-based approach makes gathering data from your system simpler and faster. Then dive into reporting requirements for different business areas, including finance, tax, sales, management, and logistics with common business reporting use cases. Finally, learn to build custom reports based on your most important KPIs using SAP Fiori-based tools. This is your everyday resource for all things reporting in SAP S/4HANA!Highlights include:1) SAP Fiori roles and apps2) Reporting strategy3) Hierarchy-based reporting4) KPI-based reporting5) Segment-based reporting6) Finance use cases7) Controlling use cases8) Consolidation use cases9) Reconciliation balance and close use cases10) Tax compliance use cases11) Procurement use cases12) Sales use cases13) Logistics use cases14) Implementation at a glance

Brijesh Singh is a lead SAP solution architect at SAP America, Inc. He has more than 15 years of professional experience in SAP financial solutions, including financial accounting and controlling, financial close, Central Finance, joint venture accounting, financial supply chain management, and revenue accounting and reporting. Brijesh has been part of multiple SAP S/4HANA and SAP S/4HANA Cloud project implementations in the United States and Europe in various industries like manufacturing, IT, high-tech, engineering, retail, fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG), chemicals, and oil and gas. He has worked as a developer, consultant, and team lead in the past and currently offers expert guidance to SAP global customers and partners as a trusted advisor to their digital transformation journey to SAP S/4HANA.

... Target Audience ... 15 ... Book Structure ... 16 ... Acknowledgments ... 18 1.1 ... The What: Introduction to Business Reporting ... 19 1.2 ... The Why: Build the Case for Business Reporting with SAP S/4HANA ... 24 1.3 ... The How: Establish Business Reporting with SAP S/4HANA ... 37 1.4 ... Summary ... 41 2.1 ... SAP’s New User Experience ... 43 2.2 ... SAP Fiori Analytics Powered by SAP S/4HANA Embedded Analytics ... 53 2.3 ... Summary ... 66 3.1 ... Financial Reporting Requirements ... 67 3.2 ... Ledger-Based Reporting ... 69 3.3 ... Finance Operations-Based Reporting ... 90 3.4 ... Asset Accounting-Based Reporting ... 114 3.5 ... Financial Statements-Based Reporting (Balance Sheet/Income) ... 120 3.6 ... Financial Cash Flow-Based Reporting ... 134 3.7 ... Summary ... 141 4.1 ... Profitability-Based Reporting ... 144 4.2 ... Responsibility-Based Reporting ... 169 4.3 ... Multiple Valuation-Based Reporting ... 184 4.4 ... Restatements-Based Reporting ... 197 4.5 ... Summary ... 203 5.1 ... Consolidation Reporting Requirements ... 206 5.2 ... Group Data Analysis ... 208 5.3 ... Intercompany Elimination Analysis ... 242 5.4 ... Summary ... 245 6.1 ... Reconciliation Reporting Requirements ... 247 6.2 ... Reconciliation by Balances ... 249 6.3 ... Reconciliation by Reporting Dimensions ... 274 6.4 ... Reconciliation Close Reporting ... 282 6.5 ... Summary ... 286 7.1 ... Statutory/Compliance Reporting Requirements ... 287 7.2 ... Indirect Tax Reporting ... 289 7.3 ... Direct Tax Reporting ... 317 7.4 ... Summary ... 319 8.1 ... Procurement-Based Reporting Requirements ... 321 8.2 ... General Purchase Order Reporting and Analytics ... 322 8.3 ... Operational Purchasing Analysis Using Dashboards and Measures ... 340 8.4 ... Summary ... 357 9.1 ... Sales-Based Reporting Requirements ... 359 9.2 ... General Sales Order Reporting and Analytics ... 360 9.3 ... Delivery Performance Analysis Using Dashboards and Measures ... 384 9.4 ... Fulfillment-Based Reporting ... 392 9.5 ... Summary ... 397 10.1 ... Hierarchy-Based Reporting Requirements ... 399 10.2 ... SAP S/4HANA and the SAP Fiori Approach to Enable Hierarchy Reporting ... 400 10.3 ... Accounting Hierarchy-Based Reporting Use Cases ... 403 10.4 ... Logistics Dimension-Based Hierarchies ... 438 10.5 ... Summary ... 444 11.1 ... Ad Hoc Reporting Requirements ... 445 11.2 ... End-to-End Approach for Extensibility ... 446 11.3 ... Self-Service and KPI-Based Business Use Cases in SAP S/4HANA ... 449 11.4 ... Summary ... 487 12.1 ... Prerequisites ... 489 12.2 ... Standard Business Content-Based Reporting ... 492 12.3 ... Enhanced Content-Based Reporting ... 499 12.4 ... Example of Finance Models, Stories, and Digital Boardrooms ... 505 12.5 ... Summary ... 507 13.1 ... Integrated Business Reporting ... 509 13.2 ... Deployment Perspectives ... 513 13.3 ... Implementation Best Practices ... 518 13.4 ... Learning Resources ... 522 13.5 ... Summary ... 523