Capabilities of Localization as a Self-Service for SAP S/4HANA Cloud

Key-user extensibility allows adapting standard apps to user requirements without the need to employ external tools. Whether you want to apply small changes such as hiding standard fields for specific user groups, include custom logic or create your own custom Fiori application, SAP offers a tool set covering diverse extensibility needs. The different stacks are tightly integrated through released and stable APIs.

Extensibility options available:

• Field extensibility
• Business object extensibility
• Business logic extensibility
• UI Adaptation
• Custom analytics
• Forms extensibility

Available scenarios within localization as a self-service

• Extending SAP S/4HANA Cloud for Japan Subcontract Act
• Print Payment Due Date on Output Form of the Manual Invoice for Singapore
• Utilize Custom Sales Pricing Procedure
• Create a custom number range for a document type
• Search for Country Specific Extension Attributes
• Enable a Custom Field in a Delivery to Billing Document Scenario
• Validate a Tax Number
• Access Tax Service Request and Response Payloads for a Document
• Print Billing Document Forms with Custom Field
• Customize Form Layout to meet Localization Requirements
• Translated UI Labels to Support Local Language Flavors

Where can you find more information?

• In-app extensibility – SAP S/4HANA Cloud – Help Portal
• Available CDS views – SAP S/4HANA Cloud – Help Portal
• Available APIs – SAP API Business Hub
• Statements in ABAP for Key Users – SAP S/4HANA Cloud – Help Portal

Side-by-side extensibility allows you to develop dependent extensions, develop your own custom applications or consume existing apps. SAP Business Technology Platform is the accepted choice for building an extension for any SAP cloud solution. The goal is to develop loosely coupled but seamlessly integrated extensions.


Extensibility options available:

• Development of a dependent extension
• Development of a custom application
• Consumption of existing apps

Available scenarios within localization as a self-service

• Tax Service: Calculate Indirect Taxes in SAP S/4HANA Cloud and On-Premise

Where can you find more information?

• About side-by-side extensibility
• Extensibility Explorer
• Extensibility: A Learning Journey
• Available APIs – SAP API Business Hub
• SAP Cloud SDK – SAP Community

Statutory reporting provides an overview of your statutory reporting tasks and facilitates creation of new / individual and execution of existing statutory reports.

You may employ available reports including VAT reports as templates or create your own using the extensibility options mentioned below.

Extensibility options available:

• Creation of new report definitions for the following file formats: XML, JSON, flatfile (txt), PDF, CSV
• Extension of report definitions and report categories
• Copying of report definitions
• Download and upload of development objects for reuse in multiple customer systems
• Adding business logic via custom logic extensibility app for the following events:

• Validation of selection screen parameters
• Defaulting of report parameter values
• Checks before file generation
• Checks during generation process
• Change of properties of report parameters
• Before action

Example: A customer wants to default a selection screen parameter value based on their requirements. This can be achieved in statutory reporting using event 0003 (Defaulting of report parameter value).

• Using custom BO object to create ACR schema in cases where XSD is not available

In statutory reporting we allow multiple ways to create a schema. A schema in simple terms is the structure of the legal file. It contains details like sequence, hierarchy, labels, and data type information.

You can create custom business objects using key user tools and use the underlying artefacts to create a schema.

• Creation of reports with “add with query option” – with data provisioning automatically performed by statutory reporting
• Creation of custom tiles
• Using available generic report definition for VAT reports

You can use generic report definitions which are like templates for certain business topics (like VAT). They cover most of the generic requirements around the business topic. However, for some countries/customers if the generic report doesn’t suffice, so you can extend them and adapt it to customer’s needs.

• Using custom business objects as a data source
• Creation or adaptation of own CDS views 

Available scenarios within localization as a self-service

• Create a New VAT Report using Document and Reporting Compliance
• Create a New Withholding Tax Report using Document and Reporting Compliance
• Create adhoc reports in Document and Reporting Compliance

Where can you find more information? 

• Statutory Reporting – SAP S/4HANA Cloud – Help Portal
• Extensibility in Statutory Reporting – SAP S/4HANA Cloud – Help Portal
• Available reports which can be extended or copied – SAP S/4HANA Cloud – Help Portal
• Statutory Reporting Events – SAP S/4HANA Cloud – Help Portal

Electronic documents allow the creation and processing of electronic documents, that is, it transforms documents created in various SAP applications into predefined exchange formats and transfers them electronically to external systems such as legal or tax authorities or to your customers.

For available document compliance solutions for SAP S/4HANA Cloud local versions you can find more information in the SAP S/4HANA – Help Portal.

See also E-document requirements and localization as a self-service for SAP S/4HANA Cloud (blog).

With the Payment Medium Workbench you can add settings related to payment medium formats.

Extensibility options available:

• Create Payment Medium Formats

      Creating payment medium formats and defining their attributes.

• Map Payment Format Data

      Defining the rules that the system uses to map data to outgoing payment file formats.

• Adjust Note to Payee

     Defining the content of notes to payee.

• Create/Assign Selection Variants (Alternative)

      Creating and assigning selection variants for payment medium formats.

• Define Instruction Keys

      Defining an instruction key that controls which instructions for making a payment order are sent to              participating banks.

Where can you find more information?

• Payment Medium Formats – SAP Help Portal S/4HANA Cloud
• Payment Formats in SAP
• Create, Copy & Delete Payment Medium Format
• Linking Payment Medium Format to a Payment Method
• Create Selection Variants for Payment Medium Formats in SAP S/4HANA Cloud
• How to export a custom field (e-mail) in the payment file
• Create, Copy, Delete & Release in Map Payment Format Data

Business Configuration includes settings and master data that are required to run business processes. These settings are delivered via scope items. A part of the configuration can be adapted via Self-Service Configuration UIs.

SSCUIs are available in two types: Web GUI SSCUIs and Fiori SSCUIs. The user interfaces are slightly different but used in a similar way. If you have scoped more than one country, a country must be selected in 'Manage Your Solution'. Fiori SSCUIs only show configuration records for the selected country. However, the Web GUI SSCUIs allow configuration for all countries to be edited at the same time. 

Extensibility options available:

SSCUIs:

• 533 country dependent 
• 414 localized 
• 1371 global

Expert Configuration:

• Tax codes
• Unit of measurement

SSCUIs and Expert Configuration details can be found on the SAP Activate Methodology for SAP S/4HANA Cloud – Document Configuration Values. You will find further links on that page under the 'Accelerators' section. Please find the direct link here for your reference:  Expert Configuration and SSCUI Reference.xlsm (SAP Customer).

Available scenarios within localization as a self-service

• SAP S/4HANA Cloud: Determine Tax Code in Purchase Documents using Condition Technique

Where can you find more information? 

• Using Configure Your Solution and Self-Service Configuration User Interfaces
• SAP Activate Methodology for SAP S/4HANA Cloud – Document Configuration Values

CDS (Core Data Services) views are built on existing SAP HANA database tables and views, to provide an efficient way of data modeling. They are used for analytics, queries, statutory reporting, and so on. The virtual data model (VDM) is a structured representation of CDS views in SAP S/4HANA and SAP S/4HANA Cloud. The VDM forms are the foundation for data access in SAP S/4HANA in, for example, analytical consumption or APIs. The CDS views that make up the VDM follow consistent modeling and naming rules. They expose business data - stored in abstract database tables - in a way that is based on business semantics and therefore easier to consume.

Extensibility options available:

To access exactly the data you need for your own apps, you can reuse a subset of CDS views already available in the VDM. You can define views that aggregate and analyze data in a layered fashion, starting with existing views delivered by SAP and then adding own views to match your specific use case.

The CDS Model is consumed via:

1. Statutory reporting
2. Analytic List Report (ALV)
3. Business logic
4. ODATA Model
5. ABAP Coding
6. Fiori Application

Available scenarios within localization as a self-service

• Building Custom Solutions by Extending CDS Views on SAP S/4HANA Cloud
  

Where can you find more information? 

• ABAP Core Data Services - Introduction (ABAP CDS views)
• Extend and Integrate Your SAP S/4HANA Cloud