The Company Code is the central organizational unit in Financial Accounting (FI) within SAP S/4HANA. It represents a legally independent entity for which a complete and self-contained set of financial statements, such as the balance sheet and profit and loss (P&L) statement, must be created for external statutory reporting. All transactions relevant to financial accounting are posted and managed at the company code level, making it the primary independent accounting unit.

A. Sales Organization: This is an organizational unit in Sales and Distribution (SD) responsible for product liability and sales transactions. It is not a legal accounting entity itself but is assigned to a company code.

B. Distribution Channel: This represents the channel through which goods or services reach customers (e.g., wholesale, retail). It is a core element of SD, not an independent accounting unit.

C. Division: A division is used to group materials or services, primarily for internal reporting purposes within a business area. It does not represent a legally independent accounting entity.

1. SAP Help Portal

SAP S/4HANA Cloud: Organizational Structure. "The company code is the central organizational unit of external accounting within the SAP System. You must define at least one company code before you can implement the Financial Accounting component." This document establishes the company code as the fundamental unit for external accounting.

2. SAP Help Portal

SAP S/4HANA: Company Code. "Definition: The smallest organizational unit of Financial Accounting for which a complete

self-contained set of accounts can be drawn up for purposes of external reporting. The process of external reporting involves recording all relevant transactions and generating all supporting documents for financial statements

such as balance sheets and profit and loss statements."

3. SAP Help Portal

SAP S/4HANA: Sales Organization. "Definition: An organizational unit in Logistics that structures the company according to its sales requirements. A sales organization is responsible for selling and distributing goods and services." This source clarifies the role of a Sales Organization as a logistical

not a primary accounting

unit.

The SAP Fiori Launchpad for SAP S/4HANA Cloud integrates several embedded support offerings to assist users directly within their workflow. The Learning Center provides in-app content such as video tutorials and recorded system simulations to guide users through processes. Additionally, SAP Joule, the generative AI copilot, is embedded to offer digital assistance and answer questions contextually. These tools are designed to improve user adoption and proficiency by providing immediate, on-demand help without requiring users to leave the application.

B. Recorded webinars from the SAP Learning Website: Webinars are external training resources and are not embedded as a standard, in-context support feature directly within the Fiori Launchpad user interface.

D. Assessment questions from the SAP Learning Hub: Assessment questions are part of formal certification and training curricula on the separate SAP Learning Hub platform, not an embedded support tool for end-users in a live system.

1. SAP Help Portal

SAP S/4HANA Cloud

In-App Help: "The in-app help in SAP S/4HANA Cloud provides you with information directly in the application... The Learning Center offers learning content for the application you're currently using... The content can be in the form of interactive tutorials

videos

or guided tours." This supports options C and E.

2. SAP News Center

"SAP Delivers Generative AI Copilot Joule" (September 26

2023): "Joule will be embedded into SAP’s cloud enterprise portfolio... Joule revolutionizes the SAP user experience... It's like tapping the shoulder of your smartest colleague for help." This supports option A

confirming Joule's role as an embedded digital assistant.

3. SAP Help Portal

SAP S/4HANA Cloud

Learning Center: "The Learning Center panel opens and displays all available learning content for the current screen... Learning content can be provided by SAP

by partners

or created by customers. The following formats are supported: Guided tours

Tutorials

Videos." This provides further evidence for options C and E.

A sales order document in SAP S/4HANA has a three-tiered hierarchical structure. The highest level is the Header, which contains data valid for the entire document, such as customer details, document date, and terms of payment. Each sales order contains one or more Items, where each item represents a specific material or service being sold, including its quantity and pricing conditions. Finally, each item has at least one Schedule Line, which contains details about delivery quantities and dates, confirming when the material will be delivered. This structure allows for comprehensive and flexible management of sales transactions.

A. These are organizational units that define a sales area. A sales area is assigned at the header level but does not represent the document's internal structure.

B. These are master data (customer, material) and transactional data (inventory) elements used within the sales order, not the structural levels of the document itself.

C. This describes the sequence of core documents in the Order-to-Cash process (sales -> delivery -> billing), not the internal structure of a single sales order document.

1. SAP S/4HANA Cloud Documentation: In the "Sales" module documentation

the section "Structure of Sales Documents" explicitly states: "Sales documents are structured as follows: Header

Item

Schedule line. The data in a sales document is stored in a three-tiered hierarchy." (SAP Help Portal

SAP S/4HANA Cloud

Sales -> Sales Order Management and Processing -> Sales Documents).

2. SAP S/4HANA (On-Premise) Documentation: The "Sales Documents" overview in the Sales and Distribution (SD) component confirms this structure: "Every sales document is made up of a header

items

and schedule lines. These parts contain different types of data that are relevant for sales processing." (SAP Help Portal

SAP S/4HANA 2023

Sales -> Sales and Distribution (SD) -> Sales (SD-SLS) -> Sales Documents).

3. Glynn

J.

& Stagge

C. (2023). Sales and Distribution with SAP S/4HANA: Business User Guide. SAP Press. Chapter 3

"Sales Document Processing

" Section 3.1

"Sales Document Structure

" details that sales documents consist of a header

one or more items

and schedule lines for each item. This fundamental structure is consistent across various sales document types.

SAP provides two primary, strategic development environments on the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) for creating custom applications that integrate with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition.

1. SAP Business Application Studio (BAS) is the recommended cloud-based Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for professional developers. It is tailored for efficient development of business applications, including SAP Fiori apps and extensions for SAP S/4HANA Cloud, using technologies like the SAP Cloud Application Programming Model (CAP).

2. SAP Build is SAP's low-code/no-code (LCNC) application development portfolio. It empowers citizen developers and business users to create and extend applications with minimal to no coding. SAP Build Apps, a core component, is specifically designed for rapidly building custom apps that can connect to SAP S/4HANA Cloud.

B. SAP Cloud Portal Service: This service is used to create and manage business sites and launchpads to access applications; it is not a tool for developing the applications themselves.

C. SAP HANA Cloud: This is a database-as-a-service (DBaaS). While a custom application might use it for data persistence, it is not the tool used to build the application's logic or UI.

1. SAP Help Portal

SAP Business Application Studio: "SAP Business Application Studio is a cloud-based development environment for building applications for the SAP Intelligent Enterprise. You can use it to develop

test

build

and deploy different types of applications and extensions for SAP solutions

such as SAP S/4HANA..."

Source: SAP Help Portal

What Is SAP Business Application Studio

Document Version: 2502.

2. SAP Help Portal

SAP Build Apps: "With SAP Build Apps

you can build sophisticated enterprise-grade apps with no-code. [...] You can easily integrate your apps with SAP and non-SAP systems using pre-built components

connectors

and integration flows."

Source: SAP Help Portal

What Is SAP Build Apps

Document Version: 2502.

3. SAP Learning

Course S4C01 - Introduction to SAP S/4HANA Cloud: Unit 6: Extensibility

Lesson: Side-by-Side Extensibility on SAP BTP. This lesson details the use of SAP BTP services for extensions

highlighting both the pro-code path with SAP Business Application Studio and the low-code/no-code path with tools now consolidated under SAP Build.

Source: SAP Learning Hub

Course Material for S4C01

relevant sections on SAP BTP Extension Suite.

SAP Core Data Services (CDS) is the infrastructure for defining and consuming semantically rich data models in SAP S/4HANA. CDS views form the Virtual Data Model (VDM), which serves as a stable, consistent, and semantically explicit interface on top of the physical database tables in SAP HANA. This VDM acts as the "universal language" or single source of truth, allowing different applications—such as SAP Fiori apps, embedded analytics, and APIs—to read and process business data in a unified way, abstracting the complexity of the underlying data structures.

B. SAP Fiori: This is the user experience (UX) and presentation layer. It consumes data via services built on CDS views but is not the data modeling layer itself.

C. SAP HANA: This is the in-memory database that stores and processes the data. It is the foundation, not the semantic abstraction layer or "language" used by applications.

D. SAP Business Suite: This is the predecessor product suite to SAP S/4HANA. It is an application suite, not a specific technical layer within the S/4HANA architecture.

1. SAP Help Portal

ABAP Platform

ABAP Core Data Services (CDS): "ABAP CDS is the implementation of the general CDS concept for AS ABAP. ABAP CDS makes it possible to define semantic data models on the standard AS ABAP database... These models are based on a new architecture in SAP S/4HANA

the virtual data model (VDM)." This document establishes CDS as the technology for creating the semantic data models that form the VDM.

2. SAP Help Portal

SAP S/4HANA

Virtual Data Model (VDM): "The virtual data model (VDM) is a structured representation of CDS views in SAP S/4HANA... It provides the basis for data access in SAP S/4HANA

exposing the business data in the underlying database tables in a way that is understandable for the business user." This source explicitly states that the VDM

built on CDS

is the basis for data access.

3. SAP Press

"ABAP to the Future" (4th Edition)

Chapter 3

Section 3.1

"Core Data Services": "CDS is the cornerstone of the SAP S/4HANA programming model... CDS views are the basis for the Virtual Data Model (VDM) of SAP S/4HANA

which is the only way business data should be accessed." This confirms CDS as the fundamental technology for the VDM

which is the prescribed method for data access.