The Ultimate SAP S/4HANA Course 2026: From Zero to Expert

Follow SAP’s origins and major milestones to see how its enterprise software developed into the S/4HANA platform.

Understand what SAP S/4HANA does, how it connects core business functions, and how the SAP HANA database supports transactions and analytics. Explore cloud and on-premise deployment options and what to consider when assessing whether S/4HANA fits an organization. You'll also learn why business processes, people, and risk management matter during implementation.

See how enterprise resource planning connects business functions through an integrated system and why that integration matters for everyday operations.

Connect FI/CO, MM, SD, PP, HCM and other SAP modules to the departments and business responsibilities they support.

See how SAP ERP integrates all departments, enabling seamless end-to-end business processes across the value chain.

Use this module reference to identify major SAP ERP components and the business processes supported by each one.

Compare the capabilities and limitations discussed in the lecture to form a balanced view of where SAP S/4HANA can help a business.

Review the main stages of an SAP implementation and the purpose of each, from initial planning through delivery and implementation.

Follow the introductory Fiori demonstration to locate apps, use search and move around the Launchpad interface shown in the training system.

Follow the SAP logon process and identify the client, user, password and language fields required to access the training system.

Use the demonstrated menu paths and toolbar functions to find your way around the classic SAP GUI interface.

Review SAP GUI keyboard shortcuts and navigation tips that can reduce repetitive actions when working in the interface.

Follow the setup demonstrated in this lecture to explore an SAP practice environment on Google Cloud. Trial credits, quotas, regional availability, and charges may vary, so review the current provider terms before creating resources.

Review the Azure-based setup demonstrated in this lecture and the prerequisites for creating an SAP practice environment. Trial eligibility, credits, available services, and charges vary by account and region.

Review how SAP Learning Hub systems can provide guided access to an SAP practice environment, including the access requirements and learning options shown in the lecture.

Get an overview of SAP’s broad product portfolio beyond ERP (analytics, cloud platforms, etc.) and how these products complement S/4HANA.

Distinguish SAP’s standard software from industry-specific solutions and explain why industry requirements can call for specialized functionality.

Explain how SAP S/4HANA release cycles, feature updates, maintenance periods, and support planning affect upgrade decisions and change management.

Understand the different types of S/4HANA upgrades (technical vs. functional) and learn what new changes or features each release can bring.

Compare the SAP GUI and Fiori experiences presented in the ECC and S/4HANA context, focusing on navigation, task design and personalization.

Get a high-level comparison between SAP S/4HANA and Oracle’s ERP solutions to understand their key differences, strengths, and market positioning.

Explore SAP software offerings tailored for small and mid-sized businesses (SAP Business One, Business ByDesign, etc.) and their key benefits.

Learn the difference between working as an SAP end-user and as an SAP consultant, including roles, responsibilities, and how to decide which career path fits you.

Discover how you can start a career in SAP even if you don’t have a technical IT background, including tips on transferable skills and learning paths.

Review how SAP roles are changing as cloud, automation, and AI become more widely used, and identify the business-process, data, and system skills that remain valuable. Career demand varies by role, region, and experience.

Compare SAP career paths by business background, module focus, technical depth, and typical role requirements. Use current market and certification information to choose a learning direction rather than relying on salary alone.

Review how to identify current SAP certification options, locate official exam information, and build a preparation plan. Confirm the current exam code, format, and availability on SAP’s official certification platform.

Explore SAP’s organizational hierarchy (client, company code, plant, etc.) and understand how these elements represent a company’s structure in the system.

Follow the organizational levels presented in the lecture and examine how their relationships connect different parts of a business within SAP.

Understand the organization units specific to MM (like purchasing organization, plant, storage location) and how they fit into SAP’s overall org structure.

Learn about the financial org units in SAP (company code, controlling area, business area) and their roles in structuring financial data.

Discover the key sales org elements (sales organization, distribution channel, division) used in SAP SD to manage sales operations.

Identify the organizational units in SAP PP (production plant, planning plant, etc.) and understand how production is structured within the enterprise.

Explore SAP HCM’s organizational elements (personnel area, personnel subarea, etc.) and how they map to a company’s HR structure.

Identify what master data represents and why business processes depend on consistent reference information.

Differentiate between master data (static business reference data) and transactional data (day-to-day business records) with examples of each in SAP.

See how to search for and display a Business Partner in SAP, and understand the key information shown (addresses, roles, etc.).

Learn how to find and view a Material Master in SAP, and interpret its key data (material description, stock levels, procurement info, etc.).

Get introduced to the fundamental concepts in SAP’s Logistics modules and understand how materials flow through procurement, inventory, and sales processes.

Understand typical end-to-end logistics processes (like procure-to-pay and order-to-cash) and see how SAP supports each step of these processes.

Explore the full scope of SAP’s logistics components (MM, SD, PP, WM, etc.) and learn how they interrelate to manage the supply chain within SAP.

Understand the scope of the Sales and Distribution module and how it manages the order-to-cash process, from customer orders to billing.

Learn about the sales organization elements (sales org, distribution channel, division) and how they are structured to represent a company’s sales hierarchy.

Examine a real-world example (AAPM company) of a sales organization setup, to see how a sales org, channels, and divisions are configured in practice.

Review the customer, material and pricing information that supports sales processing, and explain why these records matter when creating orders.

Learn about the Business Partner model in SAP S/4HANA, which unifies customer, vendor, and other partner data into one central master record.

Display the customer master data shown in the training system and review key commercial fields such as address, payment terms, and contact information. The lecture also explains how customer data relates to the S/4HANA Business Partner model.

Follow the standard sales process in SAP S/4HANA SD from sales order creation to goods delivery and customer payment (high-level overview of each step).

Understand how the delivery process is handled in SAP – converting a sales order to an outbound delivery, picking and packing goods, and posting goods issue.

Learn how billing documents (invoices) are created in SAP and how to process returns or credit memos when customers send products back.

Understand how SD integrates with MM (for stock checks), FI/CO (for billing and revenue recognition), and other modules to complete the order-to-cash cycle.

Compare the sales document types and item categories introduced, and explain how they influence sales-process behavior.

See how SAP performs an availability check on inventory during order entry to confirm product stock and delivery dates for customer orders.

Watch a step-by-step demonstration of creating a sales order in SAP S/4HANA, and learn the key fields and data needed to book a customer order.

Learn how to create an outbound delivery for a sales order, including confirming picked quantities and preparing the delivery for shipment.

See how to create a billing document (invoice) for delivered goods in SAP, turning delivery information into an invoice to send to the customer.

Learn how to handle customer complaints in SAP SD, such as creating return orders, processing refunds or replacements, and issuing credit/debit memos.

Use this quick reference to identify common SAP SD reports for open orders, deliveries, billing, and sales analysis.

Consolidate your understanding of the SAP S/4HANA sales process with best practices and tips to efficiently manage the entire cycle from order entry to cash collection.

Familiarize yourself with essential transaction codes in SD (such as VA01, VL01N, VF01, etc.) to navigate directly to sales, delivery, and billing screens with ease.

Join a bicycle company's sales team and see what you'll work on in this section. Preview Bella Bike's order from order entry through delivery and invoicing, then see where customer and product data, pricing, presales, billing issues, and order analysis fit in. Keep this overview handy as you work through the demos.

Prepare your workspace by finding a sales app and filtering orders by customer reference. Save the search to My Home, then reopen it to verify that the filter is restored. Use the saved search as a reusable entry point for your sales work.

Explore the sales-area combinations available in the training system and save your usual values as personal defaults. Reopen the settings to verify they were saved, and distinguish these user preferences from the organizational structure already configured for the business.

An existing customer orders five bicycles and two hours of repair service. Create the sales order, check the customer, requested delivery date, item quantities and units, and record the saved order number for the delivery and billing tasks that follow.

Review the order you just created before moving to delivery processing. Check payment terms, item prices, confirmed quantities and schedule lines, then inspect the process flow to distinguish planned follow-up documents from completed business activity.

Continue with the same customer order and create its outbound delivery. Check the shipping point, selection date and bicycle quantity, then verify the updated order status. Explain why the repair-service item does not appear in this physical delivery.

Record the five bicycles as picked and post goods issue for the saved delivery. Compare unrestricted-use stock before and after posting to verify the reduction, and explain why creating a delivery, recording picking and posting goods issue are different stages.

Bring the service order reference and bicycle delivery together in one customer invoice. Check the billing result, company code and linked journal entry, and explain why a completed invoice and shipped delivery do not mean the customer’s balance has been cleared.

Switch to a separate customer request and create a business partner with customer sales data. Maintain the relevant sales-area settings and inspect the sold-to, ship-to, bill-to and payer functions, preparing the record for the customer-change test that follows.

Add another ship-to party and create a test order under the customer’s original payment terms. Change the payment terms in the customer master, reopen that same order and compare the values to establish whether the existing document adopted the new agreement.

A material already exists, but its sales data needs to be added. Extend it with the required sales views and English sales text, keeping the same product number. Check what has been maintained and why pricing remains a separate task.

Maintain a PR00 material price and K007 customer discount, then verify both in a new sales order. Read the pricing units, rates and condition values to reconcile the item calculation and distinguish a selling-price discount from an early-payment discount.

Handle a separate customer request for five bicycles by creating an inquiry, a quotation for three and an order for one. Follow the references between the documents and explain why the inquiry is complete while the quotation remains in process in this case.

Create a separate service order with a billing block and locate it in the fulfillment worklist. Release the selected order’s block, verify that unrelated issues remain unchanged, and explain what removing the hold allows—and what it has not yet completed.

Compare incoming order values for a defined month and currency, identify the leading customers and drill down to supporting sales orders. Present the comparison as a bar chart and export it to Excel, keeping order intake separate from profit or cash received.

Get an overview of the Materials Management module and its role in managing procurement, purchasing, and inventory in SAP.

Explore the organization structure for procurement: purchasing organizations, purchasing groups, plants, and storage locations, and how they relate in SAP MM.

Analyze an example of a centralized purchasing organizational structure and understand how having a central purchasing org impacts procurement processes.

Learn about key MM master data such as material masters, vendor masters, and purchasing info records, and why accurate master data is critical for procurement and inventory management.

Identify the most important master data records (material, vendor, etc.) in MM and see how they interact (e.g., how a purchasing info record links vendors and materials).

Follow a step-by-step demonstration of how to create a new Material Master in SAP, including selecting material type and filling in basic data fields.

Follow the supplier master-data process demonstrated in the training system and review the purchasing and accounting fields required for procurement. In S/4HANA, supplier data may be maintained through the Business Partner model.

Get an introduction to the procurement cycle in SAP MM, from purchase requisition to purchase order to goods receipt and invoice – and the purpose of each step.

Dive deeper into the procure-to-pay process: create a requisition, convert to purchase order, receive goods, and verify the invoice, understanding each step in SAP.

Compare goods receipts, goods issues and stock transfers, and examine how these movements affect inventory quantities and values.

Watch how to create a Purchase Order in SAP MM to buy materials or services, and learn about important fields like vendor, material, quantity, price, and delivery date.

Learn how to post a Goods Receipt in SAP for the delivered items in a purchase order, and see how this updates stock levels and creates accounting entries.

See how to perform invoice verification by entering a vendor’s invoice in SAP and matching it against the purchase order and goods receipt (three-way match process).

Learn how to create a Purchasing Info Record which links a material with a vendor, capturing info like prices and lead times for future purchases.

Understand how MM interacts with other SAP modules: e.g., how a goods receipt in MM affects FI (accounting entries) and CO (cost management), and how MM provides stock data to SD and PP.

Use this quick reference to identify common SAP MM reports for purchasing, stock, inventory valuation, and purchase-order analysis.

Get introduced to SAP Ariba, the cloud-based procurement network, and learn how it extends SAP’s procurement capabilities for supplier collaboration and sourcing.

Explain how SAP Fieldglass supports contingent workforce and services procurement, including worker profiles, statements of work, approvals, spend visibility, and external workforce controls.

Learn the key SAP transaction codes for Inventory Management (e.g., MIGO for goods movements, MB52 for stock overview) to quickly access inventory functions.

Review a list of important transaction codes in MM for purchasing and material management (like ME21N for PO, ME51N for PR, etc.) to speed up navigation during procurement tasks.

Download six process maps covering goods receipt, goods issue, stock transfer, goods returns, inventory write-offs, and physical inventory. Use them as visual references for training, process reviews, and workshop discussions.

Download eight Procure-to-Pay process maps covering material and supplier master data, requisitions, quotations, purchase orders, contracts, service entry, and purchasing information records.