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Currently, there are two software solutions for international trade transactions: Foreign Trade
and SAP Global Trade Service (GTS). SAP GTS is an external service that can be installed on a
separate instance. With SAP S/4HANA, the classical Foreign Trade functionality is not
available; SAP GTS should be used instead.
Only for the Intrastat, customers can leverage functionality within SAP S/4HANA. Additional
functions for import and export management are available with SAP GTS.

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Figure 6: Other Major Simplifications Relevant for Inventory Management in SAP S/4HANA

The following transactions for entering and displaying goods movements (material
documents), which are called "MB transactions", are not available with SAP S/4HANA:
MB01, MB02, MB03, MB04, MB05, MB0A, MB11, MB1A, MB1B, MB1C, MB31, MBNL, MBRL,
MBSF, MBSL, MBST, and MBSU
Instead of these transactions, you can use the single-screen generalized transaction MIGO.

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Simplified Data Model for Material Document

Figure 7: Simplified Data Model for Material Document

The SAP ERP stock inventory management data model consists of the two document tables,

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MKPF for document header information and MSEG for document item data. Additionally,
aggregated actual stock quantity data was stored in several tables, as follows:
● 26 tables containing inventory aggregates for two material master tables (MARC/MARD)
● 11 tables for particular stock types
● 13 tables for historic stock figures

With SAP S/4HANA, this data model has been changed significantly. The new table,
MATDOC, has been introduced, which contains the former header and item data of a material
document, as well as many further attributes. This table forms the basis for the on-the-fly
aggregation. In addition, we have semantically corrected the material master data table,
which supports table buffering on an application server level.
Overall, this has resulted in an ultra-thin data layer that cannot be stripped down any further.
Further reduction of the tables and functionality would not lead to more simplification, but to
data loss. Simplification does not cause reduction; simplification provides the features in a
simpler manner. Only primary information is left, all secondary (redundant) information is
removed.

Material Ledger Obligatory for Material Valuation

With SAP S/4HANA, it is obligatory to use the Material Ledger. Latest trends in material
management aim for improved and more flexible valuation methods in multiple currencies
and parallel accounting standards while simultaneously reducing required system resources
and improving scalability of the business processes. Since the data model of the Material

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