In September of that year, transportation management functionality was embedded in SAP S/4HANA. SAP added machine learning capabilities to the suite in 2017 in order to perform easier goods and invoice receipt reconciliation and to automate invoice assignments. Major enhancements over SAP ERP included embedding extended warehouse management (EWM) and production planning/detailed scheduling (PP-DS) functionality directly into SAP S/4HANA. In 2016, logistics functionality was introduced to SAP S/4HANA in four key areas: sourcing and procurement, manufacturing, supply chain, and asset management.

Nine months later, SAP announced that it was expanding the core of the solution to become a full-scale enterprise resource planning platform, and named the suite SAP S/4HANA, with specific core lines of business tacked on to the end of the suite name (i.e., SAP S/4HANA Finance). SAP S/4HANA was originally released as a next-generation financial solution at the 2014 SAPPHIRE NOW technology conference in Orlando, Florida, under the name SAP Simple Finance.

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