SAP Best Practices are preconfigured, integrated, out-of-the-box business processes. SAP has optimized the Best Practices for SAP S/4HANA.
Simply put, these are "turnkey" solutions, tried and tested standards. Basically, it is always about the best way to implement a business process - for example, in accounting or logistics.
Best-practice solutions enable companies to meet their basic requirements. In addition, companies can use best practices to accelerate the implementation of SAP's software suite.
The individual, activatable units of the best practices are called scope items. Scope items are therefore instances of SAP Best Practices.
SAP Best Practices are based on the experience and knowledge gained from a large number of customer projects: Any company that decides to purchase an SAP system therefore does not just acquire the pure software. It also benefits from the experience gained by other companies in the same sector or industry, which is then incorporated as know-how into the development of SAP software and, in particular, the Best Practices.
SAP Best Practices are an integral part of SAP Activate, the implementation methodology for SAP S/4HANA. SAP Activate is a methodology that is suitable for the implementation of cloud, hybrid and on-premise systems.
The SAP Best Practices for cloud solutions are particularly interesting - here, the proven processes serve as a basis. With the help of the best practices, companies can build their architecture faster and then also go live more quickly.
The extensibility of such cloud architectures is also guaranteed: Suitable SAP Fiori apps based on the standards are available for almost any requirement. Programming your own apps is also possible.