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🛠️ Method 3: AI Generated Slicing Utility Sets.

In-Place Time Slicing for the FI (Financial Accounting) Module in SAP S/4HANA

AppSafe now includes In-Place Time Slicing as a feature for the FI (Financial Accounting) module of the SAP S/4HANA system.

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Why It Matters​

As organizations grow, historical financial data accumulates rapidly, slowing down critical processes. The In-Place Time Slicing feature addresses this by enabling users to work with a lean, clean, and focused dataset without physically archiving or removing data.

This allows teams to extract a subset of the production system for:

  • Testing
  • Training
  • Simulation
  • Innovation projects

The approach leads to faster turnaround time and fewer issues, as the dataset remains representative of real business conditions.

Key Benefits​

  • 🔹 Size Reduction with production copies for test, development, training, and innovation environments
  • 💰 Reduced Cost due to smaller infrastructure footprint for lower environments
  • ⚡ Reduced Time with RAG-based AI to boost consulting efficiency
  • 🔐 Can be combined with data scrambling to ensure security and compliance

How to Use​

  1. Go to the Utility Sets screen and click “Create” to begin creating a Utility Set.

  2. In the New Utility Set creation screen:

    • Fill in the Utility Set Name
    • Select Creation Mode as AI Generated Slicing alt text

  3. Enter Slicing Parameters in the UI:

    • Client: A numeric field corresponding to the client in S/4HANA
    • Application Component: Currently supports FI (Financial Accounting). Future support will include MM, SD, etc.
    • Time Slice Period (Years): Number of years to slice (excluding the current year) alt text

Example: Client: 100 Application Component: FI Time Slice Period: 3 Years

  1. Click Next to navigate to the Utility 2/2 screen.

Utility 2/2 Screen​

  • Displays the list of FI module tables sliced using In-Place Time Slicing.
  • User can specify tables for which utility parameters and conditions should be applied.
  • Multiple tables should be comma-separated
  • If the table field is left blank, all tables will be scanned alt text