S/Forward
This is your one-stop-S/Forward shop
What is the S/Forward SharePoint site / home page?
This is the new user interface to access SAP after go-live
What is Fiori Launchpad?
This term describes a hierarchical decomposition of a project into smaller components, serving as the financial and operational “skeleton” for planning, cost tracking, and financial control.
What is a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)?
Cost ownership is split between two types of cost centers. This one represents the functional group requesting the work, is selected at WBS Level 1, and ties to the 4* series cost centers in SAP S/4 HANA.
What is the Requesting Cost Center (Demand Owner)?
This federal commission regulates Xcel Energy and prescribes uniform accounting standards for utilities.
What is the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)?
S/Forward upgrades the company’s core business systems by implementing better data management and automation, to streamline processes and unlock new capabilities for the organization for these three (3) business functions
What are Finance, Operations, and Supply Chain?
This is the #1 question people ask about SAP S/4 HANA
What is,
"How do I find my T-Code?" or "Where is my T-Code?"
In the future-state WBS hierarchy, this level is standardized to represent individual assets with specific in-service dates for capital work.
What is Level 3 (L3)?
In SAP S/4HANA, this replaces order type-based classification at the WBS level, shifting how Capital and O&M work is structured and how users interpret and report costs.
What is Project Type?
FERC can assess fines and penalties up to this amount per day for violations — and there is no materiality threshold.
What is $1 million per day?
These months are when End User Training will occur
What are November and December?
These two (2) things can appear together in the new SAP S/4 HANA user experience
What are T-Codes and apps?
This SAP transaction becomes the authoritative cost view after settlement, since costs are ultimately reported at the WBS level rather than the internal order level.
What is CJI3N?
This cost center type ties to the 1* series Home Cost Center, is assigned at WBS Level 3, and supports managerial reporting, P&L roll-ups, and operational accountability across teams.
What is the Responsible Cost Center (Managerial Owner)?
In the new SAP S/4 HANA system, these two ledgers run side by side — one for GAAP and one for FERC.
What are the Leading Ledger (GAAP) and the Extension Ledger (FERC)?
These structured training sessions, which will include content immersion, facilitation guides, dry runs, and feedback, will prepare people in the Business Areas to deliver training to End Users is planned for October
What is the S/Forward Trainer Academy?
This quick key stroke combination results in a new, simplified search option in SAP S/4 HANA and brings the cursor to the top search area so someone can type a T‑code quickly
What is Ctrl + Shift + F?
In the redesigned cost flow, 100% of A&G overhead, E&S overhead, and this type of allowance post only to WBS — never to internal orders.
What is AFUDC (Allowance for Funds Used During Construction)?
In the new project type mapping, single capital order types are expanded into these four more detailed project types that enable finer classification of capital work.
What are Blanket, Discrete, Joint Venture, and Deferred/Mixed?
This new SAP field will hold the FERC Account consistently across all t-codes and reporting, replacing the old derivation approach.
What is the Functional Area field?
This is the S/Forward go live date
What is January 1, 2027?
This is the number of new apps introduced with S/Forward
What is ~150?
In SAP S/4HANA, the WBS Level 4 pass-through serves this purpose — making the split between Capital and O&M visible within a single WBS structure, even for mixed work.
What is mixed accounting (Capital / O&M classification)?
These types of orders are being eliminated entirely in SAP S/4HANA, with their Service Function description moving from the order type to a WBS attribute instead.
What are Partner Orders?
The elimination of this legacy error-checking mechanism in SAP S/4 HANA will likely require more master data, including additional accounts and WBS elements.
What is the FERC override table?