SAP Central Finance helps customers with more than one older SAP ERP system to replicate
FI documents from these SAP ERP systems into a central Finance system running on SAP
S/4HANA. In the SAP Central Finance system customer can leverage the capabilities of SAP
HANA to achieve an organization-wide financial view with real-time reporting capabilities.
SAP Central Finance is a good option for combining a variety of financial data sources from
SAP and non-SAP systems, and offers for easy integration of other ERP systems which would
be essential later if the organisation goes through mergers and acquisitions. It would not
necessarily be utilized if the business or organisation uses only one ERP system.