sexta-feira, 31 de janeiro de 2020

SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2002 Release

Highlights of the SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2002 Release

We are proud to announce the general availability of our SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2002 release today.
The first release of this year brings great innovations in all Lines of Business and industries and adds a lot more features and improvements that support the intelligent enterprise. Also via the embedded SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) we’re adding more capabilities for clients to analyze and steer their companies, and we’re also enriching SAP S/4HANA Cloud with more intelligent robotic process automation (iRPA) capabilities.
In this blog post you will find my favorites of some of the latest and greatest SAP #S4HANA #Cloud 2002 highlights. You can also check out the video below to gain insights into the innovations which are top of mind.

Finance

Optimized Automation with SAP Intelligent Robotic Process Automation
The future of ERP is automated! This time-saving feature of our latest 2002 release automizes tasks with minimal human intervention, ensuring processes run as smoothly as possible. The automation is delivered on three levels:
  1. Simplified Finance Application Architecture
  2. Business Process Automation
  3. Intelligent Technologies
This complete automation suite comes with software robots which are designed to mimic humans by replacing manual clicks. These robots help with interpreting text-heavy communications, and making process suggestions to end users for definable and repeatable business processes.
Figure 1: SAP Intelligent Robotic Process Automation is being executed without manual interaction (note: no audio voice available)

Manufacturing and Supply Chain

Lean Integration Between Production and Warehouse Managed on Bin Level
As part of the Manufacturing and Supply Chain update we have innovations lined up in the area of Warehouse Management. One of them is the lean integration between production and warehouse managed on a bin level. Until now production supply areas used in SAP S/4HANA Cloud could be assigned to inventory managed storage locations. With SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2002 production supply areas now additionally can be assigned to warehouse managed storage locations as well, which allows management on storage bin level. This leads to an improved stock transparency as stock in production is managed on a more-granular level.
Figure 2: ‘Lean integration between production and warehouse managed on bin level’ increases stock transparency (note: no audio voice available)

Sourcing and Procurement

Contract Management with SAP Ariba Contracts
One of main highlights in the Line of Business Sourcing and Procurement is the integration of SAP S/4HANA Cloud with SAP Ariba Contracts. SAP Ariba Contracts is used to negotiate and determine prices and sign a legal contract with a supplier; these prices are then passed to SAP S/4HANA Cloud, which can be used by the operational purchaser to buy materials or lean services as required. The integration of the two platforms helps not only to perform strategic sourcing activities but users will benefit from reduced transaction costs as fewer manual steps are needed and contracts are exchanged in an automated way.
Figure 3: ‘Contract Management with SAP Ariba Contracts’ supports users as fewer manual steps are needed and strategic sourcing activities can be performed (note: no audio voice available)

Professional Service

Configurable Project Roles
For the Professional Services industry, we strive to facilitate the customer’s project controlling and monitoring efforts. In addition to the four existing project roles, you can now maintain customer-specific project roles by using a self-service configuration UI. This helps you to map custom roles to the relevant type of project. Both the standard roles and the custom roles can now also be broken down to the billing item level, which adds flexibility to your project management.
Figure 4: Using a new SSCUI you can define custom project roles which improves maintenance of projects (note: no audio voice available)

Enterprise Portfolio and Project Management

Improved Usability by Copying Projects in Project Control Application
Setting up projects from scratch can be pretty time consuming. That’s why we’ve established a way to make the Project Control Application even more user-friendly by adding a feature to copy a selected project. This copied project comes with information on work package hierarchy, project and work package master data, milestones and team assignments, and it can either be edited directly with the Project Control application, the Project Planning, or the Project Briefs application.
Figure 5: The ability to copy projects with Project Control Application improves usability and reduces manual efforts (note: no audio voice available)

Sales

Down Payment Processing for Sales Quantity Contracts
In this release we introduce a new business process to manage sales quantity contracts with billing plans for down payment facilitated by the milestone billing plan. The following steps enable the down payment processing: First of all, you can create down payment requests as well as contract release orders. After that, the system blocks the delivery until your customers complete all down payments. Once your customers have completed all down payments, the system removes the delivery blocks on schedule lines. Finally, you can continue the delivery processing and invoicing.
Figure 6: Down payment processing for sales quantity contracts increases sales force efficiency by providing easy-to-use tools (note: no audio voice available)

Service

Increase Business Coverage on Service Order Processing
In the area of Service, we include service delivery by external work force and enable you to edit profit center on service order item level. These features, along with the ability to add service teams, enhances the service order processing. The increased business coverage eliminates friction in process integration and avoids data loss resulting from broken process flows.
Figure 7: Service order processing eliminates friction in process integration and reduces data loss (note: no audio voice available)

Product Compliance

Integration of Product Compliance into Sales Contract
With this release we have established a way to view the status of compliance checks of product marketability, dangerous goods, and safety data sheets in sales contracts. In addition, dangerous goods data can now be printed on form templates. This prevents executions of non-compliant sales orders for all relevant products and therefore assures compliant transport regarding dangerous goods regulations.
Figure 8: ‘Integration of Product Compliance into Sales Contract’ enables users to gain insights into dangerous goods information on sales contract documents and prevents execution of non-compliant sales orders (note: no audio voice available)

Asset Management

Resource Scheduling for Maintenance Planners
SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2002 has also quite some innovations in store for you when it comes to Asset Management. One of the innovations that we ship is resource scheduling for maintenance planners, which provides you with insights into your maintenance workload and available capacities for current and upcoming maintenance activities. The ‘Resource Scheduling for Maintenance Planners’ application allows you to monitor important KPIs for your work centers, helping you to stay up-to date with upcoming, current and recent schedules.
Figure 9: The ‘Resource Scheduling for Maintenance Planners’ application allows you to monitor important KPIs for your work centers (note: no audio voice available)

Localization

Among the many countries and languages our release updates offer, we are now happy to add some more to the list by delivering Service Management Localization for Italy, Mexico and Spain, and Best Practices for SAP S/4HANA Cloud for Slovakia, together with the corresponding language Slovak.

SAP Activate for SAP S/4HANA Cloud

SAP Activate provides you with an easy-to-follow guided journey toward SAP S/4HANA Cloud adoption. Therefore, we’re continuously improving the functionalities to enable the best possible adoption for our customers. With the latest release, we are adding a new Business Driven Configuration Questionnaire to support the Service functionality. Moreover, we’re adding instructions on how to run a Fit-to-standard workshop after the starter system has been decommissioned. These insights will benefit rollout projects and solution expansion after the initial implementation.
Check out details in this blog: SAP Activate Content Updates for SAP S/4HANA Cloud-2002

Inside SAP S/4HANA Podcast

Last but not least, I’d like to encourage you to subscribe to our new podcast “Inside SAP S/4HANA”. This podcast leverages the unique knowledge and expertise of SAP S/4HANA product experts, partners and customers to address your needs by sharing product insights and project best practice. There is no customer success without product success and project success; we help you get to the next level and make your SAP S/4HANA projects a success. Subscribe now and benefit from the shared knowledge.

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Predictive Material and Resource Planning (pMRP)

Hello Friends,
In this Blog will discuss What’s New about Predictive Material and Resource Planning (pMRP)
With SAP latest release on 1909 HANA On-Premises Version, new functionality has been introduced to improve Capacity Issues, the new functionality is pMRP – Predictive Material and Resource Planning
The same is available in 1905 Cloud version as well
Before we go in detail it’s not Existing MRP (Material Requirement Planning) it’s a brand new functionality.
PMRP helps you to identify capacity issues and solve them early in the planning process itself.
The goal of predictive material and resource planning is to identify potential capacity issues and to evaluate possible solutions as early as possible based on the simplified requirements plan using a simplified material requirements algorithm. As a result of the simulation, production planners are prepared to take decisions on changed conditions, for example with regard to requirement planning, resource plans, preproduction, or make-or-buy decisions.

pMRP Process

pMRP Process will as per below flow, will discuss in detail one by one. before that Master Data is Important

Basic Data for pMRP

Before working on pMRP simulations, we need to make sure that we have basic MRP data active versions.
Make sure that you have the following basic data available:
  1. Material
  2. Bill of Material
  3. Work center
  4. Routing
  5. Production version
  6. Planned Independent Requirements (PIRs)
  • Define Simulation
  • Copy and Simplify Master Data = Reference Plan
To define a simulation scenario, to determine the reference plan and to actually create a simulation, you start a scheduling job.
You define a simulation scenario by determining which data based on material resource planning (MRP) should be considered as reference data by the simulation in pMRP. One defined set of reference data is a reference plan.
  • Create pMRP Simulations
By using New Fiori Apps Schedule pMRP Simulation Creation
With this App, we can schedule the creation of pMRP simulations. In order to process simulations, the system creates simplified data based on our operative data for material resource planning. This data is used as reference data in pMRP. A set of defined reference data is a reference plan which can be used for creating multiple simulations.
  • Process pMRP Simulations
With this App, we can create multiple simulations, check the impact of simulated changes to capacity or demands on the KPIs, and take informed decisions for our production planning.
Key Features of this app will Demand Plan Simulation  & Capacity Plan Simulation in each simulation we will have different parameters that can be simulated/adjust

Demand Plan Simulation
  1. Process multiple simulations
  2. View capacity issues
  3. Change demand quantities
  4. Adjust simulations
  5. Release simulations before implementing the changes to the operative material requirements planning (MRP)
Capacity Plan Simulation
  1. Get an overview of the capacity situation of a work center for the defined time period (bucket)
  2. View all top-level demands of the work center and their share in consumption
  3. Change the available capacity
  • Adjust Simulation Plan
  • Analyze Plan
we can copy a simulation plan to create multiple simulations that we can compare. In a simulation plan, we can display capacity issues. Then we can make changes to the capacity of work centers or the quantity of a top-level demand to solve the capacity issues. These changes are only simulations which we can compare to analyze the impact of the changes on our delivery performance or our capacity situation.
  • Implement Changes to Operations
When we decide to implement a simulation plan in our operative MRP, we release the simulation plan. Based on the analysis of the pMRP simulation plan, we can adjust our planning decision and implement the simulated changes in our operative database of our material requirements planning. To do this, we check and adjust the buffer levels for our products, before starting a new operative MRP run
This is a high-level overview of pMRP, and my understanding of the functionality very soon the same will be processed in the HANA 1909 system and will share in detailed knowledge with step by step process

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Intelligent ERP Update: SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2002 – Sales

This blog provides you with the latest and greatest innovations that our SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2002 release has in store for you in Sales. To name just a few highlights:
  • Contract Down Payment
  • Enhancement in Manage Customer Returns
  • Analytics for Sales Scheduling Agreements – Product Demand
  • Analytics for Trade Compliance Issue in Delivery
  • Influence Tax Fields in Sales Documents
  • and more.
In detail, this blog covers the following highlights:
  • Contract Down Payment
  • Analytics for Sales Scheduling Agreements – Product Demand

Contract Down Payment

With the SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2002 release we go a step further and we introduce a new process to enable the down payment on quantity contracts. The down payment process is required when advances are received from customers to fulfill sales orders before the actual sale has occurred.
With this release, we enable the down payment on quantity contracts, facilitated by the milestone billing plan. As a reminder, a quantity contract is an agreement between the company and customer for the customer to purchase a specific quantity of a material at a certain price within a specific time period.
The overall process starts with the billing plan, and down payment requests are generated and posted to the customer’s account when payment is made. Deliveries can be called against the value contract throughout the validity period. At the end of the contract, the down payment balances are used to clear the open balances from the deliveries, and the contract can be closed or extended.
Picture 1: Business process overview
In SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2002, the process starts with the creation of a sales quantity contract with down payment billing plan lines, and contract release orders with reference to the contract. The contract release orders are blocked for delivery before all agreed down payments are made. Once the customer has made the payment completely, the system removes the delivery block on schedule lines. You can then continue the delivery processing and invoicing.
Key Feature Overview
  • Billing plan is enabled on the contract item
  • New status (down payment status) is introduced on the contract header and contract item
  • It is possible to search for sales contract by down payment status and the down payment status is displayed on the search result
  • Automatically determine delivery block on sales order based on the down payment status of sales contract
  • Automatically remove the delivery block on a sales order when the down payment is fully posted in FI
  • Application log to record sales contract update and sales order update
  • The prepaid down payment is considered in the delivery based final invoice
  • Monitor and reprocess blocked message for the update of contracts and sales orders
Benefits and Business Value:
  • Provide new End-to-End process of to handle down payment on quantity contract in SAP S/4HANA Cloud
  • Introduce an automatic mechanism to set/remove delivery block based on down payment clearing status
  • Supporting both normal material and BOM material in the down payment process
Want to know how this looks in a demo, check to see the full process in action:

Analytics for Sales Scheduling Agreements – Product Demand

With the SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2002 release, we extend the always delivered features in delivery schedules for the sales scheduling agreements process with a new analytical SAP Fiori app.
Just as a reminder: Delivery schedules are documents sent by customers to release a certain quantity of one or more materials defined in the sales scheduling agreement. Customers can send delivery schedules in the form of electronic data interchange (EDI) messages or through other traditional methods, such as email. In the more general context of outline agreements, delivery schedules may also be referred to as scheduling agreement releases.
Note: Sales scheduling agreements can be released in forecast delivery schedules, just-in-time (JIT) delivery schedules, and planning delivery schedules. The delivery schedules contain information about requested order quantities and dates.
With this new SAP Fiori app, the internal sales representative can monitor product demand from sales scheduling agreements. For example, you can view customer demand for one given product or product demand from one particular customer based on a time frame and look into further details on different dimensions. Such an overview offers valuable insights into how product demand fluctuates over time and may unfold in the future.
Picture 2: Sales Scheduling Agreements – Product Demand
You can use this app to do the following:
Define analysis parameters.
You must specify a release type for sales scheduling agreements, a date range for scheduled delivery, and a time scale for how product demand will be analyzed. For example, you can view weekly product demand in the coming month based on sales scheduling agreements released in forecast delivery schedules. To focus on demand for one particular product or from one particular customer, you can additionally specify the product or sold-to party.
Display product demand in chart view, table view, or hybrid view.
In chart view, you can view overall product demand over time. You can sort and drill down further by dimensions, such as sales organization, product, and sold-to party, and set additional filter criteria.
In the table view, you can view product demand details. To quickly find out demand details about a product or customer, you can group demand by product or customer.
In a hybrid view, you can view overall product demand in the chart while checking details in the table. For example, if you select a bar in the chart that shows product demand by sales organization, the table then lists the demand details of the selected sales organization.
Note: The product demand displayed in the chart or table is an aggregation of requested order quantities at schedule line level.
This new SAP Fiori app is built using Analytical List Page (ALP). Watch the video to learn more about the general functions offered by ALP.

Outlook (see roadmap for SAP S/4HANA Cloud)

In future versions of SAP S/4HANA Cloud, we will improve and Increase sales force efficiency with new options:
  • Create sales orders by uploading spreadsheets with the required data. You can use this process when creating sales orders as a result of mass upload capabilities
  • Automatic creation of sales orders from unstructured data in SAP S/4HANA Cloud
  • Monitor the delivery performance using predictive analytics in SAP S/4HANA Cloud – in-time supply of procurement processes to transportation processes

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Hybrid Cloud ERP – an outlook for 2Tier ERP with SAP S/4HANA Cloud

ERP is not what it used to be, without a doubt the Digital transformation customers need to go through (constantly) has prooven this. A fourth era is emerging as ERP evolves into a necessary foundation that supports changing business models, methods of delivering enterprise business capabilities and moves to a more orchestrated – not monolithic ERP setup. CIOs must learn how ERP is evolving or miss opportunities to optimize value and business outcomes. (Reference: see ERP’s Emerging Fourth Era — Moving Beyond Postmodern ERP, ID: G00383503, Gartner)
Industries are being disrupted because of digitalization and the impact is that many businesses are venturing in to new markets, doing mergers and acquisitions and expanding organically to continue to grow and compete.  These pose different challenges for CxO’s – like establishing standard business processes, supporting the supplier chain eco system and so on. The whitepaper ‘Two-Tier ERP with SAP S/4HANA Cloud and Deployment Possibilities’ published earlier offers a detailed study on these challenges and recommends deployment with Two-Tier as an optimal solution.  Based on Two-Tier deployment model SAP has delivered best practice content in various LoBs currently supported with many dedicated scope items.
As an example, SAP S/4HANA Cloud Scope Item 2EJ related to integration of procurement with external suppliers – provides the content with the mapping towards the supplier’s EDI messages using set of SOAP APIs. Many customers implemented this scenario to send their Purchase Orders from Subsidiary to Headquarters.
Following picture shows an example of the process:

Figure 1: Procurement Integration with External Suppliers

Scope Item 2EL related to integration of sales process with external buyers – which automates exchanging of sales documents with external buyers through the EDI messages using SOAP protocol.
Similarly, SAP has provided many scope items with the standard content, which can be used by the customers depending on their business scenarios and their deployment model.
As look into the future in the Two-Tier space a recent whitepaper on ‘Business Process in Cross System Landscape’  has been published to address critical requirements across multiple industries. This whitepaper provides the details on intercompany process by focusing on stock in transit, since this scenario has many challenges in federated landscape vis-a-vis monolithic landscape. The detailed research has been published in by emphasizing various possible technical deployments as listed below:
  • S/4HANA Cloud to S/4HANA Cloud
  • S/4HANA Cloud to S/4HANA Private Cloud
  • S/4HANA Cloud to S/4HANA OnPremise or SAP ECC
  • S/4HANA Cloud to Third Party ERP systems
  • Supply Chain collaboration in Multi-Tier network
Following are the few examples which has been discussed in this whitepaper in detail:

Figure 2: Various Deployment options with SAP S/4HANA Cloud
Stay tuned for further blogs in this series… and as always, keep your feedback flowing.
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