Introduction: The Transactional data records are written to the Group Journal Entries table – ACDOCU and are recorded according to the breakdown category assigned. However, the Transactional data can become inconsistent if: You assign a different breakdown category to a Financial Statement Item You change the breakdown type in the breakdown category or you add....

Founded in 2018, Empower is a Norwegian circular platform company that uses digitization, cloud-data and blockchain technology to store and facilitate seamless sharing of information about plastic waste and map waste flows. Empower is among the top 5 blockchain startups for the circular economy. To tell us more about Empower and how they are driving....

Introduction: In this blog post, I would like to share knowledge on usage of Functions in ABAP RAP and then default few fields while creating a new business object in “Unmanaged scenario without Draft”. It is a common requirement in most of the applications to default some fields to save end user time or routine....

Continuing the trend of last year, I am excited to share the innovations and changes in 2021 for the Framework area. Hope this helps you to get a quick recap and get all ready for 2022! SAP Task Center SAP Task Center is the central inbox for tasks in the Intelligent Enterprise. It supports approvals from....

Introduction In this blog, the steps outlined for configuring and executing ‘Supplier Advance Return Management process in S/4HANA’. This will help users to configure advance return management and execute, monitor in S/4HANA Environment. The Business user can effectively monitor the complete return process cycle end to end and take corrective measures. The system can be....

Introduction:   In this blog, Purchase Category key concepts, steps involved in setting up in S/4HANA are outlined. The need for Purchase Category and its relation with Material groups and Supplier also addressed. This will help users to define Purchase Category in S/4HANA Environment as per the business requirement. Pre-requisite: Identification of Grouping of similar....

Introduction In this blog post, we will learn how to configure Data Blocking through Manage Sensitive Attributes app provided by UI Data Protection Masking for SAP S/4HANA 2011 solution based on Attribute Based Authorization Control(ABAC) concept. Manage Sensitive Attributes app The Manage Sensitive Attributes application allows you to maintain configuration for UI data protection in a SAP Fiori-based UI. This application brings together several individual....

Ariba Shield It’s common knowledge that SAP Ariba Network is the world’s largest B2B marketplace which connects buyers and suppliers. On the technical front, SAP Ariba runs on the SAP HANA database with servers across the globe. While this provides faster access and the ability to have multiple data backups, this also makes it almost....

API has been a hot term in recent years and will definitely be one of the buzz words in 2022. In this blog I will present a use case in transportation management (TM) combined with extended warehouse management (eWM) on how we use application programming interfaces for our carrier integration. The days of sending files....

There are two North Star metrics that go into making a successful intelligent enterprise: first, time to insight — in other words, how long it takes you to get to a meaningful insight into your processes by looking at your data. And second, time to adapt, which is how long it takes you to act upon the insights....

What is the Profiler? The Profiler is a diagnostics tool that is released with the SAP Screen Personas Service Pack 14. It captures all user and script interactions with classic SAP GUI transactions rendered in Slipstream Engine and displays underlying activities which take place in response to the given interaction. The Profiler can be used....

There are a number of things you can do to improve your return rate, including better photos, better product descriptions, and maybe changing the sizing specifics of your products. Hopefully, you, too, took similar steps, and everything went smoothly, and you were able to obtain some sort of decrease. However, there are a number of....

Talent pools are a great way for your organization to organize candidates in Recruiting. As a result of the recent VIP session held on Wednesday, January 19, 2022 – we thought it would be good to continue the conversation using a blog for clients to share and learn from each other. We will be hosting....

How to find if a ODATA service is created using a RAP Model from Fiori app library in a standard application : Open the Fiori app Library and select your desired application : https://fioriappslibrary.hana.ondemand.com/sap/fix/externalViewer/#/detail/Apps(‘F0702A’)/S21OP Applications with the Versions 2021 will be created using the RAP Model In the below examples you can see the Odata....

Introduction After really a long gap of almost 8 years I am writing this blog and sharing my experience of using FLP notification service in SAPUI5. Hope this will help my fellow community members in some of the difficult situations the may face. Notifications are ubiquitous in technical arena. It not only makes the user....

Background/ Business Use Case Many customers use SAP Master Data Governance (MDG) for managing Master Data and distribute the data created in MDG to downstream ERP Applications including S4HANA. SAP MDG acts as single source of Master Data allowing governance control for higher business efficiency and refined process control. However, there are data elements like....

You are at Mapping Guidelines (MAG) When you map a source group node to a target group node. And then map a source leaf node to the same target group node. It automatically creates a “conditional mapping”. What is this feature? Let’s have a look at it. As defined on the help page: Group node: A....

Singularity is a data and analytics company that helps customers reduce their carbon emissions. Singularity’s platform ‘Carbonara’ provides a suite of innovative products, developer APIs, and intelligent tools for companies to build the future of decarbonization solutions. To tell us more about Singularity and how they are driving sustainability we have Wenbo Shi who is....

SupplHi is the Vendor Management SaaS for industrial equipment and services to manage the supplier base in the most efficient, compliant, and sustainable manner. ESG-meter, an APP by SupplHi, is the industry Social network for improving Supply Chain ESG Sustainability and reducing Suppliers’ Carbon Emissions. To tell us more about SupplHi and how they are....

Introduction:   In this blog, Steps are outlined on “how to determine/choose between Scheduling agreement Vs Contract” in the procurement process in S/4HANA. it helps the Category Manager/Buyer to negotiate and decide the right type of Contract with external Suppliers. Pre-requisite: Identification of Materials and Volume of the Procurement as part of Contract Management Identify the right....

Purpose This section shows how to configure the SAP BTP, Cloud Foundry environment subaccount, and the SAP Forms service by Adobe. This service API will be tested with with  postman Prerequisites You have a subaccount on SAP BTP, Cloud Foundry environment and the subaccount has entitlement of service Forms service by Adobe .   Procedure....

Controlling Period End Closing for production companies are the necessary steps each period. There are always questions/incidents raised concerning Controlling Period End Closing. Most of them are How-to queries which can be explained with a KBA or existing help documents. The purpose for this Blog is to collect the frequent questions raised during Controlling Period....

As explained in my previous blog of “IAG Integration with ARIBA” the steps required to complete End to End Integration of GRC IAG Bridge to any target cloud application is 5 step process. The Step 3 to 5 will follow the same configuration with minor tweaks depending on Cloud Applications. The first step of any....

Wish you a very Happy New Year! We are now live with the preliminary version of What’s New for SAP Business ByDesign, February 2022. Please access the What’s New Preview here. You can also access the same from the Help Center and our Product Page. Happy reading!

Description:    In this scenario we will display the list of PO from the EKKO table and set the Purchase order number EBELN as link to action. On clicking the EBELN link let us display the Item details for that Purchase order in a separate table. Procedure: Step1: Go to TCODE SE80 and create a webdynpro component....

Introduction In this blog post we will learn how we can leverage the Data Locking APIs as part of our planning application for analytics designer. What is Data Locking? Data Locking is a mechanism that allows us to protect data areas from changes during planning operations. This includes locking of such data areas, or restricting....

Operationales Reporting und Real-Time-Auswertungen werden immer wichtiger. Mit Embedded Analytics bietet SAP ein Reportingtool, mit dem Entscheidungen schneller getroffen werden können und die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit des Unternehmens enorm gesteigert wird. Obwohl das Tool in S/4HANA implementiert ist und ohne zusätzliche Lizenzkosten genutzt werden kann, scheinen viele Kunden mit dieser Lösung nicht vertraut zu sein. Auch ergeben....

Assumption: Reader has basic knowledge on Accounts payables and is aware of FBZP set up in the system.  Overview: BCM stands for Bank Communication Management, which is a component under FSCM (Financial Supply Chain Management). BCM is responsible for communication with a bank in terms of payments sent, acknowledgments received and approval workflows before payments....

Einführung In diesem Blogpost möchte ich auf die Fragestellung “Wie man Qualität in SAP S/4HANA Projekten messbar macht” eingehen. Für die Dimension Qualität existiert keine Einheit wie Beispielsweise für  Zeit (Jahre, Monate, Tage, Stunden, Minuten, Sekunden), Kosten ($, €, £, etc.) oder den Leistungsumfang (definierte Lieferobjekte, Funktionen, Prozesse). Es ist daher umso schwieriger, die Dimension Qualität messbar....

This blog is to ensure that before and after integrating any open content network with LMS,the end-user and client gets the best experience possible 1) Course getting completed on launch If In LMS OPEN CONTENT NETWORK settings, the default value for defaultValues.markCompleteOnLaunch[default] is true, then when you import OCN courses without changing the default value, the result will....

Companies that adopt appropriate employee well-being strategies innovate better than those that don’t From February this year, a new law will take effect in Belgium that will hand government employees the right to ignore calls from their bosses after designated work hours. Called the ‘right to disconnect’, the new rule is meant to protect government employees from....

Hello EC Time Community, Hope you had a great start to the New Year 2022. I get mesmerized every time I see a new solution realized with the capabilities of SAP SuccessFactors Time Management together with the SAP SuccessFactors platform tools like Integration Center, Metadata Framework, Intelligent Services and many more 😊. This blog post is....

The Project System is used by a vast number of SAP customers, for a wide variety of purposes. With the move from SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA, many things are changing, and much of the Project System scope is on the compatibility pack matrix. This call outlines these changes for project control functionalities, also giving....

Lock Box implementation for unique customer use case Objective: This Article explains the implementation and use case of Lockbox functionality Business need for implementing Lockbox for incoming check payments   Elimination of manual scanning and manual processing of incoming checks resulting in processing error and delay   Manual reversal of dis-honored or voided checks is....

皆様、こんにちは ここでは、OAuth認証を使ってSAP SuccessFactorsのAPIをテスト実行するための設定について紹介しています 記述にあたり、こちらのSAPの技術文書を参考にしていますので、興味がある方はこちらも合わせて御覧ください 2800150 – How to test OAuth authentication via Postman – SuccessFactors Integrations   その他に、SAPのヘルプポータルにもOAuth認証による接続設定の記載があります 実プロジェクトでご利用を検討されている方は、こちらもご覧頂き、詳細をご確認頂ければ幸いです https://help.sap.com/viewer/d599f15995d348a1b45ba5603e2aba9b/LATEST/en-US/8fa17bb328194e25b742a181da640755.html   【概要】 おおまかなステップです ① SAP SuccessFactors上で「OAuth2 クライアントアプリケーション」を登録 （この環境にアクセスするためのAPIキー、秘密鍵、X.509 証明書を定義します） ↓ ② POSTMAN上で、SAMLアサーションを取得します （①で定義したAPIキーと秘密鍵を使い、SAMLアサーションを取得します） ↓ ③ POSTMAN上で、アクセストークンを取得します （②で取得したSAMLアサーションを用いて、アクセストークンを取得します） ↓ ④ POSTMANから、ユーザー情報をGETするAPIを実行します （③で取得したアクセストークンを使い、APIを実行します）   【手順：① SAP SuccessFactors上で「OAuth2 クライアントアプリケーション」を登録】 それでは、順にスクリーンショットを用いて手順を紹介します   メニュー：管理センター＞OAuth2クライアントアプリケーションの管理 クライアントアプリケーションの登録ボタンをクリックします   アプリケーション名：Oauth 説明：任意 アプリケーションURL：https://localhost/ を入力し、X.509証明書を作成ボタンをクリックします   X.509証明書の設定画面が表示されます Common Name：SF を入力し生成ボタンをクリックします   X.509証明書が生成された画面が表示されます ダウンロードボタンをクリックし、.pemファイルを取得します....

In this blog post, you will learn to trigger a SAP BTP Workflow from a SAP Event Mesh Service using a nodejs app. SAP Event Mesh is a fully managed cloud service that allows applications to communicate through asynchronous events. More details of SAP Event Mesh service can be found in the below link – https://discovery-center.cloud.sap/serviceCatalog/event-mesh?region=all....

Automating and improving financial processes, including unifying disparate data from 24 dealers As the exclusive retailer of Mercedes-Benz luxury vehicles in Hong Kong and Macau, and with operations expanding into Southern and Western China, Zung Fu Motors (China) Limited needs smooth, efficient internal processes. But Zung Fu’s finance team was burdened with thousands of manual and redundant....

The more data we have, the more we can do with it. That’s why it is crucial to collect as much information as possible and analyze it properly so that we know what steps to take next. In this blog post we are going to talk about the benefits of external data on the recently launched data marketplace....

This blog post is part of a series where we will be looking at a few simple use cases and basics when using SAP BW bridge for Data Warehouse Cloud. The purpose of this series is for you to have a walkthrough of how SAP BW bridge, SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, and SAP Analytics Cloud can work together. In Part 1,....

We’ve recently had a requirement to set base64 PDF to PDF attachment in message mapping. When looking online for an existing UDF to set PDF attachment in message mapping, most UDF’s found were using JAVA mapping or were created for other requirements (for example changing PDF filename when using sender file adapter). This UDF is....

Introduction Hello fellow ABAPers, have you ever encountered the situation where it might be helpful to monitor running batch jobs via ABAP-Reports (e.g. to get noticed automatically via email when a job fails)? I want to share some basic ideas/snippets on this topic with the following blog post. Snippets It is quite “simple” to retrieve....

Docs for the SAP repserver cover: Upgrading the repserver by overwriting an existing directory Upgrading the repserver by installing to a new directory Upgrading the whole repserver at once by calling the repserver executable with the “-upgr” option (aka the “one step” method) Upgrading the repserver using rs_init to upgrade the RSSD and all the....

I am a bit new to SAP Cloud Integration and I started learning and working on SAP Cloud Integration to integrate Ariba Sourcing via Ariba Network Quote Automation with non SAP ERP. Initially, I tried to do a lot of research on Ariba adapter provided by SAP but I gave up when I came to....

Denken Sie über Ihren Weg zu SAP S/4HANA nach? Möchten Sie wissen, ob es Showstopper für Sie gibt und wie Sie damit umgehen können? Möchten Sie einen personalisierten Bericht über die Änderungen vom SAP ECC 6.0 zu SAP S/4HANA haben, den technische und Business User diskutieren können? Hätten Sie gern deutschsprachiges Training zu diesem Bericht? Der SAP Readiness Check for SAP S/4HANA bietet Ihnen....

I hope you had a pleasant start to 2022 😊 I would again like to share my learning from a challenge which I recently encountered while implementing a RAP based SAP Fiori Elements application for our customer, and the respective solution, using which I could overcome the challenge. Problem Statement: We wanted to create a RAP....

SAP Introduced new functionality from BW 7.4 on HANA where we can generate HANA view directly from B4HANA and BW on HANA application during BW object activation, The external HANA view enables to create scenarios where data, which is modeled in the BW system, are merged with data modeled in SAP HANA with SAP HANA....

The SAP community with 3 million users represents a full range of SAP customers, partners, developers, mentors, champions, and the Next-Gen of professionals. The community celebrates knowledge, insights, and expertise. A fun and visible part is the recognition of SAP Innovation Awards participation by way of reputation badges which recognize the achievements of participants, finalists, honorable mentions, and winners. Advantages of....

This is a new year, and this is time to deliver some new contents for Focused Insgihts for SAP Solution Manager 7.2. SP09 brings some new functions to the already well known dashboards suite.   New Launchpad feature for SAP Note correction. Following the introduction in SP08 of a new process to deliverer correction note,....

This is Part 6 in the series on the migration of SAP Plant Maintenance data from SAP ERP Central Component (ECC) to SAP S/4HANA® Cloud. It has been a challenging time and being able to get back to writing some more Blog Posts is a welcomed time. Personally, I have been very busy helping Customers....

SAP Business Application Studio increases developer productivity and provides a simplified development experience tailored to the needs of citizen developers. This blog post demonstrates how to quick create an app by SAP Business Application Studio. What you will learn ⭐ Create low code app in SAP Business Application Studio ⭐ Simplified build application modeling experience based on....

If employees are the key asset of any organization, then Human Resources (HR) is the most important process within the company as it looks after them! Many Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) programs that I have encountered over the years though, focus primarily on the Finance and IT processes and HR sometimes creates their own....

Shenzhen Linglue Numerical Control Equipment Co. Ltd. is part of Guangdon Lingyi iTECH Manufacturing Corporation (LY iTECH), a global precision manufacturer that provides “one-stop” intelligent precision solutions such as magnetic materials and precision components, modules, and structural parts. from SAP Image Library LY iTECH wanted to automate manual operations and data imports to increase efficiency and reduce....

You might know this blog post for setting up Principal Propagation in an HTTPS Scenario to ABAP – in my blog post some extended information is going to be collected and new features are explained which try to ease the configuration process. It will be continuously updated. Things to take care of Certificate Version and CA Flag....

Dear Readers, Linear Asset Management is very popular in Industry’s like railways, roadways, utilities , Oil and Gas where lot of assets are in linear positions , it is used to track the vehicle usage, fuel consumption etc. I am trying to explain the detail steps tp configure Linear asset management , I hope the....

This blog post is on regarding how to develop SAP Fiori Elements (List Report Page/Object Page) with cap in visual studio. Introduction: The SAP Cloud Application Programming model (CAP) is a framework of languages, libraries, and tools for building enterprise-grade services and applications. A CAP application commonly provides services defined in CDS models and served by the CAP run times. SAP capm support to....

 Introduction  This article is intended to provide a quick overview of the finance functions specific to Japan which are available as part of Country Version. This will be useful for consultants who are analyzing the benefits of using the country version Japan in order to set up the local business and legal requirements of companies....

本文主要收集了2021年11月-2022年01月期间与财务相关的常见问题，问题按照业务线分为固定资产、应收应付、总账和成本。您可以点击下方目录链接查看到相关问题。 Contents 总账… 2 问题1：哪个 CDS view ，能读到APP资产负债表/损益表 多维度分析表 读取的数据？… 2 问题2：客户第一次经历独自年结，希望可以分享各模块余额结转和账期结转的最佳实践案例FICO、MM、SD、PP各模块是否都有年结相关流程。… 2 问题3：重分类应收、应付科目的SSCUI在什么地方？… 2 问题 4：如何在损益表里提现销售费用-折旧费用，管理费用-折旧费用和财务费用-折旧费用？… 2 问题 5 ：显示总账行项目中： 1.如何快速区分哪些是冲销凭证 ，哪些是正常入账凭证… 6 问题 6 ：在填制分录发现错误后，能否直接在原凭证上修改而不是冲销原凭证… 6 问题 7：如何优化查询供应商应付账款-应付暂估科目余额采购明细，现在无法快速查找… 7 应收应付… 7 问题1： 使用APP:管理供应商行项目，只能查看供应商实时余额，如何查看供应商历史余额？… 7 问题2：我们现在使用的是月末手工清，有个APP叫-清算未清项目（自动清账），如何实现自动清账呢？… 7 问题 3：请问激活收货/收发票 (GR/IR) 清账科目允许扩展的未清项目管理,有条目的上限限制吗？… 7 问题 4：每季度需要发对账函与供应商对账，需要手动导出数据出来，自制对账函，请问是否有简洁方式？… 8 固定资产… 9 问题1：固定资产折旧有没有每个月自动提折旧的方法？… 9 问题2：我有一个资产，直接报废了，现在发现 报销错了，需要取消掉，恢复激活,是 直接报废 通过报废 的那个，0....

The upgrades to 2202 will start this week. So it is time again to provide you with the latest update on the Custom CDS Views app again. [Updated February 8th with the new Value Help Scenario] [TLDR] Here is the brief summary of the most important news: Custom CDS Views can now be translated now....

In my previous blog, [SAP BTP Onboarding Series] SAP BTP Cockpit – Global Account Technical Overview, I provided you with an overview of the BTP Cockpit features and structure. In this blog post, I’m going to dig deeper into the topic of Directories. Specifically, Entitlements and User Management at the directory level.  Before introducing directories at....

Introduction This blog is a part of “Document Extraction with SAP Intelligent RPA” series. With the smart document extraction capabilities in SAP Intelligent Robotic Process Automation powered by Document Information Extraction service (an SAP AI Business Hub service), information can be extracted from business documents (such as Invoice, Purchase Order, Payment Advice) using Pre-Trained AI....

Hi everyone! If you have been using the On Premise version of SAP Profitability and Performance Management or is knowledgeable about the solution, then you might be familiar already to My Events application or screen wherein users can look at the error event messages that occurred during execution of activities, define temporary or permanent correction overlays for....

Sending your email campaigns to good data is one major cornerstone to build the foundation of a successful email marketing – and you can directly influence it. But acquiring high-value contacts and keeping your email list clean is not always straightforward. In this article I will provide you with measures you can undertake to allow....

The SAP Mentor Spotlight Interview Series highlights key strategic topics, such as emerging technologies, learning, and other topics, and provides insights from Mentors and SAP leaders on turning ideas into innovative approaches that impact people, process, and technology. Mindfulness and meditation can help organizations and teams around the globe. With digital transformation, challenging customer requirements, and an....

The Rework feature in purchase requisitions provides approvers with an option to send back  requisitions to requestors for rework. Requestors can then make the required changes in the requisition and resubmit. This blog post briefly outlines the various configurations and steps involved in the rework process of a purchase requisition. Let us now see an example of....

Purpose Our goal is to create and deploy a sample project using CAP, multitenancy and postgreSQL to SAP Cloud Foundry environment (BTP). However, getting the lego pieces of several different development frameworks can sometimes be tricky. Let’s  take a quick look at the three frameworks we’ll be combining in our sample project. The Cloud Application Programming....

This post will guide you through the steps to connect your SAP Cloud for Real Estate API published by the SAP API Business Hub for Cloud for Real Estate to your SAP Cloud for Real Estate standard content available in SAP Data Warehouse Cloud via SAP Data Intelligence Cloud. ****************************************************************************************************** As long as SAP Data Warehouse Cloud does not support....

Hello SAP Community! I am Razia, SAP SuccessFactors Product Support Engineer for Employee Central Module and working with SAP for 7 years. I have been providing Customer Support in Hi-tech and travel industry. In this blog we will see steps along with screenshots, regarding ‘how to enable 3 fields related to pay component recurring in....

My blog post, also published on Forbes, is about Chinese New Year (CNY). CNY is also referred to as Lunar New Year or Spring Festival, and it is one of the most significant Chinese celebrations and creates the biggest annual mass migration in the world. As a result, CNY is a ferocious disruptor of the Chinese and....

This blog will tell you how a replenishment scenario will work smoothly by using SAP IoT. Before going into details, Please watch the SAP IoT-enabled Replenishment video on Youtube to get a better high-level overview on what exactly this scenario is about. SAP IoT-enabled Replenishment IoT-enabled replenishment helps connecting digital and physical world by using IoT devices.....

Integration is usually the roadblock where every promising business transformation initiative stumbles sooner or later, usually leading to higher complexity and effort and lower quality, agility and reliability. In my view, this is often due to the fact integration is misunderstood as a “bottom-up” technology topic, rather than as one of the key pillars of....

Background/ Business Use Case Many customers have a need to withdraw material directly from the supplier owned consignment stock against a Production Order. Production BOM (Bill of Material) has one or multiple components which are externally procured and withdrawn/consumed using the Consignment Process. Consignment inventory is a supply chain management strategy that nurtures supplier collaboration/....

Dear finance experts, with the latest incremental release of SAP S/4HANA Cloud for advanced financial closing on January 23, 2022, the access management abilities of the solution were massively enhanced. Background of this update Segregation of duties is a central requirement when it comes to authorization control. It ensures that an individual user doesn’t have the authorization to execute....

Introduction: Enabling Draft is most common feature in current projects irrespective of Managed/Unmanaged scenario in fiori applications. In short, lets see what the draft is. Draft-enabled applications allow the end user to store changed data in the backend and continue at a later point in time or from a different device, even if the application....

In this recording we look at how to remove the built-in assignment proration in Variable Pay through additional custom fields in the employee history. The recording also provides a demo of how to mass edit existing Employee Central employee history records through CSV. The excel spreadsheet to simulate the proration impact that I show in....

Bem-vindo ao SAP Learning Latin America!!! Este conteúdo é para todos os usuários da América Latina que desejam acelerar seu aprendizado e conhecer as opções de treinamento SAP. Vamos manter você atualizado com novidades, links, jornadas de aprendizado, certificações e notícias mais recentes. Para iniciar nosso blog, apresentamos as ofertas de soluções de aprendizado SAP:....

Introduction Outside in the crazy tech world, tech behemoths release new gadgets every day with varying specifications, variants, and increased innovation. Oh, wait! I overlooked “With Different Screen Sizes,” which is exactly what this blog is about.  The Dashboard or Report we create should adapt to different screen sizes from big computer Monitors to Newly....

Implementing Fiori apps is to get more value out of SAP S/4HANA business innovations and analytics. Best way to start S4 Hana implementation is define UI/UX strategy with Fiori in early stage of project during discover, prepare explore. It is at this moment, when talking about SAP delivers SAP Fiori application under new and renew,....

We are happy to announce the first release of SAP Complaint Handling on Nov 14th 2021. In this post we would provide an introduction to SAP Complaint Handling and its key features. Background: Complaints have always been multi-dimensional. Ask any customers and/or end-users, you will soon realize that complaints are perceived from various lenses what....

It is a new year and with a new year follows our very new SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2202 release. As always, we bring a large variety of new innovations to our valued cloud customers. These innovations will support your intelligent enterprise and help you to run your business better every day. In this blog post,....

During support situations for SAP NetWeaver or S/4 HANA based systems, you might often be asked to upgrade the executables of your system (often called “SAP kernel”) to a current release. But which version is running in your system? Here are several methods to determine the version of an SAP executable: 1. Using SAPMMC 2.....

Looking for self-hosted Fiori Launchpad guidance instead? Have a look at the second post of the series. Dear community, Integrating SAP PaaS services from Business Technology Platform (BTP) into other portal environments is still en vogue nowadays. So, here goes a short guide how to make it happen with SAP Cloud Portal (same for Launchpad service) and Microsoft Teams as....

SAPUI5 Flexibility supports the easy extension of SAP delivered apps ensuring that the adapted application (called Application Variant) will be compatible with future updates provided by SAP. A variant is semantically a new application with an own id, which technically is comprised of the extended application resources and the changes created as part of adaptation project.....

Introduction With SAP Data Intelligence release 2110  a new set of operators have been introduced: The generation 2 operators. It is more a leap than a next step that includes not only new features but the fundamental design has also changed. This is a first release of these new type of operators therefore not all properties of....

Co-Author: Anil Kumar Wish you a very happy new year 2022!! We are back in 2022 to update you on what’s new in Two-Tier ERP with SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2202 Release. If you missed our innovations in 2021, click here for a recap. Predictive Maintenance with Service Integration With our first scenario innovation, we see how headquarter....

Overview This blog post is part of a series where we will be looking at a few simple use cases and basics when using SAP BW bridge for Data Warehouse Cloud. The purpose of this series is for you to have a walkthrough of how SAP BW bridge, SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, and SAP Analytics Cloud can work together. In Part....

Business agility is more important than ever as the pace of change accelerates. Companies need to minimize the time they spend on system upgrades and software updates, so they can focus on innovation that benefits their customers. SAPUI5 flexibility provides the capability to extend an SAP Fiori app in the UI layer modification-free, i.e. without risking....

Introduction Some customer facing unexpected behavior by using the Enterprise Search in Solution Documentation. Such behavior may caused by misoperation and can be solved easily. In this blog a few scenarios will be listed to help them solve the problem quickly instead of waiting for the service support. List of scenarios Different user with identical....

How could a year start better? Directly at the beginning Focused Build SP9 is released where SAP spent a lot of time in developing functions and features which have been requested by our customers in the Customer Connection Program 2021. We asked for Improvement Requests in the areas of Process Management, Test Suite and Change....

Intro Change enablement and deployment orchestration is still a key to keep the production environment stable and reliable. In SAP Cloud ALM software changes can be managed via features. The business transaction feature holds the change documentation together with the change containers – mainly transport requests. In this blog post you will learn more about....

We’re rolling out a number of new features to SAP Cloud ALM Tasks and Requirements. One important feature you should know about is that we have made deleting items (Tasks, Sub-Tasks, User Stories, Requirements) into a two step approach. You must first set a Task/Requirement/User Story to obsolete before you may delete it. You’ll see....

Undisputed: Electric vehicles are enjoying growing popularity. In Germany alone, almost one million1 electrically operated cars are now running. In the first half of 2021, 312,000 pure electric cars and plug-in hybrids were approved2. The demand for the appropriate charging infrastructure is correspondingly strong. However, it is precisely here that the number of public charging points....

Introduction The Group Financial Statement Review Booklet is first of all a new Fiori application for group accountants to achieve more transparency into group financial statements. …in addition, it is also a new type of application and approach, which combines application guidance with integrated insights enabled by UI5 components contributed by SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC).  ....

Introduction The Group Financial Statement Review Booklet is first of all a new Fiori application for group accountants to achieve more transparency into group financial statements. …in addition, it is also a new type of application and approach, which combines application guidance with integrated insights enabled by UI5 components contributed by SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC).  ....

Did you know that in Europe, there are more than 600,000 calls per year to poison centres for medical advice regarding contact with dangerous chemicals or products? Most of these calls are because children have gotten a product or substance in their mouth, nose, eyes, etc. Quick identification is key to a proper response, and....

As we do every  second week, the SAP Cloud ALM team has released a number of new features today (Wednesday, January 26 2022). I’ll give a brief outline of the new features for the Projects, Tasks, and Requirements apps here. Important! You May Now only Delete Tasks, User Stories, and Requirements if You First Set....

Here are the three Industry Cloud Content (Articles/ News Items) from last week.- some are from the community. Introducing SAP Complaint Handling Excerpts: Complaints have always been multi-dimensional. Ask any customers and/or end-users, you will soon realize that complaints are perceived from various lenses what type of complaint (E.g. Pricing, quality) or process (e.g. Customer complaint)....

Welcome to release SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2202. In the following please find a number of selected highlights in group reporting, accounting and financial close as well as treasury management including business benefits, capabilities and demos.    Video 1: Release Video for Finance in SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2202   Advanced Valuation Processes Period-end closing is a....

Hello ALM Community! SAP Solution Manager 7.2 development continues apace, and SAP continues to rely to your collaborative innovation requests from the 2021 Customer Connection program to improve your user experience and enhance the platform’s value. As evidence of these ongoing developments, Support Package Stack 14 is now available to apply to your system. Last Fall, we....

Medius is a software that has an add-on to SAP.   My company uses it to process invoice complete with PO look up, goods receipt, checking for duplicates and more.  This article focuses on how easy it is to do the integration with them. *****  Disclaimer  *** As usual this reflects my opinion.   It is not....

You might have seen that SAP just recently released the first version of SAP HANA Database Explorer as a Visual Studio Code Extension.  You can get that extension here: SAP HANA Database Explorer – Visual Studio Marketplace SAP HANA DB Explorer in VSCode Marketplace For those of us that do a lot of local development in....

Today, January 26, 2022, is SAP Cloud ALM feature delivery day. I posted previously summarizing these new features. Here, I want to post in some detail about a nice new personalization feature: marking items in the Tasks and Requirements lists as favorites. Mark Items As Favorites: They’re Yours, and Yours Alone You may have already noticed....

Since COP26 commitments to systemic change mean that net zero is now an organizing principle for business.  Additionally scrutiny of worker treatment exemplified by the German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act whose principles are likely to be placed on an EU footing – the German Act itself comes into force in January 2023 – is a key focus area.....

Wordle has taken to world by storm since it became public in October 2021 and many of us are hooked on the daily challenge. What is wordle Wordle is a web-based word game developed by Josh Wardle, a programmer who previously created the social experiments Place and The Button for Reddit. Players attempt to guess....

We are pleased to announce the availability of the updates to SAP Activate for SAP S/4HANA Cloud and pre-configuration content in SAP Best Practices Explorer (BPX). This release delivers many updates to the ready-to-run business processes, methodology guidance and the SAP Cloud ALM capabilities that our customers can leverage in their SAP S/4HANA Cloud projects.....

Introduction The Business Application Log (BAL) is a tool widely used by many applications. It offers nice functionality for enhancements and adaptation. For the PMMO application we made extensive use of these capabilities. Transaction SLG1 This is the standard transaction for displaying application logs. Initial Screen of Transaction SLG1 For the PMMO application, the following....

Since returning from maternity leave and slipping back into the business world, sustainability has been a hot topic on everyone’s agenda. Don’t get me wrong, I like the idea of sustainable business practices, sustainable purchases, and being simply more thoughtful about our impact on our environment and wider community—but are we being true to ourselves....

Welcome to another edition of the release highlights blog for the SAP S/4HANA Cloud Test Automation Tool. As SAP S/4HANA Cloud moves towards delivering frequent innovations via the continuous delivery for SAP S/4HANA Cloud, test automation and its corresponding processes also need to evolve. With the 2202 release customers have greater flexibility in Post Upgrade Tests(PUT) to create their....

A CDS entity buffer temporarily caches the data retrieved from a CDS view entity into the shared memory of the current AS ABAP instance. Starting with the following ABAP releases, buffering of CDS view entities is supported: SAP BTP, ABAP Environment 2202 ABAP platform cloud 2202 This new object type (R3TR/DTEB) marks the last step towards feature....

Intro I am an Analytics & Insights Consultant at SAP with a passion for coding. In this case presentation I will show you how we built a Email Notification Solution within SAP Data Warehouse Cloud. A special Thanks to @Hannes Keil who came up with this idea and helped implementing it. Content About this solution Prerequisites Setup....

Introduction A customer of mine came up with the question, if we could do some variance reporting on the SAC in the context of line charts. Though there are settings which allow for variance reporting with line charts, they add another bar chart below the actual line chart, which then provides the positive or negative....

本文主要收集了与集成扩展相关的常见问题(2021年4月 – 2021年6月)，按照主要问询对象API，CDS View，CPI，自定义字段和逻辑以及集成相关对常见问题进行了大致的分类。每一类对象下又进行了问题性质的分类，例如：功能缺失，操作和实施以及配置相关问题等。客户可以点击下方链接查看到相关问题。   Contents API 功能缺失相关问题 操作和实施相关问题 配置相关问题 CPI  操作和实施相关问题 CDS View 操作和实施相关问题 自定义字段和逻辑 操作和实施相关问题 功能缺失相关问题 集成相关 操作和实施相关问题     API 功能缺失相关问题 问题：SAP在前台操作可实现生产订单收货，UD拒绝时，需要把货物放到冻结库房（不能直接退回到生产订单），但在与MES做对接，UD需要通过API来实现，目前SAP标准的API接口未找到UD拒绝的收货直接放置到冻结库。API API_INSPECTIONLOT_SRV没有字段blocked stock。 解答：当前该API不支持，需要到Customer Influence Portal提交新的request。   问题：在更改OData API API_PRODUCTION_ORDER_2_SRV里的BASICSCHEDULINGTYPE时显示错误消息不允许。 解答：字段BASICSCHEDULINGTYPE在API里面是只读的，需要到Customer Influence Portal提交新的request。   问题：使用API API_PRODUCTION_ROUTING做component allocation，但是只是first level component成功了，其他level的component都失败了。 解答：API API_PRODUCTION_ROUTING只支持first level component的component allocation，不支持multiple level components。   问题：使用API “API Journal Entry....

Introduction Our SAP power users use Microsoft Teams as their primary communication platform. As the SAP design team, we wanted to enable them to request SAP master data changes using Teams. This would not only enable them to initiate the required changes at any time, but it would also eliminate the need for a separate....

Support for Custom Document Types Two new configurations Define Document Types for Purchase Requisitions and Define Number Ranges for Purchase Requisitions are available in the Manage Your Solution app under Configure Your Solution > Sourcing and Procurement > Operational Procurement > Requirements Processing. These configurations enable you as a configuration expert to do the following: Check and copy existing document types for....

A few weeks ago we concluded our Customer Connection project SAP for Utilities on-premise 2021. Once more SAP development has delivered numerous enhancements based on your suggestions we collected earlier in 2021 related to IS-U device management, meter reading, AMI, billing and invoicing. We shared details at our delivery call webinars that took place at 15....

Latest Update: For detailed info, please check out our latest SAP Unlocking Value Paper for Sport Analytics The Super Bowl has been around since 1967 and is definitely one the most exciting events worldwide so whether you’re in it for the game or the commercials, you are not alone. With the ongoing pandemic, although people might....

Note. Image made on Canva. Background image by DATA UNIT AG. (https://www.dataunit.ch/digitale-transformation-in-der-technologiebranche-herausforderungen-trends-2022/) During this Corona crisis, technological change is increasing in all sectors. Which technological trends will be relevant in 2022 and what does that mean for the industry? Artificial Intelligence: AI Edge & End-to-End Automation Artificial intelligence is one of the fastest growing branches....

In this three-part series I outline and demonstrate an approach to help newcomers get started more quickly with our tutorials, by describing and providing an environment with all the prerequisite tools installed ready to go. This is part one, where I describe the challenge and the base solution I’m going to go with. See also....

Overview: This blog will help to create/change the hierarchy assignment to respective MDG objects. Here we will be focussing on how to create the  assignment of cost center to cost center group and cost center hierarchy through a program in MDG. Prerequisite: Cost center hierarchy assignment change request type should be configured. Necessary authorizations should....

As a business application developer, you need to ensure that your apps run with optimal performance. While this holds for all types of applications, in this blog post I am specifically looking at web apps, and in particular I am focusing on SAP S/4HANA applications using web-based access. Your app’s users demand short end-to-end response times to....

Introduction: In this blog post, I will highlight the role of Machine learning in the current competitive environment and how ML is helping enterprises to respond to customers, competitors, regulators, and partners faster than their peers in transforming them as intelligent enterprises. According to Gartner (2020), 69% of routine work currently done by managers will....

Manufactured goods such as consumer products, processed food items, cars and phones are produced in batches and have high degrees of traceability back to the factory they were made it – often with bar or QR codes that identify the exact date of manufacture and link to other interesting information. But what about the raw....

With the launch of the Business View in June 2021, with which SAP showcases the strategic evolution pillars for the main product areas, the SAP Road Map Explorer is now allowing users to deep dive even further into the priorities of a particular product or area. These views highlighting the road map priorities are now....

(Scroll down to read this blog post in English)   Olá pessoal, Chegaram algumas dúvidas sobre o cálculo da tributação de IRRF referente ao abono pecuniário de férias e o valor de 1/3 (um terço) constitucional, bem como a configuração necessária para sua realização. Portanto, nesse blog post você encontra as seguintes informações: Resumo sobre....

The easiest way to get data into SAP Data Warehouse Cloud is to setup a connection to your data sources and retrieve the data from there. Though this is certainly the most common scenario, there are a few other interesting options on data ingestion covering different use cases, which I want to highlight in the....

Interested in getting certified as SAP Certified Associate for SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) solutions? In this post, you will find an overview with video tutorial embedded about how to prepare and pass the exam(s). For the articles about the video tutorial series, see Get Certified – SAP Extension Suite Get Certified – SAP....

Introduction : Since all the new SAP Developments are moving towards RAP(Restful ABAP Programming) based model there could be multiple requirements to hide some of the Facets in the Fiori List Report based object page based using complex dynamic conditions. Solution : As there could be complex conditions for multiple tabs which will be displayed....

In this blog post you can learn, which configuration is required if you want to protect objects, which are generated during integration flow deployment. Imagine following situation. As a rule you configure your PI using integration flows and made your changes in the Integration Designer. When an integration flow is deployed an integrated configuration and,....

Links to other blogs post in this series – Excel Upload using RAP: Part – 1 Excel Upload using RAP: Part – 2 Excel Upload using RAP: Part – 3 Introduction In continuous to the previous blog post (Excel Upload using RAP: Part -1 | SAP Blogs), where I have discussed about the creation of....

This blog post gives an example for an eventing scenario which includes a multitenant application. It runs on SAP Business Technology Platform, Cloud Foundry environment and uses SAP Event Mesh. This is not an official reference application, it is just some sample code to help you in quickly setting up your project. Quicklinks: Quick Guide Sample Code Introduction....

Realizing the full value of your SAP SuccessFactors investment requires a focus on application lifecycle management (ALM). SAP Cloud ALM is our application lifecycle management offering for cloud-centric customers. SAP Cloud ALM for SAP SuccessFactors: Delivers a self-guided and content-driven implementation workspace based on SAP Activate Supplies operational monitoring for business processes and integrations to minimize disruptions Is included with....

Last Changed: 05th of April 2022 while the Installation and (Basis) Configuration of SolMan 7.2 is really a complex task, it shows that the correct Implementation of the Diagnostic Agent become an even more complex task. Blog – SAP MacGyver – Installing SAP SolMan 7.2 Install and connect the SAP Diagnostic Agent properly It is always....

OpenSAP Apple Spotify Google In dieser Podcast Ausgabe spreche ich mit Tobias Müller-Zielke, GTD Trainer und Coach, über Getting Things Done und die 6 Fokushorizonte zur Planung des Jahres und des ganzen Lebens.   Was ist GTD und was sind die sechs Fokushorizonte? GTD ist eine Selbstmanagementmethode, die zu einer besseren Umsetzung von Projekten oder....

SAP S/4HANA Cloud is a complete enterprise resource planning (ERP) system that allows you to run your business in a world where the pace of change continues to accelerate. To complement the intelligent technologies and broad set of business processes, we have introduced a new way to adapt classic applications with SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2022.....

In a recent webinar hosted by APOS, SAP’s Eric Fenollosa gave us an update on SAP BusinessObjects 4.3, the SAP BusinessObjects Private Cloud Edition (PCE), and the road ahead. You can watch this webinar in its entirety on demand. At the end of this webinar, APOS COO Allan Pym introduces the APOS PCE Adoption Kit, which can help you achieve....

Concento Rapid Data Governance (RDG) is an add-on tool that is based on the SAP ui5 Cloud application. SAP Cloud platform technology is leveraged to design RDG which makes it possible to do the customizing and enhancements using the Standard APIs. RDG is designed to reduce and automate the number of technical configuration steps required for....

A new year brings with it personal and professional assessments of objectives for the coming 12 months.  Those initial efforts also result in identifying key metrics to track achievement related to those objectives.  Here in 2022, SAP Procurement seeks to provide paths to success in Intelligent Spend and Business Network efforts for our customers.  This....

It is a very simple but tricky to find out the reason.   Let’s assume you have an account dimension and it has a member that has a dimension formula  (member A * member B). The account type of Member A and Member B is ‘NFIN’ (Non Financial). When account members are defined as ‘NFIN’,....

Overview This blog post is part of a series where we will be looking at a few simple use cases and basics when using SAP BW bridge for Data Warehouse Cloud. The purpose of this series is for you to have a walkthrough of how SAP BW bridge, SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, and SAP Analytics Cloud can work together. In Part....

With its history deeply ingrained in sports heritage as the exclusive supplier of on-field caps for Major League Baseball, New Era Cap Company Inc. is a leading provider of athletic headwear and sports accessories. Founded in 1920, New Era was initially set up as a wholesale business using a business-to-business (B2B) model to sell its....

Overview This blog post is part of a series where we will be looking at integrating data from Twitter with SAP Analytics Cloud. In this installment, we have a full walkthrough of How we are able to set up specific search criteria from Twitter, How we are able to save this data, How to use this data for stories....

Happy New Year! Welcome to the January 2022 Edition of our SAP Analytics Cloud Community Monthly News. We hope to bring the latest product updates, top user content, helpful resources, and more to the attention of our community. What’s in the Spotlight? Sneak Peek into SAP Analytics Cloud release for Q1 2022 SAP Analytics Cloud....

Purpose Purpose of this blogpost is to provide overview on the Consolidation of Investment (COI) in SAP S/4HANA Finance for group reporting solution. SAP S/4HANA Finance for group reporting supports below approaches for COI Rule Based Consolidation Activity Based Consolidation (supported from 1909 release) In this blogpost we shall understand more on the Activity based consolidation....

Agenda Slides & Recordings (Day 1, Day 2, Consumer & Retail Industries BR, Automotive and Industrial Manufacturing Industry BR, Utilities and High-Tech Industries BR, Oil & Gas Industries BR) Dear Valued Customer, On April 5-6, 2022, we hosted a 2-Day virtual SAP MaxAttention Innovation workshop covering Industry Innovation topics such as Industry Cloud, Industry 4. Now, and Sustainability Management. The speakers....

In this three-part series I outline and demonstrate an approach to help newcomers get started more quickly with our tutorials, by describing and providing an environment with all the prerequisite tools installed ready to go. This is part two, where I add the tutorial prerequisite detail to the Dockerfile I created in part one, and....

  Slides The showcase and design-review slides from Philip, Akin and Kai can be downloaded here: Showcase SAP Fiori Makers Strategic Talent Development @ BSH – Showcase from Dr Philip Meyer and Akin Aritmac Review SAP Fiori Makers Strategic Talent Development @ BSH – Rreview by Kai Richter   Content In this SAP Fiori Makers....

Content Overview Preface Live Connection One User Experience & Seamless Navigation Master Data Currency Conversion Multi-Language Support Time Features Hierarchies Input Parameters & Story Filters Geo-Visualization MS 365 Add-In Conclusion Overview SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP Data Warehouse Cloud are SAP’s strategic cloud solutions for Data Warehousing, Planning and Analytics. In a nutshell: SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) is unique....

As Junior Software Developers at Grupo Kyly , me and my colleagues Rian Gustavo Oestreich and Augusto Curt Hansen were assigned the job of creating a Fiori List Report on top of a standard view as part of our company’s project to migrate to SAP S/4 HANA Erp. As this is a topic that, despite being simple and well....

As we have been witnessing throughout the pandemic even more clearly, agility is critical for the customer success because of the transformation speed in industries. To ensure that our customers stay competitive in their respective industries and adapt the next practices in a fast and agile manner, it is foremost important for us to be....

Hello community!   In this blog post I will show you a simple way to separate merged data before you even download the spreadsheet. This way you don’t need to use formulas to split the cells anymore.   By default, the “Export to Spreadsheet” button is enabled in list report tables. In the object page,....

Introduction: This Blog will guide you how to define multiple receiver and Xpath routing condition in SAP PI/PO. Requirement: To send the data from a single source system to multiple target systems. Steps: This can be done by validating the input data from the payload (identifier to route the messages to respective target). First you....

In a quest to reduce interest rate manipulation & increase financial transparency, banks and regulators around the world have performed an overhaul of the benchmark interest rates used globally for financial transactions.  Corporations and financial institutions have in the past heavily relied upon LIBOR based credit lines, debt/investment contracts & derivatives.  As of January 1, 2022....

SAP DWC and SAC are cloud based embedded offerings coupled together on a single tenant provided by SAP for both Data Modelling and Reporting purpose respectively. In an hybrid structure the combination of both results a very tightly coupled and highly efficient reporting architecture. SAP DWC uses Smart Data Integration (SDI) and Smart Data Access....

Dear SCN, My name is George Drakos and I decided to write a blog about handling of TSV and CSV files. First we will see what TSV and CSV files really are and then we will develop code methods to convert these files. I would like to thank my colleague and dear friend Dimitris Valouxis for his support and....

When it comes to managing supply chains, “smooth” has long been the ideal state to achieve. Smooth is good. It’s predictable, even pleasant – like smooth sailing on a glassy ocean or skateboarding along a freshly paved road. But the global supply chain dynamics of today are anything but smooth. This has been true for....

Purpose Today the goal is to deploy our cds model to SQLlite, PostgreSQL docker and lastly to Postgres hosted on AWS RDS. Deploying to AWS is optional and doesn’t change our development pattern. However, a SaaS solution could not realistically support users or tenants until paired with a cloud postgres instance. Let’s get started, If....

About the Author I am a Product Owner for SAP PLM Process Industries, helping customers and defining requirements towards the development team.   Related blog posts Part 1 – Basic concept Part 2 – Layouts, per stream calculation, not maintained data and nutrients Part 3 – Composition, Cost, Intra-formula contribution calculations, losses Part 4 – Scaling, exporting, PO limits,....

Cloud Transport Management Service. SAP Cloud Transport Management Service lets you manage software deliverables between accounts of different environment. One can configure two or three system TMS landscape to import artifacts as well as their respective application specific content from source to target system. To automate transportation of integration content artifacts between integration tenants in....

As we know, while using an integration between SF Employee Central and SAP Employee Central Payroll the customers can face some “integration issues” due to standard validations that are made only at the ECP level, and not on EC (the core system). One of these cases is about the PIS (Social Integration Program), a very....

The way we work has changed, and priorities for businesses and employees are shifting. Now, more than ever, employees are demanding their voices be heard and that employers do what is best for them. And when these demands are not met, people are looking elsewhere. A recent Qualtrics study revealed half of leaders and employees plan to....

IBP MRO – Current State Capability and Direction Earlier in this blog, I shared how companies might consider their asset as a customer? Using SAP‘s latest innovations to predict, maintain and plan the spare parts inventory level. I shed the light on the global study we started with customers and my plan as I set industry....

Find here an overview of the SAP Enterprise Support Academy monthly newsletter on latest news, achievements, and educational offerings. The SAP Enterprise Support Academy provides expert guidance and high impact knowledge transfer services that enable you to innovate and be successful with SAP solutions, no matter your choice of deployment. Subscribe to regularly receive latest news and stay....

As the global lead for the topic of industry cloud for channel partners at SAP, I talk with a lot of people about SAP’s industry cloud. Since it is a relatively new concept, I often speak with people who hear about industry cloud for the first time and are struggling to understand the concept.  In....

It is always a pleasure to collaborate with SAP Partners. During recent second series of Hyperautomation webinar, I worked with an amazing team from IBM to show how IBM has leveraged SAP Extension Suite, and specifically SAP Workflow Management to reinvent industry workflows to increase customer experience.   During our session, we presented short technical implementation demos....

At SAP’s recent second series of Hyperautomation webinar, my colleagues and I were pleased to present information and a demo that showed some of SAP Workflow Management’s capabilities and pre-built content that can help accelerate your journey towards digitally automating and extending your Finance-related business processes. SAP Workflow Management is a cloud offering from SAP that helps you....

Are you an SAP S/4HANA Cloud customer and interested in learning more about the products and tools available to help you run effectively? If so, then I invite you to join our SAP experts to learn about SAP S/4HANA Cloud Embedded Analytics. Before you can access the links below, a one-time registration in the SAP....

To make it easier for you to better understand Embedded Analytics, we have added an Architecture Overview to the documentation. Here’s what it looks like: Architecture Overview of Embedded Analytics For more information, see Architecture Overview. You may have noticed that SAP S/4HANA Cloud offers a vast amount of analytical applications. And you may have wondered....

Introduction Every Project uses SPRO and sometimes it is benefecial to know the Maintenence View/Tcode behind the Configuration Item so that SAP Security can control it and also it helps for you to jot down the Tcode you are going to use.   Solution Go to Transaction Code SPRO Now select SAP Reference IMG Now....

MOTOR OIL, Corinth Refineries S.A. is an energy group based in Greece. It was founded in 1970 and its refinery in the region of Corinth counts among the top refineries in Europe. The company plays a leading role in crude oil refining and marketing of petroleum products in the country, as well as the greater....

Readers respond to images and other visuals far more quickly than the written word. They retain knowledge given through infographics for longer periods of time.  Images can also help reflect and reinforce brand ideals.  Whatever your reason, by the time you finish this article, you’ll have the tools you need to start engaging your learners....

In this blog post, I want to share an idea of how you can generate month-to-date (MTD), quarter-to-date (QTD), and year-to-date (YTD) values in SAP Data Warehouse Cloud. This is only one way, I think there are several other ways how you can solve this issue. I am happy to discuss your ideas in the....

This blog post provides an overview of key innovations in the 2201 Release of SAP Asset Intelligence Network. On January 23, 2022, we released exciting new SAP Asset Intelligence Network innovations for our customers. Let me share some of the key highlights from the SAP Asset Intelligence Network 2201 Release:- Latest Innovations – Data Federation....

Abstract: The Data Transition Validation (DTV) Tool is a new tool available for SAP S/4HANA conversion projects targeting S/4HANA 2021:  DTV allows the establishment of a project that spans the entire conversion process.  Within the DTV project specific reports can be identified and configured to capture key financial data before and after system conversion.  The....

Running an Operations Control Center (OCC) today, i.e. the management of hybrid system and solution landscapes, includes intelligent technology and processes. As previously outlined, the Operations Control Center addresses IT usecases and services such as Monitoring, Alerting, Reporting/Analytics, Dashboards/Telemetry, as well as efficient and effective Root Cause Analysis and Issue Resolution Procedures. The concept is tried and tested;....

This week, I participated in the EDA Summit series (link) where I had the opportunity to discuss how customers are approaching Event Driven Architectures to implement real-time business solutions. As part of this talk, I featured both Elkjøp, of Norway, and Natura & Co, of Brazil, as examples of multi-national companies seeking to improve their overall customer....

Introduction: A quick step by step guide to setup new feature Idempotent Process Call in Cloud Integration (Cloud Foundry Environment). The Idempotent Process call can be used to achieve Exactly once scenario on Cloud integration using a unique identifier set as message ID. It detects if a message ID(unique Identifier) has already been successfully processed....

A few weeks ago Riley Rainey announced that the annual SAP Developer Insights Survey was live. The 2022 SAP Developer Insights Survey is Live | SAP Blogs.  In this previous post he also shares the link to report produced from last year’s data. There are many teams at SAP that use the results of this survey; but in....

In the first part of this SAC Scripting blog series, I shorty explained how Master Data can be read and changed in SAC Analytic Application with the help of scripting. In the second part, I showed how Data Actions can be used in Analytic Application and how parameters can be dynamically defined and handed over to the data....

Dear All, In this article, I will share a way how to subscribe your Identity Provisioning Service(IPS) User Sync Job Notifications which will determine job status through mail notifications. This can be used to set up daily jobs and have notifications sent when the scheduled run with failure or success. In this way, Adminstrator can....

Introduction In Every Projects you go there will be requirement to enhance the Standard Screen to add some new Custom Fields. The general approach you do use Append Structure and add your Custom Fields. Sometime while analysing it may happen that you have the Append Structure name but you cannot find the Actual Structure it....

Overview This blog post is part of a series where we will be looking at a few simple use cases and basics when using SAP BW bridge for Data Warehouse Cloud. The purpose of this series is for you to have a walkthrough of how SAP BW bridge, SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, and SAP Analytics Cloud can work together. In Part....

In my previous blog, I covered all the features provided to Global Account administrators in the SAP BTP Cockpit. In this blog, I’m going to deep dive into the System Landscape topic. The power of SAP BTP is to give you the necessary tools and services to obtain data to insight for your business. To do....

Introduction: In this blog post you will learn about the Bulk Storage Put away Strategy in SAP EWM. There are some materials that require a large amount of storage space usually stored in bulk Storage areas and in this type of scenarios bulk put away strategy is used. Examples: beverages, tyres and glass products etc.....

Dear reader, welcome to a series of articles “Machine Learning Services for Hybrid Operations”. In our publications we will focus on key challenges of well-known thresholds-based alerting systems (e.g. majority of ALM products in SAP portfolio including SAP Solution Manager) and will propose a Machine Learning based approach to extend existing monitoring and alerting processes.....

This blog post explains how to read text from an image using Surface automation. Introduction What is Surface Automation? A technique where image recognition and OCR are used to automate user Interfaces when DOM is not accessible at run time/design time. It is the process of creating automation according to images shown on a screen. It....

SAP Hyperautomation Webinar Series no. 2 My colleague and I were able to present a session entitled “Intelligent business document processing [through side-by-side SAP Intelligent RPA scenarios] for small and medium enterprises [SMEs]” at the recent SAP Hyperautomation Webinar. (You can watch it here.) The objective of our session was to share our intelligent enterprise vision....

The metaverse is the future of the internet. A new virtual world. A new economy representing a revenue opportunity approaching $800 billion in 2024 according to Bloomberg Intelligence. What is SAP’s role in it? What is the metaverse? The metaverse is the network of social virtual 3D worlds where virtual and real get mixed. We....

I tried looking for some inputs on a FM to upload excel(not CSV) in BW system or for that matter any other system but BW system doesn’t have normal usual FM’s to upload files which you will find in normal ECC system and our requirement was to upload excel only and not any other formats....

Each year the Business Application Research Center (BARC) is conducting The Data Management Survey: The new survey on data management tools (bi-survey.com) and is collecting the feedback from the end users and implementation or consulting partners of Data Management solutions to present their findings and their view on the overall solution offering and portfolio of the different....

This blog discusses the installation and configuration of SAP NetWeaver or S/4 HANA in a Windows Failover cluster, which cluster nodes are located in different subnets. The configuration of the cluster, the configuration of network related things like dynamic DNS synchronisation, DNS server synchronisation, Windows OS configuration, etc. are mandatory for operations of SAP NetWeaver....

In the modern days of changing and challenging IT environment, it is crucially important to select the correct approach of running the project and managing its all activities simultaneously. Many IT solutions allow Project Managers to cover all the necessary tasks by using only one software. While in this article will be described an approach....

Smart Data Access is a SAP Technology which transfers the data from the source system tables virtually in SAP Hana system in the form of Virtual tables. These Virtual tables in SAP Hana will point towards Remote tables of any type of source system (SAP/ Non-SAP). This technology has many benefits Firstly in terms of DB space....

Hello Manufacturing experts, Here I am going to explain the sub-Item concept in BOM. Sub Item is not a component it just represents the position where component to be installed in Assembly /Sub assembly that means the subitem help you to identify exactly, where to use (to put) the material in your product or in the production....

“The lead generation process starts by finding out where your target market ‘lives’ on the web.” – Wayne Davis Introduction As you might have guessed, this blog post is about leads and opportunities management, and I am going to provide an overview on how they “live” in SAP S/4HANA. We are going to talk about....

Since the partnership between Tricentis and SAP has been announced in 2019 the topic of the integration between Tosca and SAP Solution Manager 7.2 has become more and more important. Tosca is a tool for automating test scripts, created by Tricentis, the world’s leading provider of continuous testing platforms. As ALM Consultants we saw the....

Order capture and order fulfillment are the core responsibilities of an internal sales representative. In today’s world, where increasing order volumes and, at the same time, tight control of sales operations costs are key contributions to a company’s margins, efficiency and effectiveness are the ingredients to a modern order and contract management process. Today, unlike....

Introduction SAP Analytics for cloud is cloud SaaS based Business Intelligence tool provided by SAP. It was formerly known as BusinessObjects for cloud. It provides all the key functionalities of an Analytics tool to SAP business users. SAP Analytics cloud provides prediction as an inbuild  functionality. For this example, we will be using a sales data source from Kaggle.....

tl;dr : regexes are hard. My half-solution: search for R and either click “find next” or “replace (with space)”. I can’t remember exactly (do help me out in the comments!), but someone said something along the lines of: “If you have a problem, go use regular expressions. Then you have 2 problems!”. And I think you....

Introduction SuccessFactors is designed very intuitive and navigation is quick an easy, especially with the new Reimagined Home Page: Nevertheless, at some point you might want to add custom quick-links and short-cuts to navigate within SF or jump externally or change labels to make daily use of SuccessFactors even more easy for your users. This blog....

If you have a business, you likely have a lot of data. It’s your one true source for insight to understand your customers, their needs, and what they want. In this blog, you’ll learn how you can monetize the data your solution generates with the data marketplace for SAP Data Warehouse Cloud and SAP BTP Startup Program from SAP.iO. To illustrate the....

Delivery Scheduling in OTC [Order to Cash Process] is a Process of Determining Delivery Dates and Confirm Quantities for each Material/Line Item in a specific Sale Order. SAP has the standard parameters to Determine it into the Sale Order… A Pick Pack Time B Loading Time C Replenishment Lead Time [RLT] D Transportation Lead Time....