Objective: The main objective of this is to have a better understanding of the Business Partner (BP) configuration setting in SAP S4 Hana. There are 3 segments we have in Business Partner General Data – Basic Information of supplier Company code Data – Company code information Purchasing Data – Purchasing information The below steps are followed....

This is a detailed step-by-step technical guide document to introduce a Developer Extensibility case followed by this blog.   1. Case Background: In this case, we create an custom Fiori application, which can create multiple purchase requisitions from an Excel file template. Furthermore, you can define the upload template based on your own requirement.   2.....

As a new customer to the SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition solution, the very first system you are going to get, and use is called the Starter System.  This system has a set of master data and a set of 225+ SAP Best Practice scopes loaded to help you explore its capabilities and conduct the....

In SAP Cloud ALM, we’ve been incrementally adding features to our APIs. We’ve reached a critical mass, allowing you to powerfully automate implementation projects and create new added value. To help you get started, we recently published a Jupyter notebook containing example API calls for a scenario of interest to many SAP partners: taking a....

In the SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition, the user authorizations are hinged around the Business Catalogs.  The business catalogs are further grouped together to form the Business User Roles.  The users are assigned relevant business user roles to gain access to the desired Fiori apps. This blog showcases the tight binding of business catalogs and....

This blog intends to share our experience and understanding of SAP S/4HANA Cloud ABAP Environment (Embedded Steampunk) with the ABAP developer community. As an illustration, we have included three examples to highlight the capabilities of Embedded Steampunk. Overview of SAP S/4HANA Cloud ABAP Environment Rich and Flexible Cloud Extensibility Every ERP requires extensibility options. Business....

This is a detailed step-by-step guide document to introduce a Developer Extensibility case followed by this blog. 1. Case Background: This case is about customizing the Sales Order standard App, adding a custom field called “BU Section”. However, the custom fields on Sales Order are on the last tab “Custom Fields”. People tends to forget maintaining....

Want traceability in your sap projects? Consider implementing Focused Build because traceability is built in. Focused Build tool makes all processes, activities, and outputs traceable in an SAP implementation. Often overlooked as tedious and costly, yet traceability is important for Value tracking and Targeting value. Traceability is the ability to trace Backlog from its inception to delivery and....

Remember the blog post I wrote about FAQs related to the Test Strategy? Well, I’m back with more answers to your burning questions! Since I last wrote, a lot has changed in the tech world, including the rise of ChatGPT and ChatGPT-powered Bing. So, I decided to tap into Bing’s power to find out what questions....

With the RISE of SAP S/4HANA Implementations, we at SAP realized the need to guide our customers with the SAP roadmap and methodology that can be used during their implementations. If you are a Premium Engagement Customer, you can benefit from SAP Reviews which come under the SAP Value Assurance Services for your SAP S/4HANA implementations. Essentially, we have....

SAP Activate provides methodology and end-to-end guidance for implementing SAP solutions. SAP Cloud ALM provides functionality to extend the same great Activate methodology through project management and execution support. In this blog, I will point out how several SAP Cloud ALM features are used to facilitate SAP Activate tasks and procedures. For a video on....

The 23Q1 release of the “Transition to SAP S/4HANA” (on premise) road map has been published, and here are the most important things we have changed for you: As always, accelerators have been updated throughout the road map, to link you to newest information on SAP S/4HANA release 2022 FPS00 (e.g. release notes, feature scope description etc.).....

In my previous blog Use SAP Cloud Application Lifecycle Management (CALM) System to Monitor Your SAP S/4HANA Cloud 3-System Landscape Systems – Part 1: Setup, I detailed the steps to set up CALM for a 3-system landscape systems.  It discussed the special handling of different errors which are usually not documented in SAP Help Portal documentations.....

Unsurprisingly, every business is looking to reinvent its digital strategy and rapid ERP implementation approach, fueled by agile implementation methodologies like SAP Activate. SAP project Implementations or the implementation of an Enterprise application has historically been considered a complex and time-consuming process. To accelerate the implementation process, SAP Activate Methodology provides handy tools and guidelines at....

In today’s world end-users are spending valuable time accessing multiple access points to gain access to their required apps and content. Even business processes are often spanned across multiple entry points and do not provide this single point of entry that users require. With companies adopting the Two-Tier strategy, SAP is also providing various deployment....

Similar as the SAP Solution Manager for the on-premises-centric solutions, SAP Cloud Application Lifecycle Management (CALM) system is designed to monitor your cloud-centric landscapes, including both cloud solutions as well as on-premises solutions.  Its functions are divided into four categories: CALM for Implementation – includes project management, integration with Central Business Configuration (CBC), test preparation....

Release Assessment and Scope Dependency Tool (RASD) has been given an upgrade!!   Also Read| What’s New in the Release Assessment and Scope Dependency(RASD) 2.0   What is RASD? The Release Assessment and Scope Dependency (RASD) tool is a  simple, self-learning tool for customers, which enables the ease of consumption and adoption of impacts, improvements and innovations in SAP....

The feature of Spaces and Pages within SAP Launchpad has been there for a while, for example, SAP S/4HANA Cloud (S4HC) 2005 and beyond, SAP S/4HANA 2020 and beyond, and any SAP Fiori Launchpad services. In this blog, I’d like to introduce the setup of this feature in the S4HC 2208 environment through two examples.....

In the last days fellow community member PARTHA SARATHI GOSWAMI posted the stimulating blog Mapping ABAPer (WRICEF) into SAP BTP (Business Technology Platform). It has awakened me to the feeling that the WRICEF term is outdated and, even worst, that it could introduce a strong inertia to modernizations and innovations at the time of SAP RISE. As the....

SAP Activate roadmaps are created and updated based on input from many different people from different areas within SAP and externally. While we have several methods to capture changes, improvements ideas and general feedback, I would like to highlight the feedback mechanism within the SAP Activate roadmap viewer and how we process the feedback within the SAP....

Why would you spend time keeping records of what you already have in your system? Save time by becoming independent from technical support Fiori launchpad content (applications, catalogs, roles) documentation will save you a lot more time in the long term. Without documentation, all project members must rely on the technical team. As a result,....

In case you are not sure if you need Fiori launchpad documentation at all, check the post: Why should you document your Fiori Launchpad configuration? Many projects use a shared Excel spreadsheet to document the Fiori launchpad setup. At first glance, Excel looks like a decent choice for documentation. Unfortunately, in the long run, it....

This blog post should be interesting for you if you have no doubts about Why you should document your Fiori Launchpad configuration? and Why do you need a tool for Fiori launchpad documentation? The blog post explains how to document your Fiori Launchpad configuration using a free Fiori Tracker tool (Apache License 2.0). Fiori Tracker is available to....

The SAP S/4HANA Upgrade and Product Integration Roadmap has been updated with a new activity “Innovation Evaluation” in the Discover phase, describing how SAP can support an innovation and improvement journey. Where applicable, the roadmap now also refers to the modules of the corresponding PE scenario “Enable Innovations with the latest SAP S/4HANA release” and....

  Como vai TIME quanto tempo, mas afinal o que é a metodologia SAP Activate? Resumidamente o SAP Activate Methodology é composta, basicamente, por 4 fases. Prepare: Conduzir o planejamento e preparação inicial e definir governança do projeto para iniciar o projeto o com o pé direito. Explore: A equipe do cliente explora as capacidades da solução....

Dear SAP Activate Community, I am pleased to announce our next community call on February 2nd at 9 am CST. Join us to hear from Daniel Ciecko, Adnette Kamugisha, and Jan Musil about navigating through SAP Activate roadmaps and the outlook for 2022. Title: SAP Activate Community Live – The Roadmaps in SAP Activate Description: Members....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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.....

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....

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....

Highlights of the SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2105 Release (May 2021)    Another quarter, another release. I am proud to announce the general availability of our second release of the year today – the SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2105 release. With solutions like our fully fledged SAP S/4HANA Cloud, we offer you an easy-to-use, intelligent Cloud ERP with numerous integration capabilities to....

在过去几年中,SAP Activate 方法论对SAP S/4HANA Cloud 的部署指导不断完善。借助标准业务流程内容,建立决策机制,是顺利启动您的项目, 加快实现价值的核心。  Fit-to-Standard(标准流程适配):在需要的地方灵活,在关键位置加速 在做标准流程适配时,首先把SAP 提供的业务流程内容, 在项目早期, 部署到客户的初始系统(Starter System)中。 然后,由项目团队和业务用户,在初始系统里体验并评估系统中的标准业务流程。SAP目前提供,公共云和私有云,两套预配置内容,供客户选择使用。  这种使用初始系统的方法能够让业务用户在设计决策确定之前,真实地体验到公司一些部门里的流程,了解有关主数据和交易数据的状态。这样,用户可以了解解决方案的行为,以及在系统设置为生产使用时可以使用到的功能。SAP Activate 方法中有详细介绍Fit-to-Standard(标准流程适配)研讨会指南,遵循图 1 中显示的六个步骤流程。如果您需要在远程执行,可以使用playbook计划, 通过远程协作工具和视频会议来完成。   图1:Fit-to-standard (标准流程适配)研讨会中所使用的六个步骤   建立决策机制,保障您的成功  在部署 SAP S/4HANA Cloud期间,项目团队需要制定许多设计决策,有时很难遵守“标准优先”思维模式。所以,我们鼓励客户的项目团队建立有效的决策机制,帮助推动“标准第一”的信条。客户应利用Solution Standardization Board(标准化方案决策委员会)的流程框架,参看下图2,帮助引导设计决策,使用现代技术,构建一个稳固的系统。  图2:Solution Standardization Board决策树 如何开始您的SAP Activate之旅?  建议您浏览 SAP Activate的路线图查看器。它涵盖您部署之旅的所有关键方面,每个项目团队成员都将找到有助于他们在部署项目期间执行工作的信息。该方法里每个路线图都构建为阶段、交付内容和任务的层次结构,每个交付内容和任务至少分配到一个工作流。将工作流视为逻辑领域(如项目管理、数据管理或应用程序设计和配置)中的工作线程,为用户提供其专业领域的所有交付内容以及相应的任务。    

SAP Central Business Configuration is a new tool that will make it possible to configure a business process spanning different SAP solutions from one central place. SAP Central Business Configuration supports the configuration of SAP S/4HANA Cloud, but aims at seamless implementation of end-to-end business processes across SAP’s Intelligent Enterprise Suite. It provides a new....

Accelerate Your Project by Using a Global Template Offering Preconfigured End-to-End Business Processes for Multinational Corporations   In a Nutshell The enterprise management layer is ideal for new and existing customers operating in multiple countries and looking for a global template offering standard, preconfigured end-to-end business processes to start their SAP S/4HANA journey. Combined with the SAP Activate methodology, the enterprise....

How can I order the enterprise management layer? The enterprise management layer for SAP S/4HANA is a service provided by SAP. This service is available whether you choose a deployment in SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition or on premise, including when provisioned by a hosting provider. In other words, as a customer, you can order the service and SAP will provide the....

The enterprise management layer is also available to SAP S/4HANA Cloud, extended edition customers. It is included in the subscription and can be ordered for deployment in the customer system landscape, be it in a sandbox system only or in all systems in the landscape, for example in the Development, Quality Assurance and Production systems. We recommend to deploy....

Transitioning to the cloud is now more efficient, user friendly and quicker than ever before thanks to SAPs new cloud-based Application Lifecycle Management offering, SAP Cloud ALM. Targeted at cloud-centric customers, it provides simplified implementation of cloud-based solutions and our new openSAP Course “Accelerate Cloud Implementations with SAP Cloud ALM” will provide you with the knowledge required....