Dear SAP Friends, Welcome to another interesting blog. In this blog will see about the new way of Migrating the data into S/4HANA. Note:- I will be explaining only about On-premises changes in this blog, and due to more data will split into parts1st Blog will be an overview.2nd Blog will be steps to perform Migrate data.....
Tax Collected at Source (TCS) is the tax payable by a seller, which he collects from the buyer at the time of sale. Section 206C of the Income-tax act governs the goods on which the seller must collect tax from the purchasers. The seller is only responsible for the collection of this tax from the buyer. ....
Thank you to all who tuned in to my keynote at the ASUG Next-Generation SAP Center of Excellence virtual conference on May 4, 2021, and for your interest in learning more about the topics that are relevant to your Customer Center of Excellence (Customer COE) and that make it the foundation to your....
Due to our own parallel SAP Mill & Mining & Chemicals Conferences, I missed most of the SAP Sustainability Summit. I raced through the recording, and would like to give you my 2 cents from a mill products & mining perspective. Calculating Footprints of Products One important announcement was about SAP Product Footprint Management. Priti Prabhoo’s gave....
…going off the chain Theta is both a blockchain token and an interesting technology. In the enterprise development world, it’s the technology part is the most compelling aspect of it. However, since this whole realm of blockchain and cryptocurrencies is foreign to many enterprise developers, we need to lay a common framework so that....
In CDS, some entities are automatically exposed in a CDS service, for example, entities of compositions for an entity that has been exposed as a projection in a CDS service. In the CDS Graphical Modeler, we have a user option to control how to show and hide those auto-exposed entities in a CDS service. Let’s....
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....
I am sure many of you have come to love the calendar and planning process features of SAP Analytics Cloud. Within the Calendar, you can model and schedule planning processes that help guide planners and reviewers through complex workflows. Apart from that, you can use the calendar to schedule automatic tasks such as data actions....
Recently on April 29th, my colleague Tomasz Janasz and I presented the topic Business Document Processing with SAP AI Business Services as part of the SAP Community call series. This blog summarizes key highlights from this community call. You can watch the webinar recording of the same as well: Business document processing Many processes in enterprises still involve processing....
SAP Partner Insight Session: SAP Endorsed App LabelNow by Gramont LabelNow by Gramont is a new cloud-based industry solution to create compliant product label information. It enables customers to design their product labels with high level of automation, define their ingredient list, allergen statement and nutritional panel with country, language; product category specific data for digital....
Did you know your ERP as a Service (aaS) implementation can fail spectacularly when your organization does not embrace a cloud mindset? Many projects might not fail outright, however, their results remain way behind your organization’s expectations. If you were part of the implementation team, such results may not be your fault. And yet, this....
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.....
As we know there are many things to explore in SAP Business Technology Platform, and there are many services and functionalities available. Here in this blog i am going to explain the steps if we want to connect SAP System with SAP BTP. Registering an SAP System in BTP To connect an SAP solution system....
SAP Fiori is evolving continuously: sometimes with major innovations, sometimes with smaller ones. With the latest release the SAP Fiori launchpad brings us a further step along our SAP Fiori 3 journey by providing richer visualization options: flat tiles, and links now visualized as small tiles – available for SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2105 and SAP Cloud....
From release of 1909, SAP has done a great deal of simplification in area of Manufacturing process related to Kanban which includes a simplified ”Warehouse task-based Integration‘ Kanban functionality. The whole idea of this functionality is to skip lengthy necessity of maintaining the process of outbound warehouse request and warehouse order. With S/4 HANA 2020,....
Following a year of unprecedented uncertainty, organizations find themselves immersed in a world of dead budgets and unrealistic forecasts. A world in which senior managers look to the financial planning and analysis (FP&A) department to lead the way so that the organization can more readily adapt to fast–changing business conditions with unpredictable futures. It is a situation that FP&A have been anticipating, demonstrated by the 7 top current FP&A trends discussed below. These trends, which started....
Column stacked 100 % chart is not among the options for S/4HANA Fiori Overview Page chart types. But usually this chart type goes hand in hand with column stacked chart. The moment user see column stacked chart their next ask will be column stacked % chart. Read the blog how to model column stacked 100 % chart....
I’m excited that our new openSAP course “Developing and Extending SAP Fiori Elements Apps” is launching in June 2021. It has been a long journey to bring this course to you, with a large, diverse, global team working on many tasks, often in parallel. While many of you are familiar with the structure and flow of openSAP....
…delving into the details In introductory post of this series, I lay out a explanation of and reasoning for potential enterprise use-cases for Theta blockchain technology. Please read that first as we’re going to jump right into getting set up for development. https://blogs.sap.com/2021/05/04/the-case-for-theta Dev Setup You will need a subscription to Business Application....
If we travelled in a car that could take us to the future, where would we see FP&A? The future of FP&A would not be standstill. FP&A may borrow from many of the traditional planning and analysis processes, but will make them more dynamic and accessible to companies of all sizes. Instead of crunching numbers,....
Welcome to the Q2 2021 product update of the intelligent Cloud ERP series, where we share insightful information on how technologies such as robotic process automation or machine learning transform an ERP to an intelligent ERP. This series enables you to fully understand how the end-to-end integration between different SAP solutions makes you run with a....
SAP CDS ships a common.cds file that includes various aspects that can be used in your CDS model. In this blog post, we’ll demonstrate how to import the @sap/cds common.cds into your CDS model and how to use the aspects to your CDS entities in your CAP project. When you open your CDS file using....
Simplification, automation and quick response to business needs is a requirement for most of our clients. Typically, customers run a number of SAP systems. Each system consists of one or more database instances (SAP HANA, IBM Db2, Oracle) and several SAP NetWeaver application servers. By using SAP Landscape Management software in combination with IBM PowerVC, clients gain....
1. Motivation 1.1. Where do we come from? 1.2. What do we want to solve here? 1.3. Take aways 2. Boundary conditions 2.1. Prerequisites 2.2. What we want 2.3. What we have 3. Mile high setup 4. Branches, tags and other dilemmas 4.1. Implementation 4.2. Normal cluster updates 4.3. Branch reconciliation and synchronization 5. Who....
Limit Items in Self-Service Procurement As an employee, you can now create, edit, copy and delete limit items. Limit items are unplanned services and materials that cannot be specified in detail at the time of ordering. You can define an expected value and an overall limit for these items. Feature Demo Links to Related What’s....
Hello, we have just created a detailed slide deck which describes the transport functionality within the SAP S/4HANA migration cockpit, direct transfer. This functionality is available since release 2020 OnPrem. The slide deck also talks about transporting from client to client and system modifiability. LINK to slide deck. You are also welcome to visit our so-called landing page –....
Abstract. Quite recently I needed to use the REST APIs to manage users/groups programmatically with eSAC (embedded SAP Analytics Cloud) And to my astonishment I hit a roadblock when trying to create or modify users (POST and PUT verbs). Even if I followed the documentation I would always get a 403 (forbidden) error code. Then I realised....
The Advocates Service The Advocates Service is a Node.js based SAP Cloud Application Programming Model service which is deployed on SAP BTP, Cloud Foundry runtime and connected to an SAP HANA Cloud database. The service has three endpoints defined so different types of applications can consume that service. In this Blog Post I will talk....
Picture this – you are the manager of a supermarket and would like to forecast the sales in the next few weeks and have been provided with the historical daily sales data of hundreds of products. What kind of problem would you classify this as? Of course, time series modeling, such as ARIMA and exponential....
Hi Everyone! Hope you and your loved ones are staying safe and have had a good start to 2021. Excited to write this blog to cover the first half SAP SuccessFactors 2021 release! I would recommend checking out the “What’s New Viewer” to take a look at the full release notes and get into all....
The way we consume reporting has changed radically in the last decade. Piles of paper with service results and reporting in printed documents is a picture from the past and everyone is familiar with dashboards, e-Readers and inter-active charts used on laptops and mobile phones now. In addition, the expectations are high that statistics not....
Yesterday, I released version 1.0.3 of CPILint (you can download it here). If this is the first time you hear about CPILint, let me very briefly introduce the tool to you. CPILint is an open source, command-line tool for SAP Cloud Integration that lets you automate the governance of your integration flows. You do so by....
As low-code/no-code application development and citizen automation continue to evolve and accelerate globally, SAP Intelligent RPA is at the forefront enabling this shift, now closely integrated with SAP Workflow Management and SAP AI Business Services, among others. Process automation is now required to become even more accessible to people with little or no coding skills.....
A man opens the gate to a hall and the light floods in. Great accessibility comes with awareness: The recognition that each of us has a stake in this and is responsible for designing a more inclusive world. When I grew into the lead of SAP’s accessibility team back in 2019, I dreamt about one....
Meet 10 partners helping businesses transform their workforces to survive. When historians look back at seismic changes in the workforce, they may find the COVID-19 pandemic led to the most rapid transformation. Other changes altered our work – the industrial revolution, higher education, labor laws – but none with the speed of the Spring of....
Introduction One of the most requested features, the multilevel BOM is available as of SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2105 release. The feature is available as an SAP Fiori app with the title “Manage Multilevel Bill of Material.” Figure 1: Manage Multilevel Bill of Material app on SAP Fiori Launchpad Key Features of the App Let’s talk....
Discrete Industries are described as the production of a discrete category of goods or items. This means goods or items can be individually or separately produced. Figure 1: Discrete Industries in SAP S/4HANA Cloud – The Link Collection Currently SAP S/4HANA Cloud focuses on solutions for the following two discrete industries: Industrial Machinery and Components and Automotive. For the later, specific focus....
Introduction: In many of the complex business scenarios, payment is a crucial part. There are many types of payments happens in SAP. In this blog we will discuss about payments in case of treasury system or Product types are involved. In general SAP creates individual l flows and individual payment request for each flow for....
This blog contains all steps relevant to the initial configurations, required to setup an ABAP environment on SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP). The blog will take you through the process of setting up a trial account on BTP, initial configurations that are required to setup an ABAP Environment on BPT and also the relevant configurations....
Motivation As many of you I have on my SAP Business Technology Platform Trial account an instance of the SAP HANA Cloud Trial running. This trial instance is stopped everyday. Sometimes I am a little bit “angry” when I switch to my private workplace – enthusiastic to try out some stuff on SAP HANA Cloud Trial –....
This collection of frequently asked questions provides brief answers to common questions about Intelligent Scenario Lifecycle Management (ISLM). If you don’t find answer to your questions, please add them as comments.Stay tuned and watch out ISLM SAP Community topic page for regular updates!! ISLM Scope What is ISLM? What are the key benefits of ISLM? What are....
16 Likes 1,940 View 3 Comments The SAP Web Dispatcher is a reverse proxy designed to work best with other SAP software solutions. While there exist many reverse proxy solutions from various software vendors out there, the SAP Web Dispatcher is maintained and supported by SAP, is available for multiple operating systems, follows the same configuration principles....
Learn about how to upload variant table contents from excel in .csv format using transaction CU60E. Business requirement : In general , in Variant configuration module it is always require to upload the values to Variant table as a content from excel file. It will be always challenging for the functional consultants to load the data....
This Article is referenced from the approach announced by Microsoft in this blog. Microsoft has also provided documentation on this to help customers on Azure to enhance the monitoring of the SAP systems on Azure. In this Article we will discuss about the Monitoring Service “Azure Monitor for SAP Solutions” delivered by Microsoft and how we can take....
This is in continuation of my previous Article Monitoring of SAP Systems Using Azure Monitors – Part I 6. DEPLOYMENT AND CONFIGRUATION 6.1 Configuring Azure Monitors Go to Search for Azure Monitors for SAP Solutions Click on New Fill up all the requested details and Next We can add the providers later, hence click on Next Specify the Tags, if....
With SAP Business ByDesign 21.05 the ByD Mobile app will support time recording and also introduce push notifications for manager approval requests: The manager approvals tile now shows the number of open approvals and the lock screen and notifies the user if new items come in Mobile time recording is no built-in and offers the same capabilities....
In our last release 2102, we enabled the change of planned output and component quantities of already started production orders. With our new release, 2105, we now also allow to add new components to started production orders. This will be supported for activities that belong to not yet finished production tasks. When adding the component in the....
Customer would like to control use of the general actions like Download, Send and Add Fields in the analytical reports in SAP Business ByDesign. as part of 2105 release the actions would be configurable to be visible / hidden to business users in UI. In case if customer decide to hide the actions then its....
With the release 2105 the SAP Enable Now Web Assistant is available for SAP Business ByDesign. OverviewThe SAP Enable Now Web Assistant is a web-based front-end solution which comes as an integrated help system that provides context sensitive assistance for end users and it is available in addition to the SAP Business ByDesign Help Center.The help is....
We are delighted to announce a brand-new Hands-On Security Challenge that takes place in the innovative Flipped Class Approach: WFCETD: Hands-On Security Challenge with SAP Enterprise Threat Detection More space for interactive collaboration joined by self-responsible learning: Flipped Classroom is an efficient learning strategy that reverses the traditional learning environment by providing mostly self-paced learning content outside the....
In my previous value blog post, I highlighted one of the self-service tools that can help customers build a business case for their migration from SAP ERP to SAP S/4HANA through a RISE with SAP contract. In this blog post, I will describe the value of using SAP Activate for RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private....
Integrate the ABAP environment of the SAP Business Technology Platform with SAP S/4HANA Cloud in a few clicks and some oldskool copy ‘n paste. In this blog post you will find the tutorial video embedded with references and additional information. For the related blog posts, visit Getting Started with ABAP in the Cloud – Update....
Summary: Three financial closing applications are considered for new S/4HANA implementations. Limitations on licensing, compatibility, availability, and roadmap innovation are discussed. Spoiler Alert: SAP S/4HANA Cloud for Advanced Financial Closing (AFC) should be the primary consideration since it is functionally capable, flexible, as well as being SAP’s strategic option. SAP has continued to evolve its product....
Value is a default presentation mode of Fiori Overview Page pie chart. If you want to know how to switch between value and % of total then this blog is for you. Below is pie chart default presentation mode. Using plot area data label chart property it can changed to % of total. This is....
After getting an overview and understanding of how Virtual Data Models (VDM) and ABAP Core Data Services (ABAP CDS Views) work in SAP S/4HANA, and the requirements needed for a CDS View to be extractable in my colleague Michael Sanjongco’s blog post Part 1 – SAP S/4HANA Cloud Data Integration to power your Intelligence Enterprise. This blog will briefly explain the....
Concento™ Rapid Data Governance (RDG) is an SAP Certified accelerator, automating the processes of MDG Data Model Maintenance, Workflow Design and Business Rules in an intuitive, elegant and graphical interface, so users with no specialized coding experience can perform MDG tasks. Depending on business needs, Concento RDG allows users to implement Dynamic and Parallel steps for....
Disclaimer This blog will guide with an example to work with Formula based / Calculated MIC. This process can be implemented where one parameters value to be calculated based on the values recorded for other parameters. In this example, Area of Triangle is calculated. The formula for Area of Triangle is: Area of Triangle =....
Introduction Using below steps you can add Longitude and Latitude to any contact before it is created in system. The logic is ignored if the incoming payload already has longitude/latitude information in it. the BAdI logic will read the Geo Location from the available free database openstreetmap.org based on the contact’s City and Country and will....
Overview: Catch Weight Management (CWM) is an industry-specific function for the requirements of the consumer products industry in general, and the food processing industry in particular. The major focus segment of CWM are Livestock, meat, fish, dairy(Cheese), fruits/Vegetables, lumber. leather. One of the basic requirements of the food processing industry is that many of the materials....
Product Information Betty Guedez May 13th 2021 Situation Handling – Case Invoice Skipped in Payment Advice Updated as of release 2020 Hello there! For those who do not know me yet, I am Betty Guédez, Finance Product Expert at SAP S/4HANA RIG and our subject for today is about Situation Handling, with a solution for a....
Olá pessoal, No dia 27 de abril de 2021, o governo brasileiro publicou as Medidas Provisórias 1.045 e 1.046/2021, que trata sobre as medidas trabalhistas emergenciais adotadas pelo governo, com o propósito de mitigar o impacto econômico causado pela pandemia de COVID-19. Portanto, nesse blog post abordarei os seguintes tópicos: Resumo das mudanças legais mencionadas nas Medidas Provisórias....
The new data model in MM-IM with tables MATDOC and MATDOC_EXTRACT has been around for a while but there’s still some questions about how both still co-exist with the old tables (MKPF, MSEG, MARD, etc.). This blog post is to clarify how the compatibility was maintained after the migration to this new data model. Introduction....
Introduction: I would like to share my experience with you all for SAP-GMAIL integration using Google & Gmail API’s in SAP PI/PO. I Implemented it for one of my clients, it was kind of unique requirement. So sharing complete details for the same. There are 2 major sections of this blog post:- a) Step by....
In this blog, I would like to present some ways of comparing DME Trees, Validations / Substitutions / CO Templates (CPT3) etc. Normally before moving these kinds of changes to Production Client, a lot of precaution is required. Care should be taken to ensure that some existing values in Production Client are not overwritten by....
In this blog post you will find some personal suggestions about how to study for exam AZ-104 and get Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator. Get Certified: Microsoft Certified – Azure Fundamentals Get Certified: Microsoft Certified – Azure Administrator Associate Get Certified: Microsoft Certified – Azure for SAP Workloads Specialty Get certified at no (or little....
This is in continuation of my previous Article Compliance Check of SAP Systems Using AWS Config – Part I 4. CONFIGRUATION 4.1 Compliance Check for SAP Infrastructure 4.1.1 Creation of AWS Config Rule First, we need to create a Rule for AWS Config to define the type of operation, to do so, go to AWS Config → Rules and click....
This is in continuation of my previous Article Compliance Check of SAP Systems Using AWS Config – Part III 4.2.4 Adding AWS Config Rule To make use of the above create Lambda environment, we need to create AWS Config Rule which is responsible for triggering the above Lambda function and fetch the data. To create Rule,....
Requirement This blog is intended to show how we can fill the dates if dates are saved in two columns as StartDate or EndDate ( Refer Sample Data of Date Rang Table Screenshot). We have one Transaction table which is having data for each day (Example: PGI_DATE). In another table, data is entered by date....
What is AppGyver? AppGyver is a low-code/no-code technology based on the React Native technology. AppGyver provides you with an easy to use “IDE” for creation of cross-platform apps. AppGyver Composer Pro which is the name of the tool you’re using to create apps in a visual editor where you drag and drop UI elements into your View or....
In this blog post you will learn how we are constantly improving the Enterprise Support Reporting Cockpit with the help of your feedback! This empowers our customers to make business decisions that directly affects them. Due to this feedback we have made already many changes and / or we are working on the changes requested by YOU:....
Consuming Kafka messages – Asset Intelligence Network Asset Intelligence Network (AIN) is part of Intelligent Asset Management portfolio alongside Asset Strategy and Performance Management (ASPM) and Predictive Asset Insights (PAI) with a common core component, Asset Central Foundation (ACF). Intelligent Asset Management Portfolio Asset Intelligence Network triggers Kafka messages for various objects and for a growing....
Hello Everyone, This document explains the steps required to configure a system for Production planning in a cross Plant/Company set-up. Many members post questions with a bit of variation regarding this scenario. Hopefully, This blog will address the below 2 scenarios. Company Plant Header Mat Item Item Item Scenario 1 7000 7001 311....
In the past two years, I wrote a few posts that explained the nature of the managed approuter and when it can be helpful to use this feature (here and here). In parallel, we created a GitHub repository that contains sample projects and diagrams to make the differences between both options more tangible. Overall, there’s a lot of content that....
Introduction In certain cases, you need to create and populate range tables in ABAP for different purposes. So, in this blog post, I have explained 3 easy ways to populate range tables. Solution The ways are the following. Using LET with VALUE. Please check the below section for quick reference. TYPES lr_bukrs_type TYPE RANGE OF....
Dear Retail community, Many retailers are implementing SAP Commerce Cloud along with the new Spartacus UX java script-based Framework, which offers huge advantages over the “old” template based B2C accelerator. However, the integration of SAP Retail’s Omnichannel Article Availability and Sourcing (aka OAA) is not yet supported by the Spartacus storefront, only by the B2C Accelerator. For....
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....
We want to collaborate with you to improve our documentation. To do this, we’re taking our first steps with the Open Documentation Initiative. One of the things I’ve been happy to observe over the decades is SAP moving towards an increasing openness. To name just a few milestones, there’s the inclusion of open protocols such....
As the world economy is slowly recovering from the pandemic, many students wonder what the future holds for them. What will the job market look like when I graduate? How do I stay motivated and prepare for my career in such uncertain times? And while we cannot predict what exactly the future will hold, one....
The last months gave many organizations the opportunity to accelerate their digitalization – probably more by necessity than by choice. At SAP Innovate to Win, we also looked at digital strategies and tools to empower our customers to re-invent their business models and drive digital transformation. Here are some of the SAP tools, that we....
For a long time, remote work was either a way for a lean business to save office costs or a way to organize cooperation between people who could not work together otherwise (e.g., those living in different locations). However, the pandemic turned everything upside down in a matter of weeks. Now working remotely is the new....
In today’s marketplace original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) are being challenged to deliver innovative products (automobiles, machinery, etc.) to their customers at a reasonable price faster than ever all while trying protecting their margins. The pressure to deliver the most cost optimal product puts pressure on the entire supply chain as each tier is also looking....
Just-in-time / just-in-sequence processing is important to the automotive industry. In my second blog, I will focus on the supply to the production process and how the next-generation JIT Supply to Production solution in SAP S/4HANA helps Manufacturers need to ensure that inventory levels are kept minimal due to limited space on the production line and line-side....
This blog post describes how to set up integration between SAP Self-Billing Cockpit and an SAP S/4HANA system. The entire setup procedure involves the following tasks: Create a communication user for SAP S/4HANA. Check the availability of OData services. Subscribe to SAP Self-Billing Cockpit. Assign role collections to users. Configure data replication for units of....
Adaptation Projects or say it application variant, is a feature to extend SAP delivered/Standard fiori elements app. In this blog post, I will show step by step: How to re-define the OData service Create adaptation project in web IDE with new facet Deployment process Translation for the variant, tile and entity in another language And last configuring the....
Starting the release of CDS Graphical Modeler 2105, you can not only create entities and projections but also the CDS Graphical Modeler would allow you to create structured types, enums and named aspects as well. In this blog post, we’ll demonstrate how to create structured types, enums and aspects using the CDS Graphical Modeler. Creating....