Since November 29 2019 a new support package 3 for ST-A/PI release 01T is available for download. With this plug-in nine new key figures have been shipped for Business Process Analytics and Business Process Monitoring in SAP Solution Manager and around 110 existing key figures were updated. The plug-in contains (besides others)
Financial Accounting
A new key figure category was introduced with ST-A/PI 01T support package 2, the so-called Process Progress key figures. In the area of sales the following new key figures were introduced:
Other new key figures were
The following key figures were enhanced:
The complete list of all available key figures can be accessed via the KPI catalog if you filter on KPI provider ‘Business Process Analytics’ that you find at (S-user or P-user login required)
https://go.support.sap.com/kpicatalog
Further reading
You can find all necessary information about Business Process Analytics in this Wiki. More information on Business Process Improvement for SAP solutions can be found here.
Frequently Asked Questions about Business Process Monitoring and Business Process Analytics are answered at http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/SM/FAQ+Business+Process+Monitoring and FAQ Business Process Analytics - Solution Manager - Community Wiki respectively.
The following blogs (in chronological order) provide further details about Business Process Analytics functionalities within the SAP Solution Manager.
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Financial Accounting
- New G/L account usage per fiscal year & CoCo
- New Payment runs per company code
- New Assets under construction not deactivated
- Number of FI line items posted got now BSEG-KOART also as filter & group by parameter and BSEG-ZTERM is now available in result list as well as filter & group by parameter.
- Company code usage in FI documents got company code as new group by field
- LT: FI-AP item creation > item clearing renamed to LT: FI-AP item baseline > item clearing and LT: FI-AR item creation > item clearing renamed to LT: FI-AR item baseline > item clearing. The baseline date is now included in the result list and is used as new default value for lead time calculation (previously the default was posting date).
- Key figure ‘Payment runs per day’ was renamed to ‘Payment run postings per day’ as this is what is measured.
- Exceptions during payment runs got now ‘run ID’ as group by parameter
- Electronic bank statement items not completely posted got FEBEP-VGEXT as group by field
- Open items on GR/IR clearing accounts got a new logic so that correct GR/IR accounts should be found more accurately based on the existing system configuration.
- Exceptions in Depreciation Run identified only exceptions with program RAPOST2000 so far. This was extended to transaction code AFABN and other depreciation programs.
A new key figure category was introduced with ST-A/PI 01T support package 2, the so-called Process Progress key figures. In the area of sales the following new key figures were introduced:
- Sales order item creation to FI-AR clearing
- ICo Sales order item creation to ICo billing document
Other new key figures were
- Delivery items with erroneous output
- SD items with erroneous output
The following key figures were enhanced:
- Sales invoices created got TCODE as new column in result list and based on the TCODE information the automation rate is refined if the posting status is ‘C’.
- Sales document type usage (cross sales area) got document type as new group by field.
- Output type usage in shipping, Output type usage in inbound deliveries, Output type usage in sales & Output type usage in billing got output type as new group by field.
- Condition type usage in sales documents (cross SOrg) got condition type as new group by field.
- Purchase order items created, Automation rate: Purchase Orders & Automation rate: Purchase Order items got TCODE as new column in result list and based on the TCODE information the automation rate is refined.
- Purchase order items created w/o reference to contract got a new column “Price not favorable” is provided in result list. The column is filled if the purchase order price per unit is higher than the price per unit in the related contract.
- Output type usage in purchase orders got output type as group by field.
- Material BOM usage in discrete manufacturing (per plant), Work center usage via routing (per plant), Material BOM usage in process manufacturing (per plant) & Resource usage via master recipe (per plant) got different corrections and a change in logic so that the selected time frame is not only used for the usage count but also for the document selection itself.
- Routings usage in discrete manufacturing (per mater./plant) & Master recipe usage in process mfg. (per material/plant) got different corrections as
- Plant filter was not always applied
- Duplicate entries could occur
- Entries with no materials could be shown.
- MRP Planning file – materials marked for deletion & MRP Planning file materials – status does not allow planning always returned zero in the past. This is now corrected. Only the MDVM based key figures had those problems not the DBVM based ones.
- Order type usage in process orders (per plant) got order type as group by field.
- Order type usage in network orders (cross-plant) got order type as group by field.
- For Stock level of returns stock & Stock level of returns stock (batch level) the stock valuation was corrected.
- All Goods Movement key figures got the debit/credit indicator in the result list. The value for the throughput key figures is no longer determined based on the current stock valuation but taken from the value transferred to accounting.
- All SAP Extended Warehouse Management key figures and all SAP Transport Management key figures can now also be used for SAP S/4HANA as of 1610 and 1709 respectively.
- New Materials in certain status (cross-plant)
- New Purchasing info record usage in purchase docs (cross-POrg)
- Materials without standard price & Materials without moving average price got MARA-LVORM, MARC-NCOST, LVORM, MMSTA are all new in result list and as filter parameter. MBEW-EKALR new in result list.
- Customer master usage in FI-AR (per CoCo), Customer master usage in FI-AR (cross CoCo), Vendor master usage in FI-AP (per CoCo) & Vendor master usage in FI-AP (cross-CoCo) got new selection parameter ‘Include open items” so that the usage is based on cleared as well as open items.
- Most usage key figures around material, vendor or customer master consume now less memory and show better performance.
The complete list of all available key figures can be accessed via the KPI catalog if you filter on KPI provider ‘Business Process Analytics’ that you find at (S-user or P-user login required)
https://go.support.sap.com/kpicatalog
Further reading
You can find all necessary information about Business Process Analytics in this Wiki. More information on Business Process Improvement for SAP solutions can be found here.
Frequently Asked Questions about Business Process Monitoring and Business Process Analytics are answered at http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/SM/FAQ+Business+Process+Monitoring and FAQ Business Process Analytics - Solution Manager - Community Wiki respectively.
The following blogs (in chronological order) provide further details about Business Process Analytics functionalities within the SAP Solution Manager.
- Best Practice: Business Process Monitoring for Manufacturing
- Best Practice: Business Process Monitoring for Procure to Pay
- Best Practice: Business Process Monitoring for Order to Cash
- Protect your SAP ERP investment & improve your core business processes
- New key figures for Business Process Monitoring in SAP Solution Manager, especially for CRM Marketing
- New functionality “Business Process Analytics” – how to improve your business processes
- New key figures for Business Process Monitoring in SAP Solution Manager, especially Lead Time measurements
- Traditional Business KPI approach vs Business Process Monitoring
- Systematic errors vs real exceptions or improving efficiency vs effectiveness
- Before you get started with SAP HANA…you should also consider cleaning-up your backend system first
- Best Practice: Business Process Monitoring for CRM Sales
- Business Process Operations dashboards – ALL AT A GLANCE
- Business Process Operations dashboards – behind the scenes
- Customer testimonials on Business Process Analytics
- Customer Exit: Create your own key figure for BPMon AND Business Process Analytics
- Heads-up: Setup environment of BPMon & Analytics changes with SolMan 7.1 SP5
- New key figures for BPMon & BP Analytics, especially for working capital improvement
- New Business Process Analytics features with SAP SolMan 7.1 SP5
- New Business Process Analytics – The filter sequence makes the difference
- New key figures: Analyzing/Monitoring exceptions during delivery due processing
- New key figure: Analyzing/Monitoring exceptions during billing due processing
- Enhanced key figures: Analyzing/monitoring SD invoices not transferred to FI
- New key figures: Analyzing/monitoring exceptions in CRM Sales or Service documents, Business Activities or Tasks
- New keyfigures: Analyzing/monitoring exceptions from APO planning runs
- New key figures for BPMon & BP Analytics – new exception and automation rate key figures for ERP plus new content for FSCM, APO and CRM
- New key figures: Analyzing/monitoring exceptions during Period End Closing
- New key figures: Analyzing/monitoring exceptions in Controlling (CO-PC)
- Enhanced key figures: Bridging the organizational gap between SD and FI-AR
- Business Process Analytics: Types of key figures and their respective use cases
- Business Process Analytics: Types of functions and their respective features & purposes
- New key figures for BPMon & BP Analytics – new content for Travel & Expense Management, Banking and Utilities
- SAP Business Process Analytics” available for download in Apple’s App Store
- Discrete manufacturing: Mapping BP Analytics key figures to system status
- New key figures for BPMon & Analytics – new content for vendor invoice processing (e.g. Shared Service Center scenarios) and new delta throughput for Order to Cash
- Business Process Analytics: ad-hoc and real time with or without SAP HANA
- New landing page for “Business Process Improvement for SAP solutions”
- New KPI Catalog available in the cloud – Part 1
- New KPI Catalog available in the cloud – Part 2
- New with 7.1 SP14: Dependency Diagrams (KPI trees)
- Virtual characteristics in Business Process Operations dashboards
- Usage Analysis for Business Process Analytics & Dashboards
- New key figures for BPMon & Analytics – new content for Inventory Optimization, commitment items & configuration checks
- New features in KPI cloud catalog & updated Business Process Analytics content
- Best Practices: Creating Management Dashboards
- New key figures for BPMon & Analytics – new & enhanced content for FI, ERP operations & HCM
- Parent/child relationships in Business Process Operations dashboards
- New application Progress Management Board
- Connecting external SAP BW to SAP Solution Manager applications
- New key figures for BPMon & Analytics – new maintenance plan & FI-CAX content & usage key figures
- New key figures for BPMon & Analytics – new controlling & SAP TM content & changes key figures
- New key figures for BPMon & Analytics – new usage key figures in SD, LE, MM, PP, PM
- New key figures with ST-A/PI 01T support package 1, e.g. new key figures for PS
- New key figures with ST-A/PI 01T support package 2, e.g. new category of process progress key figures
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