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This is the first blog of a two-part blog series.
SAP has released SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition and SAP S/4HANA 2023 FPS03 (Feature Pack Stack) on February 26, 2025, featuring new artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, enhanced automation capabilities, and improvements in usability to transform business operations. These powerful capabilities aim to reduce manual effort and enable smarter decision-making, helping businesses stay ahead of the competition. This release is the last of three Feature Pack stacks released over the past two years.
I am Harish Mangtani, a Product Manager at SAP SE, I have the privilege of continuing this journey after my colleague @Chr_Vogler Christian, who has taken an early retirement from the organization.
This blog series will highlight key features in two parts:
- Blog 1: Line of Business (current blog)
- Blog 2: R&D (Engineering), Industries & Localization
In this blog series(2 blogs), I will highlight key features from SAP's first shipment of this year for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition and SAP S/4HANA 2023, covering various lines of business and industries. In this blog, the first section will focus on innovations in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition 2023 FPS03 and the second section will cover innovations available to customers using either SAP S/4HANA or SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition. Finally, second blog will dive into R&D(Engineering), industry-specific and localization innovations.
If you wish to directly jump to the respective LOBs for innovations available in both SAP S/4HANA and SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, you can click the links below:
- Finance
- Asset Management
- Supply Chain
- Sourcing and Procurement
- Transportation Management
- Warehouse Management
- Manufacturing
- Sales (including subscription contracts)
- Service
- Human Capital Management (HCM)
- Cross Components (Master Data Management)
Release Planning
Here is a quick recap of the release strategy for 2023–2025, along with a definition of deliveries. This strategy is designed to help customers maximize their potential while keeping them informed about the latest innovations.
For more information on SAP's release and maintenance strategy, please refer to the link provided here
SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition 2023 FPS03
The pictures below provide an overview of the key innovations shipped with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition 2023 FPS03 Release
Pic: Highlights at a glance for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition 2023 FPS03
See here for the entire list of innovations:
- What's New Viewer on SAP Help Portal for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition
- What's New Viewer on SAP Help Portal for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition for Joule
Exploring AI-assisted capabilities with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition
In the SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition 2023 FPS03 release, innovative AI capabilities continue to be shipped at a fast pace. They help businesses improve employee productivity, assist in decision-making, and provide predictive insights, to better adapt to changing demands and better compete in an unpredictable environment.
Finance: AI-assisted journal upload
One of the standout features of this release is the AI-Assisted Journal Upload. This enhancement integrates SAP Fiori apps with generative AI, streamlining how accountants manage journal entries. Accountants can now assign a natural language guidance document to a journal upload case, simplifying case creation. The AI-driven system automatically generates journal posting proposals based on this guidance, ensuring accuracy and consistency. These proposals are validated before posting, providing added confidence, and once validated, they can be posted as journals. This feature brings key benefits: it reduces manual effort in preparing journal upload files, improves data quality through automatic generation and validation, and simplifies compliance by maintaining a full audit trail for each case. Overall, it enhances accounting workflows, saves time, reduces errors, and strengthens financial controls.
for more information read here: AI-Assisted Journal Upload
Manufacturing: AI-based explanation assistant of “Detailed Scheduling Optimizer” results
A key innovation in Manufacturing is the AI-based explanation assistant for the Detailed Scheduling Optimizer (DS-Optimizer). This new feature summarizes the explanation log of the DS-Optimizer and provides clear, understandable insights into the planning results. Production planners can interact with the system via a chat format, asking questions about the results, with the AI offering explanations and guidance. It also helps by navigating planners to relevant apps for resolving any detected planning issues. The primary benefits of this feature include enhanced transparency into the DS-Optimizer’s results, helping production planners better understand and analyze these outcomes. It enables them to quickly detect issues the optimizer couldn't resolve and get to the root cause of specific planning problems. This increased transparency builds trust in the automatic optimization process, ultimately improving the quality of production plans and ensuring smoother production workflows. More information, here: Production Order
Asset Management: Utilizing artificial intelligence to streamline creation and planning of maintenance orders
A notable innovation in Asset Management is the use of artificial intelligence to optimize the creation and planning of maintenance orders. This solution reduces the time-consuming effort typically required for these tasks and eliminates the need for deep expertise in machinery and equipment, commonly required in manufacturing or service delivery. By minimizing disruptions caused by inadequate planning, the AI-driven system helps avoid increased downtime and potential safety or environmental incidents.
The self-learning maintenance order recommendation feature leverages historical data from past maintenance orders and notifications, offering planners templates for resolving new maintenance requests. It analyzes and learns from previous data, suggesting the most effective orders that align with best practices and have a higher likelihood of success. Key benefits of this innovation include streamlining the creation and planning of maintenance orders, reducing the time required for planning, and allowing planners to quickly find relevant past orders that resolved similar issues. This results in improved efficiency, minimized downtime, and enhanced safety and environmental compliance.
For more information, read here: AI-Assisted Maintenance Order Recommendations
Sales: Mass Change of Sales Orders Using Joule*
Sales representatives can now leverage Joule's copilot capabilities to execute mass changes in sales orders seamlessly. Whether it's adjusting the requested delivery date, setting or removing billing blocks, or verifying fulfillment feasibility, Joule simplifies the process by reducing manual intervention. The AI-driven logic determines if requested changes are feasible before execution, minimizing errors and unnecessary modifications. Additionally, sales teams can opt for an extra confirmation step using Joule before implementing mass changes, ensuring greater control over order processing. This innovation reduces navigation between different applications and enhances operational speed, ultimately improving customer satisfaction and internal workflow efficiency. More information, here: Manage Sales Orders - V2
*Availability planned end of March 2025 with the new Joule infrastructure
Sales: Creating Sales Orders with a Reference Through Joule
Joule further enhances sales order creation by enabling users to generate new orders with references to previous documents such as quotations, inquiries, and contracts. This feature reduces manual effort, minimizes errors, and drives down operational costs by automating complex business processes. The ability to automatically pull relevant data from existing documents ensures consistency and accuracy in sales order processing. By reducing the dependency on manual input, businesses can focus more on strategic sales decisions rather than spending time on repetitive administrative tasks. This innovation not only optimizes sales operations but also improves overall transaction reliability and efficiency.
For more information, read here: Creating Sales Documents with Reference
Sales: Tracking Sales Orders with AI Insights
With Joule's advanced capabilities, businesses can now retrieve, analyze, and resolve sales order fulfillment issues with ease. By integrating AI-driven insights, users can monitor multiple sales orders simultaneously and receive automated responses to address fulfillment challenges. This feature provides detailed explanations of order issues, allowing sales teams to take corrective action proactively. Additionally, AI-powered email responses can be automatically generated to communicate with customers regarding delays or issues, reducing response time and enhancing customer experience. The automation of issue tracking transforms sales-order management into a proactive rather than reactive process, ensuring smoother transactions and improved client relationships.
For more information, read here: Fetch Sales Order Information
Sales: Supply Protection Extension Rule for Fashion
Supply chain efficiency gets a boost with the new supply protection extension rule for fashion. This enhancement allows businesses to allocate supply resources more effectively by considering additional time buckets during consumption postings. The rule prioritizes protection groups based on a first-come, first-serve basis, ensuring optimal supply distribution and improved order fulfillment. By expanding supply protection rules, businesses can better anticipate demand fluctuations and maintain inventory levels efficiently. This innovation helps companies prevent supply bottlenecks, ensuring that critical products are available when needed while reducing the risk of over-allocation. Fashion retailers, in particular, benefit from improved stock availability, better resource planning, and reduced inventory waste.
For more information, read here: Configure Supply Protection Extension Rule - Fashion
Service Management: AI-Assisted In-House Service Initiation
Service centers can now expedite in-house repair processes using AI-powered Document Information Extraction (DOX). By scanning or photographing documents, AI automatically identifies repair objects, reducing manual input errors and enhancing operational efficiency. The system extracts relevant information from documents such as purchase orders and service requests, linking them to corresponding repair objects in SAP S/4HANA. This automation significantly cuts down the time required for service initiation, allowing repair centers to handle a higher volume of requests with greater accuracy. By eliminating repetitive manual tasks, service teams can focus more on quality assurance and customer engagement, leading to better service outcomes.
For more information, read here: AI-Assisted In-House Service Initiation
Service Management: Joule-Enabled Service Order and Confirmation
Joule extends its capabilities to service management by enabling efficient search, navigation, and processing of service orders. Users can quickly retrieve service order details, release orders, and access related confirmations. By centralizing service order information, Joule eliminates the need for manual tracking and reduces time spent searching for order-related data. This AI-driven system enhances workflow efficiency by providing instant access to necessary details, allowing service managers to make faster, more informed decisions. Ultimately, the ability to streamline service order processing leads to improved customer satisfaction and a more agile service management approach.
For more information, read here: Fetch Service Confirmation Information
Supply Chain: Generative AI for Inbound Cargo Documents
AI-driven automation is transforming inbound logistics by generating cargo documents based on shipment data. This innovation eliminates manual document checks, expedites freight unloading, and improves operational efficiency. By reducing waiting times and automating exception handling, businesses can optimize their supply chain operations effectively. AI-driven document validation helps identify discrepancies in shipment records, preventing delays caused by missing or incorrect information. This automation ensures that freight processing remains smooth, reducing operational bottlenecks and increasing overall supply chain agility. Businesses can now process inbound shipments with greater accuracy while significantly reducing labor-intensive checks.
Extended Warehouse Management: Predictive Labor Demand Planning for Warehouses
Leveraging historical workload data, predictive labor demand planning enhances warehouse efficiency by forecasting task durations for picking and packing. This enables supervisors to optimize shift planning, identify potential disruptions, and ensure timely order fulfillment. AI-based forecasting eliminates the guesswork from workforce allocation, allowing warehouses to adjust their labor resources dynamically based on actual demand patterns. By predicting potential delays and operational inefficiencies, businesses can take preventive measures, minimizing downtime and maximizing throughput. The result is improved operational transparency, cost savings, and enhanced customer satisfaction through timely deliveries.
For more information, read here: Predictive Labor Demand Planning
EPPM: Project Assistant Capabilities in Joule
Joule now supports project system users with enhanced transactional and summarization skills. By enabling natural language interactions, the AI-driven assistant simplifies data collection, improves user experience, and enhances project management efficiency. Users can access project-related data seamlessly without navigating through multiple applications. This allows project managers to quickly obtain insights, track project progress, and make data-driven decisions with minimal effort. The AI-powered assistant also helps consolidate project updates, ensuring that all stakeholders remain informed about ongoing developments in real-time. By automating routine project tasks, organizations can boost overall productivity and maintain better control over their projects.
For more information, read here: Project Builder Application
Product Lifecycle Management: Joule Enablement for Bills of Materials
Product development teams can now leverage Joule to search and manage bills of materials efficiently. This AI-powered feature reduces product development costs, streamlines change management, and enhances flexibility in automating engineering workflows. Joule ensures that product designers and engineers can quickly access relevant material lists, facilitating better coordination across different teams. By improving efficiency in managing material records, businesses can speed up product innovation cycles and reduce the risk of errors in product design. This capability helps organizations stay ahead in competitive markets by enabling faster and more accurate product development processes.
For more information, read here: Fetch Bill of Material Information
Public Sector: Machine Learning for Late Payment Risk Management
Financial processes are getting smarter with machine learning-based risk assessment for late payments. SAP S/4HANA's AI capabilities analyze customer behavior to predict payment risks, enabling businesses to deploy proactive collection strategies. By improving cash flow management and reducing outstanding receivables, organizations can enhance financial stability. AI-driven insights allow finance teams to identify high-risk customers early, implement tailored collection strategies, and prevent revenue losses. The ability to predict payment delays with greater accuracy ensures that businesses maintain financial health while minimizing disruptions in cash flow.
Automotive: Intelligent Vehicle Matching for Sales Orders
The automotive sector benefits from intelligent vehicle matching, which assigns available vehicles to sales orders efficiently. The system automates the assignment process, allowing for quick swaps and reducing processing time. By improving inventory management, businesses can optimize vehicle sales and distribution. This feature ensures that the right vehicle configurations are matched with appropriate sales orders, reducing mismatches and fulfillment delays. By automating vehicle assignments, dealerships and manufacturers can streamline their operations, ultimately improving customer experience and operational efficiency.
For more information, read here: Maintaining Vehicle Assignments
Master Data Management: AI-Assisted Change for Custom Objects
SAP introduces AI-driven mass change management for custom objects, allowing users to handle multiple business entities with ease. Generative AI simplifies the change request process, enhances data governance, and increases operational effectiveness. AI-assisted updates ensure data consistency across different business units, reducing the risk of errors and duplication. This enhancement strengthens enterprise-wide data integrity, allowing organizations to maintain high-quality, well-governed data repositories that support business agility and innovation.
For more information, read here: MDG: Processing of a Change Request
SAP S/4HANA, and SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition 2023 FPS03
The pictures below provide an overview of the key innovations shipped with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition and SAP S/4HANA 2023 FPS03 Release
See the What's New Viewer on SAP Help Portal here for the entire list of innovations
Finance
Balance Sheet FX Risk – Converting Exposures from Subsidiary to Treasury Center
Managing foreign exchange risk is now more streamlined with a centralized approach to balance sheet exposure. This feature aggregates exposure items from subsidiaries within a central hedging entity, providing a consolidated group-level view. It enables central hedging without the need for additional internal deals, ensuring more effective risk mitigation. By eliminating the requirement for separate internal transactions, organizations can reduce administrative burden and operational complexity. Additionally, a centralized calendar supports working-day shifts for multinational corporations, simplifying currency trading operations across different subsidiaries and ensuring that hedging activities align with regional market schedules.
For more information, read here: Balance Sheet FX Risk
Balance Sheet FX Risk – Customer-Specific Dimension
Organizations now have the flexibility to define custom aggregation levels when managing balance sheet FX risks. This feature allows businesses to create snapshots based on specific dimensions such as key figures, financial accounts, planning levels, portfolios, or product types. The enhanced granularity in exposure aggregation ensures that hedge requests reflect the business structure accurately, leading to more precise financial risk management. By tailoring exposure tracking to business-specific financial policies, companies can align their hedging strategies with unique operational needs, improving overall financial resilience and mitigating unexpected currency fluctuations.
For more information, read here: Balance Sheet FX Risk
Ability to Change Flows After Rate Fixing
Companies dealing with variable interest rate instruments can now adjust transactions even after the rate fixing process. This feature allows termination of an interest rate instrument transaction post-fixation while ensuring correct calculations for interest flow until the termination date. This flexibility supports a wider range of business scenarios, increasing usability and reducing financial complexity. Organizations that require more adaptable financial instruments can now modify agreements with greater ease, ensuring that financial operations remain agile in response to shifting market conditions, ultimately leading to better financial planning and risk control.
For more information, read here: Processing Interest Rate instruments
Transferring Plan Data for Central Finance
Companies using Central Finance can now replicate cost center and activity type plan postings from SAP ERP systems. This enhancement enables real-time monitoring of plan-versus-actual analysis, improving financial oversight. The ability to track transferred plan data enhances operational transparency and allows for more strategic financial planning. With the improved monitoring capabilities, financial teams can proactively identify discrepancies between planned and actual financial data, allowing for more agile decision-making and ensuring alignment with corporate financial goals.
For more information, read here: Transfer of Plan Data
Revenue Recognition for Services with Collective Accounting
SAP introduces event-based revenue recognition for services, allowing businesses to manage non-billable execution order items effectively. This innovation automates revenue recognition for sales items within service orders, enhances financial hierarchies, and improves revenue tracking for complex service contracts. These capabilities improve financial transparency and support long-term revenue optimization. With this enhancement, businesses gain greater visibility into revenue streams, ensuring that financial performance assessments are accurate and reflective of ongoing service activities.
For more information, read here: Collective Accounting
Revenue-Based Percentage of Completion for Services
Businesses executing service contracts can now use the revenue-based percentage of completion (POC) method for financial tracking. This feature ensures real-time cost accruals based on recognized revenue, improving financial forecasting. By aligning with international accounting standards, companies gain a more precise and transparent revenue recognition process. The real-time recalculations of accrued costs and revenue help finance teams maintain compliance with global reporting regulations while ensuring that financial statements reflect actual business performance.
For more information, read here: Event-based Revenue Recognition
SAP Fiori App – Manage Financial Plan Data
SAP introduces a new SAP Fiori app that streamlines financial plan data integration between SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP S/4HANA. This tool automates data transfers, enhances planning accuracy, and reduces manual intervention. Businesses can now configure and schedule financial integration jobs efficiently, ensuring consistent financial planning across systems. By enabling automated synchronization, organizations can significantly reduce errors in financial projections and ensure that strategic planning efforts are based on the most accurate and up-to-date financial data available.
For more information, see here: Exporting Data from SAP Analytics Cloud to SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition
AI-Assisted Trade Classification proposals with fuzzy search
SAP introduces AI-driven trade classification automation, enabling businesses to generate trade classification proposals for customs tariff numbers and commodity codes. By leveraging similarity searches and fuzzy search technology, organizations can classify products with greater accuracy. This automation increases productivity, reduces manual classification efforts, and ensures compliance with trade regulations. Companies can now proactively manage trade compliance, minimizing the risk of regulatory fines and improving the efficiency of international trade operations.
For more information, read here: Schedule Creation of Trade Classification Proposals – Fuzzy Search
Asset Management
Flexible Time Confirmation in Maintenance Jobs without an HR number
Maintenance teams now have the option to confirm time at the work-center level without requiring an HR number. This customization supports organizations where HR-based time tracking is not feasible. The enhancement allows more flexibility in maintenance execution while ensuring operational transparency. This update enables subphase processing without an HR-based assignment for start, pause, resume, and completion actions, making it easier for teams to manage job execution. Additionally, businesses can now implement partial and final time confirmations without assigning a specific person, ensuring greater adaptability in maintenance operations.
For more information, read here: Perform Maintenance Jobs
Counter replacement function for measuring points in the SAP Fiori app “Perform Maintenance Jobs”
Technicians can now replace counters in the SAP Fiori “Perform Maintenance Jobs” app. The new functionality enables seamless counter replacement during job processing, eliminating the need for manual tracking or switching between systems. This ensures that recorded counter values remain accurate, improving predictive maintenance planning. The feature also introduces a structured process for documenting counter replacements, which enhances auditability and regulatory compliance in industries where asset tracking is critical.
For more information, read here: Perform Maintenance Jobs
Visibility of data from service with advanced execution in the SAP Fiori app “Perform Maintenance Jobs”
The “Perform Maintenance Jobs” app now displays additional service-related data, such as sold-to party, service orders, and sales organization details. This enhancement increases transparency, improves tracking of service-related maintenance jobs, and facilitates more efficient operational planning. With the addition of an accounting indicator, users can now better align maintenance jobs with financial transactions, improving cost allocation. These updates make it easier for businesses to gain a holistic view of maintenance operations and their financial impact.
For more information, read here: Perform Maintenance Jobs
Perform Maintenance Jobs app – updated recording of the “as-found” condition
Maintenance teams can now record the “as-found” condition of assets, even when no prior maintenance notifications exist. This feature ensures that asset condition data is captured directly within the maintenance order, enhancing long-term asset performance tracking. Technicians can input findings against a technical object in the maintenance order, ensuring a comprehensive record of asset conditions. This improvement allows businesses to build better predictive maintenance strategies and enhances asset lifecycle management. For more information, read here: Perform Maintenance Jobs
Extensibility enablement in the permit-to-work process
The permit-to-work process has been enhanced with additional customizable fields for safety precautions, approvals, and assigned objects. This allows companies to integrate custom logic into permit management, ensuring better compliance with industry-specific safety requirements. Users can now configure and validate permit-related information more effectively, making the process more flexible and ensuring that all necessary safety measures are properly documented before maintenance activities begin.
For more information, read here: App Extensibility: Manage Work Permits (Key-User)
Improved handling of Maintenance Checklist
The “Manage Inspection Checklists” app has been improved with bulk result recording, new approval workflows, and advanced filtering options. This makes it easier for maintenance teams to document inspections efficiently, improving data consistency and regulatory compliance. Enhanced cross-application navigation allows users to seamlessly transition between checklist reviews and maintenance execution, reducing administrative effort. Additionally, the ability to send inspection checklists for approval ensures that quality control standards are consistently met before finalizing maintenance actions.
For more information, read here: Maintenance Checklist Type
Controlling Defaulting Behavior of Actual Work During Time Confirmation
The SAP Fiori app “Perform Maintenance Jobs, " introduced a new enhancement,” enabling maintenance planners to customize system behavior for time confirmation processes. With this update, planners gain control over whether actual work should be automatically defaulted during time confirmation or left empty and editable. This feature is particularly valuable for organizations seeking greater flexibility in time tracking, ensuring that maintenance teams can accurately report time spent on tasks without unnecessary system-imposed values. By allowing planners to configure these settings, businesses can enhance the accuracy of planned versus actual time reporting, leading to improved resource planning and operational efficiency. The ability to eliminate defaulted values helps ensure that maintenance job confirmations reflect real-time execution data, thereby improving the reliability of performance analytics and workforce productivity insights. For more information, read here: Perform Maintenance Jobs
Aligned Integration of SAP Asset Performance Management into SAP S/4HANA Maintenance Management
We have strengthened the integration between SAP Asset Performance Management (APM) and SAP S/4HANA Maintenance Management, enabling maintenance teams to access APM recommendations directly within the Find Technical Objects app (F2072). This allows users to track asset performance recommendations in real time, with statuses such as "implementation in process" and "implemented" for better visibility.
Additionally, translated recommendation data—including Type, Subtype, Source, and Status descriptions—ensures easier interpretation across global teams. The enhanced display of technical object classification data within the app reduces navigation effort and streamlines maintenance planning, improving user acceptance and operational efficiency.
For more information, read here: Integration with SAP APM recommendations
Checklist Type: New Search Field and External Read-Based Communication
An innovation has been introduced in the enhancements to the checklist type configuration, improving searchability and external data exchange capabilities. A new search field within the checklist type configuration allows users to quickly locate and apply relevant checklists, streamlining workflows and reducing manual effort. Additionally, the integration of an OData service enables external read-based communication, allowing businesses to seamlessly retrieve checklist data for analysis and integration with other systems. These improvements enhance efficiency, simplify checklist management, and ensure that users can easily access and apply the correct checklist types for their specific maintenance tasks.
For more information, read here: Maintenance Checklist Type
Ability to Pull Maintenance Notifications or Maintenance Orders in an Event-Based Planning Bucket
With this innovation and the enhancement that enables users to intuitively pull maintenance notifications and maintenance orders into an event-based planning bucket. This feature allows maintenance planners to organize backlogs efficiently by aligning tasks with the correct execution timelines. By ensuring that maintenance activities are grouped within the same planning period, organizations can simplify event planning and enhance visibility into ongoing and upcoming maintenance work. This improvement helps streamline maintenance coordination, reduce delays, and ensure better utilization of resources.
For more information, read here: Manage Maintenance Planning Buckets (New Version)
Extension of Scope for Reference- and Event-Based Planning Buckets
With this enhancement, SAP allows users to extend the scope of maintenance backlogs that can be bundled within reference- or event-based planning buckets. Maintenance planners can now define additional fields for grouping backlogs, enabling more structured and customized planning. For example, users can link an improvement project to a planning bucket, ensuring that all related maintenance backlogs are included within the same scope. This provides better alignment of maintenance tasks with organizational objectives, allowing businesses to optimize their planning strategy. The ability to adapt maintenance scope based on capacity and budget ensures a more efficient and flexible approach to asset management.
For more information, read here: Manage Maintenance Planning Buckets (New Version)
UI (Key User) and API Extensibility of Manage Maintenance Plans and Manage Maintenance Items Apps
We have enhanced the extensibility options for maintenance planners and master data specialists by introducing key-user and API-based customization capabilities in the “Manage Maintenance Plans” and “Manage Maintenance Items” SAP Fiori apps. Users can now add custom fields tailored to their business needs, allowing for more detailed tracking of maintenance activities. The ability to filter and search based on these custom fields enhances reporting accuracy and efficiency. Additionally, we have extended the OData APIs, enabling seamless integration with external applications. This ensures that maintenance plans and items remain consistent across systems, reducing manual data entry and improving operational efficiency.
For more information, read here: Maintenance Planning Buckets
Easier Use Regarding Maintenance Task List and Maintenance Plan Using the Situation Handling Framework
We have introduced simplifications to the Situation Handling framework, making it easier to manage maintenance task lists and maintenance plans. The enhancements include defaulting the team category "MAINT_MGMT" in the Manage Teams and Responsibility app (F4988) and enabling value help for situation trigger condition filters. Additionally, the My Situations - Extended app (F4537) now provides improved visibility by displaying related information in the list page and offering filtering capabilities for situation instances. These improvements make it easier for maintenance teams to track and respond to issues efficiently, increasing usability and providing faster insights into maintenance situations.
For more information, read here: Situation Handling
Enabling status management for recurring and event-based planning buckets
New lifecycle tracking capabilities allow organizations to monitor event-based planning buckets in real time. Users can define different lifecycle steps—such as planning, preparation, and execution—ensuring that maintenance backlogs are managed effectively. This structured approach improves visibility, enabling better forecasting and workload balancing for maintenance teams. The status management feature ensures that organizations can track progress and make data-driven decisions to optimize maintenance schedules.
For more information, read here: Manage Maintenance Planning Buckets (New Version)
Extended Failure Data-Based Code Handling
Maintenance technicians can now view long text and attachments related to failure codes within the “Create Maintenance Request” and “Perform Maintenance Jobs” apps. This increases transparency by providing better context for failure reporting and resolution. The ability to modify failure effects directly within job execution ensures that maintenance actions align with the actual condition of assets. This feature simplifies failure documentation and improves decision-making for corrective maintenance actions. For more information, read here: Perform Maintenance Jobs
Simplified planning, improved visibility, and easier scope definition for maintenance orders
A new SAP Fiori app enhances the visibility and tracking of maintenance orders, allowing planners to define work scopes more efficiently. This ensures a unified experience within the SAP Fiori framework, simplifying work order management and improving the accuracy of cost tracking for maintenance activities. The app also streamlines planning for materials and services, reducing delays and ensuring that maintenance activities are executed as scheduled.
For more information, read here: Manage Maintenance Orders
New filters and columns for causes and reasons in the Manage Maintenance Items app
We have introduced enhanced filtering options for maintenance items, allowing users to categorize maintenance requests based on causes and reasons. This new feature improves master data quality and ensures compliance tracking by making it easier to filter and analyze maintenance-related issues. The system now supports additional fields for cause codes, legal compliance requirements, and short text descriptions, making maintenance records more detailed and accessible.
For more information, read here: Manage Maintenance Items
API Extensibility for Maintenance Plans and Items
Maintenance planners can now extend maintenance plans and items with custom fields using SAP Fiori apps. This enables businesses to tailor maintenance records to their specific operational requirements, improving asset tracking and data management. By leveraging API extensibility, organizations can integrate maintenance data with external applications, ensuring consistency across systems and enhancing data-driven decision-making. For more information, read here: Manage Maintenance Plans
Improved flexibility for screening maintenance requests and approving maintenance orders
SAP introduces enhanced screening capabilities for maintenance requests, allowing supervisors to assess costs and prioritize critical work. This ensures that resources are allocated effectively and that maintenance expenditures align with business priorities. The improved screening process allows organizations to enforce governance without slowing down urgent maintenance activities, striking a balance between compliance and operational agility.
For more information, read here: Processing Contexts
Simplified creation of reference- and event-based planning buckets with internal numbering
A new internal numbering system simplifies the creation and tracking of event-based planning buckets. This feature allows maintenance planners to intuitively organize backlogs and ensure that planned maintenance activities are executed efficiently. The ability to categorize planning buckets based on predefined criteria improves tracking and enhances visibility into upcoming maintenance tasks.
For more information, read here: Manage Maintenance Planning Buckets (New Version)
Improvement of Minor Maintenance Work Requests with the Addition of Maintenance Orders
With this innovation, we have enhanced the handling of minor maintenance work requests by allowing users to create dedicated maintenance orders for these tasks. This improvement enables maintenance teams to document activities performed, track the use of consumable parts, and record associated services directly within a structured maintenance order. By providing a standardized approach to managing minor maintenance, organizations can ensure better traceability and compliance with maintenance procedures.
Additionally, this enhancement improves visibility into maintenance costs by capturing all relevant expenses related to minor activities, making it easier for businesses to analyze and optimize their maintenance budgets. The streamlined documentation process also reduces administrative effort, allowing maintenance teams to focus more on execution rather than manual record-keeping.
For more information, read here: Manage Maintenance Orders
Supply Chain
Ability to Adjust Order Confirmations Using Interactive Backorder Processing
The new interactive backorder processing feature allows users to manually adjust the confirmation dates and quantities of existing order requirements. This feature ensures flexibility by enabling the rechecking of one or multiple requirements, making it easier to stay on top of changing demands. Any manual adjustments to order confirmations will adhere to the core methods established in the advanced available-to-promise (aATP) setup, ensuring that the process remains within limits. Additionally, this innovation offers sorting and grouping functionality, providing a more organized approach to managing order requirements. By offering manual or semi-manual adjustments within ATP limits, this tool enhances order fulfillment rates and aligns confirmations with last-minute decisions or updated information that might not yet be reflected in the system.
For more information, read here: Manage Confirmations for Backorders
Lead Time Prediction
Lead time prediction plays a pivotal role in supply chain management, especially in extended service parts planning (eSPP). This new feature predicts lead times, with an initial focus on transportation duration, by analyzing historical lead times recorded in the Inbound Monitor. A new Fiori app provides a visual representation of historical lead time trends, variability, and current master data values, while also proposing future lead times. With an integrated approval process for lead time fields in master data, businesses can compare actual lead times with projected ones to ensure suppliers are meeting targets. The enhanced accuracy in lead time forecasting improves planning adherence and allows for better safety stock and Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) recommendations, ultimately elevating customer service levels.
For more information, read here: Manage Lead Time Predictions
Maintaining Simulation Version Data
A new Fiori app streamlines the process of maintaining simulation version data in extended Service Parts Planning (eSPP). This tool allows users to update Location, Location Product, and Transportation Lane master data interactively, using a spreadsheet-like interface or through file download and upload functions. Additionally, the app offers a way to monitor and track file uploads for each simulation version, providing valuable insights into who uploaded what data and when. This functionality eliminates the need for changes to productive data, significantly reducing the time and effort needed to prepare simulation versions. The transparency and ease of maintenance improve overall efficiency in managing simulation versions without disrupting live operations.
Managing Simulation Versions
Managing simulation versions becomes easier and more intuitive with a new Fiori app designed to create, copy, or delete simulation versions in extended Service Parts Planning (eSPP). This app improves user experience by simplifying the process of managing different versions of simulations. Users can also view metadata, including product selection, planning scope, and administrative details for each simulation version, ensuring better visibility into each version’s setup. This innovation enhances the flexibility of simulations, allowing businesses to easily experiment with different planning scenarios without compromising operational efficiency. It also applies to the SAP Digital Supply Chain Management, Edition for SAP S/4HANA, further integrating with broader supply chain management processes.
For more information, read here: Simulation within Extended Service Parts Planning
Sourcing and Procurement
Support of Price Scales in Mass Changes to Central Purchase Contracts
The mass change functionality for central purchase contracts has been extended to support the update and creation of price scale values for condition types configured for price scale maintenance. This new feature allows users to upload changes through Microsoft Excel offline, making the process more efficient. It also enables the saving of newly created or updated central purchase contracts in preparation mode only, which adds a layer of control. In addition, the offline Excel upload now supports additional fields such as the numerator and denominator at the item level, item category, unit of measurement conversion, and more. These updates improve the flexibility and accuracy of handling complex pricing scenarios, making it easier to manage and adjust large volumes of purchase contracts.
For more information, read here: Mass Changes to Central Purchase Contracts
Limit Line-Item Support in the Manage Central Supplier Confirmations App
With this innovation, the Manage Central Supplier Confirmations app now supports the creation, viewing, and modification of central supplier confirmations for centrally managed purchase orders with an Enhanced Limit (E) condition. This update includes the ability to handle line items of different categories such as Standard, Lean Services, and Enhanced Limit (E) in the confirmation process. This enhancement improves the flexibility of supplier confirmations, allowing for better management of diverse order types and simplifying the process for users. By adding more line-item support, businesses can more effectively communicate with suppliers and manage order confirmations.
For more information, read here: Support of Enhanced Limit in Central Supplier Confirmation
Output of Line-Item Attachments Within Centrally Managed Purchase Orders Through SAP Business Network
This release extends the output functionality of centrally managed purchase orders through SAP Business Network by supporting the inclusion of line-item attachments for external use. Now, any associated line-item attachments can be sent along with purchase orders, enhancing compliance and ensuring that all necessary documentation is readily available. This innovation helps streamline the communication process, ensuring that suppliers and partners receive the full context of each order, including attachments that may be crucial for processing or regulatory requirements.
For more information, read here: Output of Line-Item Attachments within Centrally Managed Purchase Orders
Transportation Management
Please also refer to read detailed blog on Transportation Management by my colleague here: What's new in FP03 of Transportation Management in S/4HANA Cloud, Private Edition 2023
Integration with SAP GTS in Side-by-Side Advanced Shipping and Receiving Outbound Scenario
The integration with SAP Global Trade Services (SAP GTS) for a side-by-side deployment of Advanced Shipping and Receiving (ASR) in an outbound scenario brings seamless communication between SAP Transportation Management and Extended Warehouse Management, both deployed alongside SAP S/4HANA ERP. This integration ensures compliance with export declarations, including the customs invoice, and performs checks for outbound freight units and freight orders. This enhances the overall outbound freight management process, enabling businesses to operate more efficiently while maintaining compliance with global trade regulations.
For more information, read here: SAP GTS Integration in Decentralized EWM and TM
Carrier Determination in the Freight Unit, Consignment Order, and Freight Order
The ability to automatically assign carriers in SAP Transportation Management for freight units, consignment orders, and freight orders is now possible through simple carrier determination rules. This innovation reduces the manual effort of selecting the right carrier, ensuring smoother collaboration with transportation partners. By using straightforward rules to assign carriers, businesses can streamline their transportation processes and focus on other critical areas, ultimately improving the efficiency of their supply chain.
For more information, read here: Carrier Determination
Capabilities for Transportation Planning and Network
Enhancements in transportation planning and network capabilities have been introduced to improve usability and functionality. These improvements include better manual load planning, faster automatic planning, enhanced embedded scheduling, and a more dynamic display of departure times in the transportation cockpit. Additionally, the support for newer versions of external map providers provides more accurate and up-to-date geographic data. These improvements make transportation planning more efficient and resource utilization better, ensuring that businesses can optimize their transportation network and respond quickly to changing conditions.
For more information, read here: Enhancements for Transportation Cockpit and Manual Planning
Integration with nJIT (Just-in-Time) Outbound Process
This feature enhances the integration of Just-in-Time (JIT) outbound processes by enabling the receipt of multiple JIT calls per product within a single Advanced Shipping Notification (ASN). Additionally, it incorporates slot numbers into ASN packaging information, automatically determining the corresponding freight units based on the JIT call references. The inclusion of inbound delivery and packaging (HU) information further improves the consistency of data across systems and organizations, helping to ensure that JIT calls are processed smoothly and accurately. The ability to receive status updates from successfully processed ASN messages also ensures real-time communication across all involved parties.
For more information, read here: Integration of Next Generation Just-In-Time
Warehouse Management
Please also refer to read detailed blog on Transportation Management by my colleague here: SAP S/4HANA Cloud for Extended Warehouse Management Private Edition 2023 FPS03
Advanced Shipping and Receiving: Decentral Integration with SAP GTS
The integration of SAP Global Trade Services (SAP GTS) with Advanced Shipping and Receiving (ASR) in a side-by-side deployment with SAP Transportation Management and SAP Extended Warehouse Management provides a comprehensive solution for outbound freight management. This integration facilitates compliance checks for outbound freight units and freight orders, as well as export declarations, including customs invoices. By streamlining this process, businesses can ensure smoother logistics operations, reduce delays, and enhance the overall efficiency of the outbound shipping process.
For more information, read here: SAP GTS Integration in Decentralized EWM and TM
Scanning Alternative HU IDs During RF Processing
With this feature, users can scan alternative handling unit (HU) IDs on vendor labels and the system converts them to internal Extended Warehouse Management HU IDs. Converting the alternative HU IDs in RF transactions ensures that they don’t need to re-label the HUs or create custom RF screens. Note that if multiple HU IDs are assigned to one alternative HU ID, we can select the relevant internal HU ID.
For more information, read here: Scanning Alternative HU IDs During RF Processing
Advanced Shipping and Receiving BAdIs for Prechecks Before Loading Execution
This feature provides customers with the ability to create custom prechecks for loading execution using Business Add-Ins (BAdIs). Whether on the radio frequency (RF) screen or the "Load or Unload Freight Orders" app, businesses can implement their own logic to display warning or error messages to users before loading begins. This flexibility allows customers to enforce specific conditions and block the loading process if necessary, increasing the control and accuracy of warehouse operations while reducing the risk of errors during the loading phase.
For more information, read here: Custom Checks for Loading Materials onto a Freight Order
Advanced Shipping and Receiving Other Process and User Experience Updates
This update enhances the search and display functionality for freight order characteristics in SAP Extended Warehouse Management (EWM), ensuring that users can access relevant information quickly. The item weight update for outbound delivery orders (ODO) has also been improved in the EWM-to-TM interface, enhancing communication between systems. These updates provide better user experience and more effective handling of freight orders, helping warehouse staff streamline processes and reduce time spent searching for critical data. For more information, read here: Advanced Shipping and Receiving
SAP Customer Connection Program Updates: Entering Free Text and Barring Quantity Reduction with “Complete Delivery” Flag
The SAP Fiori apps “Manage Warehouse Documents” and “Manage Physical Stock - Products” now support the ability to enter free text, providing greater flexibility in documenting warehouse activities. This free text is also displayed in warehouse documents and material documents within the ERP solution (MB51 and MIGO). Additionally, the new functionality prevents quantity reductions in outbound deliveries when the “Complete Delivery” flag is set, reducing the risk of errors and ensuring better inventory accuracy. These updates increase document transparency and help prevent stock inconsistencies
For more information, read here: Prevention of Quantity Reductions When Only Complete Deliveries Allowed
Manufacturing
Ability to specify one or more usage-specific alternate material for a component in the BOM
In manufacturing, flexibility is key. The ability to specify one or more alternate materials for a component in the Bill of Materials (BOM) allows manufacturers to adapt quickly without having to alter the production master data. When a production operative assembles a product, they can use an alternate material instead of the original part. Moreover, any special use of the alternative part is recorded as part of the as-built process. This innovation boosts flexibility by enabling the use of alternative components without modifying existing master data, ensuring seamless production operations.
For more information, read here: Order Genealogy
Managing master manufacturing BOM and shop floor routing for nonconfigurable material using Manage Production Model
With the Manage Production Model app, manufacturers can now create or edit a production model for nonconfigurable materials more easily. This app consolidates both the manufacturing BOM and shop floor routing, simplifying maintenance and management tasks. The convenience of managing both elements in one app streamlines the production process, making it easier to keep things organized and up-to-date. This integration significantly reduces administrative overhead and boosts operational efficiency, providing a unified solution for production model management.
For more information, read here: Manage Production Models - Materials
Resolving deviations arising from the comparison of as-built with as-planned projects
Manufacturers often face deviations when comparing as-built projects to the as-planned designs. Now, deviations can be handled efficiently by displaying discrepancies either at the individual component level or across the entire BOM hierarchy. These deviations can be filtered based on their type, and defects can be created for further remediation. This feature ensures that manufacturers can maintain production integrity and conformance to the plan, offering a streamlined approach to managing and correcting deviations.
For more information, read here: As-Built Report
Enhancement to Display Results History App
The Display Results History app now comes with enhanced search criteria, including Equipment and Functional Location, which can be added to the inspection results table on the object page. This feature makes it easier for users to track specific equipment and locations within their inspections, offering a more detailed and navigable overview of technical data. With these added capabilities, users can improve their tracking and monitoring of equipment performance, streamlining inspection processes.
For more information, read here: Display Results History App
Check Optimization Log
The Check Optimization Log now provides comprehensive details about optimization runs. This feature includes key information such as status indicators, runtime metrics, and detailed sub-logs, which cover a variety of elements like input parameters, location products, results, costs, and solution quality metrics. This innovation enables more effective monitoring and troubleshooting of optimization processes, helping businesses fine-tune their operations for better results.
For more information, read here: Check Optimization Log
Sales (including subscription contracts)
Automating credit card authorization checks for sales orders with multiple shipments
Sales orders with multiple shipments can now be processed without requiring reauthorization, as long as the original credit card authorization amount is not exceeded. This automation streamlines the process by allowing every shipment to automatically consume the initial authorization amount, eliminating the need for further reauthorizations. However, if the total value exceeds the authorization amount, reauthorization will be required for the difference. This feature reduces friction in payment processes and improves efficiency, especially for sales orders with multiple shipments.
For more information, read here: Authorization of Payment Cards
Automatic placement of the determined Valid-To date field in the quotation header
A new feature automatically determines the Valid-To date for quotations, eliminating manual entries and reducing errors. This process uses new customizing options involving configurable parameters and Business Rule Framework plus (BRFplus) rules to determine the date. The automation of this process ensures that the correct date is applied every time, saving time and ensuring accuracy in quotations.
For more information, read here: Flexible Proposal of Validity Dates in Sales Quotations
Use of prices in the Manage Prices – Sales app that are specific to the product hierarchy level
In the Manage Prices – Sales app, prices can now be maintained at specific product hierarchy levels, simplifying the pricing structure. This capability allows businesses to define prices at multiple levels, automate updates through spreadsheet exports and imports, and implement approval workflows. Additionally, prices can now be replicated across systems using SOAP, facilitating a more seamless and accurate pricing process.
For more information, read here: Product Hierarchy for Manage Prices - Sales
Preventing creation of credit or debit memos if credit or debit memo requests are blocked after trade compliance check
To ensure compliance and reduce risks, credit or debit memos can no longer be created if the associated requests are blocked during the trade compliance check in SAP Global Trade Services (GTS). This innovation prevents further processing of non-compliant transactions, ensuring that businesses adhere to trade regulations and compliance requirements.
For more information, read here: Order-Related Billing Process: Prevent Invoice Creation When Compliance Checks Fail
Simplified processing of customs invoices for scenarios with distributed systems
This innovation streamlines the processing of customs invoices by allowing specific pro forma invoices to be completed in the system using HTTP methods. Users can also batch process multiple invoices simultaneously, which saves time and reduces errors. Additionally, new fields for foreign trade statistical value and currency key have been added to the OData API, improving integration with external systems and ensuring compliance with reporting requirements.
Integrating the ability to make a payment using a link in sales billing
Customers can now make payments directly through a link or QR code included in billing document outputs, such as invoice printouts. This integration with SAP's digital payment capabilities accelerates payment processing, providing a faster and more convenient way for customers to settle their invoices. The result is a simplified and efficient payment experience for both businesses and customers.
For more information, read here: Payment by Link in Billing Documents
Extensibility of the returns overview in advanced returns management (BAdI)
The Returns Overview for Customer and Supplier Returns now allows users to extend the detail tree with additional items, making it easier to display documents that aren't part of the standard process. By using the Business Add-In (BAdI), companies can add new nodes or documents to the returns process, providing greater flexibility and improving the efficiency of customer returns and supplier returns management.
For more information, read here: BAdIs for Customer returns
Support of multilevel variant configuration for physical products
The new feature supports multilevel variant configuration for physical products, enabling businesses to configure products with multiple levels in their bill of materials (BOM). This support enhances the configuration capabilities of physical products, allowing manufacturers to customize products to meet specific customer needs, all while using advanced variant configuration tools in SAP.
More information, read here: Using Multi-Level Advanced Variant Configuration in Solution Quotation
SAP Global Trade Services, edition for SAP HANA: Integration with SAP S/4HANA subscription contract
SAP Global Trade Services (GTS) has been enhanced to better handle subscription contracts, with the ability to prevent activities involving embargoed countries and check legal control for subscription processes. This ensures compliance and helps avoid legal issues, especially when dealing with international contracts. Businesses can now streamline their trade compliance checks for subscription contracts, reducing risks associated with non-compliant processes.
For more information, read here: GTS Integration with Subscription Contracts
Ability to reactivate cancelled subscription contracts
Subscription contracts that have been cancelled can now be reactivated within a specified time frame or grace period. This feature provides businesses with the flexibility to reverse accidental cancellations, enhancing the customer experience and reducing churn. Customers can reconsider their decision, while businesses can retrieve contract data after cancellation, improving overall contract management.
For more information, read here: Reactivate
Adding subitems in a change order with reference to the master agreement
This innovation allows businesses to add new subitems from a pre-negotiated master agreement to an existing subscription contract. This functionality facilitates upselling and cross-selling by enabling customers to add additional items from the agreement at any time. By offering this flexibility, businesses can improve customer satisfaction and increase sales opportunities.
For more information, read here: Creating Call-Offs with Reference to Master Agreements
Additional features in mass change apps for repricing and mass runs for subscription orders
With the new bulk repricing capabilities in SAP, subscription contracts can now be updated in bulk with new prices from master data. This feature automates the repricing process, saving time and reducing the need for manual updates. The enhancements to mass processing apps allow businesses to scale efficiently by handling multiple subscription contracts and pricing changes at once.
For more information, read here: Mass Creation of Subscription Orders
New monitoring metrics for business data growth
New metrics are introduced to track business data growth, including SubscriberAccountCount, ContractCount, and MappingRableRowCount. These metrics allow businesses to monitor the growth of key data objects, improving the ability to support users and identify potential issues early on. With these metrics, businesses can manage their data more effectively and ensure system performance remains optimal.
SAP Fiori app “Display Provider Contracts”: display of provider contracts with associated allowances in SAP S/4HANA
The SAP Fiori app "Display Provider Contracts" has been enhanced to show provider contracts along with associated allowances in SAP S/4HANA. This integration into SAP Convergent Charging improves the verification process, helping businesses ensure the accuracy of provider contract data. The enhancement simplifies the management and verification of contracts, making it easier for users to access and monitor critical contract information.
For more information, read here: Subscription Contract Item Pricing Element
Support for additional pricing components in the Cockpit
The new "Number Matching" and "Number Split-Based Addition" pricing components introduced in the Cockpit allow for greater flexibility in managing complex pricing scenarios. These features enhance the control businesses have over pricing rules, improving the ability to customize and optimize pricing strategies based on specific needs. The addition of these components supports a wider range of pricing scenarios, increasing the overall adaptability of the system.
For more information, read here: Subscription Contract Item Pricing Element
Facilitation of the deployment of the Cockpit with an installer
To simplify the deployment process, an installer has been introduced in SAPInst for the Cockpit. This new installation option allows for smoother setup and updates, reducing the complexity of deployment. Although the Apache Tomcat Server deployment option remains supported, the new installer makes it easier to get the Cockpit up and running, improving user adoption and overall system utilization.
Renaming of nodes in pricing trees
This feature enables users to rename node labels in pricing trees during configuration, offering greater flexibility in the pricing setup. Additionally, users can reset the node names to the default names computed by the app, making it easier to maintain consistency across the system. This enhancement improves the user experience when working with pricing trees, allowing for better customization and organization.
More information, here: Product Hierarchy for Manage Prices - Sales
Service
Integration with SAP Global Trade Services, edition for SAP HANA to manage trade compliance checks for service contracts
The integration of SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition with SAP Global Trade Services (SAP GTS, edition for SAP HANA) allows organizations to effectively manage trade compliance checks for service contracts. With this integration, users can prevent service activities with embargoed countries, check the legal control of service processes, resolve legal control issues with blocked service documents, and ensure business partner addresses are not on any denied party list. This feature helps organizations comply with global trade regulations and minimize risks associated with international trade, ensuring a smoother and more efficient process for handling service contracts.
For more information, read here: Integration with SAP Global Trade Services
Displaying billing document requests in transaction history
The service contract transaction history is now enriched by displaying billing document requests. This enhancement provides improved visibility into the entire process flow, from service contract creation to billing. This feature allows for better tracking and management of billing document requests, resulting in better insights into the service contract lifecycle. By simplifying the process, users can decrease administrative costs and speed up the process of creating and changing service contract billing details with fewer steps.
More information, here: Display Billing Document Request in Transaction History in Service Contract
Change process for renewal of entire service contract
The renewal process for service contracts has been streamlined by introducing a new header change process. This allows the creation of a new service contract linked to an existing one, facilitating a more efficient renewal process. By separating renewal data from historical data, organizations gain better transparency into contract maintenance. This enhancement significantly reduces the manual effort required for contract renewals, making the overall process more efficient and automated.
For more information, read here: Contract Renewal - New Contract
Ability to schedule the printing of a service contract in the background using output management
This feature enables the scheduling of service contract output document generation, allowing documents to be processed and released in a batch at a later time. Through output management, users have better control over the timing of document preparation, ensuring documents are issued when most appropriate. The ability to schedule printing in the background ensures consistency in document processing, minimizing the risk of errors while enhancing planning capabilities for the service contract lifecycle.
For more information, here: Output Management for Service Orders, Service Quotations, and Service Contracts
Flexibility to create a service order from a maintenance plan
Users can now create service orders directly from a maintenance plan, offering greater flexibility in managing maintenance activities. By assigning plant maintenance (PM) orders generated through a maintenance plan to an existing service order, users can consolidate multiple maintenance plan items into a single service order, creating a cohesive view of the services being performed. This flexibility allows users to manage complex business use cases and improve commercial planning by grouping execution orders under a unified service order.
For more information, read here: Replication of Maintenance Orders
Integration of qualifications in service transactions
Qualification requirements can now be defined at the header and item levels for service quotes, orders, templates, and solution quotes. This ensures that service managers can accurately plan and execute services by ensuring the right qualifications are available and assigned. By automating qualification checks and assignments, this integration improves the accuracy of service planning, ensuring the right personnel and skills are applied to each service transaction.
For more information, read here: Qualifications in Service Transactions
Service Hierarchy with Collective Accounting in service transactions
The ability to group service order items into a service hierarchy with a main item as the collective accounting item provides additional commercial flexibility. This feature supports both fixed-price and time-and-material billing for bundled service offerings, while consolidating financial reporting and revenue recognition at the main item level. This grouping allows for better financial management and reporting, providing a clearer picture of the financial performance of service contracts.
For more information, read here: Service Hierarchy with Collective Accounting
Warranty determination enhancements in service transactions
Warranty determination has been enhanced to consider date-based warranties, master warranties linked to material serial numbers, and other key elements. This functionality provides a more accurate and flexible warranty determination process by allowing users to specify whether a transaction or item is under warranty, including the ability to handle multi-counter warranties. The updated warranty determination helps automate price calculations and revenue posting while providing better visibility of warranty coverage in service transaction UIs.
For more information, read here: Warranty Determination
Transition to Item-Based Accounting for Production System
This feature facilitates the transition to item-based accounting for service transactions. Organizations using the account assignment manager can now switch to item-based accounting without disrupting existing processes. It also ensures that costs and revenues are properly assigned to service contracts and service order items, simplifying financial processing and enabling better financial oversight.
For more information, read here: Transition to Item-Based Accounting for Production System
Human Capital Management
New SAP Fiori app “Timesheet Analytics - My Compliance” for employees
The new SAP Fiori app provides employees with an intuitive way to check their own timesheet and time-recording compliance. This self-service feature allows employees to easily track their time entries and ensure that all necessary timesheet requirements are met. The app enhances user experience and ensures smoother timesheet management across various devices.
For more information, read here: Timesheet Analytics - My Compliance
New SAP Fiori app “Timesheet Analytics - Compliance” for managers
The new Fiori app, "Timesheet Analytics - Compliance," designed for managers and administrators to easily monitor timesheet compliance. With this app, managers and administrators can review the compliance of both individual employees and entire organizational units. The key benefits include an enhanced user experience, streamlined management through the intuitive Fiori interface, and seamless use across devices. This solution empowers managers to efficiently oversee timesheet accuracy, helping to ensure compliance and improve operational efficiency.
For more information, read here: Timesheet Analytics – Compliance
New SAP Fiori app “My Time Events” for employees
This new SAP Fiori app empowers employees, managers, and administrators to create, edit, and delete time events while also addressing any time evaluation errors. By allowing users to identify and correct missed clock-in and clock-out entries, this app streamlines the time event management process, improving both accuracy and efficiency.
For more information, read here: My Time Events (Version 3)
New SAP Fiori app “Approve Time Events” for managers
The "Approve Time Events" SAP Fiori app gives managers the ability to approve or reject time events submitted by their employees, such as clock-in and clock-out entries. This feature improves the time management process by enabling faster approvals, reducing delays in payroll processing, and ensuring that all time entries are accurate before final approval.
For more information, read here: Approve Time Events (Version 3)
Processes and forms in human capital management: New design time tool
The Design Time Tool has been enhanced to provide improved usability features and a streamlined configuration process. With this tool, administrators can more easily modify existing records, edit fields, and adjust configurations as business needs change. This tool reduces maintenance efforts and enhances productivity by simplifying the process of managing and customizing configurations for human capital management processes.
Cross Components
Master Data Management
Please also refer to this document for latest innovation delivered in MDG: What's New in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, Master Data Governance
Enabling Field Extensibility in Customer and Supplier Views (Cloud-Ready Mode)
SAP now allows businesses to apply field extensibility in the cloud-ready mode for both customer and supplier views, enhancing flexibility in master data management. This feature extends custom fields not just in the business-partner core view (BUT000), but also in essential customer and supplier views, including customer core, company code, and sales area views (KNA1, KNB1, KNVV), as well as supplier core, company code, and purchasing organization views (LFA1, LFB1, LFM1). By enabling the customization of these fields, organizations can capture more granular and relevant data, allowing for greater control and consistency in managing their business partners. This functionality ultimately helps improve master data governance, ensuring better data accuracy, visibility, and management across the enterprise.
For more information, see here: Master Data Governance for Customer
Assignment of Data Controllers to a Business Partner in the Classic Mode of Central Governance
In an effort to enhance the central governance of business partner data, SAP introduces the ability to manually assign one or more data controllers to a business partner in the classic mode of central governance. This new functionality provides flexibility for master data specialists, enabling them to assign data controllers either manually or based on organizational unit derivations. Additionally, the system allows for the immediate derivation of data controllers when corresponding organizational units are maintained. This improvement increases the effectiveness of central governance processes by streamlining the management of business partner data and ensuring that the appropriate controllers are assigned quickly and accurately. The "Invalid Assignment Status" feature also ensures that outdated or incorrect assignments are flagged, ensuring data integrity.
For more information, see here: Master Data Governance for Customer
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