
'Process Hierarchy' enables users to define common process landscape which is used across SAP Cloud ALM tenant.
This blog outlines how to manage and track your process hierarchy assignments in SAP Cloud ALM, with a spotlight on introduction to the new analytics application called 'Process Hierarchy Assignments'. This application provides a unified overview of process hierarchy and its assignments across your implementation projects. Before delving into the details of new application, let's briefly recap for managing process hierarchies in SAP Cloud ALM.
A process hierarchy is a structured representation of processes within an organization or system. You can break down complex processes of your organization into smaller components to create multiple levels or layers of nodes. Each level of process hierarchy nodes represents different stages or components of a process. To learn more about Process Hierarchy, you can visit Help Portal.
To create or edit process hierarchy in SAP Cloud ALM, admins can assign the role 'Process Hierarchy Author' to themselves or other team members in user management app.
Once you have the role authorizations, you can create the Process Hierarchy structure in the 'Process' app or simply upload via Excel. More information about how to upload process hierarchies via spreadsheet can be found in this Blog Post..
Once the process hierarchy structure is created, the assignment of hierarchy nodes is possible in various applications. You can assign hierarchy nodes to your Solution Processes, Requirements, Tasks and Documents in their respective applications. Assigning these entities to process hierarchy will enable clarity, accountability, and efficient tracking at the hierarchy level in your implementation.
Process Hierarchy Assignments is a cross-project report that offers granular structure of process hierarchy nodes, along with the status of its assigned elements allowing for deeper insights into relationships.
Process Hierarchy Assignments can be launched from the 'Cross-Project Overview' page.
Where to find Process Hierarchy Assignment Apps
Here you can analyze assignments of your Solution Processes, Requirements, Tasks and Documents that may belong to different implementation projects, to specific process hierarchy node. The first column present the tree structure of your defined process hierarchy nodes and the next columns display number and status of assigned elements.
You can also utilize the expand or collapse functionality on individual node to adjust the view based on the granularity of levels of hierarchy you need or simply use 'Expand All' / 'Collapse All' icons on top right to adjust the view.
Process Hierarchy Assignments App
Use the settings to personalize the displayed columns. You can choose the entities you wish to include in the columns and their order as well.
Use 'Settings' to personalize the columns
To delve deeper, for instance, into a specific node, you can activate the side panel by clicking on the arrow. The side panel will then display the list of assigned elements grouped by projects. You can then navigate through different tabs to view the entity list.
For further drill down, the app also provides forward navigation. For instance, in the requirements tab, if you wish to explore requirements in the realization status and check their testing status, you can simply select the requirements and navigate to requirements traceability.
View details in the side panel to forward naviagte
Here are the upcoming enhancements planned for Process Hierarchy Assignments app. Stay tuned for further updates!
Adding filters to narrow down results for specific Projects, Scopes, and Process Hierarchy Nodes.
Adding filters to display hierarchy nodes with assigned Solution Processes, Requirements, Documents, and Tasks in specific statuses.
Adding filters to display hierarchy nodes with specific Document types and Task types assigned.
Introducing anomaly detection, such as identifying nodes with no assigned project elements.
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