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Customer Relationship Management CRM Service Ma

Financials, Controlloing, Asset Management FI, CO, AM Strategic En

Human Resources HR Supply Chai

Knowledge Management (Training) KM Technology

Materials Management/Procurement MM Variant Co

Plant Maintenance PM Warehouse

Product Design PD

Production Planning PP

Quality Management QM



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Release Delta Functionality Functionality Description Business Benefit

From 3.1 To 4.0 Mass change

In Release 3.0, SAP introduced the functions for

master data maintenance and asset retirement using

mass processing. In order to represent the

organizational flow of these functions in the system,

you needed to use R/3 SAP Business Workflow.

In Release 4.0A, you do not need this organizational

representation in SAP Business Workflow. Mass

changes and mass retirements can be carried out

directly by each R/3 user who has the necessary

authorization. You no longer need to define the

responsible users in an organizational plan and assign

them to the workflow tasks.

Ease of use/ productity

Multiple Similar Assets

In Release 4.0A there is a new function for creating

multiple similar assets from within a master data

transaction. The similar assets differ initially only in

their main number or sub-number. When you save, you

can also change the asset description and the inventory

number of the individual assets.


Intercompany Asset Transfer

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intercompany asset transfer that enables you to post

completely from the sending company code. The system

automatically posts the acquisition in the receiving

company code, and creates the new asset (if one is

needed).Please note, however, that this function is only

available for transfers within a single client. Transfers

between clients or systems must be posted in two

steps (retirement and acquisition).


Overhead cost controlling

Release 4.0A provides greater support for changes in

your organization. General enhancements to master

data include tab displays to improve master data

overview, increased list display functionality, and

improved collective processing functions for cost

centers. Internal order master data has a new layout

as well including tab index pages with additional user-defined fields.


Allocation

In release 4.0A, allocation enhanced features include a

formal check feature that tests individual cycles

before production runs, a segment overview function

that displays all the segments involved in a selected

cycle, change documents that log cycles or segment

indicators and settings, segment insertion at any place

for a cycle, and sorting of segments for a cycle.


Financials, Controlling and Asset Management Release Highlights







Client copy and transfer

new au or za on _ _ s c ec e(optional in 4.0A). In a remote copy, large clients can

be copied without main memory problems. Values such

as source client or source destination can be saved for

profiles. Since all necessary profiles are delivered by

SAP, you are not allowed to create customer profiles.

Ease of use/productivity

Automatically mailing of spool request output

from background jobs

With Release 4.0A, it is possible to specify that spool

request(s) generated by a background job are to be

mailed automatically to one or more recipients. The

mail functionality of the SAPoffice component is used

for the automatic mailing. The spool request(s) may be

mailed to a single R/3 mail user, to an external user, or

to a distribution list that can include multiple R/3 mail

and external mail users. The mail recipient can be

identified by his or her R/3 user ID or by the user's

name in the R/3 address management component.

Addressing by name in the address management

requires that user address information be maintained

in the R/3 SAPoffice. This increases efficient

communication and saves time and mailing costs.

Unique gaps can be filled,

currently scattered acrossWhirlpool. Relaces tool in

legacy system maintencanc

costs savings.

VRU integrationAbility to support and integrated automated VRU w/

R/3

Reduced customer support

staff, Reduced response ti

to customer inquiries

Activity Based Costing

Activity-Based Costing (CO-OM-ABC) in the SAP R/3

System uses the assignment of resources to business

processes based on cost origin allowing detailed

analysis of specific areas in addition to cross-functional, process-oriented views of your organization.

This allows for much greater transparency in the area

of overhead.

processes, allowing collecti

of basic information for

management strategies and

decision-making. The

operational integration of

Activity-Based Costing wit

the other components in

Controlling (CO) allows

process cost flows to be

displayed as part of produc

manufacturing costs.

Particularly useful for

organizations with a high

percentage of overhead cos

and a high degree of produ

complexity, especially as su

product complexity leads t

strongly differentiated

utilization of overhead cos

processes by the individual

products. Reduces the

maintenance required for

activity-based costing

calculations.

Consolidation

Ability to generate interna

and statutory group

reports,through a single,

standard tool.





IS-SW Support Ability to support revenue recognition

FASB Comp iance orstatutory reporting of

revenue, Ability to minimize

time to recognize sales

revenue

Warehouse Management

From 4.0 To 4.5 Reoccurring Items

reference. The system can now copy the original

document's long text to the documents that result

from recurring entries and from posting with

reference. When posting with reference, you can

choose this option on the initial screen and change the

texts as you enter and process the document. The

recurring entry data of an original document contains a

new parameter that you can choose to have the long

text copied. You can change this setting at any time.

The system copies all texts from the original document

once you process the batch-input session. You cannot

have the system transfer individual types of text. In

addition cross-country code correspondence in release

4.5 allows data from many company codes to be

grouped together.

Combine for a overall A/P

efficiency improvement

Balance Display

As of release 4.5 you can create worklists for account

numbers and company codes in the balance displays for:

You define the worklists in customizing as previously.

For the balance display in the general ledger, all the

company codes in the worklist must have the same local

currency and the same fiscal year variant.

If you have several parallel local currencies, the

worklist can still be used: the data on the parallel local

currencies can then, however, not be displayed.

Eliminates extra screen

processing





Payment Currency

,currency can be paid in a different (alternative)

currency when paying line items manually. Payers in

certain countries and industries also require this

facility during automatic payment transactions so that

they can make payments in any given currency available

to them.

As a rule, payers and the vendors either come to a

general agreement on what constitute acceptable

alternative currencies, or they agree on the payment

currency and the payment amount per transaction.

Prior to Release 4.5A, payments in an alternative

currency could only be created and posted manually. Asof Release 4.5A, it is now possible to enter a payment

currency that differs from the document currency in

the open item. You can also specify an amount

equivalent to the gross amount of the item in the

payment currency.

Manual process reuired to

pay in another currency,

eliminates multiple payment

runs

Dunning Reporting

dunning in 4.0:

A single customer or vendor can be dunned using the

individual dunning notice switch in transaction F150.

This enables you to see the current dunning status, and

to make a sample printout or an actual printout of the

dunning notice. For individual dunning notices, an

MHNK/MHND record is only written in the actual

printout.

As of 4.0, it is possible to group dunning notices for one

time accounts.

In each company code, sort variants for dunning notice

headers and lines can be maintained in table T047.

The interest calculation indicator set for the dunning

procedure can be used for each dunning area.

dunning

By installing interfaces, it is possible to carry out

customer-specific enhancements or modifications.

data, has been adjusted to the new address

management or the changed user address data in

SAPoffice. New fields have been included. However,

some fields are no longer supplied, e.g. cost center.

dunning notices.

media attached.





Lock Box Processing

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house bank using normal telecommunications or a

lockbox provider, can now be received using Electronic

Data Interchange (EDI). The data flows into the

system automatically and you can process it there.

EDI lockbox processing consists of three steps. In the

first step, the data is automatically imported into the

system and stored in the IM bank data store. The next

step is top schedule the report program RFEBLB30;

this uses the lockbox data to generate the following

postings. The last step is to process the lockbox data

using transaction FLB1.

Improved performance using RFC during

depreciation posting

n re ease . e eprec a on-pos ng program

RABUCH00 was changed to use Basis technology for

parallel processing. As a result, it is possible to

distribute the workload to several servers and work

processes, which considerably reduces the overall

runtime.

In addition, the program now offers the option of

directly posting the depreciation posting documents,

instead of creating a batch-input session. You can

choose this option using a report parameter. When you

use this function, the step of processing the batch

input session is no longer required, which again

considerably reduces the overall runtime for

depreciation posting. As compared to posting using the

batch-input session, the system creates fewer

documents when you choose the direct posting option.


Automatic assignment of the inventory

numbers

Using SAP enhancement AISA0001, you can have the

system automatically assign an inventory number when

you create a new asset master record. The new number

is assigned according to rules you define.


Period-end partnner for asset accounting

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Asset Accounting using the Period-End Partner. The

Period-End Partner (PEP) is a general tool in the

Accounting components of the R/3 System. It makes iteasier to control periodic processing, and in the future

will help to make these processes automatic as far as

possible. Using the Period-End Partner you can display

the current status of the period-end closing.

You can use the Period-End Partner to control either

the posting depreciation process or the posting of

asset values (other than depreciation) process in Asset

Accounting.






Summary for external accounting documents

As of release 4.5A you can carry out document

summarization in Controlling for postings from external

accounting. Depending on the object type you define

the fields that are not to appear in the CO document.

You can only use those fields for summarization that

contain no information of relevance to Controlling.


Group maintenance

documents for all groups within Controlling if you have

made the corresponding settings in the Implementation

Guide (IMG) "Controlling General". Based on the

change documents you can make changes to the group

at any time. All changes to the group structure and thegroup name are logged, together with the date of the

change and the user. Selection variants in group

maintenance: You can use the following functions for

selection variants when you maintain groups of cost

elements, cost centers, activity types, business

processes, orders and WBS


elements. Processing master data from the standard

hierarchy: Until now, you structured the standard

hierarchy and created cost centers or business

processes in two separate steps. It was only possible

through master data maintenance to assign a cost

center or a business process to a node of the standard

hierarchy or to change the assignment of a cost center

or business process to a node. As of Release 4.5A it is

possible to edit the standard hierarchy and cost

centers or business processes at the same time. This

simplifies maintenance. It is not yet possible to edit

master data for profit centers from standard

hierarchy maintenance.

Transfer Pricing

Making sure there are no

zeros in tranfer costs-data

integrity. Ease of use, less

effort to maintain/efficien

Planning, Budgeting & Foecasting Ability to upload spreadsheet data i.e. budgets

Ease of use/ productity,als

have the ability to capture

actuals & create plans base

on them (efficiency)

Appropriation requests

n e ease . , you can n oge er severa

appropriation requests that can be seen as alternative

methods of implementing a measure or as different

alternate investment options. These alternate

appropriation requests are linked by means of the

original appropriation request (that is, the first of the

alternates that was created).

Enhancement to PS

(investment manager only)





This function goes a step further than the

appropriation request variants by allowing you to link

very different alternatives (such as, do we build a plant

in the USA or in Spain?) together in the system. Up

until release 4.5A the "program position ID" field was

not available in the master data screen for internal

orders. In Release 4.5A, the "program position ID"

field is included in the screen layout of appropriation

requests. It can now be defined as a required entry

field in appropriation request master data.

Capital Investment Programs

In Release 4.5A, you can reassign measures and

appropriation requests, which are assigned to aprogram position, within the investment program. You

can also select a limited number of the measures and

appropriation requests that are assigned to a program

position, and reassign only those measures or requests.

Reassigned measures take all of their plan, budget and

actual values with them. At the level of the investment

program, the system automatically makes the

necessary changes to the plan values and budget values.

Enhancement to PS

(investment manager only)

Will check with Amy to see

benefits were ever applied

this area

Mass Change Functionality

Mass maintenance makes it easier to enter large

amounts of data. To meet these requirements, R/3version 4.5 contains a central tool that can be used by

various applications. Supported master data includes

material master, article master, customer master, and

vendor master.

A large amount of data en

can be avoided using this t

saving time. Another benefwould be data integrity.

Eliminates interface costs

developing one central

program to port data that

useable to all BAPIs

SAPgui in JAVA

a Java applet in an Internet browser, it provides

Internet access to an R/3 or R/2 System. Since it can

also run as an application, it provides an alternative

GUI for client platforms that do not have their own

"native" SAPgui. SAPgui in Java consists of two

components - the SAPgui server, and a Java applet.

The SAPgui server is a normal (multi-threaded) SAPguiwithout the GUI part. Instead, it has an API, which

the GUI can use to make itself a SAPgui. It is a

standalone program, and must run on a host that has a

connection to an R/3 or an R/2 System. For

performance reasons, it is written in C++.

From 4.5 To 4.6 Asset Explorer (replaces asset value display)

Displays all transactions posted to asset, as well as

depreciation (planned & posted) by depreciation area,

navigated via left panel. Parameters tab displays

select asset control data. User may change asset

dis la ed without leavin the screen.

Displays comprehensive

information in a single scre

user no longer has to consu

several screens for relevan

asset information.

Fixed Assets-Single Screen Postings

User can create & post to an asset in a single screen;

additionally, a posting no longer requires a transaction

type.

Faster data entry.





Fixed Assets- User Defined fields in master

record

Enhancement AIST0002 allows the user to definefields in the master data record as needed. Previously,

users could use only "informational" fields, such as

inventory number, to meet unique master data

requirements and the field name could not be changed.

Minimizes end-user confusias a result of

counterintuitive field name

better able to meet the

unique needs of the client.

Fixed Assets-Notification of cost center

change

Previous y, an en -user wou simp y e pro i ite rom

posting to an asset if the cost center was locked to

primary postings. Workflow functionality in 4.6 now

generates a list of the locked cost centers and notifies

the cost center agent, with the option of changing the

cost center on the asset manually or via mass

substitution.

Reduces the occurrence of

end users encountering

assets locked for posting.

Schedule Manager replaces Period End ParterMakes period end closing more convenient.Documentation will guide end user through the first

steps.

Enhanced Usability Improved interface for recording a standard FI invoiceReduced standard FI invoicerecording time/increasedproductivity

Enhanced Usability Improved interface for G/L account postingReduced G/L account postintime/increased productivity

Travel Managemennt Improved interface for G/L account posting

-transaction that corresponds

with the usual forms on pape

Split screens show allnecessary information at thesame time. Trips that have

already been entered arepresented clearly in a tree

structure. As the traveler, you do notneed to enter a personnel

number or trip number. Youcan select the trips to be

Cash Journal

The Cash Journal transaction lets you enter, display,

and change cash movements in a business easily and

quickly. It works independently of other posting

transactions. Opening and closing balances, as well asreceipts and payments balances are automatically

calculated. Receipts can be printed at the touch of a

button.

No particular R/3 Finance knowledge is necessary to

operate the cash journal.

e ore e ease . , seven

screens were required

altogether for this

transaction:Three screens

for entering one cash

movement. Two screens for

monitoring the balances. Tw

screens for

displaying/reporting the





G/L Account Master

Using the Edit G/L account master record transaction, you can create, change, and display G/L accounts

quickly and with clarity. The G/L account texts can be

translated directly when creating or changing master

records. A separate transaction is no longer needed.

You are now able to create the corresponding cost

element automatically when creating a G/L account.

Additionally, a connection for editing financial

statement versions and sets was also created, allowing

direct access to the line item in the financial

statement version or set as assigned in the reference

Prior to Release 4.6, themaster record transaction

required a minimum of three

screens. The translation

transaction used an additiona

two screens. There was no

connection to the cost

element master data, to the

financial statement version,

nor to sets.

Vendor Invoice Entry

An invoice is entered in a single screen (even with

multiple offsetting entries); account assignment modelsare displayed on the left panel. Personalization

through user options (e.g., screen variants displayed on

the left panel) and drag & drop.

Prior to Release 4.6, the

invoice entry transactionrequired three screens &

user options, such as account

assignment models, required



Release Delta Functionality Functionality Description Business Benefit Da

From 3.1 to 4.0 Purchase Requisitions

Up to Release 4.0A, you were only able to enter the

local currency in requisition items for a material

without a material master record. As of release 4.0A,

you can also work with foreign currencies. You can also

display all purchase orders, requisitions, and outline

purchase agreements relating to projects, networks and

WBS elements. Benefits of this new functionality

include enhanced use of business when dealing with

foreign currencies and enhanced display capabilities. Up

to Release 4.0A, purchase requisitions could only be

released or approved on an item-wise basis. As of 4.0A

you can also release a complete purchase requisition.For the purpose of determining the release strategy,

the data from the items is aggregated. An obvious

benefit would be that speed and efficiency is increased

during the requisitions release process. As of release

4.0B, you can link the process of releasing purchase

orders to the SAP workflow facility. This is

particularly advisable if employees, whose normal duties

This contributes to increased

functionality within the release

process and more efficient

business practices, thus saving

time.

(Cost per P

(Reduced c

annually)

Communication

As of release 4.0A, you can send requisitions, purchase

orders, RFQs, scheduling agreements, and contracts as

attachments via SAPoffice. This tool increases

capabilities when sending out purchasing documents tovendors, saving time and cost of shipping documents.

Use SAPoffice to automate RFQs,

can output as email and autofax to

conduct business with vendors

reduing RFP costs through lowermail costs and improved efficiency.

(Cost per P

(Reduced c

annually)

Purchase Orders

There is a simplified procurement process using blanket

purchase orders. Up to release 4.0A, when you ordered

material to be consumed immediately you had to create

a purchase order for each requirement. For example,

the procurement of office supplies from a single vendor

in a year might have required the creation of several

purchase orders. As of release 4.0A, it is possible to

create purchase orders with a value limit and a validity

period (instead of a delivery date). In a blanket

purchase order, you merely set a value limit and enter abrief general description of what the order covers (e.g.

Lower costs per PO. Provides

greater flexibility in the

procurement process for the

company and its vendors. Lowers

the cost of the procurement cycle

while improving cycle time.

(Cost per P

(Reduced c

annually)

The use of such longer term purchase orders with value

limits allows you to procure various materials or

services from a vendor for which the creation and

processing of individual POs is regarded as both time

consuming and uneconomical. Also in release 4.0A, you

can purchase materials using the vendors part number

or the manufacturer‟s part number in the procurement

process.

Material Management Release Highlights





Logistics Invoice

Verification

In Release 4.0, enhancements have been made to the

Logistics Invoice Verification function. Invoice

verification in the background is now possible for

invoices with large amounts of data for which no item

check is required. Evaluated Receipt Settlements

(ERS) is now possible within Logistics Invoice

Verification. As of Release 4.0A you can post a vendor

invoice in Logistics Invoice Verification and have the

system post a credit memo for the difference between

the value of the invoice and the value for which the

system expected an invoice. The vendor will also

receive a letter of complaint detailing the invoicereduction.

This function increases the

efficiency and functionality while

performing invoice verification

ultimately reducing errors and

costs associated with the invoice

correction process. Use ERS

before it gets past to FI

Cost per e

annually e

ou can now ass gn many s orage oca ons o a p an o

the same warehouse number Up to release 3.1, you could

only manage the stock of one storage location within a

warehouse number for each plant. With Release 4.0,

this limitation has been removed because the business

implications of the organizational unit storage location

have increased, therefore more than one storage

location per plant is to be defined. This enhancement

allows you to either represent the ownership status of

companies, or be able to make important planning

decisions at this level.

Also with release 4.0A you can perform an active

capacity check. It is possible to have the capacity check

run actively for different storage strategies, that is,

any bin found is first checked with respect to its

capacity and only proposed if the capacity is sufficient.

There is also a warehouse activity monitor with release

Obvious benefits include increased

and efficient use of storage space

as well as enhanced flexibility in

handling bulk material. A huge

benefit in using this tool is to

recognize error situations and

processes automatically and

quickly, to display them, and to

provide support in analyzing andremoving the actual errors. This

could save much re-work and

shipping costs and improve

customer service

the warehouse, critical situations in particular. You can

define when a situation or a process is to be classified

by the warehouse activity monitor as critical. The

warehouse activity monitor provides monitoring tasks

for objects in the WM component such as transfer

orders, transfer requirements, critical stock situations,

deliveries (provided they are relevant for the WM

System), and posting change notices.

Data Transfer Workbench

The Data Transfer Workbench supports the automatic

transfer of data from your legacy system into the R/3

System. The Workbench provides you with access to

the standard programs as well as with the necessary

tools for transferring data. For example, with release

4.0A, some of the objects you can transfer to the R/3

system using the workbench are the G/L account master

record, material master, vendor master, customer

master, condition records, sales documents, financialdocuments, rental contracts, etc.

Using this functionality will save

time in transferring data as well

as improve data integrity.





Central Address

Management

A new central address management (CAM) will be

delivered for Release 4.0, to be implemented in the

areas listed below.

In the medium to long term it is planned to change all

applications to this central address management. In the

new CAM the data will be managed in its own database

tables. All application objects will only store a

reference to the address key. There are addresses

changed to CAM for 4.0A, there are applications in

which the address function is new in 4.0A, and there

are applications in which the CAM was used in a Release

before 4.0.

This tool will aid in system

performance and ease of

maintenance by data being

managed in its own tables -

efficiency benefits. Can't use

multiple vendor addresses from 3.1

need to check if 4.5 has multiple

address capability

Info Object Viewer

rom re ease . e n o ec ewer s e

Browser for displaying HTML-based online help in the

R/3-System. It is based on the Microsoft Internet

Explorer 3.0x or the Netscape Navigator 3.0. The R/3

library, the extended help, IMG documents and the

glossary are displayed with the Info Object Viewer.

The Info Object Viewer is available on all front-end

platforms (UNIX, OS/2, Macintosh, Windows 16 bit and

Windows 32 Bit). The software and hardware

requirements can vary depending on the platform and

the HTML based online help (help type) variant used.

This viewer is friendly & faster

way of accessing and seeing the

help documentation ultimately

saving time and improving

efficiency.

Client Copy and Transport

new aut orization _ _ is c ec e

(optional in 4.0A). In a remote copy, large clients can be

copied without main memory problems.

Values such as source client or source destination can

be saved for profiles. Since all necessary profiles are

delivered by SAP, you are not allowed to create

customer profiles.

Data integrity and transfer

efficiency

Automatic mailing of spool

request output from

background jobs

With Release 4.0A, it is possible to specify that spool

request(s) generated by a background job are to be

mailed automatically to one or more recipients. The mailfunctionality of the SAPoffice component is used for

the automatic mailing. The spool request(s) may be

mailed to a single R/3 mail user, to an external user, or

to a distribution list that can include multiple R/3 mail

and external mail users. The mail recipient can be

identified by his or her R/3 user ID or by the user's

name in the R/3 address management component.

Addressing by name in the address management

requires that user address information be maintained in

the R/3 SAPoffice.

This increases efficient

communication and saves time and

mailing costs. Example: Order

exception report can be used to

send email or fax, or run a

generalized open order status &

routing to buyers. Has the

potential to automate core report

distribution systems.





Release Delta Functionality Functionality Description Business Benefit Dat


applet. The Java applet is also installed on the server,

but runs on the Java virtual machine (VM) in the

Internet browser once it has been loaded onto the

client. It calls the functions of the remote GUI server,

allowing it to retrieve R/3 data and return details of

user interaction.

The downloaded Java applet establishes a connection

with the R/3 System by making remote method calls

through the Inter-ORB protocol (IIOP). The SAPgui

server interprets these calls. This means that clients

only need a browser that supports Java (or a Java VM)

to be able to access R/3 Systems from anywhere in theworld - no other software components are required.

This reduces installation and administration costs

considerably. The SAPgui server is a normal (multi-

threaded) SAPgui without the GUI part. Instead, it has

an API, which the GUI can use to make itself a SAPgui.

It is a standalone program, and must run on a host that

has a connection to an R/3 or an R/2 System. For

From 4.5 To 4.6 Mass Maintenance

As of Release 4.6, the number of applications that Mass

Maintenance supports has increased. It now includes

Purchase orders, Purchase requisitions, Purchasing info

records, and Rental units.

Consumption Based Planning:

Enjoy Evaluation Lists

There are new selection limitations in the initial screen

of the collective display (only the stock/requirements

list). Safety stock is not included in plant stock. It is

displayed in a separate row. The processing indicator is

accessed and viewed easier. The search function has

been standardized. Traffic lights indicate the urgency

of materials that need to be processed based on range

of coverage and exception groups. A Symbol column

exists to give a one-click access to the detail dialog box.

Plant and MRP area are ready for input only when the

material exists in more than one plant or MRP area.

period totals and switching between periods. There is adirect branch to customizing or other applications by

double-clicking certain fields. All pushbuttons that

refer to individual MRP elements in the respective list

are displayed below the list, clearly differentiating

these functions from general functions. The function

Calculate ATP quantity has been replaced by a branch to

the function Availability overview (CO09). Four new

branches are provided for Configuration, Quota

arrangement, Production version, and Product structure.




S

Dat


Evaluation Lists

MRP exception group texts can be assigned to company-

specific exception messages. Exception group 8,

Terminations, is the only group that cannot be modified.

Previously, the ways to navigate between materials in

the MRP list and the stock/requirements list were,

entry of a new material number, sequential scroll in the

list sequence of the collective display, and access using

different transactions (for example, collective order,

material master). As of Release 4.6, the overview tree

makes navigation between materials quicker and more

comfortable. By double-clicking a material in the

overview tree, the corresponding list is immediately

accessed. In addition, a search function has been

provided in the worklist tree to search through the list

of displayed materials by certain criteria.ere are t ree i erent views avai a e in t e

overview tree. A pushbutton exists to provide

functionality to toggle between views.The Worklist tree

displays all materials that have been processed in the

respective transaction call, or all materials that were

selected in the collective display. In this view, the

displayed materials can be grouped and sorted, fieldsare defined to be displayed in the overview tree, values

are defined for the traffic lights, and the worklist can

be limited using a search function. The Order tree

displays all assemblies or components for a chosen MRP

element, for example, a planned order. The display is

hierarchic and corresponds to the order report. When

this list is accessed from the collective display using a

product group, the Product group tree displays this

roduct rou with all sub- roduct rou s and assi ned

A variable print option has been provided for Print list.

It displays a separate list which can be edited before it

is printed. It contains just the filtered MRP elements.The list can be further filtered, sorted, and sequenced.

Column widths can be defined. These settings can be

saved as a display variant. When the goods receipt date

is chosen instead of the availability date, or when

safety time is activated, the settings is taken into

consideration for the print. When the storage location

and BOM explosion number columns appear, or when

customer or vendor columns have been activiated, these

columns are considered in the print.




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Before Release 4.6, the unit of measure used in detail

dialog boxes for MRP elements in the MRP list and the

stock/requirements list was always the base unit of

measure. Due to the different units of measure, the

quantities in the detail dialog boxes for MRP elements

were not the same as the quantities in the list. Now, the

unit of measure for the detail dialog box is always the

same as that chosen as the first of the two possible

units for the display of the list. Quantities and units of

measure agree in both displays.Up to now, only a few settings in the MRP list and the

stock/requirements list could be saved on a permanentbasis. All other settings were valid only for the current

display. A new pushbutton, Settings, can be used to

define a record of parameters, which control the

display and the processing of the lists. The settings can

be used for the current display or saved permanently.

The settings are valid for both the MRP list and the

stock/requirements list. The following can be set,

Display of detailed information for the material, Display

of the overview tree, Sort for the individual segments,

Activation of requirements grouping, Display of period

totals, Definition of requirements/receipt date,

Activation of safety time, Display of the total

replenishment lead time, Activation and selection of a

display filter and selection rule, Selection of the unit of

measure, Selection of the checking rule for the ATP

dis la , and Assi nment of a navi ation rofile.Up to now, ess exception messages were isp aye in

the stock/requirements list than were displayed in the

MRP list. These display lists and the corresponding

processes have been brought into line, as far as

possible. The most important changes are exception

message 30, Plan process according to schedule, exists

in both evaluation lists and rescheduling check in the

stock/ requirements list is done automatically by the

system in all lists. The corresponding exceptionmessa es a ear immediatel .

Customer-specific programming is available. SAP

provides you with two example reports and a function

module. Experts can use these to create programs for

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stock/requirements list only branched to certain fixed

transactions using the standard branches under

Environment. Today transaction calls may be user-

defined. Transactions are then reached by pressing a

single key. When certain fields are predefined, initial

screens can be skipped. The transaction calls can be

general or specific to a certain MRP element. You define

the transaction calls on a user-specific basis or group

Subsequent Settlement

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now also possible to carry out a comparison for the

periodic conditions. Business volume data can be editedat any level of the key fields "Plant", "Tax code" "Goods

supplier" and "Month" (analysis period). In the

statistics, the data entered can then be expanded to

the most detailed level on the basis of the updated

business volume data. Business volume data can be

entered for plants for which no business volume exists

in R/3. Tolerance limits can be defined (business volume

tolerance groups) within which the business volume for

an arrangement is to be compared. These limits can be

defined individually for each user. If the defined

tolerance limits are exceeded, either warnings or error

messages are issued, depending on the Customizing

In Subsequent Settlement, message determination can

be used to create messages with SAPscript for

settlement runs and arrangements. Messages can be

printed out and sent to business partners for

information. This function is particularly important if

settlement occurs across company codes at plant level,

which means that several settlement documents are

created for one vendor. Message output from the

individual settlement documents does not make sense in

this case. Message determination can be used to group

together this information in one form for the vendor.

It is now possible to output a list of business volumedata using the "Detailed statement" and "Statement of

statistical data" report, and display and enter the

business volume comparison, using flexible aggregation

and sort levels. This provides a flexible and powerful

tool for grouping together (aggregating), and sorting

data according to all existing characteristics (such as

plant, tax code, goods supplier, etc.) for display

purposes and (in the case of the business volume

comparison) entry purposes. For the "Detailed

statement" and "Statement of statistical data" report,

aggregation and sort levels replace the previous

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Subsequent Settlement is now incorporated in

Profitability Analysis. This means that the data from

the settlement document (customer/vendor billing

document) can be used in Profitability Analysis.

Enjoy Purchase Order

The new purchase order design places the requirements

of the user in the foreground. It supports the fast and

straightforward execution of purchasing activities, in

particular through the implementation of best-practice

ergonomic principles. There are several key advantages

of the En o urchase order.

All information is presented on a single transaction

screen. Jumping back and forth between different

windows and the use of an "initial screen" is a thing of

the past. It is possible to switch between Create,

Change, and Display modes without navigation.

As of Release 4.6, it is also possible to store faulty or

incomplete POs in the R/3 System (that is, to "hold"

them). In contrast to saved purchase orders, "held" POs

are not transmitted to the vendor and cannot be

released (approved). Neither can any follow-on

documents be osted.

Purchase order messages can be set so that the system

will issue any relevant messages while the purchase

order is being worked on or record all such messages in

an error log to be processed later. A status column in

the item overview shows which PO items are faulty.

The material, item, category, and plant can be

subsquently changed as long as no follow-on documents

have been posted.

When entering the vendor/supplying plant, material

group, storage location, or plant, it is sufficient to enter

just parts of the name instead of the complete number.

The system will then suggest the relevant data.

PO items can be displayed according to certain criteria.

Filter functionality has been added to the purchase

order.

Items can be adopted from reference documents (such

as requisitions, other POs, or RFQs) in a purchase order

being created simply by dragging with the mouse or

clicking a button.

Master data is easily accessible. Master records for

vendors and materials can be displayed by doubleclicking on the relevant field.




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Header or item texts can be entered with the

conventional word-processing facility or a new

continuous text editor which, among other things,

supports automatic line breaks and searches for and

replacement of text. Note that with this editor

formatting and word-processing commands for a

SAPScri t text are lost.

Vendor Managed Inventory

The Send function has been enhanced. Forecasted data

can also be sent. Normal and promotions data can be

differentiated. The Recipient function has be enhanced.

Normal and promotions data can be differentiated using

the separate fields for historical and forecasted data.

Enjoy External Services Man

User friendliness is the keynote of the new

developments within the framework of the EnjoySAP

initiative. The Enjoy functions for External Services

Management provide the basis for greater working

efficiency and higher productivity.

For each function there is a central screen on which

relevant data can be maintained. All important functions

can be carried out on a single screen. In the service

master and the service entry sheet, it is possible to

switch between display, create, and change modes

without navigation. This simplifies orientation and

obviates that time-consuming jumping between several

screens.

Clearly grouped fields, which can be displayed as

required, make it easier to find information that is

available in the system. There are also graphical

elements such as overview trees, which can be

additionally display on the left half of the screen in

order to search for Service specification outlines (full

service screen), Services (service master), and Purchase

orders with their associated entry sheets (service

entry). From these overview trees, information can be

selected to be displayed, changed, or copied. Displayvariants are user definable within the overview trees.

As of Release 4.6A, each service does not need to be

saved individually. Instead, all processed services can be

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Time Sheet

s o e ease . , you can use e repor , me ee :

Time Leveling, to check the data recorded for time

sheets. The report allows selection of data records

according to the particular circumstances, to check

whether employees completed their planned working

time or target hours, or whether they worked overtime.

If the report identifies deviations from the planned

working time or target hours, the employees concerned

can be notified automatically by mail. Detailed

information on the data records can be accessed by

switching from the report display screen to the display

As of this release, there are two additional workflow

tasks available, which both allow the recipient to be

determined automatically, Approval by superior and

Approval by time administrator.

The Data Transfer Report has been enhanced. It can be

used for data transfers for all target components

(except Materials Management) in one step.

The process for analysing errors that occurred when

transferring time sheet data to SAP Logistics (Project

System, Plant Maintenance, and Customer Service) hasbeen simplified and is available for all confirmations.

The new Display errors function is available for this.

As of this release, almost all of the usual SAP System

Time Sheet functions are available in the Internet

Application Component (IAC), Internet Time Sheet.

Users can now enter clock times and information on

confirmations, and print their time sheets. In addition,

workflow can be implemented workflow for the approval

procedure.

A new interface is available to transfer time data

recorded using the time recording software currentlyimplemented in an external system to the Time Sheet,

where it can be postprocessed as usual.

Enjoy Goods Receipt

As of Release 4.6A, the Enjoy transaction MIGO can be

used to post goods movements. This transaction will

currently replace MB01, MB0A, MBRL, MBSF, MBNL,

MBST, MB02, and MB03.

Enjoy Logistics Invoice Verif

The redesigned Logistics Invoice Verification

transaction, Enter Invoice (MIRO), focuses on the

needs of the users. By applying guidelines on ergonomics,

it allows quick and simple completion of all tasks. There

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Header data and item data is maintained on one central

screen. There is no longer a need to switch between

different windows or process an initial screen. Invoices,

credit memos, subsequent debits, and subsequent

credits can be entered and posted in Logistics Invoice

Verification.In the PO structure, the system displays the business

transactions, depending on the allocation made. A choice

can be made from the following allocations: purchase

order/scheduling agreement, service entry sheet,

delivery note, bill of lading. If the PO structure is not

needed, it can be hid. More space is then made available

for rocessin .In Re ease 4.6A, invoices can e par e . T e unction,

Invoice Overview (MR1B), is used to continue processing

the invoice document. System messages that occur

during processing are collected in a log. This allows the

user to enter all the data first and process errors or

variances afterwards. A status display shows you the

status of the messages collected.Notes related to the

invoice can be entered and saved.n y par o e ven or name or num er nee s o e

entered. The system then suggests the appropriate

data. Vendor master records, line items and bank

details can be displayed from the central screen.

Purchase orders can be displayed by doubleclicking onthe column Purchase order on the invoice item list. The

system displays the balance on the central screen. The

transaction defaults the first company code entered.



3.0 to 3.1Internet Application Components(IACs)

First components: Customer order recording,Customer order status, Available-to-Promise. Initialfoundation for Internet enable applications.Thisenable SAP customers to provide around the clockaccess for their customers, giving them self-servicecapabilities, thus eliminating customer calls to theorder desk for ordering, checking order status, andproduct availability.

Reduction in cost of sales, reduced cycletimes related to component and MROpurchasing,

Sales: Availability Check

The availability check control (scope of The check)was enhanced to include production order checking.This enhancement enables SAP users to view itemsin production as if they were on hand.

Ability to commit to delivery or moreproduct, resulting in increased revenue

Sales Contracts

– New enhancement that will allow SAP users to setdefault percentages using milestone for dates inbilling plans. Users can enter a percentage instandard milestones and operative milestones. Thisenables users to be more specific as to what isactually billed, thereby ensuring a more accuraterepresentation of what milestones have beenreached and what percentage has beenaccomplished for the contract.

Ability to make payments/receivepayments made for product and servicesas performed, resulting in more accuratecash flow

Transportation

New sections in customizing: Maintain freight codesets and freight codes and External TransportationPlanning Systems. These are a precursor to SAPplanned functionality for R/3 Release 4.5 andbeyond, for freight determination and managingproduct movements through various freightingcompanies. An interface is available as of 3.1G, thatallows users to transmit shipping orders andtransportation information to service agent (e.g.forwarding agent, customs agent). This guaranteesefficient information flow between the R/3 systemand external systems.

Foreign Trade

– This release enables users to create export

licenses that are only valid for certain terms ofpayment, as well as certain business transactions.This can be done by entering the document numberof an SD order in License Maintenance which willensure that an export for a certain businesstransaction. In the customer master in the ForeignTrade screen you can specify whether the customer

has been on a boycott/embargo list. Also eachexport license types will help the user determinewhat is authorized for export, such as to military orcivilian customers. It is also now possible to doexport control by product / material only using exportlicense master legal regulations check.

Compliance to Gov't regulations, reducedrisk associated with 3rd party reporting orinaccurate data

From 3.1 To 4.0 Euro supportFull capabilities to generate quote, order, invoiceand payment in Euro

EC requirement compliance, reduction inprocessing time due to automatedcurrency conversion, potential newmarkets, competitve edge, prevention oflost revenue

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Automatic mailing of spool requestoutput from background jobs.

With Release 4.0, it is possible to specify that spoolrequest(s) generated by a background job are to bemailed automatically to one or more recipients. Themail functionality of the SAPoffice component isused for the automatic mailing. The spool request(s)may be mailed to a single R/3 mail user, to anexternal user, or to a distribution list that can includemultiple R/3 mail and external mail users. The mailrecipient can be identified by his or her R/3 user IDor by the user's name in the R/3 addressmanagement component. Addressing by name inthe address management requires that user addressinformation be maintained in the R/3 SAPoffice.

This functionality increases efficientcommunication, reduces cycle time anddecreases postage costs associated withinternal/external reports

(# of rep* saving

Automatic Dial Up Screen Pop Up

Simple order processing additional functions.

Another “group” of enhancements that follow are

stated together since they are similar in benefit forsales order processing. As of release 4.0A the salesarea can be derived from the sold-to or ship-toparties when entering a sales document. Many timesorder entry personnel will not know the sales area,now they don’t have to. This saves order entry time.

Additionally, as of 4.0A you can enter salesdocuments via ship-to party and not just sold-toparty. Personnel might know the ship-to and not yetthe sold-to at order entry time, now there will be nodelay in processing.

This would benefit the telephone salesscenario when order entry personnel arenot sure of what type of order is needed,or the customer isn’t sure if they need a

quote, inquiry, regular order, etc.

(# of calsaving pIncreaseto crossdata ent

New Screen Interface & SimpleOrder Processing AdditionalFunctions

New screen interface/friendlier look, fasterprocessing. As of release 4.0 there is a new userinterface for sales documents including tab or indexcard technology which groups all data together thatbelongs together. The new interface works withflexible tables so you can adjust display duringprocessing to match your requirements. Resultswould be intuitive navigation between processingscreens, reduction in number of screen changes,and easier and faster communication of salesprocessing.

Productivity in the order desk areaInquiry cycle time reduction

(% reducreate aorder sa250 daystaff=62$18/hourates)= $

Shipping And Transportation

Actual shipment cost and a matrix can be created todevelop actual costs for each shipment. Includeactual costs in Customer bill and delivery notice. Asof release 4.0A the transportation component hasbeen enhanced with the shipment cost document toinclude entry and administration of shipping costrelevant data, calculation of shipment costs viashipment header or stage, and settlement withtransportation service agents and forwarding coststo FI.

These transportation enhancementssignificantly decrease data entry,decrease time in communication, improveerror finding, and decrease costs andincrease revenue. Currently the client

may roughly correlate delivery charges toactual. With an upgrade, The client canidentify "buried" premium charges, homedelivery or internet for consumer - offercustomer options for delivery.Transportation contract valuation - are wegetting value from our transportationproviders? Close the gap between whatcustomer is billed for delivery and what itactually costs

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Credit Card Processing

New to release 4.0A, the system now contains thebasic tools to handle payment cards in a variety ofbusiness processes including sales and distribution,retail point of sale, financial accounting, and internetcommerce. You can integrate payment cardactivities into sales, delivery and billing processes,manage complicated sales scenarios, exchangeinformation with authorizing clearing houses,approximate card processing costs, authorize andimport data from external systems, and carry out thegeneral settlement process. This enhancement didnot exist in previous R/3 releases and is a hugerequirement in the basic business process ofcollecting payment. Benefits include financialsettlement much faster, reduced paperwork, andreduced manual entry.

AR, AP sales order processingUncollecrecovera

Picking Waves

In R/3 release 4.0A, you can use picking waves tocreate work packages in shipping. A picking waveconsists of several deliveries that are processed atthe same time. Assignment of deliveries to pickingwaves is based on time criteria (for instance, alldeliveries with the same goods issue time areassigned to a picking wave). Functions availablewith wave picking are simulation before actualcreation, as well as observation of capacity limitsduring actual creation. You can create picking waveseither online or in background processing. Wave

picking can help your warehouse capacity planningby controlling how loads get dropped to theWarehouse, depends on how often customercreates delivery do list. Picking waves looks atconstraints (I.e. 100 trucks) to get product out thedoor.

A huge benefit of using this functionalitywould be better time managementregarding sending delivery due lists to thewarehouse for shipment. By setting upwaves you can manage when to senddeliveries due to the warehouse either bytime, location, priority, etc. The clientwarehouse would have much morecapability to create dynamic delivery dolist. Also create communication tool forcustomers who use their own trucks to

pick up goods. More flexibility andefficiency in the warehouse plus helpsprioritize picking & packing. Can movefrom picking directly to truck shipmentimproves efficiency by overriding lesspriority picks with items having greaterpriority

Mass Change

Mass maintenance makes it easier to enter largeamounts of data. To meet these requirements, R/3version 4.5 contains a central tool that can be usedby various applications. Supported master dataincludes material master, article master, customermaster, and vendor master. A large amount of dataentry can be avoided using this tool, saving time.

Another benefit would be data integrity.

Need to quantify by identifying how manyFTEs are required for master Changeprocesses.

Data Transfer Workbench

The Data Transfer Workbench supports theautomatic transfer of data from your legacy systeminto the R/3 System. The Workbench provides youwith access to the standard programs as well as withthe necessary tools for transferring data. Forexample, with release 4.0A, some of the objects youcan transfer to the R/3 system using the workbenchare the G/L account master record, material master,vendor master, customer master, condition records,sales documents, financial documents, rentalcontracts, etc.

Using this functionality will save time intransferring data as well as improve dataintegrity.





Central Address Management

A new central address management (CAM) will bedelivered for Release 4.0, to be implemented in theareas listed below. In the medium to long term it isplanned to Change all applications to this centraladdress management. In the new CAM the data willbe managed in its own database tables. Allapplication objects will only store a reference to theaddress key. There are addresses changed to CAMfor 4.0A, there are applications in which the addressfunction is new in 4.0A, and there are applications inwhich the CAM was used in a Release before 4.0.

This tool will aid in system performanceand ease of maintenance by data beingmanaged in its own tables.

Info Object Viewer

From release 4.0A The Info Object Viewer is theBrowser for displaying HTML-based online help inthe R/3-System. It is based on the Microsoft InternetExplorer 3.0x or the Netscape Navigator 3.0. TheR/3 library, the extended help, IMG documents andthe glossary are displayed with the Info ObjectViewer. The Info Object Viewer is available on allfront-end platforms (UNIX, OS/2, Macintosh,Windows 16 bit and Windows 32 Bit). The softwareand hardware requirements can vary depending onthe platform and the HTML based online help (helptype) variant used.

This viewer is a more friendly, faster wayof accessing and seeing the helpdocumentation and could save time.

From 4.0 To 4.5 Client copy and transport

A new authorization S_CLIENT_IMP is checked(optional in 4.0A). In a remote copy, large clients canbe copied without main memory problems.Values such as source client or source destinationcan be saved for profiles. Since all necessaryprofiles are delivered by SAP, you are not allowed tocreate customer profiles.

Available to Promise

Available to Promise. Availability checking is carriedout on a dedicated machine known as an ATPserver which has a shared buffer storing therequirements quantities. Checks include checkingbased on ATP logic, checking against plannedindependent requirements, and checking against

product allocations. When checking availability, thesystem reads the data from the reservations anddependent requirements table as well as the salesrequirements table (in the shared buffer) rather thanfrom the database.

Faster return on inquiries and improvedprocessing time in the order desk areaplus improved back order rescheduling.

Performance advantages includereduction in direct I/O processing time.

Order Cut Off Time

Order cut-off time issue, time-stamp in SAP R/3.Delivery and transportation scheduling has beenenhanced as of 4.5A to take place within one day orduring working hours. All relevant date fields havebeen supplemented with time fields. If you selectworking hours, delivery scheduling can occur interms of minutes and during working hours. Afterorders are taken and sent to the warehouse, certain

facilities have certain order cut-off times in order tomake that night’s shipping run. The delivery time and

working hours fields in 4.0/4.5 respectively can workto solve a major implementation issue.

This functionality will alleviate the “order

cut-off time” issue currently experienced

in release 3.1. Orders will be expeditedfaster reducing inventory and improving

ATP. Increased customer satisfaction.

Reduced200,000costs (1





Shipping And Transportation

Actual shipment cost and a matrix can be created to

develop actual costs for each shipment. Include

actual costs in Customer bill and delivery notice. Asor release 4.5A it is possible for the system to enter

an estimate of shipment costs as early as the sales

order, which is sometimes very important at thisearly order processing stage. Additionally with this

release you can maintain multi-dimensional

shipment rates allowing for costing by geographyand quantity. Also the break weight calculation is

required for many shipment contracts. It is used to

determine at what point it is better to calculate ahigher weight in order to move up to a higher and

more favorable scale. Other transportation planning

additions as of 4.5A include a planning proposalwhich allows the planner to simplify certain aspects

of planning. Also it is possible to carry out changes

to data for several documents simultaneously usingmass Change functionality.

These transportation enhancementssignificantly decrease data entry,

decrease time in communication, improve

error finding, and decrease costs andincrease revenue. Currently the client

may roughly correlate delivery charges to

actual. With an upgrade, The client canidentify "buried" premium charges, home

delivery or internet for consumer - offer

customer options for delivery.Transportation contract valuation - are we

getting value from our transportation

providers? It allows the customer to closethe gap between what customer is billed

for delivery and what it actually costs.

You can also track changes made to existingshipment documents using Change documents,

allowing you to track problems by Change, user, and

date. These transportation enhancementssignificantly decrease data entry, decrease time in

communication, improve error finding, and decrease

costs and increase revenue. Other transportationplanning additions as of 4.5A include a planning

proposal which allows the planner to simplify certainaspects of planning. Also it is possible to carry out

changes to data for several documentssimultaneously using mass Change functionality.





VMI

Vendor-managed inventory involves vendorsoffering their customers the service of planningreplenishments of vendor materials at the customerplant. The new functions allow VMI to be modeledfrom both a vendor and a customer point of view.VMI is typically used by manufacturers of consumerproducts that plan replenishments of their productsat retailers. Some of the functions of vendor-managed inventory include transferring andreceiving stock and sales data by EDI. In thesecases a customer can, for example, transfer thestock data for certain materials to the manufacturerso that the manufacturer can gear their production tocustomer requirements and deliver the quantities

required by the customer on time. At the same timethe manufacturer would use this function to receivethe current stock and sales data from a customer sothat replenishments can then be planned for thecustomer. Obvious subsequent activities includeplanning replenishments for customers then creatinga purchase order for an order acknowledgmentreceived by EDI.

Using this functionality will decreaseinventory costs and data entry whileimproving data integrity.

Picking Waves

In R/3 release 4.0A, you can use picking waves tocreate work packages in shipping. A picking waveconsists of several deliveries that are processed atthe same time. Assignment of deliveries to pickingwaves is based on time criteria (for instance, all

deliveries with the same goods issue time areassigned to a picking wave). Functions availablewith wave picking are simulation before actualcreation, as well as observation of capacity limitsduring actual creation. You can create picking waveseither online or in background processing. Wavepicking can help your warehouse capacity planningby controlling how loads get dropped to theWarehouse, depends on how often customercreates delivery do list. Picking waves looks atconstraints (I.e. 100 trucks) to get product out thedoor.

A huge benefit of using this functionalitywould be better time managementregarding sending delivery due lists to thewarehouse for shipment. By setting upwaves you can manage when to send

deliveries due to the warehouse either bytime, location, priority, etc. The clientwarehouse would have much morecapability to create dynamic delivery dolist. Also create communication tool forcustomers who use their own trucks topick up goods. More flexibility andefficiency in the warehouse plus helpsprioritize picking & packing. Can movefrom picking directly to truck shipmentImproves efficiency by overriding lesspriority picks with items having greaterpriority

Mass Change

Mass maintenance makes it easier to enter large

amounts of data. To meet these requirements, R/3version 4.5 contains a central tool that can be usedby various applications. Supported master dataincludes material master, article master, customermaster, and vendor master.

A large amount of data entry can be

avoided using this tool, saving time. Another benefit would be dataintegrity.Need to quantify by identifyinghow many FTE are required for masterChange processes.

Client copy and transport

A new authorization S_CLIENT_IMP is checked(optional in 4.0A). In a remote copy, large clients canbe copied without main memory problems.Values such as source client or source destinationcan be saved for profiles. Since all necessaryprofiles are delivered by SAP, you are not allowed tocreate customer profiles.




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SAPgui in Java.

This is a thin GUI client for an SAP System. Runningas a Java applet in an Internet browser, it provides

Internet access to an R/3 or R/2 System. Since itcan also run as an application, it provides analternative GUI for client platforms that do not have

their own "native" SAPgui. SAPgui in Java consistsof two components - the SAPgui server, and a Javaapplet. The SAPgui server is a normal (multi-

threaded) SAPgui without the GUI part. Instead, ithas an API, which the GUI can use to make itself a

SAPgui. It is a standalone program, and must runon a host that has a connection to an R/3 or an R/2System. For performance reasons, it is written in

C++. The Java applet is also installed on the server,

but runs on the Java virtual machine (VM) in theInternet browser once it has been loaded onto the

client. It calls the functions of the remote GUI server,allowing it to retrieve R/3 data and return details ofuser interaction.

The downloaded Java applet establishes aconnection with the R/3 System by making remote

method calls through the Inter-ORB protocol (IIOP).The SAPgui server interprets these calls. Thismeans that clients only need a browser that

supports Java (or a Java VM) to be able to accessR/3 Systems from anywhere in the world - no othersoftware components are required. This reduces

installation and administration costs considerably.





From 4.5 To 4.6

E-commerce Capability for e-commerce and e-marketingReduced cost of marketing by customerReduced cost of sales

Annual #

year 100enabled x

Enhanced Usability Improved user interface for distribution managementReduced transport creation cycle time /

Increased productivity

Enhanced UsabilityImproved user interface in customer creationprocess

Reduced customer file creation time /Increased productivity

Enhanced Usability Improved user interface order entry processReduced order entry cycle time /

Increased productivity

Enhanced Usability Improved interface for expense account recordingReduced travel expense accountreporting allowing for additional sales or

services revenue

Improved user interface for sales activty trackingReduced time to record sales activitiesallowing for additional selling time



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3.0 to 3.1

3.1 to 4.0 Matrix organization support Ability to set up organization with matrix reporting

Personnel administration anddevelopment

Ability to manage multiple actions same day, make corrections,attach infotypes to manage expatriates. Enhanced careermanagement (career and succession planning "what-ifs", availabilityof skills catalog, profile evaluations and matching

Improved employee satisfreduced employee turnovimproved resource plannireduced expatriates costs

Recruitment tracking Ability to logically store applicant dataReduced cycle time for rereporting (EEOC) and redof payments related to la

Enhanced compensation

management

Salary surveys, job evaluations, remuneration

Increased standardizationgrades, increased employsatisfaction, avoidence o

beyond industry averagesin reduced costs

Time reportingSingle point of entry for time reporting and dynamic resourceplanning

Travel management Automatic approvals, maximum spending limitsReduced costs due to betcontrols, Reduced cycle tiemployee payment

Enhanced payroll Support of Euro and automatic conversion of paymentsElimination of regional PRresulting in lower costs

Additional standard HR countrylocalization

Standard support for localization in 24 add't countries includingmaster data, payroll, time and travel.

Elimination of customizaticountry, reduced HR staff

centers, automatic currenconversion, reduction of opayroll providers

Ad Hoc Query Flexible report building with selection and display logic. Better reporting.

Tab Strips For infotype navigation. Easier and user-friendly

Enhanced Training & Events

Management

Customized training and event functions for various users of the

system. Planning integration with HR budgeting for

administrators, note functions and correspondence for

registration clerks and Employee Self Service to book and cancel

attendance for participants.

More user applicable.

Human Resources Release Highlights





Enhanced Benefits

New miscellaneous plans, event offers, and added links to outside

providers. Other new features include Evidence of Insurability,

prerequisite and corequisite plan requirements, as well as

combined limits for contributions and coverage. Introduces

Default and Standard Plans.

Greater flexibility.

Enhanced Time Management

New time entry methods in the standard Cross-Application Time

Sheet (CATS). Allows automatic quota generation and quota

adjustment functionality.

Enhanced functionality is added in quota deduction, leave accrual,balances and absence valuation, plus value limits for time balances

and dynamic work schedule assignment.

New time interfaces, reporting enhancements and a new time

evaluation log.

New archivin functionalit for a roll and time evaluation

Improved usability.

Easier to observe proces

results.

Better record-keeping.

Enhanced Payroll Processing

New Payroll log for error tracking. Customization of the Payroll

accounting interface in the IMG is expanded.

Reduced time in error an

Improved usability.

Enhanced Payroll Accounting

New payroll log to simplify troubleshooting of a payroll run.

New payroll accounting procedures, including conversion and

rounding rules, to support the introduction of the euro currency.

Reduced time in analysin

Improved usability.

4.0 to 4.5 Employee Self ServiceCapability to research and update HR information by employee

rather than HR personnel

Reduced time to update

research HR information

in more accurate informa

increase in HR staff pro

Manager's Desktop

Customizable access to reports and functions for use by line

managers.

Reduced time and effort

managers to retrieve rep

perform managerial func

User-friendly access.

Enhanced Ad Hoc Query Flexible report building with selection and display logic.Better and more flexible

including response time.

Enhanced Recruitment

New interfaces to Word 8.0 to generate correspondence and an

applicant short profile plus bulk processing of internal

candidates.


Enhanced PersonnelAdministration Master Data

New country-specific selection of infotypes and subtypes allow

you to customize the type of data collected and stored foremployees. New fields for reporting are associated with several

infotypes.






Enhanced Organizational

Management

Chief position can now be external to an organizational unit.

Cost distribution for organizational objects-organizational units,

positions, and work centers-may now be allocated to different

cost centers, and other objects can inherit these allocations.

Vacancy management has been improved to handle vacant and

obsolete positions differently. Obsolete positions can no longer

be filled, nor will vacancies be created from obsolete positions.


Enhanced Personnel

Development:

Workflow Trigger

Personnel Development events can now trigger workflow. Better administrative co

Enhanced Personnel

Development:

Career Planning & Appraisal

System

Ability to create individual development plans integrated with

career planning and a totally new appraisal functionality that

integrates with development and compensation management.

Appraisals can be used to transfer qualifications, and they

integrate with compensation to present a consistent appraisal

system.

The new appraisal system allows individual, multi-source and team

methodologies. A cyclical process tracks employee progress from

one appraisal to the next.

More robust and flexible

Enhanced Personnel

Development:

Office Functions Integration

Office functions integrate with Microsoft Word and Excel. Reduced time and effort

Enhanced Training & Event

Management

Correspondence history is kept and class prerequisites can be

compared to the qualifications to ensure that the right people

get the right training. In addition, there are enhanced follow-up

functions for transferring qualifications after a class.

Closer integration creates credit memos, cost allocation, and

direct ordering of equipment and materials for classes. Wizards

guide theuser through the proper configuration steps to set up integration

between components.

For training participants, Release 4.5 expands Employee Self

Better record-keeping.

Easier configuration for

integration.


Enhanced Compensation

Management

Job pricing to create salary structures from salary survey and

job valuation data. In addition,

3-dimensional matrix guidelines allow complex award

determination. There is also improved reporting and selection and

more flexible adjustments.


Better reports.





Enhanced Benefits

Event Offer functions allow you to process changes to employee

enrollments triggered by changes in circumstance. This allows the

tracking of past changes and controls adherence to company

policies. The concept of the Benefit Offer is introduced,

improving administration of different plans for various employee

groups.

A new stock purchase category is added to benefits. There are

new functions for changes in employer and employee

contributions and spouse data plan costs. There are new

determinations of dependents and beneficiaries and improvedletter and form management.

Eligibility can now be determined by actual work hours through

time data inte ration. Off-c cle time and benefit rocessin is

Better record-keeping an

tracking.


Enhanced Time Management

CATS is enhanced with actual costing via payroll and with

Employee Self-Service access. Now CATS and HR time data can

reside on different systems with integration via BAPITM and

ALE distribution techniques.

New Communication Channel (CC1) standardized interface for

external feeding of attendances and absences from certified

systems.

New flexible time recording for multiple person and time data.

New determination of compensation for unused time (such as pay

for unused vacation). Daily Work Schedule rule configuration is

simplified and calendar view for some reports is now available.

Major reporting enhancement now allows ABAPTM and ad hoc

queries to include time management information. Time data is also

incor orated into the SAP Business Information Warehouse.


Easier configuration.

Better reports.

Enhanced Shift Planning

Requirements records can now be copied into requirement types

and source. A function called "Assignment Assistant" proposespersons who

can cover different requirements and gives assignments options.






Enhanced Payroll Processing

New wage type reporter, a flexible tool for wage type-related

evaluations. Additional payroll results infotypes are added as

well.

New payroll journal allows flexibility in period selection and

added features in forms handling.

Using Employee Self Service in Release 4.5, employees may order

employment and salary verification reports that they may need

when applying for a mortgage, for example.

A payroll process model allows intelligent payroll processing anderror monitoring. It combines all run steps as one process with a

single monitoring point.

A new authorization object controls access to display, change,

deletion of actions or generation of data sets via Personnel


Simpler monitoring.

Greater control.

Enhanced Payroll Accounting

New accounting interface with batch input replacement, and new

authorization objects to support careful control of payroll data

access.

The new archiving allows you to preserve the detailed record of

labor distribution by employee, after transfer to FI/CO.

Better record-keeping an

control.

4.5 to 4.6 Enhanced Usability Improved interface for expense account recording

Reduced travel expense a

reporting allowing for ad

sales or services revenue

Enhanced Usability Improved interface for sickness certificate creation time

Reduced time for sick tim

reporting resulting in les

value added work

Enhanced Personnel

Development:

Workflow Scenarios

Qualification Monitoring : Enables you to monitor qualifications

for which a validity has been defined, and ensures that the

appropriate personnel administrator is informed in good timethat the qualification is about to expire.

Approving Appraisals :Enables you to set up an approval

procedure for appraisals. The completed appraisal is sent to the

appraisee in question, who can then approve it or reject it.

Reduced time for personin monitoring qualificatio

Reduced time in approval

for appraisals.





Enhanced Recruitment

With new feature you can sort the organizational assignment of

all applicants according to nationality or advertisement and of

unsolicited external applicants according to nationality. You can

define country-specific applicant entry screens. The standard

system currently supports entry screens for Germany and the

USA.

Can be interfaced to the structural authorization check.

Employment contracts can be created automatically by the

system for applicants you want to hire.

Recruitment data is transferred to Personnel Administration as

default values. This means that data you created for the

applicant can be reused and modified for the future employee.


Better security controls

Reduced time for contra

documentation.


processing new hires fro

applicant base.

Enhanced Personnel

Administration Master Data

Supports international organizational changes (country

reassignments) for employees.

The Personnel Development appraisals system can be called up

from the Appraisals infotype (0025) when processing HR master

data.

New Workflow scenarios:a. ESS follow-up action for a new hire--every newly hired

employee is assigned an ESS user and is given the necessary

system authorization to maintain his/her own personal data

--

Enhanced Employee Self-

Service

US-specific screens available. It now checks whether the

changes employees makes to their home address will affect their

W-4 withholding information. If so, it will take them directly to

the ESS for defining W-4 withholding information.

Employment & Salary Verification requests from employees can

be routed via Workflow to Payroll Admins.

W-2 from previous year can be reprinted.

Employees can edit their own qualifications profile,

communications data, such as their telephone, telefax numbers

and e-mail address, and display the communications data of other

employees. They can also maintain their own calendar, and display

the calendars of other employees.

New "Job Opportunities" functionality can be used to display and

apply for internal vacancies. Internal applicants can use a

different service to track the status of their ob a lication and

Greater flexibilty andfunctionality.





Enhanced Benefits

The Benefits ESS Enrollment Scenario covers all kinds of

employee enrollment including Open Enrollment, Life Change

Enrollment and Work Change Enrollment.

Supports 2 new BAPIs to enable other application systems, such

as Intranet, Kiosk or other employee self-service scenarios to

integrate to R/3 Benefits. They support employee enrollments

such as Life or Work Changes.

New report has ability to communicate health plan participation

information to external health care providers.

USA only--COBRA forms can be printed in Microsoft Word.

New report can convert the monetary values stored on benefits

infotypes from one currency to another.

Enrollment Statistic report displays a tablulated overview of

employee plan enrollments over a specific period of time which

can be sorted.

Contribution Consistency Verification report compares an

'

Greater flexibility and

functionality.

Reduced time in data rep

and verification.

Enhanced Benefits Plans

g y mon or n ene process ng a ows e ec on oemployees who are participating in plans, that they are no longer

eligible for.

Can assign providers to individual investments for a plan and

depict multiple vendor scenarios for one plan.

It is now possible to control employee participation in a plan, that

requires spouse approval, when the spouse's beneficiary


eligibility monitoring.


Enhanced Compensation

Management

Compensation Management has a 2-way integration with Personnel

Development's Appraisal System.

Approval process has a Workflow scenario.

More reporting capabilities.

Job pricing functionality contains 2 queries:

a. Hay PayNet Data Extraction for Salary Survey Participation

b. Data Extraction for Salary Survey Participation

Selection screen for compensation adjustments has been

redesigned for better usability.

New mass update feature enables you to maintain lots of

employees and award several adjustments at the same time on

one screen and uses office inte ration dis la ed in an Excel

Reduced effort in integr

between Comp and Appra




Release Delta Functionality Functionality Description Business Benefi


Enhanced Organizational

Management

The new enterprise organization enables you to connect the

depiction of your enterprise in Organizational Management

(organizational structure) with its depiction in Accounting (Cost

center hierarchy).

New design of Org Management with a new interface designed

and implemented in conjunction with Cooper Interaction Design.

It focuses on the requirements of employees in the personnel and

organization departments and it will fully support daily work

activities of this group, such as creating and maintaining data and

procuring information.

You can translate several infotype records at the same time (on

one screen). It is also possible to translate records into several


personnel cost planning.

Position & Funds Management

In 4.6B, integration between Position Management and Funds

Management to a) set up and manage your organizational

structure, including the personnel structure, b) budget personnel

expenditures, and c) create earmarked funds to finance

personnel and positions.


personnel cost planning a

budgeting.

Enhanced Training & Event

Management

payment cards are allowed (VISA, Eurocard, Mastercard, etc.).

Partner functions for billing can be Bill-to party, Payer, Ship-to

party, or Sold-to party.

You can create links to SAP training materials, the complete

online documentation, or the SAP R/3 Library.

Integrated with the R/3 Appointment Calendar. Calendars of

internal employees are automatically maintained for event

attendance or instructor function as required.

New wizards to guide you through the configuration of

Correspondence and integration with Materials Management.


maintaining employees' ca

for event attendance,

correspondence and conf




3.0 to 3.1

BAPI Support

BAPI technology provides open business-orientedinterfaces for accessing business processes anddata in the R/3 System. BAPIs are defined in theBusiness Object Repository as methods on SAPBusiness Objects. They enable an object-orientedview on the R/3 application modules and thus arethe basis for the R/3 Business Frameworkdevelopment. Because of their open, well-definedinterfaces, BAPIs can also be used by externalapplications, which have been developed, forexample, using Visual Basic.

Reduced training time and interfacedevelopment costs.

ITcunu

Implementation Guide

Release 3.1G provides a graphic tool for maintainingyour enterprise structure. This enables a clearerview of the functional areas of a company and theirrelationships to one another, thereby decreasing theimplementation time. In addition to this, new userexist have been added to enable customers to addadditional functionality without change to SAPsource code. This creates the opportunity for usersto enhance R/3 capabilities without impactingupgrade strategies.

Transaction based security Security check of each transaction executed todetermine if the user has been authorized toexecute the transaction

The protection of business data to ensureits confidentiality, integrity and availability

New security objects controllingexisting or new businessfunctionality

New functionality delivered with the 3.1 release(refer to other tabs in the spreadsheet) must besecured and assigned to authorized users to ensureproper application security

Application security over new businessfunctionality decreases the risk ofunauthorized data access

Profile Generator The Profile Generator is an automated tool to assistin the creation, maintenance and assignment ofsecurity profiles

The Profile Generator simplifies thedefinition and maintenance of theauthorization environment, which mayresult in cost and time efficiencies

Audit Information System (AIS) AIS is a reporting tree structured around securityand auditing procedures and documentation,security evaluations and analysis of audit data.

AIS provides analysis tools that simplifiesthe administration of security and sensitivebusiness functionality, resulting in cost andtime efficiencies

3.1 to 4.0

New security objects controllingexisting or new businessfunctionality

New functionality delivered with the 4.0 release(refer to other tabs in the spreadsheet) must besecured and assigned to authorized users to ensureproper application security

Application security over new businessfunctionality decreases the risk ofunauthorized data access

Introduction of responsibilities inthe Profile Generator

Security responsibilities allow for the differentiationof authority profiles that are generated from thesame selection of transactions in an activity group

Security Responsibilities simplify securityadministration

Introduction of Secure Store andForward (SSF) mechanisms

Provides functionality to secure Internet applicationswith the use of digital signatures and encryption

Proper security of data transfer processesensures data integrity, authentication, non-repudiation and confidentiality

From 4.0 to 4.5

New security objects controllingexisting or new business

functionality

New functionality delivered with the 4.5 release(refer to other tabs in the spreadsheet) must be

secured and assigned to authorized users to ensureproper application security

Application security over new businessfunctionality decreases the risk of

unauthorized data access

Responsibilities replaced by"derived activity groups"

Please refer to "From 3.1 to 4.0; Introduction ofresponsibilities" above

Technology Release Highlights



Introduction of authorization

groups for output devices (i.e.printer, fax, etc.)

New authorizations specifically defined for the

protection of output devices and queues

Enhanced security features strengthens

protection over the processing environment

BAPIs

Release 4.5 contains over 1000 additional BAPIs

representing methods of more than 250 businessobjects. BAPIs can be invoked from COM/DCOMand COBRA. Development Environments such as

MS Visual Studio, Access Builder from IBM andDelphi/Connect from Inprise are shipped with BAPIsand the Business Object definitions. Interface

Advisor, shipped with 4.5 explains how to use BAPIsin integration scenarios with non-SAP software.

Reduced training time and interfacedevelopment costs.

Central User Management

User management within the SAP user framework issimplified allowing the system admin to use one

single business component that contains all usermaster records. The data is automaticallydistributed among all business components included

in installation. Different roles of an end user indifferent components are allowed usingauthorization profiles and activity groups defined

component dependently in one central component

System management efficiency

WorkflowSAP allows the monitoring of business processesusing a graphical representation of the process.

This will benefit customers by providingtransparency with respect to the currentprocess resulting in more accurate and

more reliable information for employees,customers and business partners. Alsoreduces implementation errors and

associated correction time

Generic Object Services

With release 4.0, SAP introduced GOS to improve

the support of ad hoc work processes. In release

4.5 SAP offers a broad range of services which areinstantly available for business objects within R/3.These services include the launch of workflowsassociated with a business object, the sending of a

business object to individuals, organizational unitsand the ability to link external objects such asdesktop files (e.g. Excel, Word), faxes, or URLS to

SAP Business Objects.

Internet

With 4.0/4.5 SAP enhances its solutions for

Electronic Commerce including support of extent,intranet and internet. 4.5 includes over 85 internet

application components which support completesupply chain solutions (i.e. procurement: requisition

to payment, and online stores).

This reduces third party software costs &associated interface costs and faster

development of web enabled businessprocesses.

Active X

The user interface for the trained user is significantlyeasier to use. Through the comprehensive use of

Active X technology it is much easier to visualize theresults of business processes. 4.5 includes a varietyof graphics for networks, portfolios or planning

boards as well as controls for text editing, improvedhelp features and tighter desktop office integration.The handling of SAPscript - printing via forms and

text management is considerably facilitated throughcontrols as well as the presentation of images andHTML pages.




Self Upgrading User

In order to further reduce the cost of ownership, SAPhas improved the way the user interface is updated

on the user's desktop. With release 4.5 is selfupgrading without the need of human interaction -

as it communicates with a central server andautomatically detects that a software upgrade of the

user interface on the desktop is required.


MS Outlook Support

The use of electronic forms is another way ofincluding new user communities into R3 businessprocesses. Release 4.5 adds support for MS

Outlook forms. R/3 calendar synchronization is alsoavailable.

By reducing large amounts of paper work,electronic forms will save R/3 customers a

significant amount of money.

ABAP Objects

Release 4.5 contains further object oriented

enhancements of the ABAP programming language.With classes, object interfaces and business events,

ABAP programmers leverage the benefits ofobjected orientation resulting in improvements in theareas of usability, maintenance and quality of code.

4.5 ABAP Objects also comes with a new classbuilder tool that supports the navigation, crossreferencing and test support within object

hierarchies.

Greatly increase developers productivity(and lowers implementation costs).

Digital Signatures

The digital signature is based on cryptographicalalgorithms that make it possible to "sign" documentsto achieve a higher level of security. This is

especially useful when an explicit identity or proof ofobligation is needed (ex: paperless contracts).

Digital signature improves processes

requiring proof of obligation by reducingtransaction cycle time and reducingovernight delivery charges.

Internet- Enabled SAP

ArchiveLink

Documents can be archived via the internet anddisplayed using a Web browser. SAP ArchiveLinkhas an extended interface that now supports HTTP

(Hyper Text Transfer Protocol).

SAP ArchiveLink improves archivingefficiency and reduces archive costs.

Incremental Data ConversionRelease 4.5 enables the incremental conversion ofdata from one R/3 release to another during theproductive processing of R/3.

This approach significantly reducesdowntime of the system (and associated

costs) while providing increased flexibilityand agility.

IBM

Release 4.5 running on AS/400 platforms have

improved interoperability with respect to sendingfaxes using facsimile/400, exchanging documentson the basis of theX.400 standard, and using

AnyMail/400 to send and receive electronic mails.

InformixThe parallel operation of update statistics for thecost-based optimizer in SAP's database toolSAPDBA.

Significantly reduces run times on multiprocessor platforms using the Informixdatabase.

Microsoft

Release 4.5 includes comprehensive support of NT5.0. For ease of installation and upgrades, both the

R/3 application server software and SAP's Windowsbased user interface are installed using theMicrosoft Installer (MSI). The use of R/3 with NT

results in a single sign-on to the desktop computer,avoiding an explicit R/3 logon. Additionally, SAP'sComputer Center Management System (CCMS)

information is included into the MicrosoftManagement Console (MMC), enabling theadministration of R/3 using a MMC Span-In. 4.5 also

offers zero administration memory managementunder windows NT.

Transaction efficiency, Reducedimplementation costs, Eliminates the need

to manually configure or adjust memoryrequirements, even hardware changessuch as memory upgrades are detected,

and R/3 system parameters are adjustedautomatically.



Oracle

The next version of SAPDBA will supportincremental backup of the Oracle 8 database. This

new option enhances the set of alternative backupstrategies a customer can apply. Incrementalbackup support will be based on the integration ofSAPDBA with RMAN, the new Oracle recovery

manager tool.

Interface Advisor

The interface advisor is the integration guide thatenables customers to design and implementinterfaces between SAP and non-SAP systems in anew easier and faster way. An easy to use Web

front-end provides all the information needed toimplement business processes that span SAP andnon-SAP components. All technical interfaces andall BAPIs offered with 4.5 are explained. Theinterface advisor can be used both stand alone and

in conjuction with an R/3 system.

Provides clients with increased interfacedevelopment efficiency and lower overallinterface costs.



Release Delta Functionality Functionality Description Business Benefit Calculation

Technology assisted selling

(mobile sales)

Enables selling advantages acrosshighest impact medium and

channels

Higher profit margins, sales cycle order time

average sale

Field Service

Field service dispatch, spare parts

inventory management, repair depotoperations, services management

Ability to place right parts in rightlocations, and route management

of Field service to minimize travel

and expense.

Reduction in spare painventory levels, reduc

and time per service c

improved customer sa

Marketing

Improved lead and campaign

management, marketing agents,marketing encyclopedias

Reduced annual costs

mail, telemarketing, inlead conversion perce

Inbound call center tracking, problemmanagement

Ability to have a total customer

view regardless of where inforesides, which reduced call time

and increase customer satisfaction

Reduced time to proce

Increased productivity center staff, Increased

customer satisfaction,

hit rate for problem res

Customer Service

Customer Relationship Management Highlights




1.0

2.0GIS = Geographical

Information System

The results of a query (with geographical reference) can be displayed on a

map within the Business Explorer Analyzer. Navigation is likewise supported.

The integration into BW takes place via the Metadata repository and the

BEx Analyzer.

InfoObjects (for example, country) or attributes (customer with attribute

district) can be indicated as geo-relevant. By doing this, geo-attributes (for

example, coordinates) are linked. Geo coordinates can be calculated with an

external tool and then uploaded via an InfoSource to BW. With BW Business

Content geographical data (maps for regions, countries, ...) will be shipped.

Ease of use / productivity

Web Reporting

With the aid of Web reporting, it will be possible to publish queries createdwith BEx on the Intranet/Internet. The queries can be included in the

enterprise‟s own HTML pages. Since only a description of the data, and not

the data itself, is saved in the HTML page, it is possible to interact with the

BW server via the HTML page (drilldown, refresh, and so on).

It is also possible to include several queries in an HTML page (cockpit).

Navigation steps can be included as predefined pushbuttons in the page.

Hereby, it is also possible to display results in the form of charts and tables

(workbooks).

The output takes place in pure HTML form, so that the generated HTML

pages are compatible for every HTML Browser. Thus it is not necessary to

additionally install programs to the frontend.

The integration of queries into the enterprise‟s own HTML pages can takeplace using which ever web design tool you like (for example, MS Frontpage).

The display of the HTML pages with queries embedded takes place in pure

HTML form. However, it is possible to add Active X Controls, Applets, Java

Script, and so on to the HTML Page Designer.

Ease of use / productivity

Business Information Warehouse Highlights





Drag & Drop

Drag & drop works for objects from the desktop into the BEx Browser and

vice versa. An object from the desktop can be directly dragged and dropped

anywhere in the window of the Browser. Several objects can be marked on

the desktop and then all together can be dragged into the Browser. A whole

cluster can be dragged and dropped into the hierarchy.

Limitation: due to the new design standard, it is not possible anymore tointegrate a customer logo in the Browser.

Additional Drill Through

It will be possible to get additional detailed information from the query

result in Excel by drill through. There is a marker from query result to

OLTP, ODS and query. The previously made selection conditions are taken

into account with this marker.

Authority Checking on Drill-

Down Levels

been fundamentally enhanced.

1. Authorizations can be created for hierarchies. A user can get the

authorization for one node of a hierarchy and all nodes and sheets below this

node.

2. The authorization check takes place at every navigational step. By this,besides variables also filter values become effective. This enables, for

example, the result per department to be displayed, but not the sales

revenue per person in the department.

3. Dynamic adjustment of the query result to the authorizations. By using

variables the query can be kept general. When the query is executed, it is

adjusted to the authorizations of the user. Example: A user wishes to

analyze his/her cost center. The query definition is arranged in such a way

that all cost centers are displayed. Based on the authorization of the user,

the query result is now adjusted in such a fashion that only the result of the

individual cost center appears. You do not have to make a manual entry for

this.

Attribute Usage for

Calculations

e var a es or ormu as an ex s, a are rep ace y a

“replacement path”, the variable replacement by key or description has been

enhanced by replacement from attribute values. For this, you have to

additionally define the attribute whose value is to be used. With this type of

replacement, the internal (compounded) value of the attribute is always

accessed. As a result, the entries offset start and offset length also refer

to the internal compounded value. The meaning of the other parameters did

not change. These variables give

you the option, for example, to map the price of a product as an attribute. If

you now define a variable for formulas as described above, that is

automatically replaced from the attribute price for the characteristic

product, then you can use this variable in the formulas of the query

OLAP API

You can use ODBO as an ABAP API. By doing this, it is also possible to

restart the OLAP processor in an environment that is not Windows. Features

in common with ODBO are the usage of the query language MDX and the

organization of the Meta- and master data (catalogs, Cubes, dimensions,

hierarchies, and so on). In contrast with ODBO, the API does not contain any

equivalent „flattening‟ mechanism (conversion of the multi-dimensional query

result into a flat file).

AggregatesAggregates can be transported or delivered as Business Content. The

surface has been modified.

InfoCube as InfoSource in

one BW System

An InfoCube can be used as an InfoSource for another InfoCube within a

BW system. Hereby, you can also use transfer rules for transferring data

from InfoCube to InfoCube. The transfer is likewise supported in delta

mode.



Data Marts

Delta update for the data transfer from the InfoCube of a source BW to

the InfoCube of a data mart will be supported. For this, all changes to the

source-InfoCube are registered.

SAP Query for generic data

extraction

Using the functional areas of SAP Query, dedicated extractors for master-

and transaction data can be generated. This generic way of data extraction

supports the usage of logical data bases and bringing the data together inthe so called outer join. It is possible for master and transaction data.

Integrated exits enable the additional import of specific fields.

ODS (BW 2.0B)

In Release 1.2, ODS was request-orientated and stores the imported data in

the form of the transfer structure (analog OLTP). It is now possible to

additionally store the imported data in the ODS in a denormalized form. The

data can be analyzed using BEx. ODS tables allow to merge data and apply

update rules. Drilldown from query result to ODS will be supported.

Connection to Business

Document Service

Metaobjects (InfoObjects, InfoCubes, InfoSources, Queries, InfoObject

Catalogs...) can be linked with documents. These documents can, for example,

be MS Word files, PowerPoint files, Bitmap images. The documents are

stored in the BDS (Business Document Service), that is a part of R/3 basis.

Business Content

Installation

There is a Installation Program you can use for transferring BW Content.

Content deltas can be directly selected, matched and activated. With the aid

of the Installation Program it is possible to activate the entire Business

Content for a channel in only one step. The corresponding channel is selected

by drag and drop and the Content Wizard automatically selects the relevant

objects.

Update rules

The mode “move”, meaning overwrite, is supported in the update rules for

key figures with the update mode aggregation. Reading master data

attributes on demand is provided as a standard function. The possibility to

partition a fact table depends on whether the underlying database

management system provides a table partitioning functionality. Partitioning

of the fact table is planned for DB2/MVS, DB2/UDB, INFORMIX and

ORACLE.

Partitioning of the Fact

Table

The concept of partitioning is implemented for the fact table of an

InfoCube. The first implementation is a static implementation with

restricted possibilities. You can partition the fact table by CALMONTH or

FISCPER. This is the “partition column.” In the case of FISCPER, the

necessary FISCVARNT must have a FIX-VALUE for the InfoCube. This is

necessary because the values of the “partition column” must be precalculated

for a predefined time period. The fact table will then be partitioned for the

precalculated values. The method is a range partitioning with exception of

DB2/UDB where a hash partitioning approach is used.

Additional APIs for

InfoCube, InfoObject,

InfoSource

APIs support the creation of Metadata from external tools, such as ETI,

Informatica.

Monitor Assistant

Compared with BW Release 1.2, additional error situations are recognized by

the monitor assistant. If an error situation occurs, a mail can be sent

automatically to the BW office inbox or to an Internet address. If the mail

is in the BW office inbox it is executable, meaning that you can switch direct

to the monitor to analyze the defective request. An error log is generated

when uploading master data. It logs every incorrect data record and it can

be called up by the monitor or the monitor assistant. The use of lower-case

letters, overlapping time intervals and duplicated data records is checked

for the master data. A tree control is added in the monitor to give anoverview of loaded requests.





Business Content: Nielsen

A samp e scenario or connecting Nie sen ata can e use . T e scenario

embraces both the preparation of an InfoCube as well as queries, workbooks

and channels. The InfoCube does not contain any data, but is a remote Cube,

with which the data is requested when executing the query from the AC

Nielsen RFC – server.

Integration of Dun &

Bradstreet Data

A pilot program on Dun & Bradstreet data will be started for BW 1.2B and,

based on the results, the official release will be scheduled. D&B sells

information on companies worldwide. This includes information on companies

and structural information on groups (family trees). To achieve this, D&B

introduced the D-U-N-S-Number (Data Universal Numbering System) for

each company, a unique number which allows companies to be identified. The

goal of the integration now is to enhance the SAP BW master data (vendor,

customer) with the company information from D&B. Furthermore, the family

trees should be loaded as hierarchies into SAP BW to enable reporting on

groups. In BW, existing master data (customer, vendor) can be enhanced by

D&B attributes in the form of attributes. This information is used in the BEx

Analyzer to further evaluate the InfoCube.




Standardizes corporate reporting acrossenterprise

Reduced time per week tointerpret or remapinformation in reports x 50 xloaded hourly labor charges

Integrates external and internalaccounting reporting

Reduced time to manuallyintegrated external data intoreporting per week x loadedahourly labor charges x 50

Makes non-financial key success factorsand risk exposures more transparent andrelates their influence on companyperformance

Balanced Scorecard Automed management of Balanced Scorecard

Provides a more focused, balanced viewof company performance and techniquesto communicate to build and maintainemployee and stakeholder satisfaction

Rolling forecast Supports migration of rolling forecasts

1.0Balanced Scorecard

(BSC)

Link between strategic planning and

operational target setting. Provides a more

focused, balanced view of companyperformance.

o e s a s ra egy an n s e

strategy model to the right operational

measures of the business. The

measures are then used to assess the

strategic achievements of theorganization and to set targets, which

are linked to the strategy and to the

Business Consolidation

(BCS)

Legal & management consolidation, value

adjustments, economic profit calculation

Speeds up legal and management

consolidation, complete automation of

activities, reconciled, internal &

external group reporting, international

accounting rules, complex currency

translation capabilities

Business Planning &

Simulation (BPS)

Links strategic planning and simulation with

cross-functional enterprise planning;

resource allocation according to strategic

and operational targets; PowerSim dynamic

modeling tool (includes Monte Carlo risk

management simulation).

BPS enables continuous and efficient

simulation, planning and forcasting

processes across the entireorganization. Allows for internalization

of stakeholder expectations in the

planning process, strategic and long-

term planning, resource allocation, and

rolling planning. BPS uses model-based

planning, scenario modeling, dynamic

simulations, and links to R/3 planning.

Dynamic scenario modeling increases

understanding of interdependencies in

business, cascading effects of decisions

and the effects of competitive

responses and counter-responses. Italso helps identify risks and their

performance effects and allows for

experimentation with delayed effects.

Strategic Enterprise Management Highlights



CorporatePerformance Monitor

(CPM)

Communicate and monitor performance and

strategy through Balanced Scorecard,

Management Cockpit and Value Driver Trees.

Maintain a complete and balanced set of Key

Performance Indicators, support ValueBased Management, support translation of

strategic objectives into operative targets,

provide interpretation models to visualize

the strategic impact of operative

performance measures, and support aligned

target setting for all organizational units

Provides an end-to-end solution to

support integrated enterprise

management processes and creates

visualization of how key performance

indicators (KPI) are influenced by

other measures. The ManagementCockpit presents KPI information,

supporting shorter and more efficient

management team meetings by

improving communication within the

team. Makes non-financial key success

factors and risk exposures more

transparent and relates their influence

2.0a

(12/6/1999)

Business Information

Collection (BIC)

Automatic sourcing of unstructured business

information from the web.

e ps to in , structure an e it

relevant external (unstructured)

competitive, market or other

information on an ongoing basis and to

automatically distribute it to the

a ro riate information consumers.

>2.0b

(02/01/200

0)

Stakeholder

Relationship

Management (SRM)

Integrate your most important stakeholders

into your enterprise management process.

Includes Stakeholder Master Database &

Stakeholder Contact Database, Stakeholder

Questionnaire Generator, Stakeholder Value

Report Builder, and Stakeholder Simulation

Processor.

igni icant y improves t e

communication process with

stakeholder groups and therefore helps

realize stakeholder value.

Questionnaire Generator collects

information from stakeholders and

organizes the feedback. Value Report

Builder creates reports with target

group related information. It allows

for the presentation of existing data in

different ways in order to meet

stakeholders' information

requirements. Simulation Processor

supports interactive simulations where

stakeholders can develop company

scenarios and simulate the impact of




3.0 to 3.1

3.1 to 4.0 General EnhancementsTabstrips are now used to organize information for

Equipment, Notifications, Work centers, and Users

Improved usability and organization of

information processing and technical

ob ects

List editing improvements including the use of a general

list viewer and the grouping of fields for a display variantImproved reporting capability

Notification and Work Order

Improvements

Joint processing of Maintenance notification and orders

where the notification data is copied directly to the

order screen.

Increased order processing efficiency

and accuracy due to the reduction of

redundant keying of notificationinformation.

Flexible reference object allows Functional location

and/or Equipment and/or Material serial number to be

the reference ob ects in the notification and order.

Increased flexibility in notification and

order creation to identify real cost

driver for PM activity.

Automatic equipment determination based on functional

location where the equipment is installed.


from automation of equipment

determination

Centralized address

management

Centralized address management for functional location,

equipment, maintenance notification, and order.


and accuracy due to the reduction of

redundant entering of addresses

Functional enhancements forTechnical Objects

Enhanced equipment list entry to include documents,

classification, measurement categories, long text, internalnotes, installation location, partner assignments, permits,

addresses, and configuration

Comprehensive description of

equipment for better maintenance

planning and activity.

Action logs for equipment and functional locations to

track who made what changes and when.

Improved maintenance activity

monitoring for traceability and

historical tracking

Functional enhancements for

Maintenance processing

For refurbishment of spare parts, there is now a material

valuation type c for condition-based valuation.

Improved ability to process and track

material and expenses associated with

refurbishment.

An employee can be assigned to a maintenance order

based on available capacity or necessary qualifications.Improved resource utilization

Workflow for maintenance orders from Order creator to

Maintenance planner group for order release and

Maintenance work center for order confirmation back to

creator.

Faster processing of maintenanceorders and the elimination of lost

orders.

Improved maintenance and classification of permitsReduction of lost time due to delays or

errors in permit management

List editing improvements including completion

confirmation, notification activities, orders by settlement

rule, and orders by permit.

Improved reporting capability

Transfer of net order price from the maintenance order

to the purchase requisition and purchase order.

Time savings due reduction of

redundant effort by Material Planner

or Purchasing to determine net order

price.

Plant Maintenance Release Highlights





Integration of PM to QM including inspection of

maintenance objects, definition of inspection

characteristics in maintenance task lists, and automatic

inspection lot creation for PM orders.


redundant effort and automation

Integration with Investment management including

automatic assignment of PM orders to a capital

investment item.


redundant effort and automation

Additional PM order assignments available now are funds

management, real estate management, and joint venture.

Increased capability for tracking and

reporting financial assignments for PM

orders.

Improved completion confirmation functionality including

actual data being proposed from orders for collective

confirmation, automatic selection of standing orders by

specifying the object number for equipment or functional

location, and deletion of selected lines for collective

confirmation.

Time savings due to collective

confirmation and automation activities

Technical completion (TECO) reversals from within the

PM order are now possible.Improved work order cost accuracy

Functional enhancements forPreventive Maintenance

Order planning using configurable tasks lists allows a

general PM task list to be created with object

dependencies. When the general task list is then selected

in a PM order, its characteristics are checked and the

modified version of the task list is copied to the order.

Flexible task list creation allows more

accurate tasks to be identified andperformed reducing the expense for

unnecessary tasks

Maintenance plan variants now include a new single cycle

plan and an extended multiple counter plan.

New choices in maintenance cycles

allows more accurate planning and

schedulingScheduling overviews can be created as a graphic with

maintenance plan simulation or as a list with display

variants with general list viewer technique.

Improved preventive maintenance

planning and scheduling

Cross Application Time

Reporting

Single entry of time reporting which updates relevant

R/3 modules in real-time, including, MM, HR, CO, PM, SM

and external services MM. Capabilities to customize inputscreens to level of user with change/update. Integrated

approval procedure and automat

Reduction of data entry for time

reporting, Increased productivity of

service, plant and other personnel,

Improved labor utilization and real

time update of plant services

performed resulting in

4.0 to 4.5Functional enhancements for

Technical Objects

Standardization of master record view for functional

locations and equipment



ob ects

Direct display of address and structure provided through

tabs in the master record



ob ectsThe use of serial numbers for Inventory management was

already available in Release 4.0, but is now extended to

additional stock types

Improved inventory management

control due to extension of serial

number tracking to additional stock

t es

Entry List for Measurement ReadingImproved ability enter measurement

readings






Maintenance Processing

The Configurable User Interface for Notifications allows

for the tab strip to be displayed or hidden, Icons and

text to be freely defined for each tabstrip, and the

screen sections to be freely defined for each tabstrip.

Improved usability and understanding

of notification information due to user-

configurable interface.

An Escalation Workflow now exists for when the end date

for a notification or task is exceeded.

Improved resolution process for

notifications where end date is

exceeded Tabstrips are now used to enhance the User interface

for PM orders. Also, the operation detail screen is called

up by double-clicking.


information for PM orders

A Graphical Monitor for resource planning is now

available.

Improved resource planning and

scheduling

A Material availability list is now available to show the

status of material for a PM order.

Improved resource planning and

scheduling based on improved

understanding of material status

The Settlement of a Refurbishment Order is now

available for processing a material from valuation type C3

(faulty) to C2 (refurbished) and correctly adjusting the

moving average cost to include spare parts and working

time.

Improved ability to process and track

material and expenses associated with

refurbishment.


Preventive Maintenance

Task list enhancements include: Internal and externaldata can be maintained on the operations overview screen,

direct assignment of maintenance packages to operations,

and direct link to service specifications for external

operations


information for Preventive Maintenance

orders

In Release 4.5, Notifications can be created from

maintenance plans based on maintenance call dates just as

orders could be created in Release 4.0.

Time savings due to automated creation

of notifications from maintenance plans

A maintenance plan (category PM) can now be created

without assigning a task list. This requires confirmation

before the generation of next maintenance call object.

Improved flexibility in maintenance

plan creation

Cross Application Time

Reporting

Enhancements to CATS include entry via Internet or

Intranet, a modified mechanism for default values, entry

of accounting indicator, and selection of personnel

numbers.

Improved flexibility in time reporting

through CATS

4.5 to 4.6 Enhanced UsabilityReduced plant maintenance work order

creation time




From 3.1 to 4.0Lean WM - Using Transfer

Order as Pick List

It is possible in 4.0 to create transfer order for

deliveries when no storage bins are managed in the

system. Stock is viewed in the IM system not the WM

stock overview.

Using Lean WM allows the use of trans

order functionality for an SD Pick list

without using full blown Warehouse

Management.

Active Capacity Check

As of release 4.0 it is possible to have active capacity

check run for strategies I, L &P. Any bin found is first

checked for capacity and only suggested if sufficient

capacity exits.

You can carry out a search for a suitablefor putaway. The system checks each bfound for put away and checks availablecapacity as set in customizing. This leadan efficient put away process

Several Storage Location sfor Warehouse Number

Up to release 3.1 you could only manage the stock of one

Sloc within a warehouse number. In 4.0. More than one

Sloc can exist per warehouse.

In 4.0 this functionality has been providedto business implications. More than onecan be define to represent the ownership

status of companies or in order to be abmake important planning decisions at valevels.

Warehouse Activity Monitor

The activity monitor is used to quickly recognize errors

or critical stock situations. The aim of the WH monitor

is to acknowledge, process and remove critical errors and

situations in the warehouse.

User Friendly tool provided to help monitactivities in the warehouse.

WM - Two Step Picking

For two step picking, the picking is divided into two

steps. Step one, the entire quantity of needed materials

is picked. Step two, the total quantity is divided up and

allocated according to individual requirements.

Using 2 Step Picking the picking processbe optimized. This picking method is useespecially for picking large quantities ofmaterial usually in a wave scenario.

SU-Managed Bulk Storage

with Partial Pallets and Mixed

Storage.

It is now possible to manage partial pallets and mixed

storage in SU managed bulk areas. With partial pallet

permission, you can pick partial quantities. A complete

removal indicator exists to remove full pallets (with

partial picking) and return the partials to partial pallet

This functionality leads to more efficient management within the WM system.

Planned Replenishment

This report creates transfer requirements for fixed bin

replenishment where stock removals are allowed to take

place before putaways because of respective deliveries.

A goods transfer from a source storage type to a fixed

bin is considered replenishment.

Using this report, you can create all thereplenishment transfer requirements forsupplying the fixed bins the following dayThe report provides an overview of planreplenishment it does not execute and coreplenishment for a given time.

WM - Transfer Order

Splitting

Transfer order splitting is control by customizing. Valuelimits for the target time (header data) , volume, and

weight of the transfer order ensure targeted

distribution of the workload.

To achieve a balanced distribution of theworkload in the warehouse, transfer ordemay be split and divided among available

resources.

Processing Posting Changes

for within WM

Using the new transaction "Posting change in WM and IM"

you can process posting changes for quants entirely

within the warehouse management component. The

system carries out all the necessary processes in

Inventor Mana ement.

This functionality leads to more efficientmaterial management within the warehoumanagement system.

Prepicked Shipping Units

The new function allows you to place prepicked shipping

units in an interim storage type. The goods are stored in

interim storage as prepicked goods with reference to

the delivery. The goods are then picked at the time ofdelivery. Delivery items must be packed into shipping

units in advance.

This requirement came from the retail indDue to al a lack of warehouse capacity acustomer, the picked goods are deliveredat a later point in time (i.e. Seasonal Goo

Warehouse Management Release Highlights







RF Monitor

The monitor serves to assign the TOs created in WM to

queues. The RF monitor is used to supervise the workload

and the work capacity of queues. Ability to display

number of TOs assigned per user, sort TOs by creation

date and time, move transfer orders to other users,

forward transfer orders to other users, manually

prioritize transfer orders.

The user 's view at the RF terminal is limihis current queue of transfer orders. A cefunction is necessary in order to be able have processing of transfer orders by RFusers completed as efficiently as possible

Enjoy in the Warehouse

Management System

The display of bin data, inventory, bin sectioning, and

statistics no longer takes place by means of a pushbutton:

instead you use tab pages in a table control, with the

table control you can now call up and group your data

according to your individual requirements. The followingnew functions are also available: Branching from Storage

type to customizing, Branching from "inventory display"

doc. to inventory history. Text descriptions added to

inventory status, graphic display of bin usage, inventory

status and blocking. Reports converted to ABAP list

Viewer so you can adapt your lists to your own

Enjoy SAP functionality allow the user todisplay or group data according the usersindividual requirements making SAP R/3 user friendly.

Two -Step Confirmation of

Transfer Orders

A Transfer Order can now be confirmed in two steps.

During the first step you confirm that the goods have

been picked from the source storage bin. During the

second step, you confirm the transfer process and thus

the receipt of the material into the destination bin.

The physical process of picking can now

depicted in the system without time de

The storage bin from where the mater

picked is immediately available again fo

stock picks. If several resources are

involve in a TO, you can confirm each

physical action separately.

Putaway Process in Lean WM

New functionality creates a TO for the inbound delivery.

No bins are updated. Bins are determined through

movement type and master data.

Now you can use Lean WM in the putaw

process in addition to the picking proce

for the delivery

Enjoy SAP - Delivery

Processing

Dialog processing of inbound and outbound deliveries was

completely revised during SAP's enjoy initiative. Delivery

data is now organized in process-oriented groups,

Foreground navigation is easier with buttons and tabstrip

control, a status overview gives you a summary of the

delivery document's status at a glance & you can switch

from display to change mode with out leaving the

a lication.

Enjoy SAP functionality allow the user todisplay or group data according the usersindividual requirements making SAP R/3 user friendly.

Small Parcel Carrier Link

In the small parcel carrier link, you define for each small

parcel carrier which data fields you need. Ex: using Pre-

defined modules, Setting standard values, Using number

range objects, Calling up BAPIs, Using your own function

module, Combining data field using substitution.

Without extra effort these fields are considered in

IDOC and RFC interfaces. Also, there are XML

interfaces for master data that is directly related to the

Small parcel carriers need to deliver g

quickly from one location to another an

tracking the entire path of the deliver

The labels on parcels must meet pre-

defined requirements in order to be re

automatic sorting machines and to be

forwarded correctly.





Subsequent Delivery Split

Until now, the delivery split had to be reduced and then

leftover quantities placed in a new delivery. The

subsequent delivery functionality let you carry out this

process in one step without the goods returning to

available status in the meantime. You can use a list to

select delivery items that are to be taken from existing

outbound deliveries and put into one or more outbound

Deliveries change frequently during the

course of processing time. It may be

necessary to divide up a delivery for

warehouse and transportation planning

purposes.

Proof of Delivery

The ship-to-party transfers the proof of delivery to the

system via IDOCs. You can edit and analyze differences.

In turn, you can create a delivery-related billing

document for the corrected quantities.

Proof of Delivery allows verification of

actual quantity received by the ship-to-

party or reason for derivation. (POD)

occurs after goods issue for the deliver

POD supports delivery confirmations fo

external customers.

Wave Pick for Shipments

Wave picking groups delivery requirements according to

trucking/transportation schedules. Two options exist:

Create a exactly one wave for each shipment ignoring

time slots and capacity. Option two, combine and group

outbound deliveries according to shipment time. Time

slots and capacity are taken into consideration. Outbound

deliveries of the same shipment are always either all in

one wave pick or not included at all.

Picking in WM and Distribution centers

be more accurately planned according to

requirements of outbound deliveries

Extension for Multi-

Dimensional Freight Condition

Now you can distribute multi-dimensional freight

conditions from an SAP system to other systems via ALE.Also, now you can change freight rates in mass by

percentage or absolute value.

You can define up to three scales of pr

conditions in SAP for the calculation offreight costs for shipments. The proce

more efficient and user-friendly due to

Distribution of conditions and 2) Mass

changes to freight rates.




3.1 to 4.0

IS-SW SupportSupport of revenue recognition, Ibase

management

Ability to increase maintenancerevenue and management of

through advance notification of

renewal, upgrade info. FASBcompliance for software revenue

recognition

Increased cash flow froimproved maintenance

invoicing = NPV of increarevenues at standard co

capital

Customer ContractManagement

Ability to manage global contracts,

Reduced time spent on non-value

added contract renewal and re-pricing Increased discounts with

strategic suppliers due to freed uptime from non-value activities

4.0 to 4.5

4.5 to 4.6

Web enabled servicemanagement

Ability to dispatch f ield service via web,

Ability to provide support services (ie.help desk, QA dB's, etc.) over the

Internet

Reduced call dispatch cycle time

resulting in higher customer sat. -Improved productivity of field service

staff

Service Management Release Highlights




3.1 to 4.0

Calibration Inspection

Ability to include inspection characteristics for each operation inthe maintenance task lists (as with current). Work list for controlcharts that will enable you to call up and display control chartsfrom outside the results recording function. .

Better decision making of material usage. Recycle time and improved data related to themanagement of calibration and testing of mat

Enhanced Quality

Control

Work list for control charts that will enable calling up and displaycontrol charts from outside the results recording function .Abilityto control charts for qualitative characteristics, control tolerance

input for a control chart, andrun charts function to represent the progression of values in aninspection

Improved WIP and finished product quality, pdata results in graphical format for easier decmaking

Sample management

Allows for flexible planning of the actual samples to be drawn,the identification of these actual samples, the administration ofsample data in a sample record, and the assignment ofinspection results to a sample record

Compliance of Good Manufacturing Practice

Functional

enhancements for

approvals during

inspection planning

and inspection

processing

QM: New Authorizations functions are: Master data

authorization -The new authorization object Q_MASTERD

controls the access to master data in the QM application

component. Material authorization - The authorization object

Q_MATERIAL has been supplemented with the following

functions: Approval procedure and Digital signature.

In certain branches of the process industr

example, the pharmaceutical industry), the

Manufacturing Practices (GMP) require tha

master data and master data changes must

subjected to an approval procedure. You ca

process work orders if they are controlled

approved master data or if they have been

approved.

Implementing Table

Control in the

overview screens and

the new general list

viewer for list

displays.

Screens and Lists now use table to display information which

is more flexible for the user to decide what and how much

information is displayed.

Easy to use, shortens users time for proces

information.

QMIS -

Characteristic Results

in information

structures.

Quality Management Information System (QMIS) -

Characteristic Results in information structures.

Summarization of inspection results data in the QM

Information System (QMIS)

n ance r epor ng capa es. s a ow

Access the inspection results in the LogistInformation System. Use standard informa

structures and standard analyses to update

analyze the inspection results. Choose amon

process models for calculating the statistic

for quantitative characteristics

Take deleted inspection lots into considera

Quality Mgmt. Release Highlights





Quality Certificates:

New functions.

Quality Certificate functions new in 4.0: Creating Certificate

Profiles Using a Copy Model. Delete certificate profiles that

have not been released. The system creates change

documents for released certificate profiles. If the data

origins or text elements for the characteristics are not

compatible with the remaining data, the system issues

corresponding warning messages. Copy the characteristics

that reference master inspection characteristics from a

task list into a certificate profile. Display all currently valid

assignments. New customer exits.

Quality Control:

Enhanced Quality

Control

Work list for control charts that will enable calling up and

display control charts from outside the results recording

function .Ability to control charts for qualitative

characteristics, control tolerance input for a control chart,

and

run charts function to represent the progression of values in

an inspection

Improved WIP and finished product quality

provides data results in graphical format fo

decision making

Quality Control:Evaluating Inspection

Characteristics

Evaluating Inspection Characteristics. In the transactions

for results recording and the usage decision, you can call up

the results history for an inspection characteristic. This

allows you to compare the results of the current quality

inspection with the results of previous inspections for the

same material. (QGP1 Results history for inspectioncharacteristic) functions in this list: display the single

results for one or more samples. obtain a detailed display of

all inspection results for a sample by calling up the

corresponding transaction. display a run chart for the

sample mean values. display a run chart for single values.

display a histogram for single values with the process

capability indices cp and cpk. use the QM-STI interface to

generate statistiscal analyses using an external statistics

acka e.





Quality Control: New

types of control

charts for SPC

1) np-chart for the number of nonconforming units (175, 176)

2) p-chart for the number of nonconforming units (165, 166)

3) c-chart for the number of nonconformities (195, 196)

4) u-chart for the number of nonconformities for each unit

(185, 186)

5) Moving-average chart (520-526)

6) EWMA moving-range chart for mean values with

exponential smoothing (530, 531)

7) Moving range chart for mean values (515, 516)

The c-chart and u-chart are provided for characteristics

whose control indicators specify the confirmation of defects.

The moving-range chart is a control chart with two tracks

that is especially suited for characteristics with a sample

size of n=1. In this case, track 1 displays the actual measured

value and track 2 displays the distance between the actual

measured value and the preceding measured value. The

control limits for the moving-average chart, EWMA moving-

average chart, and the R-track of the moving range chart do

not only reference the current sample and you cannot use

them to valuate the samples.

Quality Control: Open

Integration andinterfaces.

QM-STI interface for linking decentralized evaluation tools

(for example, statistics software packages). AdditionalBAPI's. New Customer Exits.

Quality Inspection:

Specifications from

Variant Configuration.

Determine the characteristic specifications in an inspection

lot from the variant configuration characteristics on a

material.

Quality Inspection:

Canceling the Sample

calculation.

The sample calculation for an inspection lot can be cancelled

as long as you have not recorded any confirmations,

inspection results, or defects for the inspection lot for the

following reasons: The inspection lot quantity was changed

and the new quantity should be used as a basis for calculatingthe sample sizes. You want to the system to reassign the

inspection specification using a new or revised task list.

Quality Inspection:

Digital Signature

The digital signature ensures that only users with special

authorization be allowed to execute, monitor, or approve

certain transactions. In QM, these transactions are as

follows: Saving inspection results for characteristics and

Saving a usage decision.

The digital signature serves as a technical aid for this

requirement. When an authorized user wants to save data, he

or she inserts an indvidual identification card (containing the

user identification and password) into a smart-card reader

and enters a password. The system checks whether thisinformation corres onds to the information in the individual's

The digital signature enables you to meet t

security requirements stipulated in the Goo

Manufacturing Practices (GMP) with regard

execution of these transactions. The digita

signature ensures that: A transaction can o

carried out by users with a special authoriz

The user identification is unique and forger

The name of the users is documented toget

the signed transaction and the date and tim

cannot be manipulated afterwards.





Quality Inspection:

Enhancements in

Results Recording.

e o ow ng new ea ures n resu s recor ng: s ng e

functions for table control, you can configure the recording

tables to suit your individual requirements. With the help of

subscreens, you can configure the header data for the

recording screens to suit your individual requirements.

'Summarized' recording view. Recording configuration

automate navigation of the results recording function.

Forced closure function. You can confirm the attribute

indicator and the measured value in a single field. Changes to

single values and classed values are recorded in change

documents. Results data origin documents the origin of a

result (for example, "value copied from certificate").

Quality Inspection:

Graphics in Results

Recording

The new graphic displays for sample results in the

transactions for recording and displaying characteristic

results are Histograms and Run charts.

Quality Inspection:

Inspection for Goods

Receipt in Blocked

Stock.

Inspections for Goods Receipt in Blocked Stock. You can

inspect materials that are held in goods-receipt blocked

stock (movement type 103).

Previously, you could only create inspection lots for good

receipts that were posted out of goods-receipt blocked

stock (movement type 105).

Quality Inspection:

Inspection lots in

Inventory

Management.

New functions for correcting the actual quantity of an

inspection lot are: 1) stock postings for goods-receipt insp

lots with account assignments. 2) a posting and material

document date that is not the same as the current date. 3)

activate or deactivate the "delivery completed" indicator. 4)

a reason for making a correction in the actual quantity. 5) a

text for the posting.

The system checks your QM material authorization when you

correct the actual quantity of an inspection lot.

A new transaction to transfer the stock in an inspection lot

to another storage location or another plant. (You cannot

transfer partial quantities of stock in an inspection lot.) All

material documents that reference an inspection lot or that

were created as a result of an inspection lot are recorded

and available for display in the transactions for the usage

decision and displaying an inspection lot.

Quality Inspection:

Multiple inspection

lots for a single run

schedule header.

You can create several inspection lots for a run schedule

header. This allows you to create a new inspection lot after

you have completed the current inspection lot, without having

to create a new order. This function is especially useful if an

inspection planner changes the planning data so that it

affects the processing of a subsequent inspection lot (for

example, if tolerances for a characteristic are changed or if

a new operation with characteristics is inserted into the tasklist). In the run schedule header, you can display the current

inspection lot and a list of all previous inspection lots





Quality Inspection:

One-Time Inspection

for Several Goods

Movements

en you maintain t e inspection ata in t e materia

master, you can enter the following values for the

"LotsforMatDocItem" indicator:

' ' (blank): One inspection lot for each goods-receipt

document item. (3.0) 'X': One inspection lot for each

purchase order item or order item and batch. (3.0) '1': One

inspection lot for each material document, material, and

batch. (New function) '2': One inspection lot for each

material and batch. New function

Quality Inspection:

Print Function for theInspection Lot

The existing function for the results printout (transaction

QGA3) has been expanded to include the following functions:

Printout of summarized data for samples. Printout of single

values/classed results for inspectioncharacteristic/sample/inspection point. Possibility of

inserting standard texts in various text elements

Quality Inspection:

Printing SampleDrawing and

Inspection

Instructions

The sample-drawing instruction has the following new

features: Improved layout, production order number

available, partial samples by operations, and Multiple copies.

If using Sample Management, the following information is

also available: texts from sample drawing procedure, list of

physical samples and size of each physical samples, indicator

for physical samples to be inspected, partial samples

information. For inspection lots of maintenance orders, the

following information is available: List of Plant Maintenanceobjects (equipment or functional location), inspection

operations and work center.

The inspection instruction has the following new information

available: Shop papers can be printed out on a work center

printer (that is, the system prints several inspection

instructions, if specified in the print control), Multiple copies

can be printed out. Detailed information for production tools

and resources. Control over printing of inspection

characteristic 1) all cases (3.1), 2) not printed, or 3) not

printed, if in a skip stage.

Quality Inspection:

Proposal for Batch

Status change making

a U.D.

A proposal for a Batch Status Change When Making the

Usage Decision can now be stored in the catalog for the

usage decision. As a result, you no longer have to trigger the

batch status change manually. You can also trigger a batch

status change when the system makes an automatic usage

decision. The manual function, however, is still available.







Quality Planning: New

Features for QM in

Procurement

The following new features for QM in procurement have been

implemented: Skip for certified vendors. Lot creation

status and inspection lot reference in the goods receipt

document. Mass changes for QM in Procurement info-

records. Certificates Acknowledgement required in goods

receipts can now control stock or issue messages. Deletion

Indicator for the quality info-record.

Quality Planning: New

User Interface for

Catalog Processing.

You can now create, change, or display code groups and codes

using a single transaction. When you select a code group, you

can branch directly to the codes that belong to that

particular code group. Within a transaction, you can: Process

selected codes or all code groups in a catalog, Copy the code

groups along with their respective codes, Translate the

entries into various languages, Transport the code groups and

codes on a client-wide or system-wide basis.

Quality Planning:

Optional Unit of

Measurement for

Quantitative

Inspection

Characteristics

As of Release 4.0A, you no longer have to specify a unit of

measurement for a quantitative inspection characteristic.

This applies to both master inspection characteristics and

inspection characteristics in a task list.

Quality Planning:

Printing Out

Inspection Plans for a

Material

The system selects the same version of the inspection plan ituses when it creates an inspection lot for a material. The

system prints the characteristic values that are valid for

this material or for a predefined combination of material,

vendor, and customer.

Simplified User

Guidance in results

recording.

Easier to use, shortens users time for proc

information.

Test Equipment

Management:

Calibration Inspection

Ability to include inspection characteristics for each

operation in the maintenance task lists (as with current).

Work list for control charts that will enable you to call up

and display control charts from outside the results recording

function. .

Better decision making of material usage. R

cycle time and improved data related to the

management of calibration and testing of m

Quality Notifications:

Notification Action

Log

Changes to notifications, tasks, items, activities and partners

will be kept in a chronological sequence in an action log.






Items, Tasks,

Activities in

Notifications

e sor num er n no ca on ems, as s an ac v es

can be given an external sort number. This number makes it

possible to define the sequence in which the tasks, items or

activities should be displayed.

Partner in the task detail screen. The system can determine

a partner function for the persons responsible for the task

depending on the notification type. The partner function is

proposed in the detail screen; from Release 4.0A, you can


Linking Notifications

to the Document

Management System

Noti ication processing as een in e to t e ocument

management system (DVS). You therefore have the option of

assigning document master records to notifications. Several

functions are available: Search functions for the documents.Jump to the document master record. Display the original

document. In addition to the known reference objects,

other options are available to set the notification system in

your company. Examples of this are problem notifications or

im rovement ro osals for technical documentation.

You can use this DVS link, for example, for

inclusion of documents which are of centra

importance for notification processing. TheSystem thus makes notification processing

more efficient because distribution of orig

documents in your company (for example, b

post or telefax) is no longer necessary.


Classification of

Notification Items

The functions available for 3.0 have been enhanced so that

you can directly valuate the characteristics of the assigned

class of the catalog profile in a section of the item data

screen. In Customizing: Allow classification and Activate

include screen in catalog profile.


Creating a

Notification Using a

Copy Model

The function for creating a notification using a copy modelhas been changed and enhanced. You no longer have to call up

a separate transaction to use this function. Instead, you

choose the function Notification -> Create and enter the

number of a notification to be used as a copy model directly

on the initial screen. The system copies the notification data

such as reference objects, problem description (including

long text), contact person, items, tasks, and activities

(including long text) into the new notification. You can use

any notification type as a copy model for a new notification.

The notification type of the new notification is irrelevant.


Copying/Displaying a

Long Text for a Code

You can display a long text for a code that is used to

describe a defect or damage item in a notification. A

pushbutton allows you to copy the code text into the

notification as a long text for the corresponding object.






Displaying Statistical

Key Figures

When you process notifications or inspection lots in Release

4.0A, you can have the system display existing notifications

that reference the same objects that are contained in the

current notification or inspection lot you are processing. This

function can: Display the absolute frequencies of the

notifications based on their processing status

(outstanding/completed). Branch to a list of notifications.

Branch from the list of notifications to a specific

notification. You can specify whether you want the system to

use the information structures or the original documents to

determine the number of notifications.


New Initial Screens

for Creating a Quality

Notification

New Initial Screens for Creating a Quality Notification have

the following additional options: create a quality notification

with reference to the vendor material number (screen 0105),

create a quality notification with reference to the customer

material number (screen 0125), create a quality notification

using a copy model (screen 0150).

Quality Notifications:Enhancements in the

Data Structure of the

Quality Notification

The following new fields are in the data structure of the

quality notification: An external reference number. In the

device data field, store any desired additional information

(for example, the production series). In the copy model

number field, reference an existing quality notification.

The serial number field serves as a new reference object for

a material. In the customer material and vendor material

fields, the number under which a material is maintained at

the customer or vendor site can be specified. A

manufacturor can be storde for notifications involving

complaints against vendors. A physical sample can be

referenced at the item level of the notification. The unit to

be inspected number is a field in which information about the


New Features in the

Business Workflow

following new features: A scenario to inform the individuals

with the partner function "IT" (interested party) that a new

notification has been created. An escalation mechanism for

workflow scenarios that involve notifications and tasks. Thesystem uses the data in the notification or task to determine

the deadlines for completing the work items for a

notification or task. If these deadlines are exceeded, the

coordinator of the notification or person responsible for the

notification receives a mail. These escalation messages are

forwarded and deposited in a separate folder in the inbox.

Improved communications and faster inter

processing of complaints. (improved custom

service)


Creating One Quality

Notification Per

Inspection Lot

Since Release 3.0, you record defects for an inspection lot.

If you recorded defects for different inspection operations

in the same inspection lot, the system created a quality

notification for each inspection operation. In Release 4.0A,

you have the option of creating only one quality notificationfor each inspection lot.





4.0 to 4.5Certificates in

Procurement

,

if certificate is missing, certificate is an object in the

system, and storing the oroginal certificates in an optical

Properties of the

Process-Optimized

Results Recording

(RR)

Three different versions available, designed for summarized

results, valuation overview using icons, availability of control

charts and other graphics, direct link to original results

recording, possibility to save and keep screen

Process Optimized

Results Recording

Selection of inspection operations via work list, recording for

a master inspection characteristic, recording for several

characteristic in a plan, recording with inspection-point

overview

OCX User Interface

Graphics Tool

New graphics tool based on OCX (Grafitti), display control

charts with new graphic tool, integrated graphic frame in

results recording screen. Windows 32-bit is required

4.5 to 4.6

Control for Goods

Receipt and Source

Inspections

This enhancement can be used to control the goods receipt

for purchasing document items independent of the source

inspection lot.

Print Control for

Order Types

Used to determine the order types for printing the

inspection instruction, sample drawing instruction, and

physical sample labels.

Output of Language

Dependent

Characteristic Short

Text

Used to change the characteristic short text in results

recording. The changed characterisitc short text is notsaved.

Creating a Quality

Notification when

making inspection

point confirmations

Supplementary Data

when transmitting

certificates

electronically




1.1 - 2.0A Alert Monitor: Messaging

A tool for exception-based management. You

can email the alert messages to other planners.

You also can have the message sent to you

automatically.

Give planners more controlling

abilities over exception situation.

Alert Monitor: Stand-alone

p to . , ert onitor is a stan -a one

component. The Alert Monitor window has

been enhanced.

Demand Planning

Gives demand visibility to understand the market

dynamics and to create accurate forecasts and

demand plans.The forecasting features, like time series

models, causal models, promotion planning, phase

in/out profiles, etc. addresses the needs to plan

high promoted products, seasonal products, as

well as slow moving items and products with

short lifecycles.

Demand Planning-Advanced

Marcos

You can access advanced marcos directly,

separate session for advanced marcos, drag

drop. You can use a new marco element to

have system issue a message. Another new

marco element can have system send out an

email. The new marco tool give you Undo, Redo,

Expand All, Collapse All, Save layout settings

feature. You can define a new marco as a level

change marco. You can also define alerts that are

not visible in the Alert Monitor.

Demand Planning-Aggregate

in Mass ProcessingYou can use an Aggregate to increase the

speed with which mass jobs are processed

Demand Planning-Compare

Through this new function, you can compare

and review DP version for InfoCube and key figure,

forecast versions, univariate forecast errors,

forecast parameters.

Demand Planning-Copying You can copy an existing mass processing jobto a new job

Demand Planning-Decimal

Place

You can set the number of decimal places of a

key figure individually per planning book.

Demand Planning: Aggregation

and Desegregation

ou can e ine t e aggregation an

desegregation types of a key figure in planning

parameters of the InfoCube

Demand Planning:

Authorizations

ou can e ine aut orizations or ersions,

DP functions, Selection Ids, Planning book,

Macros.

Demand Planning: Setting up

the Forecast You can now store the ex-post forecast.

Demand Planning: ForecastVersions

W en you save a eman p anning version,

the newest forecast is saved in the InfoCube and isaccessible for further processing

Demand Planning: Mass

Processing Job Log

You can now have the system create a log of

mass processing job.

Supply Chain Management Highlights



Demand Planning: Lifecycle

Planning

profiles from the master forecast profiles.

You can restrict the use phase-in and phase-out

profile for a product to one location. You can now

apply a phase-in and phase-out profile to either

demand history or the demand forecast. You can

also specify whether period without a value in aphase-in and phase-out profile should be set to 0 or

1000

Demand Planning: Like

Modeling

You can now create "like" profiles from the

master forecast profile. You can restrict the use

of a "like" for a product to one location.

Demand Planning: Notes

Management

In interactive forecasting, you can now create

a note for any cell at any level.

Demand Planning: Planning

Book Access

You can now e ine i erent ways o accessing

the demand planning desktop for different users.

Demand Planning: Promotion

Planning

You can now opt to see t e p anning oo ayout

when you are planning promotion

Demand Planning: Selection

Ids

. comes w new unc ons ororganization of selection Ids. You can build a master

profile of selection Ids as well as a working profile

Ids for each user.Demand Planning: Transfer to

R/3

Demand Management

ou can now trans er t e eman p ans o

multiple products from Demand Planning to R/3

Demand management

Global ATP

Global ATP: General

Enhancements

ou can now protect t e system rom import

customized data. You can switch off the availability

check by setting all basic methods to no check in

checking instructions. You can now configure the

production and the production time in checking

instructions

Global ATP: Product

Allocation

You can now change the consumption parameter in

the production allocation display and production

overview. You can now enter the location-dependent

and location-independent product allocations

procedures and the sequence of product allocation

procedures in APO product master data. You can

now use the following functionality for product

allocation: execute shortage check, display product

allocation assignment by sales order, check the

product allocation assignments, update the product

allocation assignments

Global ATP: Rule-Based ATP

requested products in the rule maintenance screen

and from the hierarchical display of the result tree

for the explanation and situation components. You

can now maintain the location product substitutions

in addition to the product substitutions and the

location determinations. You can now maintain the

reason for the product substitutions and the

location determination activity in the integrated

rule maintenance in the Profile and Parameter

screen.

Maser Data: Authorization

Concept

With effect from 2.0, APO offers an authorization

concept that defines user groups and user access to

the different areas of Master Data.



Maser Data Hierarchies

You can now group Master Data objects in hierarchy

relationships. You can use the Master Data

hierarchies to maintain relationships between

existing Master Data objects.

Master Data: Planning

Version

You can now copy Master Data attri utes o an

inactive planning version back to the active planningversion.

Master Data: Resources

At initial screen for Resource Master , you no

longer need to define resource type that you wish to

maintain in this screen. Instead, you select a

resource in the initial screen Resources in the

Maintenance view of Master Data for resources

Change or Display Resources.

Production Planning and

Detail Scheduling

The manufacturing environment, production

processes, co-products, primary/secondary and

alternative resources, yields, minimum/

maximum time constraints between operations

etc. can be flexible defined and will be

considered during the scheduling to guarantee

the feasibility of the created production plans.

Dynamic lead times and sequencing optimization

achieve maximum cycle time compression to

achieve flexibility, which leads to fast reaction

times to new demand signals or changes.

Characteristics are available to describe

configured products, production blocks,

campaigns and batches.

PP/DS: Authorization You can now use authorization to define which

activities a user may perform in the APO system.PP/DS: Customer exit for the

object selection

in mass detail scheduling

With the Customer Exit APOCDPS1 you can define

the object which the system is to process (schedule

or optimize) in a work step in mass detail scheduling

PP/DS: Scheduling and Detail

Scheduling Strategies

n t e strategy pro i e, wit w ic you contro t e

detail scheduling of orders and operations, the

indicator Finite scheduling has been omitted.

PP/DS: Day's Supply

Calculation

You are able to define exactly which categories of

stock, receipts, requirements and forecast are to

be included in the calculation of day's supply.

PP/DS: Detail Scheduling

From release 2.0 mass detail scheduling is available

with which you can carry out detail scheduling for alarge number of objects as a background job.

PP/DS: Charts in the DS

Planning Board

You can now define network view charts in the

detail scheduling planning board only as dynamic

charts, which you can hide and show in the detail

scheduling planning board. You can also define the

network view charts as static charts, which are

always displayed in the planning board.

PP/DS: Important Indicator

for PP/DS and SNP Planning

Version

Constant planning can affect system performance.

You can now set within a planning version, that

changes relevant to planning are trigger planning or

create planning file entries for just PP/DS and/or

for SNP, or not at all.



PP/DS: PP/DS - SNPIntegration

As of Release of 2.0 A, it is now possible to define

resources that allow a bucket approach (SNP) and a

detail approach (PP/DS), which enables you to use it

for SNP as well as PP/DS. You are now able to

specify for a PPM used in Supply Network Planning

from PP/DS is to be used when you convert theorder into a PP/DS order. When select receipts to

be converted from SNP orders into PP/DS orders ,

you are now able to limit the selection by products

and/or locations. You can therefore convert all

receipts, for example, in one location or for certain

product only.

PP/DS: New Evaluations in

DS Planning Board

In the detail scheduling planning board the following

new evaluations are available in Release 2.0 under

Extra.: Work-In-Process-Stock, Scheduling

quantity, Resource load per period.

PP/DS: Selection of the

Objects to be Displayed in

the DS Planning Period

From release 2.0 you can make user-specific

settings so that only orders of certain types aredisplayed. For the detail scheduling planning board,

which you can access directly in the area menu of

Production Planning, you can control which

resources, products, and orders will be displayed

the table areas of the various sub-screens, using

the Work Area

PP/DS: Optimization

activities in the optimization horizon. In the

optimization profile, you can define the maximum

delay that a receipt element can have in comparison

with a requirements element so that the system is

still able to create pegging relationship betweenthese elements when optimizing . In the

optimization profile, you also can define that system

post-optimizes following the optimization. You can

also define the optimization horizon and the start

of the optimized schedule in the optimization

profile.

PP/DS: Planning Run

ou are not a e to per orm a p anning run in

for as many products in as many locations as you

require.

PP/DS: Product Campaign

. ,

processing in integrated in APO (creation, planning)

and R/3 (Execution, and cost accounting). You can

not create single-product or multiple-productcampaigns in APO using block information in the

planning board.

PP/DS: New Features in the

Order View

On the Process Order screen (Order View), you can

now see alerts related to the order for the product.

This enables you to recognize any surplus/short

quantities, due-date violations, minimum day's supply

alert, and so on, and immediately see details on the

alert with out accessing the alert monitor. When

you select a product receipt in the order tree, you

now receive a tapshtip entitled Alternative. At the

top of the tapstip, the start date and time, baseunit of measurement and order quantity of current

are displayed



PP/DS: Propagation Range

With the propagation range, you could previously set

for which resources and products you could change

the schedule. From Release 2.0A in the detail

scheduling planning board only the resources

specified in the propagation area will be considered

in scheduling. You can not use a propagation range ininteractive planning and in the planning run, to limit

which product you can use. Using Authorization, you

define whether a user may display or change

planning versions, the schedule for location

resources or the stock/requirements situation for

location products.

PP/DS: Push Production

us pro uction a ows you to p an a pro uction

process starting with an ingredient that is to be

consumed.

PP/DS: Rescheduling of

activities in the detail

scheduling planning board

From Release 2.0A, you can define in the planning

board , that in the diagram section of a chart,

activities are displayed, that you can manuallyreschedule with drag&drop. Therefore, you can also

move individual activities specifically to another

date and/or to an alternative resource.

PP/DS: SAP Standard ProfileA ter Re ease 2.0, it's no onger possi e to c ange

SAP standard profile.

PP/DS: New scheduling and

processing functions in the

DS planning board

In the detail scheduling planning board (DS planning

board) you can fix time intervals for selected

resources. A context menu with scheduling

functions, as is available for the table section, is

now available for the diagram section of the

planning board.

PP/DS: Subcontracting

PP/DS. In APO, subcontracting is carried out by

means of stock transfer. The vendor

(subcontractor) is defined as a location with an

indicator for subcontracting. You define

transportation lines between the plant and the

vendor and back to enable the transfer of stock in

both directions.

Supply Chain Cookpit:

Enhancements

As of Release 2.0A, the Supply Chain Cookpit is a

stand-alone component that is separated form,

though still integrated with, Supply Chain Engineer

and Alert Monitor. The enhancements include:

Integrated model and version management, both of

which require user authorization, displaying the

chain in a logical format, creating user -defined

menus for APO queries and key performance

indicators, using hierarchies for organizing supply

chain elements, saving your working area under user

id as personal settings or under a shared label for

public use. numerous key performance indicators

added.



Supply Chain Engineer:

Enhancements

stand-alone component that is separated form,

though still integrated with, Supply Chain Cookpit.

The enhancements include: Integrated model and

version management, both of which require user

authorization, displaying the chain in a logical

format, using hierarchies for organizing supplychain elements, saving your working area under user

id as personal settings or under a shared label for

public use, if you add or delete an object from a

model, all its dependent objects are automatically

added or deleted as well. There is a new mass

maintenance function for maintaining transportation

lane data.

SNP

Creates demand driven, the distribution,

production, purchasing requirements and the

related transportation and allocation plans,

through the whole supply chain network. The

concurrent planning of distribution and

production leads to optimal souring, global

balancing of the resource capacities and limited

materials to satisfy the most profitable

demands. Dynamic calculation of safety stock

and target inventory levels in conjunction with

time phased order logic for an continuous

replenishment reduces the inventory levels and

increases inventory turns through the supply

chain. Supply Network Planning supports the

planner with techniques, like Mixed Integer

Linear Programming and Constraint basedPropagation.

SNP: Capable to Watch

Under the planning data tab of CTM profile, you can

further restrict the objects to be included in the

CTM planning run by: master data, work area. Under

planning strategies, it is now possible to define a

period during which planned orders are deleted.

Supply and demand objects can now be aggregated

according to a CTM time stream, based on specific

categories such as stock type, orders or

requirements.

SNP: Capacity Leveling

When you do resource capacity leveling, you can now

select one or both of the following options: ignorefixed quantities, fix result.

SNP: Optimization Costs

Maintenance

er you ave es a s e a e cos s use y e

Optimizer via master data set up, you can now

maintain those costs through a single point of

access.SNP: Using Hierarchical

Structure for the Heuristic

Run

It is now possible to use hierarchical structures for

the Heuristic run using the Level ID option.SNP: Using Hierarchical

Structure for the

O timization Run

It is now possible to use hierarchical structures for

the Optimization run using the Level ID option.



SNP: Interactive Planning

For aggregate planning: You can now plan product

and resource families on multiple levels. For fix

planning values, if you manually overwrite the value

in a plan, those values are fixed and will not be

changed during subsequent planning runs. For

sending plan, you can now send plans via emailinternally and externally if the system is connected

to a mailsever.

SNP: Master Data

The Cost Function is used by the Optimizer to

calculate the cost of procuring, producing, or

transporting varying quantities of products defined

in intervals via the Maintenance function.

SNP: Optimizer Log Files

ou can now isp ay severa i erent views o

Optimizer-related data from a single-point of

access.



Release Delta Functionality Functionality Description Business B

3.1 to 4.0 Process Flow Scheduler

Through the POI interface the PFS is connected to PP-PI and started through the

planning process. Master data as well as transaction data is modified by the

detailed planner and optimizer and then transferred back to PP-PI

Improved control ove

schedules. Improved

delivery, reduced inve

improved production t

Distribution Resource

Planning

On the whole, Distribution Requirements Planning can be conducted using techniques

available in Material Requirements Planning (MRP). The planning results provide you

with planned stock transfers (stock transfer requisitions), which you can use to

guarantee the stock level required in the distribution centers. The system also

takes into account the fact that requirements can be satisfied by more than one

supply center.

In contrast to Distribution Requirements Planning, deployment has a short-term

character. The aim of deployment is to help you react to deviations from the

preceding Distribution Requirements Planning run. Deviations can occur in the

production process, and can also be due to imprecise sales forecasts. Deployment

enables you to take appropriate action when situations of either requirements

shortage or requirements surplus arise by providing algorithms for "fair share"

distribution and for "push" distribution, respectively.

Network

Graphical maintenance of a time-dependent distribution network

Integration of important customers in the distribution network (Vendor Managed

Inventory)

Definition of a distribution network for materials or groups of materials, also

without reference to materials

Definition of more than one source of supply for one distribution center

Historical values can be used to calculate the quota arrangement

Connection to Sales Planning

Program for splitting plant-independent forecast requirements over distribution

Easier to use MRP fun

through graphical net

new allocation algorit

results of MRP proces

distribution node netw

External Processing

Full integration of subcontractor information from purchase req, order creation,

goods receipt, material costs, quality inspection. Orders can be set up as planned

delivery times or standard times and workflow can be triggered when orders are

changed and purchase orders are effected.

Improved managemen

subcontractor inform

stronger relationships

terms (order lead tim

Improved production improved update of su

deliver information

Flow Manufacturing -

Kanban calculation

Automatic calculation of number and quantity per kanban. The system will propose

number and quantity based on materials requirment and long term planning. Ability

to specify the valuaion period the system should use. On-line transaction to check

change and accept system proposal

Reduction of inventor

production or procure

improvement in sched

performance and redu

effort.

Production Planning Release Highlights



Flow Manufacturing -

Line design

Designing lines and planning the production process are two of the most important

tasks in production control for flow and repetitive manufacturers. In a flow and

repetitive manufacturing environment, production is split into various processes and

the sequence of these processes is used as a basis for developing the plan for

loading a line.

For this purpose, the line is subdivided into line segments and takt areas. Takt timesare calculated for the takt areas to control material flow and to calculate the time

the material is retained on the line.

Line design also involves allocating products to lines and operations, components and

production resources and tools to line segments. Here, you also assign feeder lines

to main lines. While doing so, make sure that these two lines are synchronized.

In Release 4.0, line design functions already available will be enhanced to suit the

special requirements of a flow and repetitive manufacturing environment.

Description of Function

Line design will be an important tool for flow and repetitive manufacturers to plan

the structure of the production line as well as the production procedure. Thefollowing functions are planned for line design:

Dividing production into processes

Defining process networks

To depict main and feeder lines

To increase possibilities for shortening lead time

Defining line hierarchies

Improvement in prod

and increase in labor

Mass Processing in PP

and control

SAP R/3 users in production planning and control are increasingly processing very

large objects or large quantities of objects (for example, planned orders,

production orders, and capacity requirements).

Functions to simplify the use of mass processing and to increase data throughput

are available in Release 4.0. Response times in online processing have been improvedconsiderably.

You can use comprehensive selection criteria to create a work list. You process this

work list with the functions for sorting, grouping, and filtering.

You can carry out various business functions on selected objects, such as scheduling,

release, and dispatching. You can carry out these functions online or in the

background, both synchronously or asynchronously. The response times for online

processing have been improved considerably as a result of parallel processing in the

background.

Tools are available for you to list and analyze any errors, warnings, and other

important information collected during processing.

You can use the planned functionality in production planning and control wherever

Decrease in manual p

improving planner pe

reduces planning erro

faster responses to c

requirements and pro

Order related planning

strategies

New order-related planning strategies for Release 4.0 so that you do not have to

use additional external optimization tools. The handling of objects in the planning

table, such as planned orders and production orders, will be simplified.

The following functions will be available in Release 4.0:

Additions to planning strategies

Maintenance and dynamic determination of setup times and the setup time matrix

Dispatching of operations within a defined period pattern (days, shifts)

Consideration of production versions when planning alternative lines (for planned

orders)

Material availability checks for a selected planning period

Simple handling of the planning table

Selecting and moving several operations in groupsEasy analysis of planning results

Application Area

Improved utilization

resources, more accu

achievable productio

will improve delivery

increase throughput.



Process Chain for

Confirmation

When you create confirmations, for example, for production orders or run schedule

headers short response times and fast processing are important. On the other hand,

however, further processing steps should be automatically triggered at the same

time as the confirmation. These steps include functions that result directly from

the confirmation of the operation, such as the determination of current costs or

backflushing, but also the confirmation of previous operations in the processingchain.

To process these complex process chains in a manner that optimizes performance

and with short response times, you must distinguish between functions in the

confirmation process where time is a critical factor and those where it is not and

transfer processing steps to the background, to aggregate them and place them in

parallel.

In Customizing you can specify which functions can be carried out on confirming an

operation and when. The individual confirmation functions were encapsulated and

can be run both online as a confirmation, as an asynchronous background task as well

as in periodic background jobs. This affects the following functions:

Updating actual data in the order

Capacity adjustmentAutomatic goods receipt

Backflushing of material components

Determination of expected receipt surplus/deficit

Updating of HR incentive wage data

Actual cost determination

Both a temporal decoupling function and an aggregation function are available for

the confirmation. Since aggregation concerns both goods movements and production

Decrease in producti

efforts improve data

production schedule

PP simulation

Long-term planning provides you with tools for monitoring and planning future

requirements and resources. Using these tools, you can create various versions of

the demand program on a time scale of your choice, and simulate their effects in

MRP and capacity planning. The information from long-term planning also provides

Purchasing with a preview of the order quantities required from the respectivevendors. In the simulation, you can also calculate the activity requirements for

production. This information can be passed on to cost center accounting, where it

can be used for costing the product.

Long-term planning is controlled in a special planning scenario that is independent of

operative planning. In the planning scenario, you can adjust the settings of

simulative planning to suit your particular needs.

More options for simulating planning will be provided in long-term planning in

Releases 4.0C.

The following functions will be available:

Optional consideration of sales orders in long-term planning

Changing simulative planned orders

Copying simulative production plan to operative planning

Graphic capacity planning table with change options

Integration of long-term planning with repetitive manufacturing functions

Improved ability to m

production planning d

operative production

achievable and accur

improving delivery pereducing inventories.



Repetetive

Manufacturing

Repetitive and flow manufacturers usually control production on a period and

quantity basis. In this area of industry, production is also usually characterized by

simple and clear processes. Assemblies are processed in a continuous flow through

the production lines.

Therefore, this branch of industry requires tools that can plan and control

production on a production-rate and line-oriented basis, as provided by theRepetitive Manufacturing component in the R/3 System. Repetitive Manufacturing in

the R/3 System effectively streamlines planning and control processes and greatly

simplifies backflushing.

The planning table is available in Repetitive Manufacturing for planning production

quantities. Here, information on production quantities, the current capacity load of

the production lines, and the product availability situation can be read at a glance.

The flexible strategies for automatic dispatching facilitate the creation of a

realistic production plan. As planning is often based on shifts, the planning table in

Repetitive Manufacturing will be enhanced to include the option of shift planning.

The planning table will be enhanced to include an option for shift planning where you

will be able to create shift quantities for production. The quantities per shift will

be calculated automatically on the basis of the production dates in the plannedorders and the shift times maintained per line. Here, the production quantity of a

Easier to use planning

the ability to make r

decisions, enabling m

response to changes

which results in redu

increased delivery re

Sequencing

Flow shop and variant manufacturing is characterized by a high volume of orders. To

help you plan the resulting high order quantities, you can use the sequencing

functions. Here, the order sequence is determined for flow shop manufacturing. In

this process, the system loads the work stations of a line, taking sequencing

restrictions into account.

For customer-oriented assembly processing, for example, in the automobile and

computer industries, sequence planning is a significant part of production planning.

The system uses the information from sequencing to calculate the exact delivery

times for staging components.

In flow shop manufacturing, sequencing determines the sequence in which ordersare to be processed on a particular production line. The exact line load is displayed

graphically per line on a time axis that is folded in such a way as to display as many

orders as possible at once. Using colors, you can determine the status of the orders

or the assembly areas where the orders are located. You can maintain sequence

plans manually. External optimization or model-mix procedures are linked via an

Improved production

reduced inventory an

delivery performance



FDA requirements

Description of Function

The key developments of Release 4.0 focus on the following three topics:

Electronic batch record

Electronic signature

Approval of changes

Electronic Batch RecordThe electronic batch record is a unique and complete description of the

manufacturing process of a batch. In compliance with the FDA, planning data and

actual data of the process order enter the electronic batch record from various

origins. The actual data comprises process messages from the line operator, process

messages from the process control system and in-process controls, provided they

exist.

As of Release 4.0, the electronic batch record will be enhanced by inspection

results data collected in post-process controls after production.

The lists of the electronic batch record were revised and enhanced.

Process data documentation that represented the "batch record" in Release 3.0 was

order-related. In Release 4.0, the new batch record is directly related to the batch

of the material produced and the data that is allocated to it.Electronic Signature

As of Release 4.0, it will be possible to use smartcard readers for the electronic

signature. The electronic signature serves as a forgery-proof identification of

persons carrying out one of the transactions in the R/3 System described below.

These persons identify themselves by entering their names and passwords. This

data is then compared with the data stored on the chip card.

You can activate the electronic signature for the following transactions:

This development aim

the functionality of t

comply with the lega

Good Manufacturing

set out by the Food a

Administration (FDA

BAPI for Maintaining

IndependentRequirements

This BAPI (Business Application Programming Interface) is designed to provide an

open interface for maintaining independent requirements. In this case, a writing

BAPI is used to make changes to the independent requirements table.

This dispenses with the interfaces that were available up to now, and only used

internally.The BAPI enables you to maintain your own independent requirements from non-SAP

systems without needing a dialog from the side of SAP. The transfer of tables and

control indicators allows you to influence the maintenance of independent

re uirements, such as s littin transferred monthl values.

Eliminate the need fo

custom interface.

4.0 to 4.5 MRP Areas

As of Release 4.5, the system will include the Material Requirements Planning (MRP)

area, which will provide even more clarity and a more refined method of Material

Requirements Planning within a plant. With this method, the MRP area represents an

organizational unit, for which you can carry out Materials Requirements Planning

independently. The results of the planning run are displayed specifically for each

MRP area.

With Release 4.5, an MRP area can include one or several storage locations of a

plant or a subcontractor for the materials planning of the parts to be provided. Youcan assign a material to various MRP areas.

Every MRP area can, for example, correspond to an assembly line, a service storage

location or stock with a subcontractor. You can specifically plan independent

requirements for spare parts or other special requirements for individual MRP

areas.

Up to now, you had carried out Material Requirements Planning at plant level. The

various requirements were combined in the planning run and procurement elements

were created for these pegged requirements with unknown sources

Increased flexibility

MRP processing, by b

segregate the plannin

based on different r



Production Order

Change Management

In the production and procurement process it is often necessary that changes to

master data, for example in bills of material and routings, be copied to the

production and purchase orders.

In make-to-order production, especially in the engineering and construction field,

customers often request changes to be made. The user should be able to implement

these changes in the production and procurement process, even when theseprocesses are already operative.

Changes that occur in the area of engineering/design or production for the make-to-

stock production have to be integrated into existing procurement elements.

It is therefore necessary to have a flexible medium for make-to-order and make-to-

stock production that allows:

You can do this by using change management for production orders.

The following individual functions are included in the order change management

process:

An order change request is created when changes are made to a sales order or when

engineering/design or production changes are released. This request initiates the

change process and manages the change activities.

All production orders affected by the changes in an order change request are

selected. For the change management process, new order change requests are

created for all of the affected production orders.

Increased control ov

execution when custo

specifications change

changes take place.

Production Lot Planning

(SEIBAN)

The necessity to continuously upgrade products and to reduce costs, means that,

for example, in the mechanical and electronics industries, production lots of

finished products and semi-finished parts have to be planned and produced with

different bills of materials or routings. Production lots can vary due to, for example,

the use of another component or another manufacturing process. In this case, aspecific cost determination and evaluation for each production lot is necessary. In

particular, planned costs and actual costs, for example, incurred by a production lot

of an assembly, can be determined before receipt of the sales order.

You can achieve this by defining production lots. This process entails giving each

production lot a number, for which a specific bill of materials and if necessary a

specific routing has been created. The planning, production and costs evaluation is

carried out in relation to this number. This process enables you to evaluate the

costs of the various production lots that have already been planned (before receipt

of the sales order) and compare them to one another.

This type of planning is known as Pre-Planned SEIBAN in Japan.

Up to now, separate planning and cost evaluation has only been possible for make-to-

order and engineer-to-order productions, or in other words, after the receipt of

concrete customer requirements. For this reason, the planning of production lots is

being introduced with Release 4.5.

As of Release 4.5, the SAP-R/3 System will be extended to include the following

functions:

Improved capability

planning, execution a

for specific lots of p

continuous improvem

in place.



High Volume Order

Management

Order-specific repetitive manufacturing and prefabrication is often associated with

a high order volume. Large volumes of data also appear in the production of complex

products, for example with collective orders or complex individual orders.

In such cases, to process large volumes of data it is necessary to carry out

individual functions during the creation or processing of a production order using

collective processing, or by running the functions in the background. Typicalexamples include converting planned orders to production orders, executing

availability checks or releasing production orders.

In the case of a high order volume, the aim is, after a few online steps, to carry out

functions for large quantities of orders or to shift the processing into the

background. In the case of large production orders, long online response times

should be avoided by shifting the complex processing of individual functions into the

background.

High Volume Order Management provides a uniform framework for carrying out

mass production functions. The following functions are available:

components or operations)

These functions are contained in a program that offers the following advantages:

transactions. You can reduce the various selection parameters to the required size

by using variants.

Improved capability

maintenance to large

production orders, ba

defined parameters.

Order Progress Report

In make-to-order and project-oriented production, it is important to have a report

that provides an overview of the current status of procurement and production. The

new order progress report enables you to determine whether or not the delivery

date will be met or delayed. It also allows you to react to delays or bottlenecks

from within the report.The order progress report shows clearly which documents, MRP elements, stocks

and deliveries exist for products ordered by customers, and for their components.

You also receive information regarding the status and progress of each component.

This enables you to predict whether or not the delivery dates will be met or

delayed.

The order progress report offers selection and filter functions that allow selected

elements to be viewed, for example, all elements belonging to a particular material.

You can use profiles to generate individual views of each element. This is done by

means of a hierarchical structure that can be expanded. First, all procurement

elements, stocks and deliveries relating to a product are displayed according to the

selection criteria. You can then explode the corresponding component structure for

each internal procurement element. All existing elements for each of the

components in the bill of materials will then be displayed. Elements which were

created manually and accounted to a sales order or work breakdown structure are

also displayed.

The following elements are displayed:

Enhanced visibility to

Service agents on th

to-order orders thro

chain, reflecting true

delivery problems ansituations.



Storage Resources

When it comes to manufacturing gases, granulates, and liquids in continuous

production, the differences between storage and production resources are

becoming even less clear than in discrete manufacturing. In the manufacturing

process, a tank can be regarded as part of the production line. A tank serves, for

example, as a buffer between two processing units that produce or further process

an intermediate product at different speeds. If material remains in the tank aftermanufacturing has been completed, the tank takes over the role of a storage

resource. The material is again available as warehouse stock.

In Release 4.5, storage or production resources are reproduced in the R/3 System

as storage resources that combine the characteristics of storage facilities and

resources. This means, for example, that available capacity can be allocated to

them, process orders can be dispatched for them, material stock can be allocated,

and goods movements can take place for them.

The development includes the following areas:

By maintaining and classifying storage resources, you create the prerequisites for

the selection of suitable storage resources in the master recipe and process order.

Permits the vessels o

in storing materials i

manufacturing proce

considered as constr

production, and track

hence ensuring realisscheduling.

Grouped JIT Call

The new grouped JIT call function allows you to create a delivery-relevant JIT call

from production with reference to a scheduling agreement (in addition to creating a

requirements forecast from the MRP run). The JIT call can be administered and

transmitted as a separate document.

Firstly, the MRP run creates schedule lines for a scheduling agreement, which are

then transmitted to the supplier as forecast or JIT delivery schedules. However, in

this procedure these forecast or JIT delivery schedules are not relevant fordelivery.

As soon as a material is required in production, you can create a grouped JIT call by

setting a kanban to empty. This applies both to traditional and event-driven

KANBAN. The grouped JIT call, in contrast to the forecast and JIT delivery

schedules mentioned above, is relevant for delivery.

The following functions are available in Release 4.5:

separate file.

Streamlines the flow

regarding JIT requir

vendors, and speeds

transactions.

Characteristic Planning

with Characteristics

Combinations

By creating characteristics combinations, you will be able to manage the large

number of possible combinations of characteristics more efficiently.

Characteristics combinations comprise one or more mutually-dependent

characteristics that are used frequently for planning in Demand Management.

After the characteristics combinations have been determined, you can conduct

characteristics planning on the basis of these combinations. You no longer need to

enter the planning data of characteristics individually. Consequently, the amount of

time and effort necessary for the management of characteristics planning will be

reduced significantly.

Characteristics combinations can be maintained manually.

Requirements can be entered for characteristics combinations.

Information structures can be updated in the Logistics Information System (LIS)

Ease of use in maint

volumes of data.



4.5 to 4.6

Usability Enhancements

for Confirmation

Transactions

As part of the initiative to increase the usability of the R/3 System, numerous large

and smaller developments and changes are being carried out in production orders, in

the areas of confirmations and goods movement. The goal of these efforts is to

make using the system easier, more understandable and more intuitive for the end

user. Here, time ticket confirmation for the operation is given top priority, as the

most frequently used transaction in this area. Particular attention is given to thefollowing goals:

screens

of a customer's own fields and detail screens in confirmation transactions

entry

and removing unnecessary ones or by including further default values for

confirmations

and having context-sensitive field descriptions

sensitive input helps

Description of Usability Enhancement

The most important innovations are, for example:

A new confirmation transaction makes it possible to make confirmations on a single


volumes of data.

Order Information

System and High Volume

Order Management

The order information system is often used to create a list of orders to be

processed. The user can branch from this list to display or change single orders.

Within the framework of high volume order management, mass and background

processing functions for releasing and scheduling production orders are available

through the order information system.The main goal of this development is to make it easier for users to update and

process their daily workload by using the order information system. A standardized

user interface has now been added to the tool to improve usability, and more

transactions and mass processing functionality have been included to increase

versatility of this standardized entry point for the user‟s different tasks.

The tool selects orders according to selection criteria or a user-specific work list.

While processing the selected data, orders can be added to or removed from this

work list.

The user can switch between separate lists for displaying order headers,

operations, components or production resources and tools.

The standard ABAP List Viewer (ALV) is used to display these lists. The list layout

(field selection, sorting, filtering) can be customized and stored individually. Since

this viewer is widely used in the SAP system, most users will be familiar with its


volumes of data.



Order BOM and the

Product Structure

Browser

In the area of sales-order-oriented processing, the maintenance of the individual

product structure has now been made considerably easier, due to the incorporation

of a browser. This simplification is of great benefit to users when they need a clear

overview of the current situation in a sales order and wish to maintain it, or use the

reporting functions.

This is made possible by the product structure browser, which graphically displaysand clearly formats the multi-level tree structure of a sales order BOM. The

product structure browser is tailored to meet the demands of sales-order-oriented

processing. Even during the development phase of the product structure for a sales

order, it provides an overview showing on which level individual order BOM

assemblies have already been created and on which level the non-order-specific

material BOM assembly is exploded in the sales order.

In detail, the following requirements have been realized:

configurable assembly BOMs are exploded (on the screen).

whether an assembly has multiple levels, whether a assembly is configurable and

whether a result-oriented BOM exists on that level for the sales order. Graphicalstructure indicators help you to quickly follow the navigation structure.

environment. A configurable assembly, however, has to access the configuration

editor, which provides all necessary information.

the structure:

- From a sales order context: The relevant BOM explosion date from the sales

Ease of use in mainta

BOM transactions in

documents

Document Integration

for Production Orders

In the execution of a production order, it is often necessary to directly access

external documents. Such documents could be, for example:

To do this, a direct link is required between the production order and document info

records or the original application files, which are managed via these records. In

addition to this, external documents can be created during the production process,

which must be linked to the production order for the purposes of verification or

documentation.

In previous releases you could include documents in a production order by assigning

documents to a routing as a production resource/tool. This document is then

transferred to the production order. Since this method is not always sufficient,

other object relationships need taking into account. The two central linking

mechanisms are the linking of documents to the material master of the BOM header

material on the one hand and document items in the material BOM of the BOM

header material on the other.

So that you do not have to manually re-enter relationships that already exist, it

must be possible to evaluate and automatically transfer such relationships when

required.

In order to be able to comprehensively fulfil the existing, sometimes varying

requirements, integration must be very flexible:

Improved informatio

execution, reduces n

efforts by productio

increasing efficiency

throughput.



Production Order

Splitting

In a production process all the materials in a production order usually progress

together from one operation to the next. Sometimes there is a logistical need to

divide the materials into two groups, which are then processed separately. Such

logistical needs occur in the following situations:

required quantity. The materials to be produced can be separated into two groups,so that material components are available for processing at least one of these

groups.

different requirement dates. By separating the materials, they can be put into

groups with different requirement dates.

should be processed at first.

differently than those passing the quality inspection and therefore need different

or additional operations.

result in a smaller quantity per group, which can be processed faster than thecomplete order quantity.

The separate processing of materials can be achieved by creating a second

production order. The new function „order split‟ offers the possibility of

automatically creating the second production order. It divides an existing and

partially completed discrete production order into a parent and child order. The

order split also adjusts the quantities and dates and handles the costs of the two

orders.

Improved control ove

schedules. Improved

delivery, reduced inv

improved production

Usability Enhancements

for Production Orders

As part of the initiative to increase the usability of the R/3 System, numerous large

and smaller developments and changes are being carried out in the area of shop

floor control. The goal of these efforts is to make using the system easier, more

understandable and more intuitive for the end user. Here the maintenance

transactions for a production order take center stage, as the most frequently usedtransactions in this area. Particular attention is given to the following goals:

screens

user exit for the integration of a customer's own fields

object concerned and placing object specific pushbuttons underneath overview

screens.

menus for the search, sort and filter functions on overview screens.

the most frequently used functions and showing the user status alongside the

system status

short texts

input help


Examples of the most important innovations are as follows:

Ease of use in mainta

production order tra

improving planning, sc

productivity



Graphical Kanban Board

and Integration of In-

house Kanban and MRP

The kanban board has been converted into a graphical user interface and thus

permits user-specific settings. This facilitates use of the planning board and allows

faster access to relevant information, accelerating the planning process.

Materials for which KANBAN controlled run schedule quantities or production

orders are created, can be planned in the MRP run and exploded in the BOM.

Description of Usability EnhancementThe new graphical user interface enables the user to select the information

displayed in the kanban board and to configure the display to his/her requirements.

In particular, the following can be set:

Quick info and sorting for the kanbans can be defined in the control cycle.

It is now also possible to use MRP for materials, for which the KANBAN module

generates run schedule quantities or production orders. Integration of the

KANBAN module and MRP is thus complete.

Previously, materials for which production was triggered via KANBAN, had to be

excluded from MRP if the KANBAN module generated run schedule quantities or

Ease of use in plannin

Dialog Control in the Pull

List, Specific User

Guidance/Information

A more transparent initial screen, additional links to bordering applications and

improved usability provide you with more support when working with the pull list.

You can carry out the individual steps for replenishing material either online or

automatically in the background. This simplifies the complete procedure in the pull

list.


You can tailor the procedure in the pull list to suit your own requirements. In user-

specific selection variants, you define which steps are to be carried out online and

which are to be carried out in the background. This means you can automate the

steps which remain constant. A new procedure supports error processing.

All selection parameters are recorded in groups in one screen providing clarity and

ensuring that the pull list is easy to access.

New links to bordering applications are available from the pull list. For example, you

can branch to:

Ease of use in pulling

transactions, improvi

and reducing non-valu

in material handling.



Usability and process

optimization in

repetitive manufacturing

in the planning table will be more effective and transparent.

easier to use. Backflushing is now carried out from one central screen for various

scenarios (for example, make-to-stock production, make-to-order production or

production by lots).The entry can be adjusted per user to suit the individual requirements.

Now, you can also use a material-dependent production rate.

schedule header has been abolished.


The following developments simplify the use of the planning table:

planning table.

of examination. For example, you can display the first couple of days in shifts, the

next weeks in days and the rest of the period in weeks and months as required.

table

directly).

The different types of backflush are grouped together into one central

Ease of use in plannin

Focus on the MRP

Controller, Usability in

Material Requirements

Planning

The MRP work environment can be adjusted to suit the requirements of the MRP

controller. Enhanced integration in the logistics chain allows quicker access to

important information that is relevant for planning. The MRP functions have been

optimized to simplify their execution and increase user-friendliness.

The main optimizations include:

areas

These enhancements consolidate R/3's extensive support of the MRP controller's

work processes.


The general handling of MRP functions (MRP list, stock/requirements list) has been

simplified and made more consistent. The following new developments simplify

working in MRP:

the MRP and stock/requirements lists.

collective display of MRP lists.

exception messages occurring within a period of time.

various ways.

elements (such as planned/production orders, purchase requisitions, and so on). The

Ease of use and read

information improves

thereby making the p

more responsive to s

Increased customer in inventories, improv






3.1 to 4.0 Integrated PDM PBM integrated through ALE with core R/3

Elimination if duplicate data entry,reduction of errors, reduced productdesign cycle time, reduced ECOcycle time, increased integrity ofdata

ECM Can control material validity through ECMReduced costs associated with EC'swith invalid materials

6

Ability to change heirarchy, work with or without release keys,effectivity by serial #, time period, user defined parameters,combination of parameters

Improved search and definitioncapabilities will lead to shortersearch times for product substitutionor line down situations

Ability to archive change numbers

Support of digital signatureReduced product development cycletime, reduced delays

BOM's Ability to set history requirments for BOM's

Addition of links todocuments

Ability to add links and/or directions to documents


CAD Interfaceimprovements

No specific CAD user required in dialog modem, in RFC mode willreturn object by matchcode for materials, equipment and functionallocation

Elimination if duplicate data entry,reduction of errors, reduced productdesign cycle time

Classificationsimprovements

Ability to sort, set max values and set restrictions on searches


Additional BAPI's Reduction of duplicate entry,leverage of external applications

Product Design Release Highlights





Variant Configurator

4.0 to 4.5Enhancements for

parameter effectivity

Up until now, you could only process BOMs with reference to a

change

number whose effectivity was defined by a parameter effectivity

(for

example, a serial number interval).

As of this release, you can also process the following objects in

this

way:

o Types of routing:

- Standard routings

- Reference operation sets

o Characteristics

o Characteristics of class

o Classification

Settings in the change master record (indicator for the object

types)

determine whether these objects can be maintained with

parameter

effectivity.

There are the following special features:o Routings

You cannot set the object type indicators until you have set the

object sub-types (see: release note General Maintenance

Changes).

o Material

Increased control over changes,

ensuring product design and

production integrity.

Enhanced Usability Inprovement in end user interface for BOM process Reduced product design cycle time

Enhanced Usability Inprovement in end user interface for material master creation Reduced product design cycle time





4.5 to 4.6

Graphical User Interface

for the Engineering

Workbench

The Engineering Workbench browser simplifies both navigation in

the Workbench and object processing. You can find required

information quicker, which reduces processing time. The graphical

display illustrates the structures and their processing contexts.

The browser optimizes both navigation itself, and also the

processing of the objects displayed. It displays all object types

that are processed in the Engineering Workbench, and all the

relationships between these object types, in a simple,

understandable way. You can navigate by expanding hidden objects

in the structure and also by using where-used lists. You can limit

which objects are displayed by using selection parameters and

filters. During object processing, you can directly call up all

general and object-specific functions. Direct processing in the

graphical interface, for example using Drag&Drop, is also possible.

In addition to this, you can jump from the generic product

structure browser into the Engineering Workbench. Further

details of this will be given in the text below.

The browser‟s most important characteristics are:

The browser can be called up from every screen in the Engineering

Workbench. The screen consists of two parts. You see the

graphical browser in one part of the screen and the Engineering

Workbench screen in the other. You can stil l use normal navigation

methods. The browser serves as an additional navigation tool,

which can be hidden or shown by the user at any time.

Reduced product design cycle time

New ECR/ECO Functions

Up until now, you have benn able to define whether an employee

must make

a digital signature for certain status changes of an ECR/ECO by

using the

change type.

As of this release, you can define a comprehensive approval

process in

which several people have to make a digital signature before you

are

allowed to make the next processing step.

You define the following in Customizing for this approval process:

o Individual signatures that are used as partial steps in a

signature

strategy

o Signature strategies in which you group together individual

signatures

of different user groups into a signature process

o Signature networks in which you allocate one signature strategy

to the

individual system statuses of an ECR/ECO or an object

management

record

You choose the signature network for the approval process when

you define

Increased control over change

authorization and audit



Release Delta Functionality Functionality Description Business Benefit Calcul





3.0 to 3.1Integrated Sales Order

Configuration -ATO

Online configuration with availability check and pricing

during order entry. Description of all allowed / possible

product configurations in a maximal BOM.

Integrated Sales Order

Configuration - ETO

Online configuration pricing based on calculation project

network to plan production

Lean Modeling of Multilevel

Configurable Products

Modeling of complex relations between components with

constraints. Object oriented dependency knowledge in

order to gain reusability, central maintenance and reduce

complexity. Lean maximal BOM using class items for

reduced maintenance efforts and clear structures. Easy

maintenance of valid value combinations using central

Order BOM MaintenanceIt is possible, in release 3.1G, for several users to

maintain the order BOM at the same time.

3.1 to 4.0 Enhanced FunctionalityUser Interface Design: Design characteristic assignment

screen using folder strips.

Enhanced FunctionalityYou can display and/or create a dynamic task list from

the result of a configuration.

Variant Configuration Analyzer

Multi-level documentation of product model (classes,

characteristics, dependencies, class nodes, BOM-Items...)

basis for performance analysis

Enhanced Functionality

Until 4.0 it was possible to set variant condition keys only

using dependency knowledge. In 4.0 it is possible toallocate one variant condition key to a characteristic

value. During interactive variant configuration the amount

assigned to the variant condition key is displayed. As soon

as this value is set, the variant condition is set without

any dependency knowledge.

Enhanced Performance

Variant pricing was reworked to improve performance.

(Users must now include their reference characteristic

for SDCOM-VKOND in the variant class.)

Type MatchingIt is possible to execute type matching at the assembly

level in the BOM.

Variant pricing in Purchasing

ar an pr c ng n urc as ng. s poss e o

maintain variant conditions in the purchasing info recordfor configurable materials.

Enhanced Control of Screen

DisplayA new table (SCREEN_DEP) allows users more control

over the display and entry of data during configuration.

4.0 to 4.5 Control of BOM explosion

New settings in configuration profile. No BOM explosion

if not needed. Define level of BOM explosion - for order

BOM. Using Filters it is possible to configure needed

components only.

Type matching with ATP

Type Matching can now be configured to search for

matching variants with relevance to their availability.

There is an additional field in item category configuration

(SD), which is the ATP Material Variant field.

Variant Configuration Release Highlights





Enhanced Performance for

Variant Tables

Use of transparent tables with better run-time-objects.

New fast BOM explosion in down stream configuration:

MRP, assembly order process. New link from a variant

table to a database table to enhance performance.

Pricing as an event for the

configuration process

While using pricing on request: all procedures allocated to

the dependency group SAP_PRICNG will only be

executed when activating the pricing button.

Openness40 External APIs. API Usage support tool. API based

solution CADagent

Authorizations

There are new authorization objects for controlling

maintenance of table structures, table entries andvariant functions.

New Functionality - IBase

New storage of variant configuration with a view of the

“as_sold” product structure in the new IBase (installed

base). Integration of new effectivity (not date only),

affects master data maintenance and operative

rocesses. Inte rated archive functionalit in 4.5B

Enhanced Functionality - SD

Integration

New structure with SD fields that may be changed using

reference characteristics (vcsd_update). SD reads

material variant configuration for pricing purposes -

without executing configuration task. Configuration

versions for order change management (OCM)

Enhanced Functionality - MRP

Integration

You may 'lock' a configuration to prevent therequirements from passing to MRP. This is helpful when

the customer has not completely made their configuration

decisions.

Enhanced Functionality -

Configuration Profile

Configuration settings - new in profile configuration.

Settings may be defined in the configuration profile and

saved : including configuration language, alternative

language, configuration scope, pricing, variant matching.

If multiple profiles exist, you may give them a priority

for use with background or IDOC processing.

New Functionality - Variant

Configuration in the Logistics

Process Chain

New objects: Model Service Specification-1 for services

frequently purchased. Configuration is used for service

selection for one purchase order line item entry ofservices rendered. New objects: Model Service

Specification-2 Example: contractor buys installation of

TV cable links dig a trench (costs depend on: length,

depth and also on ground_quality) lay a cable (costs

depend on cable length;10% longer than length) provide n

connection points connect to cable network fill in trench

(length and depth as above) => characteristics: length,

depth, ground_quality, etc. New objects: Task

Maintenance List. Task list for a service (to be sold)

related to an equipment. Master data: maintenance task

list. Configuration process: create customer order for a

service product, select equipment (this configuration willbe copied to the service configuration and locked until

the service is finished), simple configuration, selection of





Sales Configuration Engine

Runs detached from R/3. Empowers salesperson at Point

of Sale. Increases order accuracy. Re-uses SAP R/3

Master Data - One Model - eliminates cost of dual

maintenance and synchronization. Uses R/3 PDM

functionality. Simple one-button download from R/3 to

SCE. Offers flexibility in choice of user interfaces: Call

from existing environment or customize your own, API-

driven engine enables use of any custom user interface,

and Plug-in for other desktop applications (I.e. SFA). The

Sales Configuration Engine is a building block of Sales

Force Automation. SCE uses advanced technology: written

in Java and provides platform independence, is objectoriented and entirely API driven, with seamless

4.5 to 4.6 Improved User InterfaceMost functions from the value assignment screen are now

accessed via pushbuttons below the screen area.

Processing Order BOMs

You can process result-oriented or knowledge-based

order BOMs, depending on the settings you define in the

configuragion profile

New User Exits

Ten new user exits are available in variant configuration

with pushbuttons to execute these.

New syntax for object

dependencies

It is now possible to concatenate, change to lower case,

change to upper case with new syntax.



Release Delta Functionality Functionality Description Business Benefit Calc

InfoDB 2.0 Support for NT Ability to support InfoDB instance on NTFewer technical environments tomaintain

On Demand 1.0

R/3 V. 4.6a Enjoy SAP interface Enhanced user interface for R/3Reduced training time, classroomtime, instructor time. Increase inuser productivity

Training Release Highlights