News for FICO Friends: ERP for Financials Customer Connection

I attended this SAP webcast this morning and was surprised at the low attendance.  There are many improvements in FI-CO and no, I am not talking “Simple Finance” but the core FI-CO modules.

See below:

Customer Connection for Financials started last December

The usual Legal Disclaimer applies

Figure 1: Source: SAP

This customer connect started last December and closed workspace in February

SAP checked ideas which had the most subscriptions

They evaluated during the select phase

In April they held selection call

Subscribe means you will use improvements productively

Figure 2: Source: SAP

Figure 2 shows 17 improvement requests are delivered in CO

2 are in progress

2 are in handover

11 has FI delivered with 1 improvement request rejected

Figure 3: Source: SAP

Figure 3 shows one of the most popular requests, display controlling area

Figure 4: Source: SAP

Some of the more interesting notes (to me) listed in Figure 4 are below:

• Expand number of hits on CO line item reports over 5K http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/2036486 –
• KBA for default display variants:  http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/2036758
• Drill down to original document  http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/2017607
• Controlling period OKP1 automation http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/2016546

Figure 5: Source: SAP

Figure 5 shows an improvement for KOK5

Figure 6: Source: SAP

More CO improvements are listed in Figure 6

Figure 7: Source: SAP

I’m surprised at Figure 7, exporting to Excel from background jobs, but I understand it at the same time too, having done this many times myself.

http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1991518

This note was just released

Figure 8: Source: SAP

I think the most interesting improvement includes all the notes listed with OB52 posting period automation – I only list a few below:

OB52 http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1993365

Parallel opening of periods http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1993365

Figure 9: Source: SAP

Figure 9 shows “display full user name” but looking at the note it says “Branch to user data” http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/2073896

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