Following News for FICO Friends: ERP for Financials Customer Connection I saw that an MM-SD SAP Customer Connection webcast took place the other week when I logged on to ASUG.com
In the future I hope ASUG members will take advantage of the Customer Connection Program. This is an update to SAP Customer Connection Program - Only 60 Days Left to Submit SAP MM & SD Joint Process improvement ...
You can watch the full MM-SD Customer Connection webcast here
Below is a subset of what I watched - showing what is planned to be included in the Customer Connection.
Figure 1: Source: SAP
There might be circumstances where SAP changes plans and the information provided and there is no commitment from SAP on any forward looking statements.
Figure 2: Source: SAP
Figure 2 shows the project timeline; it started in July 2014 with the collect phase
You need 5+ subscriptions to make it out of the collect phase
In October the Select phase started with a deeper analysis of improvements
This month SAP explained the improvement requests selected
Figure 3: Source: SAP
SAP wants smaller improvements in the Customer Connection
Some requests may be too big for the Customer Connect project
Development timeline is 6 months which is a restriction
It needs to be “easy” and “fast” to deploy via a note
Figure 4: Source: SAP
135 improvement requests were submitted
50 were rejected due to lack of subscriptions
30 did not meet the scope
55 qualified for the selection phase
Figure 5: Source: SAP
Many customers want the capability to change e-mail when it is being sent using the output control
The first three are listed on Figure 5
Serial number support is coming in ARM for missing process steps
Note I tried to erase the customer company names shown in Figure 5
Figure 6: Source: SAP
First idea in Figure 6 covers lead time issues in MM and SD
The second idea covers third party sales order
The third idea is to block purchase order if block exists in sales order
Last idea is update of third party item in the confirmed purchase order
Figure 7: Source: SAP
Figure 7 covers the MM part
First idea is for supplier block and payment – to add more ideas – pilot note is being tested
D6696 - supplier has to deliver the whole delivery – will be programmed
D6783 – send back goods to supplier – obtain RMA confirmation number and put it in delivery papers so supplier knows they confirmed it
D6739 – shipping types in return purchase orders – today have 1 shipping type and asking for several shipping types
D1468 – message exchange scenario – customers want to exchange messages between purchaser and supplier
In 2015, find the delivered notes at http://sapimprovementfinder.com/public/
I encourage you to watch the full SAP MM-SD Customer Connection webcast here
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