New key figures for BPMon & Analytics – new content for Inventory Optimization, commitment items & configuration checks
Since December 7 2015 the latest ST-A/PI 01S plug-in is available for download. With this plug-in close to 100 new key figures have been shipped for Business Process Analytics and Business Process Monitoring in SAP Solution Manager and over 100 existing key figures were updated. This blog deals only with the new content. The updated content is summarized in a separate blog.The plug-in contains (besides others)
- New workflow related key figures for CRM sales and services
- New key figures checking configuration settings in FI-GL (line item update open item management)
- New key figures related to FI-AP clearing and the comparison with related MM invoice or vendor master data
- New key figures for contract accounting FI-CA (locked accounts and open items)
- New key figures regarding commitment items generated from purchasing documents
- New key figures for Dealer Business Management in the automotive area
- New billing, invoicing and bill print-out key figures for IS Utilities
- New key figures for inventory optimization regarding project, sales order and consignment stock
- New key figures for Physical Inventory Documents
- New purchase order key figures for goods as well as services purchases (service entry sheets)
- New MM contract key figures regarding different release information
- New key figures regarding purchasing information records
- New sales order item key figures (regarding billing, rescheduling, condition changes)
- New APO key figures regarding planning run exceptions and backorder processing (BOP)
- New leave request key figure
- New key figures for QM notifications
The complete list of new key figures can be accessed via the KPI catalog that you find at (S-user login required)
https://go.support.sap.com/kpicatalog
When you access the catalog, then you can filter in the New / Updated area on New. Additionally you might want to filter on Business Process Analytics to only see application specific key figure content.
You then get to see all the 95 new key figures in our area.
Of course you can set additional filters as described in the general blog about the KPI catalog,so that you can find key figures only for your area of interest.
Important remark: In order to better align the KPI catalog and the Business Process Analytics & Monitoring setup in SAP Solution Manager, the application areas used for filtering in the SAP Solution Manager got readjusted with ST-A/PI 01S. Hence the new application areas BPO* should be used for role authorizations in SAP Solution Manager and transaction ST13. If you apply the new ST-A/PI 01S on your managed system, then you might see twice as many application areas as filters in the Business Process Monitoring setup. This UI problem is solved with support package 14. For support package 12 or 13 you can implement SAP note 2109939 – Advance Corrections BPMon SM 7.1 ST710 delivered with SP14 to get this solved.
Further reading
You can find all necessary information about Business Process Analytics in this document. More information on Business Process Improvement for SAP solutions can be found here.
Frequently Asked Questions about Business Process Monitoring and Business Process Analytics are answered under http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/SM/FAQ+Business+Process+Monitoring and
http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/SM/FAQ+Business+Process+Analytics respectively.
The following blogs (in chronological order) provide further details about Business Process Analytics and Business Process Monitoring functionalities within the SAP Solution Manager.
- New Business Process Monitoring functionalities in SAP Solution Manager – ALE / IDoc Monitoring
- New Business Process Monitoring functionalities in SAP Solution Manager – qRFC Monitoring
- Best Practice: Business Process Monitoring for Manufacturing
- Best Practice: Business Process Monitoring for Procure to Pay
- Best Practice: Business Process Monitoring for Order to Cash
- Typical Use Cases for Business Process Monitoring in SAP Solution Manager
- New key figure catalog for Business Process Monitoring available
- Why SAP offers different tools for Business Process Monitoring & Business Process Optimization
- Create your own auto-reaction messages in Business Process Monitoring via BAdI exit
- Protect your SAP ERP investment & improve your core business processes
- Create your own customer-specific key figure for Business Process Monitoring within 5 minutes
- Best Practice: BW Process Chain monitoring with SAP Solution Manager – Part 1
- New key figures for Business Process Monitoring in SAP Solution Manager, especially for CRM Marketing
- New functionality “Business Process Analytics” – how to improve your business processes
- New key figures for Business Process Monitoring in SAP Solution Manager, especially Lead Time measurements
- Traditional Business KPI approach vs Business Process Monitoring
- Systematic errors vs real exceptions or improving efficiency vs effectiveness
- Before you get started with SAP HANA…you should also consider cleaning-up your backend system first
- Best Practice: Business Process Monitoring for CRM Sales
- Business Process Operations dashboards – ALL AT A GLANCE
- Customer testimonials on Business Process Analytics
- Customer Exit: Create your own key figure for BPMon AND Business Process Analytics
- Heads-up: Setup environment of BPMon & Analytics changes with SolMan 7.1 SP5
- New key figures for BPMon & BP Analytics, especially for working capital improvement
- New Business Process Monitoring functionalities in SAP Solution Manager – BPMon Alert Reporting Analysis
- New Business Process Analytics features with SAP SolMan 7.1 SP5
- New Business Process Analytics – The filter sequence makes the difference
- New key figures: Analyzing/Monitoring exceptions during delivery due processing
- New key figure: Analyzing/Monitoring exceptions during billing due processing
- Enhanced key figures: Analyzing/monitoring SD invoices not transferred to FI
- New key figures: Analyzing/monitoring exceptions in CRM Sales or Service documents, Business Activities or Tasks
- New keyfigures: Analyzing/monitoring exceptions from APO planning runs
- New key figures for BPMon & BP Analytics – new exception and automation rate key figures for ERP plus new content for FSCM, APO and CRM
- New key figures: Analyzing/monitoring exceptions during Period End Closing
- New key figures: Analyzing/monitoring exceptions in Controlling (CO-PC)
- Enhanced key figures: Bridging the organizational gap between SD and FI-AR
- Business Process Analytics: Types of key figures and their respective use cases
- Business Process Analytics: Types of functions and their respective features & purposes
- New key figures for BPMon & BP Analytics – new content for Travel & Expense Management, Banking and Utilities
- SAP Business Process Analytics” available for download in Apple’s App Store
- Discrete manufacturing: Mapping BP Analytics key figures to system status
- New key figures for BPMon & Analytics – new content for vendor invoice processing (e.g. Shared Service Center scenarios) and new delta throughput for Order to Cash
- Business Process Analytics: ad-hoc and real time with or without SAP HANA
- New landing page for “Business Process Improvement for SAP solutions”
- New KPI Catalog available in the cloud – Part 1
- New KPI Catalog available in the cloud – Part 2
- New with 7.1 SP14: Dependency Diagrams (KPI trees)
- Virtual characteristics in Business Process Operations dashboards
- Usage Analysis for Business Process Analytics & Dashboards