New key figures for BPMon & Analytics – new & enhanced content for FI, ERP operations & HCM
Since July 26 2016 a new support package 1 is available for download for ST-A/PI 01S. With this plug-in support package close to 20 new key figures have been shipped for Business Process Analytics and Business Process Monitoring in SAP Solution Manager and around 50 existing key figures were updated. The plug-in support package contains (besides others)
Finance
- New Open items without any payment methods (neither item nor vendor master)
- New Overdue open customer items w/ master data
- New Vendor master without payment methods
- Exceptions during payment runs – enhanced with payment method info and credit/debit sign
- Electronic bank statements/items not completely posted (additional batch input information)
- Open item managed accounts w/o clearing rule (counting of entries in table BSIS now optional)
- G/L Accounts w/ unnecessary line item display (counting of entries in table BSIS now optional)
- Open item managed accounts w/o sort key (counting of entries in table BSIS now optional)
Sales & Logistics Execution
- New Cancelling sales invoices
- New Distinct exceptions during billing due processing
- New Overdue sales requirement items with MRP list
- New Outbound shipments not yet complete (overall status 0-4, info if delivery exists and if yes the document status)
- New Inbound shipments not yet complete (overall status 0-4, info if delivery exists and if yes the document status)
- Overdue entries in table VEPVG (now with VBTYP as group by)
- Overdue sales schedule line items (delivery relevance info for item/schedule line)
- Missing fields in incomplete sales document items (including header info)
- Sales order items rejected / cancelled (lead time from item creation to rejection)
- Billing plan dates not billed (advance payment info)
- Sales document items overdue for billing (Customer Account Assignment Group)
- Open and rescheduled sales schedule line items (new filter that only requested delivery dates in the past are considered)
- Shipments within certain status (info if delivery exists)
Purchasing
- New Automation rate: Purchase order items
- All key figures allow now item category ‘9’ – Service
- Purchase order items created (new group by to distinguish text/material items)
- Purchase Requisition items open (new material master fields, different checks if autom. PO creation is possible)
- Automation rate: MM invoices (invoice categories ‘Aand ‘Care no longer considered as automatic)
- All contract and scheduling agreement item key figures now with item category & Acc. Assignment Cat. as group by
- Open purchase order items w/o Service Entry Sheet (corrected logic)
- Service entry sheets without acceptance / without ‘final entry’ (now with delivery date and corresponding overdue logic)
Manufacturing & Plant Maintenance
- New Planned orders with overdue components
- New Production/Process orders with assigned purchase order items (PO items w/o deletion flag)
- New PM/CS orders with assigned purchase order items
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Production/Process orders overdue for delivery completed (additional fields in result list)
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Production/Process orders overdue for (technical) closure (additional fields in result list)
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Production/Process order components overdue for consumption (direct procurement & bulk materials excluded, additional material valuation information)
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Failed goods movements (COGI) – additional MRP list information
Inventory Management
- All stock level key figures with new parameters older/younger than x months & lot size, MRP type info
- All batch shelf life key figures with inventory valuation info
HCM
- New: Trips/trip requests with workflow in process
- New: Trips/trip requests with erroneous workflow
- New: WF-LT: Trips/trip requests WF creation > WF approval
- New: Leave requests with workflow in process
- New: Leave requests with erroneous workflow
- New: WF-LT: Leave requests WF creation >WF approval
The complete list of all available key figures can be accessed via the KPI catalog that you find at (S-user login required)
https://go.support.sap.com/kpicatalog
Note: The key figures mentioned in this blog are not yet reflected in the KPI catalog. They should show up with the ‘New’ or ‘Updated’ attribute in the upcoming weeks.
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 at 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
- Business Process Operations dashboards – behind the scenes
- 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
- New key figures for BPMon & Analytics – new content for Inventory Optimization, commitment items & configuration checks
- New features in KPI cloud catalog & updated Business Process Analytics content
- Best Practices: Creating Management Dashboards