Parent/child relationships in Business Process Operations dashboards
This blog describes in some more detail the steps 7-9 that were mentioned in Best Practices: Creating Management Dashboards
You should be already aware that something like Business Process Operations dashboards exist for some years. Perhaps you also played around with virtual characteristics and the drill-down within dashboards is perhaps still something new for you. In the above mentioned Best Practices blog the steps 7-9 are perhaps a little bit too concise to do it in your environment. So let’s elaborate a little bit more on this.
You have have panels and analytical key figure instances defined according to your needs, perhaps similar to what was described in step 1-6 of the Best Practices blog. Now you would like to provide some drill-down capabilities to the dashboard end user. Normally the underlying key figure should remain the same and you just want to show the same data somewhat more filtered and/or according to different characteristic values / dimensions. The AKFI screenshot below shows that a virtual characteristic is assigned as Category and some threshold values were defined to have the rating table cells colored in green, yellow and red. The easiest way is now to copy this (parent) AKFI to a new one so that the key figure, connector instance, filtering and threshold values are taken over and you do not have to maintain it another time.
Now your new (child) AKFI got all this information inherited from the parent and you only need to specify
- How the data shall be displayed differently (i.e. exchange the characteristic values for Category (here: Company Code) and/or Drilldown (here: Calendar month)
- Which data from the parent AKFI should be used dynamically to filter the child accordingly (here: Runtime filter on Market)
For the new (child AKFI) you also have to create a corresponding (child) panel where you state how exactly the data shall be visualized (which chart type).
In a last step you have to actually interlink the two AKFIs. You do this on panel level where you assign now the (child) panel as Detail Panel to the corresponding entry in the (parent) panel.
If you did all this for all AKFIs and panels in the dashboard, then you can finally check the result. When you call your dashboard now via
http://<server>:<port>/sap/bc/webdynpro/sap/ags_ri_dashboard?PIF_DASHBOARD_TECHNAME=<technical name of the dashboard>
you see your initial (parent) panel with the assigned (parent) AKFIs.
Now that you defined some child panel you see an additional push button “Child Panel”. When you click now into the respective cell of interest, then the (parent) panel checks which detail panel needs to be called and when calling the detail panel the newly defined runtime filter is applied and handed over, so in our case the market information is handed over and only company code assigned to this market are displayed.
Further reading
You can find all necessary information about Business Process Analytics in this document. More information onBusiness Process Improvement for SAP solutions can be found here.
Frequently Asked Questions about Business Process Monitoring and Business Process Analytics are answered underhttp://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
- New key figures for BPMon & Analytics – new & enhanced content for FI, ERP operations & HCM