New key figures for BPMon & Analytics – new controlling & SAP TM content & changes key figures
Since October 13 2017 a new support package 3 is available for download for ST-A/PI 01S. With this plug-in support package close to 60 new key figures have been shipped for Business Process Analytics and Business Process Monitoring in SAP Solution Manager and around 90 existing key figures were updated. The plug-in support package contains (besides others)
Finance
- New FI document type usage (cross company code)
- New Company Code usage in FI documents
- New Open items FI-GL (aggregated)
- Paym. terms in cleared FI invoice differ from MM is no longer comparing RBKP-ZTERM as this is normally empty (see SAP note 322430)
Controlling & Management Accounting
- New Number of CO postings
- New Number of CO line items posted
- New CO orders w/o settlement rule
- New Sales document items w/o settlement rule
- New Internal orders created but not released
- New Internal orders released but not TECOed
- New CO postings manually created
- New CO line items manually created
- New Config. check “write line items”
- New Customizing check “Generate line items”
- New Cost centers out of validity
- New Cost center usage in actual CO line items
- New Profit center usage in actual PCA line items (per CO area)
- New Order type usage in internal orders
- New Secondary cost element usage in actual CO line items
- New Profit Centers out of validity
Sales
- New Sales documents with erroneous output
- New Changes in SD billing documents
- New Billing Documents with erroneous output
- New Deleted Items in Sales documents
- New Item category usage
- Sales documents created & Automation rate: Sales Orders & Sales order items rejected / cancelled & Manual Condition Changes on SD Document items & Changes in sales documents got PO type (VBAK-BSARK) as new selection & group by parameter
- Shipments within certain status (info if delivery exists)
- Overdue sales schedule line items got under-delivery tolerance as new field in detail list
- Sales document items overdue for billing got ‘billing relevance’ as new filter parameter and in detail list
Logistics Execution
- New Deliveries with erroneous output
- New Config check: Document Flow Update from MM to LE
- New Changes in shipments
- New Deleted deliveries in shipments
- New Changes in deliveries
- New Overdue inbound delivery items with completed PO items
Purchasing
- New Overdue PO items w/o any confirmation
- New Overdue PO items with only partially confirmed inbound deliveries
- New Open PO items with overdue inbound delivery items
- New Purchase orders with erroneous output
- New Cash discounts in release order different from MM contract
- New Payment days in release order different from MM contract
- New Cash discount in purchase order different from vendor master
- New Payment days in purchase order different from vendor master
- All purchase order item, STO item and outline agreement item key figures (where applicable) have material type now as filter parameter and in detail list
- Purchase order items open & overdue and Overdue purchase order schedule lines with MRP list got under-delivery tolerance & last possible GR date in detail list
Plant Maintenance & Customer Service
- New Changes in PM/CS notifications
- New Changes in PM/CS orders
- PM/CS orders overdue for deletion flag –The basic finish date is now the reference date and not the change date. All orders overdue for deletion flag are now considered and not only ‘closed’ ones.
Master Data Management
- New Changes to material master
- New Changes to customer master
- New Changes to vendor master
- New Changes to purchasing info records
- New Terms of Payment usage in FI-AP invoices
- New Terms of Payment usage in FI-AR invoices
- New Terms of Payment usage in SD billing documents
- New Terms of Payment usage in Purchasing documents
Transportation Management
- New Overdue Freight Settlement Documents not yet transferred to ECC
- Overdue Freight Settlement documents not successfully transferred
- New Overdue Forwarding Settlement Documents not yet transferred to ECC
- Overdue Forwarding Settlement documents not successfully transferred
- All existing key figures around transportation requests, transportation orders, freight settlement documents and forwarding settlement documents got a new time range filter for selection and many additional fields in the detail list
The complete list of all available key figures can be accessed via the KPI catalog if you filter on KPI provider ‘Business Process Analytics’ that you find at (S-user login required)
https://go.support.sap.com/kpicatalog
The key figures mentioned in this blog show up with the ‘New’ or ‘Updated’ attribute.
Further reading
You can find all necessary information about Business Process Analytics in this Wiki. 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 functionalities within the SAP Solution Manager.
- 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
- Protect your SAP ERP investment & improve your core business processes
- 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 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
- Parent/child relationships in Business Process Operations dashboards
- New application Progress Management Board
- Connecting external SAP BW to SAP Solution Manager applications
- New key figures for BPMon & Analytics – new maintenance plan & FI-CAX content & usage key figures
HI VOLKER,
DO WE HAVE ANY OPTIONS FOR DEFINING CUSTOMER SPECIFIC MONITORING OBJECTS IN SOLMAN 7.2?
REGARDS
VINCENT
Hello Vincent,
yes, you can like before and described in https://blogs.sap.com/2012/01/14/customer-exit-create-your-own-key-figure-for-bpmon-and-business-process-analytics/
Kind Regards
Volker
Hi Vincent,
yes, like in SAP Solution Manager 7.1 you can create customer specific object via our Customer exit framework as described in https://blogs.sap.com/2012/01/14/customer-exit-create-your-own-key-figure-for-bpmon-and-business-process-analytics/
Kind Regards
Volker
Hi Volker,
We're performing a support patch update from Solman 7.1 SP8 to SP16. For now, we're not able to upgrade to Solman 7.2 and we won't be going to S4 HANA or SAP HANA anytime this year.
The pre-requisites in the new kpi catalogue in the link you provided states in the USAGE for KPI Categories: Solman 7.2, but do this also apply to the new BPMON KPIs Solman 7.1 SP16? If not, do you have a link for this too?
Regards,
Jay
Hello James,
I have to admit that I do not fully get your question which "USAGE" information you mean, but as the key figure definition is shipped with ST-A/PI and implemented on ECC (independent from the SolMan release) the key figures are availble for SolMan 7.1 as well as 7.2.
Kind Regards
Volker