Since May 04 2017 a new support package 2 is
available for download for ST-A/PI 01S. With this plug-in support package close to 50 new key figures have been shipped for Business Process Analytics and Business Process Monitoring in SAP Solution Manager and around 220 existing key figures were updated. The plug-in support package contains (besides others)
Finance
- ŸNew Cancelled FI documents
- ŸNew Number of FI postings / items (non-aggregated)
- New ŸExceptions in mass activities FI-CA
- New Open items in FI-CAX contract accounts
- New FI-CAX contract accounts locked for dunning
- New FI-CAX contract accounts locked for payments
- New FI-CAX contract accounts locked for interest calculation
- New FI-CAX contract accounts locked for invoicing
- New FI-CAX contract accounts locked for posting
- New Exceptions in mass activities FI-CAX
- New Billing documents overdue for (convergent) invoicing
- ŸAll FI-AP, FI-AR and FI-GL key figures (where applicable) have now profit center & business area as filter & group by parameter
Sales
- New Sales document type usage (cross sales area)
- New Sales document type usage (per sales area)
- New Item category usage
- All sales order item key figures (where applicable) have now profit center & business area as filter & group by parameter
- Sales documents created & Automation rate: Sales Orders & Sales order items rejected / cancelled & Manual Condition Changes on SD Document items & Changes in sales documents - PO type (VBAK-BSARK) as new field in result list
- Open and rescheduled sales schedule line items - Additional information whether a delivery block on header and/or schedule line exists
Logistics Execution
- All delivery item key figures (where applicable) have now distribution channel, division, profit center & business area as filter & group by parameter
- Outbound deliveries with GI, but no invoice & Deliveries overdue for billing & Delivery items overdue for billing - New filter VKDFS-FKTYP to allow also intercompany billing. New output field VBUK-FKIVK. Distribution channel and division now available as filter and group by
- Outbound deliveries overdue for GI - LIKP-TRSPG (shipment block reason) new in detail list
Purchasing
- New WF: Purchase req. items with workflow in process
- New WF: Purchase req. items with erroneous Workflow
- New WF-LT: Purchase req. items WF creation->WF approval
- New Cancelled MM invoices
- New Direct MM invoice postings to G/L account
- All purchase order & STO key figures (where applicable) have now profit center & business area as filter & group by parameter
- All MM invoice key figures (where applicable) have now business area as filter & group by parameter
- Purchase order items created - MRP type as additional field in result list to make planned order assignment information more meaningful
- Purchase order items open & overdue - New information if order acknowledgement is required or if a confirmation control is used
- Overdue purchase requisition items with MRP List - EBAN-FIXKZ as additional field in result list
Manufacturing
- New Order type usage in production orders (cross-plant)
- New Order type usage in production orders (per plant)
- New Order type usage in process orders (cross-plant)
- New Order type usage in process orders (per plant)
- All production/process order key figures (where applicable) have now profit center & business area as filter & group by parameter
- Production/Process orders overdue for release & Production/Process orders created - MRP type as additional field in result list to make planned order assignment information more meaningful
inventory & Warehouse Management
- New Stock level of unrestricted-use stock (Batch level)
- New Stock level of stock in transfer (Batch level)
- New Stock level of stock in quality inspection (Batch level)
- New Stock level of blocked stock (Batch level)
- New Slow moving Quants
- New Quants with expired shelf life
- All IM stock level key figures provide now an age analysis based on the last movement
Plant Maintenance & Customer Service
- New Order type usage in PM/CS orders (cross-plant)
- New Order type usage in PM/CS orders (per plant)
- New Maintenance plans without items
- New Maintenance plans without any call-off orders
- New Maintenance plans blocked by incomplete call-off orders
- New Maintenance plans overdue for order call-offs
- All PM/CS order key figures (where applicable) have now profit center & business area as filter & group by parameter
- All PM/CS notification key figures (where applicable) have now a new group by field (and corresponding result list information) to show if notification was generated via maintenance plan or not.
Master Data Management
- New Material master usage in sales (per sales area)
- New Material master usage in manufacturing (per plant)
- New Material master usage in procurement (per plant)
- New Material master usage in sales (cross-sales area)
- New Material master usage in manufacturing (cross-plant)
- New Material master usage in procurement (cross-plant)
- New Customer master usage in SD invoices (cross Sales Area)
- New Customer master usage in SD invoices (per Sales Area)
- New Vendor master usage in in purchase orders (cross-POrg)
- New Vendor master usage in in purchase orders (per POrg)
- New Conditions expiring within x days
- ŸMaterials without standard price & Materials without moving average price - MARA-MTART and MARA-MSTAE as filter & group by parameter and MARA-MATKL as filter
Quality Management
- ŸAll QM notification key figures (where applicable) have now plant for material (QMEL-MAWERK) provided as filter, group by and detail list field
Human Capital Management
- New HR actions w/o organizational assignment
- New HR actions w/o personal data
Industry Solution Utilities
- Overdue IS-U billing orders in status 'non-billable‘ - Adjusted reference field for age analysis
- Overdue IS-U billing orders w/o meter reading document - Adjusted key figure name
- Overdue IS-U billing orders with blocked contracts - EVER-ABRSPERR (billing block in contract) provided as filter and group by parameter
- IS-U Invoicing orders not released (billing document) - Field MANOUTS as filter, group by and output field and field VALIDAT as filter, group by
- IS-U Billing document reversals - Company code, division and billing transaction provided as group by
- Overdue IS-U invoicing orders with locked contract accounts - FI-CA invoicing lock provided as filter and group by field
- IS-U invoices with overdue print triggers - Adjusted reference field for age analysis
- IS-U reversals with overdue print triggers - Adjusted reference field for age analysis
- IS-U Print documents overdue for release - Adjusted reference field for age analysis & Field MANOUTS_IN as filter, group by and output field and field VALIDAT_IN as filter, group by
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.
