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SAP Business ByDesign – What’s New 1905

SAP Business ByDesign 1905 is now ready!

SAP Business ByDesign 1905 is now available and the SAP Business ByDesign What’s New blog gives you an overview about the most important new features of SAP Business ByDesign 1905.
These are the so called Focus Topics (). For these Focus Topics, additional in-depth blogs and videos are available – just click the link next to the Focus Topic in the What’s New blog.

To get an overview about all new features of SAP Business ByDesign in 1905, please go to the What’s New document.

Financial Management

There is no Focus Topic for the Financial Management area in 1905.

For detailed information about What’s New in the Financial Management area, please click here.

Supplier Relationship
Management

There is no Focus Topic for the Supplier Relationship Management area in 1905.

Delivered Improvement Requests

  • 216685: Items on Goods and Service Receipt
  • 145022: Extension Scenario – Material General Information to RFQ and Quotes
  • 142409: Activate line item in purchasing contract via webservice
  • 141096: Allow configurable ERS Runs

For detailed information about What’s New in the Supplier Relationship Management area, please click here.

Project
Management

There is no Focus Topic for the Project Management area in 1905.

Delivered Improvement Requests

  • 140616: Restrict cost assignment of expense claims to project tasks

For detailed information about What’s New in the Project Management area, please click here.

Built-in Analytics

  • Semantic Colors to improve Information Design
    Users can now use semantic colors to visualize the meaning of key figures for their business (Blog).
  • Consume and adapt standard KPIs “Created by SAP”
    It is now much simpler to for user to consume and use standard KPIs, which are delivered by SAP. In addition, key user can adapt such KPIs and modify e.g. selections, display texts etc. (Blog).
  • New Charting Options
    New chart types help users to better understand the relations between the data (Blog).

Cross Topics
&
Mobility

Cross Topics

  • Improved User Efficiency – Flags, Tags, Favorites & the Activity History
    To improve the work efficiency, users look for ways to quickly access for example activities that were done on a regular basis or to mark documents for further processing that cannot yet be submitted at the moment (Blog).

For detailed information about What’s New in the Cross Topics area, please click here.

Mobility

  • Develop custom mobile apps & use analytics content
    Developers of partners and customers can extend and build own mobile apps using the SAP Cloud Application Studio for the SAP Business ByDesign mobile app (Blog).

For detailed information about What’s New in the Mobile area, please click here.

Supply Chain
Management

There is no Focus Topic for the Supply Chain Management area in 1905.

Delivered Improvement Requests

  • 211247: Tracking for Registered Products available also after changing Serial Number Profile
  • 214112: Workflow for changes of master data sets like material, BOM, BoO, production model, ECO.
  • 142538: Copy button on Bill of Operation
  • 213187: Pro forma invoice for Third party delivery

For detailed information about What’s New in the Supply Chain Management area, please click here.

Customer
Relationship
Management

  • Sample KPIs and reports on smartphones and desktop
    Managers and employees are able to use sample KPIs from SAP and to adapt them to their needs for smartphone or desktop consumption (Blog).
  • Navigation to invoice document form invoice schedule
    Users can now navigate from an invoice schedule in a contract or sales order to the invoice document itself. It is no loner necessary to search for such invoices in the Invoice Documents work center view (Blog).
  • Mass cancellation of open invoice schedule line items
    Users can now easily cancel open invoice schedule line items and avoid the creation of customer invoice requests. (Blog).

For detailed information about What’s New in the Customer Relationship Management area, please click here.

Human
Resources

There is no Focus Topic for the Human Resources area in 1905.

Delivered Improvement Requests

  • 135565 and 215879 : Data source for employee payment information and bank details

For detailed information about What’s New in the Human Resources area, please click here.

Localization

  • India – Opening creation of new tax rate type
    In India tax rate type varies a lot and with this development, customers can create new tax rate types themselves.
  • China –  Possibility to download golden tax invoice with zero tax rate
    Customers can now proceed with golden tax process for zero tax rate invoices (Video).
  • Italy – Tax Exemption certificate
    Customers can now easily maintain tax exemption details (Video).
  • Japan – Closing date pattern in summary migration template
    Customers can now also migrate closing date pattern for their accounts together with other summary invoice data.

 

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      Author's profile photo Rami Luchmun
      Rami Luchmun

      Hello,

      We did not receive any communication regarding the 1905 upgrade. When is the testing window?

       

      Thank you,

      Rami Luchmun | Electronic Products Recycling Association

      Author's profile photo Kristof Schneider
      Kristof Schneider
      Blog Post Author

      Dear Rami,

      I forwarded your question and SAP or your partner will contact you directly?

      Best regards,

      Kristof

      Author's profile photo Eun Seok Bang
      Eun Seok Bang

      Hello,

       

      Would you fix the blog link for the following? thank you in advance.

      Navigation to invoice document form invoice schedule
      Users can now navigate from an invoice schedule in a contract or sales order to the invoice document itself. It is no loner necessary to search for such invoices in the Invoice Documents work center view (Blog).

       

      Regards

      Eun Seok

      Author's profile photo Kristof Schneider
      Kristof Schneider
      Blog Post Author

      Hi Eun Seok,

      Please check again, it works now.

       

      Regards,

      Kristof

      Author's profile photo Kevin Siegel
      Kevin Siegel

      Can you fix the link in:

      For detailed information about What’s New in the Customer Relationship Management area, please click here

      It goes to an error page.

       

      Author's profile photo Kristof Schneider
      Kristof Schneider
      Blog Post Author

      Hi Kevin,  Please recheck, I get to the right page when I link the link. Thanks Kristof

      Author's profile photo Kevin Siegel
      Kevin Siegel

      Thanks. It's good now.