SAP Business ByDesign – What’s New 1905

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

• 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.