SAP Business ByDesign – What’s New 1908

Financial Management

• Lease Accounting (IFRS 16 / ASC 842)
  Customers can now create lease contracts, valuate and post them according to the accounting standard IFRS 16 or ASC 842 (Blog).

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 1908.

Delivered Improvement Requests

• 229691: Edit supplier invoice with original document

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

Project
Management

• Enhanced Team Member Work Analysis – Period Plans
  A project can now analyze planned, actual, and remaining work down to the period plan level and compare it to the active baseline.(Blog).

Delivered Improvement Requests

• 228705 – Make project period plans available for reporting

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

Built-in Analytics

• Manage custom report-to-report navigation
  Simplified overview and definition of custom report-report navigation (Blog).
• KPI Variants with calculated target/ref. values
  You can use calculated key figures with parameters to fill target and reference values (Blog).
• How to embed SAC Stories as Mash-ups into dashboards
  Examples how SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) stories can be embedded as URL or HTML mash-up (Blog).

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

Cross Topics
&
Mobility

Cross Topics

There is no Focus Topic for the Cross Topics area in 1908.

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

Mobility

There is no Focus Topic for the Mobility area in 1908.

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 1908.

Delivered Improvement Requests

• 131937: Report ‘Production Processing Times’ and its underlying data source ‘Resource Utilization’ SCMPPTB02 supports all production statuses.
• 212134: Planning Group Description is available in Process Purchase Proposals view of the Supply Control work center view.
• 139678: The Production Task ID will now get created in a sequence.

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

Customer
Relationship
Management

• Discount Analysis on Sales Orders in SAP Business ByDesign
  Managers and  employees are able to analyze all price components like discounts from sales orders (Blog).
• Configure Price Strategy – Sales Price Lists in Multiple Currencies
  Currency specific base and product category price list can be maintained, along with mass maintenance via excel template. (Blog).

Delivered Improvement Requests

• 118431: Ability to run reports by price components on order level
• 118112: Sales Order Volume report Key Figures Missing (Line Item Value, Freight, Other Charges, Tax and Net Value)
• 141874: Sales price lists in multiple currencies
• 132501: Proforma Invoice on Service Quote
• 209658: “Price Components for Sales Transaction Items” DATA SOURCE

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

Human
Resources

• Employee Master Data Report
  Find all the employees who‘s master data (Employee, Work Agreement) has changed in a given period, current month for example (Blog).

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

Localization

• Japan – Introduction of Japan Consumption Tax 2019
  Summary invoices includes total taxable amount by each tax rate which would correct unintentional decrease of tax amount.
• China – Introduction of Tax classification number and Golden tax file formats for China – 2019
  Customer can easily map the Tax Classification Number in the Business ByDesign system and now will have flexibility in choosing between formats which the vendors/government accepts.
• Israel – SHAAM Interface, download and upload of SHAAM file
  Customers do not need to maintain and track the allowed withholding tax rate per supplier in Israel. The process is automated now on.