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【Part 1】SAP Best Practices prebuilt contents for SAP Intelligent RPA
In this series of blog posts, will show how to use best practice bot, prebuilt bot provided from SAP, mong This time, I will show how to use “Automated Upload of Manual Entries” at finance domain.
In recent years, the use cases of RPA have increased considerably, so many of you may know, but I will once again quote the wiki definition about RPA.
Robotic process automation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotic_process_automation
“In traditional workflow automation tools, a software developer produces a list of actions to automate a task and interface to the back-end system using internal application programming interfaces (APIs) or dedicated scripting language. In contrast, RPA systems develop the action list by watching the user perform that task in the application’s graphical user interface (GUI), and then perform the automation by repeating those tasks directly in the GUI. This can lower the barrier to use of automation in products that might not otherwise feature APIs for this purpose.”
To put it plainly, the RAP bot will learn and act on behalf of the user’s current repetitive input operations into the software. This allows many employees to spend less time on simple, non-valued repetitive tasks and more time on more thoughtful work.
SAP Intelligent Robotic Process Automation that is SAP’s RPA accelerates digital transformation of business processes by automatically replicating tedious actions that have no added value.
What is SAP Best Practices contents
SAP Best Practices for SAP Intelligent Robotic Process Automation provides prebuilt contents for various core business processes in finance, procurement & Data Management area based on the new Intelligence Robotic Process Automation automation tool. The contents utilize the existing UI & API to obtain, process and enter data and information to automate the business processes.
This means SAP Intelligent Robotic Process Automation best practice contents can also help automate your simple and tedious tasks and save time on more valuable tasks.
You can explore each SAP best practice scenarios as below.
https://rapid.sap.com/bp/#/browse/categories/sap_s%254hana/areas/on-premise/packageversions/IRPA_S4HANA/IPA/10/XX/9/EN/scopeitems/4CA
Step to build RPA bot by using Best Practice
I will explain according to the following flow.
0.S4/HANA configuration
1.Import best practice contents into client PC
2.deploy project file to Cloud Factory
3.Execute the bot(project file)
4.Record the data to HANA
0.S4/HANA configuration
This describes configuration steps to enable SAP Intelligent Robotic Process Automation (Intelligent RPA) content for S/4HANA with SAP Intelligent RPA Factory and Agent.
After clicking URL below, the configuration document will be downloaded automatically.
https://rapid.sap.com/bp/assetsdownload/?publishedUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fsupport.sap.com%2Fcontent%2Fdam%2FSAAP%2FSol_Pack%2FLibrary%2FConfiguration%2F48V_IPA10_BB_ConfigGuide_EN_XX.docx&bomId=15f775c6539b49be2153daee0389c234&pvId=de65da309c20e784c716b0b773cf3832355d1084&sivId=800e688c4c091f20287a8786b36e06f3fed29d00&bbId=6ee7a99d7d3f517b7ca4b556cea472f2ec2f96b9
1.Import best practice contents into client PC
You can download best practice contents for iRPA from software downloads.
Continues to next part 2
References
Automated Upload of Manual Entries via API (4CA)
https://rapid.sap.com/bp/#/browse/categories/sap_s%254hana/areas/on-premise/packageversions/IRPA_S4HANA/IPA/10/XX/9/EN/scopeitems/4CA
SAP Best Practices for SAP Intelligent Robotic Process Automation integr.
https://rapid.sap.com/bp/#/IRPA_S4HANA
Software Downloads: Best practice contents can be downloaded from here.
Latest version is 9.1 as of 28th Feb.
https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/softwarecenter/template/products/%20_APP=00200682500000001943&_EVENT=DISPHIER&HEADER=Y&FUNCTIONBAR=N&EVENT=TREE&NE=NAVIGATE&ENR=73555000100200013319&V=MAINT&TA=ACTUAL&PAGE=SEARCH/IRPA_S4HANA_CONTENT%209.1
SAP Intelligent RPA Content Configuration with S4/HANA
https://rapid.sap.com/bp/assetsdownload/?publishedUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fsupport.sap.com%2Fcontent%2Fdam%2FSAAP%2FSol_Pack%2FLibrary%2FConfiguration%2F48V_IPA10_BB_ConfigGuide_EN_XX.docx&bomId=15f775c6539b49be2153daee0389c234&pvId=de65da309c20e784c716b0b773cf3832355d1084&sivId=800e688c4c091f20287a8786b36e06f3fed29d00&bbId=6ee7a99d7d3f517b7ca4b556cea472f2ec2f96b9
Hi Tetsuya,
where can I find the second part?