New key figures with ST-A/PI 01U, e.g. SuccessFact...

volker_vongloeden · ‎05-25-2020

Since May 7 2020 a new ST-A/PI release 01U is available for download. With this plug-in 40 new key figures have been shipped for Business Process Analytics and Business Process Monitoring in SAP Solution Manager and around 140 existing key figures were updated. The plug-in contains (besides others)

SuccessFactors

The following new key figures were introduced:

Job requisitions created

Job requisitions with applications

Job requisitions without applications

Job requisitions closed

LT: Job requisition -> first application [days]

LT: Time to Fill from SF [days]

LT: Job requisition -> hiring (Time to Fill) [days]

Job requisition creation to applicant hired (Time to Fill)

Job applications created

Job applications in status 'applied'

Job applications in status 'not applied'

LT: Time to Hire from SF [days]

LT: Job applications -> hiring (Time to Hire) [days]

LT: Job application -> first offer [days]

Job application creation to applicant hired

Job offers created

Job offers expiring in x days

Job offers expired

LT: Job offers creation -> expired

Candidates created

Financial Accounting

The following new key figures were introduced:

Company code usage per fiscal year

Assets without postings

Missing fields in incomplete assets

Vendor invoice creation to FI-AP clearing

The following key figures were enhanced:

Changes in FI documents got field TCODE enabled as filter & group by parameter

Number of FI postings. The selection parameter "Created by" is no longer applied as a filter, but is considered for the automation check.

Open vendor items FI-AP, Overdue open items FI-AR (customer items), Overdue open customer items w/ master data, Open items FI-GL, Open items FI-GL with account master data got field GJAHR enabled as group by parameter

All key figures in the area of Open items FI-GL, Open vendor items (FI-AP), Vendor payments, Open customer items (FI-AR), Customer payments got a new selection parameter 'Excl. Profit Ctr(GL)’ where applicable in order to improve data collection performance if needed.

Controlling / Management Accounting

Exceptions during costing run got plant as new filter parameter and profit center information from the material master is added in the detail list.

Cost center usage in actual cost totals per fiscal year got a new key figure logic and reads no longer single records in COEP but summary records in COSS and COSP. The first/last usage and usage count is now based on fiscal years instead of single dates.

Profit center usage in actual PCA totals per FY & CO area and Profit center usage in actual PCA totals per FY & comp. code got a new key figure logic and read no longer single records in GLPCA but summary records in GLPCT. The first/last usage and usage count is now based on fiscal years instead of single dates.s

Sales

The following new key figures were introduced:

Pricing procedure usage in sales documents (cross SOrg)

Billing type usage in SD billing documents (per SOrg)

Pricing procedure usage in SD billing documents (cross SOrg)

Billing type usage in SD billing documents (cross SOrg)

Condition type usage in SD billing documents (cross SOrg)

Sales rebate agreements not settled

The following key figures were enhanced:

Sales documents created & Sales invoices created. The selection parameter "Created by" is no longer applied as a filter, but is considered for the automation check.

Changes in sales document & Changes in SD billing documents got field TCODE enabled as filter & group by parameter

Output type usage in sales & Output type usage in billing got the field output procedure as new filter parameter. The detail list shows in how many output procedures a certain output type is assigned to.

Condition type usage in sales documents (cross SOrg) got pricing procedure as new filter parameter. The detail list shows in how many pricing procedures a certain condition type is assigned to. Group condition information is provided.

Sales order item creation to SD invoice item, Sales order item creation to FI-AR clearing, Sales order items (via purchase to order) to SD invoice item, Sales order items (via make to order) to SD invoice item & ICo Sales order item creation to ICo billing document. A new filter parameter 'relevant for billing' (FKREL) is provided. The key figures now support also FKREL = 'M'.

Logistics Execution

The key figure "Pricing procedure usage in shipment cost items (cross org)" was newly introduced.

The following key figures were enhanced:

Inbound deliveries created & Outbound deliveries created. The selection parameter "Created by" is no longer applied as a filter, but is considered for the automation check.

Output type usage in shipping & Output type usage in inbound deliveries got the field output procedure as new filter parameter. The detail list shows in how many output procedures a certain output type is assigned to.

Changes in shipments & Changes in deliveries got field TCODE enabled as filter & group by parameter

Purchasing

The following new key figures were introduced:

Default value check for purchase order creation users

Pricing procedure usage in purchasing (cross POrg)

The following key figures were enhanced:

All Purchase Order item or Stock Transport Order item related key figures got storage location as additional field in the detail list.

Purchase order items created & Purchase requisition items created. The selection parameter "Created by" is no longer applied as a filter, but is considered for the automation check.

Changes in purchase orders, Changes in purchase requisitions & Changes in MM invoices got field TCODE enabled as filter & group by parameter

Purchase order items created w/o reference to contract. Contracts not yet approved are excluded from the selection.

Purchase order item creation to GR/IR clearing. It is now checked if a Goods Receipt as well as Invoice Receipt is expected at all.

Output type usage in purchase orders got output procedure as new filter parameter. The detail list shows in how many output procedures a certain output type is assigned to.

Condition type usage in purchasing got pricing procedure as new filter parameter. The detail list shows in how many pricing procedures a certain condition type is assigned to. Group condition information is provided in result list.

Stock transport order item creation (w/o delivery) to GR, Stock transport order item creation (with delivery) to GR & Cross-company STO item creation to FI-AR clearing. Process flow now also consider over-deliveries as complete.

Manufacturing & Supply Chain Planning

The following new key figures were introduced:

Automation rate: Production order technical closure

Automation rate: Process order technical closure

The following key figures were enhanced:

Production order confirmations , Process order confirmations, Production orders created & Process orders created got a new selection parameter 'Created by' to able to refine the automation check if necessary.

Automation rate: Production order release & Automation rate: Process order release now also provide the information who released the order.

Plant Maintenance, Customer Service & Project Systems

The following new key figures were introduced:

Released projects with WBS element completion per level

Status changes per released WBS element

The following key figures were enhanced:

PM/CS order confirmations & Network order confirmations got a new selection parameter 'Created by' to able to refine the automation check if necessary.

Changes in PM/CS notifications & Changes in PM/CS orders got field TCODE enabled as filter & group by parameter

Inventory & Warehouse Management

Throughput Goods Movements outbound, Throughput Goods Movements inbound, Automation rate: Goods Movements inbound & Automation rate: Goods Movements outbound got an adjusted automation logic, so that order confirmations from manufacturing are considered as automatic. Selection parameter 'User Name' is no longer applied as a filter, but is considered for the automation check.

Stock level of unrestricted-use stock, Stock level of stock in transfer, Stock level of stock in quality inspection, Stock level of blocked stock & Stock level of returns stock got new in information in the result list whether or not the respective material is batch managed. It is also possible now to filter out batch managed materials.

Master Data Management

The key figure "Materials in certain status (per plant)" was newly introduced.

The following key figures were enhanced:

Changes to Material Master, Changes to Article Master, Changes to customer master, Changes to Vendor Master & Changes to Purchasing information records got field TCODE enabled as filter & group by parameter

Material master usage in sales (per sales area), Material master usage in manufacturing (per plant), Material master usage in procurement (per plant), Material master usage in sales (cross-sales area), Material master usage in manufacturing (cross-plant) & Material master usage in procurement (cross-plant) got material group (MARA-MATKL) as new filter parameter and the runtime performance was improved.

Materials in certain status (cross-plant) showed too few materials if the last status change happened right at the material master record creation.

Customer Relationship Management

The following new key figures were introduced:

Changes of CRM sales documents

Changes of Activities/Tasks

Changes of CRM service documents

The following key figures were enhanced:

CRM sales documents created, Activities/Tasks created, CRM service documents created got new selection parameters for time frame selection. They also got new information on creation date, last changed date, creation user in detail list and based on this it is indicated whether the CRM document was created manually or automatically. The automation information is also a new group by parameter.

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 or P-user login required)