The SAP Profitability and Performance Management (PaPM) 3.0 is to release SP10 late August 2020 and right around the corner SP11 in September. If you noticed, these two support packages that I mentioned are just one month apart.

Please take note that in PaPM SP10, the solution’s main objective is to accomodate customers that are using Estimated Cashflow Preparation (ECP) Fixed Content which is integrated with SAP S/4HANA for Financial Products Subledger – a solution that is planning to release a new feature pack this August.

Even so ECP is the ultimate goal, PaPM development team still aimed to improve PaPM solution by enhancing some functionalities and giving better features to customers.

Now let me share with you the points that you can expect in Support Package 10

General Feature

• Performance Improvements

SAP Profitability and Performance Management 3.0 SP10 offers performance improvement in the PaPM interface called by CVPM (FPSL-ECP). The execution runtimes of ACG, BECF and EPS via CVPM have improved

Function SP10

• Query

If  the Query source is Environment CDS and the Editable option is set to

No the modeler will have the Aggregation Behavior option for KYF (Keyfigure Rule type Column).

Yes the modeler will have the Keyfigure Editable option for the KYF (Keyfigure Rule type Column).

In case you are in a lower Support package and still want to utilize this behavior, implement below note together with the prerequisite notes: 2950838 FS-PER Rel 3.0 SP10: Query function, environment CDS, editable KF

• Writer

Writer function with BW Write Type Loading has been enhanced to consider only records from specific process  which triggered the writer.

Filter condition is added to the generated Data Transformation Process for this purpose. During execution of the writer function, data will be filtered based on process id. This mechanism will work even for existing modeled writers after reactivation.

In case you are in a lower Support package and still want to utilize this behavior, implement below note together with the prerequisite notes: 2944754 FS-PER Rel 3.0 SP10: Write to BW with loading data selection filter

• Allocation

1. The function allows the use of grouping formulas for distribution base. these aggregation functions include formula such as SUM (this is the default option), MAX and MIN

In case you are in a lower Support package and still want to utilize this behavior, implement below note together with the prerequisite notes: 2935196 FS-PER Rel 3.0 SP10 – Allocation enhancements

2. Direct Allocation: Enhancement for mapping method ‘Empty as any value’

Allocation result inherits the values from sender data when the allocation rule mapping method is ‘Empty as any value’. If the sender data is empty, the receiver data is used to populate allocation result. Offset allocation result and unassigned items still have values as they exist in sender data.

In case you are in a lower Support package and still want to utilize this behavior, implement below note together with the prerequisite notes: 2926955 FS-PER Rel 3.0 SP10 – Allocation result enrichment

• Calculation Unit

1. Process Template: Activity dependencies for Simulation Process Type has been removed.

In case you are in a lower Support package and still want to utilize this behavior, implement below note together with the prerequisite notes: 2944808 FS-PER Rel 3.0 SP10: No Activity dependency for Process Type = Simulation

2. Activity Type

Within a Calculation Unit Process, a new activity type has now been included called the URL.

The user can maintain Web URLs for activities of this activity type.
The URLs can be maintained in one of the following ways:

• • Direct URL Any external or internal link can be directly specified in the URL

• • URLs with Placeholders might be desirable to specify the target application that are system specific. For example, server name, language and others. TVARVC table can be utilized to maintain the placeholder.
    This placeholder can then be specified by user by placing them within < > while specifying the URL.

In case you are in a lower Support package and still want to utilize this behavior, implement below note together with the prerequisite notes: 2951162 FS-PER 3.0 SP10: Calculation Unit Activity Type – URL Enhancement

• Manage and Deploy

  Filter tab is now available in the Personalization dialog box. Filter settings together with other

In case you are in a lower Support package and still want to utilize this behavior, implement below note together with the prerequisite notes: 2945332 FS-PER Rel 3.0 SP10: Processes: Filtering in Environment Tree Personalization

Visual Modeler

Enhancement for better user experience which focused on:

• Process Management (Display mode)

Change of user interface from Highcharts GANTT Diagram to Bryntum GANTT.

Sample Content

The sample content documents provide ideas and best practices about how to model the system regarding specific topics and industries.

The following new standalone sample content is available in SAP Profitability and Performance Management 3.0 SP10:

Updated versions of the following standalone sample content are available:

Fixed Content

The following new standalone fixed content is available in SAP Profitability and Performance Management 3.0 SP10:

This is the end of my blog post. I hope to have informed you well on what SAP Profitability and Performance Management 3.0 is about to offer in Support Package 10 this August 2020.

Thank you for taking your time to read this post and happy patching!