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Supply Chain in SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Public Edition 2302
Last updated: 1st March 2023
This blog provides an overview of innovations in SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2302 for Supply Chain.
First, this blog post starts with the table of contents for ease of reference and allows you to navigate directly to the topic you are interested in by clicking on a specific entry:
Inventory Management
Barcode Scanning / Support GS1 standard (+ demo video)
Manage Stock
Mass Printing and enhanced Standard Form Templates
Message Monitoring
Extensibility
Warehouse Management
Manage Outbound Delivery Orders (+ demo video)
Warehouse Dashboard for Daily Operation (+ demo video)
Warehouse Advanced Production Integration (+ demo video)
Delivery
Changing Deliveries after initial distribution to a 3rd-Party WMS
Changing Deliveries distributed to Warehouse Management
Transportation Management
Handling of Unplanned Cost in Incoming Invoice (+ demo video)
Freight Cost Allocation Posting with Invoice Variance (+ demo video)
Availability Checks
Order Promising
Advanced Order Promising
Business Process Scheduling
Check out the video from my colleague Markus Oertelt highlighting the
- new SAP Fiori app Manage Outbound Deliveries Orders in warehouse management
- processing unplanned freight costs for incoming invoice in transportation management
- barcode scanning in inventory management
Video 1: Highlights for Supply Chain Management in the 2302 release
Inventory Management
Barcode Scanning / Support GS1 standard
In my 2108 blog post you will find a demo video that shows how easy it is to use the new SAP Fiori app Manage Physical Inventory Count on a smartphone and scan a material barcode with the built-in device camera.
In my 2208 blog post I show you the barcode scanning capability with the Transfer Stock – In-Plant and Stock – Single Material apps.
With 2302, the following SAP Fiori apps support barcode scanning of reference documents and serial numbers with internal and external scanner devices:
- Post Goods Receipt for Purchasing Document
- Post Goods Receipt for Inbound Delivery
- Post Goods Receipt for Production Order
- Post Goods Receipt for Process Order
- Post Subsequent Adjustment
The scan option enables you to collect data quickly and reliably for goods receipt and stock adjustment postings. In the video below I show you the new barcode scanning capability in the Post Goods Receipt for Purchasing Document app.
Video 2: ‘Post Goods Receipt for Purchasing Document’ app – Barcode scanning
In addition, you can now use the Transfer – In Plant app to scan barcodes which are configured with GS1 barcode standard. This helps you to scan combinations of materials, batches, or GTINs.
Figure 1: Barcode scanning option with ‘Transfer Stock – In Plant’ app
Figure 2: GS1 barcode: GTIN with batch
Figure 3: GS1 barcode: Material with batch
Manage Stock
Enhancements to Manage Stock app
You can now use the goods issue for cost center (201 postings) and special stock type K (supplier consignment) in the Manage Stock app.
If you use serial numbers, you now have the flexibility to create new serial numbers for a storage location while transferring or scrapping materials even if you have a stock check warning or no stock check selected in your serial number profile.
Figure 4: ‘Manage Stock’ app enhancements – use for movement type 201, special stock type K, create new serial number while transferring or scrapping materials
Usability Improvements
The Stock – Single Material App is now enhanced to provide filter options for fields like plant, batch. This helps customer to find and load preferred plants.
Figure 5: ‘Stock – Single Material’ app – new filter options for fields like plant and batch
Further, you can also now have additional settings to exclude batches with deletion flag, exclude batches with zero stock in the Transfer Stock – Cross Plant app.
Figure 6: ‘Transfer Stock – Cross Plant’ app – new view settings to exclude empty batches and batches with deletion flag
Mass Printing and enhanced Standard Form Templates
Goods Receipt Slips
Now you can print multiple goods receipt slips when posting a goods receipt with or without reference documents. For this purpose we have enhanced the printing functionality in the SAP Fiori apps listed below to print multiple slips using field Number of GR Slips:
- Post Goods Receipt for Purchasing Document
- Post Goods Receipt for Production Order
- Post Goods Receipt for Inbound Delivery
- Post Goods Receipt for Process Order
- Post Goods Receipt without Reference
Figure 7: ‘Post Goods Receipt for Purchasing Document’ app – Mass printing of GR slips
Physical Inventory documents
Several options for printing physical inventory documents are available now:
The Manage Physical Inventory Documents app allows you to execute printing of a single physical inventory document or selected physical inventory document items. It is also possible to mass print several physical inventory documents via a background job. For instance, you can trigger a background job for printing items based on their status as shown in the figure below.
Figure 8: ‘Manage Physical Inventory Documents’ app – Background Print
Further you can mass print Physical Inventory documents using the Job Scheduling and Mass Processing – Physical Inventory app. A new template is now added to the existing Job scheduling app for mass printing.
Figure 9: ‘Job Scheduling and Mass Processing – Physical Inventory’ app
Enhanced Standard Form Templates
In addition, additional fields such as Header Text, Delivery Note, and Material Slip are now added to form templates.
The following form templates are now adopted with this changes
- Goods Issue SC Collective Slip
- Goods Issue SC Individual Slip
- Goods Issue SC Individual Slip with Inspection Text
- Goods Issue Collective Slip Output
- Goods Issue Individual Slip Output
- Goods Issue Individual Slip Output with Inspection Text
- Goods Movement Posting Collective Slip
- Goods Movement Posting Individual Slip
- Goods Movement Transfer Posting – Collective Slip
- Goods Transfer Posting Collective Slip – Generic
- Goods Movement Transfer Posting – Individual Slip
- Goods Mvt. Transfer Posting- Individual Slip with Insp. text
- Goods Transfer Posting Individual Slip with Inspection Text – Generic
- Goods Movement Transfer Posting Individual Slip – Generic
- Goods Receipt for PO collective slip PDF Output
- Goods Receipt for PO email message
- Goods Receipt for PO individual slip PDF Output
- Goods Receipt for PO individual slip with text PDF Output
- Goods Receipt for Order Individual Slip
- Goods Receipt for Order Individual Slip with Inspection Text
- Goods Receipt Label Output
Figure 10: Enhanced Standard Form Template for printing GR slip with additional fields Header Text and Delivery Note
Message Monitoring
You can now use additional business object related Key Fields such as Material, Plant, Movement Type, Reference, Batch, Purchasing Document, SD Document, Order, and Delivery within the Message Dashboard or Message Monitoring app to search for material document messages.
Figure 11: ‘Message Monitoring’ app – use additional business object related Key Fields such as Material, Plant, Movement Type, Reference, Batch, Purchasing Document, SD Document, Order, and Delivery to search for material document messages
Extensibility
Before I move on to the next chapter, I would like to point out new possibilities for extensibility in Inventory Management:
The new Cloud Business Add-In Check Item Data in Material Document (BADI_MMIM_CHECK_MATDOC_ITEM) enables you to implement customer-specific validation for checking the header and item data that you enter in material documents.
As a key user, you can now enable additional fields as filters in the Overview Inventory Management and Overview Inventory Processing app. For this purpose, the app was enhanced with the CDS view Core Product Plant Fields (I_ProductPlantBasic). You can use all fields of this CDS view as filter criteria in the app, for example MRP Controller.
Warehouse Management
A few days ago Florian Kuchta published the blog post SAP® Warehouse Management in SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2302 – What’s New with a crisp overview of innovation highlights in Warehouse Management. You can find the comprehensive compilation of the many new features in Warehouse Management by accessing the following link to the “What’s New in Warehouse Management in SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2302” presentation.
In this blog post, I describe the three Warehouse Management highlights that my colleague Markus Oertelt presented with system demos in our SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Public Edition Early Release Series. Watch the videos below that I cut from the recording of our Supply Chain session.
Manage Outbound Delivery Orders
With the new SAP Fiori app Manage Outbound Delivery Orders you can monitor and run the outbound process based on outbound delivery orders. You can use several filters to display your outbound delivery orders on the overview screen. Additionally, you can perform several actions, for example, create pick warehouse tasks, print loading lists, adjust the delivery quantity, and post/reverse goods issue. The new SAP Fiori app Manage Outbound Delivery Orders is based on SAP Fiori elements and is a successor to the SAP Fiori app Run Outbound Process – Deliveries.
Markus shows you the new Manage Outbound Delivery Orders app in the next video:
Warehouse Dashboard for Daily Operation
You can use the new pre-built story Warehouse Dashboard for Daily Operation that is based on the embedded SAP Analytics Cloud in SAP S/4HANA Cloud to analyze the key performance indicators (KPIs) relevant to your warehouse operations, for both inbound and outbound processes. You can create also your own analytics apps by using the self-service capabilities. The embedded SAP Analytics Cloud functionality is fully integrated in SAP S/4HANA Cloud and no additional license is required. Watch the next video in which Markus shows the Warehouse Dashboard for Daily Operation.
Video 4: New pre-built story ‘Warehouse Dashboard for Daily Operation’
Warehouse Advanced Production Integration
With the Advanced Production Integration you can use different staging strategies to supply products to production with reasonable quantities based on a production material request (PMR) in Warehouse Management. Markus explains the following figure in the video below.
Figure 12: Warehouse Advanced Production Integration
You can use the following apps for advanced production integration:
- Create Warehouse Tasks – Staging for Production
- Display Production Material Requests
- Clear Production Supply Areas
- Stage for Production
- Post Consumption – Production
- Schedule Staging for Production
You can post consumption and reverse consumption for production using radio frequency (RF) devices.
Watch the video below in which Markus guide you through the process of Advanced Production Integration including post and reverse consumption for production.
Video 5: Warehouse Advanced Production Integration
Delivery
Changing Deliveries after initial distribution to a 3rd-Party WMS
Customers can now edit inbound, outbound and customer return deliveries after distribution to a third-party Warehouse Management System (WMS). The SOAP APIs shown in the figure below allow you now to make changes to deliveries (outbound, inbound, or customer returns) after their initial distribution to a third-party warehouse management system by sending update-related messaging. For further information check out the documentation on the API Business Hub:
- Warehouse Shipping Order – Send to Warehouse
- Warehouse Stock Transfer Shipment Advice – Send to Warehouse (B2B)
Figure 13: Ability to Make Changes to Deliveries After Their Initial Distribution to a 3rd-Party WMS
Changing Outbound Deliveries distributed to Warehouse Management
Now you can change outbound deliveries after initial distribution in connection with Warehouse Management in SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition. If you open an outbound delivery with the Change Outbound Delivery app, the system checks which fields you can change without compromising the process in Warehouse Management and enables editing for these fields such as:
- Material Quantity
- Header & Item Texts
- Planned GI date
- Incoterms (+ Incoterm Location)
- Shipping Type
- Shipping Condition
- Bill of Lading
You can add additional delivery items and delete delivery items that have not yet been distributed, change batches and serial numbers, and edit custom fields.
Note: Changing outbound deliveries as described above is only possible if the Advanced Shipping and Receiving scenario is not used for the delivery!
In the configuration environment, you carry out Configure SAP EWM-Specific Parameters (ID: 102212) to enable this new feature. Select the option Deliv.Chg (Delivery Change Enabled) for the relevant EWM-managed warehouse to enable changing outbound deliveries after initial distribution in connection with Warehouse Management.
Note:
Currently the customizing cannot be found at S/4HANA Cloud system or CBC system after system upgrade CE2302. Please read the SAP Knowledge Base Article 3303032 – Customizing “Configure SAP EWM-Specific Parameters” is not available.
Transportation Management
Handling of Unplanned Cost in Incoming Invoice
The next video shows the possibility to receive unplanned cost reported with the carrier’s invoice.
Video 6: ‘Create Supplier Invoice’ app
Freight Cost Allocation Posting with Invoice Variance
Working with Variances in Freight Invoices, the system automatically distributes freight costs to the level of logistics document and delivery item in a freight document. It then automatically posts the differences to an expense or material account, depending on the business scenario.
Video 7: New SAP Fiori app ‘Manage Variance Posting Errors’
The great wealth of new features in Transportation Management is described in the What’s New document. A description of all the new features is beyond the scope of this blog post. For further information download the presentation of our Supply Chain session during the SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Public Edition 2302 Early Release Series. Watch our replays on demand!
Availability Checks
Order Promising
Check Horizon in the Product Availability Check
The concept of replenishment lead times in availability checks has been generalized. In
addition to generating full confirmations for requirements after the check horizon, you can now configure the scope of check for availability checks to generate zero confirmations after the check horizon.
Figure 15: ‘Manage Your Solution’ app -> ‘Configure Your Solution’ -> Configuration step ‘Configure Scope of Availability Check (IS 101099)
Enhancements to Review Availability Check Result
The Review Availability Check Result is enhanced to enable the manual adjustment of delivery dates and fix the date and quantity against background changes from Backorder processing.
Figure 16: ‘Review Availability Check Result’ app – manual adjustment of delivery dates and fix the date and quantity
Advanced Order Promising
Product Allocation
Change Documents for Product Allocation Master Data
Change documents are now written for all changes to the
- Product allocation object
- Product allocation sequence
Simply access the change documents by clicking the Display Change Logs or Display Planning Changes button in the product allocation apps.
Figure 18: ‘Manage Product Allocation Planning Data’ app – ‘Display Change Logs’ and ‘Display Planning Changes’ buttons on ‘Product Allocation Object’ page
Business Add-In: ATP Product Allocation Characteristic Value Combination Determination
The new Business Add-In (BAdI) ATP Product Allocation Characteristic Value Combination Determination (ATP_PAL_CVC_DETERMINATION) enables you to modify the result of the characteristic value combination (CVC) determination during a product allocation check. You can replace the CVC determined for a requirement with another one, as well as add a CVC from the current allocation object when none was found. Furthermore, you can also change the constraint status of the CVC that is used in the check.
Business Add-In: ATP Product Allocation Sequence Constraint Preparation
The new Business Add-In (BAdI) ATP Product Allocation Sequence Constraint Preparation (ATP_PAL_SQNC_CSTRT_PREPARATION) enables you to influence which requirements and how these requirements will be checked against product allocations. You can change parameters of the product allocation sequence constraint, i.e. changing validity periods, the number of backward/forward consumption periods, the sequence constraint status, and the allocation rate.
Alternative-Based Confirmation
Configuration of Alternative Determinations
To enhance functional scope and provide more flexibility, you can configure how alternatives are determined:
- Use SAP’s pre-delivered template alternative determinations for your own setup.
- Adapt which rating attributes and hard constraints are used by each alternative determination to identify the most suitable alternative confirmation.
Figure 19: ‘Configure Alternative Determination’ app – new button ‘Create from Template’
New Hard Constraints for Alternative Determinations
New Hard Constraints are available in the Alternative Determination:
- Number of Plants
- Number of Products
- Number of Storage locations
- Overall number of substitutes used
Figure 20: ‘Configure Alternative Determination’ app offers additional hard constraints for the determination of alternative confirmations during availability checks
Supply Protection
Support of Planning Level “Plant / Storage Location“
The introduction of different planning levels increases flexibility defining supply protection.
The following options are available:
- Option “Plant”
The supply protection object is defined on the level of the material-plant combination. This is the default setting. The protected quantities affect the complete plant. - Option “Plant / Storage Location”
The supply protection object is defined on the level of a combination of a plant, storage location, and material. In this case, the protection affects a specific storage location of the plant.
All activated supply protection objects for a specific material-plant combination must have the same planning level.
If supply protection is defined on the planning level “Plant / Storage Location” it must be ensured that a storage location is also included in the request.
Figure 21: ‘Manage Supply Protection’ app – Planning Level
Business Process Scheduling
With the 2208 release, we have introduced Business Process Scheduling (BPS) as a flexible configurable scheduling solution that you can use within different business documents (see my 2208 blog post).
Consider Working Times when Scheduling with Time Granularity in Days
Now, two pre-delivered BPS schemas are available that provide more sophisticated scheduling capabilities like more granular definition of durations and working times of logistical activities based on further attributes in stock transport orders, e.g. customer group, shipping type etc.
Figure 22: ‘Manage Your Solution’ app -> ‘Configure Your Solution’ -> Configuration step ‘Maintain BPS Schema (ID 105740)’ provides two new pre-delivered BPS schemas
When scheduling with time granularity in days, usually no working times are considered. With the new delegation CONSIDER_WORKING_TIME, Business Process Scheduling can consider working times for one logistical activity in your business process. This enhances the precision of your scheduling results.
Figure 23: Define Schemas for BPS – Delegation CONSIDER_WORKING_TIME
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Hi Gerhard, this looks really good! Especially the barcode scanning apps. As we are using S/4HANA EWM on-prem and still have to wait for yearly 2023 release, I am wondering if there is a public demo available in order to playground the new functionalities? Cheers, Alej
Hi Alej, the presented barcode scanning demo is on the Post Goods Receipt for Purchasing Document app from Inventory Management. Are you searching for demo on EWM or IM apps? Cheers, Gerhard
So many new functionality, thanks for sharing.
Hi Gerhard,
I have question about the the following topic: Changing Outbound Deliveries distributed to Warehouse Management
The option "Configure SAP EWM-Specific Parameters" only is available when you activate scope items for external EWM.
SAP EWM Integration - Customer Returns (2VO)
SAP EWM Integration - Warehouse Stock Handling (2YL)
SAP EWM Integration - Inbound Processing from Supplier (2VJ)
SAP EWM Integration - Outbound Processing to Customer (2VK)
SAP EWM Integration - Delivery-Based Production Integration (2VM)
SAP EWM Integration - Stock Transport Orders (2VL)
SAP EWM Integration - Batch Management (2VN)
But how do you activate this function when using embedded EWM?
kind regards,
Jeroen
I'd love to know this as well... the detailed What's New documentation suggests that this functionality is available both with Cloud WM (scope item 3BS) and third-party WMS (scope item 1ZQ) and even mentions those scope items specifically, but the configuration activity is not available without the EWM-related scope items mentioned above.
It would be great to get some clarification on this as we have a couple of clients who would like to use this functionality.
Regards, Kerry
Hi Jeroen,
thanks for your question. You are right, we are currently working on it. We will let the community know once we fixed it.
Stay tuned, Best regards, Markus
Hi Kerry,
Since Monday the settings available.
Thank you
Hi Jeroen and Kerry,
Thank you very much for your quick feedback. As Markus mentioned we are working on the issue. Please read the SAP Knowledge Base Article 3303032 – Customizing “Configure SAP EWM-Specific Parameters” is not available. I have added this link also at the end of chapter Delivery
Best regards, Gerhard
Hi Gerhard,
Many thanks for this!
I do have one question around Goods receipt from Production Order in EWM on a SAP S4HANA Public Cloud 2302. Is the process that we should do GR in S4 and then confirm the Inbound in WM (EWM)?
Or is there any possibility in Cloud to user the Embedded function "GR in EWM" setting, this means that all Goods receipts happens in WM (EWM) system and not in S4.
//Jacob
Hi Jacob,
You can work in the same storage location.
Instead of outbounds you will have staging documents. And you indeed will not need an Inbound delivery to receive. You can even use Warehouse Production Integration with Synchronous Goods Receipt (5HO).
Only down side is that you can't use the packing specs in combination with 5HO.
Gerhard Welker will the packing specs use in combination with scope item 5HO be possible in the near future?
Greets Jeroen
Hi Jacob, hi Jeroen,
the goods receipt for 5H0 can be done with one of these options:
Jeroen Bosman , packing specifications are not planned to be released for S/4HANA Cloud, public edition. Following the principle of one, we want to work with packing instructions only. You can use packing instructions for the synchronous goods receipt posting in above scenario.
Best regards,
Christian
Hi Christian,
I by accident used the wrong terminology. I meant indeed packing instructions.
So the correct question is.
Will the packing instructions use in combination with scope item 5HO be possible in the near future? Because this wil only work when using MIGO.
Could we maybe have short call about it if not clear?
Kr Jeroen
Hi Expert,
How can we use Barcode Scanning for Goods Issue (Material Consumptions- Material & Batches) of Movement Type 221-Q ??
Please provide the Solution.
Thanks,
Ganesh Bhosale
Hi Ganesh,
Sorry for the delay in answering your question.
Inventory Management (IM) does not offer barcode scanning for goods issue, in fact we do not have Fiori apps from IM side for goods issue because it is covered by other LoB’s.
For e.g., deliveries or production orders. Delivery apps does not have barcode scanning as of now, so customer have to wait a bit more.
Best regards,
Gerhard