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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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:

Video 3: New SAP Fiori app ‘Manage Outbound Delivery Orders’

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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’

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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

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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)

 

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Figure 13: Ability to Make Changes to Deliveries After Their Initial Distribution to a 3rd-Party WMS

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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.

Figure 14: ‘Manage Your Solution’ app – Configuration step 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.

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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

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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!

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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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Thanks for reading this blog post. Stay tuned!

You will find a collection of my SAP S/4HANA Cloud release blogs here:

• The Link Collection for Asset Management
• The Link Collection for Manufacturing & Supply Chain

Check out also my new blog post

• Manufacturing in SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Public Edition 2302

and the new blog post from my colleague Markus Oertelt in which he describes the first Engineer-to-Order (ETO) end-to-end scenario

• Discrete Industries in SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2302 | SAP Blogs

that is listed in his blog series

• Discrete Industries in SAP S/4HANA Cloud.

 

Watch the Replays of Our SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Public Edition 2302 Early Release Series!

We’ve hosted a series of compelling live sessions from the heart of the SAP S/4HANA Engineering organization. Missed the live sessions? Watch our replays on demand!

Among the replays, you can find a 60-minute replay, a presentation, and demos for supply chain management as part of the SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition 2302 release as well as 19 other sessions on diverse topics like manufacturing, asset management, finance, two-tier ERP, SAP User Experience, developer extensibility, and many more. For more information on the SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Public Edition Early Release Series and how to sign up for it, see this link.

 

For more information on SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition check out the following links:

• SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Public Edition Release Info Here
• Bert Schulze’s Release Blog Post
• SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Public Edition Community: Here
• SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Public Edition 2302 Early Release Series Here
• Latest Release Blog Posts here
• Product Videos on Our SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Public Edition and SAP S/4HANA YouTube playlist
• Demo Playlist of Product Release Highlights Here
• Inside SAP S/4HANA Podcast Here
• openSAP Microlearnings for SAP S/4HANA here
• Best Practices for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Here
• Feature Scope Description Here
• What’s New Here
• Help Portal Product Page Here

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