What is new in Enhancement package 8?

What is new in Enhancement package 8?
August 2017

Agenda Why Enhancement package 8? What’s New? What’s New: Detailed Overview Technical Prerequisites Find New Functionalities

SAP ERP 6.0 Enhancement Package 8 is, after EhP7, the next Enhancement Package following the concept of quarterly shipments. This Enhancement Package delivers innovations to our installed base ERP customers and can support them as a foundation for their conversion to S/4HANA. SAP ERP 6.0 Enhancement Package 8 SP 07 was released in July 2017.

Motivation for Enhancement Package 8
Commitment to our customers’ investments Innovations without disruption to SAP Business Suite customers on any DB Fulfillment of extended maintenance commitment (SAP guarantees maintenance until 2025) Consolidation of more than eleven EhP7 SPs Retrofit of Fashion Solution Improved Enablement for Data Protection and Privacy with NW 7.50 New JAVA 8 enablement

Enhancement Package 8 Overview: SP01 – SP07
Industry Solution Innovations in Banking* Fashion* Financial Services* HER + Fiori Media* Oil & Gas* Public Sector* Retail* Utilities* Waste & Recycling* Discrete Industries and Mill* Products* New Localizations Brazil/Accounting* Bulgaria/HR* Egypt/HR* Greece/HR* Hungary/HR* Japan/Utilities Turkey/HR* Turkey/Insurance LoB Solution Innovations in Accounting ATP BRIM Commodity Management EHS* Enterprise Asset Management* SAP Geographical Enablement* Framework* HR* Incoterms* Materials Management* PLM* Procurement Quality Management* Treasury* Project System Plant Maintenance* Cross Application Innovations ILM + Fiori Data privacy and protection Simplification of component structure Accounts Receivables and Payables* Suite on HANA Innovations in Configuration Product Revenue Accounting ILM + Fiori Industry/Oil & Gas* MRP Following SPs in: Fashion Healthcare Retail Commodity Management PLM Quality Management HCM Localizations Fiori …. * Partially new innovations for Enhancement Package 8

What’s new for LoBs? R&D Engineering Finance Plant Maintenance
KPI dashboards for engineering records Functional and usability enhancements Product Lifecycle Management Finance Treasury and Risk Management SAP Banking Public Sector: Collection Strategy Financials Financial Accounting Enhancements Commodity Management Plant Maintenance Materials in the Order (Web UI) Enterprise Search in the Input Help (Web UI) Order Types for Confirming Unplanned (Web UI) Information Center with Technical Object List (POWL) Procurement Incoterms Versions Enterprise Asset Management Geographical Enablement Framework Human Capital Management Employee Master data Organizational Management Payroll Time Management

What’s new for Industries?
Retail Harmonized Processes for Wholesale Retail Merchandise Management Production Control Workbench Combined Orders Store and digital Commerce EAN Recycling Retail Site Master Improvements Reactive PO Monitor Omni Channel Promotion Pricing Public Sector Tax and Revenue Management Collaborative Liability Debt Management Customer Connect Media Billing in Contract Account Master Data Objects Provider Contract Revenue Accounting Sustainability Specification Workbench Product Safety Dangerous Goods Utilities Meter Data Management Multiple Item Weighing Meter Reading Profile Value Data Operation Log for Waste and Recycling Oil & Gas Hydrocarbon Supply Chain Optimization Inventory Cockpit Forecasting Cross Industries Project System Material Segmentation Logistics Insurance SAP Claims Management Tax Determination for Payment Items SAP Fiori Apps Foreign Currency Management

EhP8: LoB Innovations

Finance Treasury and Risk Management: Detailed Overview EhP8 Innovations (1/7)
Trade Finance Money Market Enhancements Scope: Standard trade finance instrument End-to-end process management Integration with other features Key Benefits: Provide an end-to-end trade finance process under Treasury and Risk Mgmt. framework Manage all treasury related functions incl. cash flows and credit lines Integrate with other SAP software that includes functionality for AP/AR, SD, MM and Accounting Scope: Product category 550 (interest-rate instrument) Scaled interest condition Accrued interest condition Parallel interest condition group Product category 580 (current account-style instrument) New transaction category 300 for investments and borrowing Asset and liability position switch Key Benefits: Flexibility regarding interest conditions and related cash-flow calculation: Scaled interest calculation Accrued interest calculation Trade Repository Reporting via External Provider Scope: Send financial transaction data to an external provider. The external provider, VirtusaPolaris, will then transform the data to the trade repository. Key Benefit: You can save your selections in different variants according to your needs, e.g. a variant for all active financial transactions with a End of Term after the current date back to overview

Hedge Management: Hedge Management Cockpit (TOENE) Exposure Display Mode, Renaming Scope: Gain an overview of net exposures, resulting from the difference between net exposures and their corresponding hedging instruments The function Determine Net Exposures (transaction TOENE) is now called the Hedge Management Cockpit (SP05) Key Benefits: Selection and display of exposures and hedging instruments according to settings Calculation of net exposures gives an overview of the unhedged portion of exposures Hedge Management, Target Quotas Scope: With Determine Net Open Exposures (FIN_TRM_LR_FI_AN_6), you can enter target quota tables for your hedging areas. You can define target quotas relevant for hedge quotas on the level of the analysis items. The target quotas themselves are entered on a higher level than the analysis items. back to overview

Innovations: Hedging Classification; TRM, Hedge Management, Determine Net Exposures; Transaction Management, Additional Fields Scope: Define hedging classification that you can assign to your exposures and hedging instruments Gain an overview of your net exposures, resulting from the difference between your foreign exchange exposures in Exposure Management 2.0 and the corresponding hedging instruments in the transaction management. Use the fields Profit Center, Cost Center, WBS Element, and Business Area in the data of financial transactions (transactions FTR_CREATE and FTR_EDIT) on the Administration tab page. Save exposure data of hedging areas Key Benefits: Hedging classification as general selection criteria within the definition of your hedging areas Mitigate risks Enables auditor to check which data is served as the basis for a hedging decision at all times Innovation: Hedging Area Versioning Scope: Create different versions for a hedging area. Determine data in correspondence to the version of the hedging area valid for the selected key date. Enter necessary settings in the hedging area Key Benefits: Each version of a hedging area has a different valid-from date Previous version data can be copied and then edited during the creation of a new hedging area Enable and control the automated designation process of exposure items in hedge accounting back to overview

Innovation: HM, Hedge Accounting (FX Risk) Treasury and risk management – hedge management and accounting for FX risks with options Scope: Hedge management cockpit Versioning for hedging area Target quota definition for hedging area Hedge accounting definition for hedging area Snapshot mechanism for exposure data Automate designation process for FX forward contracts Period-end close activities for hedge accounting for FX forward contracts Reporting transactions supporting hedge accounting for FX forward contracts UTPM12, TPM13, TPM20) Key Benefits: Support for customer compliance with IFFRS 9 Phase IIII – hedge accounting First step into the automation of the hedge accounting process Scope: Identification and snapshots of exposures Hedge management and decision support Capture of financial transactions Automated designation into hedging relationships IFRS 9 Phase III accounting support for FX forwards and the option types "plain vanilla" and "zero-cost collar" Credit-value adjustment (CVA) add-on method Full fair-value calculation using swap rates Key Benefits: Full and comprehensive process support for managing foreign currency risks Management of foreign currency risks arising from different exposures, such as forecasted transactions or firm commitments Innovation: Accounting: Creation of Financial Statements for Rental and Leasing Contracts Scope: Valuate rental and leasing contracts according to different accounting principles in particular, according to the leasing standards IFRS16 and US GAAP (as at 2016). Key Benefits: Define parameters for the valuation according to different accounting principles Calculate and post the value of right-of-use assets and leasing liabilities based on defined conditions Utilize runtime to post non-activate-able costs linearized and to expense back to overview

Innovation: Financial Instrument: Bank Guarantee Innovation: Financial Instrument: Bank Guarantee Scope: New financial instrument Bank Guarantee within SAP Treasury and Risk Management. Bank Guarantee Lifecycle Management Accounting Correspondence BAPIs Integration with Credit Risk Analyzer Reports Key Benefits: Product category in trade finance is enabled in position management and accounting Correspondence process is enabled for the product category in trade finance Within the product category Bank Guarantee, you can activate the integration with Credit Risk Analyzer Scope: Standard trade finance instrument End-to-end process management Integration with other features Key Benefits: Provide an end-to-end trade finance process under Treasury and Risk Mgmt. framework Manage all treasury related functions incl. cash flows and credit lines Integrate with other SAP software that includes functionality for AP/AR, SD, MM and Accounting Innovation: Transaction Management, Additional Fields Scope: Additional fields: Profit Center Cost Center WBS Element Business Area Key Benefit: Enhanced administration and customizing back to overview

SAP Treasury and Risk Management
Risk Analyzers Market Risk Analyzer Price calculator: NPV, Prices, Sensitivities Value at risk: Variance/covariance, Historic, Monte Carlo Simulation Cash Flow at Risk: Monte Carlo Simulation Simulate rates: What-if scenario, Relative, Absolute Ad hoc reporting Reporting tools Results database: Management reports Middle office Data export Credit Risk Analyzer Utilization: Formulas, Credit risk, Settlement risk Limit management: Limits freely definable, Multidimensional limits Portfolio Analyzer Yield calculations: Money and Time weighted, Modified Dietz method Benchmarking Performance Indicators Reporting Point and click, Unified databases, Position, P&L, Period, Cash Flow SAP Query, ABAP List, Other 3rd-party providers, BI, SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards (formerly Xcelsius®), Lumira dashboards Hedge Management Net Exposure report on FX risk reflecting the granularity and time buckets defined in the hedging policy od a corporation Exposure Management Hedge Accounting Centralized Database to gather, group and version data and transfer to Hedge Management Administration of hedge plans, exposures, hedge items and hedging relationships Portfolio Hierarchy, Drill-down, Historic results Transaction Manager Positions, Performance, Ratios, Compliance Create Deal Settle Deal Post Deal Evaluate Deal Front office: Position and deal reporting, deal capture, exercise, dealer slip, valuation tools, online limit check Back office: Standing instructions, correspondence monitor, netting, settlement, rate fixing (interest, FX), references, corporate actions, process monitors Accounting: Flexible accounting determination, Accounting according to many international accounting standards Risk exposure, Controlling, Compliance Spot Forward Swaps Options Futures Foreign Exchange Bonds Bank loans Commercial Paper Facilities Debt Management Securities Warrants Stocks Certificates Repo Sec. lending Derivatives Cap Floor FRA Money Market Fixed term deposits Commodities Forwards Traded Options OTC-Options Trade Finance Excel, Flat files, BI w Letter of Credit Bank Guarantee back to overview

Innovations for SAP Banking: Bank Customer Accounts; Collateral Management SAP Loans Management for Banking application Scope: New enterprise services in the areas of payoffs, write offs and charges Key Benefits: Service-oriented architecture to lower integration cost, reduce complexity, and increase flexibility regarding process changes Simplification of process orchestration and support of omnichannel architecture Standardized interfaces Scope: Utilize the release procedure (principle of dual control) for account master data Collateral Management: Calculations functions have been enhanced Key Benefits: Reduce risk of error or misuse when account data is created/ changed Identify collective collateral agreements automatically and compute prior charges differently from other collateral agreements. Restrict prior charges when distributing the highest lending limit (HLL) of collateral objects to collective collateral agreements Innovation for Public Sector: Collection Strategy; Debt Set Management; Asset Income Register; Enhancements for Budgeting and Availability Control Bank Customer Accounts (IS-B-BCA) Scope: Process the financial statement preparation for current accounts in parallel Key Benefits: Reduce time significantly in the runtime of the financial statement preparation Optimize time required for end-of-day processing Scope: Derive collection strategy Manage debt sets Describe debtors financial situation Mass approval for: Pre-posted budget entry documents Trace Logs Waiting Queues for exclusive AVC locks Display derived FM account assignments Activate derivation traces for availability control Key Benefit: Large amount of enhancements for the Public Sector Management back to overview

Innovation: Financials – Group Close – Check Scope: Calculate check digits for transaction data at the level of detail of the organizational unit at three different posting levels (reported financial data, standardizing entries, consolidation entries) and persist them in the system. Enable the product category in trade finance in position management and accounting Enable correspondence process for the product category in trade finance. Key Benefit: Facilitate and accelerate the check process for consolidated financial statements Innovation: Financial Accounting Enhancements Scope: Enhancements for Tax on Sales/Purchases and VAT; Collective Call of External Tax System Enhancements for Automatic Payment Transactions for Customers and Suppliers; Enhancements to Online Payments and Payments with Repetitive Code Enhancements for SAP Bank Communication Management; Cross-Component Check of IBAN Usage Activation of Payment Release List per Company Code Time Stamp for Change Documents in Real Estate Management Key Benefit: Large amount of enhancements for handling tax systems, payment transactions etc. back to overview

Finance: Detailed Overview EhP8 Innovations (1/2)
Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable Innovation: Tax Determination on the Basis of the Recipient of Service, Billing Plans, Resubmission of Documents, Credit Processing, and Approval and Release of Receivables Adjustments by Workflow Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable Innovation: Convergent Invoicing Scope: Local currency conversion Debit or credit memo request Events for the upload of billable items and consumption items Events for the billing plan External reference Key Benefits: Invoicing process that will work with foreign currency amounts, which are included in "billable items," to calculate the correct amount in local currency Flexible input option to create a debit or credit memo request During the upload of billable items or consumption items, availability of new events to execute customer-specifics checks Availability of new events for the billing plans to execute a customer-specific calculation of the billing plan amount External references, such as reference ID links between documents and processes Scope: Take prospective attributes of the recipient of service into account in the utilization of the provider contracts for tax determination Schedule the invoicing of regular payments with billing plans Provides a reminder function for reference objects (for example account, business partner, document) including a resubmission date and optional text. Perform a return of payment on account to clarification for a credit and/or select and process several credits simultaneously in credit clarification. Keep receivables adjustments in a status that has to be confirmed and upon creation of a receivables adjustment an approval workflow will be automatically started Approval Workflow for Installment Plans Contract in Installment Plan Histories Central Dunning Lock of Business Partner SEPA: Display of Active Mandate in Bank Details Clarification Accounts with Clarification Processing Enhancements with Requests Reversal in Requested Special Period Approval Workflow for Receivables Adjustments Ol List Create Debit/Credit Memo

Finance: Detailed Overview EhP8 Innovations (2/2)
Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable Innovation: Convergent Invoicing, CI Local Currency Conversion, CI Event for BIT and CIT Upload, CI Event for Billing Plans, CI External Reference Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable Innovation: Convergent Invoicing, CI Debit/Credit Request Scope: Revert a released billing request and its billable items Delete released or reversed bill requests Choose how main attributes of the billable items to be created are determined Key Benefits: Flexible input options when triggering creation of a credit memo or debit memo by creating a billing request for an invoicing document View total amount of all released or non-released billing requests for each invoicing document item or billable item to be corrected Scope: Transfer billable items containing amounts in a foreign currency that have an external exchange rate that is different to the exchange rate stored in the system Enhance the upload of billable items or consumption items from an external file Change the content of customer-specific fields in the billing plan header, implement checks for these fields, and trigger these checks at specific events Specify a reference for processes in Convergent Invoicing Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable Innovation: Manage Cash Desk as Cash Register Enhancements for the Parallel Billing of Payment Cards Scope: Connect the cash desk to a cash register solution in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable (FI-CA). Scope: The following enhancements for the parallel billing of payment card data (transaction FPCS) are now available in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable: Classification of non-billable items as containing errors without further processing Automatic return posting of non-billable payments Posting of charges that are levied by credit card institutes for successfully billed payments Exclusion of payments from processing

Commodity Management: Detailed Overview EhP8 Innovations (1/2)
Innovation: Commodity Pricing – Basis/Differentials/Premiums Scope: Flexible concept for defining and using various types of price differentials Differential price capture for spot and forward rates for freely definable periods Differential pricing fully integrated in commodity pricing engine (CPE) allowing to link main commodity price (typically future based commodity market price) with differential price. Price setting for future and differential at the same time or independently Position reporting for price differentials, e.g. allowing to analyze natural hedges on differentials Mark-to-market analytics including differential price component, with drill down to differential per document Key Benefit: Easily define and maintain a huge set of differential types and locations as well as internal/market differential price Automatic determination of market norm differential based on deal locations, commodity, quality, incoterms Mark-to-market calculation including differential within deal and for whole book, allowing easy trade entry control and market valuation Key Product Features Enter basis market data Flexible derivation of the basis market data based on document attributes by using the CPE condition technique Basis in the commodity position reporting back to overview

Commodity Management: Detailed Overview EhP8 Innovations (2/2)
Innovation: Commodity Management – Delivery Allocation to Pricing Lots Price fixations in the order Scope: Allocate or re-allocate delivery quantity to one or multiple pricing lots (purchase inbound and sales outbound delivery) Automatic allocation of delivery quantity to pricing lot using FIFO rule Verify Billing / invoice taking into account delivery allocation for price calculation Risk position management taking allocations into account Key Benefits: Automatic FIFO based allocation & easy to use manual allocation for improved end user productivity Fully supported and streamlined system based provisional and differential billing and invoice verification, allowing to process invoices automatically in background or manually in a more timely manner and in better quality Allocation Invoices back to overview

R&D Engineering: Detailed Overview EhP8 Innovations (1/5)
Innovation: KPI dashboards for engineering records Innovation: KPI dashboards for engineering records Scope: Generate a core data services (CDS) view that creates KPIs for engineering records. This CDS view can then, for example, be consumed in SAP Lumira View and analyze a predefined example set of key performance indicators (KPIs) for engineering record header data and change item data in reports available in the SAP Lumira Cloud Key Benefits: Improve visibility and tracking of engineering changes Review the contents of various changes by material, documents Simplify management of overall change process Scope: Optimize performance with engineering record database Key Benefit: Significantly accelerate processing of engineering record data back to overview

Innovations: Functional and usability enhancements for process routes Scope: Display user details for process routes Enhancement of Process Route Log Forwarding of Process Route Tasks in Engineering Records Key Benefits: Gain greater transparency on exactly which user processed a task in a process route Improve usability and transparency of the process route log in the PLM Web UI Add status information, including icons to see the processing status of a task Improve terminology. Provides a Detailed Log, showing the information about all of the actions executed Forward the process route task as a processor or change coordinator Scope: View and analyze changes. Define customer-specific handling of tasks View the rework reasons when a task is rejected Send s manually for tasks at any time Activate system to automatically send s Key Benefits: Improved functionality in engineering records Introduction of change documents Enhanced task rejection s for process routes back to overview

Innovation: Functional and usability enhancements for global process route templates Scope: Utilize all product lifecycle management Web UI objects in global process route templates (GBRT) Support for engineering record types in GPRT Key Benefits: Define global process route templates (GBRT) for all product lifecycle management Web UI objects, e.g. Material, Document, BOM etc. Specify engineering record type in a GPRT so that only engineering records with that record type can use the GPRT back to overview

Innovations: Display of User Details for Process Routes; s for Process Routes in Engineering Records; Introduction of Change Documents for Engineering Records; Forwarding of Process Route Tasks in Engineering Records Scope: Enables greater transparency on exactly which user processed a task in a process route, by providing links to the processors in the Process Tasks column Send s manually for tasks at any time in the engineering record View and analyze changes; insertions, deletions, or updates made to an engineering record Forward process route tasks in engineering records to other system users. as a processor or change coordinator Key Benefits: Gain greater transparency on exactly which user processed a task in a process route Improve usability and transparency of the process route log in the PLM Web UI with the following changes: Addition of status information, including icons Improvements in the terminology back to overview

Innovations: PLM Enhancements for Header Data Creation; Dependency Maintenance Table; Change Number Handling; Maintenance of Objects with History Requirement; Mass Replacement of Change Number; Copy of Product Assembly Header with Change Number Scope: Control automatically created header data for product structures View and maintain the object dependencies of a whole product structure in a data grid Replace the same change number associated with multiple objects with a new change number Assign active change number to variants, relationships, and geometric instances automatically Maintain the data of the objects historically Innovations: BOM to BOM Synchronization Enhancements; PSM to BOM Synchronization Enhancements Scope: Edit object dependency on the reconciliation workbench Re-create deleted target BOM items from source structure Synchronize into an already existing target BOM Material BOM change restriction for GSS-created BOMs Key Benefits: Highly customizable reconciliation workbench UI New conflict type for creating a new change state for an existing source item Overview of the mapping relations between source and target items with a quantity comparison Restructuring target items during synchronization back to overview

Procurement: Detailed Overview EhP8 Innovations
Innovation: Incoterms Versions Scope: Employ Incoterms 2010 version in the procurement process The following document types have been enhanced: Purchase Order Purchase Contract Purchasing Info Record Request for Quotation Scheduling Agreement Key Benefit: Handling of documents improved

Plant Maintenance (PM): Detailed Overview EhP8 Innovations
Innovation: Enhancements for Materials in the Order (Web UI) Innovation: Order Types for Confirming Unplanned (Web UI) Scope: Maintain orders on the SAP Web UI for Plant Maintenance Enable materials to be copied as well as displayed Change the requirements date of individual materials Key Benefit: Easier to assign materials with the similar data Easier to schedule the required data quantity Scope: Enable the use of SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Search in the input help for selected fields Search using keywords and categories Refine search by using filters Navigate directly to the objects listed in the result list. Key Benefit: Safe and comprehensive Real-time access to company data and information Innovation: Enterprise Search in the Input Help (Web UI) Innovation: Information Center with Technical Object List (POWL) Instandhaltung: Erweiterungen für Materialien im Auftrag, Suche mit der Enterprise Search in der Eingabehilfe, Informationscenter mit Liste technischer Objekte (POWL) Scope: Enable the use of SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Search in the input help for selected fields Search using keywords and categories Refine search by using filters Navigate directly to the objects listed in the result list. Key Benefit: Safe and comprehensive Real-time access to company data and information Scope: New and individually configurable worklist for processing technical objects provided Display the most essential information in a table and process pieces of equipment and functional locations individually, change their status, as well as carry out mass data changes Key Benefit: Individually configurable worklist for technical objects back to overview

Human Capital Management (HCM): Detailed Overview EhP8 Innovations (1/3)
Innovations: Support organizational growth and employee engagement with a single, centralized system for global and local workforce management and payroll processes; HR Renewal Scope: HR Core Processes Employee Master data Organizational Management Payroll Time Management User Experience Employee Self Service Manager Self Service HR Professional Mobile Strategy Employee Fiori Apps Manager Fiori Apps Cross Fiori Apps for Managers and Employees Key Benefits: Real time process insight Faster correction activities New payroll user experience Further country content Continuous enhancements and development throughout customer connection Permanent access and new design paradigm EhP8 delivers an increasing number of Fioris back to overview

Human Capital Management (HCM): Detailed Overview EhP8 Innovations (2/3)
Organizational Management Scope: Personnel and Organization Payroll Employee Self Service Manager Self Service Time Management back to overview

Human Capital Management (HCM): Detailed Overview EhP8 Innovations (3/3) Interfaces: Examples
Post creation Profile Page and info-types Scope: All info-types and links at a Save draft function Easy activation of workflows and „four-eye-principle“ Scope: Info-types for today‘s date Call-up History, Edits, Creation, etc. directly back to overview

SAP Geographical Enablement Framework 1
SAP Geographical Enablement Framework 1.0 Foundation (SAP Business Suite and SAP S/4HANA) Scope: Any companies and industries that work with spatially enabled business data and processes Seamless and bi-directional visualization of GIS and SAP spatial data Real-time access to SAP business data from enterprise GIS apps Possibility to spatially enable any SAP business process and trigger actions from the map Create and manage SAP spatial data Use on any device via browser Search for and display EAM objects, which have assigned geospatial data on without knowing their IDs or names Assign geospatial data to equipment, functional locations, maintenance notifications, and maintenance orders Key Benefits: Boost productivity Reduce cost Simplified data access and analysis Profile Any companies and industries that work with spatially enabled business data and processes Version SAP Geographical Enablement Framework 1.0 Available releases SAP ECC EhP6,7,8 Planned releases: S/4HANA 1610 (Q4/2016*) Predefined business content Business Partner master data as example Spatial database SAP HANA Spatial required Deployment options SAP Business Suite on HANA, S/4HANA, SAP Business Suite on anyDB with HANA as side car GIS platform support Esri ArcGIS as default option; other GIS platforms possible based on project and/or further development User experience Fiori design principles / SAP UI5 This presentation and SAP‘s strategy and possible future developments are subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time for any reason without notice. This document is provided without a warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement back to overview

EhP8: Industry Innovations

Retail: Detailed Overview EhP8 Innovations (1/6)
Harmonized Processes for Wholesale and Retail, (FASHION_07) Support for enhanced manufacturing processes and integration with other business suite solutions with the SAP Fashion Management application Fast Entry Option in ATP Simulation Overview Transaction Allocation of PIR in Preview Mode Enhancements in Production Control Workbench Bill of Material (BOM) Maintenance at Generic Article Enhancements in Planning Enhancements in Purchase Order Workbench Partial Quantity Rejection Characteristic Value Conversion in WDLW and WPCTRR transactions Scope: Distribution curves Insight-to-action workbench for order allocation Production control workbench – for combined orders Markers and bundles Rejection concept Vendor consignment and cross docking Cut-off date and "delivery complete" indicator Multi store orders Feasibility analysis Article Personalization Fashion MRP List Planned Independent Requirements (PIR) Key Benefits: Incorporation of fashion manufacturing functionalities into this release Harmonization of some end-to-end wholesale functionalities into SAP Fashion Management, including multi store orders and vendor consignments Overall bird’s eye view of pricing conditions enables quick and informed business decisions Special stock like sales order stock or consignment stock can be displayed with segmentation and season details. All variants of a generic article can be displayed with detailed information. * SAP Fashion Management is running on HANA DB only, we will provide the related note asap. back to overview

Innovations for Retail merchandise management – order grouping and integration with forecasting and replenishment Scope: Improve the retail order process in SAP software including the SAP Forecasting and Replenishment for Retail application and software developed with partner GK Software Provide order-proposal grouping functionalities based on configurable parameters Execute the process chain, from order-proposal generation, through grouping, work load calculation, and file transfer, to mobile devices in the store – triggered per store Key Benefits: Send a collected purchase order to vendors at a specified time Execute process steps per store (enabling parallelization) Provide a generic, inbound interface for order-proposal grouping in SAP Business Suite software Erweiterungen für das back to overview

Innovation: Production Control Workbench Scope: The production control workbench is a comprehensive planned and production order management tool, which enables you to process master orders created using the production control workbench as well as orders created in MRP. Master orders include both master planned order and master production order. The production control workbench offers a central place to create and maintain combined orders. Key Benefits: Display the target quantity of the master planned and production orders Assign subcontracting information to the orders within a master planned order during mass processing Assign markers to combined orders, or to the master planned and production orders Assign subcontracting information to orders within a master production using the Operation Overview tab during mass processing Display component allocation status for combined and master production orders Erweiterungen für das back to overview

Enhancements in Combined Orders Scope: If you have products that you manufacture together in a similar way, you can combine master planned or production orders to facilitate common processing. Combining is especially useful if some operations are performed together, or the articles use the same batch of a critical component. You can combine master orders of the same generic article or different ones. Key Benefits: Select master orders more flexibly View additional fields such as order type, vendor, routing, purchasing organization, season, and fashion fields Check availability of common components Convert planned orders to production orders Release of all production orders inside the master production orders Mass data change of planned or production order Erweiterungen für das back to overview

Innovations: Store and Digital Commerce EAN Recycling: At times EAN numbers are generated but not saved for any article, those EANs are recycled Once an article is archived, then its EANs are recycled Once EAN are deleted from an article, they EANs are recycled EAN Recycling can be maintained at each EAN category level Scope: Use outbound interfaces to integrate with third party software to enable changes to PO proposals on a mobile device and respond to exceptional situations detected during the planning process Provide order-proposal grouping functions based on configurable parameters Execute the process chain from order-proposal and -exceptions generation through document grouping to transfer to mobile devices in the store Innovations: EAN Recycling Scope: Recycle EANs or UPC that are no longer being used Key Benefit: Reduce cost of EAN or UPC registration Innovations: Retail Site Master Improvements Scope: One-step process for distribution of site master data Maintain additional addresses and geo-data for sites Key Benefit: Fast and easy mass maintenance and assignment of sites to merchandise categories back to overview

Omnichannel Promotion Pricing (OPP)
Retail: Detailed Overview EhP8 Innovations (6/6) Innovations: Timeline Scheduling Reactive PO Monitor Scope: In this process, the system automatically checks in the background every day for deviations from the planned and monitored dates of the purchase orders, which are then transferred into the Reactive PO Monitor in case of determined anticipated delays Key Benefits: Create worklist entries of the reactive PO monitor where datelines have expired without any action taken Create worklist entries in reactive PO monitor where datelines are in the future Reorganize worklist entries by deleting the entries for which you have set the Deletion checkbox or Delivery Completion Indicator checkbox Omnichannel Promotion Pricing (OPP) Innovations: Business Function Retail, Omnichannel Promotion Pricing Scope: Calculate effective sales prices in all sales Enable consistent price and promotion information at all touch points, including POS, digital commerce, and SD sales order Enable SD sales order pricing support for typical discounts in retail, including bonus-buy and time-dependent offers Key Benefits: Obtain faster time to market for new, creative promotional rules designed by marketers across channels Save costs through low implementation and test efforts when introducing new offer types and bonus-buy rules Increase customer satisfaction and customer loyalty with consistent price and promotion information at all touch points, including SD sales order Increase revenue through increased customer satisfaction and improved customer loyalty back to overview

Public Sector Collection and Disbursement (PSCD): Detailed Overview EhP8 Innovations (1/2)
Innovations for Tax and Revenue Management and Collaborative Liability, Connecting Several CC Systems to a FI-CA System Scope: Generate Web Dynpro forms, including any tables defined in customizing Access improved overview of taxpayer Configure status profile at the Form Bundle Type level Access support for a single view/phase form configuration through the display of previous values, the use of tool tips, and the addition of comments at the form-field level Distribute processing in SAP Convergent Charging to multiple systems (CC systems) and connect these in parallel to the system in which SAP Convergent Invoicing is running (FI-CA system) Key Benefits: New enhancements to several key transactions and processes in tax and revenue management Enhancements to the Taxpayer Overview transaction for a improved overview of taxpayer New fields at the header level and Relationship tab, a new tabs for Account Line Items and Payment Items Ability to configure Status Profile at the Form Bundle Type level Support for a single view or phase configuration for form options Erweiterungen für das back to overview

Public Sector Collection and Disbursement (PSCD): Detailed Overview EhP8 Innovations (2/2)
Innovation: Debt Management Scope: Rule-based grouping of debt Rule-based derivation of collection strategy Asset and Income based collection Modelling of any Enforcement Action Key Benefits: Lower TCO as configuration of Debt Set groups is rule-based and no longer requires event programming Lower TCO because rule-based derivation of collection strategy no longer requires programming Ability make better decision for enforcement actions or voluntary payment arrangements (Asset and Income based collection) Increase customer service and workforce productivity through integration into standard CRM application e.g. through activity and action management Erweiterungen für das Enhancements for Customer Connect PSCD 2016 – Part 1 Scope: Add customer-specific duplicate search algorithms to the features of the contract partner duplicate check Generic Object Service (GOS) for Contract Object Key Benefits: Refine the duplicate result determined by the SAP standard algorithm Simplified navigation New lock reasons for business transactions Data preparation back to overview

Media: Detailed Overview EhP8 Innovations
Innovation: Billing in Contract Accounts - Provider Contract (MED-INV_PP_1) Scope: Employ the provider contract in SAP Convergent Invoicing in the SAP for Media area. Key Benefit: Improvement of existing and new features of SAP Convergent Invoicing in IS-M context Innovation: Master Data Objects Provider Contract Scope: Utilize the new master data objects Media, Provider Contract in an integrated scenario with SAP Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM), Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable in SAP ERP and SAP Convergent Charging (SAP CC) Create invoices and credit memos, post the corresponding receivables or payables, and manage until paid Innovation: Integration with Revenue Accounting Scope: Integrate SAP Convergent Invoicing with Revenue Accounting Key Benefit: Improved Integration back to overview

Environment, Health and Safety: Detailed Overview EhP8 Innovations (1/2)
Innovation: New and Changed Properties and Characteristics in the Specification Workbench Scope: Additional and updated properties and characteristics included in the EH&S property tree Key Benefit: Enable enterprises to remain legally compliant within product safety – through new and changed properties Innovation: PS: Define Conditions for Safety Statements Scope: Empower product safety experts to define conditions for safety statements to automatically generate information for safety data sheets in the specification workbench Key Benefit: Product safety experts can now define company-specific conditions back to overview

Environment, Health and Safety: Detailed Overview EhP8 Innovations (2/2)
Innovation: DS: Classify Dangerous Goods as Marine Pollutant or Environmentally Hazardous; PS: Deletion of Personal Data in Product Safety Scope: Empower dangerous goods experts to define values for marine pollutants as environmentally relevant in a customizing table, relevant for the classification of dangerous goods Simplify the blocking and deletion of personal data by using SAP Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) are available. In Product Safety in EHS, these functions are supported for report management, for report shipping orders, in substance volume tracking, and in Global Label Management. Key Benefit: Enable dangerous goods experts to react appropriately to future changes in dangerous goods regulations – through the replacement of the "fixed value" list with a customizing table back to overview

Oil and Gas: Detailed Overview EhP8 Innovations (1/3)
Innovation*: Hydrocarbon supply chain optimization on the SAP HANA platform (HANA Optimization and Fiori like apps for IS-Oil) Scope: Optimized hydrocarbon supply chain scheduling solution optimized Real-time stock projection for multiple locations and products with a state-of-the-art user experience Enhanced simulation functionalities for supply chain schedulers Nomination planning workbench with "mass update" and "mass create" functionalities Advanced reporting functionalities for supply chain schedulers Key Benefits: Faster decision making through real-time visibility into stock positions and improved simulation functionalities Improved scheduling efficiency through reduced or eliminated need for double maintenance of data in separate worksheets More effective reporting through immediate access to up-to-date schedule information without the need for manual copying and pasting of data into separate spreadsheets Optimized inventory levels through better visibility *Please note: some Oil and Gas scenarios are currently delivered for HANA only Additional Information back to overview

Innovation: Inventory Cockpit Scope: Nomination number popup when an existing nomination number is entered Splitting nomination items Filter on nomination type level User Settings – Searching for a field for a column group Location, material, and transport system indicator in the navigation panel Adding columns to all sheets using the context menu option Manual refresh of inventory details in addition to the auto-refresh feature Maintain inventory target KPIs similar to Stock Projection Worksheet Create nominations with reference to an existing nomination and with an offset Editing end date physical inventory for the dates in the past Internal sharing of inventory details View summarized details for a planning location Key Benefit: Inventory Cockpit helps you to manage bulk shipments back to overview

Innovation: Upstream Operations Management 4 (Forecasting) Scope: Set up and maintain new projects Assign and maintain roles to perform necessary actions Create and maintain various constraints (Potential, capacity, risk, opportunity, events) Preprocess scenarios and calculate productions forecast View production forecast results at scenario, network or network object levels Approve and publish forecasts Create custom hierarchy as part of the solution Upload production data from a local machine or serve onto the UOM application Key Benefits: Enables forecasting Improves production performance Innovation: Enhanced Simulation Capability in Inventory Planning Workbench Scope: Simulation of nomination Deletion of a nomination or nomination line item Key Benefit: Create simulations across location that can be published a lines of a single nomination back to overview

Utilities: Detailed Overview EhP8 Innovations (1/3)
Innovation: Enhancements to meter data management for SAP Utilities solutions Scope: Enhancement concept for Device Management (device and device category) Simplified Master Data Synchronization in SAP AMI Integration for Utilities Optimize performance of SAP Energy Data Management (SAP-EDM) formula calculation New mass activity for high volume execution of SAP-EDM formula calculation Quantity calculation based on SAP-EDM meter-reading profiles "Master data template" category for fast and simple creation and assignment of SAP-EDM profiles and SAP-EDM formula instances Flexibility of profile version handling: copy of profile values from an old profile version to the actual version Key Benefit: Add custom fields in the device management objects resulting in higher flexibility to store individual information Reduce implementation and operation costs significantly with Simplified Master Data Synchronization Simplify the overall architecture significantly by storing both profile data and meter readings in one single source (SAP-EDM) Employ the capability to convert high volumes of meter readings into consumption data via the scalable calculation workbench in SAP-EDM Operate and process smart metered data. Simplify manual work tremendously by creating and maintaining SAP-EDM master data via master data template back to overview

Innovation: Enhanced Functionality for Multiple Item Weighing Innovation: Reversal History of Deleted Meter Reading Documents Scope: Extended yard list with automatic limitation on the waste disposal facilities for which the weighing operator is responsible Ability to search for and by waste disposal facility Ability to weigh service materials with a weighing fee or fixed price Complete copy of cancelled weighing transactions to include the alibi number of the weighing device Key Benefits: Individualized view of weighing transactions at the weigh bridge using the yard list Increased flexibility in weighing and billing based on service materials Greater transparency for weighing transactions that have been completely copied after cancellation, including copying of the alibi number Scope: Keep the reversed meter reading documents for historical reference Key Benefit: Access the history of meter reading documents after reversals Innovation: Display Profile Value Data From Rate Data Scope: New pushbutton Display Profile Values has been added which opens the transaction and transfers the data for the respective installation or device Key Benefit: Navigate directly from the rate data to the profile data display Innovation: Enhanced Operation Log for Waste and Recycling Innovation: New Parallelization Object for ETRANSF Scope: Ability to select multiple waste disposal facilities Enhanced result list that distinguishes between internal and external facilities Key Benefit: Increased usability through optimized selection capabilities Scope: Enables the distribution of larger service provider pairs into smaller intervals during mass processing The system uses a combination of a random number and a Hash algorithm for the distribution into these intervals Key Benefit: Enable a better load distribution during mass processing back to overview

Innovation: Waste and Recycling – material splitting of inbound deliveries at multiple item weighing Scope: Material splitting on external deliveries (weighing on sales and distribution contracts) Material splitting on internal deliveries (weighing on waste disposal orders or waste disposal order items) Key Benefits: Splitting in order to divide the delivered mixed material and quantity into its individual materials and quantities that are relevant to storage and invoicing Calculation of the actual weight through deduction of nonstock materials, materials not relevant to invoicing, and quantities from the delivered main material Entry of the weight of the split materials by absolute or percentage values Weight to be fetched directly from the weighbridge – if weighbridge hardware is connected to the application back to overview

Insurance: Detailed Overview EhP8 Innovations (1/2)
Innovation: SAP Claims Management Innovations: SAP Fiori App Workload Management – Team Calendar Scope: Display an overview of the availability of individual team members Change the availability of team members or add new attendances and absences Scope: Role-Based Performer in Claim Bundle Claim Status Change in Claim Bundle Enterprise Service Update Claim and Multiple Contract Claim Bundles Enterprise Service: Retrieve and find Multiple Contract Claim Bundles Create new claim by copying an existing claim Sort payees in payments at sub claim level by customer requirements Immediate reporting of cash receipts Display changed address data in change overview Subrogation/Recovery at Claim Header Level Adjustment of direct Input Processing Using BAdl System can automatically crate document proposals during claim bundle processing Office Integration: Deactivate “Save As” Innovation: Tax Determination for Payment Items Scope: Manually overwrite the tax amounts calculated by system Map tax codes with multiple tax lines in the application Map non-deductible input tax in application back to overview

Insurance: Detailed Overview EhP8 Innovations (2/2)
Innovation: SAP Fiori App - Approve Claim Payments Scope: Display all payments made by team members, which have to be approved by a supervisor, including display of all relevant details the supervisor has to check before making a decision: Payment details Claim details Notes Attachments Records supervisor's reasons for approval or rejection Key Benefits: Quick and efficient way to approve claim payments Increased usability for this important process Eliminate delays in paying policyholders and claimants Innovation: Enhancements with foreign currency management Scope: Transfer amounts in local currency when creating payment plan items Enter and/or edit claim reserves in a currency different from product currency Display the payment amount in the product currency or risk currency together with the corresponding exchange rate Key Benefits: Group several objects in a work set in one block to process together Display an application log for an executed work set back to overview

Project System (PS): Detailed Overview EhP8 Innovations
Innovation: Enhancements for Materials in the Order (Web UI) Scope: View activity confirmations for the person responsible Enable assignment of DMS to the network header Link person responsible and applicant to HR data Enhance the network activity overview with sort and filter function Change Export-Excel Functionality to include long texts Mass creation of projects and WBS Elements Check status of assigned orders before project closure Replicate PPM project data to PS project data View settlement rules for a project View status changes of PS objects Mass status changes for PS objects Key Benefit: Continuous improvements to the usability and functionality of project systems from SAP, based on selected improvement requests from cycle two of Customer Connection, for project systems back to overview

Material Segmentation Across Logistics 4: Detailed Overview EhP8 Innovations
Innovation: Material Segmentation in Vendor Consignment Process; Material Segmentation in Planning Strategies Scope: Material Segmentation in Planning Strategies that represent the business procedures for the planning of production quantities and production dates Material Segmentation in Vendor Consignment allows order goods from external vendors as vendor consignments Key Benefit: Logically segment materials based on certain attributes back to overview

Logistics Detailed Overview EhP8 Innovations
Innovations: Deletion of Personal Data in: Logistics General Batch Management Sales and Distribution (SD) – Pendulum List indirect Sales and Empties Management Handling Unit Management (LO-HU) Product Lifecycle Management (PLM-WUO-OBJ-ECR) Plant Maintenance Work Clearance Management (PM-WCM) Quality Management: Quality Notifications (QM-QN) SAP Retail SAP Discrete Industries and Mill Products: SAP High Tech (IS-HT) SAP Automotive (IS-A) Environment, Health, and Safety: Deletion of Personal Data in Product Safety Logistics Execution – Direct Store Delivery Global Trade (LO-GT) Materials Management – Excise Duty Yard Management (LE-YM) Production Planning and Control (PP) Agency Business Plant Maintenance (PM) (LO-AB) SAP Aerospace and Defense (IS-AD) SAP Mill Products (IS-MP) SAP Banking: Deletion and Blocking of Business Partner in SEM Banking Cross Application Component: Deletion of Personal Data in Audit Management (CA-AUD) Instandhaltung: Erweiterungen für Materialien im Auftrag, Suche mit der Enterprise Search in der Eingabehilfe, Informationscenter mit Liste technischer Objekte (POWL) Scope: These functions enable you to use the SAP Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) component to support the deletion of personal data and to control the deletion and blocking of business partner master data. Personal data collected in business partner master data can be blocked as soon as business activities for which this data is needed are completed and the residence time for this data has elapsed; after this time, only users who are assigned additional authorizations can access this data. Key Benefit: Simplify the processes for blocking and deleting personal data through the use of SAP Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) back to overview

EhP8: Cross Applications Overview

Former Software Component Merged to Software Component
Cross Application: Detailed Overview EhP8 Innovations Cross-Application Components: Merge of Components To simplify the components structure, several component Versions have been merged: Former Software Component Merged to Software Component EA-APPL SAP-APPL EA-APPL-GLO SAP-FIN/SAP_APPL/EA-PS EA-FI / EA-FIN SAP_FIN EA-GL TRADE-GLO EA-GLTRADE EA-PS-GLO EA-PS EAFASH SA-RETAIL C-CEE SAP_APPL/SAP_FIN

Technical Prerequisites: Technical Update / Upgrade to SAP ERP 6
Technical Prerequisites: Technical Update / Upgrade to SAP ERP 6.0 EhP 8 Software Update Manager (SUM) is the tool for the path to SAP ERP 6.0 EhP 8 The actual available SUM version is listed on the landing page for the SL Toolset: in the are Software Maintenance The possible paths are shown on the following slide Unicode system is required as source system (This applies to any target system based on SAP NetWeaver 7.50) Path is a load-based procedure, customer objects are blended into new system repository Custom code check in advance for correct object catalogue important, see SAP Note : „Differences in SUM for the rescue of Non-SAP objects between load and delta procedure

Technical Prerequisites: SUM paths to reach SAP ERP 6.0 EhP 8
SAP ERP 6.0 SAP ERP 6.0 EHP 1 SAP ERP 6.0 EHP 2 SAP Business Suite (BS) 7 SAP BS 7 Innovations 2010 SAP BS 7 Innovations 2011 SAP BS 7 Innovations 2013 SAP BS 7 Innovations 2016 R/3 4.6C & 4.7 SAP ERP 5.0 (*) EHP 8 EHP 7 (*) Target EhP8: only for Unicode source system EHP 6 EHP 5 EHP 4 No direct path to EHP8 EHP 3 SAP BASIS 6.20…6.40 7.0 7.01 7.02 7.31 7.4 7.5 Bottom line versions are only relevant for ABAP stack SAP NetWeaver 04 7.0 7.0 EHP1 7.0 EHP2 7.0 EHP3 7.4 7.5

ERP 6.0 Enhancement Package 8
Technical Prerequisites: Welcome to the world of Unicode! The path to SAP ERP 6.0 EhP 8 requires a Unicode source system Non-Unicode source systems will require a two-step approach SUM creates a shadow system to reduce downtime processing Shadow system is based on target release kernel Shadow system has to be non-UC for non-UC source systems not possible for target systems based on SAP NetWeaver 7.5 SAP ERP 6.0 Enhancement Package 8 Based on SAP NetWeaver 7.5: only Unicode (UC) No non-UC kernel AnyDB

Overview on information sources
Innovation Discovery SAP Innovation Discovery is a self-service tool that simplifies your search for new functionality SAP has delivered (as Enhancement Packages, Support Packages, Add-Ons, or Improvement Notes). SAP thereby bridges the gap between business needs on the one hand and technical information regarding innovations on the other. An innovation corresponds to one or several product features. If your user has the required authorizations for the systems you are interested in and if your company authorizes SAP to use Early Watch Alert (EWA) data, system-specific information is available in addition to the generic information available to all SAP customer

Help Portal EhP8 for SAP ERP 6.0 SP Stacks – Release & Information Note

Pricing Note Gives transparency on the license implications when you are implementing a SAP enhancement package.

SAP Solution Explorer Service Market Place

Customer Connection ERP EhP8 provides a consolidation of all Innovations delivered via Support Packages on top of ERP EhP7 as well as a huge number of improvements out of the Customer Connection program. These improvements you will find in the: SAP Fiori apps reference library Find key information for each app, including all the technical data you need for installation and configuration.

SAP Transformation Navigator
Amazing technology wonders like IoT, machine learning, and blockchain are bombarding industry leaders, but too many are left wondering how on earth their company can use them to triumph over the competition. Imagine if there was a self-service tool that instantly summarized in one report the specific products and services a company needed to take its business to the next level of disruptive innovation. Meet the SAP Transformation Navigator, designed to answer the number one question SAP customers have about which innovations they need to bring into their organization, in what order, during what timeframes, and the business value and outcomes they can expect. “SAP Transformation Navigator gives customers clear guidance to chart digital innovation path”

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