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What is new in Enhancement package 8?October 2017 CUSTOMER Agenda • Why Enhancement package 8? • What’s New? • What’s New: Detailed Overview • Technical Prerequisites • Find New Functionalities © 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ CUSTOMER 2 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 08 was released in October 2017. Agenda • Why Enhancement package 8? • What’s New? • What’s New: Detailed Overview • Technical Prerequisites • Find New Functionalities © 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ CUSTOMER 5 What’s new for LoBs? Finance R&D Engineering • Treasury and Risk Management • KPI dashboards for engineering records • SAP Banking • Functional and usability enhancements • Public Sector: Collection Strategy • Product Lifecycle Management • Financials • Financial Accounting Enhancements • Commodity Management Plant Maintenance Procurement Materials in the Order (Web UI) Incoterms Versions • Enterprise Search in the Input Help (Web UI) • • • Order Types for Confirming Unplanned (Web UI) • Information Center with Technical Object List (POWL) Human Capital Management Enterprise Asset Management • Employee Master data • Geographical Enablement Framework • Organizational Management • Payroll • Time Management © 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ CUSTOMER 7 What’s new for Industries? Retail Public Sector • Harmonized Processes for Wholesale • Tax and Revenue Management • Retail Merchandise Management • Collaborative Liability • Production Control Workbench • Debt Management • Combined Orders • Customer Connect • Store and digital Commerce • Student Lifecycle Managment • EAN Recycling • Retail Site Master Improvements Reactive PO Monitor Media • • Omni Channel Promotion Pricing • Billing in Contract Account • Master Data Objects Provider Contract Sustainability • Revenue Accounting • Specification Workbench • Product Safety • Dangerous Goods Utilities • Meter Data Management Multiple Item Weighing Oil & Gas • • Meter Reading • Hydrocarbon Supply Chain Optimization • Profile Value Data • Inventory Cockpit • Operation Log for Waste and Recycling • Forecasting Insurance Cross Industries Project System SAP Claims Management • Material Segmentation • Tax Determination for Payment Items • Logistics • SAP Fiori Apps • Cross Industries • Foreign Currency Management • • © 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ CUSTOMER 8 Agenda • Why Enhancement package 8? • What’s New? • What’s New: Detailed Overview • Technical Prerequisites • Find New Functionalities © 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ CUSTOMER 9 EhP8: LoB Innovations Finance Treasury and Risk Management: Detailed Overview EhP8 Innovations (1/7) Trade Finance Money Market Enhancements Scope: Key Benefits: Scope: • Standard trade finance instrument • Provide an end-to-end trade finance Product category 550 (interest-rate instrument) • End-to-end process management process under Treasury and Risk • Scaled interest condition • Integration with other features Mgmt. framework • Accrued interest condition • Manage all treasury related functions • Parallel interest condition group incl. cash flows and credit lines • Integrate with other SAP software Product category 580 (current account-style instrument) that includes functionality for • Scaled interest condition AP/AR, SD, MM and Accounting • Parallel interest condition group New transaction category 300 for investments and borrowing • Asset and liability position switch Trade Repository Reporting via External Provider Key Benefits: Flexibility regarding interest conditions and related cash-flow calculation: Scope: Key Benefit: • Scaled interest calculation • Send financial transaction data to • You can save your selections in • Accrued interest calculation an external provider. The external different variants according to your • Parallel interest condition group provider, VirtusaPolaris, will then needs, e.g. a variant for all active • Asset and liability position switch transform the data to the trade financial transactions with a End of repository. Term after the current date © 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ CUSTOMER back to overview 11 Finance Treasury and Risk Management: Detailed Overview EhP8 Innovations (2/7) Hedge Management: Hedge Management Cockpit (TOENE) Exposure Display Mode, Renaming Scope: Key Benefits: • Gain an overview of net exposures, • Selection and display of exposures resulting from the difference between and hedging instruments according net exposures and their corresponding to settings hedging instruments • Calculation of net exposures gives an • The function Determine Net Exposures overview of the unhedged portion of (transaction TOENE) is now called the exposures Hedge Management Cockpit (SP05) 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. © 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ CUSTOMER back to overview 12 Finance Treasury and Risk Management: Detailed Overview EhP8 Innovations (3/7) Innovations: Hedging Classification; TRM, Hedge Management, Determine Net Exposures; Transaction Management, Additional Fields Scope: Key Benefits: • Define hedging classification that you can • Hedging classification as general assign to your exposures and hedging selection criteria within the instruments definition of your hedging areas • Gain an overview of your net exposures, • Mitigate risks resulting from the difference between • Enables auditor to check which your foreign exchange exposures in data is served as the basis for a Exposure Management 2.0 and the hedging decision at all times 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 Innovation: Hedging Area Versioning Scope: Key Benefits: • Create different versions for a hedging • Each version of a hedging area has a area. different valid-from date • Determine data in correspondence to • Previous version data can be copied the version of the hedging area valid for and then edited during the creation the selected key date. of a new hedging area • Enter necessary settings in the hedging • Enable and control the automated area designation process of exposure © 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ CUSTOMER items in hedge accounting back to overview 13 Finance Treasury and Risk Management: Detailed Overview EhP8 Innovations (4/7) Treasury and risk management – hedge management and accounting for FX risks Innovation: HM, Hedge Accounting (FX Risk) with options Scope: Key Benefits: Scope: Key Benefits: • Hedge management cockpit • Support for customer compliance • Identification and snapshots of • Full and comprehensive process • Versioning for hedging area with IFFRS 9 Phase IIII – hedge exposures support for managing foreign • Target quota definition for hedging accounting • Hedge management and decision currency risks area • First step into the automation of the support • Management of foreign currency • Hedge accounting definition for hedge accounting process • Capture of financial transactions risks arising from different hedging area • Automated designation into hedging exposures, such as forecasted • Snapshot mechanism for exposure relationships transactions or firm commitments data • IFRS 9 Phase III accounting support for • Period-end close activities for hedge FX forwards and the option types "plain accounting for FX forward contracts vanilla" and "zero-cost collar" • Reporting transactions supporting • Credit-value adjustment (CVA) add-on hedge accounting for FX forward method contracts UTPM12, TPM13, TPM20) • Full fair-value calculation using swap • Automated designation and rates dedesignation processes for FX forward and FX option transactions Innovation: Accounting: Creation of Financial Statements for • Enhancements to the reclassification Rental and Leasing Contracts process, distinguishing how the Scope: Key Benefits: hedging reserve and cost of hedging • Valuate rental and leasing • Define parameters for the valuation reserve amounts are reclassified contracts according to different according to different accounting • Swap hedging relationships to an accounting principles in particular, principles earlier or later exposure item period according to the leasing standards • Calculate and post the value of right- by trading fX swap transactions IFRS16 and US GAAP (as at 2016). of-use assets and leasing liabilities based on defined conditions • Utilize runtime to post non-activate- able costs linearized and to expense © 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ CUSTOMER back to overview 14 Finance Treasury and Risk Management: Detailed Overview EhP8 Innovations (5/7) Innovation: Financial Instrument: Bank Guarantee Innovation: Financial Instrument: Bank Guarantee Scope: Key Benefits: Scope: Key Benefits: New financial instrument Bank Guarantee • Product category in trade finance is • Standard trade finance instrument • Provide an end-to-end trade finance within SAP Treasury and Risk enabled in position management and • End-to-end process management process under Treasury and Risk Management. accounting • Integration with other features Mgmt. framework • Bank Guarantee Lifecycle Management • Correspondence process is enabled • Manage all treasury related functions • Accounting for the product category in trade incl. cash flows and credit lines • Correspondence finance • Integrate with other SAP software • BAPIs • Within the product category Bank that includes functionality for • Integration with Credit Risk Analyzer Guarantee, you can activate the AP/AR, SD, MM and Accounting • Reports integration with Credit Risk Analyzer Innovation: Transaction Management, Additional Fields Scope: Key Benefit: Additional fields: • Enhanced administration and • Profit Center customizing • Cost Center • WBS Element • Business Area © 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ CUSTOMER back to overview 15 Finance Treasury and Risk Management: Detailed Overview EhP8 Innovations (6/7) Innovations for SAP Banking: Bank Customer Accounts; Collateral Management SAP Loans Management for Banking application Scope: Key Benefits: Scope: Key Benefits: Utilize the release procedure Reduce risk of error or misuse when • New enterprise services in the areas of • Service-oriented architecture to payoffs, write offs and charges lower integration cost, reduce • • (principle of dual control) for account data is created/ changed account master data Identify collective collateral complexity, and increase flexibility regarding process changes • Collateral Management: agreements automatically and Simplification of process • Calculations functions have been compute prior charges differently • enhanced from other collateral agreements. orchestration and support of Restrict prior charges when omnichannel architecture Standardized interfaces • distributing the highest lending limit • (HLL) of collateral objects to collective collateral agreements Innovation for Public Sector: Collection Strategy; Debt Set Management; Asset Bank Customer Accounts (IS-B-BCA) Income Register; Enhancements for Budgeting and Availability Control Scope: Key Benefits: Scope: Key Benefit: • Process the financial statement • Reduce time significantly in the • Derive collection strategy • Large amount of preparation for current accounts in runtime of the financial statement • Manage debt sets enhancements for the parallel preparation • Describe debtors financial situation Public Sector Management • Optimize time required for end-of- • Mass approval for: day processing • Pre-posted budget entry documents • Trace Logs • Waiting Queues for exclusive AVC locks • Display derived FM account assignments • Activate derivation traces for availability control © 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ CUSTOMER back to overview 17 Finance Treasury and Risk Management: Detailed Overview EhP8 Innovations (7/7) Innovation: Financials – Group Close – Check Scope: Key Benefit: • Calculate check digits for transaction data at the • Facilitate and level of detail of the organizational unit at three accelerate the check different posting levels (reported financial data, process for standardizing entries, consolidation entries) and consolidated financial persist them in the system. statements • Enable the product category in trade finance in position management and accounting • Enable correspondence process for the product category in trade finance. Innovation: Financial Accounting Enhancements Scope: Key Benefit: • Enhancements for Tax on Sales/Purchases and • Large amount of VAT; Collective Call of External Tax System enhancements for • Enhancements for Automatic Payment handling tax systems, Transactions for Customers and Suppliers; payment transactions • Enhancements to Online Payments and Payments etc. 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 © 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ CUSTOMER back to overview 18 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 Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable Release of Receivables Adjustments by Workflow Innovation: Convergent Invoicing Scope: Scope: Key Benefits: • Take prospective attributes of the recipient of service into account in the • Local currency conversion • Invoicing process that will work with utilization of the provider contracts for tax determination • Debit or credit memo request foreign currency amounts, which are • Schedule the invoicing of regular payments with billing plans • Events for the upload of billable included in "billable items," to calculate • Provides a reminder function for reference objects (for example account, items and consumption items the correct amount in local currency business partner, document) including a resubmission date and optional text. • Events for the billing plan • Flexible input option to create a debit or • Perform a return of payment on account to clarification for a credit and/or • External reference credit memo request select and process several credits simultaneously in credit clarification. • During the upload of billable items or • Keep receivables adjustments in a status that has to be confirmed and upon consumption items, availability of new creation of a receivables adjustment an approval workflow will be automatically events to execute customer-specifics started checks • Approval Workflow for Installment Plans • Availability of new events for the billing • Contract in Installment Plan Histories plans to execute a customer-specific • Central Dunning Lock of Business Partner calculation of the billing plan amount • SEPA: Display of Active Mandate in Bank Details • External references, such as reference • Clarification Accounts with Clarification Processing ID links between documents and • Enhancements with Requests processes • Reversal in Requested Special Period • Approval Workflow for Receivables Adjustments • Ol List • Create Debit/Credit Memo © 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ CUSTOMER 19 Finance: Detailed Overview EhP8 Innovations (2/2) Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable Innovation: Convergent Invoicing, CI Local Currency Conversion, CI Event for Innovation: Convergent Invoicing, CI Debit/Credit Request BIT and CIT Upload, CI Event for Billing Plans, CI External Reference Scope: Key Benefits: Scope: • Revert a released billing request • Flexible input options when triggering • Transfer billable items containing amounts in a foreign currency that have an and its billable items creation of a credit memo or debit external exchange rate that is different to the exchange rate stored in the system • Delete released or reversed bill memo by creating a billing request for • Enhance the upload of billable items or consumption items from an external file requests an invoicing document • Change the content of customer-specific fields in the billing plan header, • Choose how main attributes of the • View total amount of all released or implement checks for these fields, and trigger these checks at specific events billable items to be created are non-released billing requests for each • Specify a reference for processes in Convergent Invoicing determined invoicing document item or billable item to be corrected Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable Innovation: Manage Cash Desk as Cash Register Enhancements for the Parallel Billing of Payment Cards Scope: Scope: • Connect the cash desk to a cash register solution in Contract Accounts • The following enhancements for the parallel billing of payment card data Receivable and Payable (FI-CA). (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 © 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ CUSTOMER 20 Commodity Management: Detailed Overview EhP8 Innovations (1/2) Innovation: Commodity Pricing – Basis/Differentials/Premiums Scope: Key Benefit: • Flexible concept for defining and • Easily define and maintain a huge set using various types of price of differential types and locations as differentials well as internal/market differential • Differential price capture for spot price and forward rates for freely • Automatic determination of market definable periods norm differential based on deal • Differential pricing fully integrated locations, commodity, quality, in commodity pricing engine (CPE) incoterms allowing to link main commodity • Mark-to-market calculation including price (typically future based differential within deal and for whole commodity market price) with book, allowing easy trade entry differential price. Price setting for control and market valuation future and differential at the same time or independently • Position reporting for price differentials, e.g. allowing to Key Product Features analyze natural hedges on differentials  Enter basis market data • Mark-to-market analytics including differential price component, with  Flexible derivation of the drill down to differential per basis market data based document on document attributes by using the CPE condition technique  Basis in the commodity position reporting © 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ CUSTOMER 21 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: Key Benefits: • Allocate or re-allocate delivery • Automatic FIFO based allocation & quantity to one or multiple pricing easy to use manual allocation for lots (purchase inbound and sales improved end user productivity outbound delivery) • Fully supported and streamlined • Automatic allocation of delivery system based provisional and quantity to pricing lot using FIFO differential billing and invoice rule verification, allowing to process Allocation • Verify Billing / invoice taking into invoices automatically in background account delivery allocation for price or manually in a more timely manner calculation and in better quality • Risk position management taking allocations into account Invoices © 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ CUSTOMER 22 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: Key Benefits: Scope: Key Benefit: • Generate a core data services (CDS) • Improve visibility and tracking • Optimize performance with engineering • Significantly accelerate processing of view that creates KPIs for engineering of engineering changes record database engineering record data records. This CDS view can then, for • Review the contents of various example, be consumed in SAP Lumira changes by material, documents • View and analyze a predefined example • Simplify management of overall set of key performance indicators change process (KPIs) for engineering record header data and change item data in reports available in the SAP Lumira Cloud © 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ CUSTOMER back to overview 23 R&D Engineering: Detailed Overview EhP8 Innovations (2/5) Innovations: Functional and usability enhancements for process routes Scope: Key Benefits: • Display user details for • Gain greater transparency on exactly which user process routes processed a task in a process route • Enhancement of Process • Improve usability and transparency of the Route Log process route log in the PLM Web UI • Forwarding of Process • Add status information, including icons to Route Tasks in Engineering see the processing status of a task Records • 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: Key Benefits: • View and analyze changes. • Improved functionality in • Define customer-specific handling of tasks engineering records • View the rework reasons when a task is rejected • Introduction of change • Send e-mails manually for tasks at any time documents • Activate system to automatically send e-mails • Enhanced task rejection • E-mails for process routes © 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ CUSTOMER back to overview 24 R&D Engineering: Detailed Overview EhP8 Innovations (3/5) Innovation: Functional and usability enhancements for global process route templates Scope: Key Benefits: • Utilize all product lifecycle management • Define global process route templates Web UI objects in global process route (GBRT) for all product lifecycle management templates (GBRT) Web UI objects, e.g. Material, Document, • Support for engineering record types in BOM etc. GPRT • Specify engineering record type in a GPRT so that only engineering records with that record type can use the GPRT © 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ CUSTOMER back to overview 25 R&D Engineering: Detailed Overview EhP8 Innovations (4/5) Innovations: Display of User Details for Process Routes; Emails for Process Routes in Engineering Records; Introduction of Change Documents for Engineering Records; Forwarding of Process Route Tasks in Engineering Records Scope: Key Benefits: • Enables greater transparency on exactly which user processed a task in a process • Gain greater transparency on exactly which user processed a task route, by providing links to the processors in the Process Tasks column in a process route • Send e-mails manually for tasks at any time in the engineering record • Improve usability and transparency of the process route log in the • View and analyze changes; insertions, deletions, or updates made to an engineering PLM Web UI with the following changes: record • Addition of status information, including icons • Forward process route tasks in engineering records to other system users. as a • Improvements in the terminology processor or change coordinator © 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ CUSTOMER back to overview 26 R&D Engineering: Detailed Overview EhP8 Innovations (5/5) 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: Key Benefits: • Edit object dependency on the • Highly customizable reconciliation reconciliation workbench workbench UI • Re-create deleted target BOM • New conflict type for creating a new items from source structure change state for an existing source • Synchronize into an already item existing target BOM • Overview of the mapping relations • Material BOM change restriction for between source and target items with GSS-created BOMs a quantity comparison • Restructuring target items during synchronization © 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ CUSTOMER back to overview 27 Procurement: Detailed Overview EhP8 Innovations Innovation: Incoterms Versions Scope: Key Benefit: • Employ Incoterms 2010 version in • Handling of documents improved the procurement process The following document types have been enhanced: • Purchase Order • Purchase Contract • Purchasing Info Record • Request for Quotation • Scheduling Agreement © 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ CUSTOMER 28 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: Key Benefit: Scope: Key Benefit: • Maintain orders on the SAP Web • Easier to assign materials with the • Enable the use of SAP NetWeaver • Safe and comprehensive Real-time UI for Plant Maintenance similar data Enterprise Search in the input help access to company data and • Enable materials to be copied as • Easier to schedule the required data for selected fields information well as displayed quantity • Search using keywords and • Change the requirements date of categories individual materials • Refine search by using filters • Navigate directly to the objects listed in the result list. Innovation: Enterprise Search in the Input Help (Web UI) Innovation: Information Center with Technical Object List (POWL) Scope: Key Benefit: Scope: Key Benefit: • Enable the use of SAP NetWeaver • Safe and comprehensive Real-time • New and individually configurable • Individually configurable worklist for Enterprise Search in the input help access to company data and worklist for processing technical technical objects for selected fields information objects provided • Search using keywords and • Display the most essential categories information in a table and process • Refine search by using filters pieces of equipment and functional • Navigate directly to the objects locations individually, change their listed in the result list. status, as well as carry out mass data changes © 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ CUSTOMER 29 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: Key Benefits: HR Core Processes • Real time process insight • Employee Master data • Faster correction activities • Organizational Management • New payroll user experience • Payroll • Further country content • Time Management • Continuous enhancements and User Experience development throughout customer connection Employee Self Service Permanent access and new design • Manager Self Service • paradigm • • HR Professional Mobile Strategy • Employee Fiori Apps • Manager Fiori Apps • Cross Fiori Apps for Managers and Employees EhP8 delivers an increasing number of Fioris © 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ CUSTOMER 30 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 © 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ CUSTOMER 31 back to overview Human Capital Management (HCM): Detailed Overview EhP8 Innovations (3/3) Interfaces: Examples Post creation Profile Page and info-types Scope: Scope: • All info-types and links at a • Info-types for today‘s date • Save draft function • Call-up History, Edits, Creation, etc. • Easy activation of workflows and „four- directly eye-principle“ © 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ CUSTOMER 32 back to overview SAP Geographical Enablement Framework 1.0 Foundation (SAP Business Suite and SAP S/4HANA) Scope: Key Benefits: • Any companies and industries that work • Boost productivity with spatially enabled business data and • Reduce cost processes • Simplified data access and analysis • 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 • Copy the geospatial data of related objects automatically while installing a technical object or creating a new maintenance document on the SAP Web UI for Plant Maintenance. • Select several orders or notifications and perform mass changes © 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ CUSTOMER 33 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 back to overview 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 EhP8: Industry Innovations Retail: Detailed Overview EhP8 Innovations (1/6) Innovations*: 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 • Enhancements in Fashion Management Solution Scope: Key Benefits: • Distribution curves • Incorporation of fashion manufacturing • Insight-to-action workbench for order allocation functionalities into this release • Production control workbench – for combined • Harmonization of some end-to-end orders wholesale functionalities into SAP Fashion • Markers and bundles Management, including multi store orders • Special stock like sales order stock or consignment • Rejection concept and vendor consignments stock can be displayed with segmentation and season • Vendor consignment and cross docking • Overall bird’s eye view of pricing details. • Cut-off date and "delivery complete" indicator conditions enables quick and informed • All variants of a generic article can be displayed with • Multi store orders business decisions detailed information. • Feasibility analysis • View planned independent requirements • Article Personalization for an article across seasons. • Fashion MRP List • Transform the total sales demand for the • Planned Independent Requirements (PIR) wholesale and retail channel into one or • Purchase Order General Tool (POGT) more purchase orders. * SAP Fashion Management is running on HANA DB only, we will provide the related note asap. © 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ CUSTOMER 35 back to overview Retail: Detailed Overview EhP8 Innovations (2/6) Innovations for Retail merchandise management – order grouping and integration with forecasting and replenishment Scope: Key Benefits: • Improve the retail order process in • Send a collected purchase order to SAP software including the SAP vendors at a specified time Forecasting and Replenishment for • Execute process steps per store Retail application and software (enabling parallelization) developed with partner • Provide a generic, inbound interface GK Software for order-proposal grouping in SAP • Provide order-proposal grouping Business Suite software 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 © 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ CUSTOMER 36 back to overview Retail: Detailed Overview EhP8 Innovations (3/6) Innovation: Production Control Workbench Scope: Key Benefits: • The production control workbench • Display the target quantity of the is a comprehensive planned and master planned and production orders production order management tool, • Assign subcontracting information to which enables you to process the orders within a master planned master orders created using the order during mass processing production control workbench as • Assign markers to combined orders, well as orders created in MRP. or to the master planned and Master orders include both master production orders planned order and master • Assign subcontracting information to production order. orders within a master production • The production control workbench using the Operation Overview tab offers a central place to create and during mass processing maintain combined orders. • Display component allocation status for combined and master production orders © 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ CUSTOMER 37 back to overview Retail: Detailed Overview EhP8 Innovations (4/6) Enhancements in Combined Orders Scope: Key Benefits: • If you have products that you • Select master orders more flexibly manufacture together in a similar • View additional fields such as order way, you can combine master type, vendor, routing, purchasing planned or production orders to organization, season, and fashion facilitate common processing. fields Combining is especially useful if • Check availability of common some operations are performed components together, or the articles use the • Convert planned orders to production same batch of a critical component. orders You can combine master orders of • Release of all production orders inside the same generic article or different the master production orders ones. • Mass data change of planned or production order © 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ CUSTOMER 38 back to overview Retail: Detailed Overview EhP8 Innovations (5/6) Innovations: Store and Digital Commerce Scope: • Use outbound interfaces to integrate with third party software to enable changes to PO EAN Recycling: proposals on a mobile device and respond to exceptional situations detected during the • At times EAN numbers are generated but not planning process saved for any article, those EANs are • Provide order-proposal grouping functions based on configurable parameters recycled • Execute the process chain from order-proposal and -exceptions generation through document grouping to transfer to mobile devices in the store • Once an article is archived, then its EANs are recycled Innovations: EAN Recycling • Once EAN are deleted from an article, they EANs are recycled Scope: Key Benefit: • EAN Recycling can be maintained at each • Recycle EANs or UPC that are no longer • Reduce cost of EAN or UPC registration EAN category level being used Innovations: Retail Site Master Improvements Scope: Key Benefit: • One-step process for distribution of site • Fast and easy mass maintenance and master data assignment of sites to merchandise categories • Maintain additional addresses and geo- data for sites © 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ CUSTOMER 39 back to overview Retail: Detailed Overview EhP8 Innovations (6/6) Innovations: Timeline Scheduling Reactive PO Monitor Scope: Key Benefits: • In this process, the system automatically • Create worklist entries of the reactive PO Omnichannel Promotion Pricing (OPP) checks in the background every day for monitor where datelines have expired without deviations from the planned and any action taken monitored dates of the purchase orders, • Create worklist entries in reactive PO monitor which are then transferred into the where datelines are in the future Reactive PO Monitor in case of • Reorganize worklist entries by deleting the determined anticipated delays entries for which you have set the Deletion checkbox or Delivery Completion Indicator checkbox Innovations: Business Function Retail, Omnichannel Promotion Pricing Scope: Key Benefits: • Calculate effective sales prices in all sales • Obtain faster time to market for new, creative • Enable consistent price and promotion promotional rules designed by marketers information at all touch points, including across channels POS, digital commerce, and SD sales • Save costs through low implementation and order test efforts when introducing new offer types • Enable SD sales order pricing support for and bonus-buy rules typical discounts in retail, including • Increase customer satisfaction and customer bonus-buy and time-dependent offers 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 © 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ CUSTOMER 40 back to overview Public Sector Collection and Disbursement (PSCD): Detailed Overview EhP8 Innovations (1/3) Innovations for Tax and Revenue Management and Collaborative Liability, Connecting Several CC Systems to a FI-CA System Scope: Key Benefits: • Generate Web Dynpro forms, including • New enhancements to several key any tables defined in customizing transactions and processes in tax and revenue • Access improved overview of taxpayer management • Configure status profile at the Form • Enhancements to the Taxpayer Overview Bundle Type level transaction for a improved overview of • Access support for a single view/phase taxpayer form configuration through the display of • New fields at the header level and Relationship previous values, the use of tool tips, and tab, a new tabs for Account Line Items and the addition of comments at the form- Payment Items field level • Ability to configure Status Profile at the Form • Distribute processing in SAP Convergent Bundle Type level Charging to multiple systems (CC • Support for a single view or phase systems) and connect these in parallel to configuration for form options the system in which SAP Convergent Invoicing is running (FI-CA system) © 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ CUSTOMER 41 back to overview Public Sector Collection and Disbursement (PSCD): Detailed Overview EhP8 Innovations (2/3) Innovation: Debt Management Scope: Key Benefits: • Rule-based grouping of debt • Lower TCO as configuration of Debt Set • Rule-based derivation of collection groups is rule-based and no longer requires strategy event programming • Asset and Income based collection • Lower TCO because rule-based derivation of • Modelling of any Enforcement Action 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 Enhancements for Customer Connect PSCD 2016 – Part 1 Scope: Key Benefits: • Add customer-specific duplicate search • Refine the duplicate result determined by the algorithms to the features of the contract SAP standard algorithm partner duplicate check • Simplified navigation • Generic Object Service (GOS) for • New lock reasons for business transactions Contract Object Data preparation © 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ CUSTOMER 42 back to overview Public Sector Student Lifecycle Management (SLcM): Detailed Overview EhP8 Innovations (3/3) Enhancements to SAP Student Lifecycle Management Scope: Key Benefits: • Enhanced academic work with a field for number of attempts • Enhancements and improved usability of SAP Student • Population of credit fields when creating module work Lifecycle Management based on customer requests • Admission process – fee-calculation enhancements (New S0 object) • Mass change specializations • Advisor mass creation, massive updates, and mass delimiting operations • Enhanced mass update of performance indexes (PIQPIUPDATE00) • Standard reports • Additional functions for health insurance management • Bilingual data maintenance – additional information for an individual work (cloud) • Changes in the “SORT” function for the “PIQSTD – VISA” tab • “Key dates” range in the “Advisor” tab in the student file (PIQST00) • Module catalog “sort and search” functionality (PIQ_ACCATLG) • Cohort builder – error messages with additional details provided © 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ CUSTOMER 43 back to overview Media: Detailed Overview EhP8 Innovations Innovation: Billing in Contract Accounts - Provider Contract (MED-INV_PP_1) Scope: Key Benefit: • Employ the provider contract in • Improvement of existing and new SAP Convergent Invoicing in the features of SAP Convergent Invoicing SAP for Media area. 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: Key Benefit: • Integrate SAP Convergent • Improved Integration Invoicing with Revenue Accounting © 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ CUSTOMER 44 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: Key Benefit: • Additional and updated properties and • Enable enterprises to remain legally compliant characteristics included in the EH&S within product safety – through new and changed property tree properties Innovation: PS: Define Conditions for Safety Statements Scope: Key Benefit: • Empower product safety experts to • Product safety experts can now define company- define conditions for safety statements specific conditions to automatically generate information for safety data sheets in the specification workbench © 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ CUSTOMER 45 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: Key Benefit: • Empower dangerous goods experts to • Enable dangerous goods experts to react define values for marine pollutants as appropriately to future changes in dangerous environmentally relevant in a customizing goods regulations – through the replacement table, relevant for the classification of of the "fixed value" list with a customizing dangerous goods table • 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. © 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ CUSTOMER 46 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: Key Benefits: • Optimized hydrocarbon supply chain • Faster decision making through real-time scheduling solution optimized visibility into stock positions and improved • Real-time stock projection for multiple simulation functionalities locations and products with a state-of- • Improved scheduling efficiency through the-art user experience reduced or eliminated need for double • Enhanced simulation functionalities for maintenance of data in separate worksheets supply chain schedulers • More effective reporting through immediate • Nomination planning workbench with access to up-to-date schedule information "mass update" and "mass create" without the need for manual copying and functionalities pasting of data into separate spreadsheets • Advanced reporting functionalities for • Optimized inventory levels through better supply chain schedulers visibility *Please note: some Oil and Gas scenarios are currently delivered for HANA only Additional Information © 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ CUSTOMER 47 back to overview Oil and Gas: Detailed Overview EhP8 Innovations (2/3) Innovation: Inventory Cockpit Scope: Key Benefit: • Nomination number popup when an • Inventory Cockpit helps you to manage bulk existing nomination number is entered shipments • 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 © 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ CUSTOMER 48 back to overview Oil and Gas: Detailed Overview EhP8 Innovations (3/3) Innovation: Upstream Operations Management 4 (Forecasting) Scope: Key Benefits: • Set up and maintain new projects • Enables forecasting • Assign and maintain roles to perform • Improves production performance 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 Innovation: Enhanced Simulation Capability in Inventory Planning Workbench Scope: Key Benefit: • Simulation of nomination • Create simulations across location that can • Deletion of a nomination or nomination be published a lines of a single nomination line item © 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ CUSTOMER 49 back to overview Utilities: Detailed Overview EhP8 Innovations (1/3) Innovation: Enhancements to meter data management for SAP Utilities solutions Scope: Key Benefit: • Enhancement concept for Device • Add custom fields in the device management Management (device and device objects resulting in higher flexibility to store category) individual information • Simplified Master Data Synchronization • Reduce implementation and operation costs in SAP AMI Integration for Utilities significantly with Simplified Master Data • Optimize performance of SAP Energy Synchronization Data Management (SAP-EDM) formula • Simplify the overall architecture significantly calculation by storing both profile data and meter • New mass activity for high volume readings in one single source (SAP-EDM) execution of SAP-EDM formula • Employ the capability to convert high calculation volumes of meter readings into consumption • Quantity calculation based on SAP-EDM data via the scalable calculation workbench in meter-reading profiles SAP-EDM • "Master data template" category for fast • Operate and process smart metered data. and simple creation and assignment of • Simplify manual work tremendously by SAP-EDM profiles and SAP-EDM formula creating and maintaining SAP-EDM master instances data via master data template • Flexibility of profile version handling: copy of profile values from an old profile version to the actual version © 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ CUSTOMER 50 back to overview Utilities: Detailed Overview EhP8 Innovations (2/3) Innovation: Enhanced Functionality for Multiple Item Weighing Innovation: Reversal History of Deleted Meter Reading Documents Scope: Key Benefits: Scope: Key Benefit: • Extended yard list with automatic • Individualized view of weighing • Keep the reversed meter reading • Access the history of meter reading limitation on the waste disposal transactions at the weigh bridge using the documents for historical reference documents after reversals facilities for which the weighing yard list operator is responsible • Increased flexibility in weighing and billing • Ability to search for and by waste based on service materials Innovation: Display Profile Value Data From Rate Data disposal facility Greater transparency for weighing Scope: Key Benefit: • • Ability to weigh service materials with transactions that have been completely a weighing fee or fixed price copied after cancellation, including • New pushbutton Display Profile • Navigate directly from the rate data to the • Complete copy of cancelled weighing copying of the alibi number Values has been added which opens profile data display transactions to include the alibi the transaction and transfers the data number of the weighing device for the respective installation or device Innovation: Enhanced Operation Log for Waste and Recycling Innovation: New Parallelization Object for ETRANSF Scope: Key Benefit: Scope: Key Benefit: • Ability to select multiple waste • Increased usability through optimized Enables the distribution of larger Enable a better load distribution during disposal facilities selection capabilities • • service provider pairs into smaller mass processing • Enhanced result list that distinguishes intervals during mass processing between internal and external The system uses a combination of a facilities • random number and a Hash algorithm for the distribution into these intervals © 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ CUSTOMER 51 back to overview Utilities: Detailed Overview EhP8 Innovations (3/3) Innovation: Waste and Recycling – material splitting of inbound deliveries at multiple item weighing Scope: Key Benefits: • Material splitting on external • Splitting in order to divide the delivered deliveries (weighing on sales and mixed material and quantity into its distribution contracts) individual materials and quantities that are • Material splitting on internal relevant to storage and invoicing deliveries (weighing on waste • Calculation of the actual weight through disposal orders or waste disposal deduction of nonstock materials, materials order items) 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 © 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ CUSTOMER 52 back to overview Insurance: Detailed Overview EhP8 Innovations (1/2) Innovation: SAP Claims Management Innovations: SAP Fiori App Workload Management – Team Calendar Scope: Scope: Display an overview of the availability of individual team members Role-Based Performer in Claim Bundle • Change the availability of team members or add new attendances and absences • 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 © 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ CUSTOMER 53 back to overview Insurance: Detailed Overview EhP8 Innovations (2/2) Innovation: SAP Fiori App - Approve Claim Payments Scope: Key Benefits: • Display all payments made by team • Quick and efficient way to approve members, which have to be claim payments approved by a supervisor, including • Increased usability for this important display of all relevant details process the supervisor has to check before • Eliminate delays in paying making a decision: policyholders and claimants • Payment details • Claim details • Notes • Attachments • Records supervisor's reasons for approval or rejection Innovation: Enhancements with foreign currency management Scope: Key Benefits: • Transfer amounts in local • Group several objects in a work set in one currency when creating payment block to process together plan items • Display an application log for an executed • Enter and/or edit claim reserves work set in a currency different from product currency • Display the payment amount in the product currency or risk currency together with the corresponding exchange rate © 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ CUSTOMER 54 back to overview Project System (PS): Detailed Overview EhP8 Innovations Innovation: Enhancements for Materials in the Order (Web UI) Scope: Key Benefit: • View activity confirmations for the • Continuous improvements to the person responsible usability and functionality of project • Enable assignment of DMS to the systems from SAP, based on selected network header improvement requests from cycle • Link person responsible and two of Customer Connection, applicant to HR data for project systems • 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 © 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ CUSTOMER 55 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: Key Benefit: • Material Segmentation in Planning • Logically segment materials based on Strategies that represent the certain attributes 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 © 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ CUSTOMER 56 back to overview Logistics Detailed Overview EhP8 Innovations Innovations: Deletion of Personal Data in: • Logistics • General Batch Management • Logistics Execution – Direct Store Delivery • Sales and Distribution (SD) – Pendulum List indirect Sales and Empties • Global Trade (LO-GT) Management • Materials Management – Excise Duty • Handling Unit Management (LO-HU) • Yard Management (LE-YM) • Product Lifecycle Management (PLM-WUO-OBJ-ECR) • Production Planning and Control (PP) • Plant Maintenance • Agency Business Plant Maintenance (PM) (LO-AB) • Work Clearance Management (PM-WCM) • Quality Management: Quality Notifications (QM-QN) • SAP Aerospace and Defense (IS-AD) • SAP Retail • SAP Mill Products (IS-MP) • SAP Discrete Industries and Mill Products: • SAP High Tech (IS-HT) • SAP Banking: Deletion and Blocking of Business Partner in SEM Banking • SAP Automotive (IS-A) • Cross Application Component: Deletion of Personal Data in Audit Management • Environment, Health, and Safety: Deletion of Personal Data in Product Safety (CA-AUD) • Scope: Key Benefit: These functions enable you to use the SAP Information Lifecycle Management • Simplify the processes for blocking and deleting personal data through the (ILM) component to support the deletion of personal data and to control the use of SAP Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) 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. © 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ CUSTOMER 57 back to overview EhP8: Cross Applications Overview 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 © 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ CUSTOMER 59 Agenda • Why Enhancement package 8? • What’s New? • What’s New: Detailed Overview • Technical Prerequisites • Find New Functionalities © 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ CUSTOMER 60 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: http://support.sap.com/sltoolset 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 2318321: „Differences in SUM for the rescue of Non-SAP objects between load and delta procedure © 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ CUSTOMER 61 Technical Prerequisites: SUM paths to reach SAP ERP 6.0 EhP 8 SAP ERP 6.0 SAP Business SAP BS 7 SAP BS 7 SAP BS 7 SAP BS 7 SAP ERP 6.0 EHP 1 SAP ERP 6.0 EHP 2 Suite (BS) 7 Innovations 2010 Innovations 2011 Innovations 2013 Innovations 2016 R/3 4.6C & 4.7 EHP 8 (*) SAP ERP 5.0 EHP 7 (*) Target EhP8: EHP 6 only for Unicode source system EHP 5 EHP 4 No direct EHP 3 path to EHP8 SAP BASIS 6.20…6.40 7.0 7.01 7.02 Bottom line versions are only 7.31 7.4 7.5 SAP NetWeaver 04 7.0 7.0 EHP1 7.0 EHP2 relevant for ABAP stack 7.0 EHP3 7.4 7.5 © 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ CUSTOMER 62 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 SAP ERP 6.0 • Shadow system has to be non-UC for non-UC source systems Enhancement Package 8 not possible for target systems based on SAP NetWeaver 7.5 AnyDB Based on SAP NetWeaver 7.5: only Unicode (UC) No non-UC kernel © 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ CUSTOMER 63 Agenda • Why Enhancement package 8? • What’s New? • What’s New: Detailed Overview • Technical Prerequisites • Find New Functionalities © 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ CUSTOMER 64 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 © 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ CUSTOMER 65 Overview on information sources Help Portal EhP8 for SAP ERP 6.0 SP Stacks – Release & Information Note 2171334 © 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ CUSTOMER 66 Overview on information sources Pricing Note 1524246 Gives transparency on the license implications when you are implementing a SAP enhancement package. © 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ CUSTOMER 67 Overview on information sources SAP Solution Explorer Service Market Place © 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ CUSTOMER 68 Overview on information sources Customer Connection SAP Fiori apps reference library ERP EhP8 provides a consolidation of all Innovations delivered via Support Find key information for each app, including all the technical data you need for installation Packages and configuration. 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: © 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ CUSTOMER 69 SAP Transformation Navigator 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 “SAP Transformation Navigator gives customers clear organization, in what order, during what timeframes, guidance to chart digital innovation path” and the business value and outcomes they can expect. © 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ CUSTOMER 70 Thank you. Contact information: F name L name Title Address Phone number