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Discovering Enterprise Services of SAP Solutions using SAP Solution Maps
A quick guide to Solution Maps and Solution Composer tool
Objective of this Document
At SAPPHIRE 2005, SAP presented the progress made with the Enterprise Service
Architecture initiative. SAP showcased many examples of business process
flexibility, extensibility and multi-channel access using the enterprise services. In this
document, we will:
• Briefly discuss enterprise service inventory published as part of SAP Industry
Solution Maps
• Give an example to navigate to the inventory in a Chemical Industry Solution
Map
• In the appendix describes the Solution Composer and Industry Solution Maps
with its elements
Enterprise Service Inventory
Enterprise services are the result of service-enabling SAP’s solutions using the
guiding principle values of:
• User productivity
• Process Innovation
• Business Efficiency and Process Automation
• Flexible Deployment
Using these enterprise services, the solutions can achieve process flexibility,
extensibility and multi-channel access. The Enterprise Services are being documented
in the Enterprise Services Inventory. The inventory allows customers and partners to
learn about the available enterprise services of SAP Solutions and plan their solution
road maps towards Enterprise Services Architecture.
This list of enterprise services is the enterprise service inventory. SAP will publish
the inventory later in 2005 with completely availability information so that our
customers and partners can create an educated plan for their solution strategy.
The Enterprise Service Inventory project lists enterprise services and enterprise
service operations. The inventory will have the:
• Implementation independent Service definition with detailed description
• Provider(s) ( or implementations ) of an enterprise service and enterprise
service operation with implementation specific details and availability schedule
• Consuming scenario(s) and process(es) of an enterprise service with consumer
specific details
• Technical details, in form of WSDL, needed to use the enterprise services
• The capability to search in many alternative ways and discover enterprise
services
The roles that will find inventory useful are:
• business analyst to discover the services needed to meet the changing business
needs
• Technical Architect to clearly understand the business context of the enterprise
service
• Technical developer to understand the interfaces, input and output parameters
needed to use the enterprise service
Note, that the Enterprise services in the inventory of the preview system do not
represent the final enterprise services list that will be published later in the year. The
preview system and the enterprise services herein are provided to our partners and
customers to gain experience.
Navigation for the Enterprise Services Inventory.
There are two ways of navigating:
1. The enterprise services pool approach where you start will all the enterprise
services published by SAP
2. Another way is to navigate from the solution maps, drilling down to the
scenarios -> processes-> and discovering the enterprise services associated
with each process
Navigation using the Enterprise Service Pool
(Note: The screenshots were created using the QA version of the preview system site.
The final look and feel may slightly differ from the screenshots here.
Go to the ESA Preview System page on SDN. The page will look similar to the
screenshot given below. In subsequent screenshots, the focus area will be indicated
using the red circle.
Click on the “All Enterprise Services Pool”. It will list the functional areas.
For this example, click on “Supply and Demand Matching” functional area. This will
show list of enterprise services available in the functional area.
Click on the “Supply and Demand Matching Enterprise Services”. This will lead to
enterprise services operations available in the enterprise service. In this example, we
see two enterprise service operations.
Click on “Product Availability Query Response”. You will come to enterprise service
operation description.
You will see different links at this level. The most interesting are:
a. “Where Used”. This lists all the solution maps and processes that have
association with this enterprise service operation
b. “Detailed Description” will provide you detailed description of the enterprise
service operation which will help you in evaluating whether this enterprise
service operation is the right one for your need.
c. “Inbound” and “Outbound Interface Definition” will give to complete WSDL
description of the enterprise service. The example of WSDL is provided in the
screenshot below.
d. “Inbound” and “Outbound Interface Documentation” gives documentation on
how to use the interface with details about the parameters.
Navigation using the Industry Solution Map
(Note: The screenshots were created using the QA version of the preview system site.
The final look and feel may slightly differ from the screenshots here.
Goto the ESA Preview System page on SDN. The page will look similar to the
screenshot given below. In subsequent screenshots, the focus area will be indicated
using the red circle.
Click on the “Chemical Solution Map”
Click on the “Sales & Marketing” Business Scenario Group. This will take you to the
business scenarios available in this group.
Click on the “Order to Cash” business scenario. This will lead to the business
processes part of the business scenario.
Click on the “Sales Order Processing” business process. This will lead to the
description of the business process and all the available business context and details
like business goals, objectives, KPIs and such.
At each business process, you will see all the enterprise services or enterprise service
operations associated to the business process on the right hand side of the page. In
this example, you can see “Sales Order Processing Enterprise Service” and “Product
Availability Query Response” enterprise service operation associated to the business
process “Sales Order Processing”.
For the example, click on “Product Availability Query Response”. This leads to the
enterprise service operation description as shown below.
From this point, the navigation was already described earlier when we described
navigation using the “Enterprise Services Pool” approach.
Appendix: SAP Solution Composer and Industry Solution Map explained
Solution Composer is an offline PC tool provided by SAP to help visualize, plan, and
implement a solution within a company. Industry Solution Maps are offered as
business content in the SAP Solution Composer.
The different elements of an Industry Solution Map is explained in the three slides
below. Essentially, the hierarchy is as follows – Industry Solution Map -> Business
Scenario Group -> Business Scenario -> Process. At process level (see Level 3) you
will see the enterprise services.
Level 1 shows the Business Scenario Groups and Business Scenarios relevant for a
particular industry segment.
SAP AG 2004, Quick Guide, Business Maps & Engagement Tools, Page 32
SAP Scenario-Oriented Industry Solution Map: What are the different elements?
Le
ve
l 1
Vendors Customer Strategy Planning Merchandising Purchasing Logistics Sales Customer Relationship Management
Category Management
Market Research & Business Dev.
Merchandise & Assortment Planning
Master Data Management
Price & Revenue Management
Promotion Management
Supply Chain Planning
Vendor Relationship Management
Forecast & Replenishment
Supply Chain Execution
Buying
Inventory Management
Warehousing
Transportation
Channel Operations
Store Management
Multi-Channel Retailing
Fresh Item Management
Enterprise Management & Support
Analytics
Financials
Human Capital Management
Corporate Services
Generic Industry ValueChain
Business Scenario Group / Business Lever
Business Scenario
Industry-Specific Business
Scenarios
Management and SupportingFunctions
Level 2 shows the details for a Business Scenario which support the value
proposition and the list of processes that are part of the scenario.
SAP AG 2004, Quick Guide, Business Maps & Engagement Tools, Page 33
SAP Scenario-Oriented Industry Solution Map: What are the different elements?
Level 2 / Details
Forecast and replenishment methods deploying state-of-the art algorithms along with a high degree of automization help retailers to avoid
critical out-of-stock situations and improve the inventory level both in
distribution centers and stores. Causal factors such as promotions, price changes are taken into consideration to tackle the velocity of a
consumer's behavior.
Business Goals & Objectives:
Increasing Transparency & Accountability
Provide decision support
Increase data transparency
Reduce error rate
Reducing Operating Costs & Increasing Efficiency
Improve procurement processes
Reduce order processing costs
Business Scenario Maps:
Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI)
Collaborative Planning, Forecasting & Replenishment
Other:
Links to relevant Webpages
Demand Planning & Forecasting
Replenishment Planning
Safety Stock Planning
Supplier Inventory
Collaboration
Rapid Replenishment
Planning
Multi level Replenishment
Planning
SAP KPI Definitions – Financial
� Average Inventory
SAP KPI Definitions – Process
� Finished Goods Inventory Days of Supply
� Forecast Cycle
Forecast & Replenishment
Processes
Details: •Description•Associated Items (from Pool)
•Hyperlinks
Level 3 drills down into a process and shows different attributes. For the ESA
Preview system: The interesting attribute here is/are the list of enterprise services
associated with the process.
SAP AG 2004, Quick Guide, Business Maps & Engagement Tools, Page 34
SAP Scenario-Oriented Industry Solution Map: What are the different elements?
Level 3 / Process
Enterprise Services
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