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FIND YOUR EDGE
Americas' SAP Users' Group
SAP Business One 9.1 – Overview Idit Saguey – Local Product Expert
SAP Business One 9.1 - Overview
Planned new versions: SAP Business One 9.1 and SAP Business One 9.1,
version for SAP HANA
Release to customer is currently planned for end of Q4 2014
One common code base for SAP HANA database and Microsoft SQL Server
Focus on functional improvements and simplifications of implementing,
operating, and using SAP Business One
Business logic
Enhanced production module Inventory item cost valuation based on serial or batch number Multiple branches function splits transactions by business unit Simplified layouts and default values MRP Pick and Pack Additional Enhancements
Planned top-level Topics
Infrastructure and architecture
Permission Group authorizations Performance improvements Hiding business functions User-Defined Fields (UDF) Simplification Enhancement Configurable framework Importing from Excel Simplified e-mail and printing process
Lifecycle management and support
Quick implementation and express configuration
Reporting and analytics
SAP Crystal Reports 2013 Default settings and report layout (selected countries)
Specific to SAP Business One 9.1, version for SAP HANA
Service layer that exposes business objects by Web service
Role-based work center for analytics and simplified system use (based on HTML5)
Performance optimization (transactional and reporting) Extreme application framework enhancement for
partners Supported by remote support platform
Extensibility/SDK
Additional DI/UI objects and services Enhanced lifecycle management for extensions SAP Business One studio and workflow enhancements
Enhancements:
• New Resource module adds resource data to
production order processing and manages
resource capacities
• Production processing provides resource data
and textual information in the production
process
• Linking to fixed assets or employees
Benefits:
• Complete insight into production
requirements, accurate production costing
and accounting, and identification of
bottlenecks
Production (1/2) - Resources
Enhancements:
• Item/resource/text information throughout
production process
• Flexible movement of item/resource/text lines
within BoM and production orders
• Handling of additional fixed production
quantities
• By-products: manual and backflush, manual
cost input, serial/batch handling, visual
indicator
• Flexible WIP account handling
• Backflush components create the document
for Issue for Production
• Powerful batch BoM update
Benefits:
• Light, but powerful production capability
• Useful for basic routing
Production (2/2) – Production Processing *
Enhancements:
• Inventory valuation method for serial
or batch-related items and processes
• Record all item costs per serial/batch number
• Use specific batch/serial price as
basis for gross profit calculation
• Change the cost of batches/serials using
material revaluation
• Ensure that same batch cannot be received
more than once; prevent receipt of same
batch to stock with different prices
Benefits:
• Transparency on serial/batch costs
• Calculate gross profit from sales for specific
serial/batch number
• Valuation method covers industry standard
New Batch & Serial Valuation Method *
Initial situation:
Different business units of a company may have different legal reporting needs, but sharing some users, business
partners, and other master data. Maintaining different databases for different business units is inconvenient and may
cause data inconsistency.
This feature enables working with different business units
using one database:
• Various master data is assigned to different business units; some
master data can be shared between business units
• Different business units have different documents created with their
own master data
• Different business units share some common data and settings, for
example, items and document settings
Multiple Branches and Business Units (1/2)
Branch 1 Branch 2 Branch 3 Branch 4
Branch 1 Branch 2 Branch 3 Branch 4
Branch 1 Branch 2 Branch 3 Branch 4
Branch 1 Branch 2 Branch 3 Branch 4
Branch 1 Branch 2 Branch 3 Branch 4
Sales & Purchase
Stock Management
Banking
Financial
Analytics
Multiple Branches and Business Units (2/2)
In the same database, it is now possible to:
• Handle the main business process for different business units or branches
• Create documents for separate business units
• Use sales and purchasing for multiple business units
• Centrally manage inventory for each business unit
• Manage bank transactions with centralized payment capability
• Carry out legal and financial reporting for each business unit
Further benefits of functional enhancement for business units:
• Consolidation capability
• All financial transactions will be separated by business unit
• Handling of separate document numbering for each business unit
• Separate accounting setup and G/L account determination by business unit
• Customer receivables aging and vendor liabilities aging by business unit
• New branch overview reports and business unit comparison reports
• Optional assignment of business partners to business units
Enhancements:
• Item Master – for components use
warehouse from BOM of from document
lines
• Use more than one sales forecast in one
MRP run
• Sales quotations and purchase quotations
can be included in the requirements
MRP Enhancements
Benefits:
• Greater flexibility and more accurate MRP
recommendations
Enhancements:
• Create pick lists for production orders and
inventory transfer requests
• Generate or view pick lists through content
menu in A/R reserve invoices, inventory
transfer requests, and production orders
• In the Pick List Generation Wizard, you can
split pick lists by selecting the following:
• Business Partner
• Document Type
• Document
• Item Group
• Item
Pick and Pack
Benefits:
• Real life picking experience for users, ability to
predict picking path, and more flexibility during
the picking process.
Enhancements:
• Enhancements in Advanced G/L Accounts
Determination
• Fixed Assets
• Display Goods Receipt POs and Purchase Orders
balance on Vendor’s Business Partner
• Blanket Agreements
• Bank Statement Processing (BSP)
Additional Enhancements
Enhancements:
• Configurable UI layout
• Improved UDF usage
• Data import via Microsoft Excel
• Hiding Business Functions
• Enhanced e-mail integration
• Improved printing layout
• Pre-configured company template
Benefits:
• Shortened implementation cycle
• Quick consumption by customers
• Improved user experience
Simplification Features *
Hiding Business Functions
Enhancements:
• Option to remove unused functions from the
user interface, for example:
• Budget
• Payment Wizard
• Dunning Wizard
• Cost Accounting
• Serial Numbers and Batches
• Production
• MRP
• Units of Measures
• Setting at company level, can be changed at
any time
• Configuration via Express Configuration
Wizard or General Settings
Benefits:
Switching off complete business functions
makes implementation faster.
Permission Groups
Enhancements:
• Permission groups enables customers to
define business role based authorization in
SAP Business One
• Administrators can create permission groups
and assign authorizations, and users to each
• A user can be assigned to one or multiple
groups
• The specific settings at user and group level
determine the authorizations of a user
Benefits:
Effort in regards to user administration can be
reduced tremendously
Data Import via Excel
Enhancements:
• more options to import-update
• additional fields (of BP, items) including object
properties and UDFs are supported
Benefits:
• more data import or integration scenarios can
be covered by Excel import tool, incl. migration
9.0
9.1
Simplified E-Mail and Printing *
Enhancements:
• Contacts of group a business partner an be
grouped, e.g. e-mail group “accounting”
SAP Business One can send e-mails to a
department instead of sending to only one
contact
• additional output method when adding a
new marketing document: Send e-mail,
export to PDF
• Default e-mail subject and body per
document can be maintained (static text
only)
• Send selected documents from list as e-
mails to recipients
Benefits:
• More comfort when documents are to
communicated to partners via e-mail
SAP Business One service layer provides server-side
web access to system and partner business objects
• Easy-to-use OData protocol
• Parallel processing allows for high throughput
• Well-defined and stable APIs with similar object and function
coverage compared to DI API
Value Proposition for Partners
• Easily expand extensions architecture (3 tiers) to support
mobile and web development
• High throughput to better cater for the needs of the upper SE
segment
• Extend extreme applications capability to address complex
industry-specific needs
• Simplified landscape
SAP HANA Database
R
HTTP /
Open Data Protocol (OData)
B1 Container
R
JavaScript
Wrapper OData
Proxy
Control
Flow Logic
Session
Manager …
OBServer System
business
object
Partner
business
object
System
business
object …
Clients / mobile
SAP HANA Database - Service Layer
Role-based work center for analytics and simplified system use (based on HTML5)
KPI from insight to action
powered by semantic layer
1
My Workbench cover 80% daily operation &
simplify user onboarding
3
Dashboard Pervasive dashboards on
cockpit
2
Widgets – Analytic
Widgets – Operation
4 Recent Updates
5 Count
1 HTML5 cockpit fiori like & reusable on
mobile
3 Enterprise search quick and easy access
search powered by
HANA
4 Menu search
2 Role based predefined sales,
purchase, finance,
inventory cockpits
1
3
2
4
5
1 4
2
1
3
New Cockpit Changes
2
Pervasive analytics – Insight to action
Enhancement:
Add actions to pervasive dashboards and
KPIs
Benefit:
Get insight of the results, and displaying
relevant data by clicking on it
Pervasive analytics – Advanced Dashboards
Enhancement:
Ability to create supplementary cockpits to
display related data when clicking on a
dashboard or KPI widget
Display critical data grouped on a dedicated
cockpit
Benefit:
Quick access to extended business KPIs
and business figures
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