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Product overview
▪ SAP Business ByDesign – Functional overview
▪ SAP ERP for the cloud – Positioning of SAP Business ByDesign
Key capabilities
▪ Financials: Get a real-time view of your financials. Streamline
core accounting processes including cash and liquidity
management.
▪ Customer relationship management: Master marketing, sales,
and service by integrating front- and back-office processes in a
single solution.
▪ Project management: Manage projects of any size across all
functional areas by enabling teams to deliver, invoice, and
monitor in real time.
▪ Supplier relationship management: Organize sourcing,
contracting, RFQ processing, and supplier management, and
empower employees with self-services.
▪ Supply chain management: Model your internal and external
supply with and end-to-end value chain. Achieve transparency on
cost and inventory valuation.
▪ Human resource management: Streamline people
engagement, with central organization management, workforce
administration, time management, and employee self-services.
Openness
▪ Open interfaces for quick Partner applications
and Web services
connections to existing solutions and Web shops and
point-of-sales solutions
to build custom integrations Globalization
and microverticals
Visibility and transparency Built-in analytics for real-time data across all
Enabling intelligent decision-making in global functional areas of the business for intelligent
operations decision-making
Extend Extend
in-app side-by-side
management
▪ Simplified cross-industry capabilities for process Business process and technical platform
optimization by enhanced automation and data platform
▪ Enhancing and extending the technical foundation
of our successful business process platform
Legal and compliancy requirements will continue
to be our focus in all releases.
Financial management – EXTENDED Financial management – SIMPLIFIED Financial management – SIMPLIFIED Supply chain management – EXTENDED
▪ IFRS16: Enhanced lease contracts, ▪ Approvals for payment reversal ▪ Extended budget control ▪ Set production master data to obsolete
posting runs, assignment to free cost ▪ Journal entry and manual tax: 4-eye principle ▪ Bank statement integration enhancement ▪ Text items in BOM
object, liability termination posting Order-to-cash – EXTENDED ▪ Change dates for released production
Master data management – EXTENDED
▪ E-Bilanz: Download enhancement and ▪ Absolute and relative header discounts orders
▪ Extended lifecycle for product master data
taxonomy 6.2 (Germany) ▪ View status of automatic contract renewals ▪ 3rd party logistics for project stock orders
▪ Insight-to-action for suppliers
Marketing-to-opportunity – NEW ▪ Approval releases sales order automatically ▪ Extended consignment
▪ Insight-to-action for accounts
▪ Mobile lead creation from business ▪ Withdraw approval of sales documents ▪ Approval for supplier master change Master data management – EXTENDED
card scan Procure-to-pay – NEW ▪ Approvals for products and business partner
▪ Supplier invoice scan automation Returns management – EXTENDED
Order-to-cash – NEW changes
▪ Customer returns with external payment
▪ Enhanced price component analysis Supply chain management – EXTENDED methods Invoice management – SIMPLIFIED
▪ Discount KPI for invoices and quotes ▪ Kits for customer returns ▪ Enhancement of kits return ▪ Enhanced flexibility for customer and
Project-based services – SIMPLIFIED ▪ Customer demand analytics supplier invoicing
▪ Easy cancellation of production orders Supply chain management – EXTENDED
▪ Project KPIs for billing, written-off,
▪ Automatic numbering of ECO in BOM ▪ 3rd party logistics for service order items People engagement – NEW
criticality
▪ Multilevel where-used in BOM ▪ Web service for ATP simulation ▪ Resource management for standard
People engagement – NEW ▪ Exclude logistics area from planning ▪ Consignment stock at customer site service execution
▪ Lean business partner analytics ▪ Enhanced travel and expense management
People engagement – NEW People engagement – NEW
Supply chain management – EXTENDED ▪ Multistep expense report approvals ▪ Modify time recordings by administrator Order-to-cash – EXTENDED
▪ Out/inbound delivery analytics ▪ Project resource assignment partner add-on ▪ Skills for standard service order-to-cash ▪ Simplified customer contracts for
▪ Customer return of expired i-stock ▪ Mobile locking and unlocking of users ▪ Standard service confirmation with time subscription business
Procure-to-pay – NEW ▪ Mobile manager approval with launchpad recording
Marketing-to-opportunity – NEW
▪ Purchase request/order, shopping cart Project-based Services – SIMPLIFIED
Marketing-to-opportunity – NEW ▪ Office365 Outlook integration with BAF
analytics ▪ Time sheet approval at project task level
▪ Insight-to-action – Dynamic target groups
1. This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time without notice.
1. This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time without notice.
Legal and compliance Localization – NEW Localization – NEW Legal and compliance – NEW
▪ Data privacy: Advanced data retention ▪ Regular maintenance and legal change ▪ Regular maintenance and legal change ▪ Legal and compliance topics for 2021 and
configuration and analysis management for SAP existing country management for SAP existing country beyond
▪ Data privacy: Extended data disclosure versions versions
for natural persons Localization – EXTENDED
▪ E-Invoicing: Enhanced output Country enhancements Country enhancements ▪ Regular maintenance and legal change
management ▪ Italy: VAT DL199, VAT on cash in ▪ Japan: BoE enhancements management for SAP existing country
summary register ▪ Japan: Withholding taxes versions
Country enhancements ▪ Spain: VAT and withholding tax return ▪ Spain: BoE and SEPA enhancements
▪ Israel: Masav enhancements enhancements ▪ Israel: Form 6111
▪ Japan: Consumption tax ▪ Israel: Form 6111 ▪ Localization tool kit enhancements
▪ Japan: Summary invoice enhancements ▪ Israel: VAT PCN enhancements ▪ Language adaptation tool enhancements
▪ India: GST simplified tax return ▪ Israel: Withholding 856 – Vendor ITA based on customer feedback
▪ India: E-invoicing enhancements
▪ Mexico: Bank statement enhancements ▪ India: E-invoicing
▪ Italy: VAT and withholding tax return ▪ India: Stock transfer enhancements
enhancements ▪ South Korea: General availability
▪ Italy Article 17 enhancements ▪ Switzerland: Payment format
enhancements
▪ Traditional Chinese as a new language
1. This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time without notice.
Financial management Supply chain and logistics Supply chain and logistics
Continuous innovation and delivery by
▪ Vertex US tax integration ▪ Freight surcharge rates by All-for-One ▪ Staff meeting* by All-for-One
partners into SAP App Center
▪ Payment integration by TIS ▪ Signature capture by All-for-One
▪ VAT number validation by All-for-One Project management ▪ Sales price calculation by All-for-One
▪ Commissions Management by Seidor Project management ▪ Multi Project Resource Scheduler* by ▪ Approval framework by ERP Logic
▪ Maintenance* by Seidor Projexia* ▪ Bank communication by Ubister
Customer relationship management ▪ UAE and Saudi Arabia by Seidor
▪ Commerce add-on by ECENTA Digital Financial management Financial management ▪ Warehouse Management by Nware
▪ Budget control by Seidor ▪ EcoTax(v2) by Snap int ▪ Standard Document Uploaders by In Cloud
Compliance management ▪ Subcontracting* by Seidor ▪ Intrastat Report* by In Cloud Solutions Solutions
▪ Quality control by Seidor
▪ Vinea for SAP Business ByDesign by sine
▪ Advance Quality Management by Seidor Country localization Country localization qua non
▪ Thailand by Netizen ▪ Taiwan* by Systex
▪ Colombia and Peru by Seidor ▪ UAE and Saudi Arabia* by Seidor ▪ E-invoice Mexico by Seidor
Project management
▪ Chronos Timer recording by Cobalt ▪ Slovakia* and Czech Republic* by Snap Int ▪ Cloud service usage tracking by Bradler
▪ Portugal* by Seidor ▪ Integration/vertical
Integration/vertical ▪ Scan4cloud* (v2) by all4cloud
▪ EDI Connector by All-for-One ▪ Integration/vertical ▪ Service Technicians mobile app* by
▪ Forcam Force by Forcam ▪ YoY Distributed Ledger* by sine qua non all4cloud
▪ Scan4cloud by all4cloud ▪ Retail Sales Solution by Seidor ▪ SAP Concur solution integration* by
▪ Universal Integration Adapter by elastic.io ERP Logic
▪ Nea the chat box* by Agilita
1. This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time without notice.
© 2020 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC *This is the current state of planning from selected partners. Timelines are given as orientation as shared by partner
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