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Customer Relationship Management CRM Service Management
Financials, Controlloing, Asset Management FI, CO, AM Strategic Enterprise Manag
Human Resources HR Supply Chain Management
Knowledge Management (Training) KM Technology
Materials Management/Procurement MM Variant Configuration
Plant Maintenance PM Warehouse Management
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Production Planning PP
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Service Management SM
Strategic Enterprise Management SEM
Supply Chain Management SCM
Tech
Variant Configuration VC
Warehouse Management WM
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Release Delta Functionality Functionality Description Business Benefit Supporting Data/Calculation Experience One-Time
Mass changes and mass retirements without workflow.
In Release 3.0, SAP introduced the functions for
master data maintenance and asset retirement using
mass processing. In order to represent the
organizational flow of these functions in the system,
you needed to use R/3 SAP Business Workflow. Reduction in time spent maintaining
In Release 4.0A, you do not need this organizational master data and reduction of cycle
From 3.1 To 4.0 Mass change Ease of use/ productity 50,000 One-Time
representation in SAP Business Workflow. Mass time from moving authority to R/3
changes and mass retirements can be carried out users.
directly by each R/3 user who has the necessary
authorization. You no longer need to define the
responsible users in an organizational plan and assign
them to the workflow tasks.
In Release 4.0A there is a new function for creating

multiple similar assets from within a master data
transaction. The similar assets differ initially only in
Multiple Similar Assets Ease of use/ productity
their main number or sub-number. When you save, you
can also change the asset description and the inventory
number of the individual assets.
In Release 4.0A there is a new function for
intercompany asset transfer that enables you to post
completely from the sending company code. The system
automatically posts the acquisition in the receiving
company code, and creates the new asset (if one is
Intercompany Asset Transfer needed). Ease of use/ productity 100,000 One-Time
Please note, however, that this function is only
available for transfers within a single client. Transfers
between clients or systems must be posted in two
steps (retirement and acquisition).
Release 4.0A provides greater support for changes in

your organization. General enhancements to master
data include tab displays to improve master data
overview, increased list display functionality, and
Overhead cost controlling Ease of use/ productity
improved collective processing functions for cost
centers. Internal order master data has a new layout
as well including tab index pages with additional user-
defined fields.
In release 4.0A, allocation enhanced features include a

formal check feature that tests individual cycles
before production runs, a segment overview function
Allocation that displays all the segments involved in a selected Ease of use/ productity
cycle, change documents that log cycles or segment
indicators and settings, segment insertion at any place
for a cycle, and sorting of segments for a cycle.
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Significant enhancements have been added in release

4.0A to the appropriation request management that
improve the appropriation request process and make it
Appropriation requests easier to use. Additional features were added to
appropriation requests with reference to IM context,
master data, partner management, variants, cost and
revenues, and variants and versions.
For the capital investment program, in 4.0A you can
now directly distribute the annual budget values from
the investment program position to the investment
Reduced budget preperation Reduced budgeting cycle time,
Capital Investment Programs measure. You can now attach plant maintenance orders
time & expenditiures reduced hourly labor charges
to the investment program. If you prefer to use these
orders to manage your costs, you can integrate them
with IM.
The Data Transfer Workbench supports the automatic
transfer of data from your legacy system into the R/3
System. The Workbench provides you with access to
the standard programs as well as with the necessary Using this functionality will
tools for transferring data. For example, with release save time in transferring
Data transfer workbench
4.0A, some of the objects you can transfer to the R/3 data as well as improve data
system using the workbench are the G/L account integrity.
master record, material master, vendor master,
customer master, condition records, sales documents,
financial documents, rental contracts, etc.
A new central address management (CAM) will be
delivered for Release 4.0, to be implemented in the
areas listed below.
In the medium to long term it is planned to change all
applications to this central address management. In This tool will aid in system
the new CAM the data will be managed in its own performance and ease of
Central address management
database tables. All application objects will only store a maintenance by data being
reference to the address key. There are addresses managed in its own tables.
changed to CAM for 4.0A, there are applications in
which the address function is new in 4.0A, and there
are applications in which the CAM was used in a
Release before 4.0.
From release 4.0A The Info Object Viewer is the
Browser for displaying HTML-based online help in the
R/3-System. It is based on the Microsoft Internet
Explorer 3.0x or the Netscape Navigator 3.0. The R/3
library, the extended help, IMG documents and the
glossary are displayed with the Info Object Viewer.
The Info Object Viewer is available on all front-end
Info Object Viewer platforms (UNIX, OS/2, Macintosh, Windows 16 bit Ease of use/productivity
and Windows 32 Bit). The software and hardware
requirements can vary depending on the platform and
the HTML based online help (help type) variant used.
This viewer might be a more friendly faster way of
accessing and seeing the help documentation and could
save time.
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A new authorization S_CLIENT_IMP is checked
(optional in 4.0A). In a remote copy, large clients can
be copied without main memory problems. Values such
Client copy and transfer as source client or source destination can be saved for Ease of use/productivity
profiles. Since all necessary profiles are delivered by
SAP, you are not allowed to create customer profiles.
With Release 4.0A, it is possible to specify that spool

request(s) generated by a background job are to be
mailed automatically to one or more recipients. The
mail functionality of the SAPoffice component is used
for the automatic mailing. The spool request(s) may be
Unique gaps can be filled,
mailed to a single R/3 mail user, to an external user, or
currently scattered across
Automatically mailing of spool request output to a distribution list that can include multiple R/3 mail
Whirlpool. Relaces tool in
from background jobs and external mail users. The mail recipient can be
legacy system maintencance
identified by his or her R/3 user ID or by the user's
costs savings.
name in the R/3 address management component.
Addressing by name in the address management
requires that user address information be maintained
in the R/3 SAPoffice. This increases efficient
communication and saves time and mailing costs.
Reduced customer support $100 Million savings from VRU
Ability to support and integrated automated VRU w/
VRU integration staff, Reduced response time integration, AT&T, Business Week 200,000 Annual
R/3
to customer inquiries 2/23/98, pg.61
Optimization of business
processes, allowing collection
of basic information for
management strategies and
decision-making. The
operational integration of
Activity-Based Costing with
the other components in
Controlling (CO) allows
process cost flows to be
Activity-Based Costing (CO-OM-ABC) in the SAP R/3
displayed as part of product
System uses the assignment of resources to business
manufacturing costs.
processes based on cost origin allowing detailed
Particularly useful for
Activity Based Costing analysis of specific areas in addition to cross-
organizations with a high
functional, process-oriented views of your organization.
percentage of overhead costs
This allows for much greater transparency in the area
and a high degree of product
of overhead.
complexity, especially as such
product complexity leads to
strongly differentiated
utilization of overhead cost
processes by the individual
products. Reduces the
maintenance required for
activity-based costing
calculations.
Ability to generate internal
and statutory group
Consolidation
reports,through a single,
standard tool.
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FASB Compliance for Reduction in time spent providing
statutory reporting of FASB compliant information re
IS-SW Support Ability to support revenue recognition revenue, Ability to minimize recognition of sales revenue. 150,000 Annual
time to recognize sales Increased cash flow due to better
revenue revenue recognition
Warehouse Management
Document texts in recurring entries and posting with
reference. The system can now copy the original
document's long text to the documents that result
from recurring entries and from posting with
reference. When posting with reference, you can
choose this option on the initial screen and change the
texts as you enter and process the document. The
recurring entry data of an original document contains a
Combine for a overall A/P
From 4.0 To 4.5 Reoccurring Items new parameter that you can choose to have the long
efficiency improvement
text copied. You can change this setting at any time.
The system copies all texts from the original document
once you process the batch-input session. You cannot
have the system transfer individual types of text. In
addition cross-country code correspondence in release
4.5 allows data from many company codes to be
grouped together.
As of release 4.5 you can create worklists for account

numbers and company codes in the balance displays for:
You define the worklists in customizing as previously.

Eliminates extra screen
Balance Display For the balance display in the general ledger, all the
processing
company codes in the worklist must have the same local
currency and the same fiscal year variant.
If you have several parallel local currencies, the
worklist can still be used: the data on the parallel local
currencies can then, however, not be displayed.
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In the SAP R/3 System, line items posted in one
currency can be paid in a different (alternative)
currency when paying line items manually. Payers in
certain countries and industries also require this
facility during automatic payment transactions so that
they can make payments in any given currency available
to them.
As a rule, payers and the vendors either come to a
Manual process reuired to
general agreement on what constitute acceptable
pay in another currency,
Payment Currency alternative currencies, or they agree on the payment
eliminates multiple payment
currency and the payment amount per transaction.
runs
Prior to Release 4.5A, payments in an alternative
currency could only be created and posted manually. As
of Release 4.5A, it is now possible to enter a payment
currency that differs from the document currency in
the open item. You can also specify an amount
equivalent to the gross amount of the item in the
payment currency.
The
This following enhancements
payment currency have been
is supported madeAccounts
in both for
dunning in 4.0:
A single customer or vendor can be dunned using the

individual dunning notice switch in transaction F150.
This enables you to see the current dunning status, and
to make a sample printout or an actual printout of the
dunning notice. For individual dunning notices, an
MHNK/MHND record is only written in the actual
Dunning Reporting
printout.
As of 4.0, it is possible to group dunning notices for one-

time accounts.
In each company code, sort variants for dunning notice

headers and lines can be maintained in table T047.
The interest calculation indicator set for the dunning

procedure can be used for each dunning area.
dunning
By installing interfaces, it is possible to carry out
customer-specific enhancements or modifications.
data, has been adjusted to the new address

management or the changed user address data in
SAPoffice. New fields have been included. However,
some fields are no longer supplied, e.g. cost center.
dunning notices.
media attached.
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Lockbox, which has, until now, been retrieved from the
house bank using normal telecommunications or a
lockbox provider, can now be received using Electronic
Data Interchange (EDI). The data flows into the
system automatically and you can process it there.
EDI lockbox processing consists of three steps. In the
Lock Box Processing first step, the data is automatically imported into the
system and stored in the IM bank data store. The next
step is top schedule the report program RFEBLB30;
this uses the lockbox data to generate the following
postings. The last step is to process the lockbox data
using transaction FLB1.
In release 4.5A the depreciation-posting program
RABUCH00 was changed to use Basis technology for
parallel processing. As a result, it is possible to
distribute the workload to several servers and work
processes, which considerably reduces the overall
runtime.
In addition, the program now offers the option of
directly posting the depreciation posting documents,
Improved performance using RFC during
instead of creating a batch-input session. You can Ease of use/ productity
depreciation posting
choose this option using a report parameter. When you
use this function, the step of processing the batch
input session is no longer required, which again
considerably reduces the overall runtime for
depreciation posting. As compared to posting using the
batch-input session, the system creates fewer
documents when you choose the direct posting option.
However, these documents have more line items
Using SAP enhancement AISA0001, you can have the
Automatic assignment of the inventory system automatically assign an inventory number when
Ease of use/ productity
numbers you create a new asset master record. The new number
is assigned according to rules you define.
In Release 4.5A, you can steer periodic processing in
Asset Accounting using the Period-End Partner. The
Period-End Partner (PEP) is a general tool in the
Accounting components of the R/3 System. It makes it
easier to control periodic processing, and in the future
will help to make these processes automatic as far as
Period-end partnner for asset accounting possible. Using the Period-End Partner you can display Ease of use/ productity
the current status of the period-end closing.
You can use the Period-End Partner to control either
the posting depreciation process or the posting of
asset values (other than depreciation) process in Asset
Accounting.
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As of release 4.5A you can carry out document

summarization in Controlling for postings from external
accounting. Depending on the object type you define
Summary for external accounting documents Ease of use/ productity
the fields that are not to appear in the CO document.
You can only use those fields for summarization that
contain no information of relevance to Controlling.
Change documents for groups: You can write change
documents for all groups within Controlling if you have
made the corresponding settings in the Implementation
Guide (IMG) "Controlling General". Based on the
change documents you can make changes to the group
at any time. All changes to the group structure and the
Group maintenance group name are logged, together with the date of the Ease of use/ productity
change and the user. Selection variants in group
maintenance: You can use the following functions for
selection variants when you maintain groups of cost
elements, cost centers, activity types, business
processes, orders and WBS
elements. Processing master data from the standard

hierarchy: Until now, you structured the standard
hierarchy and created cost centers or business
processes in two separate steps. It was only possible
through master data maintenance to assign a cost
center or a business process to a node of the standard
hierarchy or to change the assignment of a cost center
or business process to a node. As of Release 4.5A it is
possible to edit the standard hierarchy and cost
centers or business processes at the same time. This
simplifies maintenance. It is not yet possible to edit
master data for profit centers from standard
hierarchy maintenance.
Making sure there are no
zeros in tranfer costs-data
Transfer Pricing
integrity. Ease of use, less
effort to maintain/efficiency
Ease of use/ productity,also

have the ability to capture
Planning, Budgeting & Foecasting Ability to upload spreadsheet data i.e. budgets
actuals & create plans based
on them (efficiency)
In Release 4.5A, you can link together several
appropriation requests that can be seen as alternative
methods of implementing a measure or as different
alternate investment options. These alternate
Enhancement to PS
Appropriation requests appropriation requests are linked by means of the
(investment manager only)
original appropriation request (that is, the first of the
alternates that was created).
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This function goes a step further than the

appropriation request variants by allowing you to link
very different alternatives (such as, do we build a plant
in the USA or in Spain?) together in the system. Up
until release 4.5A the "program position ID" field was
not available in the master data screen for internal
orders. In Release 4.5A, the "program position ID"
field is included in the screen layout of appropriation
requests. It can now be defined as a required entry
field in appropriation request master data.
In Release 4.5A, you can reassign measures and

appropriation requests, which are assigned to a
program position, within the investment program. You
Enhancement to PS
can also select a limited number of the measures and
(investment manager only)
appropriation requests that are assigned to a program
Capital Investment Programs Will check with Amy to see if
position, and reassign only those measures or requests.
benefits were ever applied to
Reassigned measures take all of their plan, budget and
this area
actual values with them. At the level of the investment
program, the system automatically makes the
necessary changes to the plan values and budget values.
A large amount of data entry

Mass maintenance makes it easier to enter large can be avoided using this tool,
amounts of data. To meet these requirements, R/3 saving time. Another benefit
version 4.5 contains a central tool that can be used by would be data integrity.
Mass Change Functionality
various applications. Supported master data includes Eliminates interface costs by
material master, article master, customer master, and developing one central
vendor master. program to port data that is
This is a thin GUI client for an SAP System. Running as useable to all BAPIs
a Java applet in an Internet browser, it provides
Internet access to an R/3 or R/2 System. Since it can
also run as an application, it provides an alternative
GUI for client platforms that do not have their own
"native" SAPgui. SAPgui in Java consists of two
components - the SAPgui server, and a Java applet.
SAPgui in JAVA 45,000
The SAPgui server is a normal (multi-threaded) SAPgui
without the GUI part. Instead, it has an API, which
the GUI can use to make itself a SAPgui. It is a
standalone program, and must run on a host that has a
connection to an R/3 or an R/2 System. For
performance reasons, it is written in C++.
Displays all transactions posted to asset, as well as Displays comprehensive
depreciation (planned & posted) by depreciation area, information in a single screen;
From 4.5 To 4.6 Asset Explorer (replaces asset value display) navigated via left panel. Parameters tab displays user no longer has to consult
select asset control data. User may change asset several screens for relevant
displayed without leaving the screen. asset information.
User can create & post to an asset in a single screen;
Fixed Assets-Single Screen Postings additionally, a posting no longer requires a transaction Faster data entry.
type.
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Enhancement AIST0002 allows the user to define Minimizes end-user confusion

fields in the master data record as needed. Previously, as a result of
Fixed Assets- User Defined fields in master
users could use only "informational" fields, such as counterintuitive field names;
record
inventory number, to meet unique master data better able to meet the
requirements and the field name could not be changed. unique needs of the client.
Previously, an end-user would simply be prohibited from
posting to an asset if the cost center was locked to
primary postings. Workflow functionality in 4.6 now Reduces the occurrence of
Fixed Assets-Notification of cost center
generates a list of the locked cost centers and notifies end users encountering
change
the cost center agent, with the option of changing the assets locked for posting.
cost center on the asset manually or via mass
substitution.
Makes period end closing more convenient.
Schedule Manager replaces Period End Parter Documentation will guide end user through the first
steps.
Reduced standard FI invoice

Enhanced Usability Improved interface for recording a standard FI invoice recording time/increased
productivity
Reduced G/L account posting

Enhanced Usability Improved interface for G/L account posting
time/increased productivity
Quick entry in a one-screen

transaction that corresponds
with the usual forms on paper.
Split screens show all
necessary information at the
same time. Trips that have
already been entered are
Travel Managemennt Improved interface for G/L account posting
presented clearly in a tree
structure.
As the traveler, you do not
need to enter a personnel
number or trip number. You
can select the trips to be
processed from a4.6,
Before Release treeseven
The Cash Journal transaction lets you enter, display,
screens were required
and change cash movements in a business easily and
altogether for this
quickly. It works independently of other posting
transaction:Three screens
transactions. Opening and closing balances, as well as
for entering one cash
Cash Journal receipts and payments balances are automatically
movement. Two screens for
calculated. Receipts can be printed at the touch of a
monitoring the balances. Two
button.
screens for
No particular R/3 Finance knowledge is necessary to
displaying/reporting the
operate the cash journal.
journal contents. In Release
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Using the Edit G/L account master record transaction, Prior to Release 4.6, the
you can create, change, and display G/L accounts master record transaction
quickly and with clarity. The G/L account texts can be required a minimum of three
translated directly when creating or changing master screens. The translation
records. A separate transaction is no longer needed. transaction used an additional
G/L Account Master You are now able to create the corresponding cost two screens. There was no
element automatically when creating a G/L account. connection to the cost
Additionally, a connection for editing financial element master data, to the
statement versions and sets was also created, allowing financial statement version,
direct access to the line item in the financial nor to sets.
statement version or set as assigned in the reference
An invoice is entered in a single screen (even with Prior to Release 4.6, the
multiple offsetting entries); account assignment models invoice entry transaction
Vendor Invoice Entry are displayed on the left panel. Personalization required three screens &
through user options (e.g., screen variants displayed on user options, such as account
the left panel) and drag & drop. assignment models, required
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Release Delta Functionality Functionality Description Business Benefit Data/Calculation Experience Estimate One-Time
Up to Release 4.0A, you were only able to enter the This contributes to increased
local currency in requisition items for a material functionality within the release
without a material master record. As of release 4.0A, process and more efficient
you can also work with foreign currencies. You can also business practices, thus saving
display all purchase orders, requisitions, and outline time.
purchase agreements relating to projects, networks and
WBS elements. Benefits of this new functionality
include enhanced use of business when dealing with
foreign currencies and enhanced display capabilities. Up (Cost per PO*#of annual Pos)-
From 3.1 to 4.0 Purchase Requisitions to Release 4.0A, purchase requisitions could only be (Reduced cost per PO*#of Pos
released or approved on an item-wise basis. As of 4.0A annually)
you can also release a complete purchase requisition.
For the purpose of determining the release strategy,
the data from the items is aggregated. An obvious
benefit would be that speed and efficiency is increased
during the requisitions release process. As of release
4.0B, you can link the process of releasing purchase
orders to the SAP workflow facility. This is
particularly advisable if employees, whose normal duties
involve tasks other than releasing purchase orders, are
As of release 4.0A, you can send requisitions, purchase Use SAPoffice to automate RFQs,
orders, RFQs, scheduling agreements, and contracts as can output as email and autofax to (Cost per PO*#of annual Pos)-
Communication attachments via SAPoffice. This tool increases conduct business with vendors (Reduced cost per PO*#of Pos
capabilities when sending out purchasing documents to reduing RFP costs through lower annually)
vendors, saving time and cost of shipping documents. mail costs and improved efficiency.
There is a simplified procurement process using blanket

purchase orders. Up to release 4.0A, when you ordered
material to be consumed immediately you had to create
Lower costs per PO. Provides
a purchase order for each requirement. For example,
greater flexibility in the
the procurement of office supplies from a single vendor (Cost per PO*#of annual Pos)-
procurement process for the
Purchase Orders in a year might have required the creation of several (Reduced cost per PO*#of Pos
company and its vendors. Lowers
purchase orders. As of release 4.0A, it is possible to annually)
the cost of the procurement cycle
create purchase orders with a value limit and a validity
while improving cycle time.
period (instead of a delivery date). In a blanket
purchase order, you merely set a value limit and enter a
brief general description of what the order covers (e.g.
The use of such longer term purchase orders with value

limits allows you to procure various materials or
services from a vendor for which the creation and
processing of individual POs is regarded as both time
consuming and uneconomical. Also in release 4.0A, you
can purchase materials using the vendors part number
or the manufacturer‟s part number in the procurement
process.

In Release 4.0, enhancements have been made to the
Logistics Invoice Verification function. Invoice
verification in the background is now possible for
invoices with large amounts of data for which no item This function increases the
check is required. Evaluated Receipt Settlements efficiency and functionality while
(ERS) is now possible within Logistics Invoice performing invoice verification
Logistics Invoice Cost per error * reduction in
Verification. As of Release 4.0A you can post a vendor ultimately reducing errors and
Verification annually errors
invoice in Logistics Invoice Verification and have the costs associated with the invoice
system post a credit memo for the difference between correction process. Use ERS
the value of the invoice and the value for which the before it gets past to FI
system expected an invoice. The vendor will also
receive a letter of complaint detailing the invoice
reduction.
You can now assign many storage locations of a plant to
the same warehouse number Up to release 3.1, you could
only manage the stock of one storage location within a
Obvious benefits include increased
warehouse number for each plant. With Release 4.0,
and efficient use of storage space
this limitation has been removed because the business
as well as enhanced flexibility in
implications of the organizational unit storage location
handling bulk material. A huge
have increased, therefore more than one storage
benefit in using this tool is to
location per plant is to be defined. This enhancement
recognize error situations and
allows you to either represent the ownership status of
processes automatically and
companies, or be able to make important planning
quickly, to display them, and to
decisions at this level.
provide support in analyzing and
Also with release 4.0A you can perform an active
removing the actual errors. This
capacity check. It is possible to have the capacity check
could save much re-work and
run actively for different storage strategies, that is,
shipping costs and improve
any bin found is first checked with respect to its
customer service
capacity and only proposed if the capacity is sufficient.
There is also a warehouse activity monitor with release
4.0A, which is a tool used to monitor processes in
the warehouse, critical situations in particular. You can
define when a situation or a process is to be classified
by the warehouse activity monitor as critical. The
warehouse activity monitor provides monitoring tasks
for objects in the WM component such as transfer
orders, transfer requirements, critical stock situations,
deliveries (provided they are relevant for the WM
System), and posting change notices.
The Data Transfer Workbench supports the automatic

transfer of data from your legacy system into the R/3
System. The Workbench provides you with access to
the standard programs as well as with the necessary
Using this functionality will save
tools for transferring data. For example, with release
Data Transfer Workbench time in transferring data as well
4.0A, some of the objects you can transfer to the R/3
as improve data integrity.
system using the workbench are the G/L account master
record, material master, vendor master, customer
master, condition records, sales documents, financial
documents, rental contracts, etc.

areas listed below.
This tool will aid in system
In the medium to long term it is planned to change all
performance and ease of
applications to this central address management. In the
maintenance by data being
new CAM the data will be managed in its own database
Central Address managed in its own tables -
tables. All application objects will only store a
Management efficiency benefits. Can't use
reference to the address key. There are addresses
multiple vendor addresses from 3.1
changed to CAM for 4.0A, there are applications in
need to check if 4.5 has multiple
which the address function is new in 4.0A, and there
address capability
are applications in which the CAM was used in a Release
before 4.0.

Browser for displaying HTML-based online help in the
R/3-System. It is based on the Microsoft Internet
Explorer 3.0x or the Netscape Navigator 3.0. The R/3
This viewer is friendly & faster
library, the extended help, IMG documents and the
way of accessing and seeing the
glossary are displayed with the Info Object Viewer.
Info Object Viewer help documentation ultimately
The Info Object Viewer is available on all front-end
saving time and improving
platforms (UNIX, OS/2, Macintosh, Windows 16 bit and
efficiency.
Windows 32 Bit). The software and hardware
requirements can vary depending on the platform and
the HTML based online help (help type) variant used.

(optional in 4.0A). In a remote copy, large clients can be
copied without main memory problems.
Values such as source client or source destination can
Data integrity and transfer
Client Copy and Transport be saved for profiles. Since all necessary profiles are
efficiency
delivered by SAP, you are not allowed to create
customer profiles.
With Release 4.0A, it is possible to specify that spool

mailed automatically to one or more recipients. The mail This increases efficient
functionality of the SAPoffice component is used for communication and saves time and
the automatic mailing. The spool request(s) may be mailing costs. Example: Order
Automatic mailing of spool mailed to a single R/3 mail user, to an external user, or exception report can be used to
request output from to a distribution list that can include multiple R/3 mail send email or fax, or run a
background jobs and external mail users. The mail recipient can be generalized open order status &
identified by his or her R/3 user ID or by the user's routing to buyers. Has the
name in the R/3 address management component. potential to automate core report
Addressing by name in the address management distribution systems.
requires that user address information be maintained in
the R/3 SAPoffice.

Vendor-managed inventory involves vendors offering

their customers the service of planning replenishments
of vendor materials at the customer plant. The new
functions allow VMI to be modeled from both a vendor
and a customer point of view. VMI is typically used by Using this functionality will
manufacturers of consumer products that plan decrease inventory costs and data
replenishments of their products at retailers. Some of entry while improving data
From 4.0 To 4.5 Vendor Managed Inventory
the functions of vendor-managed inventory include integrity. Inventory benefits
transferring and receiving stock and sales data by EDI. include one time reductions as well
In these cases a customer can, for example, transfer as annual carrying cost benefits
the stock data for certain materials to the
manufacturer so that the manufacturer can gear their
production to customer requirements and deliver the
quantities required by the customer on time.
At the same time the manufacturer would use this

function to receive the current stock and sales data
from a customer so that replenishments can then be
planned for the customer. Obvious subsequent activities
include planning replenishments for customers then
creating a purchase order for an order acknowledgment
received by EDI.
As of release 4.5A, you can specify in the default values

for buyers that the system is only to take into account
This increase efficiency during
Vendor Selection sources that are able to deliver on the desired date
vendor selection.
during the source determination process for purchase
requisitions.
Mass maintenance makes it easier to enter large

amounts of data. To meet these requirements, R/3 A large amount of data entry can
version 4.5 contains a central tool that can be used by be avoided using this tool, saving
Mass Change
various applications. Supported master data includes time. Another benefit would be
material master, article master, customer master, and data integrity.
vendor master.
This is a thin GUI client for an SAP System. Running as

a Java applet in an Internet browser, it provides
Eliminate the need to obtain
Internet access to an R/3 or R/2 System. Since it can
complete separate internet
SAPgui in JAVA also run as an application, it provides an alternative GUI
application reducing installation
for client platforms that do not have their own "native"
and adminisrations costs.
SAPgui. SAPgui in Java consists of two components - the
SAPgui server, and a Java

applet. The Java applet is also installed on the server,
but runs on the Java virtual machine (VM) in the
Internet browser once it has been loaded onto the
client. It calls the functions of the remote GUI server,
allowing it to retrieve R/3 data and return details of
user interaction.
The downloaded Java applet establishes a connection
with the R/3 System by making remote method calls
through the Inter-ORB protocol (IIOP). The SAPgui
server interprets these calls. This means that clients
only need a browser that supports Java (or a Java VM)
to be able to access R/3 Systems from anywhere in the
world - no other software components are required.
This reduces installation and administration costs
considerably. The SAPgui server is a normal (multi-
threaded) SAPgui without the GUI part. Instead, it has
an API, which the GUI can use to make itself a SAPgui.
It is a standalone program, and must run on a host that
has a connection to an R/3 or an R/2 System. For
As of Release 4.6, the number of applications that Mass

Maintenance supports has increased. It now includes
From 4.5 To 4.6 Mass Maintenance
Purchase orders, Purchase requisitions, Purchasing info
records, and Rental units.
There are new selection limitations in the initial screen

of the collective display (only the stock/requirements
list). Safety stock is not included in plant stock. It is
displayed in a separate row. The processing indicator is
accessed and viewed easier. The search function has
Consumption Based Planning:
been standardized. Traffic lights indicate the urgency
Enjoy Evaluation Lists
of materials that need to be processed based on range
of coverage and exception groups. A Symbol column
exists to give a one-click access to the detail dialog box.
Plant and MRP area are ready for input only when the
material exists in more than one plant or MRP area.
period totals and switching between periods. There is a
direct branch to customizing or other applications by
double-clicking certain fields. All pushbuttons that
refer to individual MRP elements in the respective list
are displayed below the list, clearly differentiating
these functions from general functions. The function
Calculate ATP quantity has been replaced by a branch to
the function Availability overview (CO09). Four new
branches are provided for Configuration, Quota
arrangement, Production version, and Product structure.

MRP exception group texts can be assigned to company-

Evaluation Lists specific exception messages. Exception group 8,
Terminations, is the only group that cannot be modified.
Previously, the ways to navigate between materials in

the MRP list and the stock/requirements list were,
entry of a new material number, sequential scroll in the
list sequence of the collective display, and access using
different transactions (for example, collective order,
material master). As of Release 4.6, the overview tree
makes navigation between materials quicker and more
comfortable. By double-clicking a material in the
overview tree, the corresponding list is immediately
accessed. In addition, a search function has been
provided in the worklist tree to search through the list
of displayed materials by certain criteria.
There are three different views available in the
overview tree. A pushbutton exists to provide
functionality to toggle between views.The Worklist tree
displays all materials that have been processed in the
respective transaction call, or all materials that were
selected in the collective display. In this view, the
displayed materials can be grouped and sorted, fields
are defined to be displayed in the overview tree, values
are defined for the traffic lights, and the worklist can
be limited using a search function. The Order tree
displays all assemblies or components for a chosen MRP
element, for example, a planned order. The display is
hierarchic and corresponds to the order report. When
this list is accessed from the collective display using a
product group, the Product group tree displays this
product group with all sub-product groups and assigned
A variable print option has been provided for Print list.
It displays a separate list which can be edited before it
is printed. It contains just the filtered MRP elements.
The list can be further filtered, sorted, and sequenced.
Column widths can be defined. These settings can be
saved as a display variant. When the goods receipt date
is chosen instead of the availability date, or when
safety time is activated, the settings is taken into
consideration for the print. When the storage location
and BOM explosion number columns appear, or when
customer or vendor columns have been activiated, these
columns are considered in the print.

Before Release 4.6, the unit of measure used in detail
dialog boxes for MRP elements in the MRP list and the
stock/requirements list was always the base unit of
measure. Due to the different units of measure, the
quantities in the detail dialog boxes for MRP elements
were not the same as the quantities in the list. Now, the
unit of measure for the detail dialog box is always the
same as that chosen as the first of the two possible
units for the display of the list. Quantities and units of
measure agree in both displays.
Up to now, only a few settings in the MRP list and the
stock/requirements list could be saved on a permanent
basis. All other settings were valid only for the current
display. A new pushbutton, Settings, can be used to
define a record of parameters, which control the
display and the processing of the lists. The settings can
be used for the current display or saved permanently.
The settings are valid for both the MRP list and the
stock/requirements list. The following can be set,
Display of detailed information for the material, Display
of the overview tree, Sort for the individual segments,
Activation of requirements grouping, Display of period
totals, Definition of requirements/receipt date,
Activation of safety time, Display of the total
replenishment lead time, Activation and selection of a
display filter and selection rule, Selection of the unit of
measure, Selection of the checking rule for the ATP
display, and Assignment of a navigation profile.
Up to now, less exception messages were displayed in
the stock/requirements list than were displayed in the
MRP list. These display lists and the corresponding
processes have been brought into line, as far as
possible. The most important changes are exception
message 30, Plan process according to schedule, exists
in both evaluation lists and rescheduling check in the
stock/ requirements list is done automatically by the
system in all lists. The corresponding exception
messages appear immediately.
Customer-specific programming is available. SAP

provides you with two example reports and a function
module. Experts can use these to create programs for
the MRP list and the stock/requirements list.

Prior to Release 4.6, the MRP list or the
stock/requirements list only branched to certain fixed
transactions using the standard branches under
Environment. Today transaction calls may be user-
defined. Transactions are then reached by pressing a
single key. When certain fields are predefined, initial
screens can be skipped. The transaction calls can be
general or specific to a certain MRP element. You define
the transaction calls on a user-specific basis or group
them tocomparison
Volume a navigationhas
profile in Customizing.
additional functionality. It is
now also possible to carry out a comparison for the
periodic conditions. Business volume data can be edited
at any level of the key fields "Plant", "Tax code" "Goods
supplier" and "Month" (analysis period). In the
statistics, the data entered can then be expanded to
the most detailed level on the basis of the updated
business volume data. Business volume data can be
Subsequent Settlement
entered for plants for which no business volume exists
in R/3. Tolerance limits can be defined (business volume
tolerance groups) within which the business volume for
an arrangement is to be compared. These limits can be
defined individually for each user. If the defined
tolerance limits are exceeded, either warnings or error
messages are issued, depending on the Customizing
settings.
In Subsequent Settlement, message determination can
be used to create messages with SAPscript for
settlement runs and arrangements. Messages can be
printed out and sent to business partners for
information. This function is particularly important if
settlement occurs across company codes at plant level,
which means that several settlement documents are
created for one vendor. Message output from the
individual settlement documents does not make sense in
this case. Message determination can be used to group
together this information in one form for the vendor.
It is now possible to output a list of business volume
data using the "Detailed statement" and "Statement of
statistical data" report, and display and enter the
business volume comparison, using flexible aggregation
and sort levels. This provides a flexible and powerful
tool for grouping together (aggregating), and sorting
data according to all existing characteristics (such as
plant, tax code, goods supplier, etc.) for display
purposes and (in the case of the business volume
comparison) entry purposes. For the "Detailed
statement" and "Statement of statistical data" report,
aggregation and sort levels replace the previous
function "Scope of statement".

Subsequent Settlement is now incorporated in

Profitability Analysis. This means that the data from
the settlement document (customer/vendor billing
document) can be used in Profitability Analysis.
The new purchase order design places the requirements

of the user in the foreground. It supports the fast and
straightforward execution of purchasing activities, in
Enjoy Purchase Order
particular through the implementation of best-practice
ergonomic principles. There are several key advantages
of the Enjoy purchase order.
All information is presented on a single transaction
screen. Jumping back and forth between different
windows and the use of an "initial screen" is a thing of
the past. It is possible to switch between Create,
Change, and Display modes without navigation.
As of Release 4.6, it is also possible to store faulty or
incomplete POs in the R/3 System (that is, to "hold"
them). In contrast to saved purchase orders, "held" POs
are not transmitted to the vendor and cannot be
released (approved). Neither can any follow-on
documents be posted.
Purchase order messages can be set so that the system
will issue any relevant messages while the purchase
order is being worked on or record all such messages in
an error log to be processed later. A status column in
the item overview shows which PO items are faulty.
The material, item, category, and plant can be

subsquently changed as long as no follow-on documents
have been posted.
When entering the vendor/supplying plant, material

group, storage location, or plant, it is sufficient to enter
just parts of the name instead of the complete number.
The system will then suggest the relevant data.
PO items can be displayed according to certain criteria.

Filter functionality has been added to the purchase
order.
Items can be adopted from reference documents (such

as requisitions, other POs, or RFQs) in a purchase order
being created simply by dragging with the mouse or
clicking a button.
Master data is easily accessible. Master records for

vendors and materials can be displayed by double
clicking on the relevant field.

Header or item texts can be entered with the
conventional word-processing facility or a new
continuous text editor which, among other things,
supports automatic line breaks and searches for and
replacement of text. Note that with this editor
formatting and word-processing commands for a
SAPScript text are lost.
The Send function has been enhanced. Forecasted data
can also be sent. Normal and promotions data can be
Vendor Managed Inventory differentiated. The Recipient function has be enhanced.
Normal and promotions data can be differentiated using
the separate fields for historical and forecasted data.
User friendliness is the keynote of the new

developments within the framework of the EnjoySAP
Enjoy External Services Management
initiative. The Enjoy functions for External Services
Management provide the basis for greater working
efficiency and higher productivity.
For each function there is a central screen on which

relevant data can be maintained. All important functions
can be carried out on a single screen. In the service
master and the service entry sheet, it is possible to
switch between display, create, and change modes
without navigation. This simplifies orientation and
obviates that time-consuming jumping between several
screens.
Clearly grouped fields, which can be displayed as

required, make it easier to find information that is
available in the system. There are also graphical
elements such as overview trees, which can be
additionally display on the left half of the screen in
order to search for Service specification outlines (full
service screen), Services (service master), and Purchase
orders with their associated entry sheets (service
entry). From these overview trees, information can be
selected to be displayed, changed, or copied. Display
variants are user definable within the overview trees.
As of Release 4.6A, each service does not need to be

saved individually. Instead, all processed services can be
saved together before exiting the transaction.

As of Release 4.6A, you can use the report, Time Sheet:
Time Leveling, to check the data recorded for time
sheets. The report allows selection of data records
according to the particular circumstances, to check
whether employees completed their planned working
time or target hours, or whether they worked overtime.
Time Sheet
If the report identifies deviations from the planned
working time or target hours, the employees concerned
can be notified automatically by mail. Detailed
information on the data records can be accessed by
switching from the report display screen to the display
or maintenance screen for the time sheet.
As of this release, there are two additional workflow
tasks available, which both allow the recipient to be
determined automatically, Approval by superior and
Approval by time administrator.
The Data Transfer Report has been enhanced. It can be

used for data transfers for all target components
(except Materials Management) in one step.
The process for analysing errors that occurred when

transferring time sheet data to SAP Logistics (Project
System, Plant Maintenance, and Customer Service) has
been simplified and is available for all confirmations.
The new Display errors function is available for this.
As of this release, almost all of the usual SAP System

Time Sheet functions are available in the Internet
Application Component (IAC), Internet Time Sheet.
Users can now enter clock times and information on
confirmations, and print their time sheets. In addition,
workflow can be implemented workflow for the approval
procedure.
A new interface is available to transfer time data

recorded using the time recording software currently
implemented in an external system to the Time Sheet,
where it can be postprocessed as usual.
As of Release 4.6A, the Enjoy transaction MIGO can be

used to post goods movements. This transaction will
Enjoy Goods Receipt
currently replace MB01, MB0A, MBRL, MBSF, MBNL,
MBST, MB02, and MB03.
The redesigned Logistics Invoice Verification

transaction, Enter Invoice (MIRO), focuses on the
Enjoy Logistics Invoice Verification
needs of the users. By applying guidelines on ergonomics,
it allows quick and simple completion of all tasks. There
are many advantages.

Header data and item data is maintained on one central
screen. There is no longer a need to switch between
different windows or process an initial screen. Invoices,
credit memos, subsequent debits, and subsequent
credits can be entered and posted in Logistics Invoice
Verification.
In the PO structure, the system displays the business
transactions, depending on the allocation made. A choice
can be made from the following allocations: purchase
order/scheduling agreement, service entry sheet,
delivery note, bill of lading. If the PO structure is not
needed, it can be hid. More space is then made available
for processing.
In Release 4.6A, invoices can be parked. The function,
Invoice Overview (MR1B), is used to continue processing
the invoice document. System messages that occur
during processing are collected in a log. This allows the
user to enter all the data first and process errors or
variances afterwards. A status display shows you the
status of the messages collected.Notes related to the
invoice can be entered and saved.
Only part of the vendor name or number needs to be
entered. The system then suggests the appropriate
data. Vendor master records, line items and bank
details can be displayed from the central screen.
Purchase orders can be displayed by doubleclicking on
the column Purchase order on the invoice item list. The
system displays the balance on the central screen. The
transaction defaults the first company code entered.
The company code can be switched via a pushbutton.
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Release Delta Functionality Functionality Description Business Benefit Support Data/Calculation Estimate
Experience Time
First components: Customer order recording,

Customer order status, Available-to-Promise. Initial
foundation for Internet enable applications.This
Reduction in cost of sales, reduced cycle
Internet Application Components enable SAP customers to provide around the clock
3.0 to 3.1 times related to component and MRO
(IACs) access for their customers, giving them self-service
purchasing,
capabilities, thus eliminating customer calls to the
order desk for ordering, checking order status, and
product availability.
The availability check control (scope of The check)

was enhanced to include production order checking. Ability to commit to delivery or more
Sales: Availability Check
This enhancement enables SAP users to view items product, resulting in increased revenue
in production as if they were on hand.
– New enhancement that will allow SAP users to set
default percentages using milestone for dates in
billing plans. Users can enter a percentage in
Ability to make payments/receive
standard milestones and operative milestones. This
payments made for product and services
Sales Contracts enables users to be more specific as to what is
as performed, resulting in more accurate
actually billed, thereby ensuring a more accurate
cash flow
representation of what milestones have been
reached and what percentage has been
accomplished for the contract.
New sections in customizing: Maintain freight code
sets and freight codes and External Transportation
Planning Systems. These are a precursor to SAP
planned functionality for R/3 Release 4.5 and
beyond, for freight determination and managing
product movements through various freighting
Transportation
companies. An interface is available as of 3.1G, that
allows users to transmit shipping orders and
transportation information to service agent (e.g.
forwarding agent, customs agent). This guarantees
efficient information flow between the R/3 system
and external systems.
– This release enables users to create export

licenses that are only valid for certain terms of
payment, as well as certain business transactions.
This can be done by entering the document number
of an SD order in License Maintenance which will
ensure that an export for a certain business
Compliance to Gov't regulations, reduced
transaction. In the customer master in the Foreign
Foreign Trade risk associated with 3rd party reporting or
Trade screen you can specify whether the customer
inaccurate data
has been on a boycott/embargo list. Also each
export license types will help the user determine
what is authorized for export, such as to military or
civilian customers. It is also now possible to do
export control by product / material only using export
license master legal regulations check.
EC requirement compliance, reduction in

processing time due to automated $1 M savings, Microsoft
Full capabilities to generate quote, order, invoice $ 500,000 lost revenue
From 3.1 To 4.0 Euro support currency conversion, potential new Computerworld Article, March 1, One-Time
and payment in Euro avoidance
markets, competitve edge, prevention of 1999 pg.78
lost revenue
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With Release 4.0, it is possible to specify that spool

mailed automatically to one or more recipients. The
mail functionality of the SAPoffice component is
used for the automatic mailing. The spool request(s)
This functionality increases efficient
may be mailed to a single R/3 mail user, to an
Automatic mailing of spool request communication, reduces cycle time and (# of reports generated annually
external user, or to a distribution list that can include
output from background jobs. decreases postage costs associated with * savings per report)
multiple R/3 mail and external mail users. The mail
internal/external reports
recipient can be identified by his or her R/3 user ID
or by the user's name in the R/3 address
management component. Addressing by name in
the address management requires that user address
information be maintained in the R/3 SAPoffice.
Simple order processing additional functions.

Another “group” of enhancements that follow are
stated together since they are similar in benefit for
sales order processing. As of release 4.0A the sales
area can be derived from the sold-to or ship-to This would benefit the telephone sales (# of calls handled per year *
parties when entering a sales document. Many times scenario when order entry personnel are saving per order in dollars) ,
Automatic Dial Up Screen Pop Up order entry personnel will not know the sales area, not sure of what type of order is needed, Increased revenue do to ability 400,000 Annual
now they don’t have to. This saves order entry time. or the customer isn’t sure if they need a to cross sell (due to additional
Additionally, as of 4.0A you can enter sales quote, inquiry, regular order, etc. data entry time)
documents via ship-to party and not just sold-to
party. Personnel might know the ship-to and not yet
the sold-to at order entry time, now there will be no
delay in processing.
New screen interface/friendlier look, faster

processing. As of release 4.0 there is a new user
interface for sales documents including tab or index (% reduction in time it takes to
card technology which groups all data together that create an order). 5 minutes per
New Screen Interface & Simple belongs together. The new interface works with order savings X 20 orders/day x
Productivity in the order desk area
Order Processing Additional flexible tables so you can adjust display during 250 days x 15 order entry 112,500 Annual
Inquiry cycle time reduction
Functions processing to match your requirements. Results staff=6250 hours/year x
would be intuitive navigation between processing $18/hour (loaded hourly labor
screens, reduction in number of screen changes, rates)= $ 112,500 savings /year
and easier and faster communication of sales
processing.
These transportation enhancements

significantly decrease data entry,
decrease time in communication, improve
Actual shipment cost and a matrix can be created to
error finding, and decrease costs and
develop actual costs for each shipment. Include
increase revenue. Currently the client
actual costs in Customer bill and delivery notice. As
may roughly correlate delivery charges to
of release 4.0A the transportation component has
actual. With an upgrade, The client can
been enhanced with the shipment cost document to Cost per error * reduction in
Shipping And Transportation identify "buried" premium charges, home
include entry and administration of shipping cost annually errors
delivery or internet for consumer - offer
relevant data, calculation of shipment costs via
customer options for delivery.
shipment header or stage, and settlement with
Transportation contract valuation - are we
transportation service agents and forwarding costs
getting value from our transportation
to FI.
providers? Close the gap between what
customer is billed for delivery and what it
actually costs
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New to release 4.0A, the system now contains the

basic tools to handle payment cards in a variety of
business processes including sales and distribution,
retail point of sale, financial accounting, and internet Reduced to real-time, Epson
commerce. You can integrate payment card Singapore,"Rising to the Challenge",
activities into sales, delivery and billing processes, SAPInfo magazine, special issue,
manage complicated sales scenarios, exchange May 1999, pg.20, Reduced from 15-
information with authorizing clearing houses, Uncollected A/R now 20 mins to real time, IBM, from "A
Credit Card Processing AR, AP sales order processing 400,000
approximate card processing costs, authorize and recoverable Different Shade of Blue: How IBM
import data from external systems, and carry out the transformed itself using the power of
general settlement process. This enhancement did networked information," Doug
not exist in previous R/3 releases and is a huge Bartholomew, Industry Week, 7/7/97,
requirement in the basic business process of p.58
collecting payment. Benefits include financial
settlement much faster, reduced paperwork, and
reduced manual entry.
A huge benefit of using this functionality

In R/3 release 4.0A, you can use picking waves to
would be better time management
create work packages in shipping. A picking wave
regarding sending delivery due lists to the
consists of several deliveries that are processed at
warehouse for shipment. By setting up
the same time. Assignment of deliveries to picking
waves you can manage when to send
waves is based on time criteria (for instance, all
deliveries due to the warehouse either by
deliveries with the same goods issue time are
time, location, priority, etc. The client
assigned to a picking wave). Functions available
warehouse would have much more
with wave picking are simulation before actual
capability to create dynamic delivery do
Picking Waves creation, as well as observation of capacity limits
list. Also create communication tool for
during actual creation. You can create picking waves
customers who use their own trucks to
either online or in background processing. Wave
pick up goods. More flexibility and
picking can help your warehouse capacity planning
efficiency in the warehouse plus helps
by controlling how loads get dropped to the
prioritize picking & packing. Can move
Warehouse, depends on how often customer
from picking directly to truck shipment
creates delivery do list. Picking waves looks at
improves efficiency by overriding less
constraints (I.e. 100 trucks) to get product out the
priority picks with items having greater
door.
priority
Mass maintenance makes it easier to enter large

amounts of data. To meet these requirements, R/3
version 4.5 contains a central tool that can be used
Need to quantify by identifying how many
by various applications. Supported master data
Mass Change FTEs are required for master Change
includes material master, article master, customer
processes.
master, and vendor master. A large amount of data
entry can be avoided using this tool, saving time.
Another benefit would be data integrity.
The Data Transfer Workbench supports the

automatic transfer of data from your legacy system
into the R/3 System. The Workbench provides you
with access to the standard programs as well as with
the necessary tools for transferring data. For Using this functionality will save time in
Data Transfer Workbench example, with release 4.0A, some of the objects you transferring data as well as improve data
can transfer to the R/3 system using the workbench integrity.
are the G/L account master record, material master,
vendor master, customer master, condition records,
sales documents, financial documents, rental
contracts, etc.
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areas listed below. In the medium to long term it is
planned to Change all applications to this central
address management. In the new CAM the data will This tool will aid in system performance
Central Address Management be managed in its own database tables. All and ease of maintenance by data being
application objects will only store a reference to the managed in its own tables.
address key. There are addresses changed to CAM
for 4.0A, there are applications in which the address
function is new in 4.0A, and there are applications in
which the CAM was used in a Release before 4.0.

Browser for displaying HTML-based online help in
the R/3-System. It is based on the Microsoft Internet
Explorer 3.0x or the Netscape Navigator 3.0. The
R/3 library, the extended help, IMG documents and
This viewer is a more friendly, faster way
the glossary are displayed with the Info Object
Info Object Viewer of accessing and seeing the help
Viewer. The Info Object Viewer is available on all
documentation and could save time.
front-end platforms (UNIX, OS/2, Macintosh,
Windows 16 bit and Windows 32 Bit). The software
and hardware requirements can vary depending on
the platform and the HTML based online help (help
type) variant used.

be copied without main memory problems.
Values such as source client or source destination
From 4.0 To 4.5 Client copy and transport
can be saved for profiles. Since all necessary
profiles are delivered by SAP, you are not allowed to
create customer profiles.
Available to Promise. Availability checking is carried

out on a dedicated machine known as an ATP
server which has a shared buffer storing the
requirements quantities. Checks include checking Faster return on inquiries and improved
based on ATP logic, checking against planned processing time in the order desk area
Available to Promise independent requirements, and checking against plus improved back order rescheduling.
product allocations. When checking availability, the Performance advantages include
system reads the data from the reservations and reduction in direct I/O processing time.
dependent requirements table as well as the sales
requirements table (in the shared buffer) rather than
from the database.
Order cut-off time issue, time-stamp in SAP R/3.

Delivery and transportation scheduling has been
enhanced as of 4.5A to take place within one day or
during working hours. All relevant date fields have
This functionality will alleviate the “order
been supplemented with time fields. If you select
cut-off time” issue currently experienced Reduced inventory/year =
working hours, delivery scheduling can occur in
Order Cut Off Time in release 3.1. Orders will be expedited 200,000 x inventory carrying 32,000
terms of minutes and during working hours. After
faster reducing inventory and improving costs (16%) = $32,000
orders are taken and sent to the warehouse, certain
ATP. Increased customer satisfaction.
facilities have certain order cut-off times in order to
make that night’s shipping run. The delivery time and
working hours fields in 4.0/4.5 respectively can work
to solve a major implementation issue.
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Actual shipment cost and a matrix can be created to

develop actual costs for each shipment. Include
actual costs in Customer bill and delivery notice. As These transportation enhancements
or release 4.5A it is possible for the system to enter significantly decrease data entry,
an estimate of shipment costs as early as the sales decrease time in communication, improve
order, which is sometimes very important at this error finding, and decrease costs and
early order processing stage. Additionally with this increase revenue. Currently the client
release you can maintain multi-dimensional may roughly correlate delivery charges to
shipment rates allowing for costing by geography actual. With an upgrade, The client can
Shipping And Transportation and quantity. Also the break weight calculation is identify "buried" premium charges, home
required for many shipment contracts. It is used to delivery or internet for consumer - offer
determine at what point it is better to calculate a customer options for delivery.
higher weight in order to move up to a higher and Transportation contract valuation - are we
more favorable scale. Other transportation planning getting value from our transportation
additions as of 4.5A include a planning proposal providers? It allows the customer to close
which allows the planner to simplify certain aspects the gap between what customer is billed
of planning. Also it is possible to carry out changes for delivery and what it actually costs.
to data for several documents simultaneously using
mass Change functionality.
You can also track changes made to existing

shipment documents using Change documents,
allowing you to track problems by Change, user, and
date. These transportation enhancements
significantly decrease data entry, decrease time in
communication, improve error finding, and decrease
costs and increase revenue. Other transportation
planning additions as of 4.5A include a planning
proposal which allows the planner to simplify certain
aspects of planning. Also it is possible to carry out
changes to data for several documents
simultaneously using mass Change functionality.
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Vendor-managed inventory involves vendors

offering their customers the service of planning
replenishments of vendor materials at the customer
plant. The new functions allow VMI to be modeled
from both a vendor and a customer point of view.
VMI is typically used by manufacturers of consumer
products that plan replenishments of their products
at retailers. Some of the functions of vendor-
managed inventory include transferring and
receiving stock and sales data by EDI. In these
Using this functionality will decrease
cases a customer can, for example, transfer the
VMI inventory costs and data entry while 500,000
stock data for certain materials to the manufacturer
improving data integrity.
so that the manufacturer can gear their production to
customer requirements and deliver the quantities
required by the customer on time. At the same time
the manufacturer would use this function to receive
the current stock and sales data from a customer so
that replenishments can then be planned for the
customer. Obvious subsequent activities include
planning replenishments for customers then creating
a purchase order for an order acknowledgment
received by EDI.
A huge benefit of using this functionality

In R/3 release 4.0A, you can use picking waves to
would be better time management
create work packages in shipping. A picking wave
regarding sending delivery due lists to the
consists of several deliveries that are processed at
warehouse for shipment. By setting up
the same time. Assignment of deliveries to picking
waves you can manage when to send
waves is based on time criteria (for instance, all
deliveries due to the warehouse either by
deliveries with the same goods issue time are
time, location, priority, etc. The client
assigned to a picking wave). Functions available
warehouse would have much more
with wave picking are simulation before actual
capability to create dynamic delivery do
Picking Waves creation, as well as observation of capacity limits
list. Also create communication tool for
during actual creation. You can create picking waves
customers who use their own trucks to
either online or in background processing. Wave
pick up goods. More flexibility and
picking can help your warehouse capacity planning
efficiency in the warehouse plus helps
by controlling how loads get dropped to the
prioritize picking & packing. Can move
Warehouse, depends on how often customer
from picking directly to truck shipment
creates delivery do list. Picking waves looks at
Improves efficiency by overriding less
constraints (I.e. 100 trucks) to get product out the
priority picks with items having greater
door.
priority
Mass maintenance makes it easier to enter large A large amount of data entry can be
amounts of data. To meet these requirements, R/3 avoided using this tool, saving time.
version 4.5 contains a central tool that can be used Another benefit would be data
Mass Change
by various applications. Supported master data integrity.Need to quantify by identifying
includes material master, article master, customer how many FTE are required for master
master, and vendor master. Change processes.

be copied without main memory problems.
Values such as source client or source destination
Client copy and transport
can be saved for profiles. Since all necessary
profiles are delivered by SAP, you are not allowed to
create customer profiles.
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This is a thin GUI client for an SAP System. Running

as a Java applet in an Internet browser, it provides
Internet access to an R/3 or R/2 System. Since it
can also run as an application, it provides an
alternative GUI for client platforms that do not have
their own "native" SAPgui. SAPgui in Java consists
of two components - the SAPgui server, and a Java
applet. The SAPgui server is a normal (multi-
threaded) SAPgui without the GUI part. Instead, it
SAPgui in Java. has an API, which the GUI can use to make itself a
SAPgui. It is a standalone program, and must run
on a host that has a connection to an R/3 or an R/2
System. For performance reasons, it is written in
C++. The Java applet is also installed on the server,
but runs on the Java virtual machine (VM) in the
Internet browser once it has been loaded onto the
client. It calls the functions of the remote GUI server,
allowing it to retrieve R/3 data and return details of
user interaction.
The downloaded Java applet establishes a

connection with the R/3 System by making remote
method calls through the Inter-ORB protocol (IIOP).
The SAPgui server interprets these calls. This
means that clients only need a browser that
supports Java (or a Java VM) to be able to access
R/3 Systems from anywhere in the world - no other
software components are required. This reduces
installation and administration costs considerably.
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From 4.5 To 4.6
.90 -$2.67 per visitor - IDC: InfoWorld

1999, Supplement - pg. 3 "The
Annual # of sales orders per
Reduced cost of marketing by customer Enterprise Resource Planning and
E-commerce Capability for e-commerce and e-marketing year 1000 X 15% of sales web 20,500
Reduced cost of sales Application Series, Part 2" Cost to
enabled x $135/sales
process a sales order reduced from
$142 to $7 - Forrester Research
Transport creation time reduced by

29.06%, Usability Test of Selected
Reduced transport creation cycle time / Business Processes, Report No.12,
Enhanced Usability Improved user interface for distribution management
Increased productivity Aug. 1999, Prof. Dr. Franz Steffens,
Carsten Dorrhauer, Andrej Zlender,
pg. 7
Reduced customer file creation time

by 10.12%, Usability Test of Selected
Improved user interface in customer creation Reduced customer file creation time / Business Processes, Report No.12,
Enhanced Usability
process Increased productivity Aug. 1999, Prof. Dr. Franz Steffens,
Carsten Dorrhauer, Andrej Zlender,
pg. 7
Reduced order entry time by 14.29%,

Usability Test of Selected Business
Reduced order entry cycle time /
Enhanced Usability Improved user interface order entry process Processes, Report No.12, Aug. 1999,
Increased productivity
Prof. Dr. Franz Steffens, Carsten
Dorrhauer, Andrej Zlender, pg. 7
Reduced by 42.98%, Usability Test of

Reduced travel expense account Selected Business Processes,
Enhanced Usability Improved interface for expense account recording reporting allowing for additional sales or Report No.12, Aug. 1999, Prof. Dr.
services revenue Franz Steffens, Carsten Dorrhauer,
Andrej Zlender, pg. 7
Reduced by 23.15%, Usability Test of

Selected Business Processes,
Reduced time to record sales activities
Improved user interface for sales activty tracking Report No.12, Aug. 1999, Prof. Dr.
allowing for additional selling time
Franz Steffens, Carsten Dorrhauer,
$1,465,000.00
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Release Delta Functionality Functionality Description Business Benefit Benchmark/Implementation experience One-Time
Estimate
3.0 to 3.1
3.1 to 4.0 Matrix organization support Ability to set up organization with matrix reporting
Cost of fully loaded expatriate package - $300K-

Ability to manage multiple actions same day, make corrections, Improved employee satisfaction, $1M, % of expatriates returning from
Personnel administration and attach infotypes to manage expatriates. Enhanced career reduced employee turnover, assignment early-10-20%, Turnover rate for
development management (career and succession planning "what-ifs", availability improved resource planning, returning expatriates-25%, Harvard Business
of skills catalog, profile evaluations and matching reduced expatriates costs Review, "The Right Way to Manage Expats",
Vol 77, Num 2, March-April 1999, pg. 53
Total monetary awards in employee-related

Reduced cycle time for regulatory
cases $170M-1998, $180M-1997, Goldberg,
Recruitment tracking Ability to logically store applicant data reporting (EEOC) and reduced risk
Kohn, Bell, Black, Rosenbloom & Moritz
of payments related to lawsuits
Ltd.;EEOC, Business Week, March 29, 1999
Increased standardization of pay

grades, increased employee
Enhanced compensation
Salary surveys, job evaluations, remuneration satisfaction, avoidence of paying
management
beyond industry averages resulting
in reduced costs
Single point of entry for time reporting and dynamic resource

Time reporting
planning
Reduced costs due to better

Travel management Automatic approvals, maximum spending limits controls, Reduced cycle times for
employee payment
Elimination of regional PR providors

Enhanced payroll Support of Euro and automatic conversion of payments
resulting in lower costs
Elimination of customization by
country, reduced HR staff or HR
Additional standard HR country Standard support for localization in 24 add't countries including
centers, automatic currency
localization master data, payroll, time and travel.
conversion, reduction of outsourced
payroll providers
Ad Hoc Query Flexible report building with selection and display logic. Better reporting.
Tab Strips For infotype navigation. Easier and user-friendly.
Customized training and event functions for various users of the

system. Planning integration with HR budgeting for
Enhanced Training & Events
administrators, note functions and correspondence for More user applicable.
Management
registration clerks and Employee Self Service to book and cancel
attendance for participants.
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New miscellaneous plans, event offers, and added links to outside

providers. Other new features include Evidence of Insurability,
Enhanced Benefits prerequisite and corequisite plan requirements, as well as Greater flexibility.
combined limits for contributions and coverage. Introduces
Default and Standard Plans.
New time entry methods in the standard Cross-Application Time

Sheet (CATS). Allows automatic quota generation and quota
adjustment functionality.
Improved usability.
Enhanced functionality is added in quota deduction, leave accrual,

Easier to observe processing
Enhanced Time Management balances and absence valuation, plus value limits for time balances
results.
and dynamic work schedule assignment.
Better record-keeping.
New time interfaces, reporting enhancements and a new time
evaluation log.
New archiving functionality for payroll and time evaluation
New Payroll log for error tracking. Customization of the Payroll Reduced time in error analysis.
Enhanced Payroll Processing accounting interface in the IMG is expanded.
Improved usability.
New payroll log to simplify troubleshooting of a payroll run.

Reduced time in analysing errors.
Enhanced Payroll Accounting
New payroll accounting procedures, including conversion and
Improved usability.
rounding rules, to support the introduction of the euro currency.
Reduced time to update and

Capability to research and update HR information by employee research HR information resulting
4.0 to 4.5 Employee Self Service
rather than HR personnel in more accurate information and
increase in HR staff productivity
Reduced time and effort for

Customizable access to reports and functions for use by line
managers to retrieve reports, and
Manager's Desktop managers.
perform managerial functions.
User-friendly access.
Better and more flexible reporting

Enhanced Ad Hoc Query Flexible report building with selection and display logic.
including response time.
New interfaces to Word 8.0 to generate correspondence and an

Enhanced Recruitment applicant short profile plus bulk processing of internal Reduced time and effort.
candidates.
New country-specific selection of infotypes and subtypes allow

Enhanced Personnel you to customize the type of data collected and stored for
Greater flexibility.
Administration Master Data employees. New fields for reporting are associated with several
infotypes.
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Chief position can now be external to an organizational unit.
Cost distribution for organizational objects-organizational units,

positions, and work centers-may now be allocated to different
Enhanced Organizational
cost centers, and other objects can inherit these allocations. Greater flexibility.
Management
Vacancy management has been improved to handle vacant and

obsolete positions differently. Obsolete positions can no longer
be filled, nor will vacancies be created from obsolete positions.
Enhanced Personnel
Development: Personnel Development events can now trigger workflow. Better administrative control.
Workflow Trigger
Ability to create individual development plans integrated with

career planning and a totally new appraisal functionality that
integrates with development and compensation management.
Enhanced Personnel
Appraisals can be used to transfer qualifications, and they
Development:
integrate with compensation to present a consistent appraisal More robust and flexible.
Career Planning & Appraisal
system.
System
The new appraisal system allows individual, multi-source and team
methodologies. A cyclical process tracks employee progress from
one appraisal to the next.
Enhanced Personnel
Development: Office functions integrate with Microsoft Word and Excel. Reduced time and effort.
Office Functions Integration
Correspondence history is kept and class prerequisites can be

compared to the qualifications to ensure that the right people
get the right training. In addition, there are enhanced follow-up
Better record-keeping.
functions for transferring qualifications after a class.
Enhanced Training & Event Easier configuration for

Closer integration creates credit memos, cost allocation, and
Management integration.
direct ordering of equipment and materials for classes. Wizards
guide the
Reduced time and effort.
user through the proper configuration steps to set up integration
between components.
For training participants, Release 4.5 expands Employee Self

Job pricing to create salary structures from salary survey and
job valuation data. In addition, Greater flexibility.
Enhanced Compensation
3-dimensional matrix guidelines allow complex award
Management
determination. There is also improved reporting and selection and Better reports.
more flexible adjustments.
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Event Offer functions allow you to process changes to employee

enrollments triggered by changes in circumstance. This allows the
tracking of past changes and controls adherence to company
policies. The concept of the Benefit Offer is introduced,
improving administration of different plans for various employee
groups. Better record-keeping and
tracking.
Enhanced Benefits
A new stock purchase category is added to benefits. There are
new functions for changes in employer and employee Greater flexibility.
contributions and spouse data plan costs. There are new
determinations of dependents and beneficiaries and improved
letter and form management.
Eligibility can now be determined by actual work hours through

time data integration. Off-cycle time and benefit processing is
CATS is enhanced with actual costing via payroll and with

Employee Self-Service access. Now CATS and HR time data can
reside on different systems with integration via BAPITM and
ALE distribution techniques.
New Communication Channel (CC1) standardized interface for

external feeding of attendances and absences from certified
systems.
Enhanced Time Management Easier configuration.
New flexible time recording for multiple person and time data.
Better reports.
New determination of compensation for unused time (such as pay
for unused vacation). Daily Work Schedule rule configuration is
simplified and calendar view for some reports is now available.
Major reporting enhancement now allows ABAPTM and ad hoc

queries to include time management information. Time data is also
incorporated into the SAP Business Information Warehouse.
Requirements records can now be copied into requirement types

and source. A function called "Assignment Assistant" proposes
Enhanced Shift Planning Greater flexibility.
persons who
can cover different requirements and gives assignments options.
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New wage type reporter, a flexible tool for wage type-related
evaluations. Additional payroll results infotypes are added as
well.
New payroll journal allows flexibility in period selection and

added features in forms handling.
Using Employee Self Service in Release 4.5, employees may order

Simpler monitoring.
Enhanced Payroll Processing employment and salary verification reports that they may need
when applying for a mortgage, for example.
Greater control.
A payroll process model allows intelligent payroll processing and

error monitoring. It combines all run steps as one process with a
single monitoring point.
A new authorization object controls access to display, change,

deletion of actions or generation of data sets via Personnel
New accounting interface with batch input replacement, and new

authorization objects to support careful control of payroll data
Better record-keeping and access
Enhanced Payroll Accounting access.
control.
The new archiving allows you to preserve the detailed record of

labor distribution by employee, after transfer to FI/CO.
Reduced travel expense account

4.5 to 4.6 Enhanced Usability Improved interface for expense account recording reporting allowing for additional
sales or services revenue
Reduced time for sick time

Enhanced Usability Improved interface for sickness certificate creation time reporting resulting in less non-
value added work
Qualification Monitoring : Enables you to monitor qualifications

for which a validity has been defined, and ensures that the
Reduced time for personnel admin
appropriate personnel administrator is informed in good time
Enhanced Personnel in monitoring qualifications.
that the qualification is about to expire.
Development:
Workflow Scenarios Reduced time in approval process
Approving Appraisals :Enables you to set up an approval
for appraisals.
procedure for appraisals. The completed appraisal is sent to the
appraisee in question, who can then approve it or reject it.
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With new feature you can sort the organizational assignment of
all applicants according to nationality or advertisement and of
unsolicited external applicants according to nationality. You can
define country-specific applicant entry screens. The standard
system currently supports entry screens for Germany and the
Better security controls.
USA.
Reduced time for contract

Enhanced Recruitment Can be interfaced to the structural authorization check.
documentation.
Employment contracts can be created automatically by the

Reduced time and effort in
system for applicants you want to hire.
processing new hires from
applicant base.
Recruitment data is transferred to Personnel Administration as
default values. This means that data you created for the
applicant can be reused and modified for the future employee.
Supports international organizational changes (country

reassignments) for employees.
The Personnel Development appraisals system can be called up

from the Appraisals infotype (0025) when processing HR master
Enhanced Personnel
data.
Administration Master Data
New Workflow scenarios:

a. ESS follow-up action for a new hire--every newly hired
employee is assigned an ESS user and is given the necessary
system authorization to maintain his/her own personal data
b. Delimitation of an ESS user--all employees who have left the
US-specific screens available. It now checks whether the

changes employees makes to their home address will affect their
W-4 withholding information. If so, it will take them directly to
the ESS for defining W-4 withholding information.
Employment & Salary Verification requests from employees can

be routed via Workflow to Payroll Admins.
Greater flexibilty and
Enhanced Employee Self- W-2 from previous year can be reprinted. functionality.
Service
Employees can edit their own qualifications profile,
communications data, such as their telephone, telefax numbers
and e-mail address, and display the communications data of other
employees. They can also maintain their own calendar, and display
the calendars of other employees.
New "Job Opportunities" functionality can be used to display and

apply for internal vacancies. Internal applicants can use a
different service to track the status of their job application and
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The Benefits ESS Enrollment Scenario covers all kinds of

employee enrollment including Open Enrollment, Life Change
Enrollment and Work Change Enrollment.
Supports 2 new BAPIs to enable other application systems, such

as Intranet, Kiosk or other employee self-service scenarios to
integrate to R/3 Benefits. They support employee enrollments
such as Life or Work Changes.
Greater flexibility and

New report has ability to communicate health plan participation
functionality.
information to external health care providers.
Enhanced Benefits
Reduced time in data reporting
USA only--COBRA forms can be printed in Microsoft Word.
and verification.
New report can convert the monetary values stored on benefits

infotypes from one currency to another.
Enrollment Statistic report displays a tablulated overview of

employee plan enrollments over a specific period of time which
can be sorted.
Contribution Consistency Verification report compares an

employee's
Eligiblity contributions
monitor with
in Benefit plan contribution
processing limits for
allows detection of
employees who are participating in plans, that they are no longer
eligible for. Reduced time and effort in
eligibility monitoring.
Can assign providers to individual investments for a plan and
Enhanced Benefits Plans
depict multiple vendor scenarios for one plan. Greater flexibility.
It is now possible to control employee participation in a plan, that

requires spouse approval, when the spouse's beneficiary
allocation percentage is less than 100%.
Compensation Management has a 2-way integration with Personnel

Development's Appraisal System.
Approval process has a Workflow scenario.
More reporting capabilities.

Reduced effort in integrating data
Enhanced Compensation Job pricing functionality contains 2 queries: between Comp and Appraisal.
Management a. Hay PayNet Data Extraction for Salary Survey Participation
b. Data Extraction for Salary Survey Participation Greater flexibility.
Selection screen for compensation adjustments has been

redesigned for better usability.
New mass update feature enables you to maintain lots of

employees and award several adjustments at the same time on
one screen and uses office integration displayed in an Excel
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The new enterprise organization enables you to connect the

depiction of your enterprise in Organizational Management
(organizational structure) with its depiction in Accounting (Cost
center hierarchy).
New design of Org Management with a new interface designed Reduced time and effort in
Enhanced Organizational
and implemented in conjunction with Cooper Interaction Design. personnel cost planning.
Management
It focuses on the requirements of employees in the personnel and
organization departments and it will fully support daily work
activities of this group, such as creating and maintaining data and
procuring information.
You can translate several infotype records at the same time (on
one screen). It is also possible to translate records into several
In 4.6B, integration between Position Management and Funds

Reduced time and effort in
Management to a) set up and manage your organizational
personnel cost planning and
Position & Funds Management structure, including the personnel structure, b) budget personnel
budgeting.
expenditures, and c) create earmarked funds to finance
personnel and positions.
Attendance fees can be billed using payment cards. All types of
payment cards are allowed (VISA, Eurocard, Mastercard, etc.).
Partner functions for billing can be Bill-to party, Payer, Ship-to
party, or Sold-to party.
Reduced time and effort in billing,
maintaining employees' calendar
You can create links to SAP training materials, the complete
for event attendance,
online documentation, or the SAP R/3 Library.
Enhanced Training & Event correspondence and configuration.
Management
Integrated with the R/3 Appointment Calendar. Calendars of
internal employees are automatically maintained for event
attendance or instructor function as required.
New wizards to guide you through the configuration of

Correspondence and integration with Materials Management.
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Release Delta Functionality Functionality Description Business Benefit Calculation Time
experience Estimate
3.0 to 3.1
BAPI technology provides open business-oriented

interfaces for accessing business processes and
data in the R/3 System. BAPIs are defined in the
Business Object Repository as methods on SAP
Business Objects. They enable an object-oriented IT cost to develop/maintain a
Reduced training time and interface
BAPI Support view on the R/3 application modules and thus are custom interface x reduction in
development costs.
the basis for the R/3 Business Framework number of custom interfaces
development. Because of their open, well-defined
interfaces, BAPIs can also be used by external
applications, which have been developed, for
example, using Visual Basic.
Release 3.1G provides a graphic tool for maintaining

your enterprise structure. This enables a clearer
view of the functional areas of a company and their
relationships to one another, thereby decreasing the
implementation time. In addition to this, new user
Implementation Guide
exist have been added to enable customers to add
additional functionality without change to SAP
source code. This creates the opportunity for users
to enhance R/3 capabilities without impacting
upgrade strategies.
Transaction based security Security check of each transaction executed to The protection of business data to ensure
determine if the user has been authorized to its confidentiality, integrity and availability
execute the transaction
New security objects controlling New functionality delivered with the 3.1 release Application security over new business
existing or new business (refer to other tabs in the spreadsheet) must be functionality decreases the risk of
functionality secured and assigned to authorized users to ensure unauthorized data access
proper application security
Profile Generator The Profile Generator is an automated tool to assist The Profile Generator simplifies the
in the creation, maintenance and assignment of definition and maintenance of the
security profiles authorization environment, which may
result in cost and time efficiencies
Audit Information System (AIS) AIS is a reporting tree structured around security AIS provides analysis tools that simplifies
and auditing procedures and documentation, the administration of security and sensitive
security evaluations and analysis of audit data. business functionality, resulting in cost and
time efficiencies
3.1 to 4.0 functionality secured and assigned to authorized users to ensure unauthorized data access
Introduction of responsibilities in Security responsibilities allow for the differentiation Security Responsibilities simplify security
the Profile Generator of authority profiles that are generated from the administration
same selection of transactions in an activity group
Introduction of Secure Store and Provides functionality to secure Internet applications Proper security of data transfer processes
Forward (SSF) mechanisms with the use of digital signatures and encryption ensures data integrity, authentication, non-
repudiation and confidentiality
From 4.0 to 4.5 functionality secured and assigned to authorized users to ensure unauthorized data access
Responsibilities replaced by Please refer to "From 3.1 to 4.0; Introduction of
"derived activity groups" responsibilities" above
Introduction of authorization New authorizations specifically defined for the Enhanced security features strengthens
groups for output devices (i.e. protection of output devices and queues protection over the processing environment
printer, fax, etc.)
Release 4.5 contains over 1000 additional BAPIs

representing methods of more than 250 business
objects. BAPIs can be invoked from COM/DCOM
and COBRA. Development Environments such as
Reduced training time and interface
BAPIs MS Visual Studio, Access Builder from IBM and
development costs.
Delphi/Connect from Inprise are shipped with BAPIs
and the Business Object definitions. Interface
Advisor, shipped with 4.5 explains how to use BAPIs
in integration scenarios with non-SAP software.
User management within the SAP user framework is

simplified allowing the system admin to use one
single business component that contains all user
master records. The data is automatically
Central User Management distributed among all business components included System management efficiency
in installation. Different roles of an end user in
different components are allowed using
authorization profiles and activity groups defined
component dependently in one central component
This will benefit customers by providing

transparency with respect to the current
process resulting in more accurate and
SAP allows the monitoring of business processes
Workflow more reliable information for employees,
using a graphical representation of the process.
customers and business partners. Also
reduces implementation errors and
associated correction time
With release 4.0, SAP introduced GOS to improve

the support of ad hoc work processes. In release
4.5 SAP offers a broad range of services which are
instantly available for business objects within R/3.
These services include the launch of workflows
Generic Object Services
associated with a business object, the sending of a
business object to individuals, organizational units
and the ability to link external objects such as
desktop files (e.g. Excel, Word), faxes, or URLS to
SAP Business Objects.
With 4.0/4.5 SAP enhances its solutions for

Electronic Commerce including support of extent, This reduces third party software costs &
intranet and internet. 4.5 includes over 85 internet associated interface costs and faster
Internet
application components which support complete development of web enabled business
supply chain solutions (i.e. procurement: requisition processes.
to payment, and online stores).
The user interface for the trained user is significantly

easier to use. Through the comprehensive use of
Active X technology it is much easier to visualize the
results of business processes. 4.5 includes a variety
of graphics for networks, portfolios or planning
Active X boards as well as controls for text editing, improved System management efficiency
help features and tighter desktop office integration.
The handling of SAPscript - printing via forms and
text management is considerably facilitated through
controls as well as the presentation of images and
HTML pages.
In order to further reduce the cost of ownership, SAP
has improved the way the user interface is updated
on the user's desktop. With release 4.5 is self
Self Upgrading User upgrading without the need of human interaction - System management efficiency
as it communicates with a central server and
automatically detects that a software upgrade of the
user interface on the desktop is required.
The use of electronic forms is another way of

including new user communities into R3 business By reducing large amounts of paper work,
MS Outlook Support processes. Release 4.5 adds support for MS electronic forms will save R/3 customers a
Outlook forms. R/3 calendar synchronization is also significant amount of money.
available.
Release 4.5 contains further object oriented

enhancements of the ABAP programming language.
With classes, object interfaces and business events,
ABAP programmers leverage the benefits of
objected orientation resulting in improvements in the Greatly increase developers productivity
ABAP Objects
areas of usability, maintenance and quality of code. (and lowers implementation costs).
4.5 ABAP Objects also comes with a new class
builder tool that supports the navigation, cross
referencing and test support within object
hierarchies.
The digital signature is based on cryptographical

Digital signature improves processes
algorithms that make it possible to "sign" documents
requiring proof of obligation by reducing
Digital Signatures to achieve a higher level of security. This is
transaction cycle time and reducing
especially useful when an explicit identity or proof of
overnight delivery charges.
obligation is needed (ex: paperless contracts).
Documents can be archived via the internet and

Internet- Enabled SAP displayed using a Web browser. SAP ArchiveLink SAP ArchiveLink improves archiving
ArchiveLink has an extended interface that now supports HTTP efficiency and reduces archive costs.
(Hyper Text Transfer Protocol).
This approach significantly reduces

Release 4.5 enables the incremental conversion of
downtime of the system (and associated
Incremental Data Conversion data from one R/3 release to another during the
costs) while providing increased flexibility
productive processing of R/3.
and agility.
Release 4.5 running on AS/400 platforms have

improved interoperability with respect to sending
IBM faxes using facsimile/400, exchanging documents
on the basis of theX.400 standard, and using
AnyMail/400 to send and receive electronic mails.
The parallel operation of update statistics for the Significantly reduces run times on multi
Informix cost-based optimizer in SAP's database tool processor platforms using the Informix
SAPDBA. database.
Release 4.5 includes comprehensive support of NT

5.0. For ease of installation and upgrades, both the
R/3 application server software and SAP's Windows
based user interface are installed using the Transaction efficiency, Reduced
Microsoft Installer (MSI). The use of R/3 with NT implementation costs, Eliminates the need
results in a single sign-on to the desktop computer, to manually configure or adjust memory
Microsoft avoiding an explicit R/3 logon. Additionally, SAP's requirements, even hardware changes
Computer Center Management System (CCMS) such as memory upgrades are detected,
information is included into the Microsoft and R/3 system parameters are adjusted
Management Console (MMC), enabling the automatically.
administration of R/3 using a MMC Span-In. 4.5 also
offers zero administration memory management
under windows NT.
The next version of SAPDBA will support
incremental backup of the Oracle 8 database. This
new option enhances the set of alternative backup
Oracle strategies a customer can apply. Incremental
backup support will be based on the integration of
SAPDBA with RMAN, the new Oracle recovery
manager tool.
The interface advisor is the integration guide that

enables customers to design and implement
interfaces between SAP and non-SAP systems in a
new easier and faster way. An easy to use Web
Provides clients with increased interface
front-end provides all the information needed to
Interface Advisor development efficiency and lower overall
implement business processes that span SAP and
interface costs.
non-SAP components. All technical interfaces and
all BAPIs offered with 4.5 are explained. The
interface advisor can be used both stand alone and
in conjuction with an R/3 system.
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Annual or One-
Release Delta Functionality Functionality Description Business Benefit Calculation Estimate Time
experience
Enables selling advantages across Higher profit margins, reduced

Technology assisted selling
highest impact medium and sales cycle order time, higher
(mobile sales)
channels average sale
Ability to place right parts in right Reduction in spare parts

Field service dispatch, spare parts
locations, and route management inventory levels, reduced cost
Field Service inventory management, repair depot
of Field service to minimize travel and time per service call,
operations, services management
and expense. improved customer satisfaction
Improved lead and campaign Reduced annual costs for direct
Marketing management, marketing agents, mail, telemarketing, increased
marketing encyclopedias lead conversion percentage
Reduced time to process call,

Ability to have a total customer
Increased productivity of call
Inbound call center tracking, problem view regardless of where info
center staff, Increased
management resides, which reduced call time
customer satisfaction, increased
and increase customer satisfaction
hit rate for problem resolution
ROI on Data Warehouse project,

40% - Payback period for Data
Warehouse Project, 2.3 years - ROI
on Data Warehouse project (over 3
years), 400% - Cost to build Data
Customer Service Warehouse, $2.2M, IDC study " A
study of the Financial Impact of Data
Warehousing", 1996 quoted PC
Magazine article Data Warehousing:
An Overview, 3/9/99, pg.246
Converted 30 % of customer base

to new services, Cablevision
Systems Inc., Sales & Marketing
Management, April 1997, by Ginger
Conlon
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Annual or One-
Benchmark/Implementation Time
Release Delta Functionality Functionality Description Business Benefit Calculation Estimate
experience
ROI on Data Warehouse project,

40% - Payback period for Data
Warehouse Project, 2.3 years -
ROI on Data Warehouse project
(over 3 years), 400% - Cost to build
Data Warehouse, $2.2M, IDC
study " A study of the Financial
Impact of Data Warehousing",
1996 quoted PC Magazine article
Data Warehousing: An Overview,
3/9/99, pg.246
1.0
The results of a query (with geographical reference) can be displayed on a
map within the Business Explorer Analyzer. Navigation is likewise supported.
The integration into BW takes place via the Metadata repository and the
BEx Analyzer.
GIS = Geographical InfoObjects (for example, country) or attributes (customer with attribute
2.0 Ease of use / productivity
Information System district) can be indicated as geo-relevant. By doing this, geo-attributes (for
example, coordinates) are linked. Geo coordinates can be calculated with an
external tool and then uploaded via an InfoSource to BW. With BW Business
Content geographical data (maps for regions, countries, ...) will be shipped.
With the aid of Web reporting, it will be possible to publish queries created
with BEx on the Intranet/Internet. The queries can be included in the
enterprise‟s own HTML pages. Since only a description of the data, and not
the data itself, is saved in the HTML page, it is possible to interact with the
BW server via the HTML page (drilldown, refresh, and so on).
It is also possible to include several queries in an HTML page (cockpit).
Navigation steps can be included as predefined pushbuttons in the page.
Hereby, it is also possible to display results in the form of charts and tables
(workbooks).
Web Reporting Ease of use / productivity
The output takes place in pure HTML form, so that the generated HTML
pages are compatible for every HTML Browser. Thus it is not necessary to
additionally install programs to the frontend.
The integration of queries into the enterprise‟s own HTML pages can take
place using which ever web design tool you like (for example, MS Frontpage).
The display of the HTML pages with queries embedded takes place in pure
HTML form. However, it is possible to add Active X Controls, Applets, Java
Script, and so on to the HTML Page Designer.
The Reporting Agent is scheduled to search the databank periodically for
critical values. Should it find any exceptions, a follow-up action is triggered.
This could be, for example, sending email to a key account manager or
generating an entry in the exception monitor. Exceptions are also started
when a query is made in a workbook, and the result is displayed to the user.
Data mining functionality is not included in release 2.0. Functionality
description:
* Definition of exceptions within the Query Definition
Reporting Agent – * Colored highlighting (up to nine different styles) of cells found through
Ease of use / productivity
Exception Reporting exceptions in the online presentation (BEx)
* Setting for background processing (data volume, events, and so on)
* Bundling of background settings to scheduled packages, which can be
scheduled in the background
* Analysis of exceptions in the background on the server; starting follow-up
actions when an exception appears in the background – for example,
sending email; entry in the Alert monitor
* Displaying the results of background processing in the exception monitor
in BEx
There are additional analysis functions in the query definition and in a
workbook. Using the ranking list function, the 10 best or 10 worst
(customers, suppliers, and so on), for example, can be queried absolutely and
Analysis Functions
as a percentage. Restriction conditions for the resulting set can be made for
key figure columns, for example, displaying all customers with a sales
revenue > 1.000.000 and an order quantity > 5.000.
There are some enhancements of the F4 Help. It has a new, Active X-based
interface. Moreover, additional selection options are supported. When
selecting variables by starting a query or in query definition or by filtering in
the BEx Analyzer you have additional options for making restrictions.
Multiple selection: Multiple single values can be selected at the same time.
Extended Characteristic
Selection according to a hierarchy: All customers for a hierarchy/- node can
Restriction
be selected.
Complex restrictions: It will be possible using characteristics attributes. For
example: All customers with a customer number between 1000 and 2000 and
that are in postal code area 6.
All the functions for maintaining variables will take place directly in the
Integration of Variables query definition, and thereby replace the call up for the variable
maintenance via the menu path „Business Explorer‟ – „Maintain Variables‟.
Key figures of an InfoCube actually appear as a flat list of objects in query

definition. There is no organization, no links between the key figures. A
better overview can be achieved when key figures are organized in a
Hierarchy for Key Figures
hierarchy. In the InfoCube maintenance, groups of key figures can be built
that logically belong together; the focus can be set to smaller subsets of
InfoObjects when selecting key figures in the query definition.
Hierarchies are no longer restricted to activity groups and folder, rather it

is possible to build up multi-level hierarchies. Example: Role (contains the
different task groups), task groups (contains the various tasks) and tasks
Additional Hierarchies
(the individual workbooks are included in the tasks). The previous restriction
of seven clusters like the restriction to a certain number of workbooks
within an activity group, or folder, no longer applies.
You can not only manage BW workbooks with the aid of the Browser, but also
Integration of 3rd Party
other documents and files such as MS Word, PowerPoint, graphic files,
Documents
Business Object files and Internet addresses
Drag & drop works for objects from the desktop into the BEx Browser and
vice versa. An object from the desktop can be directly dragged and dropped
anywhere in the window of the Browser. Several objects can be marked on
the desktop and then all together can be dragged into the Browser. A whole
Drag & Drop
cluster can be dragged and dropped into the hierarchy.
Limitation: due to the new design standard, it is not possible anymore to
integrate a customer logo in the Browser.
It will be possible to get additional detailed information from the query

result in Excel by drill through. There is a marker from query result to
Additional Drill Through
OLTP, ODS and query. The previously made selection conditions are taken
into account with this marker.
The functionality for the authorization check when executing queries has
been fundamentally enhanced.
1. Authorizations can be created for hierarchies. A user can get the
authorization for one node of a hierarchy and all nodes and sheets below this
node.
2. The authorization check takes place at every navigational step. By this,
besides variables also filter values become effective. This enables, for
example, the result per department to be displayed, but not the sales
Authority Checking on Drill- revenue per person in the department.
Down Levels 3. Dynamic adjustment of the query result to the authorizations. By using
variables the query can be kept general. When the query is executed, it is
adjusted to the authorizations of the user. Example: A user wishes to
analyze his/her cost center. The query definition is arranged in such a way
that all cost centers are displayed. Based on the authorization of the user,
the query result is now adjusted in such a fashion that only the result of the
individual cost center appears. You do not have to make a manual entry for
this.
With the variables for formulas and texts, that are replaced by a
“replacement path”, the variable replacement by key or description has been
enhanced by replacement from attribute values. For this, you have to
additionally define the attribute whose value is to be used. With this type of
replacement, the internal (compounded) value of the attribute is always
accessed. As a result, the entries offset start and offset length also refer
Attribute Usage for
to the internal compounded value. The meaning of the other parameters did
Calculations
not change. These variables give
you the option, for example, to map the price of a product as an attribute. If
you now define a variable for formulas as described above, that is
automatically replaced from the attribute price for the characteristic
product, then you can use this variable in the formulas of the query
definition.
You can use ODBO as an ABAP API. By doing this, it is also possible to
restart the OLAP processor in an environment that is not Windows. Features
in common with ODBO are the usage of the query language MDX and the
OLAP API organization of the Meta- and master data (catalogs, Cubes, dimensions,
hierarchies, and so on). In contrast with ODBO, the API does not contain any
equivalent „flattening‟ mechanism (conversion of the multi-dimensional query
result into a flat file).
Aggregates can be transported or delivered as Business Content. The
Aggregates
surface has been modified.
An InfoCube can be used as an InfoSource for another InfoCube within a
InfoCube as InfoSource in BW system. Hereby, you can also use transfer rules for transferring data
one BW System from InfoCube to InfoCube. The transfer is likewise supported in delta
mode.
Delta update for the data transfer from the InfoCube of a source BW to
Data Marts the InfoCube of a data mart will be supported. For this, all changes to the
source-InfoCube are registered.
Using the functional areas of SAP Query, dedicated extractors for master-
and transaction data can be generated. This generic way of data extraction
SAP Query for generic data
supports the usage of logical data bases and bringing the data together in
extraction
the so called outer join. It is possible for master and transaction data.
Integrated exits enable the additional import of specific fields.
In Release 1.2, ODS was request-orientated and stores the imported data in
the form of the transfer structure (analog OLTP). It is now possible to
ODS (BW 2.0B) additionally store the imported data in the ODS in a denormalized form. The
data can be analyzed using BEx. ODS tables allow to merge data and apply
update rules. Drilldown from query result to ODS will be supported.
Metaobjects (InfoObjects, InfoCubes, InfoSources, Queries, InfoObject

Connection to Business Catalogs...) can be linked with documents. These documents can, for example,
Document Service be MS Word files, PowerPoint files, Bitmap images. The documents are
stored in the BDS (Business Document Service), that is a part of R/3 basis.
There is a Installation Program you can use for transferring BW Content.

Content deltas can be directly selected, matched and activated. With the aid
Business Content of the Installation Program it is possible to activate the entire Business
Installation Content for a channel in only one step. The corresponding channel is selected
by drag and drop and the Content Wizard automatically selects the relevant
objects.
The mode “move”, meaning overwrite, is supported in the update rules for
key figures with the update mode aggregation. Reading master data
attributes on demand is provided as a standard function. The possibility to
Update rules partition a fact table depends on whether the underlying database
management system provides a table partitioning functionality. Partitioning
of the fact table is planned for DB2/MVS, DB2/UDB, INFORMIX and
ORACLE.
The concept of partitioning is implemented for the fact table of an
InfoCube. The first implementation is a static implementation with
restricted possibilities. You can partition the fact table by CALMONTH or
FISCPER. This is the “partition column.” In the case of FISCPER, the
Partitioning of the Fact
necessary FISCVARNT must have a FIX-VALUE for the InfoCube. This is
Table
necessary because the values of the “partition column” must be precalculated
for a predefined time period. The fact table will then be partitioned for the
precalculated values. The method is a range partitioning with exception of
DB2/UDB where a hash partitioning approach is used.
Additional APIs for
APIs support the creation of Metadata from external tools, such as ETI,
InfoCube, InfoObject,
Informatica.
InfoSource
Compared with BW Release 1.2, additional error situations are recognized by
the monitor assistant. If an error situation occurs, a mail can be sent
automatically to the BW office inbox or to an Internet address. If the mail
is in the BW office inbox it is executable, meaning that you can switch direct
to the monitor to analyze the defective request. An error log is generated
Monitor Assistant
when uploading master data. It logs every incorrect data record and it can
be called up by the monitor or the monitor assistant. The use of lower-case
letters, overlapping time intervals and duplicated data records is checked
for the master data. A tree control is added in the monitor to give an
overview of loaded requests.
Uploading data into BW, structuring aggregates, compressing and deleting
InfoCubes, index set up, and the setup of statistical data can be triggered
using an event or an event-chain (several successfully concluded individual
Event Control events). The individual events are assigned to the respective processes (for
example, aggregation setup) using the function „subsequent processing‟. It is
possible to trigger a different event, depending on whether the preceded
event is ok ("green") or failed ("red").
Data of an InfoCube can be downloaded to an existing data base table or a

Download from InfoCube flat file (Front-end). You find this functionality in the InfoCube maintenance.
Fields and selection criteria can be defined for the download
BW 2.0A offers the possibility to do cross-infocube reporting. This is

achieved by introducing the concept of a multi-cube. A multi-cube is built out
of two or more (basic) infocubes, typically ones that share several
characteristics. As an example you can think of two infocubes, one with the
actual data of a certain scenario, the other one with the plan data for the
same scenario. These two cubes could be combined to form a multi-cube in
order to do comparisons between actual and planned data. A major
advantage of the multi-cube concept is its ease of use: multi-cubes are just
like normal infocubes. However, they only exist as a definition; its data is
Reports on multiple
still stored in its component infocubes. Consequently, a query to a multi-cube
InfoCubes
is split into queries to its component infocubes which in turn can be
processed in parallel. Thus there is a performance advantage, too. From a
different point of view, the MultiCube constitutes a concept of cube
partitioning on the data modeling level. In BW 1.2, all data that was
(supposed to be) required for reporting at any stage in the future had to be
put into one InfoCube. This imposed a certain burden on the InfoCube
designer who had to consider all current and future reporting requirements.
Sometimes, that led to huge and complex InfoCube designs which later
triggered performance problems. In BW 2.0A, this burden is lifted by the
The workbooks are role-oriented, for example, Key Account Manager. The
Role Centric Business
role of the Key Account Manager is further subdivided into task areas and
Content
tasks, in which the respective tasks are linked together with workbooks.
Retail: logistics processes and POS analysis. Retail logistics means analysis in
purchasing, stocks and sales in a kind of “article information system”
(comparable to the RIS). The Business Content of POS allows you to analyze
receipts and cashier information. This is the first step in sales basket
Industry-Specific Business
Content (advertisements, commercials, online advertising, distribution orders and
services) relevant to employees of newspaper and magazine publishing
Management will feed the SAP BW with FI-FM-related information. The

essential key information required in the public sector is about budgets,
expenditures/revenues and budget consumption.
Sales & Distribution: quotation processing and delivery service.

Procurement: procurement research, vendor analysis, inventory control,
purchasing process analysis. Investment Management: appropriation
Process-Specific Business
requests. Human Resources: analysis of headcount and personnel structure,
Content
personnel development, benefits administration, compensation management,
organizational management. Finance & Accounting: Product Cost Planning,
Cost Center Management, Profit Center Management
A sample scenario for connecting Nielsen data can be used. The scenario
embraces both the preparation of an InfoCube as well as queries, workbooks
Business Content: Nielsen and channels. The InfoCube does not contain any data, but is a remote Cube,
with which the data is requested when executing the query from the AC
Nielsen RFC – server.
A pilot program on Dun & Bradstreet data will be started for BW 1.2B and,
based on the results, the official release will be scheduled. D&B sells
information on companies worldwide. This includes information on companies
and structural information on groups (family trees). To achieve this, D&B
introduced the D-U-N-S-Number (Data Universal Numbering System) for
Integration of Dun & each company, a unique number which allows companies to be identified. The
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customer) with the company information from D&B. Furthermore, the family
trees should be loaded as hierarchies into SAP BW to enable reporting on
groups. In BW, existing master data (customer, vendor) can be enhanced by
D&B attributes in the form of attributes. This information is used in the BEx
Analyzer to further evaluate the InfoCube.
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Release Delta Functionality Functionality Description Business Benefit Calculation Estimate
experience
Reduced time per week to

Standardizes corporate reporting across interpret or remap
enterprise information in reports x 50 x
loaded hourly labor charges
Reduced time to manually

Integrates external and internal integrated external data into
accounting reporting reporting per week x loaded
ahourly labor charges x 50
Makes non-financial key success factors

and risk exposures more transparent and
relates their influence on company
performance
Provides a more focused, balanced view

of company performance and techniques
Balanced Scorecard Automed management of Balanced Scorecard
to communicate to build and maintain
employee and stakeholder satisfaction
Rolling forecast Supports migration of rolling forecasts

Models a strategy and links the
strategy model to the right operational
Link between strategic planning and measures of the business. The
Balanced Scorecard operational target setting. Provides a more measures are then used to assess the
1.0
(BSC) focused, balanced view of company strategic achievements of the
performance. organization and to set targets, which
are linked to the strategy and to the
operational business.
Speeds up legal and management
consolidation, complete automation of
Business Consolidation Legal & management consolidation, value activities, reconciled, internal &
(BCS) adjustments, economic profit calculation external group reporting, international
accounting rules, complex currency
translation capabilities
BPS enables continuous and efficient
simulation, planning and forcasting
processes across the entire
organization. Allows for internalization
of stakeholder expectations in the
planning process, strategic and long-
Links strategic planning and simulation with term planning, resource allocation, and
cross-functional enterprise planning; rolling planning. BPS uses model-based
Business Planning & resource allocation according to strategic planning, scenario modeling, dynamic
Simulation (BPS) and operational targets; PowerSim dynamic simulations, and links to R/3 planning.
modeling tool (includes Monte Carlo risk Dynamic scenario modeling increases
management simulation). understanding of interdependencies in
business, cascading effects of decisions
and the effects of competitive
responses and counter-responses. It
also helps identify risks and their
performance effects and allows for
experimentation with delayed effects.
Provides an end-to-end solution to
Communicate and monitor performance and support integrated enterprise
strategy through Balanced Scorecard, management processes and creates
Management Cockpit and Value Driver Trees. visualization of how key performance
Maintain a complete and balanced set of Key indicators (KPI) are influenced by
Corporate Performance Indicators, support Value other measures. The Management
Performance Monitor Based Management, support translation of Cockpit presents KPI information,
(CPM) strategic objectives into operative targets, supporting shorter and more efficient
provide interpretation models to visualize management team meetings by
the strategic impact of operative improving communication within the
performance measures, and support aligned team. Makes non-financial key success
target setting for all organizational units factors and risk exposures more
transparent and relates their influence
Helps to find, structure and edit
relevant external (unstructured)
2.0a Business Information Automatic sourcing of unstructured business competitive, market or other
(12/6/1999) Collection (BIC) information from the web. information on an ongoing basis and to
automatically distribute it to the
appropriate information consumers.
Significantly improves the
communication process with
stakeholder groups and therefore helps
realize stakeholder value.
Questionnaire Generator collects
Integrate your most important stakeholders information from stakeholders and
into your enterprise management process. organizes the feedback. Value Report
>2.0b Stakeholder Includes Stakeholder Master Database & Builder creates reports with target
(02/01/200 Relationship Stakeholder Contact Database, Stakeholder group related information. It allows
0) Management (SRM) Questionnaire Generator, Stakeholder Value for the presentation of existing data in
Report Builder, and Stakeholder Simulation different ways in order to meet
Processor. stakeholders' information
requirements. Simulation Processor
supports interactive simulations where
stakeholders can develop company
scenarios and simulate the impact of
changes of external data on company
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Release Delta Functionality Functionality Description Business Benefit Calculation
experience Estimate One-Time
3.0 to 3.1
Improved usability and organization of

Tabstrips are now used to organize information for
3.1 to 4.0 General Enhancements information processing and technical
Equipment, Notifications, Work centers, and Users
objects
List editing improvements including the use of a general

Improved reporting capability
list viewer and the grouping of fields for a display variant
Increased order processing efficiency

Joint processing of Maintenance notification and orders
Notification and Work Order and accuracy due to the reduction of
where the notification data is copied directly to the
Improvements redundant keying of notification
order screen.
information.
Flexible reference object allows Functional location Increased flexibility in notification and
and/or Equipment and/or Material serial number to be order creation to identify real cost
the reference objects in the notification and order. driver for PM activity.
Automatic equipment determination based on functional
from automation of equipment
location where the equipment is installed.
determination
Centralized address Centralized address management for functional location,
and accuracy due to the reduction of
management equipment, maintenance notification, and order.
redundant entering of addresses
Enhanced equipment list entry to include documents,
Comprehensive description of
Functional enhancements for classification, measurement categories, long text, internal
equipment for better maintenance
Technical Objects notes, installation location, partner assignments, permits,
planning and activity.
addresses, and configuration
Improved maintenance activity
Action logs for equipment and functional locations to
monitoring for traceability and
track who made what changes and when.
historical tracking
Improved ability to process and track
Functional enhancements for For refurbishment of spare parts, there is now a material
material and expenses associated with
Maintenance processing valuation type c for condition-based valuation.
refurbishment.
An employee can be assigned to a maintenance order

Improved resource utilization
based on available capacity or necessary qualifications.
Workflow for maintenance orders from Order creator to

Faster processing of maintenance
Maintenance planner group for order release and
orders and the elimination of lost
Maintenance work center for order confirmation back to
orders.
creator.
Reduction of lost time due to delays or

Improved maintenance and classification of permits
errors in permit management
List editing improvements including completion

confirmation, notification activities, orders by settlement Improved reporting capability
rule, and orders by permit.
Time savings due reduction of
Transfer of net order price from the maintenance order redundant effort by Material Planner
to the purchase requisition and purchase order. or Purchasing to determine net order
price.
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Integration of PM to QM including inspection of
maintenance objects, definition of inspection Time savings due reduction of
characteristics in maintenance task lists, and automatic redundant effort and automation
inspection lot creation for PM orders.
Integration with Investment management including
Time savings due reduction of
automatic assignment of PM orders to a capital
redundant effort and automation
investment item.
Increased capability for tracking and

Additional PM order assignments available now are funds
reporting financial assignments for PM
management, real estate management, and joint venture.
orders.
Improved completion confirmation functionality including

actual data being proposed from orders for collective
confirmation, automatic selection of standing orders by Time savings due to collective
specifying the object number for equipment or functional confirmation and automation activities
location, and deletion of selected lines for collective
confirmation.
Technical completion (TECO) reversals from within the

Improved work order cost accuracy
PM order are now possible.
Order planning using configurable tasks lists allows a

Flexible task list creation allows more
general PM task list to be created with object
Functional enhancements for accurate tasks to be identified and
dependencies. When the general task list is then selected
Preventive Maintenance performed reducing the expense for
in a PM order, its characteristics are checked and the
unnecessary tasks
modified version of the task list is copied to the order.
New choices in maintenance cycles
Maintenance plan variants now include a new single cycle
allows more accurate planning and
plan and an extended multiple counter plan.
scheduling
Scheduling overviews can be created as a graphic with
Improved preventive maintenance
maintenance plan simulation or as a list with display
planning and scheduling
variants with general list viewer technique.
Reduction of data entry for time
Single entry of time reporting which updates relevant
reporting, Increased productivity of
R/3 modules in real-time, including, MM, HR, CO, PM, SM
Cross Application Time service, plant and other personnel,
and external services MM. Capabilities to customize input
Reporting Improved labor utilization and real
screens to level of user with change/update. Integrated
time update of plant services
approval procedure and automat
performed resulting in
Functional enhancements for Standardization of master record view for functional
4.0 to 4.5 information processing and technical
Technical Objects locations and equipment
objects
Direct display of address and structure provided through
information processing and technical
tabs in the master record
objects
The use of serial numbers for Inventory management was Improved inventory management
already available in Release 4.0, but is now extended to control due to extension of serial
additional stock types number tracking to additional stock
types
Improved ability enter measurement

Entry List for Measurement Reading
readings
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The Configurable User Interface for Notifications allows

Improved usability and understanding
Functional enhancements for for the tab strip to be displayed or hidden, Icons and
of notification information due to user-
Maintenance Processing text to be freely defined for each tabstrip, and the
configurable interface.
screen sections to be freely defined for each tabstrip.
Improved resolution process for

An Escalation Workflow now exists for when the end date
notifications where end date is
for a notification or task is exceeded.
exceeded
Tabstrips are now used to enhance the User interface
for PM orders. Also, the operation detail screen is called Improved usability and organization of
up by double-clicking. information for PM orders
A Graphical Monitor for resource planning is now Improved resource planning and
available. scheduling
Improved resource planning and

A Material availability list is now available to show the
scheduling based on improved
status of material for a PM order.
understanding of material status
The Settlement of a Refurbishment Order is now
available for processing a material from valuation type C3 Improved ability to process and track
(faulty) to C2 (refurbished) and correctly adjusting the material and expenses associated with
moving average cost to include spare parts and working refurbishment.
time.
Task list enhancements include: Internal and external
data can be maintained on the operations overview screen, Improved usability and organization of
Functional enhancements for
direct assignment of maintenance packages to operations, information for Preventive Maintenance
Preventive Maintenance
and direct link to service specifications for external orders
operations
In Release 4.5, Notifications can be created from

Time savings due to automated creation
maintenance plans based on maintenance call dates just as
of notifications from maintenance plans
orders could be created in Release 4.0.
A maintenance plan (category PM) can now be created

Improved flexibility in maintenance
without assigning a task list. This requires confirmation
plan creation
before the generation of next maintenance call object.
Enhancements to CATS include entry via Internet or

Cross Application Time Intranet, a modified mechanism for default values, entry Improved flexibility in time reporting
Reporting of accounting indicator, and selection of personnel through CATS
numbers.
Reduced plant maintenance work order

4.5 to 4.6 Enhanced Usability
creation time
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It is possible in 4.0 to create transfer order for Using Lean WM allows the use of transfer
Lean WM - Using Transfer deliveries when no storage bins are managed in the order functionality for an SD Pick list
From 3.1 to 4.0
Order as Pick List system. Stock is viewed in the IM system not the WM without using full blown Warehouse
stock overview. Management.
As of release 4.0 it is possible to have active capacity You can carry out a search for a suitable bin
for putaway. The system checks each bin
check run for strategies I, L &P. Any bin found is first
found for put away and checks available
Active Capacity Check checked for capacity and only suggested if sufficient capacity as set in customizing. This leads to
capacity exits. an efficient put away process
Up to release 3.1 you could only manage the stock of one In 4.0 this functionality has been provided due
Sloc within a warehouse number. In 4.0. More than one to business implications. More than one sloc
can be define to represent the ownership
Several Storage Location s Sloc can exist per warehouse. status of companies or in order to be able to
for Warehouse Number make important planning decisions at various
levels.
The activity monitor is used to quickly recognize errors User Friendly tool provided to help monitor
or critical stock situations. The aim of the WH monitor activities in the warehouse.
Warehouse Activity Monitor
is to acknowledge, process and remove critical errors and
situations in the warehouse.
For two step picking, the picking is divided into two Using 2 Step Picking the picking process can
steps. Step one, the entire quantity of needed materials be optimized. This picking method is used
WM - Two Step Picking especially for picking large quantities of
is picked. Step two, the total quantity is divided up and material usually in a wave scenario.
allocated according to individual requirements.
It is now possible to manage partial pallets and mixed This functionality leads to more efficient bin
storage in SU managed bulk areas. With partial pallet management within the WM system.
SU-Managed Bulk Storage
with Partial Pallets and Mixed permission, you can pick partial quantities. A complete
Storage. removal indicator exists to remove full pallets (with
partial picking) and return the partials to partial pallet
area.report creates transfer requirements for fixed bin
This Using this report, you can create all the
replenishment where stock removals are allowed to take replenishment transfer requirements for
supplying the fixed bins the following day.
place before putaways because of respective deliveries. The report provides an overview of planned
Planned Replenishment
A goods transfer from a source storage type to a fixed replenishment it does not execute and control
bin is considered replenishment. replenishment for a given time.
Transfer order splitting is control by customizing. Value To achieve a balanced distribution of the
WM - Transfer Order limits for the target time (header data) , volume, and workload in the warehouse, transfer orders
may be split and divided among available
Splitting weight of the transfer order ensure targeted resources.
distribution of the workload.
Using the new transaction "Posting change in WM and IM" This functionality leads to more efficient
you can process posting changes for quants entirely material management within the warehouse
Processing Posting Changes management system.
within the warehouse management component. The
for within WM
system carries out all the necessary processes in
Inventory Management.
The new function allows you to place prepicked shipping This requirement came from the retail industry.
units in an interim storage type. The goods are stored in Due to al a lack of warehouse capacity at the
customer, the picked goods are delivered only
interim storage as prepicked goods with reference to
Prepicked Shipping Units at a later point in time (i.e. Seasonal Goods)
the delivery. The goods are then picked at the time of
delivery. Delivery items must be packed into shipping
units in advance.
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Transfer Order header data now includes, processor (HR Actual performance data can now be collected
Personnel number), actual time, start date and time, end regarding work time and processor via TO
header data.
date and time. Data can be entered for the following
Actual Performance Data and
reasons: Control TO Execution, Assigned processor,
Wage Incentive Data in TO
Entry of execution time as statistical info, Entry
execution time can be compared to target operation
times, Data entered is basis for incentive wages.
The following two functions can be used: 1) Packaging This functionality provides a link from WM to
the packaging functions in the shipping
proposal in the Transfer Order. Using a customer exit
component.
routine you can propose packaging for items in the TO.
The system proposes free packaging with reference to
Free Packaging in WM the TO. Free packaging means shipping units without
contents. 2) Verify packaging to delivery. During
confirmation of the transfer order you can branch to the
entry screen for free packaging. Shipping Units (without
contents) are proposed for processing.
Using the inbound delivery you can now communicate with The term "shipping notification" has been
the WM system, transmit batch information, and post changed to "Inbound Delivery" It stands for
the material that will be received at the goods
goods issue movements directly. The following options receipt door.
From 4.0 to 4.5 Inbound Delivery exist: Transfer Order for inbound delivery, Putaway
screen, Batch info, Inbound delivery monitor,
Determination of GR receiving point, document flow, &
Search help for inbound deliveries
SAP LES consists of the interconnected applications of SAP LES is the logistical execution layer
warehouse management, Transportation Management & enabling the efficient flow of goods along the
supply chain, featuring a close feedback loop
Foreign Trade. It focuses on decision support at various between planning and execution.
Logistics Execution System
operational levels including: warehouse supervisor,
transportation planner, fork lift driver, goods receipt
clerk, external and internal business partners.
Beginning with 4.5 a report is available that makes it This represents a more efficient process for
correcting a delivery with an incorrect pick.
Putaway for Delivery after possible to place deliveries already picked back into the
Incorrect Pick warehouse. You can return a complete delivery or an
individual line item.
The Delivery Monitor provides follow-on functions for User Friendly tool available to display and
further processing of deliveries and additional process open and completed deliveries.
information in the delivery environment. The deliver

Deliver Monitor
Monitor will in the future replace the transc. For
"Deliveries in Process" and "Delivery list for Partner and
Material"
In release 4.5, a new function is provided to monitor the User friendly monitoring tool to assist and
analyze picking progress
progress of picking in WM. The report provides a data
WM Picking Progress Report
list as a quick overview of the status of picking stock for
transfer orders in a group wave. See report RLLT2900.
The flow of goods in WM is quick, reliable and
With release 4.6, SAP supplies an integrated radio
tasks can be performed efficiently at
frequency (RF) solution . RF devices receive data directly reasonable costs. No interface or IDOC
from SAP and they return the results data back to the processing is necessary.
From 4.5 to 4.6 Mobile Data Entry system. The RF solution is independent of the R/3 release
and hardware used for operations. The solution can be
used for putaways, picks, posting changes, inventory,
stock inquiry load control & queue.
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The monitor serves to assign the TOs created in WM to The user 's view at the RF terminal is limited to
queues. The RF monitor is used to supervise the workload his current queue of transfer orders. A central
function is necessary in order to be able to
and the work capacity of queues. Ability to display have processing of transfer orders by RF
RF Monitor number of TOs assigned per user, sort TOs by creation users completed as efficiently as possible.
date and time, move transfer orders to other users,
forward transfer orders to other users, manually
prioritize transfer orders.
The display of bin data, inventory, bin sectioning, and Enjoy SAP functionality allow the user to
display or group data according the users
statistics no longer takes place by means of a pushbutton:
individual requirements making SAP R/3 more
instead you use tab pages in a table control, with the user friendly.
table control you can now call up and group your data
according to your individual requirements. The following
Enjoy in the Warehouse
new functions are also available: Branching from Storage
Management System
type to customizing, Branching from "inventory display"
doc. to inventory history. Text descriptions added to
inventory status, graphic display of bin usage, inventory
status and blocking. Reports converted to ABAP list
Viewer so you can adapt your lists to your own
requirement.
A Transfer Order can now be confirmed in two steps. The physical process of picking can now be
During the first step you confirm that the goods have depicted in the system without time delays.
been picked from the source storage bin. During the The storage bin from where the material is
Two -Step Confirmation of
second step, you confirm the transfer process and thus picked is immediately available again for
Transfer Orders
the receipt of the material into the destination bin. stock picks. If several resources are
involve in a TO, you can confirm each
physical action separately.
New functionality creates a TO for the inbound delivery. Now you can use Lean WM in the putaway
Putaway Process in Lean WM No bins are updated. Bins are determined through process in addition to the picking process
movement type and master data. for the delivery
Dialog processing of inbound and outbound deliveries was Enjoy SAP functionality allow the user to
completely revised during SAP's enjoy initiative. Delivery display or group data according the users
individual requirements making SAP R/3 more
data is now organized in process-oriented groups,
user friendly.
Enjoy SAP - Delivery Foreground navigation is easier with buttons and tabstrip
Processing control, a status overview gives you a summary of the
delivery document's status at a glance & you can switch
from display to change mode with out leaving the
application.
In the small parcel carrier link, you define for each small Small parcel carriers need to deliver goods
parcel carrier which data fields you need. Ex: using Pre- quickly from one location to another and
defined modules, Setting standard values, Using number tracking the entire path of the delivery.
range objects, Calling up BAPIs, Using your own function The labels on parcels must meet pre-
Small Parcel Carrier Link module, Combining data field using substitution. defined requirements in order to be read by
Without extra effort these fields are considered in automatic sorting machines and to be
IDOC and RFC interfaces. Also, there are XML forwarded correctly.
interfaces for master data that is directly related to the
small parcel carrier.
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Until now, the delivery split had to be reduced and then Deliveries change frequently during the
leftover quantities placed in a new delivery. The course of processing time. It may be
subsequent delivery functionality let you carry out this necessary to divide up a delivery for
Subsequent Delivery Split process in one step without the goods returning to warehouse and transportation planning
available status in the meantime. You can use a list to purposes.
select delivery items that are to be taken from existing
outbound deliveries and put into one or more outbound
deliveries.
The ship-to-party transfers the proof of delivery to the Proof of Delivery allows verification of the
system via IDOCs. You can edit and analyze differences. actual quantity received by the ship-to-
In turn, you can create a delivery-related billing party or reason for derivation. (POD)
Proof of Delivery
document for the corrected quantities. occurs after goods issue for the delivery.
POD supports delivery confirmations for
external customers.
Wave picking groups delivery requirements according to Picking in WM and Distribution centers can
trucking/transportation schedules. Two options exist: be more accurately planned according to
Create a exactly one wave for each shipment ignoring requirements of outbound deliveries
time slots and capacity. Option two, combine and group
Wave Pick for Shipments
outbound deliveries according to shipment time. Time
slots and capacity are taken into consideration. Outbound
deliveries of the same shipment are always either all in
one wave pick or not included at all.
Now you can distribute multi-dimensional freight You can define up to three scales of price
conditions from an SAP system to other systems via ALE. conditions in SAP for the calculation of
Extension for Multi- Also, now you can change freight rates in mass by freight costs for shipments. The process is
Dimensional Freight Condition percentage or absolute value. more efficient and user-friendly due to 1)
Distribution of conditions and 2) Mass
changes to freight rates.
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Annual or One-
Release Delta Functionality Functionality Description Business Benefit Calculation Benchmark/Implementation experience
Estimate Time
3.1 to 4.0
Ability to increase maintenance

Increased cash flow from
revenue and management of Increased sw maint. Rev by 46% due to
improved maintenance fee
Support of revenue recognition, Ibase through advance notification of advanced quoting capabilities (3 months),
IS-SW Support invoicing = NPV of increased 35,000
management renewal, upgrade info. FASB ESRI, SAPerspectives, Issue Number 5,
revenues at standard cost of
compliance for software revenue 8/98
capital
recognition
Reduced time spent on non-value

added contract renewal and re- Reduced non-value activities by 75% - HP-
Customer Contract
Ability to manage global contracts, pricing Increased discounts with ECSO from SAPerspective, North American
Management
strategic suppliers due to freed up Edition, January 1999, pg. 5
time from non-value activities
4.0 to 4.5
4.5 to 4.6
Ability to dispatch field service via web, Reduced call dispatch cycle time Call dispatch cycle time (from close of
Web enabled service Ability to provide support services (ie. resulting in higher customer sat. - service call to call FSE dispatch) reduced to
management help desk, QA dB's, etc.) over the Improved productivity of field service automatic, Schindler Elevator,
Internet staff SAPerspectives Number 7 - 1/99 pg. 9
Reduced cost of service via the web

$0.04/customer or 43% less than phone
support vs $1.44/ customer, Forrester
Research, Inc. Business Week:e.biz March
22, 1999 - "What every CEO should know
about E Business" pg. 31
$35,000.00
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3.1 to 4.0
Ability to include inspection characteristics for each operation in

Better decision making of material usage. Reduced
the maintenance task lists (as with current). Work list for control
Calibration Inspection cycle time and improved data related to the
charts that will enable you to call up and display control charts
management of calibration and testing of materials
from outside the results recording function. .
Work list for control charts that will enable calling up and display
Reduced number or
control charts from outside the results recording function .Ability
Improved WIP and finished product quality, provides returns, reduced scrap
Enhanced Quality to control charts for qualitative characteristics, control tolerance
data results in graphical format for easier decision and rework - 10% less 50,000
Control input for a control chart, and
making returns x cost/return x
run charts function to represent the progression of values in an
annual value of returns
inspection
Allows for flexible planning of the actual samples to be drawn,

the identification of these actual samples, the administration of
Sample management Compliance of Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP)
sample data in a sample record, and the assignment of
inspection results to a sample record
In certain branches of the process industry (for

Functional QM: New Authorizations functions are: Master data example, the pharmaceutical industry), the Good
enhancements for authorization -The new authorization object Q_MASTERD Manufacturing Practices (GMP) require that certain
approvals during controls the access to master data in the QM application master data and master data changes must be
inspection planning component. Material authorization - The authorization object subjected to an approval procedure. You can only
and inspection Q_MATERIAL has been supplemented with the following process work orders if they are controlled by
processing functions: Approval procedure and Digital signature. approved master data or if they have been explicitly
approved.
Implementing Table
Control in the
Screens and Lists now use table to display information which
overview screens and Easy to use, shortens users time for processing
is more flexible for the user to decide what and how much
the new general list information.
information is displayed.
viewer for list
displays.
Enhanced reporting capabilities. This allows you to:
Access the inspection results in the Logistics
Information System. Use standard information
QMIS - Quality Management Information System (QMIS) -
structures and standard analyses to update and
Characteristic Results Characteristic Results in information structures.
analyze the inspection results. Choose among several
in information Summarization of inspection results data in the QM
process models for calculating the statistical values
structures. Information System (QMIS)
for quantitative characteristics
Take deleted inspection lots into consideration.
Summarize datasets that already exist
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Quality Certificate functions new in 4.0: Creating Certificate

Profiles Using a Copy Model. Delete certificate profiles that
have not been released. The system creates change
documents for released certificate profiles. If the data
Quality Certificates: origins or text elements for the characteristics are not
New functions. compatible with the remaining data, the system issues
corresponding warning messages. Copy the characteristics
that reference master inspection characteristics from a
task list into a certificate profile. Display all currently valid
assignments. New customer exits.
Work list for control charts that will enable calling up and
display control charts from outside the results recording
Quality Control: function .Ability to control charts for qualitative Improved WIP and finished product quality,
Enhanced Quality characteristics, control tolerance input for a control chart, provides data results in graphical format for easier
Control and decision making
run charts function to represent the progression of values in
an inspection
Evaluating Inspection Characteristics. In the transactions
for results recording and the usage decision, you can call up
the results history for an inspection characteristic. This
allows you to compare the results of the current quality
inspection with the results of previous inspections for the
same material. (QGP1 Results history for inspection
Quality Control:
characteristic) functions in this list: display the single
Evaluating Inspection
results for one or more samples. obtain a detailed display of
Characteristics
all inspection results for a sample by calling up the
corresponding transaction. display a run chart for the
sample mean values. display a run chart for single values.
display a histogram for single values with the process
capability indices cp and cpk. use the QM-STI interface to
generate statistiscal analyses using an external statistics
package.
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1) np-chart for the number of nonconforming units (175, 176)

2) p-chart for the number of nonconforming units (165, 166)
3) c-chart for the number of nonconformities (195, 196)
4) u-chart for the number of nonconformities for each unit
(185, 186)
5) Moving-average chart (520-526)
6) EWMA moving-range chart for mean values with
exponential smoothing (530, 531)
7) Moving range chart for mean values (515, 516)
Quality Control: New
The c-chart and u-chart are provided for characteristics
types of control
whose control indicators specify the confirmation of defects.
charts for SPC
The moving-range chart is a control chart with two tracks
that is especially suited for characteristics with a sample
size of n=1. In this case, track 1 displays the actual measured
value and track 2 displays the distance between the actual
measured value and the preceding measured value. The
control limits for the moving-average chart, EWMA moving-
average chart, and the R-track of the moving range chart do
not only reference the current sample and you cannot use
them to valuate the samples.
Quality Control: Open QM-STI interface for linking decentralized evaluation tools
Integration and (for example, statistics software packages). Additional
interfaces. BAPI's. New Customer Exits.
Quality Inspection: Determine the characteristic specifications in an inspection

Specifications from lot from the variant configuration characteristics on a
Variant Configuration. material.
The sample calculation for an inspection lot can be cancelled

as long as you have not recorded any confirmations,
Quality Inspection: inspection results, or defects for the inspection lot for the
Canceling the Sample following reasons: The inspection lot quantity was changed
calculation. and the new quantity should be used as a basis for calculating
the sample sizes. You want to the system to reassign the
inspection specification using a new or revised task list.
The digital signature ensures that only users with special
The digital signature enables you to meet the
authorization be allowed to execute, monitor, or approve
security requirements stipulated in the Good
certain transactions. In QM, these transactions are as
Manufacturing Practices (GMP) with regard to the
follows: Saving inspection results for characteristics and
execution of these transactions. The digital
Saving a usage decision.
Quality Inspection: signature ensures that: A transaction can only be
The digital signature serves as a technical aid for this
Digital Signature carried out by users with a special authorization.
requirement. When an authorized user wants to save data, he
The user identification is unique and forgery-proof.
or she inserts an indvidual identification card (containing the
The name of the users is documented together with
user identification and password) into a smart-card reader
the signed transaction and the date and time, and
and enters a password. The system checks whether this
cannot be manipulated afterwards.
information corresponds to the information in the individual's
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The following new features in results recording: Using the
functions for table control, you can configure the recording
tables to suit your individual requirements. With the help of
subscreens, you can configure the header data for the
recording screens to suit your individual requirements.
Quality Inspection: 'Summarized' recording view. Recording configuration
Enhancements in automate navigation of the results recording function.
Results Recording. Forced closure function. You can confirm the attribute
indicator and the measured value in a single field. Changes to
single values and classed values are recorded in change
documents. Results data origin documents the origin of a
result (for example, "value copied from certificate").
Digital signature. Approval for inspection plan.
Quality Inspection: The new graphic displays for sample results in the
Graphics in Results transactions for recording and displaying characteristic
Recording results are Histograms and Run charts.
Inspections for Goods Receipt in Blocked Stock. You can

Quality Inspection: inspect materials that are held in goods-receipt blocked
Inspection for Goods stock (movement type 103).
Receipt in Blocked Previously, you could only create inspection lots for good
Stock. receipts that were posted out of goods-receipt blocked
stock (movement type 105).
New functions for correcting the actual quantity of an

inspection lot are: 1) stock postings for goods-receipt insp
lots with account assignments. 2) a posting and material
document date that is not the same as the current date. 3)
activate or deactivate the "delivery completed" indicator. 4)
a reason for making a correction in the actual quantity. 5) a
Quality Inspection: text for the posting.
Inspection lots in The system checks your QM material authorization when you
Inventory correct the actual quantity of an inspection lot.
Management. A new transaction to transfer the stock in an inspection lot
to another storage location or another plant. (You cannot
transfer partial quantities of stock in an inspection lot.) All
material documents that reference an inspection lot or that
were created as a result of an inspection lot are recorded
and available for display in the transactions for the usage
decision and displaying an inspection lot.
You can create several inspection lots for a run schedule

header. This allows you to create a new inspection lot after
you have completed the current inspection lot, without having
Quality Inspection: to create a new order. This function is especially useful if an
Multiple inspection inspection planner changes the planning data so that it
lots for a single run affects the processing of a subsequent inspection lot (for
schedule header. example, if tolerances for a characteristic are changed or if
a new operation with characteristics is inserted into the task
list). In the run schedule header, you can display the current
inspection lot and a list of all previous inspection lots
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When you maintain the QM inspection data in the material
master, you can enter the following values for the
"LotsforMatDocItem" indicator:
Quality Inspection:
' ' (blank): One inspection lot for each goods-receipt
One-Time Inspection
document item. (3.0) 'X': One inspection lot for each
for Several Goods
purchase order item or order item and batch. (3.0) '1': One
Movements
inspection lot for each material document, material, and
batch. (New function) '2': One inspection lot for each
material and batch. (New function)
The existing function for the results printout (transaction
QGA3) has been expanded to include the following functions:
Quality Inspection: Printout of summarized data for samples. Printout of single
Print Function for the values/classed results for inspection
Inspection Lot characteristic/sample/inspection point. Possibility of
inserting standard texts in various text elements
The sample-drawing instruction has the following new

features: Improved layout, production order number
available, partial samples by operations, and Multiple copies.
If using Sample Management, the following information is
also available: texts from sample drawing procedure, list of
physical samples and size of each physical samples, indicator
for physical samples to be inspected, partial samples
Quality Inspection: information. For inspection lots of maintenance orders, the
Printing Sample following information is available: List of Plant Maintenance
Drawing and objects (equipment or functional location), inspection
Inspection operations and work center.
Instructions The inspection instruction has the following new information
available: Shop papers can be printed out on a work center
printer (that is, the system prints several inspection
instructions, if specified in the print control), Multiple copies
can be printed out. Detailed information for production tools
and resources. Control over printing of inspection
characteristic 1) all cases (3.1), 2) not printed, or 3) not
printed, if in a skip stage.
A proposal for a Batch Status Change When Making the

Quality Inspection: Usage Decision can now be stored in the catalog for the
Proposal for Batch usage decision. As a result, you no longer have to trigger the
Status change making batch status change manually. You can also trigger a batch
a U.D. status change when the system makes an automatic usage
decision. The manual function, however, is still available.
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The functions for sample management allow you to: Flexibly

plan the drawing of physical samples using a sample-drawing
procedure, Identify and manage the physical samples using
physical-sample records. Automatically create physical-
sample records and inspection specifications for the physical
Compliance of Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP).
Quality Inspection: samples when an inspection lot is created. Create physical
The ability plan, manage, and track samples with
Sample management samples manually using the functions for copying or
respect to the inspection.
referencing existing physical samples. Confirm the physical-
sample drawing and release the physical samples. Record
inspection results for planned or unplanned physical samples.
Print the sample-drawing instruction and a results printout
for the physical samples.
Variants for Completing Inspection Points can control the

Quality Inspection:
valuation screen for an inspection point. In operation data of
Variants for
the task list, you can plan a variant. The system supports
Completing Inspection
four variants for completing inspection points.
Points.
You can have the system calculate the sample sizes and
dynamically modify the inspection scope for an inspection lot
without having to use an inspection plan or material
specification. The existing dynamic modification criteria
Quality Planning:
"material," "vendor," and "customer" have been expanded to
Dynamic modification
include the "manufacturer." You can use the following
for Manufacturer and
combinations of dynamic modification criteria for for goods
sample determination
receipt inspections:
without an inspection
Material; Material and vendor; Material and manufacturer;
plan or material
Material, vendor, and manufacturer. Additional features
specification.
allow changing the dynamic modification level and
automatically copying the current inspection stage and using
dynamic modification across inspection lots for inspections
during production with inspection points.
Copying data from other inspection plans, you can copy
To reduce the time and effort required to record
inspection characteristics into the plan. You can copy the
the data, you can now copy the data that you have
Quality Planning: characteristics from other operations in the same plan or
already processed at the characteristic level (for
Enhancements in from other operations in a different plan. Copying data from
example, tolerances or catalog codes) to the
Inspection Planning the characteristic level to the characteristic value level.
characteristic value level, to allow you to make
material-specific changes to the data.
The mass activation was avaialble in 3.x releases, but new Eliminates the need to write an ABAP or manually
Quality Planning: Mass features have been added. They are Mass Deactivation of activate Material masters at go-live or later mass
changes for QM inspections. Individual Selection of Material Inspection data changes or cut-over to quality management of
inspection data. from the Generated list. Mass Changes to the Inspection materials. Saves many hour to days over manual
Data for inspection types. activataions.
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The following new features for QM in procurement have been

implemented: Skip for certified vendors. Lot creation
Quality Planning: New status and inspection lot reference in the goods receipt
Features for QM in document. Mass changes for QM in Procurement info-
Procurement records. Certificates Acknowledgement required in goods
receipts can now control stock or issue messages. Deletion
Indicator for the quality info-record.
You can now create, change, or display code groups and codes
using a single transaction. When you select a code group, you
can branch directly to the codes that belong to that
Quality Planning: New particular code group. Within a transaction, you can: Process
User Interface for selected codes or all code groups in a catalog, Copy the code
Catalog Processing. groups along with their respective codes, Translate the
entries into various languages, Transport the code groups and
codes on a client-wide or system-wide basis.
Quality Planning:
Optional Unit of As of Release 4.0A, you no longer have to specify a unit of
Measurement for measurement for a quantitative inspection characteristic.
Quantitative This applies to both master inspection characteristics and
Inspection inspection characteristics in a task list.
Characteristics
The system selects the same version of the inspection plan it
Quality Planning: uses when it creates an inspection lot for a material. The
Printing Out system prints the characteristic values that are valid for
Inspection Plans for a this material or for a predefined combination of material,
Material vendor, and customer.
Simplified User
Easier to use, shortens users time for processing
Guidance in results
information.
recording.
Ability to include inspection characteristics for each

Test Equipment operation in the maintenance task lists (as with current). Better decision making of material usage. Reduced
Management: Work list for control charts that will enable you to call up cycle time and improved data related to the
Calibration Inspection and display control charts from outside the results recording management of calibration and testing of materials
function. .
Quality Notifications:
Changes to notifications, tasks, items, activities and partners
Notification Action
will be kept in a chronological sequence in an action log.
Log
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The sort number in notification items, tasks and activities
can be given an external sort number. This number makes it
possible to define the sequence in which the tasks, items or
activities should be displayed.
Items, Tasks,
Partner in the task detail screen. The system can determine
Activities in
a partner function for the persons responsible for the task
Notifications
depending on the notification type. The partner function is
proposed in the detail screen; from Release 4.0A, you can
overwrite it.
Notification processing has been linked to the document
management system (DVS). You therefore have the option of You can use this DVS link, for example, for the
assigning document master records to notifications. Several inclusion of documents which are of central
functions are available: Search functions for the documents. importance for notification processing. The R/3
Linking Notifications
Jump to the document master record. Display the original System thus makes notification processing even
to the Document
document. In addition to the known reference objects, more efficient because distribution of original
Management System
other options are available to set the notification system in documents in your company (for example, by internal
your company. Examples of this are problem notifications or post or telefax) is no longer necessary.
improvement proposals for technical documentation.
The functions available for 3.0 have been enhanced so that
Quality Notifications: you can directly valuate the characteristics of the assigned
Classification of class of the catalog profile in a section of the item data
Notification Items screen. In Customizing: Allow classification and Activate
include screen in catalog profile.
The function for creating a notification using a copy model

has been changed and enhanced. You no longer have to call up
a separate transaction to use this function. Instead, you
choose the function Notification -> Create and enter the
number of a notification to be used as a copy model directly
Creating a
on the initial screen. The system copies the notification data
Notification Using a
such as reference objects, problem description (including
Copy Model
long text), contact person, items, tasks, and activities
(including long text) into the new notification. You can use
any notification type as a copy model for a new notification.
The notification type of the new notification is irrelevant.
You can display a long text for a code that is used to

describe a defect or damage item in a notification. A
Copying/Displaying a
pushbutton allows you to copy the code text into the
Long Text for a Code
notification as a long text for the corresponding object.
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When you process notifications or inspection lots in Release

4.0A, you can have the system display existing notifications
that reference the same objects that are contained in the
current notification or inspection lot you are processing. This
Quality Notifications: function can: Display the absolute frequencies of the
Displaying Statistical notifications based on their processing status
Key Figures (outstanding/completed). Branch to a list of notifications.
Branch from the list of notifications to a specific
notification. You can specify whether you want the system to
use the information structures or the original documents to
determine the number of notifications.
New Initial Screens for Creating a Quality Notification have

Quality Notifications: the following additional options: create a quality notification
New Initial Screens with reference to the vendor material number (screen 0105),
for Creating a Quality create a quality notification with reference to the customer
Notification material number (screen 0125), create a quality notification
using a copy model (screen 0150).
The following new fields are in the data structure of the

quality notification: An external reference number. In the
device data field, store any desired additional information
(for example, the production series). In the copy model
number field, reference an existing quality notification.
The serial number field serves as a new reference object for
Enhancements in the
a material. In the customer material and vendor material
Data Structure of the
fields, the number under which a material is maintained at
Quality Notification
the customer or vendor site can be specified. A
manufacturor can be storde for notifications involving
complaints against vendors. A physical sample can be
referenced at the item level of the notification. The unit to
be inspected number is a field in which information about the
The Business Workflow for quality notifications has the
following new features: A scenario to inform the individuals
with the partner function "IT" (interested party) that a new
notification has been created. An escalation mechanism for
workflow scenarios that involve notifications and tasks. The
Quality Notifications: Improved communications and faster internal
system uses the data in the notification or task to determine
New Features in the processing of complaints. (improved customer
the deadlines for completing the work items for a
Business Workflow service)
notification or task. If these deadlines are exceeded, the
coordinator of the notification or person responsible for the
notification receives a mail. These escalation messages are
forwarded and deposited in a separate folder in the inbox.
The escalated work items are also accessible in the work list.
Since Release 3.0, you record defects for an inspection lot.
Quality Notifications: If you recorded defects for different inspection operations
Creating One Quality in the same inspection lot, the system created a quality
Notification Per notification for each inspection operation. In Release 4.0A,
Inspection Lot you have the option of creating only one quality notification
for each inspection lot.
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Certificate receipt and goods receipt are separate, reminder
Certificates in if certificate is missing, certificate is an object in the
4.0 to 4.5
Procurement system, and storing the oroginal certificates in an optical
archive
Properties of the Three different versions available, designed for summarized
Process-Optimized results, valuation overview using icons, availability of control
Results Recording charts and other graphics, direct link to original results
(RR) recording, possibility to save and keep screen
Selection of inspection operations via work list, recording for
Process Optimized a master inspection characteristic, recording for several
Results Recording characteristic in a plan, recording with inspection-point
overview
New graphics tool based on OCX (Grafitti), display control

OCX User Interface
charts with new graphic tool, integrated graphic frame in
Graphics Tool
results recording screen. Windows 32-bit is required
Control for Goods This enhancement can be used to control the goods receipt
4.5 to 4.6 Receipt and Source for purchasing document items independent of the source
Inspections inspection lot.
Used to determine the order types for printing the
Print Control for
inspection instruction, sample drawing instruction, and
Order Types
physical sample labels.
Output of Language
Used to change the characteristic short text in results
Dependent
recording. The changed characterisitc short text is not
Characteristic Short
saved.
Text
Creating a Quality
Notification when
making inspection
point confirmations
Supplementary Data
when transmitting
certificates
electronically
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A tool for exception-based management. You

1.1 - 2.0A Alert Monitor: Messaging can email the alert messages to other planners.
You also can have the message sent to you Give planners more controlling
automatically. abilities over exception situation.
Up to 2.0, Alert Monitor is a stand-alone
Alert Monitor: Stand-alone component. The Alert Monitor window has
been enhanced.
Gives demand visibility to understand the market

dynamics and to create accurate forecasts and
demand plans.
The forecasting features, like time series
Demand Planning
models, causal models, promotion planning, phase
in/out profiles, etc. addresses the needs to plan
high promoted products, seasonal products, as
well as slow moving items and products with
short lifecycles.
You can access advanced marcos directly,
separate session for advanced marcos, drag
drop. You can use a new marco element to
have system issue a message. Another new
Demand Planning-Advanced marco element can have system send out an
Marcos email. The new marco tool give you Undo, Redo,
Expand All, Collapse All, Save layout settings
feature. You can define a new marco as a level
change marco. You can also define alerts that are
not visible in the Alert Monitor.
Demand Planning-Aggregate You can use an Aggregate to increase the
in Mass Processing speed with which mass jobs are processed
Through this new function, you can compare
and review DP version for InfoCube and key figure,
Demand Planning-Compare
forecast versions, univariate forecast errors,
forecast parameters.
Demand Planning-Copying You can copy an existing mass processing job

to a new job
Demand Planning-Decimal You can set the number of decimal places of a
Place key figure individually per planning book.
You can define the aggregation and
Demand Planning: Aggregation
desegregation types of a key figure in planning
and Desegregation
parameters of the InfoCube
You can define authorizations for DP Versions,
Demand Planning:
DP functions, Selection Ids, Planning book,
Authorizations
Macros.
Demand Planning: Setting up
the Forecast You can now store the ex-post forecast.
When you save a demand planning version,
Demand Planning: Forecast
the newest forecast is saved in the InfoCube and is
Versions
accessible for further processing
Demand Planning: Mass You can now have the system create a log of
Processing Job Log mass processing job.
You can now create phase-in and phase-out
profiles from the master forecast profiles.
You can restrict the use phase-in and phase-out
profile for a product to one location. You can now
Demand Planning: Lifecycle apply a phase-in and phase-out profile to either
Planning demand history or the demand forecast. You can
also specify whether period without a value in a
phase-in and phase-out profile should be set to 0 or
1000
Demand Planning: Like You can now create "like" profiles from the
Modeling master forecast profile. You can restrict the use
of a "like" for a product to one location.
Demand Planning: Notes In interactive forecasting, you can now create
Management a note for any cell at any level.
Demand Planning: Planning You can now define different ways of accessing
Book Access the demand planning desktop for different users.
Demand Planning: Promotion You can now opt to see the planning book layout
Planning when you are planning promotion
APO 2.0 comes with new functions for
Demand Planning: Selection organization of selection Ids. You can build a master
Ids profile of selection Ids as well as a working profile
Ids for each user.
Demand Planning: Transfer to You can now transfer the demand plans of
R/3 multiple products from Demand Planning to R/3
Demand Management Demand management
Global ATP
You can now protect the system from import
customized data. You can switch off the availability
Global ATP: General check by setting all basic methods to no check in
Enhancements checking instructions. You can now configure the
production and the production time in checking
instructions
You can now change the consumption parameter in

the production allocation display and production
overview. You can now enter the location-dependent
and location-independent product allocations
Global ATP: Product procedures and the sequence of product allocation
Allocation procedures in APO product master data. You can

now use the following functionality for product
allocation: execute shortage check, display product
allocation assignment by sales order, check the
product allocation assignments, update the product
allocation assignments
You can now execute a rule evaluation for your
requested products in the rule maintenance screen
and from the hierarchical display of the result tree
for the explanation and situation components. You
can now maintain the location product substitutions
Global ATP: Rule-Based ATP in addition to the product substitutions and the
location determinations. You can now maintain the
reason for the product substitutions and the
location determination activity in the integrated
rule maintenance in the Profile and Parameter
screen.
Maser Data: Authorization With effect from 2.0, APO offers an authorization
Concept concept that defines user groups and user access to
the different areas of Master Data.
You can now group Master Data objects in hierarchy
relationships. You can use the Master Data
Maser Data Hierarchies
hierarchies to maintain relationships between
existing Master Data objects.
You can now copy Master Data attributes of an
Master Data: Planning
inactive planning version back to the active planning
Version
version.
At initial screen for Resource Master , you no
longer need to define resource type that you wish to
maintain in this screen. Instead, you select a
Master Data: Resources
resource in the initial screen Resources in the
Maintenance view of Master Data for resources
Change or Display Resources.
The manufacturing environment, production

processes, co-products, primary/secondary and
alternative resources, yields, minimum/
maximum time constraints between operations
etc. can be flexible defined and will be
considered during the scheduling to guarantee
Production Planning and the feasibility of the created production plans.
Detail Scheduling Dynamic lead times and sequencing optimization
achieve maximum cycle time compression to
achieve flexibility, which leads to fast reaction
times to new demand signals or changes.
Characteristics are available to describe
configured products, production blocks,
campaigns and batches.
PP/DS: Authorization You can now use authorization to define which

activities a user may perform in the APO system.
PP/DS: Customer exit for the

With the Customer Exit APOCDPS1 you can define
object selection
the object which the system is to process (schedule
in mass detail scheduling
or optimize) in a work step in mass detail scheduling
In the strategy profile, with which you control the
PP/DS: Scheduling and Detail
detail scheduling of orders and operations, the
Scheduling Strategies
indicator Finite scheduling has been omitted.
You are able to define exactly which categories of
PP/DS: Day's Supply
stock, receipts, requirements and forecast are to
Calculation
be included in the calculation of day's supply.
From release 2.0 mass detail scheduling is available

PP/DS: Detail Scheduling
with which you can carry out detail scheduling for a
large number of objects as a background job.
You can now define network view charts in the
detail scheduling planning board only as dynamic
PP/DS: Charts in the DS charts, which you can hide and show in the detail
Planning Board scheduling planning board. You can also define the
network view charts as static charts, which are
always displayed in the planning board.
Constant planning can affect system performance.
PP/DS: Important Indicator You can now set within a planning version, that
for PP/DS and SNP Planning changes relevant to planning are trigger planning or
Version create planning file entries for just PP/DS and/or
for SNP, or not at all.
As of Release of 2.0 A, it is now possible to define
resources that allow a bucket approach (SNP) and a
detail approach (PP/DS), which enables you to use it
for SNP as well as PP/DS. You are now able to
specify for a PPM used in Supply Network Planning
PP/DS: PP/DS - SNP from PP/DS is to be used when you convert the
Integration order into a PP/DS order. When select receipts to
be converted from SNP orders into PP/DS orders ,
you are now able to limit the selection by products
and/or locations. You can therefore convert all
receipts, for example, in one location or for certain
product only.
In the detail scheduling planning board the following
PP/DS: New Evaluations in new evaluations are available in Release 2.0 under
DS Planning Board Extra.: Work-In-Process-Stock, Scheduling
quantity, Resource load per period.
From release 2.0 you can make user-specific
settings so that only orders of certain types are
displayed. For the detail scheduling planning board,
PP/DS: Selection of the
which you can access directly in the area menu of
Objects to be Displayed in
Production Planning, you can control which
the DS Planning Period
resources, products, and orders will be displayed
the table areas of the various sub-screens, using
the Work Area
You can now optimize the total costs for the
activities in the optimization horizon. In the
optimization profile, you can define the maximum
delay that a receipt element can have in comparison
with a requirements element so that the system is
still able to create pegging relationship between
PP/DS: Optimization these elements when optimizing . In the
optimization profile, you also can define that system
post-optimizes following the optimization. You can
also define the optimization horizon and the start
of the optimized schedule in the optimization
profile.
You are not able to perform a planning run in PP/DS
PP/DS: Planning Run for as many products in as many locations as you
require.
As of Release of 2.0 A, production campaign
processing in integrated in APO (creation, planning)
and R/3 (Execution, and cost accounting). You can
PP/DS: Product Campaign not create single-product or multiple-product
campaigns in APO using block information in the
planning board.
On the Process Order screen (Order View), you can

now see alerts related to the order for the product.
This enables you to recognize any surplus/short
quantities, due-date violations, minimum day's supply
alert, and so on, and immediately see details on the
PP/DS: New Features in the
alert with out accessing the alert monitor. When
Order View
you select a product receipt in the order tree, you
now receive a tapshtip entitled Alternative. At the
top of the tapstip, the start date and time, base
unit of measurement and order quantity of current
are displayed
With the propagation range, you could previously set
for which resources and products you could change
the schedule. From Release 2.0A in the detail
scheduling planning board only the resources
specified in the propagation area will be considered
in scheduling. You can not use a propagation range in
PP/DS: Propagation Range
interactive planning and in the planning run, to limit
which product you can use. Using Authorization, you
define whether a user may display or change
planning versions, the schedule for location
resources or the stock/requirements situation for
location products.
Push production allows you to plan a production
PP/DS: Push Production process starting with an ingredient that is to be
consumed.
From Release 2.0A, you can define in the planning
PP/DS: Rescheduling of board , that in the diagram section of a chart,
activities in the detail activities are displayed, that you can manually
scheduling planning board reschedule with drag&drop. Therefore, you can also
move individual activities specifically to another
date and/or to an alternative resource.
After Release 2.0, it's no longer possible to change
PP/DS: SAP Standard Profile
SAP standard profile.
In the detail scheduling planning board (DS planning
board) you can fix time intervals for selected
PP/DS: New scheduling and
resources. A context menu with scheduling
processing functions in the
functions, as is available for the table section, is
DS planning board
now available for the diagram section of the
planning board.
You are now able to perform subcontracting in
PP/DS. In APO, subcontracting is carried out by
means of stock transfer. The vendor
(subcontractor) is defined as a location with an
PP/DS: Subcontracting indicator for subcontracting. You define
transportation lines between the plant and the
vendor and back to enable the transfer of stock in
both directions.
As of Release 2.0A, the Supply Chain Cookpit is a
stand-alone component that is separated form,
though still integrated with, Supply Chain Engineer
and Alert Monitor. The enhancements include:
Integrated model and version management, both of
which require user authorization, displaying the
Supply Chain Cookpit:
chain in a logical format, creating user -defined
Enhancements
menus for APO queries and key performance
indicators, using hierarchies for organizing supply
chain elements, saving your working area under user
id as personal settings or under a shared label for
public use. numerous key performance indicators
added.
As of Release 2.0A, the Supply Chain Engineer is a
stand-alone component that is separated form,
though still integrated with, Supply Chain Cookpit.
The enhancements include: Integrated model and
version management, both of which require user
authorization, displaying the chain in a logical
format, using hierarchies for organizing supply
Supply Chain Engineer:
chain elements, saving your working area under user
Enhancements
id as personal settings or under a shared label for
public use, if you add or delete an object from a
model, all its dependent objects are automatically
added or deleted as well. There is a new mass
maintenance function for maintaining transportation
lane data.
Creates demand driven, the distribution,
production, purchasing requirements and the
related transportation and allocation plans,
through the whole supply chain network. The
concurrent planning of distribution and
production leads to optimal souring, global
balancing of the resource capacities and limited
materials to satisfy the most profitable
SNP demands. Dynamic calculation of safety stock
and target inventory levels in conjunction with
time phased order logic for an continuous
replenishment reduces the inventory levels and
increases inventory turns through the supply
chain. Supply Network Planning supports the
planner with techniques, like Mixed Integer
Linear Programming and Constraint based
Propagation.
Under the planning data tab of CTM profile, you can
further restrict the objects to be included in the
CTM planning run by: master data, work area. Under
planning strategies, it is now possible to define a
SNP: Capable to Watch period during which planned orders are deleted.
Supply and demand objects can now be aggregated
according to a CTM time stream, based on specific
categories such as stock type, orders or
requirements.
When you do resource capacity leveling, you can now
SNP: Capacity Leveling select one or both of the following options: ignore
fixed quantities, fix result.
After you have established all the costs used by the
SNP: Optimization Costs Optimizer via master data set up, you can now
Maintenance maintain those costs through a single point of
access.
SNP: Using Hierarchical
Structure for the Heuristic It is now possible to use hierarchical structures for
Run the Heuristic run using the Level ID option.
SNP: Using Hierarchical
Structure for the It is now possible to use hierarchical structures for
Optimization Run the Optimization run using the Level ID option.
For aggregate planning: You can now plan product
and resource families on multiple levels. For fix
planning values, if you manually overwrite the value
in a plan, those values are fixed and will not be
SNP: Interactive Planning
changed during subsequent planning runs. For
sending plan, you can now send plans via email
internally and externally if the system is connected
to a mailsever.
The Cost Function is used by the Optimizer to
calculate the cost of procuring, producing, or
SNP: Master Data
transporting varying quantities of products defined
in intervals via the Maintenance function.
You can now display several different views of
SNP: Optimizer Log Files Optimizer-related data from a single-point of
access.
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Improved control over production
Through the POI interface the PFS is connected to PP-PI and started through the schedules. Improved customer
3.1 to 4.0 Process Flow Scheduler planning process. Master data as well as transaction data is modified by the delivery, reduced inventory, and
detailed planner and optimizer and then transferred back to PP-PI improved production throughput.
On the whole, Distribution Requirements Planning can be conducted using techniques Easier to use MRP functionality
available in Material Requirements Planning (MRP). The planning results provide you through graphical network tools, and
with planned stock transfers (stock transfer requisitions), which you can use to new allocation algorithms improve the
guarantee the stock level required in the distribution centers. The system also results of MRP processing in multi-
takes into account the fact that requirements can be satisfied by more than one distribution node networks.
supply center.
In contrast to Distribution Requirements Planning, deployment has a short-term
character. The aim of deployment is to help you react to deviations from the
preceding Distribution Requirements Planning run. Deviations can occur in the
production process, and can also be due to imprecise sales forecasts. Deployment
enables you to take appropriate action when situations of either requirements
shortage or requirements surplus arise by providing algorithms for "fair share"
Distribution Resource
distribution and for "push" distribution, respectively.
Planning
Network
Graphical maintenance of a time-dependent distribution network

Integration of important customers in the distribution network (Vendor Managed
Inventory)
Definition of a distribution network for materials or groups of materials, also
without reference to materials
Definition of more than one source of supply for one distribution center
Historical values can be used to calculate the quota arrangement
Connection to Sales Planning
Program for splitting plant-independent forecast requirements over distribution

Improved management of
subcontractor information allowing for
Full integration of subcontractor information from purchase req, order creation,
stronger relationships and improved Number of days
goods receipt, material costs, quality inspection. Orders can be set up as planned
External Processing terms (order lead times, discounts) reduced lead time, 200,000 Annual
delivery times or standard times and workflow can be triggered when orders are
Improved production planning from increased discounts
changed and purchase orders are effected.
improved update of subcontractor
delivery information
Reduction of inventory levels,
Automatic calculation of number and quantity per kanban. The system will propose production or procurement cycle times, Reduced average
Flow Manufacturing - number and quantity based on materials requirment and long term planning. Ability improvement in schedule delivery inventory levels by
385,000 One-Time
Kanban calculation to specify the valuaion period the system should use. On-line transaction to check performance and reduction in planning 550.000 x 17%
change and accept system proposal effort. carrying costs
Designing lines and planning the production process are two of the most important Improvement in production throughput
tasks in production control for flow and repetitive manufacturers. In a flow and and increase in labor efficiency.
repetitive manufacturing environment, production is split into various processes and
the sequence of these processes is used as a basis for developing the plan for
loading a line.
For this purpose, the line is subdivided into line segments and takt areas. Takt times
are calculated for the takt areas to control material flow and to calculate the time
the material is retained on the line.
Line design also involves allocating products to lines and operations, components and
production resources and tools to line segments. Here, you also assign feeder lines
to main lines. While doing so, make sure that these two lines are synchronized.
In Release 4.0, line design functions already available will be enhanced to suit the
Flow Manufacturing -
special requirements of a flow and repetitive manufacturing environment.
Line design
Description of Function
Line design will be an important tool for flow and repetitive manufacturers to plan
the structure of the production line as well as the production procedure. The
following functions are planned for line design:
Dividing production into processes

Defining process networks
To depict main and feeder lines
To increase possibilities for shortening lead time
Defining line hierarchies
SAP R/3 users in production planning and control are increasingly processing very Decrease in manual planning efforts,
large objects or large quantities of objects (for example, planned orders, improving planner performance, which
production orders, and capacity requirements). reduces planning errors, and permits
Functions to simplify the use of mass processing and to increase data throughput faster responses to changes in
are available in Release 4.0. Response times in online processing have been improved requirements and production situation.
considerably.
You can use comprehensive selection criteria to create a work list. You process this
Mass Processing in PP work list with the functions for sorting, grouping, and filtering.
and control You can carry out various business functions on selected objects, such as scheduling,
release, and dispatching. You can carry out these functions online or in the
background, both synchronously or asynchronously. The response times for online
processing have been improved considerably as a result of parallel processing in the
background.
Tools are available for you to list and analyze any errors, warnings, and other
important information collected during processing.
You can use the planned functionality in production planning and control wherever
large quantities of data are processed, especially in order processing, capacity
New order-related planning strategies for Release 4.0 so that you do not have to Improved utilization of production
use additional external optimization tools. The handling of objects in the planning resources, more accurate and
table, such as planned orders and production orders, will be simplified. achievable production schedules, which
The following functions will be available in Release 4.0: will improve delivery performance and
Additions to planning strategies increase throughput.
Maintenance and dynamic determination of setup times and the setup time matrix
Order related planning Dispatching of operations within a defined period pattern (days, shifts)
strategies Consideration of production versions when planning alternative lines (for planned
orders)
Material availability checks for a selected planning period
Simple handling of the planning table
Selecting and moving several operations in groups
Easy analysis of planning results
Application Area
The main application area for these new functions is detailed planning.
When you create confirmations, for example, for production orders or run schedule Decrease in production reporting
headers short response times and fast processing are important. On the other hand, efforts improve data integrity and
however, further processing steps should be automatically triggered at the same production schedule status.
time as the confirmation. These steps include functions that result directly from
the confirmation of the operation, such as the determination of current costs or
backflushing, but also the confirmation of previous operations in the processing
chain.
To process these complex process chains in a manner that optimizes performance
and with short response times, you must distinguish between functions in the
confirmation process where time is a critical factor and those where it is not and
transfer processing steps to the background, to aggregate them and place them in
parallel.
Process Chain for
In Customizing you can specify which functions can be carried out on confirming an
Confirmation
operation and when. The individual confirmation functions were encapsulated and
can be run both online as a confirmation, as an asynchronous background task as well
as in periodic background jobs. This affects the following functions:
Updating actual data in the order
Capacity adjustment
Automatic goods receipt
Backflushing of material components
Determination of expected receipt surplus/deficit
Updating of HR incentive wage data
Actual cost determination
Both a temporal decoupling function and an aggregation function are available for
the confirmation. Since aggregation concerns both goods movements and production
Long-term planning provides you with tools for monitoring and planning future Improved ability to make strategic
requirements and resources. Using these tools, you can create various versions of production planning decisions makes
the demand program on a time scale of your choice, and simulate their effects in operative production plans more
MRP and capacity planning. The information from long-term planning also provides achievable and accurate, thereby
Purchasing with a preview of the order quantities required from the respective improving delivery performance and
vendors. In the simulation, you can also calculate the activity requirements for reducing inventories.
production. This information can be passed on to cost center accounting, where it
can be used for costing the product.
Long-term planning is controlled in a special planning scenario that is independent of
PP simulation operative planning. In the planning scenario, you can adjust the settings of
simulative planning to suit your particular needs.
More options for simulating planning will be provided in long-term planning in
Releases 4.0C.
The following functions will be available:
Optional consideration of sales orders in long-term planning
Changing simulative planned orders
Copying simulative production plan to operative planning
Graphic capacity planning table with change options
Integration of long-term planning with repetitive manufacturing functions
Repetitive and flow manufacturers usually control production on a period and Easier to use planning tables improve
quantity basis. In this area of industry, production is also usually characterized by the ability to make repetitive planning
simple and clear processes. Assemblies are processed in a continuous flow through decisions, enabling more timely
the production lines. response to changes in requirements,
Therefore, this branch of industry requires tools that can plan and control which results in reduced inventory and
production on a production-rate and line-oriented basis, as provided by the increased delivery reliability.
Repetitive Manufacturing component in the R/3 System. Repetitive Manufacturing in
the R/3 System effectively streamlines planning and control processes and greatly
simplifies backflushing.
Repetetive The planning table is available in Repetitive Manufacturing for planning production
Manufacturing quantities. Here, information on production quantities, the current capacity load of
the production lines, and the product availability situation can be read at a glance.
The flexible strategies for automatic dispatching facilitate the creation of a
realistic production plan. As planning is often based on shifts, the planning table in
Repetitive Manufacturing will be enhanced to include the option of shift planning.
The planning table will be enhanced to include an option for shift planning where you
will be able to create shift quantities for production. The quantities per shift will
be calculated automatically on the basis of the production dates in the planned
orders and the shift times maintained per line. Here, the production quantity of a
planned order will be distributed to the shifts in proportion to the production time.
Flow shop and variant manufacturing is characterized by a high volume of orders. To Improved production throughput,
help you plan the resulting high order quantities, you can use the sequencing reduced inventory and better schedule
functions. Here, the order sequence is determined for flow shop manufacturing. In delivery performance.
this process, the system loads the work stations of a line, taking sequencing
restrictions into account.
For customer-oriented assembly processing, for example, in the automobile and
computer industries, sequence planning is a significant part of production planning.
Sequencing The system uses the information from sequencing to calculate the exact delivery
times for staging components.
In flow shop manufacturing, sequencing determines the sequence in which orders
are to be processed on a particular production line. The exact line load is displayed
graphically per line on a time axis that is folded in such a way as to display as many
orders as possible at once. Using colors, you can determine the status of the orders
or the assembly areas where the orders are located. You can maintain sequence
plans manually. External optimization or model-mix procedures are linked via an
interface (POI).
Description of Function This development aims at completing
The key developments of Release 4.0 focus on the following three topics: the functionality of the R/3 System to
Electronic batch record comply with the legal requirements for
Electronic signature Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP)
Approval of changes set out by the Food and Drug
Electronic Batch Record Administration (FDA).
The electronic batch record is a unique and complete description of the
manufacturing process of a batch. In compliance with the FDA, planning data and
actual data of the process order enter the electronic batch record from various
origins. The actual data comprises process messages from the line operator, process
messages from the process control system and in-process controls, provided they
exist.
FDA requirements As of Release 4.0, the electronic batch record will be enhanced by inspection
results data collected in post-process controls after production.
The lists of the electronic batch record were revised and enhanced.
Process data documentation that represented the "batch record" in Release 3.0 was
order-related. In Release 4.0, the new batch record is directly related to the batch
of the material produced and the data that is allocated to it.
Electronic Signature
As of Release 4.0, it will be possible to use smartcard readers for the electronic
signature. The electronic signature serves as a forgery-proof identification of
persons carrying out one of the transactions in the R/3 System described below.
These persons identify themselves by entering their names and passwords. This
data is then compared with the data stored on the chip card.
You can activate the electronic signature for the following transactions:
This BAPI (Business Application Programming Interface) is designed to provide an Eliminate the need for maintaining
open interface for maintaining independent requirements. In this case, a writing custom interface.
BAPI is used to make changes to the independent requirements table.
BAPI for Maintaining This dispenses with the interfaces that were available up to now, and only used
Independent internally.
Requirements The BAPI enables you to maintain your own independent requirements from non-SAP
systems without needing a dialog from the side of SAP. The transfer of tables and
control indicators allows you to influence the maintenance of independent
requirements, such as splitting transferred monthly values.
As of Release 4.5, the system will include the Material Requirements Planning (MRP) Increased flexibility in performing
area, which will provide even more clarity and a more refined method of Material MRP processing, by being able to
Requirements Planning within a plant. With this method, the MRP area represents an segregate the planning of materials
organizational unit, for which you can carry out Materials Requirements Planning based on different requirements.
independently. The results of the planning run are displayed specifically for each
MRP area.
With Release 4.5, an MRP area can include one or several storage locations of a
plant or a subcontractor for the materials planning of the parts to be provided. You
4.0 to 4.5 MRP Areas
can assign a material to various MRP areas.
Every MRP area can, for example, correspond to an assembly line, a service storage
location or stock with a subcontractor. You can specifically plan independent
requirements for spare parts or other special requirements for individual MRP
areas.
Up to now, you had carried out Material Requirements Planning at plant level. The
various requirements were combined in the planning run and procurement elements
were created for these pegged requirements with unknown sources
By using the MRP area, you can also plan the provision of components for the
In the production and procurement process it is often necessary that changes to Increased control over production
master data, for example in bills of material and routings, be copied to the execution when customer
production and purchase orders. specifications change or engineering
In make-to-order production, especially in the engineering and construction field, changes take place.
customers often request changes to be made. The user should be able to implement
these changes in the production and procurement process, even when these
processes are already operative.
Changes that occur in the area of engineering/design or production for the make-to-
stock production have to be integrated into existing procurement elements.
It is therefore necessary to have a flexible medium for make-to-order and make-to-
stock production that allows:
Production Order
Change Management
You can do this by using change management for production orders.

The following individual functions are included in the order change management
process:
An order change request is created when changes are made to a sales order or when
engineering/design or production changes are released. This request initiates the
change process and manages the change activities.
All production orders affected by the changes in an order change request are
selected. For the change management process, new order change requests are
created for all of the affected production orders.
The necessity to continuously upgrade products and to reduce costs, means that, Improved capability to control the
for example, in the mechanical and electronics industries, production lots of planning, execution and cost controlling
finished products and semi-finished parts have to be planned and produced with for specific lots of production, when
different bills of materials or routings. Production lots can vary due to, for example, continuous improvement programs are
the use of another component or another manufacturing process. In this case, a in place.
specific cost determination and evaluation for each production lot is necessary. In
particular, planned costs and actual costs, for example, incurred by a production lot
of an assembly, can be determined before receipt of the sales order.
You can achieve this by defining production lots. This process entails giving each
production lot a number, for which a specific bill of materials and if necessary a
Production Lot Planning specific routing has been created. The planning, production and costs evaluation is
(SEIBAN) carried out in relation to this number. This process enables you to evaluate the
costs of the various production lots that have already been planned (before receipt
of the sales order) and compare them to one another.
This type of planning is known as Pre-Planned SEIBAN in Japan.
Up to now, separate planning and cost evaluation has only been possible for make-to-
order and engineer-to-order productions, or in other words, after the receipt of
concrete customer requirements. For this reason, the planning of production lots is
being introduced with Release 4.5.
As of Release 4.5, the SAP-R/3 System will be extended to include the following
functions:
Order-specific repetitive manufacturing and prefabrication is often associated with Improved capability to execute
a high order volume. Large volumes of data also appear in the production of complex maintenance to large numbers of
products, for example with collective orders or complex individual orders. production orders, based on user
In such cases, to process large volumes of data it is necessary to carry out defined parameters.
individual functions during the creation or processing of a production order using
collective processing, or by running the functions in the background. Typical
examples include converting planned orders to production orders, executing
availability checks or releasing production orders.
In the case of a high order volume, the aim is, after a few online steps, to carry out
functions for large quantities of orders or to shift the processing into the
background. In the case of large production orders, long online response times
should be avoided by shifting the complex processing of individual functions into the
High Volume Order
background.
Management
High Volume Order Management provides a uniform framework for carrying out
mass production functions. The following functions are available:
components or operations)
These functions are contained in a program that offers the following advantages:
transactions. You can reduce the various selection parameters to the required size
by using variants.
In make-to-order and project-oriented production, it is important to have a report Enhanced visibility to Customer
that provides an overview of the current status of procurement and production. The Service agents on the status of Make-
new order progress report enables you to determine whether or not the delivery to-order orders throughout the supply
date will be met or delayed. It also allows you to react to delays or bottlenecks chain, reflecting true real-time
from within the report. delivery problems and availability
The order progress report shows clearly which documents, MRP elements, stocks situations.
and deliveries exist for products ordered by customers, and for their components.
You also receive information regarding the status and progress of each component.
This enables you to predict whether or not the delivery dates will be met or
delayed.
The order progress report offers selection and filter functions that allow selected
elements to be viewed, for example, all elements belonging to a particular material.
Order Progress Report You can use profiles to generate individual views of each element. This is done by
means of a hierarchical structure that can be expanded. First, all procurement
elements, stocks and deliveries relating to a product are displayed according to the
selection criteria. You can then explode the corresponding component structure for
each internal procurement element. All existing elements for each of the
components in the bill of materials will then be displayed. Elements which were
created manually and accounted to a sales order or work breakdown structure are
also displayed.
The following elements are displayed:
When it comes to manufacturing gases, granulates, and liquids in continuous Permits the vessels or containers used
production, the differences between storage and production resources are in storing materials in the
becoming even less clear than in discrete manufacturing. In the manufacturing manufacturing process to be
process, a tank can be regarded as part of the production line. A tank serves, for considered as constraints in planning
example, as a buffer between two processing units that produce or further process production, and tracking materials,
an intermediate product at different speeds. If material remains in the tank after hence ensuring realistic production
manufacturing has been completed, the tank takes over the role of a storage scheduling.
resource. The material is again available as warehouse stock.
In Release 4.5, storage or production resources are reproduced in the R/3 System
as storage resources that combine the characteristics of storage facilities and
resources. This means, for example, that available capacity can be allocated to
Storage Resources them, process orders can be dispatched for them, material stock can be allocated,
and goods movements can take place for them.
The development includes the following areas:
By maintaining and classifying storage resources, you create the prerequisites for
the selection of suitable storage resources in the master recipe and process order.
Allocating storage resources to a resource network ensures that the storage
The new grouped JIT call function allows you to create a delivery-relevant JIT call Streamlines the flow of information
from production with reference to a scheduling agreement (in addition to creating a regarding JIT requirements to
requirements forecast from the MRP run). The JIT call can be administered and vendors, and speeds up processing of
transmitted as a separate document. transactions.
Firstly, the MRP run creates schedule lines for a scheduling agreement, which are
then transmitted to the supplier as forecast or JIT delivery schedules. However, in
this procedure these forecast or JIT delivery schedules are not relevant for
delivery.
Grouped JIT Call As soon as a material is required in production, you can create a grouped JIT call by
setting a kanban to empty. This applies both to traditional and event-driven
KANBAN. The grouped JIT call, in contrast to the forecast and JIT delivery
schedules mentioned above, is relevant for delivery.
The following functions are available in Release 4.5:
separate file.
By creating characteristics combinations, you will be able to manage the large Ease of use in maintaining large
number of possible combinations of characteristics more efficiently. volumes of data.
Characteristics combinations comprise one or more mutually-dependent
characteristics that are used frequently for planning in Demand Management.
After the characteristics combinations have been determined, you can conduct
Characteristic Planning characteristics planning on the basis of these combinations. You no longer need to
with Characteristics enter the planning data of characteristics individually. Consequently, the amount of
Combinations
time and effort necessary for the management of characteristics planning will be
reduced significantly.
Characteristics combinations can be maintained manually.
Requirements can be entered for characteristics combinations.
Information structures can be updated in the Logistics Information System (LIS)
at the characteristics combination level.
As part of the initiative to increase the usability of the R/3 System, numerous large Ease of use in maintaining large
and smaller developments and changes are being carried out in production orders, in volumes of data.
the areas of confirmations and goods movement. The goal of these efforts is to
make using the system easier, more understandable and more intuitive for the end
user. Here, time ticket confirmation for the operation is given top priority, as the
most frequently used transaction in this area. Particular attention is given to the
following goals:
screens
of a customer's own fields and detail screens in confirmation transactions

Usability Enhancements
4.5 to 4.6 for Confirmation entry
Transactions
and removing unnecessary ones or by including further default values for
confirmations
and having context-sensitive field descriptions
sensitive input helps

Description of Usability Enhancement
The most important innovations are, for example:
A new confirmation transaction makes it possible to make confirmations on a single

The order information system is often used to create a list of orders to be Ease of use in maintaining large
processed. The user can branch from this list to display or change single orders. volumes of data.
Within the framework of high volume order management, mass and background
processing functions for releasing and scheduling production orders are available
through the order information system.
The main goal of this development is to make it easier for users to update and
process their daily workload by using the order information system. A standardized
user interface has now been added to the tool to improve usability, and more
Order Information transactions and mass processing functionality have been included to increase
System and High Volume versatility of this standardized entry point for the user‟s different tasks.
Order Management The tool selects orders according to selection criteria or a user-specific work list.
While processing the selected data, orders can be added to or removed from this
work list.
The user can switch between separate lists for displaying order headers,
operations, components or production resources and tools.
The standard ABAP List Viewer (ALV) is used to display these lists. The list layout
(field selection, sorting, filtering) can be customized and stored individually. Since
this viewer is widely used in the SAP system, most users will be familiar with its
operation.
In the area of sales-order-oriented processing, the maintenance of the individual Ease of use in maintaining complex
product structure has now been made considerably easier, due to the incorporation BOM transactions initiated in sales
of a browser. This simplification is of great benefit to users when they need a clear documents
overview of the current situation in a sales order and wish to maintain it, or use the
reporting functions.
This is made possible by the product structure browser, which graphically displays
and clearly formats the multi-level tree structure of a sales order BOM. The
product structure browser is tailored to meet the demands of sales-order-oriented
processing. Even during the development phase of the product structure for a sales
order, it provides an overview showing on which level individual order BOM
assemblies have already been created and on which level the non-order-specific
Order BOM and the material BOM assembly is exploded in the sales order.
Product Structure In detail, the following requirements have been realized:
Browser
configurable assembly BOMs are exploded (on the screen).
whether an assembly has multiple levels, whether a assembly is configurable and

whether a result-oriented BOM exists on that level for the sales order. Graphical
structure indicators help you to quickly follow the navigation structure.
environment. A configurable assembly, however, has to access the configuration

editor, which provides all necessary information.
the structure:
- From a sales order context: The relevant BOM explosion date from the sales
In the execution of a production order, it is often necessary to directly access Improved information for production
external documents. Such documents could be, for example: execution, reduces non-value-added
efforts by production personnel,
increasing efficiency and production
throughput.
To do this, a direct link is required between the production order and document info
records or the original application files, which are managed via these records. In
addition to this, external documents can be created during the production process,
which must be linked to the production order for the purposes of verification or
documentation.
In previous releases you could include documents in a production order by assigning
Document Integration
documents to a routing as a production resource/tool. This document is then
for Production Orders
transferred to the production order. Since this method is not always sufficient,
other object relationships need taking into account. The two central linking
mechanisms are the linking of documents to the material master of the BOM header
material on the one hand and document items in the material BOM of the BOM
header material on the other.
So that you do not have to manually re-enter relationships that already exist, it
must be possible to evaluate and automatically transfer such relationships when
required.
In order to be able to comprehensively fulfil the existing, sometimes varying
requirements, integration must be very flexible:
In a production process all the materials in a production order usually progress Improved control over production
together from one operation to the next. Sometimes there is a logistical need to schedules. Improved customer
divide the materials into two groups, which are then processed separately. Such delivery, reduced inventory, and
logistical needs occur in the following situations: improved production throughput.
required quantity. The materials to be produced can be separated into two groups,
so that material components are available for processing at least one of these
groups.
different requirement dates. By separating the materials, they can be put into
groups with different requirement dates.
Production Order
should be processed at first.
Splitting
differently than those passing the quality inspection and therefore need different
or additional operations.
result in a smaller quantity per group, which can be processed faster than the
complete order quantity.
The separate processing of materials can be achieved by creating a second
production order. The new function „order split‟ offers the possibility of
automatically creating the second production order. It divides an existing and
partially completed discrete production order into a parent and child order. The
order split also adjusts the quantities and dates and handles the costs of the two
orders.
As part of the initiative to increase the usability of the R/3 System, numerous large Ease of use in maintaining complex
and smaller developments and changes are being carried out in the area of shop production order transactions,
floor control. The goal of these efforts is to make using the system easier, more improving planning, scheduling
understandable and more intuitive for the end user. Here the maintenance productivity
transactions for a production order take center stage, as the most frequently used
transactions in this area. Particular attention is given to the following goals:
screens
user exit for the integration of a customer's own fields
object concerned and placing object specific pushbuttons underneath overview

Usability Enhancements
screens.
for Production Orders
menus for the search, sort and filter functions on overview screens.
the most frequently used functions and showing the user status alongside the
system status
short texts
input help
Examples of the most important innovations are as follows:
The kanban board has been converted into a graphical user interface and thus Ease of use in planning and scheduling.
permits user-specific settings. This facilitates use of the planning board and allows
faster access to relevant information, accelerating the planning process.
Materials for which KANBAN controlled run schedule quantities or production
orders are created, can be planned in the MRP run and exploded in the BOM.
The new graphical user interface enables the user to select the information
displayed in the kanban board and to configure the display to his/her requirements.
Graphical Kanban Board
In particular, the following can be set:
and Integration of In-
house Kanban and MRP
Quick info and sorting for the kanbans can be defined in the control cycle.
It is now also possible to use MRP for materials, for which the KANBAN module
generates run schedule quantities or production orders. Integration of the
KANBAN module and MRP is thus complete.
Previously, materials for which production was triggered via KANBAN, had to be
excluded from MRP if the KANBAN module generated run schedule quantities or
production
A orders. In
more transparent this screen,
initial case only manual information
additional could be
links to bordering created from
applications and the Ease of use in pulling material
improved usability provide you with more support when working with the pull list. transactions, improving data integrity
You can carry out the individual steps for replenishing material either online or and reducing non-value-added efforts
automatically in the background. This simplifies the complete procedure in the pull in material handling.
list.
You can tailor the procedure in the pull list to suit your own requirements. In user-
specific selection variants, you define which steps are to be carried out online and
Dialog Control in the Pull which are to be carried out in the background. This means you can automate the
List, Specific User steps which remain constant. A new procedure supports error processing.
Guidance/Information All selection parameters are recorded in groups in one screen providing clarity and
ensuring that the pull list is easy to access.
New links to bordering applications are available from the pull list. For example, you
can branch to:
Ease of use in planning and scheduling.
in the planning table will be more effective and transparent.
easier to use. Backflushing is now carried out from one central screen for various
scenarios (for example, make-to-stock production, make-to-order production or
production by lots).
The entry can be adjusted per user to suit the individual requirements.
Now, you can also use a material-dependent production rate.
schedule header has been abolished.

Usability and process Description of Usability Enhancement
optimization in The following developments simplify the use of the planning table:
repetitive manufacturing
planning table.
of examination. For example, you can display the first couple of days in shifts, the
next weeks in days and the rest of the period in weeks and months as required.
table
directly).
The different types of backflush are grouped together into one central
The MRP work environment can be adjusted to suit the requirements of the MRP Ease of use and ready availability of
controller. Enhanced integration in the logistics chain allows quicker access to information improves decision support,
important information that is relevant for planning. The MRP functions have been thereby making the planning activities
optimized to simplify their execution and increase user-friendliness. more responsive to situation changes.
The main optimizations include: Increased customer service, reduction
in inventories, improved throughput
areas
These enhancements consolidate R/3's extensive support of the MRP controller's

work processes.
Focus on the MRP
Controller, Usability in
The general handling of MRP functions (MRP list, stock/requirements list) has been
Material Requirements
simplified and made more consistent. The following new developments simplify
Planning
working in MRP:
the MRP and stock/requirements lists.
collective display of MRP lists.
exception messages occurring within a period of time.
various ways.
elements (such as planned/production orders, purchase requisitions, and so on). The

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Elimination if duplicate data entry,

80% avg. of material eligible for
reduction of errors, reduced product
consolidation, "The Three Levels of
3.1 to 4.0 Integrated PDM PBM integrated through ALE with core R/3 design cycle time, reduced ECO
Component and Supplier Management" by
cycle time, increased integrity of
Brian Groves, CSM Strategies, 1997, 1998
data
30%-avg. above annual demand of obsolete

materials stocked for product end of life/service,
"The Three Levels of Component and Supplier
Management" by Brian Groves, CSM Strategies,
1997, 1998
20%-avg. % of projects affected by

diversion of resources to redesign for
Reduced costs associated with EC's Reduced # of ECO's by
ECM Can control material validity through ECM obsolesence, "The Three Levels of 300,000
with invalid materials 60/year x $5000/ECO
Component and Supplier Management" by
Brian Groves, CSM Strategies, 1997, 1998
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Improved search and definition
Ability to change heirarchy, work with or without release keys, engineering to redesign of other products,
capabilities will lead to shorter
effectivity by serial #, time period, user defined parameters, "The Three Levels of Component and
search times for product substitution
combination of parameters Supplier Management" by Brian Groves,
or line down situations
CSM Strategies, 1997, 1998
Ability to archive change numbers
Reduced product development cycle

Support of digital signature
time, reduced delays
BOM's Ability to set history requirments for BOM's
10% - of total sales for product whose line is

Improved search and definition down, 60% - Avg. time savings between manual
Addition of links to capabilities will lead to shorter and automated part search (minutes), "The Three
Ability to add links and/or directions to documents
documents search times for product substitution Levels of Component and Supplier
or line down situations Management" by Brian Groves, CSM Strategies,
1997, 1998
No specific CAD user required in dialog modem, in RFC mode will Elimination if duplicate data entry,
CAD Interface
return object by matchcode for materials, equipment and functional reduction of errors, reduced product
improvements
location design cycle time
60% - Avg. time savings between manual and

Improved search and definition
automated part search (minutes), "The Three
Classifications capabilities will lead to shorter
Ability to sort, set max values and set restrictions on searches Levels of Component and Supplier
improvements search times for product substitution
or line down situations
1997, 1998
60% - Avg. time savings between manual and

automated part search (minutes), "The Three
Reduction of duplicate entry,
Additional BAPI's Levels of Component and Supplier
leverage of external applications
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Up until now, you could only process BOMs with reference to a

change
number whose effectivity was defined by a parameter effectivity
(for
example, a serial number interval).
As of this release, you can also process the following objects in
this
way:
o Types of routing:
- Standard routings
- Reference operation sets
o Characteristics Increased control over changes,
Enhancements for
4.0 to 4.5 o Characteristics of class ensuring product design and
parameter effectivity
o Classification production integrity.
Settings in the change master record (indicator for the object
types)
determine whether these objects can be maintained with
parameter
effectivity.
There are the following special features:
o Routings
You cannot set the object type indicators until you have set the
object sub-types (see: release note General Maintenance
Changes).
o Material
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Test of Selected Business Processes,
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Reduced material master creation time by

21.05%, Test of Selected Business
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The Engineering Workbench browser simplifies both navigation in
the Workbench and object processing. You can find required
information quicker, which reduces processing time. The graphical
display illustrates the structures and their processing contexts.
The browser optimizes both navigation itself, and also the
processing of the objects displayed. It displays all object types
that are processed in the Engineering Workbench, and all the
relationships between these object types, in a simple,
understandable way. You can navigate by expanding hidden objects
in the structure and also by using where-used lists. You can limit
which objects are displayed by using selection parameters and
Graphical User Interface filters. During object processing, you can directly call up all
4.5 to 4.6 for the Engineering general and object-specific functions. Direct processing in the Reduced product design cycle time
Workbench graphical interface, for example using Drag&Drop, is also possible.
In addition to this, you can jump from the generic product
structure browser into the Engineering Workbench. Further
details of this will be given in the text below.
The browser‟s most important characteristics are:
The browser can be called up from every screen in the Engineering

Workbench. The screen consists of two parts. You see the
graphical browser in one part of the screen and the Engineering
Workbench screen in the other. You can still use normal navigation
methods. The browser serves as an additional navigation tool,
which can be hidden or shown by the user at any time.
Up until now, you have benn able to define whether an employee
must make
a digital signature for certain status changes of an ECR/ECO by
using the
change type.
As of this release, you can define a comprehensive approval
process in
which several people have to make a digital signature before you
are
allowed to make the next processing step.
You define the following in Customizing for this approval process:
o Individual signatures that are used as partial steps in a
Increased control over change
New ECR/ECO Functions signature
authorization and audit
strategy
o Signature strategies in which you group together individual
signatures
of different user groups into a signature process
o Signature networks in which you allocate one signature strategy
to the
individual system statuses of an ECR/ECO or an object
management
record
You choose the signature network for the approval process when
you define
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3.0 to 3.1 during order entry. Description of all allowed / possible
Configuration -ATO
product configurations in a maximal BOM.
Integrated Sales Order Online configuration pricing based on calculation project

Configuration - ETO network to plan production
Modeling of complex relations between components with

constraints. Object oriented dependency knowledge in
Lean Modeling of Multilevel order to gain reusability, central maintenance and reduce
Configurable Products complexity. Lean maximal BOM using class items for
reduced maintenance efforts and clear structures. Easy
maintenance of valid value combinations using central
variant tables.
It is possible, in release 3.1G, for several users to
Order BOM Maintenance
maintain the order BOM at the same time.
User Interface Design: Design characteristic assignment
3.1 to 4.0 Enhanced Functionality
screen using folder strips.
You can display and/or create a dynamic task list from

Enhanced Functionality
the result of a configuration.
Multi-level documentation of product model (classes,
Variant Configuration Analyzer characteristics, dependencies, class nodes, BOM-Items...)
basis for performance analysis
Until 4.0 it was possible to set variant condition keys only
using dependency knowledge. In 4.0 it is possible to
allocate one variant condition key to a characteristic
Enhanced Functionality value. During interactive variant configuration the amount
assigned to the variant condition key is displayed. As soon
as this value is set, the variant condition is set without
any dependency knowledge.
Variant pricing was reworked to improve performance.
Enhanced Performance (Users must now include their reference characteristic
for SDCOM-VKOND in the variant class.)
It is possible to execute type matching at the assembly
Type Matching
level in the BOM.
Variant pricing in MM Purchasing. It is possible to
Variant pricing in Purchasing maintain variant conditions in the purchasing info record
for configurable materials.
Enhanced Control of Screen

A new table (SCREEN_DEP) allows users more control
Display
over the display and entry of data during configuration.
New settings in configuration profile. No BOM explosion
if not needed. Define level of BOM explosion - for order
4.0 to 4.5 Control of BOM explosion
BOM. Using Filters it is possible to configure needed
components only.
Type Matching can now be configured to search for
matching variants with relevance to their availability.
Type matching with ATP
There is an additional field in item category configuration
(SD), which is the ATP Material Variant field.
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Use of transparent tables with better run-time-objects.
Enhanced Performance for New fast BOM explosion in down stream configuration:
Variant Tables MRP, assembly order process. New link from a variant
table to a database table to enhance performance.
While using pricing on request: all procedures allocated to
Pricing as an event for the
the dependency group SAP_PRICNG will only be
configuration process
executed when activating the pricing button.
40 External APIs. API Usage support tool. API based
Openness
solution CADagent
There are new authorization objects for controlling
Authorizations maintenance of table structures, table entries and
variant functions.
New storage of variant configuration with a view of the
“as_sold” product structure in the new IBase (installed
New Functionality - IBase base). Integration of new effectivity (not date only),
affects master data maintenance and operative
processes. Integrated archive functionality in 4.5B
New structure with SD fields that may be changed using
reference characteristics (vcsd_update). SD reads
Enhanced Functionality - SD
material variant configuration for pricing purposes -
Integration
without executing configuration task. Configuration
versions for order change management (OCM)
You may 'lock' a configuration to prevent the
Enhanced Functionality - MRP requirements from passing to MRP. This is helpful when
Integration the customer has not completely made their configuration
decisions.
Configuration settings - new in profile configuration.
Settings may be defined in the configuration profile and
Enhanced Functionality - saved : including configuration language, alternative
Configuration Profile language, configuration scope, pricing, variant matching.
If multiple profiles exist, you may give them a priority
for use with background or IDOC processing.
New objects: Model Service Specification-1 for services
frequently purchased. Configuration is used for service
selection for one purchase order line item entry of
services rendered. New objects: Model Service
Specification-2 Example: contractor buys installation of
TV cable links dig a trench (costs depend on: length,
depth and also on ground_quality) lay a cable (costs
New Functionality - Variant depend on cable length;10% longer than length) provide n
Configuration in the Logistics connection points connect to cable network fill in trench
Process Chain (length and depth as above) => characteristics: length,
depth, ground_quality, etc. New objects: Task
Maintenance List. Task list for a service (to be sold)
related to an equipment. Master data: maintenance task
list. Configuration process: create customer order for a
service product, select equipment (this configuration will
be copied to the service configuration and locked until
the service is finished), simple configuration, selection of
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Runs detached from R/3. Empowers salesperson at Point
of Sale. Increases order accuracy. Re-uses SAP R/3
Master Data - One Model - eliminates cost of dual
maintenance and synchronization. Uses R/3 PDM
functionality. Simple one-button download from R/3 to
SCE. Offers flexibility in choice of user interfaces: Call
Sales Configuration Engine from existing environment or customize your own, API-
driven engine enables use of any custom user interface,
and Plug-in for other desktop applications (I.e. SFA). The
Sales Configuration Engine is a building block of Sales
Force Automation. SCE uses advanced technology: written
in Java and provides platform independence, is object
oriented and entirely API driven, with seamless
interfacing to R/3 via SAP BAPIs.
Most functions from the value assignment screen are now
4.5 to 4.6 Improved User Interface
accessed via pushbuttons below the screen area.
You can process result-oriented or knowledge-based

Processing Order BOMs order BOMs, depending on the settings you define in the
configuragion profile
Ten new user exits are available in variant configuration

New User Exits with pushbuttons to execute these.
New syntax for object It is now possible to concatenate, change to lower case,
dependencies change to upper case with new syntax.
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Fewer technical environments to Reduced IT training hours X IT labor

InfoDB 2.0 Support for NT Ability to support InfoDB instance on NT
maintain rate
Reduced cost by $150K, NIBCO, Inc.

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User Training with On-Demand
Reduction in classroom and practice

time 2250 hours, NIBCO, Inc.
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Reduced by 56.23% - procurement

process Reduced by 76.61%, Reduced
by 55.49% - supply chain process,
Reduced training time, classroom
Reduced by 47.47% - sales order
R/3 V. 4.6a Enjoy SAP interface Enhanced user interface for R/3 time, instructor time. Increase in
creation, Reduced by 37.63% -
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production order creation, Reduced by
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Sales and Distribution SD

In Release 4.0A there is a new function for creating

Release 4.0A provides greater support for changes in

In release 4.0A, allocation enhanced features include a

Significant enhancements have been added in release

With Release 4.0A, it is possible to specify that spool

As of release 4.5 you can create worklists for account

You define the worklists in customizing as previously.

A single customer or vendor can be dunned using the

As of 4.0, it is possible to group dunning notices for one-

In each company code, sort variants for dunning notice

The interest calculation indicator set for the dunning

data, has been adjusted to the new address

As of release 4.5A you can carry out document

elements. Processing master data from the standard

Ease of use/ productity,also

This function goes a step further than the

In Release 4.5A, you can reassign measures and

A large amount of data entry

Enhancement AIST0002 allows the user to define Minimizes end-user confusion

Reduced standard FI invoice

Reduced G/L account posting

Quick entry in a one-screen

Supporting Benchmark/Implementation Annual or

There is a simplified procurement process using blanket

The use of such longer term purchase orders with value

Supporting Benchmark/Implementation Annual or

The Data Transfer Workbench supports the automatic

Supporting Benchmark/Implementation Annual or

From release 4.0A The Info Object Viewer is the

A new authorization S_CLIENT_IMP is checked

With Release 4.0A, it is possible to specify that spool

Supporting Benchmark/Implementation Annual or

Vendor-managed inventory involves vendors offering

At the same time the manufacturer would use this

As of release 4.5A, you can specify in the default values

Mass maintenance makes it easier to enter large

This is a thin GUI client for an SAP System. Running as

Supporting Benchmark/Implementation Annual or

As of Release 4.6, the number of applications that Mass

There are new selection limitations in the initial screen

Supporting Benchmark/Implementation Annual or

MRP exception group texts can be assigned to company-

Previously, the ways to navigate between materials in

Supporting Benchmark/Implementation Annual or

Customer-specific programming is available. SAP

Supporting Benchmark/Implementation Annual or

Supporting Benchmark/Implementation Annual or

Subsequent Settlement is now incorporated in

The new purchase order design places the requirements

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PO items can be displayed according to certain criteria.

Items can be adopted from reference documents (such

Master data is easily accessible. Master records for

Supporting Benchmark/Implementation Annual or

User friendliness is the keynote of the new

For each function there is a central screen on which

Clearly grouped fields, which can be displayed as