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Abstract
This document highlights several OTC changes that have come into place with the latest 1809
release of SAP S4 HANA. As part of this paper, we have unlocked the next wave of innovation
in Sales and Distribution module of SAP S4 HANA 1809 release.
Authors
Arpa Mitra
Saurabh Joshi
Contents
1. List of New or Enhanced Fiori Applications in 1809 release ................................................................. 2
2. Functionality changes details related to OTC in 1809 release .............................................................. 3
A. Order and Contract Management ........................................................................................................ 3
A.1 Sales Master Data Management .................................................................................................... 3
A.2 Sales Contract Management .......................................................................................................... 3
A.3 Sales Order Management and Processing ...................................................................................... 4
A.4 Sales Billing ..................................................................................................................................... 5
A.5 Claims, Returns and Refund Management ..................................................................................... 6
A.6 Sales Monitoring and Analytics ...................................................................................................... 7
A.7 Basic Functions ............................................................................................................................... 8
B. Advanced Available to Promise ............................................................................................................ 8
B.1 Alternative Based Confirmation (ABC)............................................................................................ 8
B.2 Changes related to Product Allocation (PAL) Fiori app ................................................................... 9
B.3 Changes related to Back Order Processing (BOP) Fiori apps ........................................................ 10
B.4 Changes related to Release for Delivery Fiori app ........................................................................ 10
C. Delivery Management ........................................................................................................................ 10
D. Master Data Maintenance .................................................................................................................. 11
3. Additional information related to OTC in 1809 release ...................................................................... 11
A. SAP Best Practices............................................................................................................................... 11
B. Commodity Sales ................................................................................................................................ 12
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You can define a fallback variant to optimize exception handling. An exception can occur when:
1. A requirement belonging to confirmation strategy Win is not fully confirmed on time.
2. The confirmed data and quantity for a requirement belonging to confirmation strategy Gain
worsens.
C. Delivery Management
Feature Description of the enhancement in 1809
Schedule data transfers for A new feature has been added to schedule background jobs for data
Expected Goods Receipts transfer of expected goods receipt for PO and production orders to SAP
EWM.
Create OB Deliveries wrt Sales This feature helps to use the SAP CoPilot to quickly create Outbound
Orders using SAP CoPilot Deliveries wrt a sales order.
Create OB Deliveries without This feature helps to use the SAP CoPilot to quickly create Outbound
reference using SAP CoPilot Deliveries independent of the open applications.
Create Outbound Delivery app The Create Outbound Deliveries App has been deprecated. It has been
replaced with the Create Outbound deliveries – From Sales Order app.
Outbound Deliveries app The Outbound Deliveries app has been deprecated. It has been replaced
with Manage Outbound Deliveries.
Analyze Outbound Delivery The Analyze Outbound Delivery Logs app has been deprecated. It has
Logs app been replaced with Analyze Delivery Logs app.
CDS views for Shipping With this release a number of new CDS view of Shipping have been
released.
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API for Delivery Documents With API for Delivery Documents with Credit Block, consumers of the
with Credit Block OData service can now retrieve delivery documents that are blocked by
negative credit check results in the system, perform credit checks for
the blocked delivery documents, release the delivery documents by
removing credit blocks, and reject the delivery documents.
Attach Documents to One can now upload and attach documents to deliveries for further
Deliveries reference. Additionally it can be displayed, downloaded or removed.
Assign Serial Numbers to OBD One can also assign serial numbers to each delivery item in an outbound
delivery. It can be done while picking the items in the delivery
document. This will help to track goods and improve the accuracy of the
stock control.
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Sales Rebate Processing The scope item of this item has been changed to include the following: If
the minimum sales turnover is not reached, do not create accruals or
reverse existing accruals. This is controlled via the Rebate Unlikelihood
condition type.
Convergent Billing The scope item of this item has been changed to include the following:
Billing documents can now be created with external data via Microsoft
Excel upload.
Sales Order Processing for This is a new scope item that handles sales order processing for non- stock
Non- Stock Material items with delivery and delivery related billing.
Accelerated Customer This scope item now includes the additional scenario of return to supplier
Returns via seller.
Credit Memo Processing The scope item of this item has been changed to include the following: A
credit memo request approval workflow can be triggered to approve
credit memo requests. Approval levels can be flexibly adapted
Basic ATP Processing The basic ATP functionality provides the standard availability check
features. The standard ATP comprises the features for Product Availability
Check and Rescheduling.
B. Commodity Sales
Feature Description of the feature enhancement in 1809
Integration of With this feature, pricing conditions of the Commodity Pricing
Commodity Engine (CPE) and of Configurable Parameters and Formulas (CPF),
Management with GTM for the pricing of document items, can be used in GTM documents
(trading contracts).
Quantity adjustment conditions are also supported. The adjusted
quantity can be consumed by a CPE condition.
In the CPE, GTM Pricing and Payment Events (PPE) are selectable
from Reference Data Routines.
Commodity Pricing With this feature, CPE data can directly be read from database
Engine Interface tables
Data can also be added, changed and deleted while processing the
logistics documents with the respective BAPIs.
Configurable This feature enables you to read Configurable Parameters and
Parameters and Formulas (CPF) data directly from database tables
Formulas (CPF) CPF data can also be added, changes and deleted when processing
Interface logistics documents (sales orders, sales contracts) with the
respective BAPIs
Integration of IS-OIL This feature allows you to perform an invoicing of hydrocarbon
Gross/ Net Invoicing commodities based on gross or net volume of measures provided
with CPE that Commodity Management and SAP Oil and Gas (IS-OIL) have
been activated.
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