Saturday 16 July 2016

SAP Fiori for Sales & Distribution

SAP Fiori is a collection of applications created by SAP under the new SAP user experience (UX) paradigm. SAP Fiori is part of the HANA suite of products launched in 2013. This is how will benefit from significantly better screens, simplified flows, and renewed transactions with the use of SAP 
Fiori apps.



SAP Fiori apps that are specifically designed for SD. We recommend that you verify the listed apps, and determine which ones are most suitable to your specific needs and business. You should also check to see whether any further waves of apps have been released. As a reminder, transactional apps can be implemented with your current database, which means that installation of the SAP HANA environment is optional for this type of app. (That’s right: you can benefit from SAP Fiori transactional apps without even installing SAP HANA)

SAP Fiori UX, App Types

To provide you with the best user experience, SAP Fiori provides four types of apps. 

Transactional 

Task-based apps, where tasks such as change, create or approve are performed. You can run transactional apps using your current database. For transactionalapps, SAP HANA migration is not mandatory.

Transactional apps Features

• There are some activities can be performed from Fiori Cockpit where browsing and searching for sales order is possible.

• All the information related with selected sales order could possible, like, display sales order line items, availability check, pricing, etc.

• Changing Ship-to address is also possible based on the data available in customer master.

• Preceding documents like multiple or single shipment for the ordered items is possible.

• Invoice can be found by searching with reference to customer, document number, purchase order and sales order

• A clear overview of Invoice details available.

• an advantage of finding all contracts of a single customer and switching between them is possible here.

• A clear overview of contact details available.

Analytical

Apps dedicated to trigger insights and KPIs, or other related analyses.

Analytical apps features

• From the process flow screen it is possible to view any issue related with customer details, requested delivery date, etc.

• During issue solving we can find issue type wich signifies the document on which we have block.

• A issue list can be generated with expected dates of product availability, shipping and picking.


Factsheet

Apps.that allow sales rep to search and explore information.

Fact apps Features

• Header and Item level business data are available in FactSheet.

• A document flow is possible to see through Factsheet. Where it shows the preceding and subsequent documents.


SAP Smart Business

Apps that allow sales rep. to analyze and evaluate strategic or operation KPIs in real time.

Key Features

• To fulfil the business needs of internal Sales representatives we can create one or more KPIs. 

• Using these KPIs we can access SAP Smart Business.

• Through availability check order quantieies can confirm. 

From Issue list its possible to get the block details and then it can be removed from billing document.