Generating Your Business Process Master List (BPML) (SAP Library

Generating Your Business Process Master List (BPML)

Use

The Business Process Master List (BPML), along with the Business Blueprint, is a key result of the second phase of the Roadmap. Microsoft Excel tables contain the SAP scenarios, process groups, and processes that have been set in scope in the SAP Reference Structure, and are crucial for configuring your SAP System. In Realization, the third phase of the Roadmap, the BPML provides the basis for monitoring and steering test activities and for configuring your SAP System. It contains the titles of the structure items, and displays the status, the owner, links to documentation and links to the SAP System. Amongst other things, the BPML allows you to:

Set your baseline and final scope. These are used for baseline and final configuration

Access the Project IMG and specific IMG activities assigned to structure items.

Access integration test plans, which help you carry out all required integration tests

Prerequisites

You have set your project scope.

Procedure

Select Reports ® Master lists ® Business Process Master List

In the Master List Generator dialog box, select your reporting options.

Select the Structure Level checkbox, and choose Select, to choose the structure items in the Business Processes substructure that you would like to include in the BPML. A tree structure appears, displaying all the structure items that have been set in scope. Select checkboxes for all structure items you would like to include in the report. You can choose more than one item. When you select a structure item, its subnodes are automatically included in the report.
If you select the Limit to owner checkbox, only the structure items that are assigned to a specific person are included in the report. You can use the possible entries help to select a consultant or owner from the list box.
The BPML contains all structure items assigned to the owner you have selected. It covers all items that are set in scope and their higher-level structure items. You must have set an owner for a structure item at level . If you have only assigned owners at lower levels, the report does cover enterprise areas and value chains.

Choose Generate.
In the Save Master List as... dialog box, enter a file name for the BPML. The system generates a BPML.

Result

Your BPML is filed in Master Lists in the Reports substructure. You can open and edit the list from this substructure. The following navigation options are available on the bottom right of the screen:

To display a CI template that is linked to a structure item, select the CI template and choose .
To display all IMG activities that are assigned to a structure item, select the structure item and choose .
To display all unassigned IMG activities, choose .
To display the entire Project IMG, choose .
To start and close transactions in the system, choose (start) and (close).

For more information, see the BPML help file.