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Function documentationEnhancement Packages

 

With the enhancement package delivery technology, we provide you with new developments and enhancements of applications for your existing SAP Business Suite installations. To take advantage of these new developments and enhancements, you can install enhancement packages on your existing installations on full release levels on your SAP Business Suite applications. The business function technology makes it possible for you to pick and choose only those new developments and enhancements you want to have, and to introduce these in your company. This delivery concept allows you to use new developments offered by SAP for your business processes at your own pace and according to your own requirements.

Prerequisites

  • You are using the related full release and you have set up the business processes there that are relevant for your business.

  • You are using SAP Solution Manager.

  • Before beginning the installation of the enhancement package, you have informed yourself about which new developments are relevant for your business processes. Then based on that information, you imported the relevant software component versions and content packages.

  • You imported all Support Package Stacks that are necessary for the enhancement package into your system for your applications of the SAP Business Suite and SAP NetWeaver.

    Recommendation Recommendation

    It is possible for you to first import the necessary Support Package Stack into your system, and then import the enhancement package in the next step. However, we recommend that you combine the import of the enhancement package with the import of the current Support Package Stack. This approach offers synergy effects for the testing process and when you are adapting your software modifications. See the notes, dependencies, and prerequisites described in the Master Guide for the respective enhancement package.

    End of the recommendation.

Features

Enhancement packages contain functional enhancements, new user interfaces, and enterprise services that you can use to optimize your business processes.

The technology of enhancement packages offers the advantage that changes to interfaces and business processes only take effect for the applications that you have also activated in the system. There is no change to the system behavior and the user interfaces of the other applications.

This delivery concept offers you the following advantages:

  • It provides you with long-term planning security on a stable platform but does not mean that you cannot take advantage of innovations and new developments.

  • You can provide individual departments with new developments at any time while other departments can continue to work and there is no change to the system behavior or the user interfaces. Using the comprehensive documentation and presentations available about the contents of each enhancement package, you can get the information you need before actually installing the enhancement package. This information about the scope of the new functions assists you in selecting the new developments that are of interest for your company at a given point in time.

  • Since implementation activities are only necessary for the new features, this considerably reduces the efforts and time required for the implementation of new applications and functions. No activities are necessary for the business processes that remain uninfluenced by the new features.

  • Your employees and users only need training for those applications and functions that you have actively decided to use.

  • It provides tools that simplify the installation and implementation of new developments considerably. These include the following functions:

    • New installation tools are available for enhancement packages. These tools considerably simplify the installation of the technical components and the related Support Packages. You also receive detailed information about which technical components you have to install.

    • You use business functions to activate all changes in your ABAP-based systems. You can decide for each individual business function if you want to use the new developments that it contains. Each business function also contains information about which additional technical components you have to install to be able to use the business function.

    • For each business function, we provide test case templates that make it easier for you to test the new developments. This also reduces efforts required for the test. You only have to test the applications of the business processes that you have actively decided to optimize by activating a business function.

    • It provides you with analyses that tell you, for each business function, which user interfaces for which roles and users are affected by the activation of a business function. You can use this information to calculate your costs in advance for training users to use the new functions.

The new developments and enhancements are only active once you have performed the following activities:

  • You have decided to use a business function.

  • You have installed the technical components and contents required for using the business function.

  • You have activated the required business functions in your ABAP-based system.

More Information

For more information about the upgrade and the installation of industry business solutions (SAP ERP only), see the Master Guide for the given enhancement package.