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SAP Smart Business for sales order fulfillment is an SAP Smart Business cockpit that allows you to resolve issues that impede sales orders from being fulfilled. The cockpit offers you a list of all sales orders that cannot be completed for one or more reasons. The cockpit highlights impediments, and provides supporting information and specific options to resolve issues. This allows you to monitor sales orders in critical stages, collaborate with internal and external contacts, and efficiently address issues to ensure that sales orders in critical stages are fulfilled as fast as possible.

For the following types of issues you use the cockpit to monitor, resolve and collaborate:

  • Incomplete data

  • Unconfirmed quantities

  • Credit blocks

  • Billing blocks

  • Delivery blocks in sales orders and other delivery issues

  • Shipping blocks in deliveries and other shipping issues

  • Invoice issues and accounting issues for invoices

  • Issues in supply, in purchase orders and manufacturing orders

Key Features

  • KPI tile

    To access the SAP Smart Business for Sales Order Fulfillment cockpit, you, as the key user, must create one or more KPI tiles. The tiles are displayed in a launchpad, and you can design them to suit the business needs of internal sales representatives.

    When creating KPI tiles in the KPI modeler, you provide custom titles and use filter criteria to display specific information such as the following:

    • Top n customers

    • Threshold

    • Sales organization

    • Customer

    In the KPI modeler, you can also filter for the issue type, such as Resolving Incomplete Data in Sales Orders or the category, such as In Sales Order.

    In the KPI modeler you define the scope of the business data that are displayed later on in the KPI tile of your app. For more information about the KPI modeler, see Adding a KPI in the SAP Smart Business Admin Guide. Internal sales representatives can have predefined tiles in their launchpad that correspond to each KPI for which they are authorized. For more information, see Configuring Access to SAP HANA Data in the SAP Smart Business Admin Guide.

    • For the Sales Order Fulfillment app the KPI tile Sales Order Fulfillment Issues (KPI Code: sap.hba.sofm.SalesOrderFulfillmentIssues) is delivered.

    • Additionally a generic drill-down KPI tile Sales Order Fulfillment Generic Analysis (KPI Code: sap.hba.ecc.sofm.SalesOrderFulfillmentGenericAnalytics) is delivered, as well. This KPI tile allows you to display the issues graphically by using charts and to access the issues in an analytical way and preselect them, for example to compare the net value of issues for different sales organizations. With Open In you can access the Sales Order Fulfillment Issue KPI tile with the selection criteria already chosen.

      For more information on the generic drill-down app, see Generic Drill-Down Application. In the Fiori Launchpad you can edit the KPI tiles on the user interface.

      For more information about the Fiori Launchpad, see SAP Library for User Interface Add-On 1.0 for SAP NetWeaver on SAP Help Portal at http://help.sap.com/nw-uiaddon. In SAP Library, choose   SAP Fiori Launchpad   Using Launchpad Designer   .

  • Issues List

    • Search for specific issues using criteria such as due days, customer details or requested delivery date.

    • View issues specific to each process stage: in order, in supply, in delivery, in invoice

    • Navigate to the process flow screen

      The process flow shows a graphical overview of all existing and planned documents with the document status and an overall status of issue resolving for all of the stages (in sales order, in supply, in delivery and in invoice).

    • Calculation of due days in the issues list

      The due days (the days shown in the column Next Action in Days) show the number of days calculated from today until the next process step is due, that is needed to fulfill a sales order. This next process step depends on the issue category, that is, whether the issue you want to resolve occurs in the sales order, in the supply, in the delivery or in the invoice, and it depends on the issue type, such as delivery block, billing block or invoice issue. Depending on that, the system uses different dates to calculate the due days shown in the issue list, such as the product availability date, the shipping date, the picking date, or the billing date.

      Examples

      • For a sales order with a delivery block the next step would be the creation of the delivery document. For the calculation of due days the system uses the next product availability date from the schedule lines of the sales order.

      • For a sales order for which the delivery already has taken place, but the payment terms are still missing, the next step would be billing only. For the due days calculation the system uses the billing date of the delivery that has not yet been invoiced.

      Issue Category

      Specific Issue

      Date Used for Calculation

      In sales order

      Logistics, such as a delivery or credit block, or incomplete delivery data

      Product availability date from the delivery schedule line

      Business, such as a billing block or incomplete data

      • If sales order is open or not yet delivered, the next planned shipping date in the sales order schedule line

      • If sales order is delivered, the billing date in the delivery document

      In supply

      Purchasing

      Delivery date of the purchase order item

      Manufacturing (production or process order)

      Scheduled and confirmed start and finish dates for production

      In delivery

      Transportation planning

      Transportation planning date

      Picking

      Picking date

      Shipping

      Shipping date

      In invoice

      -

      • If delivery is not yet invoiced, the delivery billing date

      • If delivery is invoiced, the invoice billing date

  • Issue View (for all issue types)

    • View header- and item-level information containing details specific to the issue type, such as completeness indicators when data is missing, or credit information for sales orders with credit blocks

    • Add new attachments to provide missing or additional information

    • Add notes to document the issue resolution process

    • Access contact details for internal and external contacts you can collaborate with to resolve issues

    • Share information using integrated SAP Jam functionality

      For more information, see SAP Library for SAP NetWeaver at http://help.sap.com under   SAP NetWeaver   User Interface Add-On for SAP NetWeaver   Social Media Integration  .

    • Display relevant fact sheets, such as the customer fact sheet or the sales order fact sheet.

    • Display order processing status, such as the status of shipping or the invoice

    • To proceed with sales order fulfillment and use more actions, you can open the sales order, delivery document, billing document and customer account in the back-end system directly.

  • Features for Specific Issues

    • Check availability and confirm ordered quantities

    • Remove billing blocks at the header or item level and if required, edit payment terms

    • Coordinate with credit representatives to determine whether sales orders with credit blocks should be released or rejected

    • Create delivery documents for complete or partial deliveries

    • Remove shipping blocks, and for other shipping issues that you resolve, trigger the shipping process

    • Create invoice and accounting documents

    • Reject sales order or sales order items in sales order issues, if you cannot resolve the issue, for example because the product can not be procured any more.

System Landscape Requirements

SAP Smart Business Product

SAP Smart Business 1.0 for SAP ERP

For more information about the system landscape to run SAP Smart Business cockpits, see Installation.

Navigation Targets

The app offers the possibility to directly access other apps.

Note Note

These linked apps have to be already available in your system landscape or you have to implement them along with this app.

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  • Sales Order

  • Customer

  • Supplier

  • Material

  • Outbound Delivery

  • Customer Billing Document

  • Purchase Order

  • Production Order

  • Process Order

These fact sheets need to be installed/configured in addition to the SAP Smart Business for Sales Order Fulfillment app. For more information, see SAP Library at http://help.sap.com under   SAP Business Suite   SAP Fiori for SAP Business Suite   SAP Fiori Apps - Overview   Transactional Apps and Fact Sheets   Central Implementation Information  .

More Information

For more information about the business context of the SAP Smart Business for Sales Order Fulfillment app, see Business Context: SAP Smart Business for Sales Order Fulfillment.

For more information about the history of SAP Smart Business for Sales Order Fulfillment app, see App History: SAP Smart Business for Sales Order Fulfillment.

For more information about configuration, see App Implementation: SAP Smart Business for Sales Order Fulfillment.

For more information about the KPI used in the SAP Smart Business for Sales Order Fulfillment app, see Sales Order Fulfillment Issues (KPI).