Day: November 29, 2017

Huawei and Toshiba Digital Solutions (Toshiba) jointly showcased the first result of their cooperation on NB-IoT (Narrowband Internet of Things)-based Smart Factory solutions at the 2017 Global Mobile Broadband Forum. At the event, both companies demonstrated Smart Factory solutions including Toshiba’s IoT Gateway equipped with a Huawei NB-IoT chipset. http://bit.ly/2igwxFk #Huawei #BigData #AI

Application Lifecycle Management has been evolving in this ever changing IT landscape and is more so relevant in the Business of IT today. The typical challenges of IT have always been on how much to Capex into the Digital Transformation (obviously ensuring all current buzz words of AI and ML and Mobility and Cloud: creating the portfolio of change) whilst ensuring optimization and reduction of Opex around operations. While there are myriad tool-sets to take care of various aspects and elements of Build and Operate in IT; there is just One SAP Solution Manager taking care of Build, Simplify and Operate as an Integrated tool-set with its Single Source of Truth: Building Smart on time, within budget and Running Simple while keeping the lights on and reducing TCO.

Thus; SAP Solution Manager has been the guardian tool-set encompassing Build SAP Like a Factory and Run SAP Like a Factory; while simplifying the elements of customization and software assets in the overall scheme of IT. At SAP TechEd 2017 here in Bangalore, we will bring to you a whole range of sessions (Lectures, Hands-on Workshops, Road-map and Mini-theaters) around upgrading to the latest version of SAP Solution Manager 7.2, leveraging it for simplification and identification of current landscape for the Digital Transformation journey towards SAP S/4HANA and then take you through the capabilities that will assist in the Implementation of an SAP S/4HANA solution (End to End), finally handing over to Operations through the Transition to Ops culminating with the End to End Operation capabilities. This blog is an effort to help you identify sessions focused on SAP Solution Manager Upgrade, SAP S/4HANA Implementation with SAP Solution Manager 7.2 and Focused Build for SAP Solution Manager and finally how we transition to Operations in IT.

For those of you on a journey from older version to the latest SAP Solution Manager 7.2, planning adoption of new and end to end integrated capabilities and needing a preview to what the future holds; should look at attending sessions on:

* What’s New in SAP Solution Manager 7.2? [S4H135 Lecture] [10/26/17 11:30 to 12:30]
* Transition to SAP Solution Manager 7.2 [S4H207 Lecture] [10/26/17 14:00 to 15:00]
* Technical Upgrade Steps for SAP Solution Manager 7.2 [S4H224 Lecture] [10/26/17 15:15 to 16:15]
* Content Activation As Part of Your Upgrade to SAP Solution Manager 7.2 [S4H213 Lecture] [10/27/17 16:30 to 17:30]
* Value of Transitioning to SAP Solution Manager and the Path Ahead [S4H186 Lecture SPCPL] [10/27/17 10:15 to 11:15] [CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE SESSION]
* Adopting SAP Solution Manager 7.2 Step by Step [S4H122 Lecture] [10/26/17 12:45 to 13:45]
* Road Map: SAP Solution Manager 7.2 [S4H861 Road Map Session] [10/26/17 09:45 to 10:15]

Then we embark on SAP Solution Manager capabilities around the Build SAP Like a Factory topic; especially focused on End to End Requirements to Deploy including Process Management, Test Management and Change Control Management (for SAP S/4HANA, Hybrid scenarios with Agile and DevOps concepts).  A must attend session will be on a live experience lecture by the Technical Delivery Leader at Lion Australia of Focused Build for SAP Solution Manager as a delivery infrastructure for SAP S/4HANA Implementation. We will also have a Project Manager’s (from SAP Digital Business Services, India) perspective on the experience of SAP S/4HANA project implementation with Focused Build for SAP Solution Manager. The sessions around these topics are listed as follows:

* Why SAP Solution Manager 7.2 is great for SAP S/4HANA [S4H108 Lecture] [10/26/17 16:30 to 17:30]
* SAP Readiness Check for SAP S/4HANA – Analyze Your Source SAP ERP [S4H126 Lecture] [10/26/17 17:45 to 18:45]
* Simplify Your Custom Code Situation on the Way to SAP S/4HANA and the Cloud [S4H206 Lecture] [10/27/17 15:15 to 16:15]
* Prepare for SAP S/4HANA with Custom Code Management in SAP Solution Manager [S4H264 Hands-On Workshop] [10/27/17 16:45 to 18:45]
* Model SAP S/4HANA with Process Management in SAP Solution Manager [S4H115 Lecture] [10/27/17 10:15 to 11:15]
* Model Hybrid Solutions Using Process Management in SAP Solution Manager [S4H268 Hands-On Workshop] [10/26/17 09:15 to 11:15]
* Jump-Start Testing for SAP S/4HANA with SAP Solution Manager 7.2 [S4H229 Lecture] [10/27/17 11:30 to 12:30]
* New Test Suite applications of SAP Solution Manager 7.2 / Focused Build 7.2 [S4H278 Hands-On Workshop] [10/25/17 16:00 to 18:00]
* Explore Preapproved Changes for SAP S/4HANA with Change Request Management [S4H266 Hands-On Workshop] [10/25/17 13:30 to 15:30]
* Change Control Management-Continuous delivery in agile and hybrid solutions [S4H111 Lecture] [10/25/17 15:45 to 16:45]
* Agile Engineering and DevOps with Focused Build for SAP Solution Manager [S4H277 Hands-On Workshop] [10/26/17 11:45 to 13:45]
* Manage a Transformation Project with Focused Build for SAP Solution Manager [S4H136 Lecture] [10/27/17 16:30 to 17:30]
* SAP Solution Manager at Lion: Delivery Infrastructure for SAP S/4HANA [S4H185 Lecture] [10/27/17 09:00 to 10:00] [CUSTOMER SESSION]
* Implementation of SAP S/4HANA with Focused Build for SAP Solution Manager [S4H434 Mini Theater Session] [10/27/17 10:30 to 11:15] [CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE SESSION]

Transition to Operations is a key aspect and SAP Solution Manager takes care of that aspect especially with the Business Process Management. As for Operation areas, we have always had a plethora of capabilities and the same will be showcased as per the below list especially focusing on the new Focused Run for SAP Solution Manager:

* Business Process Improvement to Prepare for the Transition to SAP S/4HANA [S4H110 Lecture] [10/27/17 12:45 to 13:45]
* Advanced Application Monitoring with Focused Run for SAP Solution Manager [S4H209 Lecture] [10/25/17 14:30 to 15:30]
* Focused Run for SAP Solution Manager: The Perfect Fit for Service Providers [S4H210 Lecture] [10/25/17 15:45 to 16:45]
* What’s New for SAP Solution Manager 7.2 Operations [S4H109 Lecture] [10/25/17 17:00 to 18:00]
* Monitoring of Hybrid SAP Solution Landscape with SAP Solution Manager [S4H360 Hands-On Workshop] [10/27/17 09:15 to 11:15]
* Verify Data Consistency in Hybrid Landscapes [S4H160 Hands-On Workshop] [10/27/17 14:15 to 16:15]

Follow the link after you have logged on the SAP TechEd Agenda page to conveniently add the SAP Solution Manager Sessions to your agenda

SAP Solution Manager is an end-to-end Application Lifecycle Management solution which helps streamline business processes and proactively address improvement options, increasing efficiency and decreasing risk within your existing maintenance agreement. Start fast, Build smart and Run simple: with SAP Solution Manager 7.2 and Focused Solutions for SAP Solution Manager. Our pool of Subject Matter Experts comprising of Solution Consultants and Architects, Product Owners, Product Managers, Development Experts, Regional Leads and the Leadership Team will be available to connect with you at SAP TechEd 2017, Bangalore. Look forward to seeing you there.

Sharath Shasheendran

Regional Lead, India

Application Lifecycle Management

SAP Labs India Pvt. Ltd. http://bit.ly/2igJH5i #SAP #SAPCloud #AI

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Key User Extensibility – Maintain data in Custom Business Object – Part 4

Target Audience – Key Users of SAP S/4HANA Cloud and Developers

Blog applicability – SAP S/4HANA Cloud 1702, SAP S/4HANA Cloud 1705 and SAP S/4HANA Cloud 1708

In this part of the blog series, we will now see how we can maintain the values of our newly created custom business object. If you remember in the previous blog – part 3, we had chosen the option UI Generation. When this option is selected, the system generates a maintenance UI (akin to SM30 in On-Premise system).

If you have directly landed on this blog, please first go through part 1, part 2 and part 3 of this blog series. Please note that you should have the pre-requisites already in place as discussed in the part 1 of this blog series.

Let’s go through the steps and see how to create a new custom business object –

Log on to you SAP S/4HANA Cloud system. Once logged in you will arrive at your home page (Fiori Launchpad). Look for the tile Custom Business Objects.

Note – Please note that once the custom business object has been generated, it will take some time for the link (Go to generated UI) to be active.

Once this link is available, at this stage, we can click on this link and it will open the maintenance UI. But think of the actual production scenario, where the end user will not have access to the custom business objects tile. So how will it work then? Off course, the end user will need a tile on his/her Fiori Launchpad where they can click on it and maintain the values. Think of this like providing a new custom transaction code in On-Premise system. But for end user of a SAP S/4HANA Cloud system, he/she would need a tile.

So now let us go through the steps and see how to create a new custom tile for the newly created maintenance UI for the Custom Business Object.

Since we are already inside the editor of Custom Business Object, you would notice another link – Maintain Catalog Extensions

Before we go ahead, let us understand what is Maintain Custom Catalog Extension?

Custom Catalog Extension is another tool provided in Key-User Extensions and you would notice that it is present in the same group as other Key-User tools. If not that, you would need to find the app and assign it to your group.

This tile displays all the custom tiles that have been assigned to custom or standard catalogs.

Now let us come back to where we started. Click on the link Maintain Catalog as stated above, and it will take you inside the Custom Catalog Editor. Click on Add.

Once you click on Add, it will open a pop-up where we need to choose a Business Catalog. At this point, we can either assign it to some custom business catalog if you have already created it or you can also choose a standard catalog.

For this blog, we will pick up the standard business catalog – SAP_CORE_BC_EXT

Select the catalog and it will show the item as selected where the new custom tile will appear

Click on Ok from the bottom bar.

A new line item will appear which shows the business catalog and the status of the same. The status would be Unpublished first time.

Select this line and then click on the option – Publish

Next say – Ok

The publishing process will start. It will take some time before it is completely published.

Now go back to your home and click on the me icon  .

Next click on App finder and in the search box, look for Supplier.

Find your business catalog. In this case – Extensibility. You would notice a new tile – Supplier there. Select that app by clicking on the pin and come back to the home screen.

Once you click on the PIN icon, it will pop-up the list of groups available on your Fiori Launchpad. Select any one of your choice. In this case, we will add this new custom tile to the My Home.

Select Close and click on the back button from top to arrive at your home screen. The newly created tile would be there.

Just refresh your Fiori Launchpad once in case the tile is not appearing. The following screen shot shows how the tile will appear.

Let us now go ahead and maintain some records for this custom business object.

Click the tile and it will open the maintenance UI. Now click on the plus (+) icon to create a new record for the parent node – Supplier

Here you will notice that the custom code list values are now appearing as F4. Remember this we had created in the part 2 of the blog series.

Click on F4 to choose the desired account group. Choose the group and it will now appear in the field.

Maintain the country and click on Save. This would save the record for the parent node – supplier. Once you come back to the original screen, click on the Go button and your newly created record will appear.

Select the record and click on the arrow on the right side.

Now we will maintain the values for the sub-node – Role

Click on the Roles tab and the plus (+) icon.

Maintain the values and hit Save

Congratulations you have successfully learned how to create a new custom business object, how to create a new custom code list value and how to create a custom tile and maintain the values for the custom business object in SAP S/4HAHA Cloud!

Rohit Khan, S/4HANA Regional Implementation Group

For any clarification or support, feel free to reach rohit.khan@sap.com

Choose the following links for all the previous parts of this blog series –

* Part 1 – SAP S/4HANA Cloud Key User Extensibility – Introduction to Custom Business Objects – Part 1
* Part 2 – SAP S/4HANA Cloud Key User Extensibility – Custom business object – Creating Code List Values – Part 2
* Part 3 – SAP S/4HANA Cloud Key User Extensibility – Create Custom Business Object – Part 3

 

 

 

 

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Small businesses have the unfortunate challenge of managing limited resources when facing significant conflicts. When a large business faces something like a broken contract, a non-paying customer, a problem with a partner, or conflicts regarding debt, they can basically throw money at the problem, hiring a legal team or relying on in-house lawyers to tackle the job. Small businesses can’t afford to do this; they may be able to fix the problem, but they’ll be faced with a new one—crushing debt.

Mediation presents a more cost-effective alternative, but how does it work?

What Is Mediation?

Legal mediation is used for a variety of conflicts, including divorce-related negotiations and business-related disputes. Essentially, a neutral party—the mediator—will guide the parties in conflict through a series of questions, structured conversations, and negotiations in an attempt to resolve the dispute as peaceably and mutually beneficially as possible. The end result is usually a compromise, discovered by the conflicting parties, with the mediator only serving as a guide when necessary.

The Advantages

There are many advantages to this model:

* Cost-effectiveness. Duking out a legal dispute in court can be extremely costly (and risky) for both parties. Mediation usually costs far less, and can find a favorable solution to both parties. As long as both parties have something to lose in court, mediation will always be an attractive potential alternative.
* A neutral setting. Mediation is also unique because it gives both parties a neutral setting where they can air their grievances, make their case, and confront one another safely. The mediator ensures the conversation doesn’t become hostile and doesn’t deviate from its main purpose.
* Mediation is also valued for its ability to resolve disputes quickly. Depending on the severity and nature of your case, it could take months, or even years to resolve in the court system. A mediation could provide a resolution in the span of an afternoon—or at worst, a handful of sessions.
* Mediation is also designed to ferret out a compromise between parties, which means both people involved end up walking away satisfied. Depending on the nature of the conflict, this could open the door to more favorable professional interactions with the other party in the future (and reduce your potential losses significantly).

How to Start the Mediation Process

So what can you do to start the mediation process?

* Reach out to the parties involved. Mediation only works if both parties working with the mediator are willing and able to find a compromise. Otherwise, it could become a shouting match or a staunch impasse with no solution. First, reach out to the other party to determine if they’re open to mediation.
* Find mutually agreeable mediator candidates. Next, work on developing a list of qualified mediator candidates that both parties might be able to agree on. Look for people with specifically defined expertise in mediation, and candidates that can give both of you an honest chance in finding a solution.
* Come armed with research, requests, and goals. Finally, start doing your research. You’ll want to enter the mediation as prepared as possible, with all the facts in front of you (as well as a list of goals you’d like to accomplish during the process).

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