SAP Business ByDesign

SAP Business ByDesign release 1705 is now avilable! See what’s in store in the new release! HTML5 user interface can be accessed on the productive tenants for all functions offered by ByDesign except for Mashup Authoring, Design Key Figures, Text Pool Definition. Customer Incident Handling by partners can be enabled …

Since 2015, openSAP and SAP Business ByDesign have been collaborating to offer free trainings, open for everyone, on a variety of SAP Business ByDesign modules. The trainings are offered in MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) format. Video lectures and self-tests can be always accessed on the openSAP platform, even when …

About David Foulcher David Foulcher is the Vice President of SAP Business ByDesign APJ and Greater China. He has over 20 years of experience in sales, marketing, and business management and 11 years of technical experience in Australia and across Asia Pacific. His specialties include cloud-based ERP/SCM, CRM, EDRMS, EAM, …

Scope In my last blog ‘Productive use of the ByDesign HTML5 UI with 1702‘ I had announced the availability of all functionality required for typical end users for productive use but also mentioned the remaining limitations. With 1705 we have almost achieved feature completeness now. I am particularly happy to …

Val Haskell Global Senior Director, ERP Cloud Channels Team Lead “Ring the bell!” It’s a common sales refrain, a cause for celebration.  The deal was signed and now the sales team is running off to close the next deal. Have you ever noticed that great salespeople don’t sell and walk …

Many companies have a growth strategy encompassing entering new countries, starting new subsidiaries or jointventures. Growing from a local company to a global corporation. But too often companies are faced with problems in their existing IT and business management landscape. Or simply cannot deliver the required IT/ERP systems required in a new …

The next Business ByDesign Develop Better Webinar with SAP Experts designed for ISV partners  is coming end of May with the topic “Embedded Components – The most important UI Paradigm“. These webinars are tailored specially for ISV partners in order to improve development capabilities but can be visited by other partners …

Week 4 in my new SAP life, so it must be Barcelona then. I firstly should thank Steve Basil for the invite, and Steffen Burger for the permission to attend the Global Business ByDesign Pre-Sales workshop. It was great to meet up with some old colleagues (Andy, Christian and Adam) …

The Go-Live Experience is a mandatory training for all implementers of SAP Business ByDesign, and, in my second week at SAP, and I had the pleasure of running a 4-day Go Live Experience workshop for the early-adaptor Partners in Italy. The target audience for this workshop was New ByDesign Implementation …

Please find the below FAQ’s on the topic Expense Report Approvals. 1. Does Multi-Step Approval Supported? No. 2. System Allowing to Define Multi-Step Approval in the Application and User Management > Approval Process? Even though system doesn’t show any error while adding multiple row and define conditions to your Approval …

By default, new fixed assets are assigned to cost centers. Nevertheless, for project-based scenarios, it might be needed to assign those to projects. This article describes how to achieve this. Preparation To enable this feature, you have to go to fine-tuning, activity Account Assigment Types. There, go to Maintain Account …

Many of you are already aware that sub-contracting business scenario is a part of our larger product map and we plan to release the complete scope of subcontracting in future release of ByDesign. Until the functionality is available you can use the work around mentioned here to implement subcontracting in …

Many of our customers have been reaching out to us requesting for an option to create and release Third-Party(TPOP) Inbound delivery notification via web-service. This blog will explain how you will be able to create a TPOP or a standard IDN through web-service. Pre-Requisite: You should create a communication arrangement …

This past March I had the pleasure of presenting the first ByDesign Go-Live Experience of 2017 in North America. Ten Consultants from six different SAP ByDesign Business Partners attended and were enabled on the SAP Cloud ERP Implementation Methodology. From 2007 through 2014 I was with the ByDesign North American …

  as we learned from https://blogs.sap.com/2017/02/09/html5-productive-use/ “The functionality required for typical end users is thus now available for productive use in the HTML5 UI”. Yeeaah! but all typical end users  are educaded with the siverlight user interfaces, documentation and workbooks contain screenshots with silverlight. So frequently asked questions are: “where are …

SAP has a unique opportunity to work with partners and harness the power of SAP’s cloud-based ERP technology for the benefit of small and medium sized businesses, says Julie Slocum Bennani, the recently recruited head of SAP’s Small and Midsized Business Partner Ecosystem. “Cloud ERP adoption is one of the …

SAP Business ByDesign is a trusted, useable and scalable cloud solution for enterprise management that is run by more than 3500 organizations in 19 countries.  After 10 years in the market, SAP Business ByDesign has been enabled for the unique requirements of public sector business processes and reporting and available …

Hello, in the following I would like to describe how you can use the ManageSiteLogisticsTaskIn A2X service to confirm a pick task (one-step) from different iStocks. In my example I want to pick 3 EA of product SR_FG_02, 1 EA from iStock SR_098204 and 2 EA from iStock SR_0293482. Of cause first …

It is amazing how the subsidiaries’ approach with SAP ByD generates many queries from channel sales, customer requests and even new Market Units at SAP. It is quite satisfactory to be part of the team leading this work-stream and being able to understand market dynamics, to support and transfer the knowledge …

The Open Data Protocol (OData) is an open protocol, which allows the creation and consumption of queryable and interoperable RESTful APIs in a simple and standardized way. Retrieval and modification of data is done with URL based service calls. They can be easily build and used: https://.../your_service/CustomerInvoiceCustomerInvoiceCollection? $top=10&$skip=100&$select=ID,Date&orderby=Date desc&$filter=Status eq …

What is the SAP Business ByDesign OData Service Modeler? The SAP Business ByDesign OData Service Modeler allows quick creation of OData services based on Business Objects (BO) with a simple ‘Point and Click’ based modelling approach. The OData Modeler respects the Public Solution Model (PSM) and presents only released fields. …

Authenticating a consumer for access to SAP Business ByDesign depends on the concrete way chosen and them used technology. The following example shows how to login to ByDesign – with username and password – with JavaScript. JavaScript does not allow unrestricted cross site calls. If you execute your script somewhere, …

System access highly depends on the used front end and back end technologies, how data can be retrieved, and what is accessible. In case of any doubt, it is suggested to use SAP standard communication. Regardless of the used front end technology, an application can talk to the system/account where …

OpenUI5 is the open source version of SAPUI5. It is an UI development toolkit for HTML5. See http://openui5.org/ or https://blogs.sap.com/2013/12/11/what-is-openui5-sapui5/ for more details. UI5 provides the sap.ui.model.odata.ODataModel. The model can be used via data binding or via the API. The API supports synchronous and asynchronous processing. The asynchronous functions return …

In general all requests can be done with the $.ajax function. $.ajax can specify all HTTP Methods, send data to any URL wanted and realize success and error callbacks. $.get and $.post could be convenient. In principle, you specify the HTTP method in the type attribute. $.ajax({ url: "https://YOUR_SYSTEM/sap/byd/odata/cust/v1/your_service/Collection..", type: …

OData Service consumption is standardized. SAP Business ByDesign provides mainly two OData interfaces: OData for Analytics allows to execute and retrieve the result of Business Analytics Reports. Modeled OData services are based on Business Objects (BO) and support Create, Retrieve, Update, and Delete (CRUD) operations as well as Function Imports …

A way to prevent direct login and cross site calling handling and restrictions is to use a proxy. A proxy is usually an alias that is local to the server the app was started on. The SAP Cloud Platform (SCP) calls it ‘destination’. How does a destination work? An SCP …

Hello Everyone,   I would like to cover with this document regarding the Automatic allocation of bank statement items with multiple invoice references. Automatic allocation is a way by which the system tried to find matching invoices for payments through a search algorithm. You can follow the below steps for …

You must have observed that if your input products have their  Identified Stock Type value as Mandatory Specified Stock or Optional Specified Stock, the product specification assigned to your output product will automatically get assigned to them in production orders and production tasks. This behavior of the system is as designed. …

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