The SAP Business ByDesign Release 2008 is now available and includes innovations in the following areas:
Customer Relationship Management
- Dynamic target groups
Marketing reps can now segment audiences using reports for running campaigns on a regular basis. Business transactions can be used as a trigger for marketing and customer communication.https://blogs.sap.com/2020/07/29/customer-segmentation-using-reports-in-cloud-erp-sap-business-bydesign/ - Insight-to-Action: Establishing the ABC classification for customers and suppliers
Marketing, sales and service employees can now change the ABC classification of customers and suppliers directly from a report.
https://blogs.sap.com/2020/07/29/manage-customers-and-supplier-abc-classification-from-reports-with-cloud-erp-sap-business-bydesign/ - Extended bid forecasts and previous documents
Marketing, sales and service employees can manually add a reference to previous and service documents.
https://blogs.sap.com/2020/05/04/service-quote-as-follow-up-for-customer-returns/ - Offer analysis with and without offer versions
Sales reps can create offer versions and perform offer analysis for all versions of an offer.
https://blogs.sap.com/2020/07/30/how-to-create-version-of-a-sales-quote/ - Absolute and percentage total discounts in CRM documents
Sales reps can now use total and percentage total discounts in CRM documents such as sales, service and invoice documents.https://blogs.sap.com/2020/02/03/maintain-absolute-and-percentage-based-overall-discounts-in-crm-documents/
Human Resources
- Resource management based on planned work in the project task
Resource managers can now display the employee’s resource availability based on the planned work under a project task. The project task, the service and the period plans are taken into account.
https://blogs.sap.com/2020/08/06/resource-management-in-business-bydesign/ - The time administrator can block updates to old time entries
Time administrators can restrict the updates of old time entries from the timesheet for the self-services of employees.
https://blogs.sap.com/2020/08/06/restricting-time-sheet-updates-in-business-bydesign/ - Re-employment with new employment: Employee Central – Integration of SAP Business ByDesign
The integration of Employee Central with SAP Business ByDesign now supports the “Reinstall with New Employment” option in Employee Central.
https://blogs.sap.com/2020/08/06/employee-rehire-scenario-in-employee-central-business-bydesign-integration/
Supply chain management
- “Out of date” status for production master data
If parts lists (BoM) or work plans (BoO) are no longer used in production, e.g. due to the end of the product life cycle or adjustments in the manufacturing process, they can now be set to obsolete.
https://blogs.sap.com/2020/07/31/obsolete-bill-of-materials-and-bill-of-operations/ - Pre-orders for project stocks from 3PL warehouses
Project order items for advance delivery can now be sent from a warehouse operated by an external logistics service provider (Third Party Logistics).
https://blogs.sap.com/2020/08/03/pre-delivery-of-project-stock-orders-from-3pl-site/ - Include attachments in the output for deliveries
If your delivery contains important attachments, you can now send the attachments together with the extended dispatch notification by e-mail or print them out together with the delivery note.
https://blogs.sap.com/2020/08/03/include-attachments-in-output-for-outbound-deliveries/
Supplier relationship management
- Intelligent scanning of supplier invoices
Users can now scan PDF documents using SAP’s Intelligent Document Extraction Service. This offers a simplified and more efficient way of processing supplier invoices in high quality.
https://blogs.sap.com/2020/07/31/intelligent-invoice-scanning/
This post is based on Kristof Schneider’s English blog post on the official SAP blog, available at https://blogs.sap.com/2020/08/02/sap-business-bydesign-whats-new-20.08/
All statements without guarantee.