The SAP Business ByDesign Release 2002 includes innovations in the following areas:
Finance
- Tax details for leases
- You can now define several tax codes for certain conditions – leasing installments, service fees or initial costs. https://blogs.sap.com/2020/02/03/tax-details-in-lease-contracts/
- Non-deductible tax in leases
- You can now enter tax codes that contain non-deductible tax amounts in leasing contracts. The non-deductible tax amount is automatically taken into account when calculating the present value. https://blogs.sap.com/2020/02/03/non-deductible-tax-in-lease-contracts/
Project management
- Change of delivery date in projects and project orders
- You can now change the delivery date in project orders and projects to accommodate changing schedules. The changed delivery date is taken into account in the respective customer requirements:
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Mehr erfahren - Details in the blog post https://blogs.sap.com/2020/02/03/change-delivery-date-in-projects-and-project-stock-order-documents/
- You can now change the delivery date in project orders and projects to accommodate changing schedules. The changed delivery date is taken into account in the respective customer requirements:
- Project management – KPIs
- Effective billing rate
Project managers can view the average billing rate achieved for all resources in the company, as well as the billing rate achieved per time written for each resource and project. - Projects with a critical schedule and projects with critical overruns
Project managers gain insight into their project portfolio and can easily identify projects where the projected work or projected finish dates exceed the target set in the baseline. - Net value depreciated percentage
Project managers can monitor the percentage of the work done by their project staff that could not be billed to customers. - Number of projects supported
Project managers can identify the number of projects that you are not responsible for and that your direct contributors are responsible for.
- Effective billing rate
Supply chain management
- Three new KPIs and reports and two new data sources ensure more transparency in supply chain management:
- Delivered completely on time according to the order item: Report and KPI
- Production orders and quantities: Report and KPI Number of production orders:
- new KPI for Monitoring committee
- The aggregated view of the List of offers and requirements was improved
- A new data source for Warehouse requirements is aviable.
- Details in the blog post https://blogs.sap.com/2020/01/30/more-analytics-insights-in-scm/
Customer Relationship Management
- Maintain absolute and percentage total discounts in CRM documents
- Fixed value or percentage-based total discounts can now be used in CRM documents such as sales, service and invoice documents:
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Mehr erfahren - Details in the blog post https://blogs.sap.com/2020/02/03/maintain-absolute-and-percentage-based-overall-discounts-in-crm-documents/
- Fixed value or percentage-based total discounts can now be used in CRM documents such as sales, service and invoice documents:
- Freight master data stand for Credit vouchers to disposal
- The freight in the original sales document, such as the customer invoice, is forwarded to subsequent credit notes.
- Details in the blog post https://blogs.sap.com/2020/02/03/carry-forward-freight-and-surcharge-into-credit-memo-followup-documents/
Localization
- Switzerland – Electronic VAT reporting
- In Switzerland, companies subject to VAT have the option of filing their regular VAT returns electronically. You can now generate an XML file in order to upload the sales tax statements as an XML file to the ESTV SuisseTax portal.
This post is based on Kristof Schneider’s English blog post on the official SAP blog, available at https://blogs.sap.com/2020/02/03/sap-business-bydesign-whats-new-2002/
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