That SAP Business ByDesign Release 21.02 is now available and includes innovations in the following areas:
Customer Relationship Management
- Insight-to-Action: Create audiences for customers from any report
Marketing, sales and service employees can now create target groups directly from a report.https://blogs.sap.com/2021/02/03/insight-to-action-create-target-groups-for-customers-from-any-report-with-cloud-erp-sap-business-bydesign/?preview_id=1268779
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Mehr erfahren - Global trade item number for package product in the retail sales scenario
In the store sales scenario, customers can now use a GTIN / UPC (Global Trade Item Number / Universal Product Code) for the package product and only need to scan the UPC code of the package product instead of each individual product when generating the invoice.
https://blogs.sap.com/2021/02/08/sales-kit-header-product-with-gtin-support-in-over-the-counter-sales-documents-of-sap-business-bydesign-cloud-erp - Cloud Studio libraries for participants identified from CRM documents and data from organizational management
Partners require reusable Cloud Studio libraries for Territory Mapping functionality, which include libraries for returning parties identified in CRM receipts and libraries for reading organization management information.
https://blogs.sap.com/2021/02/08/partner-libraries-for-crm-determined-parties-and-organizational-management-data/
Cross Topics & Mobile
- Microsoft Teams © for SAP Business ByDesign
SAP Business ByDesign users can now access functions of the SAP Business ByDesign system (e.g. opportunity or account list) directly from Microsoft Teams.https://blogs.sap.com/2021/02/03/sap-business-bydesign-for-microsoft-teams-beta/ Mit dem Laden des Videos akzeptieren Sie die Datenschutzerklärung von YouTube.
Mehr erfahren - Intelligent and mobile scanning of expenses
With the new release, users can scan a receipt on the go, which is converted into an expense in the expense report report.
https://blogs.sap.com/?p=1264669 - End session and unlock documents
With immediate effect, key users can display users who are logged in with one or more sessions and terminate them if necessary.
https://blogs.sap.com/?p=1262638&preview=true&preview_id=126263
Financial management
- 1099 NEC Withholding Tax Return for Non-Employee Payments
The new tax report type 1099-NEC is now available for reporting non-employee compensation in the United States. With this type of tax report it is possible to generate both the 1099-NEC form and the 1099-NEC file. This type of income has been removed from the 1099 MISC report.
https://blogs.sap.com/2021/02/09/1099-nec-withholding-tax-return-for-nonemployee-compensation/ - Enhancements in leasing accounting
With the new release, the options for leasing accounting have been expanded, for example, concluded leasing contracts can be reopened if the right of use has not yet expired.
https://blogs.sap.com/?p=1270086 - Web services for bank statements
The new functions enable partners and customers to mass upload account statements using the ManageBankStatementIn web service.
https://blogs.sap.com/?p=1270080
Human resource management
- Service order confirmations in the employee time sheet
When an employee makes a service confirmation for a service order, the hours used in the service confirmation are automatically taken into account in the employee’s time recording.
https://blogs.sap.com/?p=1269808 - Partner enablement for the resource calendar
A new business object structure is available in the public solution model that can be used to integrate a partner add-on with the employee resource calendar.
https://blogs.sap.com/?p=1269812
Supplier relationship management
- Suggested delivery date in orders
Buyers now have the option of flexibly defining the number of days that the suggested delivery date takes into account.
https://blogs.sap.com/?p=1259255 - Intelligent extensions for scanning supplier invoices
With this release, the function for scanning supplier invoices has been expanded to further reduce manual effort and increase flexibility.
https://blogs.sap.com/2021/02/05/intelligent-invoice-scanning-enhancements-2102/
Supply chain management
- Change quantities of started production orders
It is now possible to adapt production plans, e.g. B. due to a changed demand or supply situation or to take into account resource overload or unavailability situations.
https://blogs.sap.com/?p=1257406
This post is based on Kristof Schneider’s English blog post on the official SAP blog, available at
https://blogs.sap.com/2021/02/08/sap-business-bydesign-whats-new-21.02/
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