The SAP Business ByDesign Release 2005 is now available and includes innovations in the following areas:
Mobile apps
- Permits for managers
Managers can start the Manager Approval app in the Business ByDesign mobile app and no longer need to install the separate app. - Basic mobile user administration
You can now view, lock and unlock users in the SAP Business ByDesign app. - You can find more information about the new features in the mobile app for iOS and Android at https://blogs.sap.com/2020/04/30/mobile-manager-approval-and-user-management-for-sap-business-bydesign-cloud-erp/
Finance
- Strict four-eyes principle
The Strict Dual Control function (four-eyes principle) is now available for all manual postings in the general ledger and in the manual tax postings. This ensures that a user who creates or edits a manual booking can save it but not book it. The “Book” action must be carried out by a second user.
https://blogs.sap.com/2020/04/29/strict-dual-control/ - Payment cancellation approval
An approval procedure is now available for reversing approved payments. If such an approved payment is canceled, an approval task is generated for the cancellation posting.
https://blogs.sap.com/2020/05/05/approval-for-payment-reversal/ - Sales Kits – Profitability Analysis
The profitability analysis allows users to view the profitability of the sales kit header and sales kit item, including sales kit returns, in case the sales kit items have been posted back to their own warehouse.
https://blogs.sap.com/2020/04/30/sales-kit-return-profitability-analysis/ - Mandatory fields in virtual data sources
When using OData services and ODP to extract accounting data, correct and consistent results depend on the correct selection of certain parameters, e.g. B. the combination of companies and general ledgers and subsidiary ledgers. Therefore it is now possible to activate the checking of mandatory fields for certain data sources.
https://blogs.sap.com/2020/05/04/mandatory-fields-in-virtual-data-sources/
Human Resources
- Time management – permits
HR managers can now edit a time record (e.g. assign a bonus payment) and then send the time record to the project manager or supervisor for approval. - Analytics – Employee Changes for Payroll
In each payroll period, HR managers must send relevant changes to employee master data to their payroll provider in order to upload them to the payroll system. The “Internal Employee Changes” report now shows a change history for personal data, changes to the work agreement, home address or payment information.
https://blogs.sap.com/2020/05/05/bydesign-employee-master-data-extracting-updates-for-a-payroll-system/
Supply chain management
- Exclude logistics area from planning
Warehouse managers can now exclude certain logistics areas from planning and ATP checks, e.g. for spare parts for the repair department.
https://blogs.sap.com/2020/05/05/exclude-a-logistic-area-from-planning-and-availability-check/ - Pegged Supply UI improvements
Planners can now monitor the availability of components in their production plan more efficiently and adjust demand plans more easily in the event of late delivery.
https://blogs.sap.com/2020/05/04/rescheduling-of-production-proposals-based-on-component-availability/ - Service order advance delivery from third party logistics location
It is now possible to deliver spare parts in advance from a warehouse operated by an external logistics service provider (3PL). - New reports for supply chain management
- Customer needs report.
- Inventory overview in the form of a report.
Customer Relationship Management
- Withdraw permits
Sometimes a user wants to change documents that have already been sent for approval. The user can now withdraw the documents, make changes and send them again for approval.
https://blogs.sap.com/2020/05/04/how-to-withdraw-approvals-byd2005/ - Renewal rules for contract elements
Users can now decide whether contract elements are renewed manually or automatically using renewal rules.
https://blogs.sap.com/2020/05/04/renewal-rules-for-contract-items/ - Service offers for customer returns
When a customer returns a product for repair, it is now possible to offer a service for a customer return as a follow-up.
https://blogs.sap.com/2020/05/04/service-quote-as-follow-up-for-customer-returns/ - Return of sales kits
It is now possible to complete the kit return process from the return notification to the creation of the credit and, in the case of a repair, the return delivery to the customer.
This post is based on Kristof Schneider’s English blog post on the official SAP blog, available at https://blogs.sap.com/2020/05/05/sap-business-bydesign-whats-new-2005/
All statements without guarantee.