SAP SE hereby confirms that the interface software for the product eam4cloud 1605 of the company all4cloud GmbH & Co. KG has been certified for integration with SAP Business ByDesign 1605 via the SAP integration scenario ByD-based-ADDON.

This certificate confirms the existence of product features in accordance with SAP certification procedures. SAP only certifies successful integration of the product with SAP solutions. Vendor is responsible for the product itself and its error-free operation.

for more details about this visit the Win Bigger with Webinar: SAP PartnerEdge

all4cloud GmbH & Co. KG has received an award in the ERP category at the 2016 IT Innovation Awards presented by Initiative Mittelstand (German innovation award for small and medium-sized enterprises). The company received the award for its Cloud ERP suite SAP Business ByDesign with the eam4cloud maintenance solution. In this complete solution, all4cloud combines the Cloud ERP system SAP Business ByDesign with the maintenance functions and processes of the SAP add-on eam4cloud. In addition to conventional ERP functions and processes, the Cloud ERP solution combines processes for internal maintenance management and external customer service. In medium-sized companies, all data is stored centrally and kept up-to-date in a protected Cloud environment, which is available everywhere, including for mobile use.

Open and integrated
Now companies are increasingly assimilating their processes across their different sites, for example between parent companies and subsidiaries in various countries. Different companies and market participants also network with each other during their transition to Industry 4.0. The complete solution from SAP Business ByDesign and eam4cloud already meets the first Industry 4.0 requirements, because machines or meters can be connected to the Cloud ERP system.

SAP Business ByDesign now offers the possibility to do a collective revision for resource cost rates via the new work center view „Labor Cost Rate Run”.

Furthermore you can create new resources with the resource cost rates.

Therefore you need the mentioned view “Labor Cost Rate Run” of the work center “cost and revenue”.

As this is no standard view you need to ask for the activation of the view due to an incident.

In this view you can create and schedule a run to create new resource costs based on details as cost center, job, cost rate and cost unit.

This is an automated function which is an alternative to the manually creation of resources in the view „Resources“ of the work center „Cost and Revenue“.

To create the run there are two options:
1. Create a Labor Cost Rate Run in the system itself
2. Upload Labor Cost Rates from Microsoft Excel

Second one is suitable to create or change a huge amount of data sets.

1) Create a Labor Cost Rate Run in the system itself

1. In the Labor Cost Rates view, click “New “and choose “Labor Cost Rate Run” to open the “New Labor Cost Rates Run” screen.

2.Under General Data, enter a run ID and, if required, a description for the run.

3.Under Control Parameters, enter the date from which the labor resources are valid. Use this option if you want to enter the same Valid From date for all the labor resources that you create using the run.

4.Under Selection Criteria, click Add Row to add the details that will be used to create the labor resource:

•Valid From

•Cost Center

•Job

•Cost Rate (The unit of currency for the cost rate is defaulted from the cost center's company.)

•Cost Unit

5.If you want to create more resources in the same run, click Add Row to add the details.

6.Save the run and set it to active. You have the following options:

•If you do not want to schedule a run, click “Close”.

•If you want to schedule a run, click “Schedule”. For more information, see the SAP Help Document “Schedule a Labor Cost Rate Run”.

2)  Upload Labor Cost Rates from Microsoft Excel

1.In the Labor Cost Rates view, click “New” and choose “Labor Cost Rate Run from Microsoft Excel®” to download the Microsoft Excel template for uploading labor cost rates and save the template on your local computer.

If you have not installed the latest Add-In for Microsoft Excel, install this add-in from the Download area.

2. In the downloaded template, enter a run ID and, if required, a description for the run.

3. Enter the details that will be used to create the labor resource. Enter the date from which the labor resource shall be valid.

4. Enter the unit of currency for the cost rate, as this value is not defaulted in the template.

5. If you want to create more labor resources in the same run, and enter the details in subsequent rows of the template. If you add blank rows to the template, the details for labor resources will not be uploaded into the system.

6. Logon to the system via the button “Login” in the “SAP Business ByDesign” tab. In the Log On to SAP Business ByDesign dialog box:

•Select a system and enter a user name and password. Recent URLs shows your last system logons. If you want the system to store your user name and password, select Remember my user name and password.

•When you have entered the required information, click Log On in the dialog box.

7. To upload the details for the labor resources into the system, click “Save Data to”.  The system performs a number of consistency checks. If error messages are issued, no details for any labor resource are uploaded. Correct the errors and click Save Data to again.

8. In the “Labor Cost Rates” view, select the run and click “Edit”.

9.  Save the run and set it to active. You than have the following options: •If you do not want to schedule a run, click Close. •If you want to schedule a run, click Schedule. For more information, see the help document “Schedule a Labor Cost Rate Run”.

Good luck with the new function!

We welcome you on our german Data One - SAP Business ByDesign – Blog: http://bydprojekt.blogspot.de/

Hannah Guthor

Receiving a tax refund or some other kind of tax payments, the payment won’t be assigned automatically to an account. The payment has to be posted via an exceptionalism.

In the following we will guide you through the several steps of posting such a tax payment.

Steps of the posting process

If there is no automated assignment through the system, go to the work center “Liquidity Management“ and select the view „Bank Statement“.

Open the bank statement that requires post processing and select the relevant position.

Thereby the mask for the “payment allocation” pops up, where you can allocate the tax payment.

Go the tab „Customer/Supplier“ and choose the relevant tax authority.

By filling in the tax authority you are now able to select the option “Tax payables or receivables” in the field “Payment Allocated To”.

As soon as you select this value, you will be able to edit the field “Allocated Amount”. This field is not activated until the value “Tax payables or receivables” is choose.

Fill in the relevant amount in the field “Allocated Amount”.

The assignment is now ready for posting.

Definition by cases / Case Differentiation

At the same time as posting the payment assignment the system creates a tax payment with the status “In Preparation” or “Released” that you can find in the Work Center “Tax Management”, which possibly requires some post processing.

1. The payment belongs to an VAT Return

If the related VAT Return has the status „Reported“, but is not balanced yet, the tax payment will immediately receive the status “released” as soon as you release the bank statement.

If the related VAT Return doesn’t has the status „Reported“, or the received tax payment shows a deviating amount, you have to allocate the tax payment manually.

2. The payment is an correction /direct withdrawel that belongs to a special advance payment

In this case you need to edit the tax payment (which has the status „In Preparation“) and select „Tax Prepayment“ as Tax Payment Type in the tax payment. After this you can release the tax payment.

I hope we could provide some helpful information on this Topic.

For more tips and tricks in SAP Business ByDesign visit our Data One - SAP Business ByDesign - Blog:http://bydprojekt.blogspot.de/

Hannah Guthor

Use Case:

Based on the business process, tasks(approval, notification) are created and assigned to the responsible person(s).User can see these tasks in Manage My Area or Inbox workcenter view.

Example:

User A is creating a shopping cart and this goes to approval for user B.

If user B logs in to the Byd System then he can see and act on these tasks.User may desire to receive an email to be triggered for certain kind of important tasks, so that they can act on them quickly.

Solution:

Business user can subscribe for email to be sent whenever certain kind of tasks are created.For example, if user wants to get email for shopping cart approval, then he could subscribe for email for that task type.

Detailed Explanation:

Step1: Business configuration:

Customer can decide whether they need email along with the business tasks.Basedon this they can set the business configuration.

Step2 : Subscribe for email

User can subscribe for email from Home->Work->Inbox

This setting is user specific. If user has valid email id maintained in the system, then they can subscribe for the required task type.

Step3 : Business object instance creation

Shopping cart instance created and this went for approval.

Approval Tasks can be seen in Manage My Area->Approvals

User gets email notification for the created tasks.

Summary:

With this feature, User can subscribe for email when tasks are created.This will help to fasten the business process.

Dear All,

It is SAP Business ByDesign’s ambition to serve both as a mid-market and subsidiary solution. Accordingly, we did choose the underlying software architecture, hardware infrastructure and subsequently the pricing.

To assist you in properly assessing, whether ByDesign can serve your prospect from a transaction volume and sizing perspective, we would like to provide you with a new tool. We leverage years of experience of our SAP Business One Ecosystem with a similar tool. By asking your prospect few simple questions, we can assess the fit for ByDesign or indicate whether other solutions of SAP’s portfolio would serve your customer and yourself better. Please be aware that the document is confidential and cannot be directly shared with the prospect.

Therefore, effective immediately, a new validation step in the SAP Business ByDesign deal process called Early Prospect Qualification Form will be introduced. The questions should be embedded into early discussions with the prospect, and results should be sent to Byd_Customer_Engagement_Office@sap.com. The form will be attached to your opportunity and quote in CRM.

Please familiarize yourself with the Early Prospect Qualification Form and  the How-To guide. The latest version is available for download here: Early Prospect Qualification Form https://partneredge.sap.com/en/library/assets/products/ent_mng/byd/sell/tools_assets/pp_form_byd_epq.html 

How-To Guide

https://partneredge.sap.com/en/library/assets/products/ent_mng/byd/sell/tools_assets/hat_htg_byd_epq.html

The Early Prospect Qualification Form will be updated from time to time. Please make sure you always use the latest version.

If you have any questions, please reach out to Byd_Customer_Engagement_Office@sap.com.

Best regards,

Michael Schmitt                              Frank Israel

The priority definitions for SAP Business ByDesign are as follows.

Although the framework for incident priority assessments is generic, our Support Engineers will always discuss critical situations with customers or partners to understand the impact a given issue has on customers’ or partners’ business.

The below examples can be referred to when choosing the priority Very High

Critical/ Very High Priority Overall

• The issue is impacting all users
• No workarounds are available
• Issue occurs in Productive system
• Not able to perform transaction which is required immediately.
• Go live is planned in less than 3 working days and the issue is a showstopper.
• Regression issue due to an upgrade
• Issue is having high Financials Impact
• The production system is not accessible

Core Functionalities -: Supply Chain Management, Supplier Relationship Management, Customer Relationship Management, Projects, Financials.

SCM, SRM & Projects

• Not able to release customer demand, Outbound delivery
• Not able to create delivery proposals.
• Not able to confirm count tasks.
• Issues related to Site Activation.
• Not able to release planning proposals, Supplier invoices.
• 3PL Outbound delivery execution Request issues.
• Not able to generate Customer Invoices due to Process Communication error btw Sales Order and Invoices.
• Not able to send Purchase order to suppliers.
• Approval of Purchase orders.
• GSR creation issues.
• Time recording for project tasks.
• Project Invoice request creation issues.
• Approval for time recording issues.

CRM

• Not able to Print Invoices
• Not able to generate sales documents or leads, opportunity, quote, sales order, service order, contract, return and invoice request
• Not able to process credit memo
• Inconsistent invoice or invoice requests
• Not able to generate Customer Invoices due to Process Communication error btw Sales Order and Invoices.
• Usage of EDI to exchange the date btw BYD and 3rd party system, but the XML sent from BYD contains wrong data in all cases
• In web service scenario, sales documents created in ByDesign is different than the original XML request and is not possible to change it from frontend.

Financials

• Not able to file Tax Return
• Payment file is getting rejected from the processing House Bank where the file format is standard and correct
• The Revenue Recognition Log shows error or warning messages which cannot be explained and cannot be resolved in the application
• Bank Advice is not being shown on new Bank Statement
• Closing Impacted: Cannot reverse Foreign Currency
• Not able to perform Balance Carry Forward Run
• Invoice not available in Customer Account Monitor
• Cannot Post Bank Statement
• Unexpected amounts recognized during revenue recognition.

Organizational Management & Business Partner

• The issue is impacting all users
• No workarounds are available
• Issue occurs in Productive system
• Not able to perform transaction which is required immediately.
• Go live is planned in less than 3 working days and the issue is a showstopper.
• Regression issue due to an upgrade
• Issue is having high Financials Impact
• Unable to Activate Organizational Structure
• Dump while accessing Organizational  Unit , Products & Services
• Unable to create Materials and Services with the expected ID
• Activated Profit Center, Cost Center or Company missing in other Business transactions documents.

Migration

• Unable to migrate data into the system (valuation failed, simulation failed and import failed)
• Extension fields and PDI fields missing in the migration template (migration and MDM)
• Exported template doesn’t have the values.

HCM

• The issue is impacting all users
• No workarounds are available
• Issue occurs in Productive system
• Not able to perform transaction which is required immediately.
• Go live is planned in less than 3 working days and the issue is a showstopper.
• Regression issue due to an upgrade
• Issue is having high Financials Impact
• Unable to release or create time sheet
• Approval for Time recording or leave request goes to wrong manager
• Unable to Hire an Employee.
• Incomplete timesheet entry

Analytics

• Standard reports does not show correct results
• OLAP issues during the runtime execution of standard report
• Reports are not visible in the frontend
• Data shown in reports are not in sync with the master data
• Several reports throw an error in the UI
• End user(s) is/are not able to see reports
• Standard Financials reports does not bring data
• Error messages or dumps, which prevents the standard report from loading.

Mobility and UI Framework

• Not able to print documents, Send documents via emails.
• KUT adaptation not working.
• Extension fields missing/ import-export layout issues.
• Tax data/ customer data missing in forms.
• Front-end / backend exceptions related to UI in HTML5 / SL.
• UI Exceptions in custom view.
• Repository activation issues.
• Functionality not working in Custom views as expected (ex: Unable to open document / Save document etc.)
• Not able to create / release output documents.
• Adobe server / e-mail server issues.

Partner Development Infrastructure

• Unable to activate Solution/ Download Solution
• Lifecycle management Issues
• Unable to release Sales Order/Close Fiscal Year
• Solution is Locked by Support user/ Business user
• Not able to download Studio
• Not able to log-in to Studio

Dear all,

This year, in September, something big is coming to Amsterdam. Something you can be part of: SAP Business ByDesign Forum – Digital Transformation and Opportunities for Your Business.

You live and breathe your business. Every day. You design and prepare your business for the days to come, understanding the needs of your customers and their customers alike. This endeavour needs requires ongoing innovation, insights, and answers. Simple and viable ones. Giving you speed, clarity, and control.

We care for your business. Which is why we are hosting the SAP Business ByDesign Forum, taking place 28/29th September in Amsterdam. To give you innovation, insights, and answers. Best-in-class – at a premier location, and along a packed, 2-day agenda:

• Updates, insights, and outlooks on the SAP Business ByDesign solution, the digital core for SMEs and subsidiaries of Large Enterprises, enabling live business beyond boundaries

• Best practices from customers large and small, showcasing how they transformed and digitized their business in a variety of areas

• Expertise and solutions from partners, being part of our completeness of vision and completeness of execution

• Numerous opportunities for exchange face-to-face: With SAP senior management and experts, with partners, and peers. Meet, talk, and learn.

I am excited to invite you on behalf of my entire management team to the SAP Business ByDesign Forum. Registration is now open and you can reserve your seat at this key event with just a few clicks here.

Looking forward to see you in Amsterdam!

You can now configure your Business ByDesign application for single sign-on with Microsoft Azure Active Directory (AD). Azure AD is Microsoft’s multi-tenant cloud based directory and identity management service. For IT Admins, Azure AD provides an affordable, easy to use solution to give employees and business partners single sign-on (SSO) access to thousands of cloud SaaS Applications, including Business ByDesign and Cloud for Customer (C4C). You can find the tutorial on how to configure Business ByDesign with Azure AD for SSO here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/active-directory-saas-sapbusinessbydesign-tutorial/

We would like to inform you that with August 2016 release of SAP Business ByDesign, we will remove the SAP Business ByDesign mobile app from the BlackBerry store.

When you have a customer project that is linked to a sales order with both fixed price and time & material items you may run into figures which look strange at first sight. Well, to be honest, also at second sight they might look strange. But there is no way to change that because of ByDesign customers using projects in a manifold of fashions.

I will explain why this is so and what the remedy is.

This is the setup

• Consider a sales order (SO) with two items, one is a fixed price item the other is a T&M item.
• Now create a project from that SO and let the system create one task for the fixed price item and one task for the T&M item
• Assign accrual method "108 - Recognize using cost-to-cost project PoC" to the fixed price SO item
• Perform a time recording with respect to the project task that points to the fixed price SO item

Here is a concrete example:

If you now run the revenue recognition for the SO in question you will end up with this situation:

The time confirmation performed created deferred cost of 100 USD. These were recognized with the revenue recognition run as internal service expenses. At the same time revenues of 150 USD were posted. Why 150 USD? When you look at the system documentation you will find that for accrual method cost-to-cost project PoC the PoC in this case is determined as follows: PoC = Total actual cost for SO item 20 / total estimated project cost. Thus, 150 USD = 100 USD / 200 USD * 300 USD (net value of SO item 20) is the documented but maybe not expected result. You probably expect 300 USD since 100% of the planned work has been performed.

Reading through the documentation you will find that the authors anticipated this expectation and recommended to go for manual accrual methods and then manually adjust the PoC.

Now for the rationale behind this. You might have noticed that I only talked about fixed price SO items and not fixed price project tasks. There is a good reason for this: There is no such thing as a fixed price task in ByDesign! The project itself - the execution related part of your customer engagement - is agnostic of how expense recordings will be dealt with in Financials. The system defines a set of default rules how expenses recorded with respect to a project task are mapped to a sales order item. Thus, it looks like task CPSO39-2 is a fixed price task. But, you are free to introduce additional rules for different types of expenses and can even manually reassign recordings in the not yet invoiced time and expenses work center view to other sales order items. Once you have more complicated project structures - and by the way: the project structure does not necessarily have to follow the sales order structure - the situation gets worse and the mapping of planned cost to SO items is sort of unforeseeable.

But since I promised you a remedy, here it is:
Use accrual method "102 - cost-to-cost PoC" instead.

Then you will get the expected result: 1 h recorded, 100 % of planned work for task CPSO39-2 gives a PoC of 100% and thus a revenue that corresponds to the net value of SO item 20.

Admittedly, this approach requires you to maintain a price component in the sale order item for the cost estimate, but the benefit is that you get what you expect.

When you use the project-related accrual method this is something that comes for free since in this case the system always accesses the currently planned cost of the project. But as explained above, there is no easy way to map the project tasks to the SO items and thus to automatically fill the cost estimate in the SO item.

This is an important information for all ByD/C4C ISV partners with CSPA agreement.

The architectural change from existing SAP Store infrastructure to the Hybris world, changed the focus of the new SAP Store to a pure commercial marketplace where solutions shall be directly sold with supporting payment infrastructure and deployed in customer infrastructure in short time.

Therefore it was decided to offer the existing HANA App Center as information platform about existing partner extensions for other SAP solutions as well.

As the pre-conditions as well as the opportunities for ISV partners in using such marketplaces differ from the existing SAP Store, we had to modify a couple processes and the underlying partner agreement as well.

There will be a webinar on 28th of July where we will explain all ByD/C4C ISVs the possibilities of HANA App Center and new SAP Store, the related changes in processing / pre-conditions and where to take care about regarding existing solutions on actual SAP Store. Please mark this webinar in your calendar and register here:

SAP PartnerEdge

In this short blog, I would like to outline the Split Activate/Assemble/ Download feature available in SDK. This is a feature introduced to solve the common timeout issues encountered whenever assembling patches of large solutions.

Before explaining this, let me suggest you it’s always a good practice to perform a ‘Check’ at the solution level, prior to the assembly of any patch. This way, you could identify if there are any issues in the solution, which if not done here, otherwise would be identified only later during the assembly process.

Enable Background mode for Check-> Items and Runtime objects

Do a check on Items and Runtime objects.

Refresh the status to see if the check is completed. Once completed, go for ‘Display logs’ to ensure if the check has been successful.

If there are errors, rectify them first, before proceeding for the assembly of the solution.

Check for the successful message at the bottom left of the studio once the check is successful.

Until 1511, developers had a single option of ‘Assemble and Download’ in the Implementation Manager. This option had the timeout limitation whenever working with solution of huge size as this was purely a foreground job. As a result, partners couldn’t assemble a patch successfully and eventually ended up creating incidents to get the SAP support.

Starting 1511, SDK users overcome this timeout issue with the introduction of ‘Enable Assembly Split’. This will enable 3 different options in implementation manager viz; Activate, Assemble and Download.

Step 1: Activate

This triggers the activation of the solution, which is a background job and once completed an email is sent to the email address registered in solution properties. (Both Assemble and Download buttons are disabled until the Activation is completed).

Step 2: Assemble

This option is enabled once the activation is successful.

Once the solution is successfully assembled, an email is sent to the mail address maintained in the solution properties.

Step 3. Download

Perform the ‘Download’, once the solution is successfully assembled.

Thanks for your time to read through the blog. Hope it could help.

Best Regards,

Tiju

In this blog, we'd like to introduce you to one of the things that are new or have been changed in the August 2016 version of SAP Business ByDesign.

Of course you can find more information in the What's New in SAP Business ByDesign documentation, which is available online.

Today, we are going to talk about creation of sales quote for contract on contract renewal.

You can now define contract renewal rules to create either a contract or a sales quote for contract. If you are defining a rule to create sales quote for contract on renewal, you can also set conditions to enable the following actions:

• Advance creation of quote prior to the contract expiry
• Auto submission of quote to customer

You can create contract renewal rules in Maintain Renewal Rules under Renewal and Cancellation for Customer Contracts activity, in Business Configuration work center.

For more information on contract renewal rules, see Customer Contracts Quick Guide.

Are you familiar with the What's New video in SAP Business ByDesign? You can have a look at it here.

In this blog, we'd like to introduce you to one of the things that are new or have been changed in the August 2016 version of SAP Business ByDesign.

Of course you can find more information in the What's New in SAP Business ByDesign documentation, which is available online.

Today, we are going to talk about the action that allows copy of documents with reference of items. This action has been enabled only for partners, which can be consumed with the help of an add-in.

You can now copy an item to add more items of same type with in a document. You can also create a new document with reference of items belonging to another document of the same type. This will create a copy of the referenced document with items which are selected for copy. This action has been enabled for sales quote, sales order, service order and customer contract.

Are you familiar with the What's New video in SAP Business ByDesign? You can have a look at it here.

In this blog, we'd like to introduce you to one of the things that are new or have been changed in the August 2016 version of SAP Business ByDesign.

Of course you can find more information in the What's New in SAP Business ByDesign documentation, which is available online.

Today, we are going to talk about creating and executing a direct e-mail campaign.

You can now create and execute direct e-mail campaign to send personalized HTML e-mail in marketing campaign directly from the SAP Business ByDesign system while the campaign is executed. Each account or contact of the assigned target group will receive a personalized e-mail if he or she is allowed to be contacted and has a valid e-mail address.

You can create personalized HTML e-mail for the campaign using e-mail templates. E-mail templates are created outside Business ByDesign system with the help of a third-party software. The subject for the personalized e-mail is not a part of the e-mail template, you can enter the subject in Campaigns view for each e-mail template. To know more about how to create e-mail templates, see Create an E-mail Template.

There is a new business option to enable direct e-mail campaigns in the Business Configuration work center. To find this business option, go to the Business Configuration work center and choose the Implementation Projects view. Select your implementation project and click Edit Project Scope. In the Scoping step of the project, ensure that Campaign Management is selected within Marketing.

In the Questions step, expand the Marketing scoping element and select Campaign Management. Select Campaign Execution and answer the questions related to Direct Campaign Execution using E-mail.

After the feature is enabled in Business Configuration work center, you will find Direct E-mail in the Campaign Type drop down list and Execution Options while creating a new campaign in Campaigns view.

For more information on direct e-mail campaign, see Create and Execute Direct E-mail Campaign.

Are you familiar with the What's New video in SAP Business ByDesign? You can have a look at it here.

In this blog, we'd like to introduce you to one of the things that are new or have been changed in the August 2016 version of SAP Business ByDesign.

Of course you can find more information in the What's New in SAP Business ByDesign documentation, which is available online.

Today, we are going to talk about service orders in third party field service and repair scenario.

It is now possible for a service order to initiate a third party field service and repair process. When a service order for service or expense items with fulfillment set to external is released, it triggers creation of purchase request, which initiates third party field service and repair. This is applicable also for externally fulfilled service orders with location of service provision set to On-Site or Own Service Center. When the third party supplier confirms completion of service or repair, a goods and services receipt is posted for the corresponding purchase order. The posting of goods and services receipt now triggers creation of service confirmations.

There is a new business option available in Business Configuration work center to enable the creation of purchase request on release of a service order for services or expense items with external fulfillment. Enabling this option will also trigger creation of service confirmations from the goods and services receipt posted for the corresponding purchase order.

To find this business option, go to the Business Configuration work center and choose the Implementation Projects view. Select your implementation project and click Edit Project Scope. In the Scoping step of the project, ensure that Service and Repair is selected within Service.

In the Questions step, expand the Service scoping element and select Service and Repair. Select Service Order and answer the questions related to Third Party Field Service and Repair.

For more information on third party field service and repair process, see Third Party Field Service and Repair and Service Order Processing Quick Guide.

Are you familiar with the What's New video in SAP Business ByDesign? You can have a look at it here.

In this blog, we'd like to introduce you to one of the things that are new or have been changed in the August 2016 version of SAP Business ByDesign.

Of course, you can find more information in the What's New in SAP Business ByDesign documentation, which is available online.

Today, we are going to talk about creating customized invoice split rules.

You can now create invoice split rules with certain split parameters, in addition to the SAP delivered invoice split criteria, based on which the invoice requests will split into several invoices. The customized invoice split rules can be created from the Customer Invoice Split Rule activity in Business Configuration work center, as shown in the following snapshots.

You can create split rules using one or more of the following split parameters:

• Ship-To
• Sales Unit
• Sales Employee
• Employee Responsible

You can set only one of the split rules to active, which will be applied along with the standard SAP delivered split criteria on the selected invoice requests to generate invoice documents. The splitting of invoice requests occurs when at least one of the split parameters is not identical for all the invoice requests. The active split rule based on which the invoice split takes place is displayed in the New Invoice screen.

For more information, see Quick Guide for Invoice Requests and Customer Invoice Processing.

Are you familiar with the What's New video in SAP Business ByDesign? You can have a look at it here.

In this blog, we'd like to introduce you to one of the things that are new or have been changed in the August 2016 version of SAP Business ByDesign.

Of course you can find more information in the What's New in SAP Business ByDesign documentation, which is available online.

Today, we are going to talk about enabling and defining the approval process for manual customer invoice and credit memo documents.

You can now set up approval process for manual customer invoices and credit memos if the documents exceed a defined threshold. The reporting line manager of the user who releases these documents or a specified direct approver can approve these documents.

You can enable the approval for manual customer invoicing documents with a new business option available in Business Configuration work center, see the below screenshot.

The approval process can be defined in Approval Processes view under Application and User Management work center, where in you can define the threshold (absolute gross total) based on which the customer invoicing documents qualify for an approval and also set the approver. The following screenshots depict the steps to define the approval process.

When you release customer invoicing documents and if they meet the condition defined in approval process, then they are submitted for approval.

The person responsible for approving the invoicing document can review and approve the invoicing documents from Managing My Area work center, Approvals view.

For more information on approval process for manual customer invoicing documents, see Quick Guide for Invoice Requests.

Are you familiar with the What's New video in SAP BusinessByDesign? You can have a look at it here.

In this blog, we'd like to introduce you to one of the things that are new or have been changed in the August 2016 version of SAP Business ByDesign.

Of course you can find more information in the What's New in SAP Business ByDesign documentation, which is available online.

Today, we are going to talk about tax trace for sales order and customer invoice documents.

You can now activate tax trace for customer invoice and sales order documents, which will display trace of the tax decision tree which is used for tax calculation for items within the document. This feature helps you to understand the tax determination method used to calculate tax for items.

You can activate the tax trace in the Pricing tab of customer invoice document, by selecting Activate Tax Trace in Update Pricing menu button under Total Pricing. For sales order document, you can do the same in Pricing and Invoicing tab.

Activating tax trace in a customer invoice document:

Activating tax trace in a sales order document:

You can view the tax trace details by clicking Display link at item level in the Taxes tab under Details in Items tab of the document, only after you have saved the document.

Display tax trace link in Customer Invoice:

Display tax trace link in Sales Order:

Display link opens the application log showing details of the tax decision tree used for tax calculation, see the following snapshot.

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