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08.12.2017
S4/Hana Simplification List for PLM Nguyen Dao Tran, Senior Consultant SAP PLM
Stian Alexander Enger, Senior Consultant SAP PLM
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About Cognizant Oil & Gas
Cognizant (NASDAQ-100: CTSH) is one of the world's leading professional
services companies, transforming clients' business, operating and technology
models for the digital era. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant is ranked 205 on
the Fortune 500 and is consistently listed among the most admired companies in
the world.
Cognizant Oil & Gas (formerly Frontica Business Solutions) is the business unit
that provides consulting and outsourcing services to the Oil and Gas Industry in
more than 20 countries. Frontica Business Solutions was acquired by Cognizant
in November 2016.
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Background
With SAP/S4Hana some of the old functionality is removed in order to get a more tidy and structured architecture.
This presentation will focus on the most relevant issues identified in a study for a client.
Some of the new solutions have already been presented in previous SBN Webinars.
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Documentation
• SAP has released a “S/4 Hana Simplification List”. This is a document with more than 900 pages covering all industry solutions and functional areas.
• You can find the document here: http://help.sap.com/s4hana
• The last version of the Simplification List is for 1709.
• Note 2313884 contains an overview of all the elements in the Simplification list and their respective notes.
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Simplification Categories
From the simplification list:
The simplification items can be categorized based on their type of impact:
• Re-architecting for SAP HANA in-memory platform Used for functionality that is optimized to leverage the capabilities of the SAP HANA database, for example the new data model.
• Consolidation of existing functionalities Functionality that is unified in the core and optimized according to the principle of one, but from a business process and user perspective, the functionality basically remains the same.
• No functional equivalent Compared to the SAP Business Suite, there may be no functional equivalent available in the SAP S/4HANA On-premise edition delivery, because SAP S/4HANA is not a legal successor of an SAP Business Suite product. Alternative functionality with application innovation is in many cases already available in an SAP S/4HANA scope, or it is on the roadmap.
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Overview PLM Simplification List Component Description Required and Recommended Actions
Engineering Desktop
(EDesk)
With SAP S/4HANA, on-premise edition 1511 the EDesk functionality
within SAP Product Lifecycle Management (SAP PLM) application is not
available.
Customers can move to SAP
Engineering Control Center for SAP
S/4HANA.
DMS - STEP Support With SAP S/4HANA, on-premise edition 1511 the STEP support within
SAP Product Lifecycle Management (SAP PLM) is not available.
Check if there is any scenario which is
using STEP and use alternative
methods to exchange the data.
DMS Documents@WEB With SAP S/4HANA, on-premise edition 1511 Documents@web is not
available.
Check if Web Document is used
anywhere. Use PLM WUI or FIORI tiles
for CV transactions.
Variant Configuration - Object dependencies of type actions have been documented as
obsolete. Creation of object dependencies of type actions isn't possible
anymore (e.g. transaction CU01). Configuration models containing
actions are still supported and behave like before, but new actions can't
be created.
- It's not possible to maintain "Classification as Selection Condition" in
Material BOM items anymore (e.g. transactions CS01, CS02). If in
Material BOM items classes as selection condition are already
maintained, the BOM explosion will work as before. But it's not allowed to
use "Classification as Selection Condition" for BOM items, where it wasn't
used before.
- Transactions have been removed.
None
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Overview PLM Simplification List Component Description Required and Recommended Actions
Classification With SAP S/4HANA, on-premise edition 1511 transactions of the
Classification are renovated so that transactions may have changed
functionality or may be completely removed within SAP Product
Lifecycle Management (SAP PLM).
- User Defined Data Type (031) for characteristics has been removed.
- Rename Characteristic functionality has been disabled.
- Parameter Effectivity has been hidden.
- Due to security reasons batch import has been limited and batch
import is possible only from presentation server.
No special actions required. In case
hidden functionality is needed, it can be
reactivated by following the steps in
SAP Note 2213569.
IPPE-BOM Converter With SAP S/4HANA, on-premise edition 1511 the IPPE-BOM
Converter within SAP Product Lifecycle Management (SAP PLM) is not
available.
Customers using this functionality
should evaluate if Product Structure
Management and Product Structure
Synchronization fit their needs.
BOM, Routing, Production
Version
With SAP S/4HANA, on-premise edition 1511, the functional relation
between Bill of Material (BOM), Routing and Production Version has
changed.
An interactive migration report has been
provided to create new production
versions based on existing BOM data.
Run Report
CS_BOM_PRODVER_MIGRATION to
create Production Versions.
Release Management
Framework
With SAP S/4HANA, on-premise edition 1511 the current Release
Management Framework functionality within SAP Product Lifecycle
Management (SAP PLM) is not available anymore.
It is recommended for new customers to
have a look at the Engineering Record.
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Overview PLM Simplification List Component Description Required and Recommended Actions
SAP PLM Recipe
Development
With SAP S/4HANA, on-premise edition 1511 following functional
changes were done:
1) Maintenance a specification using the Fast Entry Screen is not
available. A successor is planned.
2) The compliance check functionality will the ABAP based
implementation and will not support and will not need the EH&S Expert
Server
Successor products planned
Engineering Change
Management ECR/ECO
With SAP S/4HANA the current the Engineering Change Record /
Engineering Change Order functionality within SAP Product Lifecycle
Management (SAP PLM) is not available anymore.
Existing and running Change Requests
and Change Orders should be finished
before system upgrade is facilitated as
working with these type of object will not
be possible in S/4HANA. Additional
settings will be required in the system
for the Customer to use the Engineering
Record.
Engineering Change
Management Change
Sequence Graph
With SAP S/4HANA the current Change Sequence Graph functionality
within SAP Product Lifecycle Management (SAP PLM) is not available
anymore.
None
Routing Component
Assignment
With SAP S/4HANA, on-premise edition 1511 the current Routing
Component Assignment (RCA) in Guided Structure Synchronization is
not available.
Switch Component Allocation Process
from RCA to VEMP or Routing UI.
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Overview PLM Simplification List Component Description Required and Recommended Actions
Enterprise Search in SAP
Product Lifecycle
Management
With SAP S/4HANA, on-premise edition 1511 the Enterprise Search
models are now replication free search models (using HANA DB tables
instead) within SAP Product Lifecycle Management (SAP PLM).
With the new solution the following searches are not available in SAP
S/4HANA:
- Document search with linked documents
- Document search with attached document content
- Synchronization BOM to BOM search with assigned MBOMs
- Synchronization PSM to BOM search with source PSM Structure
and target MBOMs
- MBOM, Recipe and PSM search with assigned classification data
- MBOM, Recipe and PSM search with assigned document data
- Specification and PSM search with status data
- Label search with recipe data origin
- Recipe search with formula item quantity
- Search for any object with IDs without leading zeroes
Customizing and Custom Code related
information: SAP Note: 2217234
Custom code needs to be adjusted to
reference to the new model names.
Engineering Workbench With SAP S/4HANA, on-premise edition 1511 the Engineering
Workbench is not the target architecture and will not receive any
further updates(Functionality available in SAP S/4HANA on-premise
edition 1511 delivery but not considered as future technology.
Functional equivalent is available).
Please use another transaction in WUI
in place of Engineering Workbench.
Collaborative Engineering With SAP S/4HANA, on-premise edition 1511 the Collaborative
Engineering is not available.
Evaluate Mobile Document as
alternative for collaboration.
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Overview PLM Simplification List Component Description Required and Recommended Actions
PLM Labeling Usage SAP PLM Recipe Development Labeling Usage hiding.
Engineering Record The PLM Web UI Engineering Record (ER) will be renovated.
Customers can still continue to use the existing functionalities of
Engineering Record (ER) within SAP S/4HANA, on-premise edition
1511. Moreover, the renovated Engineering Record (ER) will be
available in the future.
None
Integration to SAP Portfolio
and Project Management
SAP Portfolio and Project Management is integrated with ERP in
various ways. SAP plans to simplify and improve this integration in the
way to ease configuration and leverage HANA capabilities
(Functionality available in SAP S/4HANA on-premise edition 1511
delivery but not considered as future technology. Functional equivalent
is not available yet).
None
iPPE Time Analysis In SAP S/4HANA, the integration of time analysis tools into the iPPE
Workbench is not available.
If the integration of a time analysis tool
into the iPPE workbench was done via
transaction OPPE07, this integration
has to be done by customer own
implementation now.
Product Designer
Workbench
In SAP S/4HANA, the functions related to the Product Designer
Workbench, previously accessible via transaction PDN, have been
removed from SAP Product Lifecycle Management (SAP PLM).
Customers shall move to Product
Structure for SAP S/4HANA, on-
premise edition 1511.
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Overview PLM Simplification List Component Description Required and Recommended Actions
cDESK The CAD Integration in SAP PLM (cDesk) is not available in SAP
S/4HANA.
Customers can move to SAP
Engineering Control Center for SAP
S/4HANA.
cFolder With SAP S/4HANA, on-premise edition 1511 the current cFolder
interfaces is not available.
Customers have to establish data
exchange processes with partners using
other techniques like SAP Jam or SAP
Mobile Documents.
Access Control
Management (ACM)
The PLM specific Access Control Management will be deactivated in
the SAP S/4HANA shipment and is planned to be replaced by a
generic authorization concept for SAP S/4HANA. Access Control
related UI fields are removed from the PLM objects' Web screens.
Authorization restriction is not in place so these fields won't be
considered and system won't restrict authorizations.
Hiding the ACM for SAP S/4HANA means that no PLM object specific
authorization is in place by default. If customers would like to activate
it, they need to follow the steps described in SAP note: 2212593.
None
Assemblies In SAP S/4HANA, the functions related to Assemblies in product
structure management within SAP Product Lifecycle Management
(SAP PLM) are not available.
Customers moving from SAP Business
Suite to SAP S/4HANA, on-premise
edition 1511 can use the report
/PLMI/ER_ASM_DELECTION to
remove Product Assembly related
entries from the Engineering Record
and Object Navigator customizing.
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Overview PLM Simplification List Component Description Required and Recommended Actions
Recipe Management SAP PLM Recipe Management (RM) is not available in SAP S/4HANA.
This also affects PLM RM sub-functions such as Labelling, Trial
Management and Handover to Manufacturing.
Projects need to migrate their
processes from PLM Recipe
Management functional capabilities to
PLM Recipe Development functional
capabilities. Engineering Client Viewer
(ECL)
With SAP S/4HANA, on-premise edition 1511 the ECL-Viewer
Functionality within SAP Product Lifecycle Management (SAP PLM)
will no longer be available. Parts of the functionality and use cases can
be covered by SAP Visual Enterprise Viewer.
In case Visual Enterprise Viewer shall
be used, check the appropriate
customizing.
Easy Document
Management (Easy DMS)
With SAP S/4HANA, on-premise edition 1511 the Easy DMS
Functionality within SAP Product Lifecycle Management (SAP PLM)
will no longer be available. As an alternative, customers using easy
DMS may consider the PLM DMS integration into SAP Mobile
Documents.
Switch to DMS and Mobile Doc
integration which is more powerful.
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Variant Configuration
Some transactions are removed
New advanced configurator
New simulation environment using Fiori UX
New configuration engine
Advanced Variant Configuration in S/4HANA was
presented in SBN Webinar 17.11.2017
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Engineering Control Center
- SAP’s new platform for CAD integration
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Engineering Control Center
- Short introduction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwPn2FUvrxw&feature=youtu.be
- Long version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuATgNjKcZg&feature=youtu.be
- Identical ribbon menu for all CAD systems
- Data management in personal folders
- 3D Visual enterprise viewer integrated
- Simple navigation, drag and drop
- Import function for CAD structures
- Cost issue – considered a new product, not upgrade from CDESK.
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Mobile Documents (Now SAP Document Center)
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Mobile Documents (Now SAP Document Center)
• Easy access and easy sharing
• Simple interface to handle attachment
• Web solutions and Mobile Devices
• Work in offline mode and synchronized when online
• DMS in S/4HANA was presented in SBN Webinar 10.11.2017
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Engineering Record
• Engineering Record is a new and simplified way of handling engineering change process.
• Compared to traditional ECR/ECO process there are less screens and fields. It’s easier to make customer specific adjustments such as new fields.
• The Engineering Record will create a Change Master in the background, so all changes will still be tied to a Change Master, but the users will only work with the Engineering Record.
• The Engineering Record comes with a Process Route workflow.
• The Engineering Record is already available in the WEB UI.
• Supports side panel reports and dashboards.
• SAP documentation can be found here: https://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_06/helpdata/en/16/70c9004ced4a2ebf141387585a8819/frameset.htm
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Engineering Record - Example