SAP Best Practices

SAP Best Practices for Apparel and Footwear V1.603 for China

What’s New?

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Short Overview of What’s New

Overall Functional Highlights for Apparel and Footwear Industry

Preconfigured Scenarios for Apparel and Footwear Industry

New Tool for Installation: SAP Best Practices Solution Builder

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Overall Functional Highlights

Master data - Material grid with up to 3 dimensions freely definable- Automatic conversion of dimensions values depending on country - Freely definable requirements and stock categories: quality, country of origin…

Season/Collection/Theme

Full Seasonal processing across functional areas in SD:- Flexible Season, Collection, Theme definition with time ranges- Controls deliveries, delivery program

Allocation - High flexible allocation of stock and future receipts

Sales and Distribution

- Optimized customer order entry and usability- Available to promise on SKU level- Pre-order, rush-order, Third party order, MTO, EDI…- Pre-sizing- Full pricing flexibility

Materials Management

- Purchasing processes on SKU level including purchase orders, invoice verification and inventory management

- Purchase-to-order, subcontracting- Full pricing flexibility - Warehouse management on SKU level

Production Planning and Execution

- Material Requirement Planning, Make-to-order, Make-to-stock- Extended Production Order Processing- Combined Production Orders

Controlling Product cost controlling and valuation:- Costing on SKU level

The SAP Best Practices for Apparel and Footwear CN V1603 includes the following functionalities required in the apparel and footwear industry：

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Preconfigured Business Scenarios

Warehouse and Inventory Management 134 AFS: Stock Transfer with Delivery 624 Warehouse Management with Allocation RunForecast-to-Stock 630 Make-to-Stock for Apparel and Footwear Industry 631 Make-to-Order Production w/o Variant Configuration for Apparel and Footwear

Industry 632 Inter-company and Cross-plant Production 634 Production Subcontracting (External Processing) for Apparel and Footwear Industry 635 Combined Production Orders

Order-to-Cash 107 AFS: Sales Processing using Third Party (w. Shipping Notification) 115 AFS: Sales of Nonstock Item with Order Specific Procurement 611 Sales Order Processing with Allocation Run: Sale from Stock 612 Cross-Company Sales Order Processing with Allocation Run 613 Pre-Order Processing (Sales) 614 Rush Order Processing (Sales) 615 Sales Order Processing with Export Control 616 Order to Cash with Packing and Transport ManagementProcure-to-Pay 620 Finished Goods and Raw Materials Sourcing 621 Materials Subcontracting for Apparel and Footwear IndustryAccounting 645 Activate Document Splitting for Apparel and Footwear IndustryOther 154 AFS: Prereq. Process Steps

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New Tool for Installation SAP Best Practices Solution Builder

The SAP Best Practices Solution Builder

is the successor tool of the SAP Best Practices Installation Assistant

is technically fully compatible to previous SAP Best Practices Deliveries (regarding technical Implementation)

provides additional functionality for managing SAP Solutions and facilitating End-User Procedures

focuses on “Solutions” (SAP Best Practices Offerings)

supports a clearer separation of end-user and development related tasks

comprises extended functionality for development and deployment

supports graphical scoping (details see next slide)

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SAP Best Practices Solution Builder Graphical Scoping

Graphical Scoping based on templates Standard templates are delivered by SAP Best Practices (“Entry Level Scopes”) Solution can easily be enhanced with further templates Based on scoping, a new solution (customer solution) is defined

The scenarios of a solution are sized dynamically and ordered into a solution map-like view

The color of a scenario is determined by its assignment to an application area

The application areas are defined in the application area editor. Here, color, short text and long text and the sequence is defined

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Solution Builder

Manages Different Solutions (Solution Editor) Graphical Scoping Engine Org. Structure Composer/Personalization Application Area Editor + Assignment

Manages + monitors Implementation of a Solution (Scenario based), Access to Logs

Building Block Assignment, Maintenance of Information on Scenario Level/Scenario Edit view (e.g. Pricing Parameters)

Creation of Building Blocks Inserting different Task Types of

Implementation Activities Maintenance of Installation Data

Solution Builder

Implementation Assistant

Building Block Builder

Solution Builder:Components & Basic Functionality

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Solution Builder NavigationSwitching Between the Components

Solution Builder

Implementation Assistant

Building Block Builder

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Solution Builder: Edges of User SpectrumDefinition & Example

“End User with Sales focus“ “Development User“

… wants to

… doesn’t want to

… see the Scenarios … adapt the Solution using

easy and safe interfaces … implement a Solution easily

and rapidly

… dive into technical details … deal with the technical

structure of a Solution … have a grasp of any special

Implementation Technology (e.g. eCATTs, BC-Sets)

… wants to

… see the Scenarios

… review the technical Structure of Scenarios and Building Blocks

… develop own Building Blocks

… develop own Scenarios

… develop own Solutions combining parts e.g. delivered by SAP Best Practices with own development

…develop easy and efficiently

… use the Solution Builder as powerful deployment tool

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Solution Builder:Target Group specific Tool Navigation

“End User with Sales focus“ “Development User“

Solution Builder

Implementation View Scenario Edit View

Implementation Assistant

Building Block Builder

Solution View Scenario View