SAP Central Business Configuration – Introduction
The SAP Central Business Configuration enables you to scope, configure, and implement end-to-end business processes for your cloud solution from a central place.
The following image locates the SAP Central Business Configuration component within the SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition system landscape:
SAP Central Business Configuration – Initial User Account Setup and Roles
Before users can work with SAP Central Business Configuration, you, as Administrator, need to perform initial setup tasks to enable users for their daily work.
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For the initial administration user, the program manager role (SAP_CBC_CONSUMPTION_PROGRAM_LEAD) has been automatically assigned during setup. To grant this user access to the SAP Central Business Configuration system, complete the Running Jobs for User Provisioning step.
Business users are being created in the SAP Cloud Identity Services, which enables you to create, modify, and delete users and their attributes.
Here is a table of Roles and Authorizations provided by SAP Central Business Configuration
| Role Names | Role IDs / User Groups | Authorizations and Tasks |
|---|---|---|
| Program manager | SAP_CBC_CONSUMPTION_PROGRAM_LEAD | Performing tasks across all workspaces, without being assigned to the workspaces. There is no access restriction to specific workspaces. |
| Project manager | SAP_CBC_CONSUMPTION_PROJECT_LEAD | Performing tasks within assigned workspaces. |
| Key user | SAP_CBC_CONSUMPTION_KEY_USER | Performing tasks within assigned workspaces, except critical activities such as creating a workspace and changes via Edit. |
| Display user | SAP_CBC_CONSUMPTION_DISPLAY_USER | Read access to tasks within assigned workspaces. |
| Auditor | SAP_CBC_CONSUMPTION_AUDITOR | Read access to tasks, access the Change Logs view, and download change logs CSV across all workspaces. |
| Content processor | SAP_CBC_CONTENT_PROCESSOR | Read access to tasks and access to Download My Configuration within assigned workspaces. |
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SAP Central Business Configuration – Overview
As you know, SAP Central Business Configuration provides a consistent and easy-to-use solution for configuring, implementing, and maintaining SAP cloud workspaces. It gives prospects, customers, partners, and SAP experts with a simplified and consistent approach to scope, select, and specify their software solution configuration.
On the next slide, you find the complete Process Flow:
The first two lines display the different workspaces used during the configuration process. One workspace is designated for the starter systems during the evaluation phase, and the other is for the production landscape during the implementation phase.
The third line lists the different phases, such as Workspace Setup, Scope, Org Structure, or Configuration. Under each phase, you will find the configuration steps explained in the SAP Help Portal – SAP Central Business Configuration – End-User Information.
SAP Central Business Configuration - User Interface Elements
The user interface provides the following features:
- Intuitive on-screen guidance of your activities
- Customer-driven changes
- Scoping with increased flexibility and reduced processing time
- Guided and flexible setup of the organizational structure
- Embedded help for instant user assistance
The next screenshot shows the User Interface and its main features:
- Current Workspace
- On the top, the current workspace you are working with is displayed.
- Overview – Main Area
- In the main area (in our case, the Overview page is selected). In the Activities list, you will find an activity description and information about the status. To work on an activity, choose Open in the Action column.
- Navigation panel top area – Activities
- Allows you to quickly switch to the applications that you need to work with
- Navigation panel lower area – Settings
- Settings include workspace details and team setup, or add or change deployment targets using Switch Workspace.
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You can create multiple Evaluation and Implementation workspaces. However, the number of available deployment targets you can assign to your workspaces is limited.
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You can switch between different workspaces assigned to you based on your role.
- Navigation panel lower area – Deployment Target
- Available functions:
- The Deployment History gives you an overview of your previous deployments, the stagings, and the deployment and activation status.
- Go to Deployment Target: You can navigate to the Display Stagings app in SAP S/4HANA Cloud to view the deployment details.
- Shell bar
- At the top of the screen, you'll find the shell bar with various options, for example, in-app help, built-in support, notifications, and so on, to assist you while working with SAP Central Business Configuration.
- Open the in-app help by choosing the question mark icon in the shell bar to get context-specific help, such as on-screen descriptions, links to the documentation, tutorials, and what's new information
- Access the built-in support function from the shell bar for an embedded support experience. You can access recommended content and search for additional documentation. You can also report an issue directly to SAP.
You can choose the profile icon in the shell bar and select User Settings to do the following:
- View your user account details, where you can see the roles assigned to your user
- Change the appearance of your user interface (UI) by choosing from a variety of themes
- View the language setting
Further Information for SAP Central Business Configuration
For, more information please check the following resource:
- SAP Help Portal SAP - SAP Central Business Configuration page.
- SAP Central Business Configuration In-App Learning Center for different learning tutorials.