Defining Business Documents in ESM

Objective

After completing this lesson, you will be able to describe what business documents are and their purpose in ESM.

Business Documents in ESM

Business Documents offer a semantic representation of backend records, allowing for their creation, updating, or viewing. Table values can be either auto-populated through AI services or input manually.

These documents effectively capture data from various sources, including email messages, case subjects, descriptions, and attachments across multiple file types, as well as through manual entry. Generative AI, utilizing large language models, is employed to extract data from attachments and entities.

As an administrator, you can design business document schemas tailored to represent data patterns for various scenarios. Schemas define the data to be included in your business documents and dictate the desired formatting within your solution. Once business documents are activated for a specific case type, you'll find a Business Documents tab in the case detail view. Conditions can be applied to make certain fields in business documents required, read-only, or hidden.

The business document will be visible in a case as an additional tab, that must be added via adaptation.

The Business Documents interface in ESM is displayed. It shows an example with one document listed under the Business Documents section, with the source as Document Extraction and a status of Posted to Backend. The document number is 0425050519. There is a yellow box around the eye icon to display the business document.

The following image shows the ‘Document Extraction’ preview interface where you can see the extracted data such as invoice number and invoice date. On the right side, the extracted fields can be seen. At the top of the header fields and below the line items. The extracted data have been marked with squares on the document and displayed with different colors on the right to showcase the confidence score of the AI.

The Document extraction preview showing payment advice PDF with extracted data fields including currency code EUR, document number: 200087928, document date:04/02/2023, gross amount: 2500.0, and two line items with confidence level indicators in red, orange, and green.

Viewing a Payment Advice Business Document in ESM

The following video will demonstrate how to view a ‘Payment Advice’ business document and the extracted data in ESM.

Summary

In this lesson, you learned how to:

  • Define the purpose and use of business documents.

  • Identify how business documents are represented within SAP ESM.

  • Use the document extraction feature to efficiently capture data from attachments.

  • Utilize the information extraction feature to capture data from cases.