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Exploring SAP Fiori Applications for Dangerous Goods in the Value Chain

Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

  • Identify SAP Fiori applications for dangerous goods in the value chain

SAP Fiori Apps for Dangerous Goods in the Value Chain

Associated SAP Fiori Applications

The following SAP Fiori apps are associated with the Dangerous Goods in the Value Chain (3G8) scope item:

  • Manage Sales Orders - Services (F0804)

  • Create Outbound Deliveries - From Sales Orders (F0869A)

  • Manage Sales Orders (F1873)

  • Pick Outbound Delivery (F0868)

  • Display Outbound Delivery (VL03N)

  • Sales Order Fulfillment - Analyze and Resolve Issues (F0029A)

  • Change Outbound Delivery (VL02)

Manage Sales Orders – Services (F0804)

You can use this app to search for sales orders and to edit them. The sales orders have been created for services within a customer project.

Key Features

The key features of the Manage Sales Orders - Services (F0804) app include:

  • Filtering for sales orders by entering a value in one or more of the following basic fields: Sales order, customer reference, customer, project, status, and document date.

  • Filtering for sales orders using the following additional criteria: Employee responsible, ship-to party, project manager, project accountant, project controller, project partner, sales organization, distribution channel, division, and billing block.

  • Creating your own filter variant.

  • Hiding the filter bar.

  • Searching using any search term.

  • Sorting the listed sales orders by sales order, customer, customer project, date, status, billing block, employee responsible, ship-to party, project manager, project accountant, project controller, and project partner.

  • Hiding or show columns in the list.

  • Selecting one or more sales orders and set or remove a billing block. When you set a billing block, you must provide a reason.

  • Displaying a sales order object page by choosing the Sales Order Number.

  • Resolving sales order issues by choosing the Sales Order Number.

  • Displaying the Sales Order by choosing a row in the list.

  • Navigating to the Customer Object page.

  • Navigating to the Customer Project Object page.

Create Outbound Deliveries from Sales Order (F0869A)

With this app, you can create outbound delivery runs from a list of sales orders. It also allows you to display logs with information related to your sales orders or deliveries. For example, if errors occur while you are creating deliveries, the system issues a message to the log. Similarly, if you successfully create a delivery, the system issues a message to the log.

This app is available for the shipping specialist role.

Key Features

The Create Outbound Deliveries from Sales Order (F0869A) app allows you to:

  • Search for sales orders due for delivery using basic filter options. You can also search using additional filter options.

  • Sort your table entries by ascending or descending order and then select the filter option you want to sort by.

  • Personalize your table columns.

  • Create outbound deliveries from sales orders.

  • Display a log that provides you with information about the delivery run that you have created.

  • Use the Save as Tile option to create a personalized tile on the launchpad. This tile displays a fixed snapshot of your current selection criteria. For example, if you filter by the date option Today, your personalized tile only displays the number of documents that are relevant for that specific day as the current date selection is stored as a fixed date.

    Hint

    When saving a tile, to easily identify the tile, include the specific date as the subtitle or description.

Manage Sales Orders (F1873)

With the Manage Sales Orders app, you can search for sales orders according to your filter criteria and display them in a list.

From the list, you can execute different actions, for example, you can reject all items of one or more sales orders. You can also navigate to related apps, for example, to display sales order details display the process flow.

Key Features

The following is a list of Manage Sales Orders (F1873) app key features:

  • Search for sales orders using a free text search.

  • Search for sales orders by entering a value in one or more of the filter fields.

  • Create a variant for the current filter selection and save it for later reference.

  • Filter the displayed sales orders by using additional criteria.

  • Hide the filter bar.

  • Sort sales orders.

  • Hide or show columns in the list.

  • Export the list of sales orders to a spreadsheet. This list is exported as displayed, the column settings and sorting are maintained.

  • Create a sales order.

  • Reject all items for up to 25 selected sales orders simultaneously. You must enter a reason for the rejection.

  • Set or remove a delivery block for up to 25 selected sales orders on header level simultaneously.

  • Set or remove a billing block for up to 25 selected sales orders on header level simultaneously.

  • Choose a row in the list to display or change sales order details.

  • Navigate to the Customer - 360° View app.

  • Navigate to the Sales Order Object page.

  • Navigate to the Customer Object page.

  • Navigate to the process flow, which provides you with a graphical overview of the chain of connected process steps and corresponding business documents (document flow). For example, you can see the status of a sales order, whether it is relevant for shipping, and if an invoice has been created.

Pick Outbound Delivery (F0868)

With this feature, you can assign serial numbers to each delivery item in an outbound delivery. You can do this while carrying out picking activities for goods managed on the inventory management level.

Assigning serial numbers to your delivery items allows you to track goods and, in turn, improves the accuracy of your stock control. For serial numbers related to equipment master data, you can use the serial numbers to track the lifecycle of individual pieces of equipment. This is especially useful in cases where you need to recall a specific piece of equipment.

Key Features

The following is a list of key features for the Pick Outbound Delivery (F0868) app:

  • Enable picking for an outbound delivery item that does not have warehouse management assigned to it and does not contain items with batches.

  • Assign serial numbers to delivery items in an outbound delivery.

  • Manage deviations during or after picking.

  • Delete a delivery.

  • Post a goods issue.

  • Reverse a goods issue.

  • Display output items.

Display Outbound Delivery (VL03N)

The Display Outbound Delivery (VL03N) app is a SAP GUI for HTML transaction. These classic transactions are available in the SAP Fiori theme to support a seamless user experience across the SAP Fiori launchpad.

This app is available for the shipping specialist role.

Sales Order Fulfillment – Analyze and Resolve Issues (F0029A)

The Sales Order Fulfillment - Analyze and Resolve Issues (F0029A) app allows you to analyze and resolve issues that impede sales orders from being fulfilled. You can use it to analyze sales orders in critical stages, collaborate with contacts, and efficiently address issues to ensure that sales orders in critical stages are fulfilled as quickly as possible.

The app highlights impediments, provides supporting information, and allows you to navigate to Track Sales Order Details to display further details and resolve the issues.

You can search for sales documents with issues according to specific criteria, such as, sales document, issue, and issue category, and display your results in charts or a table. From here, you can navigate to the Track Sales Order Details app for more details, where you can display all the relevant subsequent documents, and resolve these issues.

Key Features

This app replaces the Sales Order Fulfillment app, and uses an analytical list page application.

The functionality remains the same as the Sales Order Fulfillment app, but the presentation of the app has been refreshed and the personalization options have been enhanced. For example, you can view a combination of transactional and analytical data using chart and table visualization.

The app consists of two parts. The first part allows you to analyze issues in charts and a list, navigate to other apps for further information, and reject all items, remove all delivery blocks, and remove all billing blocks directly from the list of sales documents with issues. The second part enables you navigate to Track Sales Order Details to display further details and carry out actions to resolve these issues. Here, the sales order and its corresponding documents and issues are displayed in a tree, with the business details for each document. Depending on the issue type, you can display further information, for example, shipping, delivery, and customer details for an invoicing issue in delivery.

The app starts with a tile with the top 3 issue types. Examples of issues are missing documents, missing or unconfirmed information, and various types of blocks.

The app allows you to analyze and resolve the following issue types:

In Order:

  • Incomplete Data in Sales Orders

    You can display the type of incompletion, for example, general, delivery, and invoicing.

    In Track Sales Order Details, you can:
    • Display the incomplete items and their statuses.

    • Change incomplete data to resolve the issue.

  • Delivery Block in Sales Orders

    A delivery can be blocked for political reasons, or due to missing credit limit, or a delivery block on an item, You can contact an expert to clarify the delivery block reason.

    In Track Sales Order Details, you can:

    • Display header information and the blocked items.

    • Remove the delivery block on an item.
    • Reject sales order items.
  • Credit Block in Sales Orders

    A credit block can exist for a sales order, for example, if a credit check status or payment card status is not approved.

    In Track Sales Order Details, you can:

    • Re-check the credit for the blocked sales order.

    • Display the credit decision for the blocked sales order, such as, the customer's credit limit and credit exposure.

    • Display specific fields for information on the status reason, for example, credit check status, payment card status, financial document status, or export credit insurance status.
  • Billing Block in Sales Orders

    Sales orders can be blocked, for example, due to missing calculations or payment terms that have changed. You can contact an expert, for example, from financial accounting, to clarify the reason for the billing block.

    In Track Sales Order Details, you can:

    • Display header information and the blocked items.

    • Remove the billing block on header and/or item level.
    • Check and edit the payment terms on header/item level.
    • Reject a sales order or multiple sales order items.
  • Delivery Issue in Sales Orders

    Delivery issues prevent the delivery of ordered products. You can contact an expert, for example, from warehouse management, to find out why the delivery has not yet been created.

    In Track Sales Order Details, you can:
    • Display specific items in the sales order.
    • Create a delivery for selected items:

      You can check sales orders for which the confirmed delivery date is overdue or due soon, and create the delivery for items belonging to these sales orders.

  • Unconfirmed Quantities in Sales Orders In Track Sales Order Details, you can:
    • Check availability or monitor product availability for the unconfirmed items.

    • Check if the requested quantity is available in the plant and if it is, confirm it.

  • Trade Compliance Issue in Sales Orders

    Sales orders can be blocked due to trade compliance reasons.

    In Track Sales Order Details, you can:

    • Reject sales order items.

    • Display blocked actions:

      For example, the creation of an outbound delivery might be blocked due to trade compliance reasons.

In Delivery:

  • Shipping Block in Delivery

    The delivery of a sales order can be blocked, for example, due to missing export papers, or due to product marketability reasons. If, for example, export papers are missing, you can contact a warehouse clerk or purchaser at the customer site, for example, to clarify the shipping block reason.

    In Track Sales Order Details, you can:
    • Display delivery and shipping details.

    • Remove the shipping block.

  • Incomplete Data in Delivery

    You can display the type of incompletion, for example, general, delivery, and invoicing.

    In Track Sales Order Details, you can: Display the incomplete items and their statuses.

  • Credit Block in Delivery

    A credit block can exist for a delivery, for example, if a credit check status or payment card status is not approved.

    In Track Sales Order Details, you can:
    • Re-check the credit for the blocked delivery.

    • Display the credit decision for the blocked delivery, such as, the customer's credit limit and credit exposure.

    • Display specific fields for information on the status reason, for example, credit check status, payment card status, financial document status, or export credit insurance status.

  • Shipping Issue in Delivery: You can analyze deliveries with an incorrect or missing post goods issue status. The post goods issue status indicates that the goods in the delivery have been shipped. In Track Sales Order Details, you can:

    • Display shipping and delivery information for outbound deliveries that have not been shipped.

    • Trigger the shipping process by posting the goods issue once the problem has been identified.
  • Trade Compliance Issue in Delivery

    Deliveries can be blocked due to trade compliance reasons.

    In Track Sales Order Details, you can: Display blocked actions

    For example, the creation of an outbound delivery might be blocked due to trade compliance reasons.

In Invoice:

  • No Journal Entry Created In Track Sales Order Details, you can:

    • Review information for an invoice for which no journal entry has been created.

      For example, the invoice may not have been transferred to Accounting.

    • Create a journal entry to allow the invoicing process to continue to the next step.
  • Invoicing Issue in Delivery In Track Sales Order Details, you can:

    • Review delivery, invoice, and customer information linked to a delivery for which no invoice is created.

    • Create an invoice to allow the delivery process to continue to the next step.

In Supply:

  • Purchasing Issue in Supply

    You can check the purchase order status to see why an issue has occurred, for example, if the purchase order is not completely delivered or invoiced. You can contact an expert to clarify the details.

    In Track Sales Order Details, you can:

    • Display the status of overdue items, such as, items pending for goods receipt, and display purchasing information.

    • Display items with the delivery schedule and purchasing item details, and additional information, such as, delivery quantities, delivery, and invoice status.
    • Navigate to the purchase order.
  • Manufacturing Issue in Supply: You can check the manufacturing order status to see why an issue has occurred, for example, if the production end date or release date is overdue. You can contact an expert to clarify the details. In Track Sales Order Details, you can:

    Display manufacturing details, such as, production start and end dates, sales order, and customer details.

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