Exploring SAP Fiori Applications for Handover of Product Information to SAP Asset Intelligence Network

• Draft Enablement: Drafts are saved automatically in the background whenever you change information within a business entity (auto-save). This adds features like data-loss prevention, start-now continue-later, device-switch, locking mechanism, and collaborative editing.

• Requirement Assignments: Requirement Assignments: Requirement Assignments reusable user interface component is adopted to assign requirements to PLM objects and manage them using the SAP Enterprise Architecture Designer, cloud edition.

• Data Profiling: You can control the changes made to fields "Document Status" and "Document Desc" in the Customizing Define Document Types to appear on the user interface.

• Search Document: You can search for a document using filter criteria such as document number, document type, document version, document part, document description, user, marked for deletion, and status. You can also search using a fuzzy search in the criteria.

• Create Document: You can create a document that stores all the data required to process and manage a document (original application file). Information related to document data, originals, object links, descriptions, and general information (document number, type, part) can be entered.

• Create a New Version: You create a new document version if the following conditions apply: Some of the data of the existing, original document version must be changed. The processing status of the existing, original document version must be saved and processed further.

• Copying a Document: You create a new document by copying from a document if the following prerequisites apply:

  • The document that you want to use as a template for copying must already exist.

  • The document that you copy from must have the same document type as the one you want to create.

• Edit Document: You can edit an active document by opening the document from the List Report page in edit mode and making changes. Click any document number to view information such as document data, originals, object links, document versions, descriptions, and general information.

• Marked for Deletion: You can use the deletion indicator to control that documents are deleted after the next archiving run. You can mark a document for deletion only in edit mode.

• Display Document: You can view document details such as document data, originals, object links, document versions, descriptions, and general information by clicking on a document in the Worklist page.

• Download Originals: You can download one or more original application files by selecting the check box in the Worklist page.

• Classification: The classification system allows you to use characteristics to describe documents according to criteria that you define, and to group similar documents together in classes. Integration of the classification system provides the following document search options:

  • Comprehensive search functions provide a powerful tool for finding documents.

  • Find document via class on the initial screen.

  • You can define extra fields for the basic data screen.

  • You can assign keywords to a document.

• Object Links: You can link documents to a large number of SAP objects (for example, materials, customer) in order to document the objects in more detail for various business processes.

• You can create and search for a BOM, a versioned BOM, and an alternative BOM efficiently by making entries in the key fields. You can also customize the search criteria for the advanced search.

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  Note You can create a BOM with BOM Usage only as Engineering/Design(2).

• You can also search and maintain BOMs for configurable materials.

• While working on a BOM, you can take tentative decisions and save your changes as a draft.

• You can navigate to change instances using the change timeline.

• From the overview page, you can create change number and assign it to a material.

• Attachment Service reusable user interface component is adopted to attach documents or files to a material.

• Requirements Assignments reusable user interface component is adopted to assign requirements to PLM objects and manage them using the SAP Enterprise Architecture Designer, cloud edition.

• You can copy and hand over the engineering bills of material (EBOM) to the manufacturing bills of material (MBOM). This establishes links between EBOM and MBOM.

• For a configurable BOM, you can maintain object dependencies using the classic application.

• You can maintain relevant software material and software documents in a BOM.

• On BOM explosion, relevant software version is displayed.

• You can perform a compatibility check for software and hardware.

• You can hand over spare parts information to the SAP Asset Intelligence Network.

• You can delete a BOM header with a validity date using a date-effectivity change number.

You can extend the Maintain Bill of Material App app according to your business needs.

Key users can extend the app in the Custom Fields and Logic app using the following business contexts:

• Bill of Material

• Bill of Material Items

Key users can add fields to the following UI elements: