Exploring SAP Fiori Applications for Requirements Driven Development

• 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.

• 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 a change number and assign it to a material.

• You can use the Attachment Service to attach documents or files to a material.

• 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 create a BOM with validity changes for objects based on the parameter effectivity types.

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:

• 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 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.

• Create product master data records.

• Copy product master data records.

• Display master data records.

• Edit or change product master data records.

• Mark product master data records for deletion.

You can extend the Manage Product Master Data app according to your business needs.

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

• Product Master General

• Product Master Dimensions

• Product Master Distribution Chains

• Product Master Plant

• Product Master Valuation

• Product Storage Location

They enable usage of their extension fields for the app in the UIs and Reports section of the extension field maintenance and publish their custom fields.

Key users can add fields to the following UI elements:

• Start a new simulation by manually entering the configurable product and its necessary input parameters (Plant, Configuration Date, Quantity, BOM Application).

• Search and list existing objects (configurable products, configured objects, saved simulations) and start a new simulation by clicking an item in the search results. You can narrow your search based on the following attributes:

  • Type (Product, Sales Order Item, Product Variant, Simulation, Quotation Item)

  • Product

  • Plant

  • Created By

  • Created On

  • Status

  • Show Favorites Only

  • Last Changed By

• Activate the trace of the configuration process before starting a new simulation by selecting Activate Trace. The trace messages are displayed during the simulation process.

• Display the Exploded BOM and Super BOM of your object.

• Configure your currently opened simulation using the characteristic value assignment screen.

• Edit the simulation parameters during simulation (Plant, Configuration Date, Quantity, BOM Application).

• Display the Properties and Object Dependencies (along with the dependency code) of a selected BOM item, characteristic, characteristic value or configuration profile in the Inspector view. You can also see the selectable and not selectable list of values in the case of characteristics.

• See the following additional features related to the routing structure:

  • Display the complete routing structure (standard sequence, parallel sequences, alternative sequences, operations).

  • Display the most important information about the routing sub-objects (standard sequence, parallel sequences, alternative sequences, operations, components).

  • Go into the alternative and parallel sequences and explore their operations.

  • Access the routing results in single-level and in multi-level cases as well.

  • See the effects of configuration changes in the routing, and how the routing changes given different simulation dates.

  • Display the list of object dependencies assigned to the different routing elements.

  • Display the list of components (configurable and non-configurable) assigned to an operation and the details of a selected component.

  • Check routings of non-configurable components.

  • Display the routing-relevant trace messages

  • Display the Super Routing of a component.