Leveraging SAP Build Process Automation to Automate Processes

You can build, adapt, improve, and innovate various business processes with minimal assistance from IT – for example:

• Automate manual, repetitive tasks, such as copy-pasting data into a spreadsheet.
• Digitize manual and semi-automated processes, such as capital expenditure approvals.
• Automate when there is a high volume of process steps, such as entering sales order data.
• Automatically aggregate data from multiple systems and purchase record updates.
• Extend and adapt the standard flows of your business applications (SAP or non-SAP, on-premise or in the cloud), for example, adding several levels of approvals for a sales order.
• Automate end-to-end cross-application workflows that span several systems (for example, your ERP and your human resources (HR) systems) in employee onboarding processes).

Consider that 99 out of the 100 largest companies worldwide are SAP customers. Customers across various industries, from healthcare to telecommunications, benefit from SAP Build Process Automation capabilities.

SAP Build Process Automation offers the following product capabilities:

• Visual building of workflows to automate tasks and simplify decisions.
• Leveraging unified workflow management with SAP Intelligent Robotic Process Automation.
• Jump-starting projects using pre-built content packages based on best practice use cases.
• Seamlessly integrating with other applications.
• Developing confidently without creating the risks of shadow-IT.

SAP Build Process Automation introduces a new citizen developer experience with powerful features such as the Process Builder and Forms Builder. Additionally, all advanced workflow management capabilities are available, including business rules, process visibility, process flexibility, and artificial intelligence (AI). Automations can be enhanced through embedded robotic process automation (RPA) features. There are also numerous reusable artifacts, such as bots and workflow components, that are ready to use. Citizen developers have access to a task center and a launchpad to efficiently manage their applications and automations. Finally, the integration between SAP Signavio and SAP Build Process Automation enables over 135 tailored process improvement recommendations to be automatically triggered and executed — ensuring continuous process monitoring and optimization.

Before an exercise takes place in the next part, we will take a closer look at SAP Build Process Automation and its basic structure.

Within the lobby in SAP Build Process Automation, you can create, manage, and deploy business processes and action projects encapsulating APIs as actions in your business scenarios. In the lobby, you can use the project list’s view of SAP Build Process Automation to review existing or create new projects. Refresh, reorder, filter by type or collaborators, and complete actions such as releasing, publishing, and sharing.

From the lobby, you can open any project and work with the capabilities, including the following:

• Connectors: Create Actions to communicate with external systems. Create Events to receive business events from external systems. Leverages Automation SDK providing different activities for an automation.
• Store: Offers pre-built, customizable process automation content, including ready-to-use templates and industry-specific packages, curated by SAP and partners, with regular updates.
• Monitoring: Collects and displays events coming from the deployed workflows or automation jobs and manages the related processes
• Control Tower: Includes various details, statuses, and error messages on tenants or agents
• My Inbox: Allows task processing on a desktop or mobile device, accessible via the Lobby for citizen developers or through the SAP Build Work Zone for process participants.

The SAP Build Process Automation helps you in various usage scenarios. With its many capabilities, it enables you to enhance business efficiency and agility with confidence. Offering low code process automation tools help business users simplify and build workflows.