Defining Teams and Responsibilities

Objective

After completing this lesson, you will be able to create teams and responsibilities for further use in the production process.

Teams and Responsibilities

Teams and Responsibilities functionality is a core feature of SAP S/4HANA, not limited to PEO specifics. Use the Manage Teams and Responsibilities app on the SAP Fiori launchpad to create, edit, and delete teams, and assign roles to team members. This app allows management of teams, responsibility definitions, and member roles within Responsibility Management. Team and member roles help identify responsible agents for business processes, workflows, tasks, or other scenarios outside workflows.

Screenshot showing the team members and the functions

SAP S/4HANA Manufacturing for production engineering and operations (PEO) uses the Responsibility Management framework for the following business processes and workflows:

  • Buyoffs: When creating buyoff cycle templates, you must specify the appropriate team and function information for each buyoff item. When adding a buyoff cycle template or individual buyoff items to operation activities in the routing, you are required to specify the appropriate team and function information.
  • Routing Workflow: When defining the workflow process, you need to specify the appropriate team that is to receive the tasks.

Summary

  • Create and manage teams using the Manage Teams and Responsibilities app.
  • Assign roles for business processes and workflows.
  • Specify teams and roles for buyoff cycles and workflows in PEO.

Create a New Team and Assign Team Members with Functions

Business Example

John is a consultant with the low-volume A&D Company focusing on the final assembly of complex products. The Company has production users grouped into teams according to the responsibilities that they handle when running production activities. John is tasked with explaining how this setup can be done in SAP S/4HANA PEO, as well as which applications and processes require team setup.