Setting up the SAP Fiori Launchpad for Asset Management

Objective

After completing this lesson, you will be able to set up the Fiori launchpad based on the available Fiori roles

Project Experience

Project Experience

Project Experience allows you to manage your configurations and ongoing operations for implementations centrally. It guides you step-by-step through the whole implementation process.

Overview of the project experience process flow.

Project Experience in 2 System Landscape and 3 System Landscape

 2 system Landscape (2SL)3 system Landscape (3SL)
Project PhasesYou have three Project Phases
  • Scope and Organizational Structure phase
  • Product specific Configuration Phase
  • Production System Settings phase
You only have two project phases:
  • Scope and Organizational Structure phase
  • Product-Specific Configuration phase
Project TypesYou work with two Projects
  • One Evaluation
  • One Implementation
You work with Four Projects
  • Two Evaluation
  • Two Implementation
Deployment TargetsIn the Deployment Targets app, you assign a deployment target to your project for each system (starter, quality, and production).In the Deployment Targets app, you assign a deployment target to your project for the following systems:
  • Starter system: You assign one starter customizing tenant and one starter development tenant.
  • Development system: You assign one customizing tenant and one development tenant
Systems TabThe Systems tab is displayed, where you need to carry out the following:
  • Request Systems, Quality System, Production system
  • Release Configuration settings into Production system
The Systems tab is not displayed since its related project activities are handled outside SAP Central Business Configuration.
Ongoing OperationsAfter completing the last milestone Confirm Production System Settings Are Completed, the project switches to ongoing operations mode.The project remains open in the Product-Specific Configuration phase. The project will not close or switch to ongoing operations.

What is Project Experience?

The Project Experience app is the main user interface of SAP Central Business Configuration and guides you through your evaluation and implementation projects, as well as ongoing operations. Every project is structured into phases,which contain specific activities that you need to carry out.

Project Experience gives you information about:

  • Project type
  • Phase
  • Milestones
  • Activities and their status

Project Experience enables you to:

  • Create a Project
  • Switch between projects
  • Add team members to your project
  • Maintain the status of project and configuration activities
  • Access all applications (for example, Define Scope, Deployment Targets,Set Up Organizational Structure, or Configuration Activities)

Project Experience: Prerequisites

  • You’ve requested the provisioning of your SAP Central Business Configuration and SAP S/4HANACloud tenants via SAP for Me
  • You’ve finished the user setup and access via the Identity Authentication Service (IAS) and Identity Provisioning Service (IPS)

Project Experience: Project Types

  • You typically start with an evaluation project to explore your business processes before you create a separate implementation project to tackle your actual implementation.
  • The evaluation project offers pre-configured content and demo data that you can use to test and evaluate business processes.
  • In the evaluation project, you prepare the settings that will be deployed to the starter system.

Evaluation Project

  • Limited scope selection with the Enterprise Management bundle preselected
  • Pre-configured and pre-confirmed organizational structure with the option to add further units

Implementation Project

  • Free scope selection from the available scope
  • Free setup of the organizational structure

Business Roles in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition for Asset Management

You use business roles to control the access to your applications.

The main roles related in SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition Asset Management and resource scheduling are:

  • Maintenance Supervisor (SAP_BR_MAINT_SUPERVISOR)
  • Maintenance Planner (SAP_BR_MAINTENANCE_PLANNER)
  • Maintenance Technician (SAP_BR_MAINTENANCE_TECHNICIAN)
  • Maintenance Planner - Resource Scheduling (SAP_BR_MAINTENANCE_PLANNER_RSH)
  • Employee - Maintenance Info (SAP_BR_EMPLOYEE_MAINTENANCE)

Maintenance Supervisor (SAP_BR_MAINT_SUPERVISOR)

Overview of the role of the maintenance supervisor.

Collects, reviews, and prioritizes all maintenance requests from different sources and ensures that they contain all the relevant information required so that the problems can be solved quickly.

Note

Please mind that, the terms Maintenance Supervisor and Maintenance Gatekeeper are used synonymously.

Maintenance Planner (SAP_BR_MAINTENANCE_PLANNER)

Overview of the role of the maintenance planner.

Carries out preliminary costing, work scheduling, material provisioning, resource planning, and if necessary, requests permits to ensure that maintenance activities can be performed most efficiently and safely.

  • Creates maintenance orders

  • Reports malfunctions

  • Maintains maintenance strategies

Maintenance Technician (SAP_BR_MAINTENANCE_TECHNICIAN)

Overview of the role of the maintenance technician.

Performs and confirms planned and unplanned maintenance work on machines, equipment, and facilities efficiently and safely.

  • Releases maintenance orders

  • Creates task lists for equipment

  • Repairs malfunctions

  • Creates maintenance plans

  • Schedules maintenance plans

  • Releases preventive maintenance orders

  • Prints job cards

  • Confirms maintenance orders

  • Review costs on maintenance orders

  • Completes maintenance orders technically

Maintenance Planner - Resource Scheduling (SAP_BR_MAINTENANCE_PLANNER_RSH)

Defines which maintenance orders must be completed in what time frame, assigns the required resources, and if necessary, collaborates with other teams, such as production and operations, to ensure that maintenance activities can be performed.

Employee - Maintenance Info (SAP_BR_EMPLOYEE_MAINTENANCE)

Overview of the role of the Employee.

Informs the maintenance department when a malfunction or exceptional situation occurs and describes the technical problem of the machine, piece of equipment, facility, or other asset.

Demo - How to assign Roles to a Business User

Other Roles

The other roles that are required to execute the maintenance business processes are:

  • Warehouse Clerk (SAP_BR_WAREHOUSE_CLERK)

    Executes daily warehouse operations, such as carrying out stock transfers, analyzing stock-out situations, and reverse material documents.

  • Purchaser (SAP_BR_PURCHASER)

    Ensures that demands of materials and services are fulfilled by creating and monitoring purchase orders.

  • Accounts Payable Accountant (SAP_BR_AP_ACCOUNTANT)

    Carries out the most important functions in accounts payable accounting with a special focus on creation and execution.

  • Inventory Manager (SAP_BR_INVENTORY_MANAGER)

    Manages inventory regarding quantity and value.

  • Project Manager Commercial Services (SAP_BR_PROJ_MANAGE_COMM)

    Manages execution of commercial projects ensuring scope, time, budget, and client satisfaction.

Identify Business Roles for a Scope Item

Steps

  1. Navigate to SAP Best Practices for SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition for Enterprise Management.

  2. Choose Solution Scenarios.

  3. In the List of Solution Scenarios, choose SAP Best Practices for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition.

  4. In the list Line of Business, choose Asset Management.

  5. Select a scope item.

  6. Choose Accelerators.

  7. Download the test script.

  8. Navigate to the Roles section of the test script.

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