Basic Facts About Defining Project Processes:
- Implementation based on SAP Best Practice process content and Intelligent Enterprise scenarios.
- Process based scoping for Fit-to-Standard workshops.
- Creation of custom solution processes and variants.
- Use notes for customer specific documentation.
- Creation of requirements for processes.
- Detailed access to:
- BPMN process models.
- Test scripts.
Note
Solution Process: describes the way that a business process is or can be implemented in a solution.
Creation of custom solution processes and variants:
- Scope can be determined in overall landscapes.
- Scope can be composed individually (see next slide "Different variants possible").
Fit-to-Standard Workshops
Using SAP Best Practice process content and Intelligent Enterprise scenarios, as so-called standard processes, allow a more efficient approach to validating the fit of the customer requirements to the standard solution. Fit-to-standard workshops can be organized around functional areas of the solution to explore the functionality and to show how the solution can meet the business requirements.
The different entities can be handled as follows:
- Process Scope
- Implementation relevant standard content to support.
- Requirements
- Desired functional or non functional changes.
- Process Scope + Requirements = Project Scope
Details About the Definition of Process Scopes:
- Scope
Container to bundle solution processes.
- Different variants possible:
- Scopes for shared services on certain landscapes.
- Scopes to align the process in the same upgrade cycle.
- Scopes to bundle processes that serve the same functional purpose (for example, HR).
During scoping, you select the solution scenarios and add solution processes to the scope.
Solution processes can be combined into the same scope:
- To align processes in the same upgrade cycle, for example, heavily dependent tenants/systems that are upgraded as a whole.
- To bundle processes that serve the same functional purpose/business capabilities, for example, business capabilities HR, Finance, Sales, or plant Berlin, plant London, and so on.
- Scope
Before running the Fit-to-Standard workshops, the Business Process Expert can select the process scope from SAP Best Practice process content and Intelligent Enterprise scenarios. This selection is meant to support and accelerate fit-to-standard workshops in SAP Cloud ALM. Processes can be organized into multiple scopes.
- Design
The Fit-to-Standard workshops are used to validate the SAP standard with the customer concerning functionality, how the solution can meet the business requirements. Desired functional or non functional changes are captured in the requirements. For the validation of the SAP standard accelerators (Diagrams, Configuration guides, CIAS workflows, and so on) predelivered by SAP Best Practice process content and Intelligent Enterprise scenarios can be used.
- Cloud Integration Automation Service (CIAS)
See: Cloud integration Service
Cloud Integration Automation Service (CIAS) provides guided workflows with the following features:
- Standardized → all workflows for the configuration of different scenarios have the same look.
- Role Based Execution → tasks are assigned to the right person based on the role assignments.
- System Landscape Information → available as a dropdown list from known customer SAP systems.
- Partially Automated → some tasks are automated and therefore reduce the manual work that comes with the configuration.
- Integrated Parameter Management → data can be entered once and reused throughout the workflow.
- Traceability of Activity → information is stored on who did what steps during the integration setup.
- Realize
Once the project scope (=process scope + requirements) is determined, the realization, which is then orchestrated by SAP Cloud ALM, can start.
Document Management
Documents will be created and edited directly in SAP Cloud ALM with a rich text editor:
- It is also possible to add links to external documents.
- Under Additional Information, you can find the context information of the document. For example, the project it is created in.
You can select the document status from the following values:
- In Progress (Default Value): You are still working on the document.
- In Review: The document is ready, but not yet released.
- Released: The document is completed.
Documents can have relations to:
- Processes
- Requirements
- User Stories
- Test Cases
- Features
Document Repository
The Documents application lists all documentation in one central place:
- You can filter and group them by different criteria.
- The filtered list of documents can also be exported to a spreadsheet from here.
- You will also find the documents on the related elements.
