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08.12.2017

S4/Hana Simplification List for PLM Nguyen Dao Tran, Senior Consultant SAP PLM

Stian Alexander Enger, Senior Consultant SAP PLM

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About Cognizant Oil & Gas

Cognizant (NASDAQ-100: CTSH) is one of the world's leading professional

services companies, transforming clients' business, operating and technology

models for the digital era. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant is ranked 205 on

the Fortune 500 and is consistently listed among the most admired companies in

the world.

Cognizant Oil & Gas (formerly Frontica Business Solutions) is the business unit

that provides consulting and outsourcing services to the Oil and Gas Industry in

more than 20 countries. Frontica Business Solutions was acquired by Cognizant

in November 2016.

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Background

With SAP/S4Hana some of the old functionality is removed in order to get a more tidy and structured architecture.

This presentation will focus on the most relevant issues identified in a study for a client.

Some of the new solutions have already been presented in previous SBN Webinars.

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Documentation

• SAP has released a “S/4 Hana Simplification List”. This is a document with more than 900 pages covering all industry solutions and functional areas.

• You can find the document here: http://help.sap.com/s4hana

• The last version of the Simplification List is for 1709.

• Note 2313884 contains an overview of all the elements in the Simplification list and their respective notes.

http://help.sap.com/s4hana

http://help.sap.com/s4hana

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Simplification Categories

From the simplification list:

The simplification items can be categorized based on their type of impact:

• Re-architecting for SAP HANA in-memory platform Used for functionality that is optimized to leverage the capabilities of the SAP HANA database, for example the new data model.

• Consolidation of existing functionalities Functionality that is unified in the core and optimized according to the principle of one, but from a business process and user perspective, the functionality basically remains the same.

• No functional equivalent Compared to the SAP Business Suite, there may be no functional equivalent available in the SAP S/4HANA On-premise edition delivery, because SAP S/4HANA is not a legal successor of an SAP Business Suite product. Alternative functionality with application innovation is in many cases already available in an SAP S/4HANA scope, or it is on the roadmap.

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Overview PLM Simplification List Component Description Required and Recommended Actions

Engineering Desktop

(EDesk)

With SAP S/4HANA, on-premise edition 1511 the EDesk functionality

within SAP Product Lifecycle Management (SAP PLM) application is not

available.

Customers can move to SAP

Engineering Control Center for SAP

S/4HANA.

DMS - STEP Support With SAP S/4HANA, on-premise edition 1511 the STEP support within

SAP Product Lifecycle Management (SAP PLM) is not available.

Check if there is any scenario which is

using STEP and use alternative

methods to exchange the data.

DMS Documents@WEB With SAP S/4HANA, on-premise edition 1511 Documents@web is not

available.

Check if Web Document is used

anywhere. Use PLM WUI or FIORI tiles

for CV transactions.

Variant Configuration - Object dependencies of type actions have been documented as

obsolete. Creation of object dependencies of type actions isn't possible

anymore (e.g. transaction CU01). Configuration models containing

actions are still supported and behave like before, but new actions can't

be created.

- It's not possible to maintain "Classification as Selection Condition" in

Material BOM items anymore (e.g. transactions CS01, CS02). If in

Material BOM items classes as selection condition are already

maintained, the BOM explosion will work as before. But it's not allowed to

use "Classification as Selection Condition" for BOM items, where it wasn't

used before.

- Transactions have been removed.

None

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Classification With SAP S/4HANA, on-premise edition 1511 transactions of the

Classification are renovated so that transactions may have changed

functionality or may be completely removed within SAP Product

Lifecycle Management (SAP PLM).

- User Defined Data Type (031) for characteristics has been removed.

- Rename Characteristic functionality has been disabled.

- Parameter Effectivity has been hidden.

- Due to security reasons batch import has been limited and batch

import is possible only from presentation server.

No special actions required. In case

hidden functionality is needed, it can be

reactivated by following the steps in

SAP Note 2213569.

IPPE-BOM Converter With SAP S/4HANA, on-premise edition 1511 the IPPE-BOM

Converter within SAP Product Lifecycle Management (SAP PLM) is not

available.

Customers using this functionality

should evaluate if Product Structure

Management and Product Structure

Synchronization fit their needs.

BOM, Routing, Production

Version

With SAP S/4HANA, on-premise edition 1511, the functional relation

between Bill of Material (BOM), Routing and Production Version has

changed.

An interactive migration report has been

provided to create new production

versions based on existing BOM data.

Run Report

CS_BOM_PRODVER_MIGRATION to

create Production Versions.

Release Management

Framework

With SAP S/4HANA, on-premise edition 1511 the current Release

Management Framework functionality within SAP Product Lifecycle

Management (SAP PLM) is not available anymore.

It is recommended for new customers to

have a look at the Engineering Record.

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SAP PLM Recipe

Development

With SAP S/4HANA, on-premise edition 1511 following functional

changes were done:

1) Maintenance a specification using the Fast Entry Screen is not

available. A successor is planned.

2) The compliance check functionality will the ABAP based

implementation and will not support and will not need the EH&S Expert

Server

Successor products planned

Engineering Change

Management ECR/ECO

With SAP S/4HANA the current the Engineering Change Record /

Engineering Change Order functionality within SAP Product Lifecycle

Management (SAP PLM) is not available anymore.

Existing and running Change Requests

and Change Orders should be finished

before system upgrade is facilitated as

working with these type of object will not

be possible in S/4HANA. Additional

settings will be required in the system

for the Customer to use the Engineering

Record.

Engineering Change

Management Change

Sequence Graph

With SAP S/4HANA the current Change Sequence Graph functionality

within SAP Product Lifecycle Management (SAP PLM) is not available

anymore.

None

Routing Component

Assignment

With SAP S/4HANA, on-premise edition 1511 the current Routing

Component Assignment (RCA) in Guided Structure Synchronization is

not available.

Switch Component Allocation Process

from RCA to VEMP or Routing UI.

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Enterprise Search in SAP

Product Lifecycle

Management

With SAP S/4HANA, on-premise edition 1511 the Enterprise Search

models are now replication free search models (using HANA DB tables

instead) within SAP Product Lifecycle Management (SAP PLM).

With the new solution the following searches are not available in SAP

S/4HANA:

- Document search with linked documents

- Document search with attached document content

- Synchronization BOM to BOM search with assigned MBOMs

- Synchronization PSM to BOM search with source PSM Structure

and target MBOMs

- MBOM, Recipe and PSM search with assigned classification data

- MBOM, Recipe and PSM search with assigned document data

- Specification and PSM search with status data

- Label search with recipe data origin

- Recipe search with formula item quantity

- Search for any object with IDs without leading zeroes

Customizing and Custom Code related

information: SAP Note: 2217234

Custom code needs to be adjusted to

reference to the new model names.

Engineering Workbench With SAP S/4HANA, on-premise edition 1511 the Engineering

Workbench is not the target architecture and will not receive any

further updates(Functionality available in SAP S/4HANA on-premise

edition 1511 delivery but not considered as future technology.

Functional equivalent is available).

Please use another transaction in WUI

in place of Engineering Workbench.

Collaborative Engineering With SAP S/4HANA, on-premise edition 1511 the Collaborative

Engineering is not available.

Evaluate Mobile Document as

alternative for collaboration.

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PLM Labeling Usage SAP PLM Recipe Development Labeling Usage hiding.

Engineering Record The PLM Web UI Engineering Record (ER) will be renovated.

Customers can still continue to use the existing functionalities of

Engineering Record (ER) within SAP S/4HANA, on-premise edition

1511. Moreover, the renovated Engineering Record (ER) will be

available in the future.

None

Integration to SAP Portfolio

and Project Management

SAP Portfolio and Project Management is integrated with ERP in

various ways. SAP plans to simplify and improve this integration in the

way to ease configuration and leverage HANA capabilities

(Functionality available in SAP S/4HANA on-premise edition 1511

delivery but not considered as future technology. Functional equivalent

is not available yet).

None

iPPE Time Analysis In SAP S/4HANA, the integration of time analysis tools into the iPPE

Workbench is not available.

If the integration of a time analysis tool

into the iPPE workbench was done via

transaction OPPE07, this integration

has to be done by customer own

implementation now.

Product Designer

Workbench

In SAP S/4HANA, the functions related to the Product Designer

Workbench, previously accessible via transaction PDN, have been

removed from SAP Product Lifecycle Management (SAP PLM).

Customers shall move to Product

Structure for SAP S/4HANA, on-

premise edition 1511.



cDESK The CAD Integration in SAP PLM (cDesk) is not available in SAP

S/4HANA.

Customers can move to SAP

Engineering Control Center for SAP

S/4HANA.

cFolder With SAP S/4HANA, on-premise edition 1511 the current cFolder

interfaces is not available.

Customers have to establish data

exchange processes with partners using

other techniques like SAP Jam or SAP

Mobile Documents.

Access Control

Management (ACM)

The PLM specific Access Control Management will be deactivated in

the SAP S/4HANA shipment and is planned to be replaced by a

generic authorization concept for SAP S/4HANA. Access Control

related UI fields are removed from the PLM objects' Web screens.

Authorization restriction is not in place so these fields won't be

considered and system won't restrict authorizations.

Hiding the ACM for SAP S/4HANA means that no PLM object specific

authorization is in place by default. If customers would like to activate

it, they need to follow the steps described in SAP note: 2212593.

None

Assemblies In SAP S/4HANA, the functions related to Assemblies in product

structure management within SAP Product Lifecycle Management

(SAP PLM) are not available.

Customers moving from SAP Business

Suite to SAP S/4HANA, on-premise

edition 1511 can use the report

/PLMI/ER_ASM_DELECTION to

remove Product Assembly related

entries from the Engineering Record

and Object Navigator customizing.



Recipe Management SAP PLM Recipe Management (RM) is not available in SAP S/4HANA.

This also affects PLM RM sub-functions such as Labelling, Trial

Management and Handover to Manufacturing.

Projects need to migrate their

processes from PLM Recipe

Management functional capabilities to

PLM Recipe Development functional

capabilities. Engineering Client Viewer

(ECL)

With SAP S/4HANA, on-premise edition 1511 the ECL-Viewer

Functionality within SAP Product Lifecycle Management (SAP PLM)

will no longer be available. Parts of the functionality and use cases can

be covered by SAP Visual Enterprise Viewer.

In case Visual Enterprise Viewer shall

be used, check the appropriate

customizing.

Easy Document

Management (Easy DMS)

With SAP S/4HANA, on-premise edition 1511 the Easy DMS

Functionality within SAP Product Lifecycle Management (SAP PLM)

will no longer be available. As an alternative, customers using easy

DMS may consider the PLM DMS integration into SAP Mobile

Documents.

Switch to DMS and Mobile Doc

integration which is more powerful.


Variant Configuration

Some transactions are removed

New advanced configurator

New simulation environment using Fiori UX

New configuration engine

Advanced Variant Configuration in S/4HANA was

presented in SBN Webinar 17.11.2017

https://www.sap-sbn.no/no/aktivitet/1426/plm-webmeeting-advanced-variant-configuration-in-s-4hana%C2%AE-variant-configuration-roadmap




Engineering Control Center

- SAP’s new platform for CAD integration


Engineering Control Center

- Short introduction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwPn2FUvrxw&feature=youtu.be

- Long version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuATgNjKcZg&feature=youtu.be

- Identical ribbon menu for all CAD systems

- Data management in personal folders

- 3D Visual enterprise viewer integrated

- Simple navigation, drag and drop

- Import function for CAD structures

- Cost issue – considered a new product, not upgrade from CDESK.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwPn2FUvrxw&feature=youtu.be




Mobile Documents (Now SAP Document Center)


Mobile Documents (Now SAP Document Center)

• Easy access and easy sharing

• Simple interface to handle attachment

• Web solutions and Mobile Devices

• Work in offline mode and synchronized when online

• DMS in S/4HANA was presented in SBN Webinar 10.11.2017

https://www.sap-sbn.no/no/aktivitet/1425/plm-webmeeting-ecm-strategy-and-update-about-dms-in-s-4-hana




Engineering Record

• Engineering Record is a new and simplified way of handling engineering change process.

• Compared to traditional ECR/ECO process there are less screens and fields. It’s easier to make customer specific adjustments such as new fields.

• The Engineering Record will create a Change Master in the background, so all changes will still be tied to a Change Master, but the users will only work with the Engineering Record.

• The Engineering Record comes with a Process Route workflow.

• The Engineering Record is already available in the WEB UI.

• Supports side panel reports and dashboards.

• SAP documentation can be found here: https://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_06/helpdata/en/16/70c9004ced4a2ebf141387585a8819/frameset.htm

https://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_06/helpdata/en/16/70c9004ced4a2ebf141387585a8819/frameset.htm




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