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What's New

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1 What's New in SAP Business ByDesign . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

2 What's New in SAP Business ByDesign . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92.1 What's New: Required Actions After Upgrade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92.2 What's New: User Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102.3 What's New: Personalization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112.4 What's New: Employee Self-Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112.5 What's New: Working with Incidents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132.6 What's New: Microsoft Office® Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142.7 What's New: Business Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152.8 What's New: Mobile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172.9 What's New: Terminology Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

3 What's New in Financial Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193.1 What's New in Financial Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193.2 What's New: Financial Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203.3 What's New: Revenue Recognition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213.4 What's New in General Ledger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223.5 What's New: Fixed Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243.6 What's New: Inventory Valuation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253.7 What's New: Cost and Revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273.8 What's New: Payables and Receivables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283.9 What's New: Payment Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283.10 What's New: Liquidity Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303.11 What's New: Tax Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313.12 View-Related Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

What's New in the Company Tax Arrangements View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33What's New in the Cost Centers View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33What's New in the Customers View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34What's New in the Expense Reports View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34What's New in the File Management View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35What's New in the Journal Entries View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35What's New in the Journal Entry Vouchers View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36What's New in the Manual Tax Entries View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36What's New in the Master Data View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36What's New in the Material Unit Costs View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37What's New in the Materials View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37What's New in the Payment Allocation View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38What's New in the Payment Monitor View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

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What's New in the Petty Cash View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39What's New in the Planning View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39What's New in the Projects View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40What's New in the Resource Cost Rates View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41What's New in the Resources View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41What's New in the Sales Document Items View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41What's New in the Tax Payments View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42What's New in the WIP Clearing View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42What's New in the Work View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43What's New in the VAT/Sales Items Reports View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43What's New in the Withholding Tax Items Reports View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

4 What's New in Customer Relationship Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454.1 What's New in Customer Relationship Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454.2 What's New in Customer Contracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474.3 What's New: Customer Invoicing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474.4 What's New in the Invoice Requests View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484.5 What's New in the Invoice Documents View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504.6 What's New in the Invoice Runs View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524.7 What's New in the Recurring Invoice Templates View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524.8 What's New in the Campaigns View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534.9 What's New in the Leads View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 544.10 What's New in the Reports View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 544.11 What's New in the Response Options View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 554.12 What's New in the Target Groups View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 554.13 What's New in the Leads View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 564.14 What's New in the Sales Quotes View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 564.15 What's New in the Sales Orders View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 574.16 What's New in the Returns View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604.17 What's New in the Contracts View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604.18 What's New in the Account Hierarchies View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 614.19 What's New in the Order Pipeline View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 624.20 What's New in the Registered Products View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 624.21 What's New in the Service Order Processing View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 634.22 What's New in the Service Requests View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 644.23 What's New: Golden Tax — China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 644.24 What's New: Invoice Processing – Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 654.25 What's New: ISR Processing – Switzerland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 664.26 What's New: Tax Determination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 674.27 What's New: Pricing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

5 What's New in Human Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 695.1 What's New in Human Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 695.2 What's New in the Personnel Administration Regular Tasks View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 705.3 What's New in the Resource Search View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

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5.4 What's New in the Employees View (in Time Administration) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 725.5 What's New in the Time Recording View (in Time Administration) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 735.6 What's New in the Time Models View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 745.7 What's New in the Personnel Administration Employees View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 755.8 What's New: Time Administration Analytics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 765.9 What's New: Employee Self-Service Time Sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

6 What's New in Supply Chain Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 786.1 What's New in Supply Chain Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 786.2 What's New: Third-Party Logistics Work Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 826.3 What's New in the Purchase Orders View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 836.4 What's New in the Customer Demand View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 836.5 What's New in the Delivery Due List View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 856.6 What's New in the Confirmation Update Runs View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 856.7 What's New: Complete Delivery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 866.8 What's New in the Monitor Purchase Requests View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 876.9 What's New in the Monitor Purchase Orders View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

7 What's New in Project Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 897.1 What's New in Project Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 897.2 What's New: Project Invoicing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907.3 What's New in the Not Invoiced Time and Expenses View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 927.4 WHAT'S NEW IN THE PROJECT WORK VIEW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 927.5 What's New in the Projects View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 937.6 WHAT'S NEW IN THE SNAPSHOT RUNS VIEW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 957.7 What's New in the Time Recordings View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

8 What's New in Supplier Relationship Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 978.1 What's New in Supplier Relationship Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 978.2 What's New: Invoice Processing – Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 978.3 What's New in the Purchase Orders to Be Delivered View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 988.4 What's New in the Purchase Orders View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 998.5 What's New in the Work View (of Supplier Invoicing) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1008.6 What's New in the Invoice Entry View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

9 What's New in General Business Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1029.1 What's New: Business Partner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1029.1 What Is New . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1029.2 What's New: Address Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1059.3 What's New: Product Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1059.4 What's New in the Org Structures View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

10 What's New in Compliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10810.1 What's New in Compliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

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10.2 What's New: Invoice Processing – Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

11 What's New in Key User Administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11011.1 What's New: Data Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11011.2 What's New: Business Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11111.3 What's New: Application and User Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11211.4 What's New: Incidents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11411.5 What's New: Analytics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

12 Look Up Known Issues and Limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118


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1 What's New in SAP Business ByDesign

This document provides information about what's new in SAP Business ByDesign Feature Pack 3.5.

What Is NewThe following new topics affect the entire solution and are not specific to a work center or area:

● It is now possible to perform intercompany project time and expenses processes, which allow partnercompanies that belong to the same corporate group and that are technically working in the same SAPBusiness ByDesign system to efficiently work together on projects. For more information, see IntercompanyProject Time and Expenses.

What Has ChangedThe following changed topics affect the entire solution and are not specific to a work center or area:

● What's New: User Interfaces [page 10] ● What's New: Personalization [page 11] ● What's New: Employee Self-Service [page 11] ● What's New: Working with Incidents [page 13] ● What's New: Microsoft Office Integration [page 14] ● What's New: Analytics [page 116] ● What's New: Business Configuration [page 111] ● What's New: Data Migration [page 110] ● What's New: Business Scenarios [page 15] ● What's New: Mobile [page 17] ● What's New: Terminology Changes [page 17] ● What's New: Required Actions After Upgrade [page 9] ● Logon Screen

The logon screen now has a different look and feel. ● Document Flow

You can now view a document flow as a simple chart. A document flow exceeding 50 links between documents,defaults to a simple chart automatically. You can toggle between simple and detailed charts by clicking

Show Detail or Hide Detail .

For information about what's new in a specific area, see: ● What's New in Financial Management [page 19] ● What's New in Customer Relationship Management [page 45] ● What's New in Human Resources [page 69] ● What's New in Supply Chain Management [page 78] ● What's New in Project Management [page 89] ● What's New in Supplier Relationship Management [page 97] ● What's New in General Business Data

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○ What's New: Business Partner [page 102]What's New: Business Partner [page 102] ○ What's New: Address Management [page 105] ○ What's New: Product Data [page 105] ○ What's New in the Org Structures View [page 106]

● What's New in the Customers View ● What's New in the User Subscriptions View ● What's New in the File Input View ● What's New: Application and User Management [page 112]


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2 What's New in SAP Business ByDesign

2.1 What's New: Required Actions After Upgrade

This document provides information about what's new in SAP Business ByDesign Feature Pack 3.5.

Required ActionsYou must perform the following actions after upgrading to Feature Pack 3.5:

● Approval Process for Shopping Carts, Purchase Orders, and Supplier InvoicesAs of FP 3.5, it is possible to assign more than one approval step to a shopping cart, purchase order, or supplierinvoice. These steps can be configured now in the Application and User Management work center.In order to display and change the approval processes, the Approval Processes view in the Application andUser Management work center must be assigned to an employee responsible.

● Asset Procurement in PurchasingAs of FP 3.5, it is possible to create new individual materials directly in the purchase order and assign themto a fixed asset in Financial Management. Since individual materials are now created explicitly by the user inthe purchase order or the goods and services receipt, there is no implicit creation of individual materials inFinancial Management anymore. If individual materials have been created in the purchase order or the goodsand services receipt, fixed assets may be created in Financial Management based on the product categoryof the item and the relevant settings in Financial Management for the automatic creation of fixed assets.As a consequence, if the user has not created individual materials, there will be no creation of fixed assets inFinancial Management.

● ELSTER Tax Processing (Germany only)For each German employee subject to ELSTER tax processing, tax and social insurance changes are delivered.If you have not already done so, you must perform the following tasks to ensure payroll processing is correctfor these employees: ○ Social Insurance Data: Beginning with 01.12.2011, you must maintain a new DEUEV key. Six new DEUEV

fields are introduced. ○ Tax Data: From January 2012, you are required to maintain a Tax Identification Number and select the

Main Employment checkbox if this job is the employee’s main employment.For more information see What's New in the Personnel Administration Employees View [page 75].

● Mobile Execution for Rugged Devices (Intermec® and Motorola®)If using the Mobile Execution app for the execution of warehouse tasks, you must download and install thenew version of the app from the SAP Business ByDesign system. For installation instructions, see SAPBusiness ByDesign Mobile Execution. Be sure to download and install the version that is appropriate for yourmobile device (Intermec® or Motorola®).

When upgrading from a previous version of the Mobile Execution app, uninstall the previous versionbefore installing the new one.


2.2 What's New: User Interfaces

This document provides information about what's new in user interfaces in SAP Business ByDesign Feature Pack3.5.

What Is New?The following functions are new:

● Work Center View and Common Task MenuYou can now use the work center view and common task menu in the navigation area to start a common task.The work center view and common task menu lists all work center views and common tasks that belong to awork center.

● ShortcutsYou can now save work center views and common tasks that you use the most as shortcuts in the taskbar.This helps you to quickly access them from any screen in your SAP Business ByDesign solution. For moreinformation, see here.

● Tags, Flags, and FavoritesTags, flags, and favorites are now available in some business documents in SAP Business ByDesign to allowyou to organize your information. For more information, see the Tags, Flags, and Favorites sections here.

What Has Changed?The following functions have been changed:

● The Signature ThemeThe Signature theme is no longer supported in SAP Business ByDesign Feature Pack 3.5. You should use theGold Reflection theme instead.For more information about the Gold Reflection theme, see here.

● The High Contrast ThemeThe High Contrast theme is now available. It is automatically switched on in the SAP Business ByDesignsolution if the user switches on the high contrast theme for the operating system. Windows and Mac systemsare supported.

● Keyboard NavigationIf you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer, you can now use the following hot keys in the SAP BusinessByDesign solution:

Hot Keys Tasks

CTRL+ALT+W Save your data and close the screen.

CTRL+ALT+S Save your data.

CTRL+ALT+R Refresh the worklist.

CTRL+ALT+G Open basic or advanced find in the worklist.

CTRL+ALT+H Open filter in the worklist.

CTRL+ALT++ Expand a group in the hierarchy list.



CTRL+ALT+- Collapse a group in the hierarchy list.

2.3 What's New: Personalization

This document provides information about what's new in personalization in SAP Business ByDesign Feature Pack3.5.

What Is New?The following function is new:

● Rename Fields in the Identification RegionYou can now rename a field displayed in the identification region at the top of your business documents.However, you cannot make a hidden field visible in the identification region.

● Remove Certificate AssignmentsYou can now remove the assignment of user certificates.


● Add Common Tasks to the Home Work CenterYou can no longer add common tasks to the Home work center. However, you can now save work center viewsand common tasks that you use the most as shortcuts in the taskbar. For more information about usingshortcuts, see here.

● Reset the Personalized Order of the Work CentersIf you want to reset the order of the work centers in the navigation area, click Discard in any work centerview in the Home work center.

● Switch Between ThemesThe Signature theme is no longer supported in SAP Business ByDesign Feature Pack 3.5. You cannot switchbetween the Signature theme and the Gold Reflection theme.

● Select System LanguageThe available system languages are now based on the languages selected during the Scoping phase.

See AlsoPersonalization Quick Guide

2.4 What's New: Employee Self-Service

This document provides information about employee self-service in the Home work center of SAP Business ByDesignFeature Pack 3.5.Note that the services that you receive in the Home work center vary depending on the scope of your SAP BusinessByDesign solution.


What Is New?The following function is new:

● SAP ideasByDesign CommunityYou can now submit new ideas for the SAP Business ByDesign solution in the SAP ideasByDesign Community.You can also review and vote for other people’s ideas. For more information about the SAP ideasByDesignCommunity, see here.


● Check My Computer SettingsThe layout of Check My Computer Settings has been changed. For information on checking your computersettings, see here.

● Access Glossary Definitions in the Help CenterYou no longer have to minimize the content player to search for terms in the Help Center. Now you can accessthe glossary directly in the content player by clicking Glossary.

● Edit Time SheetThe employee's worklist in the ESS Time Sheet has several enhancements that facilitate time recording,including the capability to record time for work done on intercompany projects and the new Manage MyWorklist function. For more information, see here [page 76].

● Track Learning ProgressYou can now track the learning progress of a user.The learning center now contains one Introduction to SAP Business ByDesign learning module that explainsthe concepts behind SAP Business ByDesign and what the solution offers for the users.In addition, there is one learning module available for each user role that contains two-to-three systemsimulations that show important tasks relevant for this role, an exercise, and a quiz to check whether thecontent was understood.Furthermore, a context-sensitive link to the documentation is offered and it is possible to jump directly to theself-enablement systems to do further tests before working in a productive system.

Country-Specific ChangesThe following functions are new for specific countries:

● View Time Statement — GermanyFor Germany, there is a new View Time Statement function available. With it you can display, review, and printa time statement containing details of your recorded times for a selected month, the balances of certain timeaccounts, and where relevant, daily postings to your working time account. For more information, see here.

Changes in Business Configuration

Configuration settings are normally performed by a key user. If you do not have the required authorization,contact your key user.

The following changes in the Business Configuration work center are relevant for this area or topic. You can performbusiness configuration settings in the Business Configuration Implementation Projects view.



The Employee Self-Service business area has been removed from the business adaptation catalog. As a result, thefollowing items have been deleted:

● Business Packages: Employee Self-Service and Management Self-Services ● Business Topics: General Employee Self-Services, Expenses, Procurement, Support, and Employee Services

on Behalf

You can now find the business options of the employee self-service directly in the relevant business areas. Forexample, you can find the Employee Self-Services for Personal Data business option under the Human RecourseManagement business area.The business options Employee Self-Service Leave Request - on Behalf and Employee Self-Service Time Sheet - onBehalf are now selected by default. You can also deselect them.

See AlsoSelf-Services Overview

2.5 What's New: Working with Incidents

This document provides information about what’s new for working with incidents in SAP Business ByDesign FeaturePack 3.5.

What Is NewThe following functions are new:

● Screenshot tool – report an incidentWhen you report an incident, the system takes a screenshot of the screen from which you reported theincident. In previous releases, this screenshot was not visible to you as the requester of the incident. TheEnter Incident Information step of the Solve Problem or Report Incident screen now includes an AnnotateScreenshot section in which you can view and annotate the screenshot. This enables you to better explainyour problem, making it easier for the processor to understand.Note that the system does not take a screenshot in the following cases: ○ You deselected the Screenshot Relevant checkbox in the Enter Incident Information step when reporting

the incident. ○ You reported the incident from the Home work center, Self-Services Overview view. ○ You reported the incident on behalf of an employee from the Managing My Area work center, Call

Employee Services on Behalf common task. ○ You reported the incident from the Add-In for Microsoft Excel. ○ The system could not take a screenshot for technical reasons.

The function for adding attachments to the incident has been moved to a separate Add Attachments step. ● Screenshot tool – incident overview screen

A new Screenshot tab has been added to the incident overview screen that shows the screenshot taken bythe system of the screen from which you reported the incident. If you annotated the screenshot when youreported the incident, your annotations are also displayed. This ensures that you can view all of the informationthat belongs to the incident for reference purposes.


What Has ChangedThe following functions have been changed:

● Solution search repository types renamedTwo of the three repositories on which the search function in the Search for Solution step of the Solve Problemor Report Incident screen is based have been renamed as follows to ensure consistent terminology throughoutSAP’s products.

Old Repository Name New Repository Name

Business Center Forum Community Resources

Case Library Troubleshooting

● Solution search no longer language-specificThe solution search function now returns results from the Troubleshooting repository in all languages in whichresults are available and not just in your logon language. This means that if documents relevant to yourproblem are not available in your logon language, you can instead view them in the language or languages inwhich they are available, thus increasing the chance of finding a solution to your problem.

● Text types for incident processingThe text types for incident processing have been revised as follows to ensure consistency and clarity:

Old Text Type New Text Type

Remark for external Provider Note for Provider

Remark from external Provider Note from Provider

Reply to Requester Note for Requester

Reply from Requester Note from Requester

Remark for all processors Note for All Parties Involved

● Terminology changeIn the context of incident management, all instances of the term service provider and external serviceprovider have been replaced with the term provider to achieve consistency and ensure clear terminology.

See AlsoSolve a Problem or Report an IncidentWorking with Incidents

2.6 What's New: Microsoft Office® Integration

This document provides information about what's new in the area of Microsoft Office Integration in SAP BusinessByDesign Feature Pack 3.5.


● Personalization



The ordering and visibility of the columns in the exported excel now match the list on the user interface. If theworklist on the user interface has been personalized using Personalize → This Screen, the personalizationsettings that have been made are also reflected in the Microsoft Excel that is downloaded. For example, if youhave moved or deleted columns, they will appear in the same order in the excel.

● Logon Using Proxy Settings is now Supported for Microsoft Outlook and for Microsoft ExcelIt is now possible to log on using proxy settings for Microsoft Outlook and for Microsoft Excel. This has alsobeen implemented retroactively in Feature Pack 3.0 for Microsoft Outlook and in Feature Packs 3.0 and 2.6for Microsoft Excel.

● Enhancement of Microsoft Excel ExportsThe user interface has been enhanced with a text on handling download failures during the export of MicrosoftExcels.

● Formatted Address fieldsFormatted address fields are now supported in Microsoft Outlook Integration.

2.7 What's New: Business Scenarios

This document provides information about what's new in business scenarios in SAP Business ByDesign FeaturePack 3.5.

What Is NewAll business scenarios are now updated according to the new SAP brand strategy.The following business scenario is new:

● Intercompany Project Time and ExpensesThe Intercompany Project Time and Expenses business scenario allows partner companies that belong tothe same corporate group and that are technically working in the same SAP Business ByDesign system toefficiently work together on projects.For more information, see Intercompany Project Time and Expenses.

What Has ChangedThe following business scenarios have been changed:

● Cash and Liquidity ManagementIn the Processing Receivables and Payments business process, it is now also possible to upload credit cardstatements to pre-confirm payments.For more information, see Cash and Liquidity Management.

● Customer Contract ManagementIt is now possible to create customer contracts using customer contract templates.For more information, see Customer Contract Management.

● Customer Return ManagementThe Processing Inbound Delivery business process has a new process variant: Processing Inbound Deliveriesfor Externally-Managed Locations.For more information, see Customer Return Management.

● Fixed Asset ManagementThe preceding procurement processes have been added.For more information, see Fixed Asset Management.


● Intracompany Stock Transfer ○ The Processing Inbound Delivery business process has a new process variant: Processing Inbound

Deliveries for Externally-Managed Locations. ○ The Processing Outbound Delivery business process has a new process variant: Processing Outbound

Deliveries for Externally-Managed Locations.

For more information, see Intracompany Stock Transfer. ● Marketing-to-Opportunity

In the Capture campaign responses process step of the Creating and Executing Campaign business process,marketing employees can now also capture campaign responses by assigning a lead, an opportunity, a salesquote, or a sales order to a campaign.For more information, see Marketing-to-Opportunity.

● Order-to-Cash (Project-Based Services)You can now perform the Planning Projects step before creating the sales quotes or sales orders. You arethen able to use projects for calculation of sales. In addition, the process step Creating Invoice Request isrenamed to Creating Project Invoice Request.For more information, see Order-to-Cash (Project-Based Services) .

● Order-to-Cash (Sell-from-Stock) ○ The Creating Sales Orders business process has a new process step: Approve a sales order. ○ The Processing Outbound Delivery business process has a new process variant: Processing Outbound


For more information, see Order-to-Cash (Sell-from-Stock). ● Order-to-Cash (Specified Products)

The Processing Outbound Delivery business process has a new process variant: Processing OutboundDeliveries for Externally-Managed Locations.For more information, see Order-to-Cash (Specified Products).

● Procure-to-Pay (Stock) ○ The Processing Delivery Notifications business process has a new process variant: Processing Delivery

Notifications for Externally-Managed Locations. ○ The Processing Inbound Delivery business process has a new process variant: Processing Inbound


For more information, see Procure-to-Pay (Stock). ● Resource Management

Resource, project, and line Managers, in addition to employees, can now use the Availability Calendar to createinitial commitments to identified projects and edit these commitments as the project progresses. Newanalytical reports are also delivered allowing managers to track utilization of resources assigned to projects.For more information, see Resource Management.

● Supplier Return ManagementThe Processing Outbound Delivery business process has a new process variant: Processing OutboundDeliveries for Externally-Managed Locations.For more information, see Supplier Return Management.

The following business scenario has been removed: ● Order-to-Cash (Drop Shipment)

The Order-to-Cash (Drop Shipment) business scenario is replaced with the Order-to-Cash (Third-Party OrderProcessing – Material) scenario explorer.



2.8 What's New: Mobile

This document provides information about what's new in the area of mobile applications in SAP Business ByDesignFeature Pack 3.5.


● Mobile Execution for Rugged Devices (Intermec® and Motorola®)A new Random Scanning profile has been introduced for use with pick tasks. It enables users to pick goodson their mobile device in a more flexible way than before. By default, all scanning must be done in the orderrequested by the system. When working with the new Random Scanning profile, users can scan bar codes inan order of their choosing, when processing an outbound pick task. Only outbound pick tasks can beprocessed in this manner. A new view has been designed to guide users through this process. Initially, allitems in the picking task are displayed and the user can decide which item to pick (by scanning the item orthe source logistics area), rather than scan bar codes in the order requested by the system. For furtherinformation, see SAP Business ByDesign Mobile Execution.

Required ActionsYou must perform the following actions after upgrading to Feature Pack 3.5:

● Mobile Execution for Rugged Devices (Intermec® and Motorola®)If using the Mobile Execution app for the execution of warehouse tasks, you must download and install thenew version of the app from the SAP Business ByDesign system. For installation instructions, see SAPBusiness ByDesign Mobile Execution. Be sure to download and install the version that is appropriate for yourmobile device (Intermec® or Motorola®).

When upgrading from a previous version of the Mobile Execution app, uninstall the previous versionbefore installing the new one.

2.9 What's New: Terminology Changes

This document provides a summary of the most important terminology changes for SAP Business ByDesign.

GermanThe following important terminology changes have been implemented in FP 3.5: Terminologieänderungen: Deutsch

FrenchThe following important terminology changes have been implemented in FP 3.5: Modification de la Terminologie:Français


ChineseThe following important terminology changes have been implemented in FP 3.5: →→→→→→→

SpanishThe following important terminology changes have been implemented in FP 3.5: Cambios en la terminología: Español



3 What's New in Financial Management

3.1 What's New in Financial Management

This document provides information about what's new in the Financial Management area of SAP Business ByDesignFeature Pack 3.5.

What Is NewThe following functions and work centers are new:

● Free Cost ObjectsYou can now create own cost objects in addition to the standard cost objects, such as projects. You can usethese free cost objects to separately measure costs (and in some cases revenues) for company-specificobjects, such as you car fleet for example. The system provides functions to create your free cost objects,collect the costs (and revenues) on them and settle these incurred costs from one free cost object to otherfree cost objects according to you own settlement rules.For more information, see Free Cost Objects.

● Financial Planning for Cost Center and Profit Center ManagersCost center managers and profit center managers can now enter estimates or plan data in financial plans fortheir area of responsibility. This function is available in the new Financial Planning view.For more information, see What's New: Financial Planning [page 20].

● Electronic Financial ReportingIn some countries companies are required by law to submit their financial data in electronic form to publicauthorities. The format used for submission of the data varies per country and depends on the specificregulations and guidelines of the public authorities.In Germany, for example, companies are required to electronically submit their financial data to the taxauthorities according to the legal requirements stated in the paragraph 5b of the German Income Tax Act(EStG) effective as of December 31, 2011. This process is in Germany referred to as E-Bilanz and the electronicformat used is an XML-based file called an eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) file.

This business option is non-standard functionality and for use of pilot customers only. Any scopingand use of this functionality is subject to limitations set out in the customer contract.

● Credit Card ProcessingThe credit card processing functionality has been improved.For detailed information on the end-to-end process of customer payments made by credit card, see CustomerPayments by Credit Card.


● Revenue RecognitionFor more information, see What's New: Revenue Recognition [page 21].

The following terminology has been changed:

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● Bank Fees are now Bank ChargesBank Fees have been renamed to Bank Charges in Financial Management.

● Incoming Payment Card Payment is now Incoming Credit Card PaymentIncoming Payment Card Payment has been changed to Incoming Credit Card Payment in FinancialManagement.

The following work centers have been changed: ● General Ledger

For more information, see What's New: General Ledger [page 22]. ● Fixed Assets

For more information, see What's New: Fixed Assets [page 24]. ● Inventory Valuation

For more information, see What's New: Inventory Valuation [page 25]. ● Cost and Revenue

For more information, see What's New: Cost and Revenue [page 27]. ● Payables and Receivables

For more information, see What's New: Payables and Receivables [page 28]. ● Payment Management

For more information, see What's New: Payment Management [page 28]. ● Liquidity Management

For more information, see What's New: Liquidity Management [page 30]. ● Tax Management

For more information, see What's New: Tax Management [page 31]. ● Travel and Expenses

In Travel Expenses you can now record intercompany travel expenses and you have the possibility to addattachments on receipt level. For more information, see What's New: Expense Reports View [page 34].

3.2 What's New: Financial Planning

This document provides information about what's new in Financial Planning in Business ByDesign Feature Pack 3.5.


● Financial Planning for Cost Center ManagersCost center managers can now enter estimates or plan data in financial plans for expenses in their area ofresponsibility. The amounts they enter flow into overall annual planning of expenses on cost centers and theincome statement.Cost center managers can access this function in the Managing My Area work center, Financial Planning view.After managers enter plan data for their area, they can review and compare their plan data against actualdata using the following reports: ○ Cost Centers – Plan/Actual – My Area

Shows the planned and actual charges and allocations on the manager's cost centers, as well as thedifferences between plan and actual as absolute amounts and percentages.

○ Cost Centers – Plan/Actual – Version Comparison – My Area


What's New in Financial Management

Compares the planned and actual balances on the manager's cost centers for different planned versionsfor a selected time frame.

The Version Comparison report can be accessed directly by clicking the report icon shown for each versionin the Details area of the plan. For the selected version, it displays the planned and actual data, restricted tothe manager's area of responsibility. This report is only available to cost center managers.For more information, see Financial Planning Quick Guide.

● Financial Planning for Profit Center ManagersProfit center managers can now enter estimates or plan data in financial plans for costs and revenues in theirarea of responsibility. The amounts they enter in financial plans flow into overall annual income statementplanning.Profit center managers can access this function in the Managing My Area work center, Financial Planning view.After managers enter plan data for their area, they can review and compare the plan data against actual datausing the following reports: ○ Financial Statements – Plan/Actual – My Area

Compares the planned and actual values for the manager's profit centers for the balance sheet, incomestatement, and cash flow statement for a selected fiscal year.

○ Financial Statements – Plan/Actual – Version Comparison – My AreaCompares the data of different planned versions for the balance sheet, income statement, or cash flowstatement against the actual data for a selected time frame for the manager's profit centers. It is alsopossible to compare two planned versions against each other.

The Version Comparison report can be accessed directly by clicking the report icon shown for each versionin the Details area of the plan. For the selected version, it displays the planned and actual data, restricted tothe manager's area of responsibility. This report is only available to profit center managers.For more information, see Financial Planning Quick Guide.

It is not possible to create or edit financial plans in the Managing My Area work center, Financial Planningview.This can only be done in the Cost and Revenue work center, Planning view.

See AlsoWhat's New in Financial Management [page 19]

3.3 What's New: Revenue Recognition

This document provides information about what's new in Revenue Recognition in Business ByDesign Feature Pack3.5.


● Revenue Recognition for Customer ContractsRevenue recognition for customer contracts is now supported based on different accrual methods, includingstraight-line methods.For more information, see Revenue Recognition for Customer Contracts.


● Manual percentage of completion for project-based fixed-price sales order itemsYou can now enter a manual percentage of completion (POC) for project-based fixed-price sales order items.The revenue recognition run uses the manual POC valid on the date of the run. If no manual POC is valid, therun uses the calculated cost-to-cost POC (Confirmed Costs ÷ Planned Costs).You can select the items based on the sales order item (Sales Document Items view) or based on the project(Projects view).For more information, see Sales Document Items Quick Guide and Projects Quick Guide.

What Has ChangedThe following function has been changed:

● Revenue recognition runs for project-based sales order items are optionalPreviously, it was mandatory to assign accrual methods to project-based sales order items and include themin revenue recognition runs. If no accrual method was assigned, the system automatically assigned theaccrual method Reverse Revenue Deferrals and Accruals.Automatic revenue recognition is now optional. You can perform revenue recognition manually if desired.Accrual methods are no longer assigned automatically. The system derives an accrual method only forproject-based sales order items if this has been specified in accrual method determination. As with othersales order items, the accrual method can be removed in the Sales Document Items view as long as no revenuerecognition run has taken place for the sales order item.For more information on revenue recognition for project-based sales order items, see Revenue Recognitionfor Project Sales.


3.4 What's New in General Ledger

This document provides information about what's new in the General Ledger work center in Business ByDesignFeature Pack 3.5.


● Posting Control Profiles for Procurement ProcessesYou can now review and adapt the posting logic the system applies when posting payment and pricedifferences from procurement processes, such as cash discounts. Depending on the respective payment andprice difference, you can decide whether it is charged to the account specified in account determination orwhether the system applies a separate posting logic.You find this activity in the Business Configuration work center. Choose the Posting Control Profiles forProcurement Processes activity in the Fine-Tune phase.For more information, see Configuration: Posting Control Profiles for Procurement Processes.

What Has ChangedThe following views have been changed:



● Journal Entries ViewFor more information, see What's New in the Journal Entries View [page 35].

● Journal Entry Vouchers ViewFor more information, see What's New in the Journal Entry Vouchers View [page 36].

Changes in Business ConfigurationThe following functions have been changed in the Business Configuration work center with regard to general ledger:

● Chart of Accounts, Financial Reporting Structures, Account DeterminationSome functions have been changed in the activity Chart of Accounts, Financial Reporting Structures, AccountDetermination in the Fine-Tune phase. For more information, see What's New: Chart of Accounts, FinancialReporting Structures, Account Determination.

Country-Specific ChangesThe following functions are new:

● Cost Audit Report 3 — IndiaA new report Cost Audit Report 3 is available for India. This report shows the net sales amounts for allmanufactured and traded materials, and services for a selected company. The report is part of legal reportingrequirements, specific to India.For more information, see Cost Audit Report 3.

● Top 50 Customers and Suppliers — MexicoCompanies in Mexico are legally required to provide two files, one to show their top 50 customers and theother to show their top 50 suppliers. The Top 50 Customers and Suppliers — Mexico has been created toenable companies to create these files.The top 50 suppliers are based on the total value of the net purchases from the supplier. The top 50 customersare based on the customer invoice values of the customer’s total net sales of either goods or services.For more information, see Top 50 Customers and Suppliers — Mexico.

The following functions have been changed: ● Austria

○ Enhancement of HTML file in Electronic Year-End Closing (ERV-JAb) FileThe human-readable HTML file, available with the ERV-JAb file for Austria, has been extended. The HTMLfile now provides more detail about the content of the ERV-JAb XML file to which it corresponds.

○ Flexible Legal ID Assignment to Financial Reporting Structure ItemsFor Austria, the taxonomy for use in the electronic year-end closing file (ERV-JAb) is predelivered and itis now possible to assign financial reporting structure items to taxonomies using flexible taxonomyconfiguration. Previously, this assignment was fixed.

● Canada ○ Enhancement of Chart of Accounts, Account Determination and FRS

For Canada, the length of all accounts in the chart of accounts, account determination, and FRS has beenchanged from eight digits to six digits.

● China ○ Additional Journal Entry Voucher (with and without foreign currency) Form Layout

An alternative layout for the Chinese Journal Entry Voucher with Foreign Currency and Journal EntryVoucher without Foreign Currency form templates has been created. Both form templates now includethe columns, Function Area and Cost Center.


○ New Balance Type for Balance Sheet and Income StatementA new balance type for the creation of Chinese balance sheets and income statements has been created.For this new balance type, the comparison amount for the balance sheet is fixed to the opening balancefor the year while the comparison period for the income statement is flexible and depends on your input.

● France ○ Printing of External Reference Field in Journal

The newly-developed external reference field can now be printed in the French document journal.

● Mexico ○ Enhancement of IETU Report

The existing Impuesto Empresarial a Tasa Única (IETU) report was extended to include additionalbusiness processes. It is now possible to report business processes that include withholding taxes,foreign currency postings, and discount and partial payments in the IETU report.

3.5 What's New: Fixed Assets

This document provides information about what's new in Fixed Assets in SAP Business ByDesign Feature Pack 3.5.


● You can now create a new fixed asset from an individual material. To do this, go to the Fixed Assets workcenter and choose Fixed Assets. Click New Fixed Asset from Individual Material .

● The system now supports the assignment of free cost objects with the sales category to a fixed asset and theposting of depreciation.For more information see Free Cost Objects.


● Asset ProcurementThe process of how to procure fixed assets has been enhanced. It is now possible to purchase severalindividual materials that belong to each other and will be treated as one fixed asset in the system.You can now create new individual materials directly in the purchase order or in the goods and services receipt.Individual materials are no longer created implicitly in Fixed Assets. If you created individual materials in apurchase order or goods and services receipt, fixed assets may be created in Fixed Assets based on theproduct category of the item and the respective business configuration settings for the automatic creationof assets.For more information, see Asset Procurement in Purchasing.

● Posting of New Charge/Credit to Individual MaterialThe system now offers Individual Material as account assignment type, if you create a new charge or credit.This allows you to post to a fixed asset. To post a new charge or credit, go to the Receivables or Payables workcenter and choose Customer Accounts or Supplier Accounts and the respective customer or supplier accountand click View . Click New Charge/Credit. Note that the Account Assignment Type field might not be visibleon the screen. To make this field visible, choose Personalize This Screen .



Changes in Business ConfigurationWhen a fixed asset was created automatically during the asset procurement process that is described above, thesystem creates a BTM task and sends it to the responsible fixed asset accountant. To edit business configurationsettings for Business Task Management in fixed assets, go to the Business Configuration work center and choosethe Implementation Projects view. Select your implementation project and click Open Activity List . Select the Fine-Tune phase, then select the Business Task Management for Fixed Assets Processing activity from the activity list.

See alsoWhat's New in Financial Management [page 19]

3.6 What's New: Inventory Valuation

This document provides information about what's new in Inventory Valuation in Business ByDesign Feature Pack3.5.

What Is NewThe following function is new:

● Material valuation at product specification levelYou now have the option of activating material valuation at the product specification level. This allows you tomaintain material valuation master data at the level of individual customer requirements. Valuation at theproduct specification level provides increased cost transparency and allows the use of different balance sheetaccounts.You activate this option in your solution configuration. Once the option is activated, you can change thevaluation level in the master data of your materials with the Valuation Level Type field. If you do not activatethe option, the valuation level for all materials remains at the default Business Residence level and cannot bechanged.Setting the valuation level for a material to Product Specification enables you to maintain the following masterdata at the product specification level: ○ Unit costs ○ Account determination group ○ Perpetual cost method

You can also: ○ Create material cost estimates for individual product specifications ○ Import unit costs for individual product specifications

Valuation data continues to be available at the business residence level even if the valuation levelfor the material is set to Product Specification. The valuation level for a material thus represents themaximum possible granularity at which valuation data is available.

For more information, see Valuation Levels.



● WIP Clearing viewThe log of the WIP clearing run now contains additional columns showing information related to valuation atthe product specification level: ○ Material ○ Valuation Level Type

Indicates the valuation level (Business Residence or Product Specification). ○ Valuation Level ID

Identifies the product specification.

For information on how product specifications are handled in WIP clearing runs, see Work-in-Process ClearingRuns.

●

The following reports have been changed: ● You can now navigate to the Product Specification Overview in the following reports by adding the appropriate

characteristic as described in the documentation for the report. ○ Material Inventories – Line Items

For more information, see Material Inventories – Line Items. ○ Material Inventories – Balance Summary

For more information, see Material Inventories – Balance Summary. ○ Material Inventories – Balance History

For more information, see Material Inventories – Balance History. ○ Material Inventories – Reconciliation

For more information, see Material Inventories – Reconciliation. ○ Material Unit Costs

For more information, see Material Unit Costs. ○ Production Lots – Line Items

For more information, see Production Lots – Line Items. ○ Production Variances

For more information, see Production Variances. ○ GR/IR Inventories – Balance Summary

For more information, see GR/IR Inventories – Balance Summary. ○ Purchase Price Variances

For more information, see Purchase Price Variances. ○ Purchasing Documents – Line Items

For more information, see Purchasing Documents – Line Items.

See AlsoWhat's New in Financial Management [page 19]What's New in the Materials View [page 37]What's New in the Material Unit Costs View [page 37]What's New in the WIP Clearing View [page 42]



3.7 What's New: Cost and Revenue

This document provides information about what's new in Cost and Revenue in SAP Business ByDesign Feature Pack3.5.


● Revenue recognition for customer contractsRevenue recognition for customer contracts is now supported based on different accrual methods, includingstraight-line methods.For more information, see Revenue Recognition for Customer Contracts.

● Manual percentage of completionYou can now enter a manual percentage of completion (POC) for project-based fixed-price sales order items.The revenue recognition run uses the manual POC valid on the date of the run. If no manual POC is valid, therun uses the calculated cost-to-cost POC (Confirmed Costs ÷ Planned Costs).You can select the items based on the sales order item (Sales Document Items view) or based on the project(Projects view).For more information, see Sales Document Items Quick Guide and Projects Quick Guide.

The following reports are new: ● Project Variance by Project

Shows the aggregated baseline/planned and planned/actual variances for costs, revenues, and margins formultiple projects.For more information, see Project Variance by Project.

● Project Variance by Project StructureShows the baseline/planned and planned/actual variances for costs, revenues, and margins for each projecttask in the hierarchical structure of a single project.For more information, see Project Variance by Project Structure.


● Automatic revenue recognition for project-based sales order items is now optionalIt is no longer mandatory to assign accrual methods to project-based sales order items and include them inrevenue recognition runs.For more information, see What's New: Revenue Recognition [page 21].

● Modified functionality for plans and plan versionsThe screens and functionality for creating plans and working with plan versions has been modified.For more information, see What's New in the Planning View [page 39].

See AlsoWhat's New in Financial Management [page 19]What's New in the Cost Centers View [page 33]What's New in the Planning View [page 39]


What's New in the Projects View [page 40]What's New in the Resources View [page 41]What's New in the Resource Cost Rates View [page 41]

3.8 What's New: Payables and Receivables

This document provides information about what’s new in the Payables and Receivables work centers in SAP BusinessByDesign Feature Pack 3.5.

What Is NewThe following function is new within the Payment Runs functionality:

● Include On Account Payments in Payment RunWhen you create a payment run, you can now specify whether you want the payment run to consider onaccount payments, which are payments that have been posted but not yet cleared.If you select this indicator, the system will generate payment proposals that take into account payments thathave been made by a customer or to a supplier, but have not yet been assigned to a specific transaction.

What Has ChangedThe following function has been changed within the Payment Runs functionality:

● Access to Payment Run Application LogFormerly you accessed the log by clicking on a Display Log button.Now you access the log by clicking on the relevant log ID in the Application Log ID column.

Country-Specific ChangesThe following functions are new or have been changed for specific countries:

● Accounts Receivable – Pledging of Open Items – AustriaFor Austria, this report allows you to display which open items have been marked in Receivables CustomerAccounts as pledged as collateral. If a particular customer is pledged, all open items of this customer areshown. For more information, see Accounts Receivable — Pledging of Open Items.

3.9 What's New: Payment Management

This document provides information about what's new in the Payment Management work center of SAP BusinessByDesign Feature Pack 3.5.


● Clearing House Statements View



A new view, called Clearing House Statements is now available in the Payment Management work center. Thisview enables you to view the status and transaction details of your uploaded clearing house statements. Youcan also reverse incorrect clearing house statements.For more information, see Quick Guide for Clearing House Statements.

What Has ChangedThe following terminology has been changed:

● Release is now PostOn several screens in the Payment Management and Liquidity Management work centers, the term Releasehas been changed to Post.


● LSV+ (Last Schrift Verfahren) Direct Debit — SwitzerlandIn Switzerland, customers can now make payments using the LSV+ (Last Schrift Verfahren) and BDD(Business Direct Debit) direct debit payment methods. With LSV+, the debtor can object to payments alreadymade using this service for a period of up to 30 days. If the debtor objects, the amount debited from theiraccount is canceled and no payment is made. The BDD direct debit service does not offer the right of objection.In instances where there are unrealized payments, the system detects these payments within a specified timeframe and, depending on the payment rejection reason, takes whatever further action is necessary.

● Direct Debit Rejection Runs — SwitzerlandA new subview called Direct Debit Rejection Run is now available under the Periodic Tasks view. This subviewenables you to create direct debit rejection runs to gather overdue and unrealized direct debit payments andto trigger a system action to reject the selected direct debits. The system initiates post processing actionsfor the unrealized payments and therefore enables you to resolve the issue (if any) with the payment. Ininstances where there are unrealized payments, the system detects these payments within a specified timeframe and, depending on the payment rejection reason, takes whatever further action is necessary.For more information, see Quick Guide for Direct Debit Rejection Runs.

● Processing of Payment Rejection Files — SwitzerlandIt is now possible to carry out post processing of payments that have been rejected. This can be done forpayments made using the following payment methods: ○ SEPA Credit Transfer

When companies in Switzerland procure products from suppliers, they can pay using a bank transfer inthe SEPA Credit Transfer file format. When the invoice becomes due, the company informs its bank toexecute the payment of the invoice in the SEPA Credit Transfer file format. This file format must beavailable in the system in order to initiate payments.

○ SEPA Direct Debit and PostFinanceWhen companies in Switzerland sell their products to customers, the customers can pay using a directdebit. In Switzerland, depending on the bank, this can either be a PostFinance or a SEPA direct debit.When an invoice becomes due, the selling company must inform the bank to execute payment of theinvoice. In cases where the bank is the PostFinance, this is done using the PostFinance direct debit fileand the direct debit payment method. For SEPA payments, the payment is made using the SEPA directdebit file.After processing the payments requested in the file, the bank sends back another file to the sellingcompany containing all rejected or unrealized payments. The selling company must then process thisfile to mark all such payments as Rejected and, depending on the payment rejection reason, takewhatever further action is necessary.




The following changes in the Business Configuration work center are relevant for this area or topic. You can performbusiness configuration settings in the Business Configuration Implementation Projects view.Payment File Structure:In payment file structure under Outgoing Bank Transfer or Outgoing Wire Transfers (Real Time Bank Transfers), thefollowing functions are new/ have changed:

● Copy: You can copy an existing payment file structure and use it as a basis for creating a new one. A predefinedSAP template, which is called Sample, is also available.

● Conditions: You can now define conditions for Records and Fields in the payment file structure. ● Additional checks have been implemented so you must now specify the Data Source and Field Length before

you can save a payment file structure. There is also a check to ensure that the offset specified for a field isconsistent with the length.

● Data Type field has be removed; this is now automatically determined by the system.

For more information, see Create New Payment File Structure.

3.10 What's New: Liquidity Management

This document provides information about what's new in the Liquidity Management work center of SAP BusinessByDesign Feature Pack 3.5.

What is NewThe following functions are new:

● New File Type 'Bank Transaction Update' for UploadYou can now upload files with file type 'Bank Transaction Update' from your bank. This file lists the executionstatus (confirmation or cancellation) of bank transaction items, such as direct debits, bank transfers, chargesor disagios.An uploaded file has the “In Preparation” status. Besides of all the credit card payment items which will bepaid there will be a separate item for the charge/disagios reducing the overall payment amount. The charge/disagio amount will be calculated and later posted when the money is received in the bank statement on aspecific general ledger account which should be set up in the configuration of account determination. It ispossible to enter a general ledger account where these charges/disagios are posted to in the Clearing HouseAccount.For more information, see File Management Quick Guide.


● Release is now Post



On several screens in the Payment Management and Liquidity Management work centers, the term Releasehas been changed to Post.


● Bank Transaction Status Notifications View — SwitzerlandIn the Bank Transaction Status Notifications view, you can now view the details and status of failed banktransactions through bank transaction status notifications which you receive from your bank. Thesenotifications contain all transaction details such as the file types, bank posting dates, and the reasons behindfailed transactions. This enables you to view why a transaction failed and to then take corrective action beforeattempting to process the payment again.For more information, see Quick Guide for Bank Transaction Status Notifications.

The following functions have been changed: ● Layout Changes to Financial Forms - Austria

The layout of the following financial forms has been changed according to Austrian requirements. ○ Dunning letter ○ Reminder letter ○ Balance notification ○ Remittance advice ○ Balance confirmation and return letter ○ Balance confirmation request ○ Account statement with due date list

3.11 What's New: Tax Management

This document provides information about what is new in the Tax Management work center of SAP BusinessByDesign Feature Pack 3.5.

What is newThe following functions are new:

● Generic Tax ReportingNew tax return type 999 — Tax Return is now available that allows the creation of generic tax returns of producttaxes for countries that are not localized in SAP Business ByDesign. This is currently available for Bulgaria,Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Portugal, and Romania.For more information, see Generic Tax Return As Tax Return Type

What has ChangedThe following views have been changed:

● Tax Payments ViewFor more information, see What's New in the Tax Payments View [page 42]

● Company Tax Arrangement View


For more information, see What's New in the Company Tax Arrangement View [page 33] ● Manual Tax Entries View

For more information, see What's New in the Manual Tax Entries View [page 36]

These Reports have been changed: ● Withholding Tax Items Report

For more information, see What's New in the Withholding Tax Items Reports View [page 44] ● VAT/Sales Tax Items Reports

For more information, see What's New in the VAT/Sales Tax Items Reports View [page 43]


● Backup Withholding Tax Return (8109) — United StatesNew tax return type Backup Withholding Tax Return (8109) for the United States collects all withholding taxitems and calculates the total tax amount that has to be paid in the given period by supplier and income type.For more information, see Quick Guide for Withholding Tax Returns.

● EC Sales List File — GermanyFor more information, seeThe German EC Sales List offers the possibility to create a .csv file that can be uploaded into the ELSTEROnline Portal. As a prerequisite, the flag Electronic Submission has to be set in the corresponding tax returnarrangement. For more information, see Quick Guide for EC Sales Lists.

● Withholding Tax Certificate (37-A) - MexicoThe SAP Business ByD system allows you to generate a Withholding Tax Certificate(37- A) which you cansend to your suppliers as and when you pay them for their services. This certificate specifies the month orthe period of tax withheld and paid, the payment code, the amount of the operation, withheld amount and soon. The certificate can be generated on a daily or monthly basis.For more information, see Tax Reporting

● Tax Reporting Group — Switzerland, Austria, France, Great BritainThe tax reporting group is a legal construction that allows all companies belonging together to report TAX asone legal entity. Acting as one legal entity, business transactions between the companies belonging to oneTAX Reporting Group will not be relevant for tax reporting. In this use case, the header company has two roles:it acts as a tax reporting unit and as a kind of virtual pseudo tax authority to the member companies. Example:A is the head of the TAX reporting group, B and C are assigned companies. Company A reports and pays taxfor A, B and C. Companies B and C pay their Tax Payables to company A.For more information, see Tax Reporting Group

● PST/QST and GST/HST Tax Returns - CanadaIn addition to the existing tax return, you now have an option to create the following tax returns for Canada: ○ PST/QST Return ○ GST/HST Return

For more information, see Tax Reporting ● Chamber Contribution Fee - Austria

The Chamber Contribution fee is paid by companies who are members of the Austrian Federal EconomicChamber. This fee is paid on a quarterly basis only when the taxable sales of the company in a calendar yearexceeds the threshold of 150,000 € (net amount). SAP Business ByDesign gives you the basis to manuallycalculate the fee and pay it to the Tax Authority of Austria.For more information, see Chamber Contribution Fee Calculation - Austria



See AlsoWhat's New: Indian Taxes

3.12 View-Related Information

3.12.1 What's New in the Company Tax Arrangements View

This document provides information about what is new in the Tax Arrangements View in SAP Business ByDesignFeature Pack 3.5.


● A tax reporting group established in the company tax arrangement is now taken into account by automatictax code determination.

See AlsoWhat's New: Tax Management [page 31]

3.12.2 What's New in the Cost Centers View

This document provides information about what’s new in the Cost Centers view of the Cost and Revenue work centerin SAP Business ByDesign Feature Pack 3.5.


● Additional columns for cost center assignments to distribution rules and overhead ratesTwo columns have been added to this view: ○ Assigned to Distribution Rules ○ Assigned to Overhead Rates

These columns allow you to more easily determine which cost centers are assigned to distribution rules oroverhead rates.In the Details area, the corresponding hyperlinks have been renamed Distribution Rules and OverheadRates (formerly Overhead Distributions and Overhead Absorptions).

● Organizational Structure viewA new Show view Organizational Structure has been added, which displays the cost centers as a hierarchicalstructure instead of a flat list.



3.12.3 What's New in the Customers View

This document provides information about what's new in the Customers view in SAP Business ByDesign FeaturePack 3.5.


● New Credit Card ScreenThe Open Item screen element has been added to the New Credit Card Payment screen. To access this newfunctionality, go to the Receivables work center and choose Customers Customer Accounts . Selectone or more items, then click Pay Manually By and select Credit Card from the list.


3.12.4 What's New in the Expense Reports View

This document provides information about what's new in the Expense Reports view of the SAP Business ByDesignFeature Pack 3.5.

What has changed? ● Intercompany project time and expense process

A new process to record intercompany project time and expenses is available. Employees are able to assigntravel expenses to project tasks to which they are assigned even if the project task belongs to a separatecompany. Within an expense report, the value help for project tasks contains all project tasks to which theemployee is assigned either directly or indirectly.The value help is no longer restricted to project tasks of the company of the employee. A project task of aseparate company can be entered if the corresponding purchase order and an intercompany project, whichis generated in the employee’s company, exists. The purchase order item and the intercompany settlementproject task are displayed on the cost assignment screens within the expense report for information purposesonly.After the expense report has been approved: ○ A goods and services receipt is created using the purchase order item ○ Based on the intercompany project task, a journal entry for the expense report is created in accounting

and project expenses are updated. ● Attachments for Receipts



In addition to the general attachments in the attachments folder, attachments at receipt level are alsopossible. The attachments folder contains a summary tab, which lists all general attachments and all receiptattachments in one list.

See AlsoWhat's New in Financial Management [page 19]What's New in SAP Business ByDesign [page 7]

3.12.5 What's New in the File Management View

This document provides information about what's new in the File Management view in SAP Business ByDesignFeature Pack 3.5.


● Clearing House Statement UploadIn the Liquidity Management work center, File Management view,Inbound Files subview, it is now possible toupload a clearing house statement. For more information, see Upload a Clearing House Statement.


3.12.6 What's New in the Journal Entries View

This document provides information about what's new in the Journal Entries view of the SAP Business ByDesignFeature Pack 3.5.

What Has ChangedIn addition to the material information displayed in journal entries, more detailed information is now available.Depending on the subledger, the following information is now displayed:

● Product Specification ● Valuation Level ID

See AlsoWhat's New in Financial Management [page 19]What's New: Inventory Valuation [page 25]


3.12.7 What's New in the Journal Entry Vouchers View

This document provides information about what's new in the Journal Entry Vouchers view of the SAP BusinessByDesign Feature Pack 3.5.

What Has ChangedFor the creation of journal entry vouchers for materials, you can now enter the Valuation Level ID in addition tospecifying the material.For more information, see Manual Entries for Materials.

See AlsoWhat's New in Financial Management [page 19]What's New: Inventory Valuation [page 25]

3.12.8 What's New in the Manual Tax Entries View

This document provides information about what is new in the Manual Tax Entries view in SAP Business ByDesignFeature Pack 3.5.


● Manual Tax entries now offers the additional account assignment types Profit Center and Free Cost Object. ● It is now also possible to enter an item description that is then transferred to the Item Text field of the

respective journal entry.


3.12.9 What's New in the Master Data View

This document provides information about what's new in the Master Data view in SAP Business ByDesign FeaturePack 3.5.




● Exclude Bank Account from Automatic ProposalsIn the My Banks subview, which can be accessed through the Liquidity Management work center, the fieldExclude Account from Automatic Proposals was added. To use this function to prevent a particular bankaccount from being proposed automatically when processing payments, select the bank account you wouldlike to edit, navigate to the Bank Accounts tab and check the box.


3.12.10 What's New in the Material Unit Costs View

This document provides information about what’s new in the Material Unit Costs view of the Inventory Valuation workcenter in SAP Business ByDesign Feature Pack 3.5.


● Material valuation at product specification levelYou now have the option of valuating your materials at the product specification level.If you have activated this option in your solution configuration, the Valuation Level Type field in the materialvaluation master data allows you to change the valuation level.For more information, see What's New: Inventory Valuation [page 25].

● New button for maintaining material valuation dataThis view contains a new button Maintain Valuation Data which takes you directly to the screen for maintainingunit costs, the account determination group, and perpetual cost method for any valuation level.


3.12.11 What's New in the Materials View

This document provides information about what’s new in the Materials view of the Inventory Valuation work centerin SAP Business ByDesign Feature Pack 3.5.


● Material valuation at product specification levelYou now have the option of valuating your materials at the product specification level.If you have activated this option in your solution configuration, the Valuation Level Type field in the materialvaluation master data allows you to change the valuation level.For more information, see What's New: Inventory Valuation [page 25].


● New button for maintaining material valuation dataThis view contains a new button Maintain Valuation Data which takes you directly to the screen for maintainingunit costs, the account determination group, and perpetual cost method for any valuation level.


3.12.12 What's New in the Payment Allocation View

This document provides information about what's new in the Payment Allocation view in SAP Business ByDesignFeature Pack 3.5.


● Confirm Credit Card Payments with Bank StatementIn the Payment Allocation view of the Payment Management work center, it is now possible to confirm creditcard payments with your bank statement. For more information, see Confirm Credit Card Payments withBank Statement.


3.12.13 What's New in the Payment Monitor View

This document provides information about what's new in the Payment Monitor view of SAP Business ByDesignFeature Pack 3.5.


● Search by Settlement Batch ID and Settlement StatusTwo new fields have been added to the Advanced search screen of the Payment Monitor view, which you canaccess through the Payment Management work center. It is now possible to search using the Settlement BatchID and the Settlement Status fields.

● PersonalizationSettlement Status was also added to the Payment Monitor list as a hidden field.




3.12.14 What's New in the Petty Cash View

This document provides information about what's new in the Petty Cash view in SAP Business ByDesign FeaturePack 3.5.


● Fiscal Year NumberingOn the New Petty Cash screen, which can be accessed through the Payment Management work center, thefield Fiscal Year Numbering , and the field First Document Number for XXXX (year) are new. Fiscal YearNumbering allows transactions to be numbered without gaps according to the company’s fiscal year. If a pettycash is created in the SAP ByDesign System after the current fiscal year has already started, the number thetransactions are to begin with can be chosen by the user. The following year always starts with the number1. This functionality is only available for petty cash created in FP3.5.

Note that changing the numbering of an existing petty cash is not possible. However, it is possibleto create a new petty cash, transfer the balance and close the old petty cash.


● Released is now ConfirmedOn the Petty Cash Journal screen of the Payment Management work center, the transaction status previouslycalled Released has been changed to Confirmed.


3.12.15 What's New in the Planning View

This document provides information about what’s new in the Planning view of the Cost and Revenue work center inSAP Business ByDesign Feature Pack 3.5.


● Modified process for creating plansYou now enter the information and settings for a new plan and its initial version on the General and Versionstabs rather than in a guided activity.For more information, see Planning Quick Guide.


● Changes to screens for plan versionsThe following changes have been made to the screens for plan versions: ○ The tabs on which you select accounts, cost centers and profit centers for the planning areas have been

consolidated and renamed Expense Planning, Income Statement Planning, and Balance Sheet Planning.The tab for cost centers has been removed. You now select cost centers on the Expense Planning tab.

○ To enable selection of both G/L accounts and cost centers / profit centers on the Expense Planning,Income Statement Planning and Balance Sheet Planning tabs, a new control element Leading List hasbeen introduced. This element allows you to switch between selecting G/L accounts for cost centers (orprofit centers) and selecting cost centers (or profit centers) for G/L accounts.

○ The new Copy Assignment From... button allows you to: ○ Copy the cost center (or profit center) assignment of a G/L account to another G/L account ○ Copy the G/L account assignment of a cost center (or profit center) to other cost centers or profit

centers

For more information, see Planning Quick Guide.


3.12.16 What's New in the Projects View

This document provides information about what’s new in the Projects view of the Cost and Revenue work center inSAP Business ByDesign Feature Pack 3.5.


● New button Edit Percentage of CompletionThe Edit Percentage of Completion button has been added to this view to enable entry of a manual percentageof completion (POC) for revenue recognition.The revenue recognition run uses the manual POC valid on the date of the run. If no manual POC is valid, therun uses the calculated cost-to-cost POC (Confirmed Costs ÷ Planned Costs).

● New Overhead Rule columnA new column Overhead Rule has been added to this view to enable you to determine which overhead rule isassigned to the project.

For more information, see Projects Quick Guide.




3.12.17 What's New in the Resource Cost Rates View

This document provides information about what’s new in the Resource Cost Rates view of the Cost and Revenuework center in SAP Business ByDesign Feature Pack 3.5.

What Has ChangedThis view has been enhanced with additional information about the jobs assigned to labor resources. The Detailsarea now lists all jobs assigned to the selected labor resource, including the validity range of each job.


3.12.18 What's New in the Resources View

This document provides information about what’s new in the Resources view of the Cost and Revenue work centerin SAP Business ByDesign Feature Pack 3.5.

What Has ChangedThis view has been enhanced with additional information about the jobs assigned to labor resources. The Detailsarea now lists all jobs assigned to the selected labor resource, including the validity range of each job.


3.12.19 What's New in the Sales Document Items View

This document provides information about what’s new in the Sales Document Items view of the Cost and Revenuework center in SAP Business ByDesign Feature Pack 3.5.


● New button Edit Percentage of CompletionThe Edit Percentage of Completion button has been added to this view to enable entry of a manual percentageof completion (POC) for revenue recognition.


The revenue recognition run uses the manual POC valid on the date of the run. If no manual POC is valid, therun uses the calculated cost-to-cost POC (Confirmed Costs ÷ Planned Costs).

● New Overhead Rule columnA new column Overhead Rule has been added to this view to enable you to determine which overhead rule isassigned to the sales document item.

Fore more information, see Sales Document Items Quick Guide.


3.12.20 What's New in the Tax Payments View

This document provides information about what is new in the Tax Payments view of SAP Business ByDesign FeaturePack 3.5.


● When paying a tax return, editing a tax payment, or editing a tax payment related task, the system shows allapplicable tax returns, and the user can mark those that are to be cleared by the tax payment.

● The common task New Tax Prepayment has been re-named to New Tax Payment.

● An externally-initiated payment can now be divided into one part clearing tax returns and one part creating atax prepayment.


3.12.21 What's New in the WIP Clearing View

This document provides information about what’s new in the WIP Clearing view of the Inventory Valuation work centerin SAP Business ByDesign Feature Pack 3.5.

What Has ChangedThe log of the WIP clearing run now contains additional columns showing information related to valuation at theproduct specification level:

● Material ● Valuation Level Type

Indicates the valuation level (Business Residence or Product Specification).



● Valuation Level IDIdentifies the product specification.

For information on how product specifications are handled in WIP clearing runs, see Work-in-Process Clearing Runs.


3.12.22 What's New in the Work View

This document provides information about what's new in the Work view in SAP Business ByDesign Feature Pack 3.5.


● Business TaskThe business tasks “Assign Customer or Supplier to the Payment Allocation of ...”, “Assign PaymentTransaction to the Payment Allocation of ...”, “Assign Payment Method to the Payment Allocation of...”, nolonger exist. These three tasks have been replaced by one new task called “Complete Payment Allocationof...”


3.12.23 What's New in the VAT/Sales Items Reports View

This document provides information about what is new in the VAT/Sales Items Reports view of SAP BusinessByDesign Feature Pack 3.5.

What has changedThe following function has been changed:

● The reports All VAT/Sales Tax Items, Open VAT/Sales Tax Items, and Reported VAT/Sales Tax Items showthe new free characteristic Tax Code.



3.12.24 What's New in the Withholding Tax Items Reports View

This document provides information about what is new in the Withholding Tax Items Report view in BusinessByDesign Feature Pack 3.5.

What has changedThe following function has been changed:

● The Withholding Tax Items report now shows the new free characteristic Clearing Status.




4 What's New in Customer RelationshipManagement

4.1 What's New in Customer Relationship Management

This document provides information about what’s new in the Customer Relationship Management area of SAPBusiness ByDesign Feature Pack 3.5.

What Is NewThere is a new work center view Account Hierarchies in the Account Management work center. In this view, you candisplay, create, edit, and find account hierarchies. For more information, see here [page 61].The following functions are new:

● Customer Contract TemplatesThere is a new Contract Templates view within the Service Entitlements work center. This view allows you tolist and process contract templates that are used by sales employees to quickly and efficiently createcustomer contracts. Here, you can, set up a contract template and link it to an entitlement. You can alsomaintain invoice schedules and set price agreements for future contract items sold for a fixed price, or on atime and material basis.For more information, see What's New: Customer Contracts [page 47].

● New Web ServicesAs a partner or customer, you can use the following released web services to run online stores: ○ ManageSalesPriceListIn

○ QuerySalesPriceListIn

○ ProductAvailabilityDeterminationIn

○ ManagePaymentCardIn

○ QueryMaterialIn

○ ManageCustomerIn

○ Query CustomerIn

○ ManageSalesOrderIn5

○ QuerySalesOrderIn3

You can find the sample client code in Java and PHP in the SAP Community Network.For more information, see Sample Code in SAP Business ByDesign.

What Has ChangedThe following views have been changed:Customer Invoicing

● Invoice DocumentsFor more information, see What's New in the Invoice Documents View [page 50].

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● Invoice RequestsFor more information, see What's New in the Invoice Requests View [page 48].

● Invoice RunsFor more information, see What's New in the Invoice Runs View [page 52].

● Recurring Invoice TemplatesFor more information, see What's New in the Recurring Invoice Templates View [page 52].

For more information on what has changed in Customer Invoicing, see What's New: Customer Invoicing[page 47].Marketing

● CampaignsFor more information, see What's New in the Campaigns View [page 53].

● LeadsFor more information, see What's New in the Leads View [page 54]What's New in the Leads View[page 56].

● ReportsFor more information, see What's New in the Reports View [page 54].

● Response OptionsFor more information, see What's New in the Response Options View [page 55].

● Target GroupsFor more information, see What's New in the Target Groups View [page 55].

New Business ● Leads

For more information, see What's New in the Leads View [page 54]What's New in the Leads View[page 56].

● Sales QuotesFor more information, see What's New in the Sales Quotes View [page 56].

Sales ● Returns

For more information, see What's New in the Returns View [page 60]. ● Sales Orders

For more information, see What's New in the Sales Orders View [page 57].

Service ● Contracts

For more information, see What's New in the Contracts View [page 60]. ● Order Pipeline

For more information, see What's New in the Order Pipeline View [page 62]. ● Registered Products

For more information, see What's New in the Registered Products View [page 62]. ● Service Order Processing

For more information, see What's New in the Service Order Processing View [page 63]. ● Service Requests

For more information, see What's New in the Service Requests View [page 64].


What's New in Customer Relationship Management


● Golden Tax – ChinaFor more information, see What's New: Golden Tax - China [page 64].

● Invoice Processing – MexicoFor more information, see What's New: Invoice Processing - Mexico [page 65]What's New: InvoiceProcessing - Mexico [page 97]What's New: Invoice Processing - Mexico [page 108].

● ISR Processing – SwitzerlandFor more information, see What's New: ISR Processing – Switzerland [page 66].

See AlsoWhat's New: Tax Determination [page 67]What's New: Pricing [page 67]

4.2 What's New in Customer Contracts

This document provides information about what's new in Customer Contracts in SAP Business ByDesign FeaturePack 3.5.

What is NewThe following function is new:

● Customer Contract TemplatesThere is a new Contract Templates view in the Service Entitlements work center. In this view you can createand maintain contract templates. When a contract is created on the basis of a template, data in the templateis automatically copied to the new contract.

See AlsoWhat's New in Customer Relationship Management [page 45]What's New in Contracts [page 60]Quick Guide for Customer Contract Templates

4.3 What's New: Customer Invoicing

This document provides information about what's new in the Customer Invoicing work center of SAP BusinessByDesign Feature Pack 3.5.



● Additional Common TaskIt is now possible to create new recurring invoice templates directly from the common task area of theCustomer Invoicing work center.

● Project Invoicing Quick LinksQuick links concerning project invoicing for Open Tasks, Open Sales Orders, Open Customer Projects andOpen Project Invoice Requests are added to the Overview view of Customer Invoicing work center.

● Point-of-Sale Cash TransactionsIt is now possible to edit and release cash transfers that have taken place between one petty cash and anotherin the new Cash Transactions subview of the Point-of-Sale Transactions view of the Customer Invoicing workcenter. You can check for deviations and, if required, cancel a cash transaction as appropriate.


● Golden Tax – ChinaFor more information, see What's New: Golden Tax — China [page 64]

● Service Tax Accounting Code – IndiaIn the Down Payment Request view, a new field called Service Tax Accounting Code has been introduced. Youcan use this field to enter the Service Tax Accounting Code if the tax code of the downpayment is service taxrelevant.

● Rounding of Total Amounts in Logistics Documents – IndiaYou can configure the rounding value of currency INR (default is 0.5). This would accordingly round off thetotal amount in logistics documents and post the difference to the configured rounding difference account.In sales documents such as Sales order/Customer invoice, the amount is automatically rounded. However,in Supplier Invoice, the user must enter the amount mentioned in received invoice. Hence a variance of amountis allowed to the extent of rounding difference without any exception.

● Upload Approval Information for Invoicing Documents Using Microsoft Excel — MexicoFor more information, see What's New: Invoice Processing – Mexico [page 65]What's New: InvoiceProcessing – Mexico [page 97]What's New: Invoice Processing – Mexico [page 108]

● ISR Processing – SwitzerlandFor more information, see What's New: ISR Processing – Switzerland [page 66]

4.4 What's New in the Invoice Requests View

This document provides information about what’s new in the Invoice Requests view in SAP Business ByDesignFeature Pack 3.5.


● Posting Date in Customer InvoicingRegardless of the invoice date customer invoice documents now provide the possibility of specifying aseparate date that will be used as the posting date in accounting. If such a date is not specified, the invoicedate will be used as a default. The invoice date describes when a customer invoice document is issued and isused to determine the payment due date and as a default for other dates if no specific information is available.



The changed posting date determines the accounting period to which the financial postings from thecustomer invoice document is assigned.

● External Reference in Customer InvoicingThe external reference number is now available in invoice requests and invoice documents. In invoice requestsit is either derived from the external reference number of the predecessor document, for example, from asales order, or it may be entered manually for manual invoice requests, manual credit memo requests, orrecurring invoice templates. Since it is part of the invoice header, it is a split criterion for invoicing.In invoice documents, the external reference number is then determined based on the configuration set inthe External Reference Number Determination for Customer Invoice fine-tune activity. The system transfersthe external reference to financial accounting where it is used to group journal entries, and to aid clearing ofopen items. The external reference number may be used in reporting or may be added to self-defined printforms.

● Change of Adresses in Manual Invoice DocumentsIn manual invoice documents, such as Manual Invoice Request, Manual Credit Memo Request, Down PaymentInvoice Request, and Recurring Invoice Request, the business partner addresses can be displayed andchanged from the usual screens using a hyperlink below the business partner. It is no longer necessary tonavigate to the Involved Parties tab for this purpose.

● Additional Checks During File UploadWhen using the file upload for invoice requests, the following additional checks are executed before the invoicerequests are created: ○ The system checks that each item within an invoice request has a unique ID. ○ The system checks that the product is not being changed on item level in case of an invoice request

update. ○ The system checks that all IDs comply with the pattern defined in the corresponding data type –

specifically that lower case characters are not allowed. Moreover, IDs should be written without zerosat the beginning.

If any of the above checks fail, then the file upload is not performed. The checked result becomes visible inthe application log, and problems may be corrected before invoice request creation. This leads to a morerobust upload process.


● Changed User Interface for Invoice CreationIn the Invoice Requests view in the Customer Invoicing work center, you can now start invoicing by clickingthe Invoice or the Invoice - Advanced button. Invoice - Advanced now displays a modal dialog where you areable to specify a number of properties for invoicing. Default properties are preset. Invoice just starts theinvoicing process with those default properties and no dialog appears.

● Additional Revenue Assignment Possibilities in Manual InvoicingFor manual invoices including recurring invoices and manual credit memos, it is now possible to specifydifferent revenue assignments: general ledger accounts only, project tasks, or external cost objects. For itemswithout a product, a general ledger account must be specified.Additionally, it is possible to search for invoice requests, recurring invoice templates, and invoice documentsusing the different revenue assignments. In the Advanced Search, the assignment type may be specified toenable the corresponding search criteria.

● Down Payment Assignment with Additional InformationWhen assigning cleared down payments to invoice requests, the list of assigned down payments as well asthe dialog to select assignable down payments has been enhanced with the description, invoice date, and net


amount for easier identification. The external reference as an additional criteria of identification can also beadded to the list through personalization.




● External Reference Number Determination for Invoice DocumentsThere is a new fine-tune activity External Reference Number Determination for Customer Invoice which allowsyou to configure how the external reference number of an invoice document is determined. The configurationis based on the type of invoice and the context in which it is created.For more information, see Configuration: External Reference Number Determination for Customer Invoice.

● Display Negative Sign in Invoice DocumentsCustomer credit memo forms show all values by default with a positive sign. This can be globally changed inthe Display Negative Sign in Invoice Documents activity so that negative values will be displayed in the forms.For more information, see Configuration: Display Negative Sign in Invoice Documents.

Country Specific ChangesThe following functions have been changed:

● Automatic Legal Approval Request and Automatic Release After Approval - MexicoIn Mexico, customer invoices require an approval from the tax authorities before it is possible to release themin the system to subsequent processes, like financial accounting or to the customer. It is now possible torequest the release of a customer invoice which automatically triggers the legal approval process. Once theapproval is granted by the tax authorities, the system automatically changes the status of the invoicingdocuments from Approved to Released and releases the customer invoice.The user clicks the button Release button immediately after creation of a manual invoice or during creationof customer invoices for other predecessor documents as soon as the invoice request or invoice is consistent.If legal approval is required, instead of releasing the invoice, this action triggers the external approval processand automatically releases the invoice after approval is granted.

4.5 What's New in the Invoice Documents View

This document provides information about what’s new in the Invoice Documents view in SAP Business ByDesignFeature Pack 3.5.


● Posting Date in Customer InvoicingRegardless of the invoice date customer invoice documents now provide the possibility of specifying aseparate date that will be used as the posting date in accounting. If such a date is not specified, the invoicedate will be used as a default. The invoice date describes when a customer invoice document is issued and is



used to determine the payment due date and as a default for other dates if no specific information is available.The changed posting date determines the accounting period to which the financial postings from thecustomer invoice document is assigned.

● External Reference in Customer InvoicingThe external reference number is now available in invoice requests and invoice documents. In invoice requestsit is either derived from the external reference number of the predecessor document, for example, from asales order, or it may be entered manually for manual invoice requests, manual credit memo requests, orrecurring invoice templates. Since it is part of the invoice header, it is a split criterion for invoicing.In invoice documents, the external reference number is then determined based on the configuration set inthe External Reference Number Determination for Customer Invoice fine-tune activity. The system transfersthe external reference to financial accounting where it is used to group journal entries, and to aid clearing ofopen items. The external reference number may be used in reporting or may be added to self-defined printforms.


● Additional Revenue Assignment Possibilities in Manual InvoicingFor manual invoices including recurring invoices and manual credit memos, it is now possible to specifydifferent revenue assignments: general ledger accounts only, project tasks, or external cost objects. For itemswithout a product, a general ledger account must be specified.Additionally, it is possible to search for invoice requests, recurring invoice templates, and invoice documentsusing the different revenue assignments. In the Advanced Search, the assignment type may be specified toenable the corresponding search criteria.

● Behavior of Release ButtonIf you release an open invoice document within the editor or the quick activity using the Release button, thescreen closes immediately and a system message is displayed to indicate successful saving. Failures arereported by the system without closing the screen. In case a manual invoice request is created and releaseddirectly, the invoice document is displayed to allow the user to check it.




● External Reference Number Determination for Invoice DocumentsThere is a new fine-tune activity External Reference Number Determination for Customer Invoice which allowsyou to configure how the external reference number of an invoice document is determined. The configurationis based on the type of invoice and the context in which it is created.For more information, see Configuration: External Reference Number Determination for Customer Invoice.

● Display Negative Sign in Invoice DocumentsCustomer credit memo forms show all values by default with a positive sign. This can be globally changed inthe Display Negative Sign in Invoice Documents activity so that negative values will be displayed in the forms.For more information, see Configuration: Display Negative Sign in Invoice Documents.


Country Specific ChangesThe following functions have been changed:

● Automatic Legal Approval Request and Automatic Release After Approval - MexicoIn Mexico, customer invoices require an approval from the tax authorities before it is possible to release themin the system to subsequent processes, like financial accounting or to the customer. It is now possible torequest the release of a customer invoice which automatically triggers the legal approval process. Once theapproval is granted by the tax authorities, the system automatically changes the status of the invoicingdocuments from Approved to Released and releases the customer invoice.The user clicks the button Release button immediately after creation of a manual invoice or during creationof customer invoices for other predecessor documents as soon as the invoice request or invoice is consistent.If legal approval is required, instead of releasing the invoice, this action triggers the external approval processand automatically releases the invoice after approval is granted.

4.6 What's New in the Invoice Runs View

This document provides information about what’s new in the Invoice Runs view in SAP Business ByDesign FeaturePack 3.5.


● Invoice Run EditorThe invoice run editor has been changed to support more complex selection criteria for account, seller, andpredecessor document. Additionally, it is now possible to define a relative date selection, for example,selection of all invoice requests with a proposed invoice date lower or equal to current date plus offset. Theoffset is specified in days and may be positive for dates in the future and negative for dates in the past. Thecalculated date for selection is then based on the date of execution of the run.

4.7 What's New in the Recurring Invoice Templates View

This document provides information about what’s new in the Recurring Invoice Templates view in SAP BusinessByDesign Feature Pack 3.5.


● Change of Adresses in Manual Invoice DocumentsIn manual invoice documents, such as Manual Invoice Request, Manual Credit Memo Request, Down PaymentInvoice Request, and Recurring Invoice Request, the business partner addresses can be displayed andchanged from the usual screens using a hyperlink below the business partner. It is no longer necessary tonavigate to the Involved Parties tab for this purpose.



4.8 What's New in the Campaigns View

This document provides information about what's new in the Campaigns view of the Marketing work center in SAPBusiness ByDesign Feature Pack 3.5.


● Value Help in Campaign FieldIn leads, opportunities, sales quotes, and sales orders there will be a new Campaign field under the Generaltab – depicting the relationship to a specific campaign. In addition, a value help will be provided showing bydefault all active campaigns and an advanced find for further selection. Moreover, you can enter a personalizedresponse code that identifies the campaign as well as the account and contact.The document flow will display the campaign as a predecessor. If a follow-up document is created based onsuch a business document, it will automatically be assigned to the campaign as well. This new document willthen be linked to the campaign as described above. Moreover, the Campaign ID field in the document will beautomatically filled in the follow-up document.Some reports (such as Sales Order Volume) will also provide a new characteristic Campaign, enabling theend user to conduct further analysis (e.g. revenue generated due to a specific campaign).

● Multiple Response CreationWith the Multiple Response Creation functionality, it's now possible to create multiple activity-basedresponses (e.g. phone call, e-Mail, fax, or letter) within one single UI. You can access the UI in two ways: ○ Marketing work center, via Common Tasks

○ Campaigns view, via Create Responses

What Has ChangedThe following function has changed:

● Campaign Response Key FiguresTo reflect the process integration, the campaign response key figures have been enhanced, with the followingnow available: ○ Number of Activities ○ Number of Leads ○ Number of Opportunities ○ Number of Sales Quotes ○ Sales Order Volume ○ Number of Non-Responders ○ Response Rate

See AlsoWhat's New in the Leads View [page 54]What's New in the Leads View [page 56]What's New in the Sales Order View [page 57]What's New in the sales Quote View [page 56]Campaigns Quick Guide


Quick Guide for Leads (in Marketing)Sales Order Quick GuideSales Quote Quick Guide

4.9 What's New in the Leads View

This document provides information about what's new in the Leads view of the Marketing and New Business workcenters in SAP Business ByDesign Feature Pack 3.5.


● Value Help in Leads FieldIn leads there will be a new Campaign field under the General tab – depicting the relationship to a specificcampaign. In addition, a value help will be provided showing by default all active campaigns and an advancedfind for further selection. Moreover, you can enter a personalized response code that identifies the campaignas well as the account and contact.The document flow will display the campaign as a predecessor. If a follow-up document is created based onsuch a business document, it will automatically be assigned to the campaign as well. This new document willthen be linked to the campaign as described above. Moreover, the Campaign ID field in the document will beautomatically filled follow-up document.The Number of Leads report will also provide a new characteristic Campaign, enabling the end user to conductfurther analysis (e.g. revenue generated due to a specific campaign).

● New TabsIn Leads view in the Marketing and New Business work centers, the following tabs are new: ○ Items ○ Involved Parties ○ Document Flow ○ Changes ○ Attachments

See AlsoWhat's New in the Campaigns View [page 53]Campaigns Quick GuideQuick Guide for Leads (in Marketing)Quick Guide for Leads (in New Business)

4.10 What's New in the Reports View

This document provides information about what's new in the Reports view of the Marketing work center in SAPBusiness ByDesign Feature Pack 3.5.



What Is NewThe following is new:

● Target Group Analysis ReportThis report will enable analytical reporting of Target Group data, providing numerous attributes.

See AlsoTarget Group Analysis

4.11 What's New in the Response Options View

This document provides information about what's new in the Response Options view of the Marketing work centerin SAP Business ByDesign Feature Pack 3.5.


● Response Option Descriptions in all Languages can be Displayed and MaintainedFor Response Options, it's now possible to display and maintain the response option descriptions in alllanguages via Show all Languages on the Edit screen. In previous releases, only the description in the user'slogon language was visible and could be edited.

4.12 What's New in the Target Groups View

This document provides information about what's new in the Target Groups view of the Marketing work center inSAP Business ByDesign Feature Pack 3.5.



The following changes in the Business Configuration work center are relevant for this area or topic. You can performbusiness configuration settings in the Business Configuration Implementation Projects view.The following function has changed:

● Target GroupsThis function (maximum size check in target group against the maximum possible target group members)was eliminated because the technical ability of third-party tools (mail merge functionality based on campaignexcel export file) was enhanced.


4.13 What's New in the Leads View

This document provides information about what's new in the Leads view of the Marketing and New Business workcenters in SAP Business ByDesign Feature Pack 3.5.


● Value Help in Leads FieldIn leads there will be a new Campaign field under the General tab – depicting the relationship to a specificcampaign. In addition, a value help will be provided showing by default all active campaigns and an advancedfind for further selection. Moreover, you can enter a personalized response code that identifies the campaignas well as the account and contact.The document flow will display the campaign as a predecessor. If a follow-up document is created based onsuch a business document, it will automatically be assigned to the campaign as well. This new document willthen be linked to the campaign as described above. Moreover, the Campaign ID field in the document will beautomatically filled follow-up document.The Number of Leads report will also provide a new characteristic Campaign, enabling the end user to conductfurther analysis (e.g. revenue generated due to a specific campaign).

● New TabsIn Leads view in the Marketing and New Business work centers, the following tabs are new: ○ Items ○ Involved Parties ○ Document Flow ○ Changes ○ Attachments

See AlsoWhat's New in the Campaigns View [page 53]Campaigns Quick GuideQuick Guide for Leads (in Marketing)Quick Guide for Leads (in New Business)

4.14 What's New in the Sales Quotes View

This document provides information about what's new in the Sales Quotes view of the New Business work center inSAP Business ByDesign Feature Pack 3.5.


● Pricing Date Maintenance



A new field Pricing Date is available on the pricing UI in sales and service documents. This date is used tocontrol pricing based on time-dependent price master data.

● Gross PricingYou can use a gross pricing in either sales order or sales quote for products and standardized services.For more information, see Gross Pricing

● Price Component Descriptions ChangeableIn the pricing result of a sales or service document, the price components description can now be manuallychanged. If such a description is changed, this description is considered in the output of forms and will alsobe copied to subsequent documents. Additionally, a rollover text on the description in the pricing view revealsthe price or discount list name from the price master data.

● Address Selection in Sales Order and Sales Quote on Item LevelYou can now select an existing master data address for either the ship-to party or service location on the itemlevel. Additionally, the addresses can be changed to a document address for the item's ship-to or servicelocation.

● Enhancements in Cost Determination in Sales Orders and Sales QuotesYou can now also use the product specifications when determining costs in sales orders or sales quotes.

● New Hidden Fields in Sales Quote and Sales OrderThere are new hidden fields at your disposal on item level: Product ID, Tax Code, and Tax Country.

● Enhanced Price HistoryThe action Price History in sales order and sales quote additionally shows the item pricing view for selectedsales documents. This overview helps to identify item discounts or surcharges in greater detail.

● New Field: CampaignIn leads, opportunities, sales quotes, and sales orders there will be a new Campaign field under General –depicting the relationship to a specific campaign. In addition, a value help will be provided showing by defaultall active campaigns and an advanced find for further selection. Moreover, you can enter a personalizedresponse code that identifies the campaign as well as the account and contact. The document flow will displaythe campaign as a predecessor. If a follow-up document is created based on such a business document, itwill automatically be assigned to the campaign as well. This new document will then be linked to the campaignas described above. Moreover, the Campaign ID field in the document will be automatically filled. Some reports(such as Sales Order Volume) will also provide a new characteristic Campaign, enabling the end user toconduct further analysis (such as revenue generated due to a specific campaign).

4.15 What's New in the Sales Orders View

This document provides information about what's new in the Sales Orders view of the Sales Orders work center inSAP Business ByDesign Feature Pack 3.5.


● Approval for Sales OrderYou can activate and define an approval process for sales orders.For more information, see Approval for Sales Order

● Complete DeliveryWhen creating a sales order, the user can request complete delivery. In case complete delivery is requested,the product availability check aligns all confirmations for the same ship-to party and requested date.


For more information, see Sales Orders Quick Guide ● Replace Product

If a product is not available you can choose the action Replace Product to search for alternatives products,product specifications, or ship-from locations, in order to replace the selected item based on projectedproduct quantities. For the search you can maintain the Horizon, that represents the time frame for whichthe projected product quantity is calculated. The Projected Quantity is calculated by the available stock plussupply minus demand, considering the horizon set (without considering the transport times and withoutconsidering the replenishment lead time).

● Pricing Date MaintenanceA new field Pricing Date is available on the pricing UI in sales and service documents. This date is used tocontrol pricing based on time-dependent price master data.

● Integration of Project Milestones into Invoice ScheduleFor project-based service items in sales orders, project milestones can be used in the invoice schedule. Allproject milestones that are linked to the sales order can be used. Invoicing is not triggered on a fixed date,but as soon as the milestone is set to completed.For more information, see Invoice Schedule


● External PaymentSales orders, created via an A2X service, (for example sales orders created through the Internet), supportthe payment method External Payment. This payment method indicates that the sales order will be externallysettled, for example via PayPal. This new payment method cannot be manually selected in the sales order.

● Credit Card EnhancementsIn case a sales order is created with payment method Credit Card, an additional security code check can beperformed. Furthermore, deleting authorization amounts is supported if the sales order is deleted or the creditcard is removed as a payment method.


● Time and Material Invoice Schedule for Project-Based ServicesInvoice schedules can be maintained for time and material project-based services in sales orders. As soon asthe invoice date is reached (or the milestone is completed in case of milestone invoicing), a time and materialproject invoice request is generated containing a total of all time and expenses that were provided up to theinvoice date.For more information, see Invoice Schedule

● Address Selection in Sales Order and Sales Quote on Item LevelYou can now select an existing master data address for either the ship-to party or service location on the itemlevel. Additionally, the addresses can be changed to a document address for the item's ship-to or servicelocation.

● Determination of the Delivery Status of Project-Based Services in Sales OrdersThe delivery status of a project-based service item in sales orders is updated based on the status of theassigned project task. Thus, if the project task is completed, the sales order item delivery status is set tofinished automatically.


● Enhancements in Sales Order Work List



Now you can also remove both the Invoice and Delivery Block in the sales order work list via the action button.Additionally, the delivery block can be part of the result list. This field can be added through personalization(hidden field). Furthermore, you can search for the Project ID in the advanced search for related sales ordersthat are connected to a project.

● New Hidden Fields in Sales Quote and Sales OrderThere are new hidden fields at your disposal on item level: Product ID, Tax Code, and Tax Country.

● Enhanced Rollover Text for ATP status iconAn enhanced rollover text is shown on the ATP icon in both the basic and detailed view of the sales orderitems. This information includes the first confirmation schedule line, as well as the full delivery date.Additionally, the user sees if a late delivery or an insufficient quantity leads to the yellow ATP result.


● Enhanced Print FormThe output form of the sales order confirmation shows the freight forwarder and milestones for projected-based services in the standard output form. In addition, the form message was enhanced to include productweights, volume, and the item type for optional printing requirements.

● New Field: CampaignIn leads, opportunities, sales quotes, and sales orders there will be a new Campaign field under General –depicting the relationship to a specific campaign. In addition, a value help will be provided showing by defaultall active campaigns and an advanced find for further selection. Moreover, you can enter a personalizedresponse code that identifies the campaign as well as the account and contact. The document flow will displaythe campaign as a predecessor. If a follow-up document is created based on such a business document, itwill automatically be assigned to the campaign as well. This new document will then be linked to the campaignas described above. Moreover, the Campaign ID field in the document will be automatically filled. Some reports(such as Sales Order Volume) will also provide a new characteristic Campaign, enabling the end user toconduct further analysis (such as revenue generated due to a specific campaign).

● Enhancements in Sales Orders for the Scenario Intercompany Project Time and ExpensesIf a sales order is created via B2B, and an intercompany scenario is detected (for example, the intercompanyscenario is scoped and the customer is a company within the same ByD system), an intercompany project isautomatically created and assigned to the sales order. A manual intercompany project creation is alsosupported in case the automatic creation failed. This intercompany project is then used for project invoicingof the intercompany time and expenses by the selling to the buying company.For more information, see Intercompany Project Time and Expenses

● New Web Services for Sales OrdersNew web services for sales orders have been created and published. The web services from previous releaseswill be deprecated and will eventually be removed at some later release. The new customers have to use thesenewly published web-services, which is Manage Sales Order In. Since the old web services will not be enhancedfurther the existing customers should consider migrating to the newly published web-services. Further detailscan be found in the published documentation.

● New Filter for Reporting of Sales OrdersYou can now additionally report on sales orders that are in status In Preparation using the report Sales OrderVolume.




The following changes in the Business Configuration work center are relevant for this area or topic. You can performbusiness configuration settings in the Business Configuration Implementation Projects view.The following functions have changed:

● Configure Pricing StrategyThere are enhancements for the fine tuning activity Configure Pricing Strategy. The Calculation Rule, the ScaleBase Type, and the Manual Change Allowed flag are now maintainable for certain price components.

● Scoping for FreightsIn scoping you can now change from net weight-dependent freight to a fixed amount freight or vice versa.

4.16 What's New in the Returns View

This document provides information about what's new in the Returns view of the Sales Orders work center in SAPBusiness ByDesign Feature Pack 3.5.


● Invoice Block in a Customer ReturnIn order to enable a sales representative make informed decisions before a credit memo is raised, the invoiceblock details from predecessor documents and the Business Partner is now available in a customer return.The invoice block is taken either from the Sales Order or from the Account, when a customer return is created.If the invoice is blocked, you can unblock and issue the credit memo if needed. It is also possible to set a creditmemo block [by assigning a reason for a credit memo] in customer return if no block was set in the relatedsales order and/or account.

● Free Text in a Customer Return Confirmation FormYou can now include individual free text in a customer return confirmation form. You can enter free text in acustomer return under General Customer Information . This text is automatically copied to the customerreturn confirmation form, so that the customer can get further information directly printed in the form.

See AlsoWhat's New in Customer Relationship Management [page 45]Returns Quick Guide

4.17 What's New in the Contracts View

This document provides information about what's new in the Contracts view of the Service Entitlements work centerin SAP Business ByDesign Feature Pack 3.5.


● Defaulting of List Prices in Price Agreements for Customer Contracts



When maintaining price agreements in a contract item with the invoicing method time and material, thesystem proposes a list price automatically when you click Add Row . The system proposes list prices asfollows: ○ For items of type Entitlement – Time and Material, the system proposes the list price of the corresponding

service or expense. ○ For items of types Service – Time and Material and Expense – Time and Material, the system proposes

the list price of the item. ● Item Type Switch

It is possible to change the item type of a customer contract item, for example from Entitlement - Time &Material to Entitlement - Fixed Price. Changing the item type is only possible before the item is released.

● Cost and Revenue Assignment of Contract Items to a Project TaskFor contract items, you can maintain additional information for cost and revenue assignment. If you areassigning the costs and revenues of an item to a project task, although it is possible to do this with a directcost project, we recommend that you use a multi-customer project task.It is not possible to assign an item to a customer project or overhead cost project, and project invoicing cannotbe used here.

● Enhancements in ExtensibilityCustomer specific extension fields can be transferred from master data (account and/or product) to thecustomer contract and from the customer contract to the service confirmation and customer invoice. Thesections Covered Products on contract header, and Entitled Product on contract item level can also beextended with customer specific fields.

● Output Form for Contract ConfirmationsThe customer contract supports an output form for contract confirmations. The confirmation can be printed,faxed, or sent to the customer as PDF-attachment by e-mail. A print preview can be opened out of the contractwork list or editor.For the United States, Mexico, and Canada, the local letter format is supported but no other country specificsare taken into account. For Germany, Switzerland, and China, there are no restrictions. All other countrieshave the same page size as Germany; no other country specifics are implemented.

See AlsoWhat's New in Customer Relationship Management [page 45]What's New in Customer Contracts [page 47]

4.18 What's New in the Account Hierarchies View

This document provides information about what's new in the Account Hierarchies view in SAP Business ByDesignFeature Pack 3.5.

What Is NewThe new work center view Account Hierarchies has been created in the Account Management work center. In thisview, you can display, create, edit, and find account hierarchies. The following functions are available:

● ExportYou can export account hierarchies to Microsoft Excel.

● LocateThe Locate function allows you to navigate to an account hierarchy directly.


● Expand and CollapseYou can expand and collapse individual account hierarchy nodes, or all account hierarchy nodes at once.

● Cut and PasteYou can cut and paste nodes within an account hierarchy or between account hierarchies.

● Graphical ViewIt is possible to display account hierarchies in a graphical view.

● Data MigrationIn the activity list of the Business Configuration work center, Integrate and Extend phase, the new activityMigration of Customer Hierarchies of type Data Migration has been created to migrate customer hierarchiesto the system via a Microsoft Excel-based initial load. You can download the Microsoft Excel template in thePrepare for Data Migration activity in the Prepare phase.

See AlsoAccount Hierarchies Quick GuideAccount Hierarchies

4.19 What's New in the Order Pipeline View

This document provides information about what's new in the Order Pipeline view of the Field Service and Repairwork center in SAP Business ByDesign Feature Pack 3.5.


● Inventory Check in Service ConfirmationsFor both pick-up or pre-delivery, spare part items confirmed in a service confirmation are checked againstinventory. It is not possible to release an item if the quantity reported in the service confirmation exceeds thecurrent inventory quantity of the spare part. In most cases, the service confirmation may be incorrect. Youcan also check for problems in the outbound delivery or the inventory/stock overview.

● Change in Item Table for Form Order to Service PerformerThe item table in form Order to Service Performer (Form Template Group: C33) has been changed. When youopen the form from the work list Order Pipeline for a sales order, an additional column Coverage is displayedin the standard form. Customer-specific forms are not affected. If it is not required, you can hide this columnin the Easy Form editor. Note that it is then also hidden in service orders.

See AlsoWhat's New in Customer Relationship Management [page 45]

4.20 What's New in the Registered Products View

This document provides information about what's new in the Registered Products view of the Service Entitlementswork center in SAP Business ByDesign Feature Pack 3.5.




● Scope of Search Parameters for Registered Products EnhancedFor the All Registered Products search option in the Show dropdown list only the following fields have beenused so far for the Find search function: ○ Registered Product ID ○ Registered Product Description ○ Reference Product ID ○ Reference Product Description ○ Account Name

Since the permitted number of search fields has been extended from five to ten, the Account ID field has nowbeen added to the search parameters.


4.21 What's New in the Service Order Processing View

This document provides information about what's new in the Service Order Processing view of the Service Orderswork center in SAP Business ByDesign Feature Pack 3.5.


● Assigning a Source of SupplyUnder Services and Spare Parts, click Assign Source of Supply to select a source for spare parts and serviceitems. For spare part items, you can change the proposed ship-from location by selecting a valid location. Forservice items, you can select a supplier from the proposals.

● Replacing ProductsUnder Services and Spare Parts, click Replace Product to search for alternative spare parts and replace thedefault item. The system displays the projected quantity for the alternative spare parts to support yourdecision process. In addition, you can display the earliest full delivery date. This is a hidden field which youcan activate using the Personalize feature.

● Enhancements to Credit Card ProcessingWhen you create a service order with payment method Credit Card, you can enter the credit card securitycode in addition to the credit card number.For more information on credit card payment in service orders, see here.

● Complete DeliveryUnder Delivery, you can request complete delivery for a product. This can be set as default in the accountmaster, with the possibility of manually overruling this default in the order. If complete delivery is requested,the available-to-promise (ATP) check aligns all confirmations. Also, you can choose to remove certain itemsfrom the delivery grouping. Note that Delivery is a hidden section. You can activate it using the Personalizefeature.


● Enhancement of Status InformationIn addition to the life cycle status in the header, there is an item life cycle status in the item list of the serviceorder quick activity and editor.The execution status in the item list has been hidden as default. You can display it using the Personalizefeature.The delivery, invoicing, service, and cancellation statuses on item level have been hidden in the quick activity,editor, fact sheet, and work list. You can display any of them using the Personalize feature. These statuseshave been added to the detail section of the service order item.


4.22 What's New in the Service Requests View

This document provides information about what's new in the Service Requests view of the Service Desk work centerin SAP Business ByDesign Feature Pack 3.5.


● Deletion of Service RequestIn a work list of service requests, it is possible to delete documents that are in status Open. This is only possiblefor service requests that do not have any follow-up documents.


4.23 What's New: Golden Tax — China

This document provides information about what's new for Golden Tax - China in SAP Business ByDesign FeaturePack 3.5.


● Customer Invoice SplitIf the net amount of a single item in a customer invoice exceeds the Golden Tax maximum amount, the itemis split into multiple items based on quantity so that no individual item exceeds the maximum Golden Taxmaximum amount.

● Selection of multiple customer invoices for Golden Tax Invoice ProcessingYou can select multiple customer invoices in the Invoice Documents view and mark them for Golden Taxprocessing.

● Security Control



If there are multiple companies in your org structure, the Golden Tax invoices of one company would not bevisible to a user of another company if the view restriction is correctly maintained on Company level for GoldenTax invoices.You can restrict the access management in the Application and User Management work center.

● Account Master Data EnhancementsYou can now maintain information for the Golden Tax used in China in the Accounts view of the BusinessPartner Data and the Account Management work centers.The Golden Tax File SJJK0101 that is generated from the SAP Business ByDesign system requires additionalinformation related to the account. This file is uploaded to the Golden Tax System to meet legal requirementsin China. The following fields have been added: ○ VAT Payer Type

The field becomes visible in the editor of the corporate account when you click General and select Chinaas the country for the account.

○ Golden Tax RelevantThe field becomes visible in the editor of the corporate account when you click Financial Data and then Bank Data and select China as the country for the account and the bank country.

○ Bank BranchThe field becomes visible in the editor of the corporate account when you click Financial Data and then Bank Data and select China as the country for the account and the bank country.

4.24 What's New: Invoice Processing – Mexico

This document provides information about what's new in Invoice Processing – Mexico in Business ByDesign FeaturePack 3.5.


● Upload Approval Information for Invoicing Documents Using Microsoft Excel — MexicoFor companies that use the Export Invoice Data method to issue invoices for its customers, a new feature isavailable that enables the user to mass update the invoices with approval information provided by the Mexicantax authority. In Common Tasks in Customer Invoicing work center, the user can access a predefined MicrosoftExcel template and enter all required approval data for each invoice and upload this information to the SAPBusiness ByDesign system.For more information, see Upload Approval Information for Invoicing Documents Using Microsoft Excel —Mexico

● Upload Supplier Invoices in XML Format – MexicoThis feature enables the user to upload XML files received from the suppliers and automatically create supplierinvoices in the system. The following steps are required: ○ In Application and User Management Input and Output Management File Input , create a file

input run of type Supplier Invoice Processing and upload the received XML files. ○ In Supplier Invoicing Work , verify the completeness of the automatically created supplier invoices

and enter missing required data. Once the supplier invoices are complete, release them as described inthe standard process.For more information, see Upload Supplier Invoices in XML Format – Mexico




The following changes in the Business Configuration work center are relevant for this area or topic. You can performbusiness configuration settings in the Business Configuration Implementation Projects view.The business topic Invoice Processing Methods — Mexico has been moved from the Sales business area –>CustomerInvoicing business package, Communication for Customer Invoicing business topic to a new business topic calledLegal Approval for Invoices under the Compliance business area.

4.25 What's New: ISR Processing – Switzerland

This document provides information about what's new in ISR (inpayment slip with reference) processing in BusinessByDesign Feature Pack 3.5.

What Is NewThe following function is new:SAP Business ByDesign ISR Print UtilityISR Print Utility is an application that allows you to configure printer settings to print ISR-relevant invoices on thecorrect paper. You can configure printer paper trays to print normal pages and preprinted pages (ISR pages)separately. The ISR Print Utility should be downloaded from Home Self Services and installed on your localcomputer. For more information, see SAP Business ByDesign ISR Print Utility.


● In Customer Invoicing, users can now choose the bank account to be used for ISR transactions from the listof ISR-relevant bank accounts, which have been maintained for your company.

● Additional validation checks were added to Liquidity Management Master Data My Banks and supplierbank details to ensure ISR data is consistent.

For more information, see ISR Processing – Switzerland.



The following changes in the Business Configuration work center are relevant for this area or topic. You can performbusiness configuration settings in the Business Configuration Implementation Projects view.Scoping for ISR Process



You can now enable or disable ISR processing in scoping. To do so, in the Scoping step, ensure that Payables andReceivables Processing is selected within Cash Flow Management. In the Questions step, expand the Cash FlowManagement scoping element and select Payables and Receivables Processing. Select Payments and Clearing andanswer the questions related to the ISR (inpayment slip with reference) process.

4.26 What's New: Tax Determination

This document provides information about what’s new in Tax Determination in SAP Business ByDesign Feature Pack3.5.




● Restructuring of Tax on Goods and Services Fine-Tune ActivityThe Tax on Goods and Services fine-tune activity contains several business configuration screens for taxcalculation, some of them for all supported countries, some of them for just a specific country. To improveusability these activities have been split into several activities: Tax on Goods and Services for general taxconfiguration and country-specific ones like Tax on Goods and Services – US or Tax on Goods and Services –FR containing fine-tune activities only valid for these specific countries. The latter ones are optional and needto be checked and maintained only if tax calculation for these countries is used.

● Business Configuration to Specify Taxability at Origination or Destination for Intra-State Sales or PurchaseIt is now possible to configure whether an intra-state sale or purchase in the United States is taxable at theorigination or destination, based on the region, company, business partner (customer or supplier), andproduct type. The new configuration is part of the Tax on Goods and Services - US fine-tune activity and iscalled Tax Jurisdiction Determination Rules. SAP delivers determination rules that lead to the same systembehavior as in SAP Business ByDesign Feature Pack 3.0. You may add more specific rules step by step, maychange the order of execution of the rules, and may even simulate if the configuration will result in the expectedtaxation.For more information, see Tax on Goods and Services US - Configuration Guide.

4.27 What's New: Pricing

This document provides information about what's new in Pricing for Customer Relationship Management in SAPBusiness ByDesign Feature Pack 3.5.


● Rollover Text for Price Master Data (in the Product and Service Portfolio Work Center)


Price master data allows you to see the released amount/value of partially released items of a price/discountlist and/or price specifications with the help of a new rollover text.

● Auto ApprovalIf a manager is authorized to approve price and discount lists, he can directly release the price or discountlist in the price master data view. This automatic approval is done without creating a business task if themanager himself releases the prices.

● Pricing Date MaintenanceA new field Pricing Date is available on the pricing UI in sales and service documents. This date is used tocontrol pricing based on time-dependent price master data.







The following changes in the Business Configuration work center are relevant for this area or topic. You can performbusiness configuration settings in the Business Configuration Implementation Projects view.The following functions have changed:

● Configure Pricing StrategyThere are enhancements for the fine tuning activity Configure Pricing Strategy. The Calculation Rule, the ScaleBase Type, and the Manual Change Allowed flag are now maintainable for certain price components.

● Scoping for FreightsIn scoping you can now change from net weight-dependent freight to a fixed amount freight or vice versa.



5 What's New in Human Resources

5.1 What's New in Human Resources

This document provides information about what's new in Human Resources in Business ByDesign Feature Pack 3.5.


● Personnel Administration Work Center: Regular Tasks ViewNew regular task Change Administrative Category. For more information, see What's New in the PersonnelAdministration Regular Tasks View [page 70].

● Resource Management Work Center: Resource Search ViewAvailability Calendar: Assign a resource to a project from the calendar and edit the project commitments ofall resources staffed in projects (or available for project assignments) in the calendar. For more informationsee: What's New in the Resource Search View [page 71].

● Time Administration Work Center: Employees ViewIn the Employees view, the time administrator can now assign the new time recording profile to individualemployees. For more information, see What's New in the Employees View (in Time Administration)[page 72].

● Time Administration Work Center: Time Recording ViewThe Time Recording view contains a new Messages view, which enables the time administrator to display andprocess errors and warning messages that are triggered by time valuation when certain irregularities aredetected in employees' time recording. For more information, see What's New in the Time Recording View(in Time Administration) [page 73].

● Time Administration Work Center: Time Models ViewFor information about what's new in the Time Models view, see What's New in the Time Models View[page 74].

Country-Specific ChangesThe following functions are new for specific countries:

● Personnel Administration Work Center: Regular Tasks and Employees Views ○ US

US employees only, new FLSA Status field. For more information see: What's New in the PersonnelAdministration Employees View [page 75].

○ MexicoMexican customers can now perform payroll hiring and compensation hiring for all their employees.

● Payroll Processing Work Center: Payroll Run View ○ Mexico

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An XML file based payroll download solution, which can be used by payroll providers, is available. Thiswill enable Mexican customers to generate a payroll file for all their employees for a particular payrollperiod.

○ AustriaA new sample XSLT transformation rule is available for Austria. This rule can be used as-is, or altered toobtain a human readable payroll file. After including this XSLT transformation rule the customer will getthe payroll file generated in both XML and Excel format.

● Social Insurance Number Checks — CanadaNew checks are now in place for Social Insurance numbers for Canadian employees. The system checks thatthe Social Insurance ID has the required number of digits, the correct format, and is not a duplicate.

● Time Administration Work Center: Time Recording View and Employees View — GermanyView Time Statement — GermanyFor Germany, there is a new View Time Statement function available in both the Employees view and the TimeRecording view. With it the time administrator can display, review, and print a time statement containingdetails of employees' recorded times for a selected month, the balances of certain time accounts, and whererelevant, daily postings to their working time accounts. For more information, see View Time Statement.

The following functions have been changed for specific countries: ● Personnel Administration Work Center: Employees View — Germany

For each German employee subject to ELSTER tax processing, the following two changes are delivered in SAPBusiness ByDesign Feature Pack FP3.5: ○ Employee Social Insurance Data From 01.12.2011 ○ Employee Tax Data From January 2012

For more information see: What's New in the Personnel Administration Employees View [page 75].

See AlsoWhat's New: Time Administration Analytics [page 76]What's New: Employee Self-Service Time Sheet [page 76]

5.2 What's New in the Personnel Administration Regular Tasks View

This document provides information about what's new in the Personnel Administration Regular Tasks view in SAPBusiness ByDesign Feature Pack FP3.5.


● Change Administrative CategoryThe Change Administrative Category activity is added to the Personnel Administration Regular Tasks view.This activity enables an HR administrator to change an employee's Administrative Category without beingforced to terminate and rehire the affected employee.

For US Employees only: The employee's FLSA Status is also displayed in this activity. It is deriveddirectly from the employee's Administrative Category.


What's New in Human Resources

See AlsoWhat's New in Human Resources [page 69]Quick Guide for Regular Tasks (in Personnel Administration)

5.3 What's New in the Resource Search View

This document provides information about what's new in the Resource Management Resource Search view in SAPBusiness ByDesign Feature Pack FP3.5.

PrerequisitesYou must have included the business packages Project Management and Time and Labor Management in your scopedBusiness ByDesign solution during Business Configuration to use the full functions offered by the AvailabilityCalendar. If you have scoped only one of these packages, the calendar is available, but with the following restrictions:

● If Time and Labor Management is not included in your solution, the calendar cannot display daily workschedules of employees, and employees' availability for any given day/date would be empty.

● If Project Management is not included in your solution, the calendar displays employees' availability but aResource Manager is not able to use the data in the calendar to assign employees to projects. In this situation,however, a Line Manager can still use the calendar to monitor the availability and utilization of his or her directreports.

Where Project Management is included in your solution, hard commitment of resources must also have been madeto the involved projects.



● Assign a Resource to a Project from the Availability CalendarFrom the Availability Calendar of a resource, click Assign To Project . A guided activity opens where you canassign the resource to a project, define an assigned project period, and maintain a value for the committedwork of the resource to the project. The resource is then included in the selected project team.


● Edit Resource CommitmentsAs a Resource, Project, or Line Manager, you can now edit the project commitments of all resources staffedin projects (or available for project assignments) in the Availability Calendar. As an Employee assigned toprojects in your company, you can also now use the Availability Calendar to edit your future commitmentsfor currently ongoing projects.


● Key Data UpdatesThe Availability Calendar now displays four key data elements:

● Total Commitment: Total amount of hours/days allocated to the Resource for the project ● Scheduled Commitment: Sum of project hours scheduled for the Resource between today’s date and

project end date ● To Be Rescheduled: Remaining Commitment minus Scheduled Commitment.

Any value not equal to zero indicates the number of hours/days that require rescheduling. A minusvalue means that the number of hours/days scheduled must be reduced, indicating for example, thatthe employee has worked more hours/days in the past than scheduled. A positive value shows thatthe number of hours/days scheduled must be increased, indicating for example, that the employeehas worked less hours/days in the past that scheduled.

● Remaining Commitment: Total Commitment minus the sum of work already performed in the project,as reported on the Resource’s time-sheet

See AlsoWhat's New in Human Resources [page 69]Working with the Availability Calendar

5.4 What's New in the Employees View (in Time Administration)

This document provides information about what's new in the Time Administration Employees view of SAP BusinessByDesign Feature Pack 3.5.


● Assignment of Time Recording ProfileThe time administrator can now assign a time recording profile to an employee in the employee's time file.This assignment is made on the Basic Data tab of the Time Profile tab.The new time recording profile enables companies to define different sets of time recording rules foremployees whose working time needs to be handled differently, for example based on their administrativecategory (hourly or salaried) or on whether they have working time accounts. In the time recording profileyou can define automatic minimum break deductions based on working time durations and automaticovertime calculation with premium pay assignment for an employee. For more information about timerecording profiles, see here.

Country-Specific ChangesThe following function is new for specific countries:

● View Time Statement — GermanyFor Germany, there is a new View Time Statement function in the Employees view that enables the timeadministrator to access an employee's monthly time statement containing time recording details for aselected month, details of daily postings to the working time account, where relevant, as well as selected timeaccount balances, balance adjustments, and premium pay details. The new function is also available for



employees as an employee self-service in the Home work center. For more information about the newfunction, see here.



1. The following changes in the Business Configuration work center are relevant for the Time Recording Profilefunction: ● You must perform the Maintain Time Recording Profile fine-tuning activity.

You perform business configuration settings in the Business Configuration ImplementationProjects view. Select your implementation project and click Open Activity List .In the Fine Tune phase, select the Time Types — <Country> activity and click Maintain Time RecordingProfile. For more information about this task, see here.

2. The following prerequisite in the Business Configuration work center is relevant for the Time Statementfunction, which is only available for Germany: ● The scoping question under Time Recording Self-Services regarding the activation of the time statement

function for employees has been answered with Yes.

See AlsoWhat's New in Human Resources [page 69]What's New: Employee Self-Service Time Sheet [page 76]

5.5 What's New in the Time Recording View (in Time Administration)

This document provides information about what's new in the Time Administration Time Recording view of SAPBusiness ByDesign Feature Pack 3.5.


● Messages ViewThe Time Recording view contains a new Messages view, which enables the time administrator to display andprocess errors and warning messages that are triggered by time valuation when certain irregularities aredetected in employees' time recording. Irregularities can occur, for example, when there are no times at allrecorded for a day or when there are core time violations. From the Messages view, the time administratorcan open the employee's time sheet to analyze and correct time entries. For more information about how toprocess warning and errors in this view, see here.

Country-Specific ChangesThe following function is new for specific countries:

● View Time Statement — Germany


For Germany, there is a new View Time Statement function in both the Time Sheet and Calendar/List viewsof the Time Recording view that enables the time administrator to access an employee's monthly timestatement containing time recording details for a selected month, details of daily postings to the working timeaccount, where relevant, as well as selected time account balances, balance adjustments, and premium paydetails. The new function is also available for employees as an employee self-service in the Home work center.For more information about the new function, see here.



The following prerequisite in the Business Configuration work center is relevant for the Time Statement function,which is only available for Germany:

● The scoping question under Time Recording Self-Services regarding the activation of the time statementfunction for employees has been answered with Yes.

See AlsoWhat's New in Human Resources [page 69]What's New in the Time Models View [page 74]What's New: Employee Self-Service Time Sheet [page 76]

5.6 What's New in the Time Models View

This document provides information about what's new in the Time Models view of SAP Business ByDesign FeaturePack 3.5.


● New Time Type: Core TimeThe new time type allows you to define time periods during which employees have to be present at work. Ifyour company has a flextime policy, you can use this new time type when you define daily models and individualwork schedules. The time type is automatically available for selection when you define a daily model orindividual work schedule. For more information, see Create a Daily Model.In connection with the new time type, a new automatic check has been introduced that identifies core timeviolations in employees' time recording and notifies the time administrator of these in the new Messagessubview of the Time Recording view.

See AlsoWhat's New in Human Resources [page 69]Process Time Recording Messages



5.7 What's New in the Personnel Administration Employees View

This document provides information about what's new in the Personnel Administration Employees view in SAPBusiness ByDesign Feature Pack FP3.5.

What Is NewUnder Employment —> Work Agreement , the following functions are new:

● For US Employees only: A new field FLSA Status is introduced in the Clauses section of the Personnel File. Itis also displayed in the Clauses table list.

What Has ChangedUnder Employment —> Work Agreement , the following functions have been changed:

● Personnel File: Employment TabThe Administrative Category and Work Agreement fields are moved into the Clauses section of the file, withAdministrative Category now also displayed in the Clauses table list.

You must use the Personnel Administration regular task Change Administrative Category to amendan employee's Administrative Category. You cannot perform this action in an employee's PersonnelFile. For more information on this regular task, see under Tasks, in the Quick Guide for Regular Tasks(in Personnel Administration).

Required ActionsFor each German employee subject to ELSTER tax processing, the following two changes are delivered in SAPBusiness ByDesign Feature Pack FP3.5:

● Employee Social Insurance Data From 01.12.2011Under Social Insurance Data —> Social Insurance , a new DEUEV key for German employees is introduced.Six new DEUEV fields in the Personnel File must be maintained to fill the new DEUEV key: ○ Function (5 digit) ○ Occupation (3 digit) ○ Certificate (1 digit) ○ Vocational Training (1 digit) ○ Leasing Personnel (1 digit) ○ Contract Form (1 digit)

The Function and Occupation fields are combined in the Personnel File.

Three existing fields are deleted: ○ Activity Key (3 digit) ○ Professional Status (1 digit) ○ Education/Training (1 digit)


The old notification codes with 3 + 1 + 1 digits are replaced by 5 + 3 +1 + 1 +1 +1 digits. In summary, as theOccupation code is not sent to the Social Insurance Funds, this change is an enhancement of the DEUEV keyfrom 5 to 9 digits.

● Employee Tax Data From January 2012The Tax Identification Number must be maintained for each German employee and the Main Employmentcheckbox selected if this job is the employee’s main employment. This checkbox is selected by default.

See AlsoWhat's New in Human Resources [page 69]The Personnel File

5.8 What's New: Time Administration Analytics

This document provides information about what's new in the Time Administration Analytics area in SAP BusinessByDesign Feature Pack 3.5.


● New Report Employee Times: Overtime OverviewThe new report provides an overview of overtime and includes several new key figures. For more information,see here.


● Time Accounts ReportThere are two new key figures available for this report: ○ Balance shows the balance at the end of the reporting period. In the event of an organizational change

of an employee within the reporting period, the balance at the end of the period is shown for theorganizational unit to which the employee belongs at the end of the period.

○ Interim Balance displays the time account balance after each posting.

The time accounts report now shows time account balances even if there are no postings in the reporting period.

See AlsoWhat's New in Human Resources [page 69]

5.9 What's New: Employee Self-Service Time Sheet

This document provides information about what's new in the Employee Self-Service Time Sheet in SAP BusinessByDesign Feature Pack 3.5.




● Intercompany Time RecordingIt is now possible to perform intercompany project time (and expense) recording, which allows partnercompanies that belong to the same corporate group and that are technically working in the same SAPBusiness ByDesign system to efficiently work together on projects. In the context of the ESS Time Sheet thismeans that employees can now record work done for a project from a partner company within the same SAPBusiness ByDesign tenantWhen an employee is staffed on a project, the ESS Time Sheet worklist is automatically updated with theplanned work package. When time is recorded against the work package, the system automaticallydetermines the purchase order item from the service of the work package and the correspondingintercompany project. For information about the overall process, see Intercompany Project Time andExpenses. For more information about confirming time on intercompany projects, see Edit Time Sheet.


● Worklist EnhancementsThe worklist has several enhancements that facilitate working in the Time Sheet. New work packages assignedto the employee are automatically shown in the worklist and in the tasks view of the ESS Time Sheet. Usingthe new Manage My Worklist function, employees can control visibility of work packages and time types inthe worklist. Changes made to the contents of the worklist are updated in parallel in the Time Sheet and viceversa.

● Additional Admissible Organizational Units in Time RecordingEmployees can record times on projects even if they are not explicitly on the project staffing list. It is sufficientif any organizational unit to which they belong, whether functional unit, cost center or reporting line unit, isassigned to the project. Previously, this function was limited to organizational units that are functional units.It has been extended to include cost centers and reporting line units.

● Handling of Unplanned Project Tasks in Time RecordingWhen employees need to add a work package to their worklist to which they are not already assigned, theydo not need to search for a service product for the project task. The service product will be defaulted if thereis one unassigned work package for this task and the employee is not assigned to any other work package ofthis task.

See AlsoWhat's New in Human Resources [page 69]


6 What's New in Supply Chain Management

6.1 What's New in Supply Chain Management

This document provides information about what's new in the Supply Chain Management area of SAP BusinessByDesign Feature Pack 3.5.

What Is NewThe following functions are new:MANUFACTURING, WAREHOUSING, AND LOGISTICSThird-Party Logistics

● New Third-Party Logistics Work CenterThe Third-Party Logistics work center is new. It provides you with the functions you need to connect yourBusiness ByDesign system to a system of your third-party logistics provider. You retain full responsibility forthe purchasing, sales, and fulfillment processes including invoicing — only the warehouse execution (includingtransportation) is outsourced to your warehouse provider.For more information, see What’s New: Third-Party Logistics Work Center [page 82].

● Payload Formatted Display for Incoming Third-Party Logistics B2B MessagesFrom the Business Communication Monitoring common task in the Third-Party Logistics work center, you canshow the payload for specific incoming B2B messages in a formatted display. The relevant B2B messagesare: ○ Inbound Delivery Execution Confirmation ○ Outbound Delivery Execution Confirmation ○ Inventory Notifications

Physical Inventory and Internal Logistics ● Inventory Balance and Inventory Balance Details Reports

These two new reports are now available in the Physical Inventory and Internal Logistics work centers. Thereports provide details of a customer’s opening and ending balance of inventory as well as details of incomingand outgoing inventory at a particular location and logistics area. The reports are used to pinpoint the causeof any discrepancies between the physical inventory count and the count in the system.For more information see, Inventory Balance and Inventory Balance Details .

Third-Party Order Fulfillment ● Create Third-Party Delivery Notification from Original Common Task

The new Create Third-Party Delivery Notification from Original common task is now available in the Third-PartyOrder Fulfillment work center. This task enables you to create a new delivery notification in a third-partyordering process by uploading the delivery note data as a plain text file (.txt). The system recognizes therequired data and fills in the corresponding fields in the delivery notification with this data.

Inbound Logistics, Third-Party Order Fulfillment and Third-Party Logistics ● Multiple Acknowledged Schedule Lines in Inbound Logistics

In a purchase order acknowledgement, you can now create multiple acknowledged schedule lines. In theInbound logistics work center, the Delivery Schedule indicator shows whether a delivery schedule with multiple


What's New in Supply Chain Management

delivery dates has been acknowledged by a supplier. The system displays the earliest delivery date with anopen quantity as Purchase Order Delivery Date.When creating a delivery notification and posting the goods receipt, the system reacts as follows: ○ If a delivery schedule for the PO item exists, the system proposes the open quantity expected by today. ○ If no delivery schedule exists, the system proposes the total open quantity of the item.

The delivery schedule with multiple acknowledged schedule lines is displayed in the following work centerviews: ○ Purchase Orders view of the Inbound Logistics work center ○ Third-Party Purchase Orders view of the Third-Party Order Fulfillment work center ○ Purchase Orders view of the Third-Party Logistics work center

For more information, see: ○ What’s New in the Purchase Orders View [page 83]What’s New in the Purchase Orders View

[page 99] ○ Delivery Schedules with Multiple Schedule Lines (in Inbound Logistics)

Quality Planning ● New Quality Documents View

The new Quality Documents view enables users to create and process (upload, find, edit, share, and delete)quality documents. For more information, see Quality Documents.

PRODUCT LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENTProduct Development

● New Automated ActionsThe following two mass data runs have been introduced as automated actions: ○ Product Design Consistency Check Run

This mass data run corrects inconsistencies, which occurred due to sequencing issues during uploadfrom an external system.

○ Product Design Release RunThis mass data run allows a complete product design hierarchy to be released or converted intoproduction BoMs.

For more information, see Quick Guide for Automated Actions (in Product Development).

SUPPLY CHAIN PLANNING AND CONTROLDemand Planning

● New Data Source for Demand PlanningYou now have the option to create a report to download the demand plan data into Microsoft Excel. You usethe Demand Plan Report data source and assign the report to a work center with a Reports view, such asSupply Planning. For more information, see Design Reports.

Supply Planning and Outbound Logistics Control ● Complete Delivery Process

Due to the new complete delivery process, several new elements have been added to the screens. For moreinformation, see: ○ What's New in the Customer Demand View [page 83] ○ What's New in the Delivery Due List View [page 85] ○ What's New in the Confirmation Update Runs View [page 85] ○ What's New: Complete Delivery [page 86]

Supply Control

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● Complete Delivery Information Added to Monitor Purchase Requests ViewFor more information, see What's New in the Monitor Purchase Requests View [page 87].

● Third-Party Logistics Information and Delivery Schedule Information Added to Monitor Purchase Orders ViewFor more information, see What’s New in the Monitor Purchase Orders View [page 87].

SUPPLY CHAIN SETUP MANAGEMENTWarehousing and Logistics Master Data, and Planning and Production Master Data

● Enable Non-Specified Identified Stock AllocationIn the Identified Stock view, the scope of allocation (a definition of the type of stock reservation) can now beset as Specific Stock or Non-Specified Identified Stock. ○ Specific Stock means that the stock reservation is done for a specific identified stock. This is the allocation

scope used by default. ○ Non-Specified Identified Stock means that the stock reservation is done at the product level. When using

this allocation scope, the allocation process allocates a requested quantity without specifying a concreteidentified stock. The identified stock can be determined by the user at a later stage, when performingthe actual execution.

● Material Valuation Level Displayed for Identified StocksIn the Identified Stock view, valuation levels define the granularity at which inventory valuation is calculated.Material valuation is defined in the material master data. If an identified stock has no product specification,it has by default the Business Residence valuation level type.If you change the valuation level, the change will only apply to an identified stock that meets both the followingconditions: ○ The valuation level was changed before the identified stock was activated. ○ No other active identified stock exists with a different product valuation level for the same combination

of product and product specification.

All identified stocks with the same product and product specification combination will have the same productvaluation level, and this is determined when the first of these identified stocks is activated. Identified stocksthat existed before the change continue to be valued at the previously defined level.

Planning and Production Master Data ● BoM Filtering in Production Bill of Material View

In the past, in the BoM maintenance screen, the user viewed all the components irrespective of its validitydate including unused components that are not relevant to production of the output-product. Now BoMmaintenance with a filtered view enables the user to immediately see and work on those input-products(components) that are currently used for producing the output-product. The BoM input-products list isfiltered by the current date (default) or by a user-selected date in order to list only the relevant components.

MANUFACTURING, WAREHOUSING, AND LOGISTICS, and SUPPLY CHAIN SETUP MANAGEMENTInternal Logistics, Outbound Logistics, and Supply Chain Design Master Data

● Non-Specified Identified Stock AllocationThe scope of allocation (a definition of the type of stock reservation) can now be set as Specific Stock or Non-Specified Identified Stock.Specific Stock means that the stock reservation is done for a specific identified stock. This is the allocationscope used by default. Non-Specified Identified Stock means that the stock reservation is done at the productlevel. When using this allocation scope, the allocation process allocates a requested quantity withoutspecifying a concrete identified stock. The identified stock can be determined by the user at a later stage,when performing the actual execution. The Allocation Scope field is part of the Internal Logistics work center Task Control view , Outbound Logistics work center Task Control view , and Supply Chain DesignMaster Data work center Locations view .



For more information about allocation scope, see Storage Constraints in the Logistics Source and DestinationServices document.

What Has ChangedThe following functions have been changed:MANUFACTURING, WAREHOUSING, AND LOGISTICSExecution, Internal Logistics, and Outbound Logistics

● Logistics Source Value Help for Task ConfirmationThe value help for the Logistics Area Source field of the Task Confirmation screen has been changed. Thescreen is accessible from the following views: ○ Internal Warehouse Tasks view of the Execution work center ○ Outbound Warehouse Tasks view of the Execution work center ○ Task Control view of the Internal Logistics work center ○ Task Control view of the Outbound Logistics work center

When accessing the value help for the logistics area source field, the available quantity that is displayed nowcontains the allocated quantity for the document. Previously, the value help for the logistics area source fieldonly displayed the available quantity, without considering the quantity already allocated for the document.

SUPPLY CHAIN PLANNING AND CONTROLSupply Planning and Outbound Logistics Control

● Display of Release Dialog Box Changed in Customer Demand ViewFor more information, see What's New in the Customer Demand View [page 83].

● Number of Not Released Items No Longer Displayed in Release Due Deliveries Run ScreenThe number of items that were not released is no longer displayed on the General tab of the Application Logof the Release Due Deliveries Run screen. An error message is displayed instead.

Supply Control ● Planned Order Date, Planned Delivery Date, and Time Zone Search Parameters Changed in Advanced Search

in Monitor Purchase Requests ViewFor more information, see What's New in the Monitor Purchase Requests View [page 87].

● Authorization for Product Planning Details Screen from Monitor Purchase Orders View ChangedFor more information, see What’s New in the Monitor Purchase Orders View [page 87].



The following changes in the Business Configuration work center are relevant for this area or topic. You can performbusiness configuration settings in the Business Configuration Implementation Projects view.MANUFACTURING, WAREHOUSING, AND LOGISTICSInbound Logistics and Third-Party Logistics

● New: Document Numbering Formats for Inbound DeliveryThis is a new activity which enables you to determine how your inbound logistics documents (such as supplierdeliveries, customer returns, and stock transfers) are numbered. You can create formats using prefixes andseparators according to your company’s requirements. You can create numbering formats for:


○ Internal Delivery IDThe system assigns an internal delivery ID when an inbound delivery is created in Business ByDesign.The definition of specific rules for the numbering of internal delivery IDs is optional. If no specific rule hasbeen defined the system, applies default rules and your documents are numbered automatically startingwith the number 1.

○ External Delivery IDIn a third-party logistics scenario, the definition of specific rules for each warehouse provider ismandatory. The warehouse provider must follow this numbering format when assigning the externaldelivery ID.

For more information, see Configuration: Document Numbering Formats for Inbound Delivery.

Outbound Logistics and Third-Party Logistics ● New: Document Numbering Formats for Outbound Delivery

This is a new activity which enables you to determine how your outbound logistics documents (such as forstandard deliveries, stock transfers, and return to supplier deliveries) are numbered. You can create formatsusing prefixes and separators according to your company’s requirements. You can create numbering formatsfor: ○ Internal Delivery ID

The system assigns an internal delivery ID when an outbound delivery is created in Business ByDesign.The definition of specific rules for the numbering of internal delivery IDs is optional. If no specific rule hasbeen defined the system, applies default rules and your documents are numbered automatically startingwith the number 1.

○ External Delivery IDIn a third-party logistics scenario, the definition of specific rules for each warehouse provider ismandatory. The warehouse provider must follow this numbering format when assigning the externaldelivery ID.

For more information, see Configuration: Document Numbering Formats for Outbound Deliveries.

6.2 What's New: Third-Party Logistics Work Center

This document provides information about what's new in Third-Party Logistics in Business ByDesign Feature Pack3.5.

What Is NewThe Third-Party Logistics work center is new. It provides you with the functions you need to connect your BusinessByDesign system to a system of your third-party logistics provider. You retain full responsibility for the purchasing,sales, and fulfillment processes including invoicing — only the warehouse execution (including transportation) isoutsourced to your warehouse provider. The warehouse provider, therefore, organizes all inbound and outbounddeliveries and keeps you informed of all goods movements by means of business-to-business communication (B2Bmessages). Your warehouse provider also keeps you up to date with any internal inventory changes andcommunicates any such changes by sending you inventory notifications.To include the Third-Party Logistics work center in your scope, you must select the Third-Party Logistics businesstopic in the Execution Design business package.



You can outsource all or a part of your warehouse activities. If you outsource all of your warehousingactivities, select the Third-Party Logistics business topic only. If you have internally and externally-managedlocations, you have to select the Warehouse and Production Layout business topic as well as the Third-PartyLogistics business topic.

For more information, see ● Quick Guide for Purchase Orders in Third-Party Logistics ● Quick Guide for Inbound Delivery Notifications in Third-Party Logistics ● Quick Guide for Inbound Deliveries in Third-Party Logistics ● Quick Guide for Delivery Proposals in Third-Party Logistics ● Quick Guide for Delivery Requests in Third-Party Logistics ● Quick Guide for Third-Party Logistics Requests ● Quick Guide for Outbound Deliveries in Third-Party Logistics ● Quick Guide for Inventory Notifications

6.3 What's New in the Purchase Orders View

This document provides information about what's new in the Purchase Orders view of SAP Business ByDesign FP3.5.

What Is New

● Delivery Schedule in Purchase Order AcknowledgmentYou can now enter more than one delivery schedule line in the purchase order acknowledgment. Theseschedule lines are transferred into the purchase order and subsequent documents such as the inbounddelivery.For more information, see Create a Purchase Order Acknowledgment with Delivery Schedule.

What Has Changed

● Asset ProcurementIt is possible to create new individual materials directly in the purchase order and assign them to a fixed assetin Financial Management.For more information, see Asset Procurement in Purchasing and What's new: Required Actions after Upgrade[page 9].

6.4 What's New in the Customer Demand View

This document provides information about what’s new in the Customer Demand view of the Outbound LogisticsControl work center or the Supply Planning work center of SAP Business ByDesign Feature Pack 3.5.



● Introduction of complete delivery processDue to the new complete delivery process, several new elements have been added to the screens: ○ Show option and grouping criterion added

The Complete Delivery Orders show option has been added to the Customer Demand screen to help youselect complete delivery orders.The Delivery Group grouping criterion has been added to the Customer Demand screen. It comprises theOrder ID, Delivery Group ID, and Group Availability Status fields.

○ Hidden search parameter added to Advanced SearchComplete Delivery Order has been added as a hidden search parameter to all queries but the CompleteDelivery Orders query.

○ Indicator and hidden column addedThe Complete Delivery Order indicator has been added to the General tab on the Customer Demandscreen and the Delivery Group hidden column has been added to the Customer Demand screen.

○ Indicator, grouping criterion and hidden column added on Sales Order Logistics Details screen andService Order Logistics Details screenThe Complete Delivery Order indicator has been added to the Sales Order Logistics Details Overviewscreen and the Service Order Logistics Details Overview screen. It has also been added to the Generaltab of the Sales Order Logistics Details screen and of the Service Order Logistics Details screen.The Delivery Group grouping criterion and the Delivery Group hidden column have been added to theSales Order Logistics Details screen and the Service Order Logistics Details screen.

○ New action on Sales Order Logistics Details screen and Service Order Logistics Details screenThe actions for switching off complete delivery temporarily and for switching it back on again have beenadded to the Sales Order Logistics Details screen and the Service Order Logistics Details screen. You canuse this action to see what the confirmed dates and quantities of the individual items of an order wouldlook like if they were not combined in a delivery group, that is, if their dates were not aligned. For moreinformation, see Customer Demand Quick Guide.

○ Indicator and columns added to Stock Transfer Order screensThe Complete Delivery Order indicator has been added to the New Stock Transfer Order screen and tothe General tab on the Stock Transfer Order Logistics Details screen.The Delivery Group hidden column has been added to the New Stock Transfer Order screen and to theStock Transfer Order Logistics Details screen.The Delivery Rule column has been added to the Line Items tab on the New Stock Transfer Order screenand to the Line Items tab on the Stock Transfer Order Logistics Details screen.


● Display of Release dialog boxThe dialog box that appears when you click Release on the Customer Demand screen is only displayed if youselect more than one item to be released or if the item you selected has more than one confirmed scheduleline.

See AlsoComplete Delivery Orders



6.5 What's New in the Delivery Due List View

This document provides information about what’s new in the Delivery Due List view of the Outbound LogisticsControl work center of SAP Business ByDesign Feature Pack 3.5.


● Introduction of complete delivery processDue to the new complete delivery process, several new elements have been added to the screens: ○ Show option and grouping criterion added

The Complete Delivery Orders show option has been added to the Delivery Due List screen to help youselect complete delivery orders. Note that the list only shows order items of a delivery group if all itemsof the group can be released. For more information, see Delivery Due List Quick Guide.The Delivery Group grouping criterion has been added to the Delivery Due List screen. It comprises theOrder ID and Delivery Group ID fields.

○ Hidden search parameter added to Advanced SearchComplete Delivery Order has been added as a hidden search parameter to all queries but the CompleteDelivery Orders query.

○ Indicator and hidden column addedThe Complete Delivery Order indicator has been added to the item details section on the Delivery DueList screen.The Delivery Group hidden column has been added to the Delivery Due List screen.


6.6 What's New in the Confirmation Update Runs View

This document provides information about what’s new in the Confirmation Update Runs view of the OutboundLogistics Control work center or the Supply Planning work center of SAP Business ByDesign Feature Pack 3.5.


● Introduction of complete delivery processThe sorting criterion Items for Complete Delivery First has been added to the Sorting Parameters section ofthe Confirmation Update Run screen. You can use this criterion to give items of complete delivery orderspriority over other items. For more information, see Quick Guide for Confirmation Update Runs.



6.7 What's New: Complete Delivery

This document provides information about what's new in Complete Delivery in SAP Business ByDesign Feature Pack3.5.


● New fields, columns, and checkboxesDue to the new complete delivery process, several new elements have been added to the following views: ○ Accounts view

The Complete Delivery checkbox has been added to the sales data in the Accounts view of the BusinessPartner Data work center and the Account Management work center. For more information, see What'sNew: Business Partner [page 102]What's New: Business Partner [page 102].

○ Sales Orders viewFor more information, see What's New in the Sales Orders View [page 57].

○ Customer Demand viewFor more information, see What's New in the Customer Demand View [page 83].

○ Delivery Due List viewFor more information, see What's New in the Delivery Due List View [page 85].

○ Confirmation Update Runs viewThe sorting criterion Items for Complete Delivery First has been added. For more information, see What'sNew in the Confirmation Update Runs View [page 85].

○ Monitor Purchase Requests viewThe Complete Delivery Order indicator has been added to the Monitor Purchase Requests view of theSupply Control work center. For more information, see What's New in the Monitor Purchase RequestsView [page 87].

○ Delivery Control viewFor more information, see What's New in the Delivery Control view.

○ Warehouse Requests viewThe Complete Delivery Order indicator has been added to the warehouse request planning details in theWarehouse Requests view of the Outbound Logistics work center.

○ Task Control viewThe Complete Delivery Order indicator has been added to the warehouse task execution details in theTask Control view of the Outbound Logistics work center.

○ Monitoring viewThe Complete Delivery Order indicator has been added to the warehouse request planning details in theMonitoring: By Warehouse Request view of the Outbound Logistics work center.




6.8 What's New in the Monitor Purchase Requests View

This document provides information about what’s new in the Monitor Purchase Requests view of the SupplyControl work center of SAP Business ByDesign Feature Pack 3.5.


● Introduction of complete delivery processThe Complete Delivery Order indicator has been added to the Request Details tab on the Monitor PurchaseRequests screen and to the Purchase Order Planning Details Overview screen.


● Planned Order Date and Planned Delivery Date search parameters in Advanced SearchIn previous releases, it was possible to define a specific time for the search parameters Planned Order Dateand Planned Delivery Date in the Advanced Search of the Monitor Purchase Requests view. This is no longerpossible.

● Time Zone search parameter in Advanced SearchIn previous releases, it was possible to define more than one value for the Time Zone search parameter. Sincethis does not make sense, it is no longer possible.


6.9 What's New in the Monitor Purchase Orders View

This document provides information about what’s new in the Monitor Purchase Orders view of the Supply Controlwork center of SAP Business ByDesign Feature Pack 3.5.


● Third-Party Logistics information added


The warehouse provider and the externally-managed location are displayed in the new section groupWarehouse Provider Information on the General tab of the Purchase Order Logistics Details screen if thepurchase order is to be shipped to an externally-managed warehouse.For more information, see Outbound Delivery Processing in Third-Party Logistics.

● Delivery schedule information addedThe Delivery Schedule tab has been added to the detail section on the Monitor Purchase Orders screen andto the details section of the Line Items tab of the Purchase Order Logistics Details screen. It shows the purchaseorder schedule lines for which an acknowledgement from the supplier exists.For more information, see Purchase Orders Quick Guide.


● Authorization for Product Planning Details screenIn previous releases, it was always possible to access the Product Planning Details screen from the MonitorPurchase Orders view. Now the Product Planning Details screen can only be accessed if the user has therelevant authorization from the Products view of the Supply Planning work center.



7 What's New in Project Management

7.1 What's New in Project Management

This document provides information about what's new in Project Management in SAP Business ByDesign FeaturePack 3.5.


● Intercompany Settlement ProjectsThe intercompany project time and expenses process is now available. Projects that are to be used for theintercompany project time and expenses settlement are marked accordingly under Accounting , and in theProjects view of the Project Management and Cost and Revenue work centers. You can also search forintercompany settlement projects using the advanced search criteria. Intercompany settlement projects canonly be created automatically from the sales order, which defines the context in which the costs and revenuesfor the settlement takes place. The intercompany settlement scenario must be enabled in your systemconfiguration.For more information, see Intercompany Project Time and Expenses.

● New Process Type for Projects for Multi-Customer ProjectsThe Multi-Customer Projects processing type for projects is now available. This processing type allows theassignment of sales order items to the relevant projects, where cost and revenue assignments result in theproper postings in Accounting. It is intended to be used especially in combination with the Point-of-Saleintegration. The main difference from the former non-billable other direct cost projects is found in the resultingfinancial posting and reporting.

● Milestone InvoicingIn addition to fixed dates, you now have the possibility to link project milestones to invoice schedules as abasis for invoicing.For more information, see What's New: Project Invoicing [page 90] (section: Milestone Invoicing forCustomer Projects).

● Project Substitution for Project Team MemberYou can now mark project team members as a substitute for the purposes of project maintenance andapprovals. This substitution can be set for the entire project. The substitution and its deletion affect onlyapproval tasks which are created after the substitution maintenance took place. You can set a substitute inthe Projects view under Team and Staffing .Older approval tasks stay in the responsibility of the persons which were in charge in the moment when theapproval task was created. The existing self-service substitution is still supported and can serve as a globaldefinition of substitutes, however, that only covers the approvals.

● Reports ○ Earned Value Analysis

Earned Value Analysis (EVA) is a project management technique for measuring project progress in anobjective manner. EVA has the ability to combine measurements of scope, schedule, and cost in a singleintegrated way. Adequately applied, EVA provides an early warning of project performance issues.You can find this report in the Reports view of the Project Management work center .

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○ Project Time RecordingsThis report shows times recorded by day, week or month for every team member.You can find this report in the Reports view of the Project Team work center.

○ Team Member Work AnalysisAn analysis that provides an overview of the actual, remaining, forecast and baseline work of a teammember.You can find this report in the Reports view of the Project Team work center.

For more information, see Overview of Reports in Project Management.


● Time Confirmation Settings on Project Task LevelThe Mandatory Time Approval checkbox has been replaced by a list of possible conditions for timeconfirmations. For each project task or the project as a whole, you can set whether time confirmations areallowed, blocked, or allowed with approval by the project manager. Note that unplanned times or times fromexternal team members always require approval. If time confirmations are blocked for the entire project, theproject is no longer available in the time sheet worklist as a default entry. This also applies for assigned orgunits. However, time recording can still be allowed on subordinate tasks (with or without mandatory approval).Note that this setting is not inherited to subordinate tasks, but can be set on each task individually. Otherpostings aside from time confirmations, such as expense reports, are not affected by this setting.



The following changes in the Business Configuration work center are relevant for this area or topic. You can performbusiness configuration settings in the Business Configuration Implementation Projects view.A new project type and a new indicator are available for intercompany projects to mark a project type as relevant.

See AlsoWhat's New: Project Invoicing [page 90]What's New in the Not Invoiced Time and Expenses View [page 92]What's New in the Project Work View [page 92]What's New in the Projects View [page 93]What's New in the Snapshot Runs View [page 95]What's New in the Time Recordings View [page 96]

7.2 What's New: Project Invoicing

This document provides information about what's new in Project Invoicing in SAP Business ByDesign Feature Pack3.5.


What's New in Project Management


● Milestone Invoicing for Customer Projects ○ In invoice schedules, project milestones can be used instead of fixed dates for project based services

and expenses. Both fixed price as well as time and material are supported. ○ An invoicing-relevant milestone is visualized in the table part of the Gantt chart by a filled rhombus icon

(non-invoicing-relevant milestone: empty rhombus). Under Project Management Projects on the Sales Tracking → Invoice Schedule Assignment tab of the project, details of the invoice scheduleassignment are displayed.

For more information, see Milestone Invoicing for Customer Projects. ● Project Invoice Requests for Intercompany Project Time and Expenses Scenario

The creation of the project invoice request in the selling company is based on the invoice schedule informationcontained in the sales order. In such a case, only time and material based dates are present in the invoiceschedule. If time and expense items can be assigned to the project invoice request by the system correctly,the latter is released automatically. Otherwise a business task is created in the Work view of the CustomerInvoicing work center and the invoicing clerk has to correct the project invoice request and release it manually.For more information, see Intercompany Project Time and Expenses.

● Print Preview in Project Invoice RequestThe print preview in the project invoice request now displays the real customer invoice(s) - if already existent.If a customer invoice does not exist yet, for example, if the project invoice request has only just been createdand has the status in preparation, an invoice is simulated using the data from the project invoice request aswell as the relevant customer invoicing print form.

● Time and Material Invoice Schedules for Project-Based ServicesIn invoice schedules the schedule type ‘time and material’ now also supports project-based services andexpenses. Considering the lead time before the invoice schedule date or by completion of a project milestone,a time and material project invoice request is created by a job that invoices all relevant times and expenses.For more information, see Invoice Schedule.

● Project invoice request displays overinvoiced quantities and net values or those not yet invoicedIt is now possible to see in the project invoice request, whether quantities or net values still need to be invoicedor whether the sales order is already overinvoiced.

● Sales Order Item Determination RulesDuring the execution of a project, consultants can create time confirmations, expense reports, goods andservice receipts, and invoicing clerks can create supplier invoices, which can then be billed to a customerproject with sales integration. When information about these project expenses is sent to Accounting, deferredcosts referring to the project tasks are posted in the Sales Ledger Account. Once the sales order item for thejournal entry is entered, the expenses are reposted in Accounting. For example, if an accrual method has notbeen assigned to this sales order item, a secondary posting is triggered, which posts the deferred costs tocosts of goods sold into the Sales Ledger Account that refers to that sales order item.For more information, see Edit Assignment Rules for Linking Project Tasks to Sales Order Items .

● External Reference in Project Invoice RequestThe External Reference field has been introduced to the project invoice request. This field is copied from thesales order if available. It is manually editable in the project invoice request and later transferred to financialsvia the customer invoice.

The External Reference field is mandatory for France. If this field is empty for France, the projectinvoice request cannot be released.


● New Invoice Schedule StatusFor a project-based invoice schedule date, a project invoice request is created automatically as soon as thisdate is reached. In this case, the status in the invoice schedule date is changed from open to the new valueproject invoice requested. If you change the respective sales order item net value, the project invoice requestis deleted and the status changes to open again (the same happens if you delete or cancel the project invoicerequest manually). During the next job run an updated project invoice request is created and the statuschanges to project invoice requested.For more information, see Invoice Schedule.

● Customer Project Task Status Influences Sales Order Item Delivery StatusThe status of a customer project task that is linked to one or several sales order items now influences thedelivery status of these sales order items. A project task that has not been released leaves the sales orderitem delivery status as not started. After the project task has been released, the status is changed to inprocess. As soon as the project task is completed, the status is set to finished. The status change action withinthe sales order in the Customer Invoicing work center was re-named from finish to finish invoicing to reflectthe fact that only the invoicing status (but no longer the delivery status) is affected.

See AlsoWhat's New in Project Management [page 89]

7.3 What's New in the Not Invoiced Time and Expenses View

This document provides information about what’s new in the Invoice Preparation Not Invoiced Time andExpenses view of the Project Management work center in SAP Business ByDesign Feature Pack 3.5.


● Sales Order Item Determination rulesTo aid in sales order item determination, the system suggests for the sales order item reference of a costposting. In addition to the basic rules provided by the system, you can also create rules for sales order itemdetermination in case the correct sales order item cannot be determined or is incorrect. These rules arederived from the linkage between sales order items and project tasks. You can now create system-definedrules and define the sequence in which these rules are applied. These rules are then used during sales orderitem proposal.

See AlsoWhat's New: Project Invoicing [page 90]

7.4 WHAT'S NEW IN THE PROJECT WORK VIEW

This document provides information about what’s new in the Project Work view of the Project Team work center inSAP Business ByDesign Feature Pack 3.5.




● Displaying and Self-Assigning Unassigned Work PackagesYou can now display unassigned work packages in the Work Packages sub-view of the Project Work view inthe Project Team work center. The user-relevant work packages are work packages that belong to a projectyou are assigned to and that are related to a task which is not completed or blocked. You can select a workpackage and assign it to yourself by clicking Assign to me .

● Displaying and Editing Project TasksYou can view and edit all tasks assigned to the project team members, including the sub-tasks underResponsibilities. All tasks in the project structure to which the project team member is not assigned aredisplayed as read-only. You can see the Gantt chart in the upper part showing the entire project hierarchy.Below you can find a tab strip, including the new tabs Work , Scheduling , Dependencies , and Accounting .For more information, see Project Work Quick Guide.

● Displaying Time Confirmations and Manual Remaining Work ChangesBased on the time confirmations the actual and remaining work of work packages are calculated andaggregated to the project tasks, services and team members. This information is now displayed in the Work tab on the Edit Project Task screen. You can select a work package and click on

Display Time Confirmations to see this information.


● Enhanced Grouping Options and Additional FieldsUnder Responsibilities and Work Packages, you can find the following new grouping options: ○ Project ID ○ Project Task ID ○ Person Responsible ID

Also, new fields are available for the table that lists all project tasks and work packages: ○ Latest Start Date (shown in default settings) ○ Person Responsible - Name and ID (shown in default settings) ○ Earliest Start Date (hidden per default and selectable via Personalize) ○ Earliest Finish Date (hidden per default and selectable via Personalize) ○ Customer Name and ID (hidden per default and selectable via Personalize)


7.5 What's New in the Projects View

This document provides information about what’s new in the Projects view of the Project Management work centerin SAP Business ByDesign Feature Pack 3.5.



● Intercompany Settlement ProjectsThe intercompany project time and expenses process is now available. Projects that are to be used for theintercompany project time and expenses settlement are marked accordingly under Accounting , and in theProjects view of the Project Management and Cost and Revenue work centers. You can also search forintercompany settlement projects using the advanced search criteria. Intercompany settlement projects canonly be created automatically from the sales order, which defines the context in which the costs and revenuesfor the settlement takes place. The intercompany settlement scenario must be enabled in your systemconfiguration. A new project type and a new indicator are available for intercompany projects to mark a projecttype as relevant.For more information, see Intercompany Project Time and Expenses.

● New Process Type for Projects for Multi-Customer ProjectsThe Multi-Customer Projects processing type for projects is now available. This processing type allows theassignment of sales order items to the relevant projects, where cost and revenue assignments result in theproper postings in Accounting. It is intended to be used especially in combination with the Point-of-Saleintegration. The main difference from the former non-billable other direct cost projects is found in the resultingfinancial posting and reporting.

● Project Substitution for Project Team MemberYou can now mark project team members as a substitute for the purposes of project maintenance andapprovals. This substitution can be set for the entire project. The substitution and its deletion affect onlyapproval tasks which are created after the substitution maintenance took place. You can set a substituteunder Team and Staffing .Older approval tasks stay in the responsibility of the persons which were in charge in the moment when theapproval task was created. The existing self-service substitution is still supported and can serve as a globaldefinition of substitutes, however, that only covers the approvals.

● Maintenance of a Cost Center per Project Task for a more detailed Profit Center FindingYou can specify a cost center for each project task when planning the project structure. Although it is stillmandatory to specify the responsible unit (that is a cost center) for the project, it is now possible to maintaindeviating cost centers for every task. The changed cost center on task level is implicitly inherited to the sub-tasks. All deviating cost centers must belong to the same company. The cost center is used to derive a profitcenter per task, which allows reporting of costs and revenues on different profit centers.

● New Completion Date on Project TasksA completion date has been added to project tasks. This comes together with the new lifecycle statusCompleted for tasks. The date is set when the completed status is reached, and can be manually changeduntil the project is saved. This date is an additional info and can be used by various follow-up steps, for example,the date can be put on an invoice in the context of milestone invoicing.

● Displaying Scheduled Snapshot Runs for a ProjectYou can now view the scheduled jobs of snapshot runs for a project via Edit → You can also → ShowScheduled Snapshot Runs.

● Displaying Actual Time Confirmations in Project PlanIn the Work tab on the Project Plan screen you can now display the actual time confirmations and the changesof the remaining work for a selected work package.

What has ChangedThe following functions have been changed:



● Invoicing buttons in the project list grouped into a context menuTo simplify invoicing, formerly existing actions to create and update a project-based invoice request are nowgrouped into a context menu for each project in the project list of the Projects view in the ProjectManagement work center. In the former releases the two options to create a project invoice request (manualand automatic creation) were found under the New menu button, and the possibility to edit an existingnon-released project invoice request was available under the Edit menu button. These three actions arenow moved to the context menu, and in addition the possibility to schedule the automatic invoice creation tobe executed immediately is added.

● Time Confirmation Settings on Project Task LevelThe Mandatory Time Approval checkbox has been replaced by a list of possible conditions for timeconfirmations. For each project task or the project as a whole, you can set whether time confirmations areallowed, blocked, or allowed with approval by the project manager. Note that unplanned times or times fromexternal team members always require approval. If time confirmations are blocked for the entire project, thatproject is no longer available in the time sheet worklist as a default entry. This also applies for assigned orgunits. However, time recording can still be allowed on subordinate tasks (with or without mandatory approval).Note that this setting is not inherited to subordinate tasks, but can be set on each task individually. Otherpostings aside from time confirmations, such as expense reports, are not affected by this setting.

● Cost Centers and Reporting Line Units allowed to assign to project team and staffingIn addition to assigning functional units to a project, you can now add cost center and reporting line units.Employees of such functional units have the project header available in the worklist in the time sheet, andtime confirmations do not require approval.

● Modified Status ChangesThe maintenance of the project and task lifecycle status is done using a dropdown box where the status isdisplayed as the content of the field, and the change actions are displayed if you expand the dropdown box.For better clarity of the status changes and what happens in the system some of these status change actionswere renamed:For a project with the status In Planning, you now select status Start and Release. For a task with statusReleased, you now select the status Complete and Close.

● New Project Lifecycle StatusTwo new statuses have been added for project tasks, which allow better tracking of the project task’sfulfillment. One status is shown as a green icon next to the Status field. This icon indicates that the work on areleased project task has started. This icon is automatically set when a time confirmation is recorded on theproject task. The project status is shown as Completed when the operative work on this task is done. Whenthis status is reached, time confirmations, purchase orders, and goods issues are no longer allowed. Financialprocesses, such as customer and supplier invoicing, are still possible.

● Display Sales Order for Time and Expense ItemsOn the relevant project invoicing screens, the sales order is now displayed in addition to the sales order item.


7.6 WHAT'S NEW IN THE SNAPSHOT RUNS VIEW

This document provides information about what’s new in the Change Management Snapshot Runs view ofthe Project Management work center in SAP Business ByDesign Feature Pack 3.5.



● Snapshot Runs for Single ProjectsIn addition to project types, you can now also create snapshot runs for single projects.


7.7 What's New in the Time Recordings View

This document provides information about what’s new in the Time Recordings view of the Project Management workcenter in SAP Business ByDesign Feature Pack 3.5.


● Approvals by Project SubstitutesProject team members can now be marked as a substitute for the purposes of project maintenance andapprovals. You can now see time recordings that can be approved by substitutes.Substitutes only see approval tasks from the time they are entered as a substitute. Older approval tasks stayin the responsibility of the persons which were in charge in the moment when the approval task was created.The existing self-service substitution is still supported and can serve as a global definition of substitutes,however, that only covers the approvals.When time recordings are approved by a substitute, the substitute is written into the corresponding employeetime records as approver. To show the Project Responsible column in the list of approvals in case you areacting as a substitute in multiple projects, click Personalize, then select This Screen.




8 What's New in Supplier RelationshipManagement

8.1 What's New in Supplier Relationship Management

This document provides information about what's new in the Supplier Relationship Management area of SAPBusiness ByDesign Feature Pack 3.5.


● Asset ProcurementIt is possible to create new individual materials directly in the purchase order and assign them to a fixed assetin Financial Management.For more information, see Asset Procurement in Purchasing.

● Approval Process for Shopping Carts, Purchase Orders, and Supplier InvoicesYou can now assign more than one approval step to a shopping cart, purchase order, or supplier invoice.These steps can be configured in the Application and User Management work center.For more information, see Approval Processes and What's New: Required Actions After Upgrade [page 9].

Country-Specific ChangesThe following functions are new or have been changed for the following country:

● Upload Supplier Invoices in XML Format – MexicoFor more information, see What's New: Invoice Processing - Mexico [page 65]What's New: Invoice Processing- Mexico [page 97]What's New: Invoice Processing - Mexico [page 108]

See AlsoWhat's New in the Purchase Orders to Be Delivered View [page 98]What's New in the Purchase Orders View [page 83]What's New in the Purchase Orders View [page 99]What's New in the Work View (of Supplier Invoicing) [page 100]What's New in the Invoice Entry View [page 100]



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8.3 What's New in the Purchase Orders to Be Delivered View

This document provides information about what's new in the Purchase Orders to Be Delivered view of SAP BusinessByDesign Feature Pack 3.5.What Is NewThe following functions are new:

● When confirming the delivery of non-stock material items, buyers can now individualize the materialsdelivered, assign them to other individual materials, and to fixed assets. The individual material details aredisplayed on the Basic Data tab page of the goods and services receipt.Once the goods and services receipt is released, the individual material and fixed asset assignments areupdated in Financials.


What's New in Supplier Relationship Management

As individual materials are now created explicitly by the buyer in purchase orders or goods andservices receipts, there is no implicit creation of individual materials in Financials anymore. Ifindividual materials are created in a purchase order or goods and services receipt, fixed assets maybe created in Financials based on the product category of the item and the respective settings inFinancials for the automatic creation of fixed assets. As a consequence, if the user has not createdany individual materials in the purchase order or goods and services receipt, there is no creation offixed assets in Financials.

For more information, see Asset Procurement in Purchasing.

What Has ChangedThe following functions have changed:

● Per default, the delivered quantity proposed in a goods and services receipt equals the ordered quantity ofthe corresponding purchase order. The introduction of schedule lines in purchase orders (see What's New inPurchase Orders), has an impact on the delivered quantity proposed in the corresponding goods and servicesreceipt: If schedule lines have been defined for a purchase order, the delivered quantity proposed in a goodsand services receipt does no longer equal the full ordered quantity. Instead, it is reduced to the quantity thathas been ordered for the current schedule line.

See AlsoPurchase Orders to Be Delivered Quick Guide

8.4 What's New in the Purchase Orders View

This document provides information about what's new in the Purchase Orders view of SAP Business ByDesign FP3.5.

What Is New

● Delivery Schedule in Purchase Order AcknowledgmentYou can now enter more than one delivery schedule line in the purchase order acknowledgment. Theseschedule lines are transferred into the purchase order and subsequent documents such as the inbounddelivery.For more information, see Create a Purchase Order Acknowledgment with Delivery Schedule.

What Has Changed

● Asset ProcurementIt is possible to create new individual materials directly in the purchase order and assign them to a fixed assetin Financial Management.For more information, see Asset Procurement in Purchasing and What's new: Required Actions after Upgrade[page 9].


8.5 What's New in the Work View (of Supplier Invoicing)

This document provides information about what's new in the Work view of the Supplier Invoicing work center of SAPBusiness ByDesign FP 3.5.

Country-Specific ChangesThe following feature is new for Mexico:

● Upload Supplier Invoices in XML Format – MexicoThis feature enables you to upload XML files received from your suppliers and to create supplier invoices inthe system automatically.For more information, see What's New for Invoice Processing – Mexico [page 65]What's New for InvoiceProcessing – Mexico [page 97]What's New for Invoice Processing – Mexico [page 108].

8.6 What's New in the Invoice Entry View

This document provides information about what's new in the Invoice Entry view of SAP Business ByDesign FP 3.5.


● Discounts, Reductions, and SurchargesOn the New Invoice and New Credit Memo screen, you can now enter discounts, reductions, and surchargeseither overall for the whole document or individually for each item. The new Deductions and Surcharges tabdisplays all detail information.For more information, see Enter Discounts, Reductions, and Surcharges in Supplier Invoices.

● Performance ImprovementWhen you create an invoice or credit memo with reference to more than 100 goods and services receipt items,for example time confirmations, the system now displays a screen on which you can choose to either reducethe number of goods and services receipts to less than 100, or to continue without any changes. To acceleratethe processing of invoices and credit memos with reference to more than 100 goods and services receiptitems, the system assigns the goods and services receipt items in the background after the invoice is posted.For more information, see Create an Invoice or Credit Memo with Reference to Preceding Documents.

● Intercompany Service Time and ExpensesYou can now create invoices or credit memos with reference to purchase order expense limit items.For more information, see Intercompany Project Time and Expenses.

● Individual Materials and Fixed AssetsWhen you create an invoice or credit memo with reference to goods and services receipt items that areassigned to individual materials, the system displays the assigned individual materials and the fixed assetsto which the individual materials are posted in financial management in the New Invoice and New CreditMemo editor.For more information, see Asset Procurement in Purchasing.


What's New in Supplier Relationship Management




● Reductions in Invoices and Credit MemosYou can enter reductions only if they have been enabled in your solution configuration.In the Scoping step of your project, ensure that Supplier Invoicing is selected within Purchasing. In theQuestions step, expand the Purchasing scoping element and select Supplier Invoicing. Select SupplierInvoices and Credit Memos Reductions in Supplier Invoices and confirm that you want to allow unplannedreductions in supplier invoices.

See AlsoWhat's New in Supplier Relationship Management [page 97]What's New in SAP Business ByDesign [page 7]


9 What's New in General Business Data

9.1 What's New: Business Partner

This document provides information about what's new in SAP Business ByDesign Feature Pack 3.5 in the workcenters and work center views related to business partners.

9.1 What Is New

AccountsThe following functions are new for accounts and are available in the Accounts view of the Business Partner Data andAccount Management work centers:

● New Sales Data AttributeThe Complete Delivery checkbox has been added to the Sales Data tab. This checkbox is also available inthe Customers view of the Receivables work center.If you select the Complete Delivery checkbox, this information is automatically transferred to the related salesor service orders for that account and results in one delivery of the full quantity. This field is available in thequick activity and in the editor of corporate and private accounts as well as in the Maintain Cross-AccountSales Data common task.For more information, see What's New: Complete Delivery [page 86].For more information about complete delivery orders, see Complete Delivery Orders.

● Credit Card Holder Address AvailableYou can now maintain a credit card holder address.During credit card payment authorization the clearing house checks the address of the payer against theaddress of the credit card holder that is stored at the credit card service provider. If the addresses do notmatch, the credit card payment fails. The credit card holder address is required for credit card serviceproviders in some countries.You can maintain the credit card holder address in the quick activity and in the editor of corporate and privateaccounts. You can copy one of the account addresses to the credit card holder address. In the quick activity,only the main account address can be used as the credit card holder address.

● Single-Use Field Added in SEPA Mandate ListThe Single-Use field has been added to the SEPA Mandates on the Financial Data tab under Payment Data in the corporate and private account editors. The Mandate Type field is now initially hiddenbut can be made visible via personalization.

● Direct Responsibilities for New AccountsIt is now possible to create employees directly responsible for accounts that have not been saved yet in thecorporate and private account quick activities and editors. In the quick activity, the corresponding fields arehidden by default but can be made visible via personalization.

● Role Characteristic Added to Account ReportsThe characteristic "Role" (account/prospect) has been added to the following reports: ○ Account Collaboration Data


What's New in General Business Data

○ Account Details ○ Account Contact Data ○ Account Responsibility Data

● Enhancement of Account Quick ActivityThe following data has been added to the quick activities for corporate and private accounts: ○ Sales data ○ Payment data (including bank data and credit card data) ○ Direct navigation to the corresponding tabs in the editor when you click More

SuppliersThe following functions are new for suppliers:

● New Supplier RoleA new supplier role “Warehouse Provider” has been added to the Suppliers view of the Business PartnerData, Supplier Base, and Payables work centers.You can assign this role to a business partner running an externally managed warehouse. The connectionbetween the business partner and the externally managed warehouse is established in the Locations viewafter a new site has been created for that purpose.For more information about delivery processing in third-party logistics and the prerequisites for that scenario,see Delivery Processing in Third-Party Logistics — Prerequisites and Features.

● New Attributes Added to Supplier Withholding Tax ClassificationsThe following new attributes have been added to the withholding tax classifications on the Financial Data tab under Tax Data in the supplier editor in the Suppliers view of the Business Partner Data and SupplierBase work centers: ○ Withholding tax income type

You can maintain the withholding tax income type when you select India or the US as the country. ○ Tax exemption reason

You can maintain the tax exemption reason when you select India as the country.

Business PartnersThe following functions are new for business partners:

● New Business Partner RoleA new business partner role “Family Member” has been added to the Business Partners view of the BusinessPartner Data work center.In some countries, such as Switzerland and Austria, it is required to maintain information about employees'family members during the hiring process. You can now search for business partners with this role in thebusiness partner worklist. You can also view this information in the business partner overview and editor.

● New Document Type "Avatar Image" AvailableA new document type "Avatar Image" has been added to the Business Partners view of the Business PartnerData work center. This document type is available for creating business partner attachments in the businesspartner person and organization editors.

Contacts and Service AgentsThe following functions are new for contacts and service agents:

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● Main Checkbox for Contact and Service Agent Relationship TypesA new Main checkbox has been added to the Contacts view of the Account Management and the BusinessPartner Data work centers and to the Service Agents view of the Supplier Base work center. This checkboxis visible on the Relationships tab for the relationship types "is contact person for" and "is service performerfor" in the contact and service agent editors under Details.For example, if a contact is the contact for more than one account, you can now select which account, orwhich relationship, is the main one from a contact point of view. This information is also available in the contactand service agent search in the worklists where the contact or service agent is displayed with its main accountsor suppliers.


● Golden Tax Information — ChinaYou can now maintain information for the golden tax in China in the Accounts view of the Business PartnerData and the Account Management work centers.The Golden Tax File SJJK0101 that is generated from the SAP Business ByDesign system requires additionalinformation related to the account. This file is uploaded to the Golden Tax System to meet legal requirementsin China. The following fields have been added: ○ VAT Payer Type

The field becomes visible in the editor of the corporate account when you click General and select Chinaas the country for the account.

○ Golden Tax RelevantThe field becomes visible in the editor of the corporate account when you click Financial Data and then Bank Data and select China as the country for the account and as the bank country.

○ Bank BranchThe field becomes visible in the editor of the corporate account when you click Financial Data and then Bank Data and select China as the country for the account and as the bank country.

● Enterprise Identification Number — SwitzerlandThe Enterprise Identification Number (UID) has been added to the Additional Identifiers in the Accounts viewof the Business Partner Data and the Account Management work centers.The UID is an identification number used by and required for all companies within the EU. Each enterprise inSwitzerland will be assigned a UID as of January 01, 2011. An additional field UID Appendix has been addedthat is required to determine if a company is included in the Central Business Names Index (the commercialregister of Switzerland) and has to pay VAT.The following combinations for the UID appendix are available: ○ HR : Entry in commercial register available ○ MWST: Company has to pay MWST/VAT (entry in Sales Tax Register); no entry in commercial register ○ HR/MWST: Entry in commercial register available; company has to pay MWST/VAT (entry in Sales Tax

Register) ○ Empty field: Company is not active any more

The fields for the UID become visible in the quick activity, editor, and overview for corporate accounts whenyou click General and select Switzerland as the country for the account.This number is also available in the same screens in the Suppliers view of the Supplier Base work center.

● New Identifiers — Brazil and MexicoThe following identifiers have been added to the Tax Authorities view of the Tax Management work center: ○ RFC number for Mexico



○ CNPJ number for Brazil

In Brazil and Mexico, the tax authorities have to be informed about any business transactions via B2Bcommunication and give their approval before goods or service are sold. The new identifiers are used to enablethe B2B communication with the corresponding tax authorities.The fields for the new identifiers become visible under Details when you select Mexico or Brazil as the countryfor the tax authority.

9.2 What's New: Address Management

This document provides information about what's new in SAP Business ByDesign Feature Pack 3.5 in AddressManagement.


● Country-Specific Address MaintenanceYou can now maintain addresses in a country-specific format for Germany, the US, and Austria. For example,for US addresses the house number is now displayed before the street name.For all other countries the standard address maintenance is still used.The new address maintenance is available for the main address fields as well as for the additional fields in allviews where the address fields are used, for example, in the business partner views.

9.3 What's New: Product Data

This document provides information about what's new in Product Data in SAP Business ByDesign Feature Pack 3.5.


● The Commodity Classification view is now available in the Product Data work center.The Commodity Classification view allows you to assign commodity codes to materials. Commodity codesare typically used in the context of foreign trade, for example, for Intrastat declarations in the European Unionor for export declarations. Commodity codes can also be added to documents such as outbound deliveriesor pro forma invoices as an enhancement.

● The Logistics status for materials is now maintained per site instead of per material. This means that it ispossible to maintain a different logistics status for a material for each site at which the material is used.





It is now possible to make the Commodity Classification view available in the Product Data work center.To find this business option, go to the Business Configuration work center and choose the ImplementationProjects view. Select your implementation project and click Edit Project Scope . In the Scoping step of the project,ensure that Materials is selected within Products, which is selected in General Business Data.


● Cost Audit Functions — IndiaFields relating to the cost audit report for India have been added to the Materials view. This report shows thenet sales amounts for all manufactured and traded materials, and services for a selected company. The reportis part of legal reporting requirements, specific to India.

See AlsoCommodity Catalogs Quick GuideCost Audit Report 3 — IndiaMaterials Quick Guide

9.4 What's New in the Org Structures View

This document provides information about what's new in the Org Structures view of the Organizational Managementwork center in SAP Business ByDesign Feature Pack 3.5.


● Download to Microsoft Excel now possible from the table viewIt is now possible to download org structures to Microsoft Excel when you are in the table view of the planningarea or active area.For more information, see the Export Business Data Using Microsoft Excel task in the Org Structures QuickGuide.

● System behavior changed when accessing active area of Org Structures view or when switching from activeto planning areaThe system now automatically stores user preferences for the display of org structures. For each user, thesystem stores: ○ The last set of selected org structures (chosen using the Select Org Structures button). ○ The last selected Effective From date. ○ The preferred view (table or chart view).

When the user accesses the active area in the Org Structures view or switches to the planning area, the systempresets this stored data (the same date, the same structures, and the same view are opened) so that the workcenter view looks the same as during the user's last session.

● Display of data on Definitions tab changed



The Definitions tab in the active area has been changed to match the definitions tab in planning area, that is,the Details buttons were removed and the layout is more user friendly. Note that the links for additionaldocumentation are only available in the planning area.

● Org unit factsheet and Timelines tab in active area updatedIn SAP Business ByDesign Feature Pack 3.0, the number of functions was reduced from 39 to 19 to reducecomplexity and maintenance effort. The org unit factsheet and the Timelines tab have now been updated toreflect this change in SAP Business ByDesign Feature Pack 3.5.

Country-Specific ChangesIn the Planning Area of the Org Structures view of the Organizational Management work center, it is now possible tomaintain the following identifiers corresponding to the countries listed below:

● CNPJ Number — Brazil ● RFC Number — Mexico ● Enterprise Identification Number (UID) — Switzerland

In addition, the UID Appendix dropdown box is also available for Switzerland.

Whenever the user selects one of these countries as the Country of Registration on the Definitions tab, thecorresponding field is shown.


10 What's New in Compliance

10.1 What's New in Compliance

This document provides information about what's new in the Compliance area of SAP Business ByDesign FeaturePack 3.5.

Country-Specific ChangesThe following function has been changed:

● New business package: Legal Approval for Invoices – MexicoFor more information, see What's New: Invoice Processing – Mexico [page 65]What's New: Invoice Processing– Mexico [page 97]What's New: Invoice Processing – Mexico [page 108]









What's New in Compliance

11 What's New in Key User Administration

11.1 What's New: Data Migration

This document provides information about what's new in Data Migration in SAP Business ByDesign Feature Pack3.5.


● Migration Template CUSTOMERS ○ A new field called Complete Delivery Indicator has been added to the Sales Arrangement sheet. ○ A new field called Account Determination Group has been added to the Payment Data sheet. ○ You can migrate personal addresses for customer contacts using the CUSTOMERS template. ○ You can migrate the debtor ID at DATEV using the Payment Data sheet. ○ You can migrate direct responsible employees using the Direct Responsibilities sheet. ○ Fields have been added for credit card addresses to the Payment sheet — US only.

● Migration Template PROJECTS ○ A new field called Completion Date has been added to the General sheet. ○ A new field called Estimated Completion Percentage has been added to the General sheet. ○ A new field called Responsible Cost Center ID has been added to the Items sheet. ○ A new field called Time Confirmation Profile has been added to the Items sheet.

● Migration Template BILLS OF OPERATIONS ○ New fields for the service assignment to the main resource have been added to the Operations Details

sheet. ○ You can make assignments to activities using the new Additional Resources and Services sheet.

● Migration Template SERVICES ○ GLO-Feld Tax_Account_For_India: Tax accounting codes for services must be defined in the fine-tuning

step of the activity list in the Business Configuration work center. Only the defined codes will be availablefor selecting in the template.

○ Internal comments for the purchasing and sales organizations are now supported when a correspondinglead record is created.

● Migration Template MATERIALS — India ○ On the General sheet for Cost Auditing for India, the indicator fields Manufactured Product and Traded

Product have been added. ● Migration Template OPEN ITEMS RECEIVABLES — Austria

New fields have been added to support pledging functionality. ● Migration Template ACCOUNT DETERMINATION GROUP RECEIVABLES

This template is obsolete. The fields that were included in this template, are now included in the MigrationTemplate CUSTOMERS.


What's New in Key User Administration

11.2 What's New: Business Configuration

This document provides information about what's new in Business Configuration in SAP Business ByDesign FeaturePack 3.5.


● Scoping and Go-Live in One SystemYou begin your activities in the SAP Business ByDesign solution in a production system. This means that youscope your solution and go live with this solution on the same system. However, changes in your requirementsor the need to perform tests, can lead to the need for additional systems. You can request these from theImplementation Projects view.For more information, see Request an Additional System.

● WatermarkA watermark has been added to the title bar of the solution. This watermark indicates the nature of yoursystem.For more information, see Watermark.

● Making Smaller Changes to Your SolutionYou can now make smaller changes to your solution without having to go through a full-blown change project.This applies to some configuration elements that cannot be changed immediately. You select the requiredelements, add them to a shortlist, and add the shortlist to a change project. The system automatically bringsyou to the next logical step in the process based on your shortlist, thus offering the quickest and shortest wayto implement your changes.For more information, see Make Changes to Your SAP Business ByDesign Solution.


● Adding Activities Not in Project to the Activity ListThe Activity List automatically contains all mandatory activities you need to work though based on the scopingdecisions made by your company. However, you can check if there are any optional activities that you mightwant to implement or remove, and add these to the activity list by clicking a button designed for this purpose.For more information, see the Add or Remove Optional Activities task in Complete the Activity List.

● Changes to MilestonesThe number of milestones has been reduced and the milestones have been renamed. The below table givesan overview of these changes:

Old New

Confirm Milestone: Scoping Completed Confirm Milestone: Design Accepted

Confirm Milestone: Organizational Management Completed —

Confirm Milestone: Fine-Tuning Completed Confirm Milestone: Solution Accepted

Confirm Milestone: Test Completed Confirm Milestone: Go-Live Readiness Accepted

Confirm Milestone: Go Live Confirm Go Live (activity)

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Old New

Confirm Milestone: Close Project Close Project (activity)

● Milestones in the Activity List of a Change ProjectMilestones are no longer required for change projects and are not included by default. However, you canchoose to add them to your change project. If you choose to add one milestone, the other milestones areautomatically added to your change project as well, and milestones are mandatory once you include them inyour change project.For more information, see Complete the Activity List — Change Project.

● Flat List Versus Phased ListFor change projects, the activity list is displayed as a flat list by default. All the activities are displayed in onelist and the phase column in the list indicates which phase the activity belongs to. You can change the waythe activities are displayed and display the list as a phased list instead.For more information, see Complete the Activity List — Change Project.

11.3 What's New: Application and User Management

This document provides information about what's new in Application and User Management in SAP BusinessByDesign Feature Pack 3.5.


● Business Roles ViewIn the Business Roles view, key users can predefine access rights as a template that they can assign to multiplebusiness users, who are to perform similar business tasks. You can access the Business Roles view underUser and Access Management. For more information, see Business Roles Quick Guide.

● Approval Processes ViewIn the Approval Processes view, key users can create and edit approval processes to suit businessrequirements. You can access the Approval Processes work center view under Task Distribution. For moreinformation, see Quick Guide for Approval Processes.You can currently create and edit approval processes for purchase orders, shopping carts, and sales orders.


● Incidents ViewIn the Incidents view, new features have been added and some existing features have been enhanced. Formore information, see What's New: Incidents [page 114].

● User and Access Management ○ The following reports for user and access management have been changed with respect to the

characteristics:



Report Changes

Access Rights - Before andAfter System UpgradeRemoved

This report has been removed since it was only relevant for upgrading SAP BusinessByDesign from Feature Pack 2.0 to Feature Pack 2.6.

Access Rights Change Log First Name (User ID) has been renamed to First Name

Last Name (User ID) has been renamed to Last Name

User ID has been renamed to User

All Current Access Rights First Name (User ID) has been renamed to First Name



All Current Users Locked attribute has been added

Backend User ID (User ID) has been renamed to Technical ID

First Name (User ID) has been renamed to First Name


Technical User Flag (User ID) has been renamed to Technical User


User Activation andDeactivation Log

First Name (User ID) has been renamed to First Name



Technical User Flag (User ID) has been renamed to Technical User

○ The Security Policies view has been removed and is now available as fine-tuning activity in the BusinessConfiguration work center and as a common task in the Application and User Management work center.For more information, see What's New in the Security Policies View.

○ The Business Users view has been changed. For more information, see What's New in the Business UsersView.

○ The Support and Technical Users view has been changed. For more information, see What's New in theSupport and Technical Users View.

● Task Distribution ViewIn the Business Task Management view, the means by which key users can determine the assignment ofBusiness Task Management items has changed.After clicking Determine Assignment , the system indicates that the assignment has been redetermined bymeans of a checkbox. The results of the assignment redetermination are displayed on the Assignment Redetermination Results tab page. On the Assignment Redetermination Results tab page, ensurethat the employee responsible found by the system has the corresponding work center view and access rights.Note that the system still assigns the item automatically if possible.For more information, see Quick Guide for Business Task Management.

● Input and Output Management ViewIn the Communication Arrangements view, key users can download the service description in Web ServicesDescription Language (WSDL) format. It is also possible to display additional documentation for an A2Xservice. This facilitates the configuration of the electronic data exchange.Furthermore, the Edit Account buttons have been renamed to Edit Credentials .For more information, see Communication Arrangements Quick Guide.

● Business Flexibility ViewFor changes in the Mashup Authoring view, see What's New in the Mashup Authoring View.


Country-Specific ChangesThe following function are new:

● Upload Approval Information for Invoicing Documents – MexicoFor more information, see What's New: Invoice Processing – Mexico [page 65]What's New: Invoice Processing– Mexico [page 97]What's New: Invoice Processing – Mexico [page 108]

● Generate Electronic Financial Reports in iXBRL Format – UKIn the Business Flexibility view under Office Template Maintenance, a new Microsoft Excel template calledDefine Inline XBRL Content for Electronic Financial Reporting – UK has been added to enable companies inthe UK to submit financial data to the public authorities in the required electronic format. In the UK, the formatused is called inline eXtensible Business Reporting Language (iXBRL).The template contains predefined sections in which you can specify your company’s financial data. You canthen generate the iXBRL report for submission to the public authorities directly from the template.For more information, see Define Electronic Financial Reports using Microsoft Excel — UK.

11.4 What's New: Incidents

This document provides information about what’s new in the Incidents view in SAP Business ByDesign Feature Pack3.5.


● Requester’s company name displayed to key usersThe requester's company name is now displayed on all key user incident management screens as follows: ○ Incidents view: Company column in incidents table ○ Incident overview screen: Company field in incident header data ○ Edit incident screen: Company field in incident header data

● Screenshot toolWhen a user reports an incident, the system takes a screenshot of the screen from which the incident isreported. In previous releases, this screenshot was not visible to the requester of the incident or to you as akey user. A new Annotated Screenshot tab has now been added to the incident overview screen and a newScreenshot tab added to the edit screen that shows the screenshot taken by the system of the screen fromwhich the requester reported the incident. If the requester annotated the screenshot when he or she reportedthe incident, the annotations are also displayed. This can help you to understand the problem more quickly.Note that the system does not take a screenshot in the following cases: ○ The requester deselected the Screenshot Relevant checkbox in the Enter Incident Information step when

reporting the incident. ○ The requester reported the incident from the Home work center, Self-Services Overview view. ○ The requester reported the incident on behalf of an employee from the Managing My Area work center,

Call Employee Services on Behalf common task. ○ The requester reported the incident from the Add-In for Microsoft Excel. ○ The system could not take a screenshot for technical reasons.




● Solution search repository types renamedTwo of the three repositories on which the search function in the Search for Solution step is based have beenrenamed as follows to ensure consistent terminology throughout SAP’s products.

Old Repository Name New Repository Name

Business Center Forum Community Resources

Case Library Troubleshooting

● Solution search no longer language-specificThe solution search function now returns results from the Troubleshooting repository in all languages in whichresults are available and not just in your logon language. This means that if documents relevant to yourproblem are not available in your logon language, you can instead view them in the language or languages inwhich they are available, thus increasing the chance of finding a solution to your problem.

● Text types for incident processingThe text types for incident processing have been revised as follows to ensure consistency and clarity:

Old Text Type New Text Type

Remark for external Provider Note for Provider

Remark from external Provider Note from Provider

Reply to Requester Note for Requester

Reply from Requester Note from Requester

Remark for all processors Note for All Parties Involved

● Terminology changeIn the context of incident management, all instances of the term service provider and external serviceprovider have been replaced with the term provider to achieve consistency and ensure clear terminology.



The following changes in the Business Configuration work center are relevant for this area or topic. You can performbusiness configuration settings in the Business Configuration Implementation Projects view.The Distribution to Support Teams go-live activity and the corresponding documentation Set Up Internal IT SupportTeams and Define Responsibilities have both been renamed Set Up Internal IT Support Teams. In previous releases,when you clicked the name of the activity in the activity list, the Organizational Work Distribution screen wasdisplayed. Now when you click the name of the activity, only the documentation is displayed. These changes aredesigned to simplify the activity, making it easier for you to carry out your tasks.For more information, see Set Up Internal IT Support Teams.

See AlsoIncidents Quick Guide (Application and User Management)


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11.5 What's New: Analytics

This document provides information about what’s new in Analytics in SAP Business ByDesign Feature Pack 3.5.

What Has ChangedThe following functions have changed:

● SelectionA saved set of value selections for variables was previously referred to as Variables. Note that this change isa terminology change and that the function itself has not changed.

● Working with Reports in a Web Browser ○ The Selections button is now a menu button: Selections . The Selections menu button includes the

Edit, Save, Save As, and Manage functions. ○ Table and chart display options are now combined under one menu button: Table and Chart . Along

with displaying reports as a table or a chart, you now have the option of displaying reports as table andchart.

○ The Selections area now contains three tabs: Edit Selection , Edit Filter , and Manage . ○ The quick filter function has been moved to the Edit tab in the Selections area. ○ The Selections area now only contains the Go button. The Save and Save As functions have been moved

to the Selections menu button.

For more information, see Working with Reports in a Web Browser. ● Analytic Functions in the SAP Business ByDesign Add-In for Microsoft Excel

○ Switching Workbook TypesThe function to switch workbook types is now displayed as a dropdown menu button.

○ Limiting Size of Result SetUsing the Limit Size of Result Set function, the system displays the first 200 rows of the report. This isuseful if you want to start a report that has large amounts of data. By limiting the size of the result setdisplayed, the system can display the report more quickly. You can still filter or make value selections inorder to display the data you want. This function is available as a checkbox when you insert a report andunder Settings in the Report group.

○ ConditionsYou can activate and deactivate conditions that are either delivered with a report or that have beendefined for the report or report view in a Web browser.

○ Switching the Display Mode of Current ReportThe function to switch the display mode is now displayed as a dropdown menu button.You can now display reports as a Microsoft Excel table.

For more information, see Working with Reports and Plans in Microsoft Excel.

What Is NewThe following functions are new for key users for Analytics:

● Design Key Figures View



In the Design Key Figures work center view, key users for Analytics have an overview of calculated andrestricted key figures and key figure structures available in data sources. You can access the Design KeyFigures work center view from the Business Analytics work center. For more information, see Design KeyFigures Quick Guide.

● Preview a Data SourceYou can preview the data of data sources in a Web browser. In the preview mode, key users can view the datasimilar to how end users view the data in a report. From the preview mode, key users can then navigate to theReport Wizard from which they can create a report based on the data source. For more information, seeDesign Data Sources Quick Guide. ○ By default, generated test data is displayed when previewing data sources instead of real data. You can

now change your scoping so that you can preview data sources using real data in the Key User Analytics- Settings fine-tune activity. For more information, see Configuration: Key User Analytics - Settings.


12 Look Up Known Issues and Limitations

OverviewThis document describes how to look up known issues or limitations for your SAP Business ByDesign solution.LimitationsA limitation describes a deviation from the planned scope of a software product on the level of functions, relevantcountries, languages, and platform support that cannot be fixed by the time the product is shipped.Known IssuesA known issue describes an unavailable or only partially available function that deviates from the planned scope ofthe software product. The impact of a known issue is not expected to be as significant for the customer as that of alimitation.Before you upgrade to a new SAP Business ByDesign feature pack, you can look up known issues and limitations incase documents in the self-enablement system. After the upgrade, you can look them up in your own solution.

Procedure1. Open the Help Center.2. Under You Can Also, click Solve Problem or Report Incident. The Solve Problem or Report Incident screen

appears.3. Under Solution Proposals, click Advanced.4. In the Show field, select Troubleshooting.5. In theMax Hits field, enter 500.6. In the Case Document Category field, select Limitation or both Limitation and Known Issue depending on which

information you would like to display.7. To start the query, click Go.

ResultThe system displays a list of known issues and limitations in English and German. To display detailed information,click the titles in the results list.


Look Up Known Issues and Limitations

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