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Wednesday, June 14, 2023

Q&A in Class (2023-06-14) S43000

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UI5
Most traditional SAP Users are familiar with the SAP GUI Interface which was introduced when R/3 was released way by in the early 1990s (to be precise is 1992). SAP user interface remained largely untouched for many years even when SAP started to release the ECC (Enterprise Centric Component) in 2014. Then, SAP has toyed with web portals through their NetWeaver technologies (called NWBC or Netweaver Business Client) in the early to mid-2000s, but this new Web interface access to the SAP systems ended with very few customers adopting the technology. 

The new SAPS/4HANA deployments in the mid 2010s (specifically starting 2015), SAP is trying a "New Interface to SAP" calling it "UX" rather than "UI (User Interface)". And "UX" is now coined to mean "User Experience"; and this new initiative wants to ensure that the new Interface approaches to comply with good design practice and delight the users!

SAP claimed that Fiori apps can speed onboarding and reduce training time. With simple and intuitive screens, based on how people work, users can get their work done faster and more accurately with greater satisfaction. We think that SAP is very serious on this new "UX" approach as it looks like SAP starting "Mass Producing" FIORI Apps for the past 8 years where they are now maybe at least 15800+ Fiori Apps and can be found in https://fioriappslibrary.hana.ondemand.com/sap/fix/externalViewer/

SAP now uses Fiori App as the default "UX" interface to various SAP systems including some to access the classic ECC, SAP S/4HANA, SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central, SAP Ariba, SAP Cloud for Customer, and more. AND you can classify into the following types of Fiori Apps:
  1. "Transactional Fiori Apps" which are classic backend transactions now executed using the Fiori Apps interface. When executing such Fiori Apps, the user can see a short message example: "HTML of MM01" to indicator this type of App. 
  2. "Analytical Fiori Apps" are used to provide role-based real time information about the business operations. Analytical apps integrate the power of SAP HANA with SAP business suite. Users can typical find a Main Chart, Mini Charts, and document data, with ability to navigate to the document levels.
  3. "Find ... ", "Manage ..." FIORI Apps; for example Fiori Apps which begins with the word Find or Manage (in MM, PM) are Fiori Apps to extract documents from the Database with ability to Download to Excel, follow-up functions (like set System Status etc) to the documents, navigate to related Apps about the Document and even SAVE the filter and layout to another Fiori App (like a Transaction Variant). 
  4. "Innovative Fiori Apps" for example "Malfunction Report" and "Maintenance Request" Fiori Apps in PM are new S/4 Best Practice Processing Scenario only available in S/4 via Fiori Apps AND many other such Apps in other modules of MM, SD, CS etc. 
All SAP Fiori apps are built using SAPUI5, the UI development toolkit for HTML5 that provides a programming model for desktop and mobile applications. Its JavaScript UI control library allows developers to build applications that can run on any device.

Useful links to learn about SAPUI5:

SAP Fiori Apps [help.sap.com]
SAP Reference Library
What is SAP Fiori?
SAP Course: SAP Gateway – Building OData V2 Services (GW100)
SAP Course: Transactional Apps with the ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model (S4D437)
SAP Course: Developing UIs with SAPUI5 (UX400)
SAP Course: Developing SAP Fiori UIs (UX401)
SAP Course: Advanced SAPUI5 Development (UX402)


Using Inspection Checklist for Calibration
One of the "Innovative Processes" in S/4HANA for Plant Maintenance is the new functionality called "Inspection Checklist" which uses PM-QM integration to generate "Inspection Checklist" via Inspection Lots for each Equipment or Functional Location published as a new TAB "Inspection Checklist" in the Maintenance Order. 

Please check this blog posts on an example of how to apply Inspection Checklist for Calibration scenario:

More comprehensive examples for the applications of the "Inspection Checklist" will be posted in the near future.


Readiness Check
The SAP readiness check is a FREE tool by SAP which is normally used to asses the impact of an ECC to an S4HANA system upgrade or conversion. It can also be used to asses the impact of an upgrade of a lower S4HANA version to a newer S4HANA version. SAP Readiness Check also helps identify the skillsets of the experts that must be involved in your project. Mandatory tasks, tasks that can be resolved prior to project start, and tasks that can be left to future project phases are clearly identified.

Useful links for SAP Readiness Check information:

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