Sales in SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2005

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This blog provides you with the latest and greatest innovations that our SAP S/4HANA
Cloud 2005 release has in store for you in the area of Sales. To name just a few highlights:

 Order-to-Cash Dashboard for sales and service

 Customer Returns Dashboard
 Create new sales orders through spreadsheet upload
 Sales scheduling agreements involving external service agents
 Automatic notification for expiring sales contracts
 Schedule creation of preliminary billing documents
 Ability to analyze price elements of billing items
 and more.

In detail, this blog covers the following highlights:

 Order-to-Cash Dashboard for sales and service

 Create new sales orders through spreadsheet upload

Order-to-Cash Dashboard for Sales

and Service
With SAP S/4HANA Cloud 1911 we introduced SAP Analytics Cloud embedded in SAP
S/4HANA Cloud. Business users will benefit from pre-built dashboards (aka stories) embedded
to support real-time decision-making within different business processes. The dashboards are
fully embedded into SAP S/4HANA Cloud user experience which, for example, allows for intent-
based navigation. In addition, they offer the business user flexibility through the adjustment of
filters, prompts, or drill states, but also by saving navigation states in screen variants. Starting
with the 1911 release in the LoB Finance, we shipped with SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2005 two new
dashboards for Sales and Service:

 Order-to-Cash Dashboard for Sales and Service

 Customer Returns Dashboard

With this new Order-to-Cash Dashboard for Sales and Service, you have now direct access to
SAP S/4HANA Cloud data based on live connectivity and the integration into SAP Fiori
launchpad, integrated into SAP S/4HANA Cloud role and screen variant management.

The dashboard offers significant key performance indicators such as sales volume, open sales
orders, open deliveries, incoming sales orders, and sales cost, as well as comprehensive key
figures from service, such as incoming service orders and open service orders.
Picture 1: Order to Cash Dashboard

This new ready-to-use, pre-configured Order-to-Cash Dashboard visualizes real-time insights

into the sales process for executives and senior management. The dashboard also provides
insights into the after-sales process with additional service key figures. This gives sales
managers a comprehensive picture of the order to cash process and helps improve customer
satisfaction as well as customer-oriented selling.

Key features (see Picture 1)

1:      Switch between the three analytical pages: Sales Volume, Profit Margin, and Open Orders

2:      Switch between different dimensions, such as sales organization, sold-to party, or product.
Here you can also access the Explorer mode. The explorer mode allows users to add new
dimensions and new values to the charts. You can save the explorer view in My Views

3:      Switch between bottom or top mode

4:      Page filters, such as billing date, sales office, or customer group help to analyze the right
data. Each page contains page filters that apply to the whole page. The time range filter is set
as Current Month by default. You can change it to the Current Quarter or Current Year. (Current
month/quarter/year is calculated to the current date).

5:      Significant key figures at a glance

Note 1: Stories/dashboards (SAP S/4HANA data only) are shipped via SAP Analytics Cloud
Content Repository. The standard delivery can be used as templates, and this allows customers
to copy and adapt or create their own stories.

The dashboard offers significant key performance indicators such as

 Sales Volume: Gain a real-time overview of sales volume by calendar month/quarter and
sales organization, top customers, open sales orders by sales org, customer, customer
group, material, and material group.
 Profit Margin: Compare sales volume and profit margin over time and by the sales
organization. Analyze top customers by sales volume, profit margin, and net sales cost.
Check your pricing strategies and monitor the costs.
  Incoming Orders: The Incoming Orders page combines sales and service key figures. It
provides sales managers with a single view of the incoming workload and pending
workload for both sales and service. Sales managers can monitor key figures, such as
incoming sales orders and incoming service orders at a glance, and draw conclusions
from the data. This also provides insights into the after-sales process, which helps to
improve customer satisfaction and customer-oriented selling.

Picture 2: Offline demo about Order to Cash Dashboard. Click here

Note 2: The key figures are calculated based on items that are part of business objects, for
example, invoice items in customer invoices, or credit memo items in credit memos. However,
this can also be mixed, for example, credit memo items can be part of invoices but still contribute
to the Credit Memos key figure.

In the table below, you find an overview concerning the key figures delivered with the new Order-
to-Cash Dashboard for Sales and Service:

Key Figure Description

Sales Volume The total invoiced sales achieved during a specified period.

This is based on invoice items or debit memo items (debits) that

have not been canceled.

Credit Memos The total amount of credit memos during a specified period. This is
based on credit memo items (credits) that have not been canceled.

Cancellations The total amount of invoices that have been canceled during a
specified period. This is based on customer invoices that have been
canceled. Cancellation documents are not considered at all.

Profit Margin Sales volume minus costs

Profit Margin Ratio Profit margin divided by sales volume

 Key Figure Description

Net Sales Cost Costs of sales volume minus costs of credit memos

Incoming Sales Orders Orders which are relevant for billing or delivery, but which have not
yet been processed

Incoming Service Orders Service orders that have been created in a certain month

Open Sales Orders Confirmed sales orders for which a delivery document has not
yet been created in the period of the planned billing date (goods
issue date). In this case, the net amount of the confirmed
schedule lines is shown.

In the case of unconfirmed or partially unconfirmed sales orders,

the net amount of the not yet confirmed requested schedule line
is shown, and the billing date defines the analysis period, for
example, month, in which the schedule line is displayed.

Open Service Orders Service orders that don’t have the status Completed  n a certain month

Create new sales orders through

spreadsheet upload
With the SAP S/4HANA Cloud 1911 release, we deliver the first version of the new SAP Fiori
app “Create Sales Orders” (see my blog related to this Innovation here). Now with the SAP
S/4HANA Cloud 2005 release, we improve and increase sales force efficiency with a new option
to create sales orders by uploading spreadsheets with the required data. You can use this
process when creating sales orders as a result of mass upload capabilities.

Business background: you regularly receive orders maintained in XLSX files. As sales orders
are fundamental to any inventory and order management system, sales order should be entered
into your system as soon as possible. You have now to create sales orders based on the data
maintained in these XLSX files, and you need to manually enter the order data and create them
one by one in the Create Sales Orders app.

With the new SAP Fiori app “Import Sales Orders”, you can batch-create sales orders directly
from XLSX spreadsheet files. After an order data file is uploaded, the system automatically
creates sales orders, thereby reducing manual workload and enhancing work efficiency for
internal sales reps.

Note 3: The sales order fields provided in this app do not suffice for creating sales orders with a
billing plan or for one-time customers. If you have created these sales orders using the app, you
must make order data complete later in the “Change Sales Orders – VA02” app.

Note 4: Technically, the import of sales orders requires field names that uniquely identify sales
order fields. Currently, only a limited number of order fields are available for import. You can find
their field names in the template

Key process:

1: Fill in Order Data in a Template-based File

We recommend that you download the standard template before importing sales orders. This
template provides a list of sales order fields that are either required or optional for importing sales
orders. You can add optional fields as needed in the order datasheet of the template. For details,
refer to the instructions in the template.

Picture 3: Import Sales Orders app – Download Template

This sheet provides a list of sales order fields that are either required (marked with an asterisk) or
optional. You can add optional fields to the “Order Data” sheet as needed.

Note 5: If you want to use your own XLSX file, instead of the template, to import sales orders,
you have to adapt your own XLSX File with the technical names (the basis for sales order
import) provided in the standard template.

2: Preview Order Data

After filling in order data and uploading your file, you can preview the order data, including
header and item details.

If your file contains missing or invalid information, a preview is not possible. Revise your file by
referring to the message displayed before attempting to reupload. Generally, you need to pay
attention to missing or invalid information at three levels: Column-level, Row-level, and Cell-level.

3: Import Order Data

After you have verified the data integrity and validity of the file, you can import sales orders from
your preview page. It may take some time before the order creation is completed. You can
navigate to the import history to query the order creation status.
Picture 4: Import Sales Orders app – Create sales orders from your file

4: Track Order Data import history

You can track the history of sales order imports in the system, including order creation time,
order creation status, the application log, and other information about each import

For more information on SAP S/4HANA

Cloud, check out the following links:
 SAP S/4HANA Cloud release info: http://www.sap.com/s4-cloudrelease
 Sven Denecken’s SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2005 Release Blog
 The Link Collection for SAP S/4HANA Cloud for Sales here
 Inside SAP S/4HANA Podcast here
 Best practices for SAP S/4HANA Cloud here
 SAP S/4HANA Cloud Customer Community: register here
 Feature Scope Description here
 What’s New here
 Help Portal Product Page here
 Implementation Portal here