S/4 Purchase Order Flexible Workflow: Agent Determination by BADI

As you know, in S/4 we have the Flexible Workflows scenarios. In some business cases, the standard agent determinations is not enough to meet the company’s needs, so we need to add custom code to make it 100%. On the Agent determination side, we have BADIs to accomplish that. Here, i’m gonna show how to use the Agent Determination BADI on the Purchase Order approval Flexible Scenario.

SCP Mobile Services: MDK Offline CRUD App

“Mobile development kit (MDK) enables developers and technical business users to build native mobile applications in a highly productive environment. The tool provides a cross platform native experience so users build the app once and deploy to iOS and Android devices.”

There are already some great tutorials on MDK, like this one, but i wanted to do a “FullStack” version, coding all the way from the ABAP backend to the App itself. So basically my Goal here is for you to create your first full CRUD MDK App (Offline).

Adding features to FIORI Element List Report using CDS views and annotations

In this blog, I will provide CDS annotation details, some tips and tricks along with examples to demonstrate how we can add features to a basic FIORI elements List report without having to change much in the UI code. This is especially helpful to backend /ABAP developers as these features can be implemented only using CDS views.

After you have created a basic list report application, you can add the following features using CDS,

3W’s of credit management, High level comparison of FSCM with ECC Credit Managment and baseline S/4 CM configuration

In this blog we will try to give a layman’s viewpoint regarding 3 W’s (What, Why and Where) of credit management. What is the basic definition and business justification for having credit management and how the SAP credit management has evolved/changed from ECC to S/4 i.e. depicting the key changes/differences between two set ups and in the end following same with the baseline configurations required in S/4 to make it work.

How to set up the ALE Distribution Unit(UPS) to Receive Inbound IDOCS.

I haven’t found any blog that details the steps to be followed to set up the ALE unit. Hence written this blog to detail all the configurations to be done for the ALE unit setup. Narrated the steps by taking a Scenario. Please find the Scenario details in the below sections.

What is ALE Distribution Unit(UPS)

ALE distribution consist of one original packet with batches of same type of data.

Ex: One Packet may consist of below details.

S/4 Purchase Order Flexible Workflow: Value Helps (OData + CDS)

CDS Table Function using ‘WITH’ Clause – Improved response time

Introduction –

In this blog, you are going to see how performance can be improved using ‘WITH’ Clause in CDS Table function when you have multiple selects.

I will use below Problem Statement as an example and try same solution in 3 ways.

Create a Fiori application to perform CRUD operations with SAP Fiori Elements and BOPF Framework in S/4 System using CDS Annotations

Introduction

In this post, we will go over a series of steps in creation of a Fiori application to perform CRUD operations with SAP Fiori Elements and BOPF Framework using CDS annotations, without using a single line of UI5 code.

Pre-requisites for this Application:

◉ S/4 HANA System
◉ SAP NetWeaver gateway
◉ HANA Studio
◉ SAP Web IDE Cloud Platform