SAP Process and Transaction Process Rules

Identifying process innovations in your SAP environment

Are you interested in identifying usability gaps in your SAP process?  Precisely has examined repetitive processes, transactions and data that has emerged from gathering hundreds of SAP customers’ ST03N transaction data.  This ST03N data is used in producing an assessment of what processes may be optimal to improve using Precisely solutions. We are starting to identify these transactions and process data for a collection of data rules based on a series of “automation complexity indexes”.   This article explores one of the most critical ERP processes – Material Management – and will identify examples of data rules applied to the process and transaction data.

So what are some of the processes and transactions that make up the material management process?  MM01 (create material), MM03 (display …) and MM02 (change …) and more.

Next is to drill into these various sub processes and transactions by obtaining data related to usage, transaction complexity, potential productivity and capacity enablement followed by applying the learned “data patterns”.  With this information, you can quickly identify areas for transaction improvement – whether it’s a create, lookup or maintenance use case. Looking at some of these patterns highlighted from the result focused on the material management process which started to discover the “underlying stories”.

This same analysis can be used for finance processes (e.g. Record to Report), supply chain processes (Procure to Pay), sales distribution (Order to Cash) and more.

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