SAP Business Workflow
How to digitize your company workflows
Do you want to optimize business processes in your company? SAP Business Workflows make it easy for you to do so! The range of applications is extensive: From release processes to distributed master data maintenance to the support of complex workflows of virtual teams, a workflow helps you coordinate and process tasks.
SAP's proven technology has evolved with S/4HANA. You will find new possibilities with the flexible workflows as well as the SAP Business Technology Platform Workflow Management. And in the future, it is even conceivable to use workflows in combination with Robotic Process Automation (RPA).
Our abat experts Florian Finauer and Steve Hößler, together with other authors, have written a book on the topic of SAP Business Workflow. It contains a comprehensive overview of topics on 505 pages and reports on the innovations through SAP S/4HANA. The book reaches a wide variety of target groups - depending on the individual topic, the content is relevant for process owners, business users, IT staff, developers, and process consultants.
Core functions and benefits of an SAP Business Workflow
- Process transparency and quality
- Process reliability and acceleration
- Partial automation of repetitive workflows
- Support for UI5 technologies - for mobile, location-independent use
- Cross-component and cross-system use
With SAP S/4HANA and flexible workflows, SAP is embarking on a paradigm shift. Business departments can independently configure simple workflow-supported
release processes via Fiori apps without complex IT involvement. SAP already offers some workflows here, and more will be delivered in subsequent releases:
Purchasing Area:
- Orders and purchase requisitions
- Sales offers
- Contracts
- Scheduling Agreements
- Supplier quotation processes
Travel Expenses Area:
Travel expenses
Finance area:
- Payment items
- Parked/blocked invoices
- General ledger document checks
- Bank account applications
Quality Management Area:
- Quality measure processing
Our Success Stories
Nutrilo
Nutrilo is part of the international PHW Group and sells its products in more than 65 countries. Due to strong growth, Nutrilo decided in 2018 to significantly expand its storage space by building a new warehouse, replacing the existing legacy system with SAP EWM, and introducing a completely new system for production. Two additional production plants and an external warehouse in Cuxhaven were…
Josera
What began as Josera in 1941 is now one of Germany's largest producers of feed for livestock and pets - Erbacher the food family. Strong growth presented the company with significant challenges. Business processes were changed because transportation could no longer be handled in an efficient sequence. As a result, the company implemented SAP Solution Manager as a central control tool for all SAP…
Weidmüller
Short interview about the SAP ERP implementation and warehouse redesign at Weidmüller Mexico in Puebla. One of the challenges of the project was the incompatibility of the old warehouse layout with the current SAP requirements. abat changed the warehouse layout for more efficient processes and transparency. Key improvements included optimized goods receiving, storage, picking and shipping, as well…
B.A.U.M. e.V.
The B.A.U.M. e.V. network faced significant challenges: It lacked a clear strategy for digitizing processes and a system coordinator to integrate the various trades. In addition, the existing CRM solution was not compatible with the newly created Digital B.A.U.M. platform, and there were no certified standard interfaces. What was needed was a future-proof solution that could be used without…
PFERD
Effective communication is often the key to project success. As a family business with more than 200 years of tradition, the PFERD brand has made communication and trust an important part of its core values. This success story of an S/4HANA migration at the Mexican site describes the challenge and the successful cooperation between abat and PFERD during the project phase and beyond.
Steinbeis
Since the beginning of the 2000s, Steinbeis has been mapping its business processes with a very sophisticated SAP ERP system that is tailored in detail to its own requirements. Due to the announced end of maintenance, the system will have to be replaced in the medium term. A key objective is to map more processes than before using standard processes. Using a fit-gap analysis, the abat experts…
Salzgitter AG
2018 startete der Salzgitter Konzern die Umstellung der kompletten ERP-Infrastruktur auf SAP S/4HANA. Im Zuge dieses konzernweiten Transformationsvorhabens sollten in einem eigenen Projekt die Warenwirtschaftsprozesse der Vormaterialbeschaffung aus einer Beteiligungsgesellschaft über alle beteiligten Konzerngesellschaften hinweg vereinheitlicht, optimiert und automatisiert werden. In elf Workshops…
DESMA
DESMA supports the shoe industry with innovative production solutions for Industry 4.0, highly automated machines, excellent know-how and comprehensive support. However, continuous innovation is only possible if the company optimizes its internal processes. The discontinuation of support for SAP R/3 was therefore a reason for DESMA to take care of a changeover at an early stage. Thanks to abat,…
Imperial Logistics
Integrated Warehouse and Transportation with SAP S/4HANA
Greenfield implementation of a logistics template in the chemical industry. Imperial Logistics is a pioneer in the use of embedded EWM and TM integration in S/4HANA on Release 1709.
SAS Automotive Systems
e-Accounting meets the requirements of the Mexican tax authorities
German companies based in Mexico must also adapt their e-accounting to the legal requirements of the Mexican tax authority SAT - and provide information on their key financial figures.
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SAP Developer
China
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SAP Consultant
China
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Business Development
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Legal Representative
China
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General Manager
China
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