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2 Common Tasks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
2.1 Navigation Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
2.2 Recent History. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
2.3 (Deprecated) Library. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
2.4 (New) Library. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
2.5 Attachment Search. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33
Request Bulk Attachment Downloads. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Search Attachments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Use Attachment Search for Custom Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
2.6 Lists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Manage List in Work Center View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39
Manage List in Object Detail View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
2.7 Flags, Tags, and Favorites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51
Work With Flags and Favorites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .52
Work With Tags. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
2.8 Feed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Work With Feed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Feed FAQ. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
2.9 Search. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .64
Basic Search. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Enterprise Search. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Advanced Search. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
2.10 Notification. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
2.11 Map. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .76
Scope and Configure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Work with Maps. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
2.12 Support and Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Incident Management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Scope and Configure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Tasks in Incident Processing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
2.13 Side Pane. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
2.14 Personalization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Personalize your SAP Fiori Client. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
2.15 Calendar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Use the Calendar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
4 Leads. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
4.1 Scope and Configure Leads. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
4.2 Create Leads. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
Import Leads from Microsoft Excel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
Edit Leads in Worklist. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Use Business Card Scanner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
Check for Lead Duplicates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Assign Leads. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
4.3 Nurture Leads. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Lead Statuses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
Qualify Leads. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .258
Add Qualification Activities to Leads. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
Associate Leads with Registered Products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Score Leads. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Work with Deal Finder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .263
Work with LinkedIn Sales Navigator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
4.4 Convert Leads. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
4.5 Leads Offline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
4.6 Leads FAQ. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
5 Opportunities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
5.1 Scope and Configure Opportunities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286
5.2 Manage Opportunities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .302
Create Opportunities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
Add Products to Opportunities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
Determine Involved Parties for Opportunities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
Opportunity Statuses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
Sales Cycles and Phases. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314
View Activities in Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
Work with Activity Advisor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
Associate Opportunities with Registered Products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
5.3 Collaborate on Opportunities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
Work with SAP Jam. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
Work with Influencer Map. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
Work with LinkedIn Sales Navigator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322
6 Contracts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359
6.1 Scope and Configure Service and Sales Contracts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360
6.2 Create Contracts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369
Create a Contract. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370
Create a Contract from a Template. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372
Create Contracts from Accounts and Individual Customers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373
Create a Contract from an Opportunity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373
Create a Related Contract. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374
Assign Territories to Contracts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374
6.3 Maintain Contracts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376
Maintain Involved Parties for Contracts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377
Maintain Contract Items. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379
Maintain Contract Covered Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380
Modify Contract Types Using the Data Workbench. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .381
Copy and Paste Product Mass Entries in Service Contracts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382
Service Contract Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .382
Manage Access Restriction for Contracts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382
Use Contract Queries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383
Manage Territory in Contracts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383
10 Activities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 578
10.1 Scope and Configure Activities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 578
10.2 Appointments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 586
Set Out-of-Office Indicator for Appointments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587
Display Private Appointments with a Lock Icon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587
Generate and Send Activity Summaries Using Rules. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 588
10.3 E-Mails. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 589
Create Default E-Mail Signatures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 590
Create E-Mail Templates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591
Send E-Mail Delivery Receipts Using Rules. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593
View E-Mails with Original Formatting and Structure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 594
Report on Unassociated E-Mails. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595
10.4 Phone Calls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 596
Add Surveys or Tasks to Phone Calls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597
Generate and Send Activity Summaries Using Rules. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 598
Report on Phone Call Surveys or Tasks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 600
10.5 Tasks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .603
Mass Update Task Processors from the List. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603
10.6 Activity Lists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604
Create Activity Lists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605
Add Activities to Activity Lists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 606
10.7 Activities Offline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 606
10.8 Activities FAQ. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613
11 Visits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 615
11.1 Scope and Configure Visits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .616
12 Routes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 648
12.1 Scope and Configure Routes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 649
12.2 Plan Visits Using Routes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 650
Create Routes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651
Define Route Details. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .653
Add Accounts to Routes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 655
Add Involved Parties and Attachments to Routes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 659
Verify Routes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 659
Activate Routes and Generate Visits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 662
12.3 Create Routes from Templates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 663
Create Route Templates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 663
Define Details for Route Templates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 664
Add Accounts to Route Templates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667
Add Involved Parties and Attachments to Route Templates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 670
Activate Route Templates and Generate Routes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 670
Schedule Route Generation from Templates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671
12.4 Routes Offline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672
12.5 Routes FAQ. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .672
16 Surveys. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 716
16.1 Scope and Configure Surveys. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 716
16.2 Survey Types. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 719
General (Checklist) Surveys. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 720
Product Surveys. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 721
Competitor Product Surveys. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 722
Registered Product Surveys. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 723
Competitor Surveys. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 724
Satisfaction Surveys. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .725
Survey Categories. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 726
18 Promotions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 810
18.1 Scope and Configure Promotions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 810
18.2 Create Promotions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 811
Create Promotions in SAP Cloud for Customer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 811
SAP CRM TPM Promotion Replication. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 812
18.3 Use Promotions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 813
View Promotions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 813
Apply Promotions in Sales Orders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 815
Finish Promotions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 816
18.4 Promotion Data Sources and Reports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 816
18.5 Promotions Offline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .817
18.6 Promotions FAQ. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 819
20 Pricing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 838
20.1 Work with Internal Pricing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 839
Internal Pricing in Sales Quotes and Orders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 839
Quantity and Currency Conversions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 841
20.2 Internal Pricing FAQs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .842
20.3 Work with External Pricing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 847
Tips on Working with External Pricing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .847
Request External Pricing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 848
External Pricing with Free Goods, Product Availability, and Credit Status. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 849
20.4 External Pricing FAQs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 849
24 Employees. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1029
24.1 Scope and Configure Employees. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1029
24.2 Employee Sales Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1040
24.3 Edit or Delimit Employees. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1042
24.4 External ID Visible in Employee Details View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1042
24.5 Maintain Employee Job Definitions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1042
24.6 Create Employee Delegates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1046
24.7 Employee Work Distribution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1048
25 Competitors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1050
25.1 Scope and Configure Competitors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1050
25.2 Competitor Product Surveys. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1051
25.3 Competitor Surveys. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1051
26 Contacts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1052
26.1 Scope and Configure Contacts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1053
26.2 Customer Merge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1062
Rules for Transaction Reassignment During Merge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1063
Merge Criteria for Tab Screens. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1065
Status Management in Account Merge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1069
Map Obsolete Records to Primary Record For More Insights. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1070
View Result Log. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1071
26.3 Contact Team. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1071
26.4 Maintain International Address Versions for Contact-Account Relationships. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1072
26.5 Contact Relationships and Buying Center Relationships. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1072
26.6 Buying Center. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1073
26.7 Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1074
26.8 Social Media Profiles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1077
26.9 Integration with LinkedIn Sales Navigator to Access Relationships and Key Contacts. . . . . . . . . . . 1079
28 Collections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1097
28.1 Scope and Configure Collections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1097
28.2 Payments and Invoices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1100
Enable Replication of Payments and Invoices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1101
Replicate Payments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1101
Replicate Invoices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1101
28.3 Collections Reporting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1102
Sales people need a robust set of capabilities to engage in meaningful customer conversations and deliver the
right impact every time. Going beyond the traditional approach, SAP Sales Cloud provides delightful user
experience and equips your sales team to close more deals faster in today's complex selling environment.
This guide helps you accomplish your daily tasks by providing information about setting up and using the
capabilities in SAP Sales Cloud.
For new business in business-to-business (B2B) selling, the solution enables you to capture Leads [page 230]
and qualify and convert them into Opportunities [page 285]. These opportunities can be further nurtured and
evaluated with comprehensive customer information, phase-relevant activities, and competitive data until they
are ready to go into the quotation process. Once Sales Quotes [page 407] are accepted, you can create Sales
Orders [page 487] that can be further processed in the back office. In the meantime, sales representatives can
forecast their potential deals and compare against their quotas at an ongoing basis using Sales Forecasting
[page 1012].
For field sales and trade scenarios, the solution allows you to plan Visits [page 615] and Activities [page 578].
During the visits, sales representatives are empowered with 360-degree view of customer information, tasks
and Surveys [page 716] that need to be performed, and Promotions [page 810] relevant for the visits. Sales
representatives can also take orders on the field and leverage Imaging Intelligence [page 674] for planogram
compliance. This can be executed both online and offline. For in-store visits, you can create engagement maps
and your own KPIs to evaluate business metrics per store using the Perfect Store [page 686].
For more information about initial setup of your system, setting up the solution on mobile devices, integrating
analytics, and customizing the solution to your needs, see the appropriate guide on the SAP Cloud for
Customer page on the SAP Help Portal.
Learn how the common tasks such as search, navigation menu, feeds, calendar, side pane, dashboard, and so
on, work in the solution.
Knowing how to navigate around the solution with the visible elements that you see and interact with is critical
in managing your data in the solution.
A navigation menu provides easy access to the core functionalities and makes browsing easier by providing a
main menu of options.
By default, the navigation menu has a hierarchical structure with a main level and a sublevel. You can view the
navigation menu in a flat design and see all the objects at the same level. With flat design, you can navigate
quickly and easily. Please ask your administrator to enable the flat design.
A flat design navigation menu shows all objects at the same level.
You avoid additional clicks and can quickly find and navigate to the desired object. For example, for a sales user,
all the objects such as leads, opportunities, and so on, show up at the same level in the navigation menu.
Your administrator can enable flat navigation menu by selecting the checkbox Enable Flat List Navigation Menu
in Fiori Client in the Company Settings screen. Once turned on, the setting affects all users.
Note
Some work center views like Target Group are assigned to multiple work centers and hence might appear
twice. Please check the work center view assigned to the business role.
With semi-collapsed navigation, you can quickly launch object lists without opening or closing the navigation
menu.
Note
The new navigation menu is the only menu option available in the solution. The old navigation menu has been
retired.
The new navigation menu is available in the semicollapsed mode upon sign-in. The new navigation menu
provides consistent user experience across all SAP C/4HANA products.
The administrator can enable the feature from the user profile menu under Settings Company Settings ,
by turning on the toggle button for the company setting. Enable Semi-Collapsed Navigation menu upon Sign-in.
The new tab navigation bar supports automation IDs. Automation ID is used to locate an element and uniquely
identifies an element or tab from the other tabs. Automation ID is useful when you want to find a specific user
interface element among other elements. For example, it’s useful when you want to find a specific item in a
collection.
Caution
Any automation scripts that follow the click to navigate action, must be adjusted.
Learn to quickly access your recently opened objects with recent history.
Get a more streamlined experience in finding and retrieving recently accessed objects in the different work
centers with the Recent History tab in the navigation menu. Recent history records all the recent objects
opened by you and displays it in a single list for quick access. Recent history tracks all the standard and custom
objects, and objects opened in offline mode. You can choose to see all objects or filter by specific object.
The library allows you to store documents, pictures, or other files directly in the solution.
Note
The existing library will be deprecated in February 2020. The features will continue to be available in the
new library.
In the library, you can view, edit, or delete files. Version tracking and exclusive editing rights using a check in/
check out policy ensure that the files are always up-to-date, and searching and linking functions allow you to
easily find and share your files with colleagues.
You can sort the documents by ascending or descending order, title, version, changed on date and locked
status. You can also do advanced search and save a query or organize queries.
Selecting a document shows the information about the document in a new window. The Overview tab gives you
recent updates of the documents as well as version information. Use flags, favorites, and tags for the
documents in the library. Notes provide you with information regarding the latest notes update on the
document. You can edit and add a new note or update an existing one.
Related Information
Procedure
Procedure
1. From the Library, select the document you want to edit. Only editable content like a .doc file can be
checked out for editing, not images. Versioning must be enabled.
2. Select Check out. You can now edit and save the document.
3. After editing, upload a new version of the document by choosing Actions Check In and browsing to
the updated file.
Procedure
1. Under Library, choose the + icon. The Add Document window appears.
2. Browse to the file location. If necessary, change the automatically populated title.
3. Select Enable Versioning to track the history of the document. An increase in the version number of the
document represents a revision.
4. Save your entries.
Note
The existing library will be deprecated in February 2020. By then, any documents that have not been
migrated will be automatically migrated to the new library upon upgrade.
Before users can organize documents using folders, administrators must enable the new library and migrate all
the content from the existing library.
Procedure
For more details, please check Create Business Roles and Assign Work Centers and Views.
Note
Along with the new library work center, access context 2027 is available for you to apply access
restrictions.
3. Go to the (New) Library work center, from the actions at the bottom right, click Migrate Documents from
Library. A background job is scheduled at the back end to migrate all the documents from the existing
library.
The background job is triggered every four hours. Depending on the volume of the documents to be
migrated, the time required to complete the migration varies.
Next Steps
Once the migration completes, you can disable the existing library work center view (ID:
COD_MARKETINGINFO) for applicable business users or roles.
Tip
After the old library is removed from the project scope, it is recommended that you trigger the migration in
the new library once again, just in case users might have created new documents in the old library during
migration.
You can build up to three levels of folders to group documents in the new library. A breadcrumb trail allows you
to keep track of your current location and easily navigate back to an upper level of folder in the hierarchy.
Restriction
Pre-delivered views are only used to filter top-level documents and folders in the library. For example, if you
switch the view from Created by Me to Changed by Me within a folder, you will be directed back to the top
level in the library and see a list of top-level documents and folders that have been changed by you.
As the owner of a document or folder, you can define whether the document or folder is public or private.
Access to a private document or folder can be restricted to specific sales data, accounts, employees, and
territories.
In addition, you can authorize other employees to administer the document or folder by checking their Grant
User Access fields.
Items that have access to a parent folder can access all the child folders and documents within the folder.
Items with such Inherited Access cannot be edited or deleted.
Note
You cannot change the administration right for an employee with inherited access. In a case like this, you
must add the employee explicitly for editing.
Inherited access can also be granted due to access control that has been configured by your administrator.
Within the new library, you can organize documents using the Move action to place them into the right folders
at any level in the hierarchy.
Context
Restriction
Only documents can be moved into a folder. You cannot move folders into a folder.
Procedure
The first level that appears is the root level. If you want to move documents to the root level, you do not
need to click any folder.
4. Click Move.
5. Refresh the list to see the result.
You can place documents directly into folders from your client device using drag-and-drop. You can only upload
documents into a folder that is currently open. Up to five documents can be uploaded in a single drag-and-drop
action.
Tip
To trigger the upload, you must drop the documents into the list area. The list area is highlighted in red in
the screenshot below.
You can share deep links to folders or documents with colleagues when referring to content.
When you open a shared link to a private folder or document, you must have permission to access the folder or
document before you can see the content.
Please be aware of the following known limitations when you open a shared link to a folder:
● You see the action bar located at the top instead of the bottom.
● The content within the shared folder displays under your default view.
● Use default query sets for Last Week's Attachments, Last Month's Attachments, My Attachments, My
Teams' Attachments, and All to filter attachments results.
● Users can utilize default sets of Last Month’s and Last Week’s Attachments to quickly see attachment
results.
● Navigate (from the search screen) to the target business object.
● Sort the search results set in ascending or descending by standard criteria and the appropriate data
appears in the search results table.
● Use action - Download to download a single file. You can also select multiple files for download. This
downloads a compressed zip file containing the selected files.
● Use action - Refresh to update the Attachments work center view with any changes that you have made to
the attachments in the business objects.
● Use the same access restrictions maintained for specific business object to allow or restrict access to
attachments.
Request a bulk attachment download and download the attachments from the attachment download monitor.
Context
If you have selected more than 100MB of attachments to download from your attachment search results, the
attachments must be grouped into multiple smaller sets that are less than 100MB in size before you can
download them. You'll create a bulk attachment download request that gets scheduled for grouping and made
available for download. Each bulk attachment download request has its own ID and can be found in the
attachment download monitor.
In the attachment download monitor, you can view your download requests, the download request status, view
the expiration date and time, and download the requested attachments when they are ready. The attachments
are only available to download for 24 hours after the download request is created. You can download and see
only the download requests that you have requested.
Note
You can only create two bulk attachment requests at a time. If you currently have two bulk attachment
requests in your attachment download monitor, you must wait until one expires to create a new request.
Procedure
1. Select the attachments you want to download and choose Actions Download . If the total size
exceeds 100MB, a download request is scheduled.
2. Go to Library Attachment Download Monitor and locate the download request ID to view the status
of the requested attachments.
Under Library Attachments , search for attachments that are uploaded for various business objects. The
current release supports the complete attachments search functionality for sales orders, accounts, sales
quotes, opportunities, visits, appointments, activities, leads, sales campaigns, and e-mail business objects.
In the Attachments work center, use the dropdown menu for Attachment Type to filter your search results by an
attachment type in your system.
If you have custom business objects in your system that contain attachments, these attachments can be
included in the attachment search under Library Attachments . Use the advanced filter to search for
Administrators can configure attachment search for customer objects with a fine-tuning activity.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine Tune
Configure Business Objects for Attachment Search to activate attachment search for your business objects.
You see the current, default business objects in the list. Use the Active checkbox to activate or deactivate the
object for attachment search.
To add a custom business object to the list, you'll need to add a row for your custom object and define the
following:
● Object Identifier - A unique identifier to identify this configuration. It should start with "Z".
● UI Path for Authorization Context - This Unique ID (taken from UI designer) of the UI component provides
the authorization context for search. This OWL component can be a reused standard OWL of SAP if the
custom business object derives the authorization context from it.
● Active - Indicator to activate or deactivate the custom business object from search.
● Description - Translatable description of the custom business object. This description appears in object
dropdown box, in the advanced search for attachments.
● Properties - Use the Solution Explorer in PDI Studio to set the following properties:
○ Object Name - A valid name of the custom business object. It has a .bo file extension in the Solution
Explorer.
○ Object Namespace - A valid namespace where the custom business object is defined. In can be found
in the solution properties in the Solution Explorer..
○ Object Query Node Name - A valid node name on which the custom business object's query is defined.
In the Solution Explorer, under your custom business object name, double-click the .qry file to retrieve
the query node name.
○ Object Query Name - A valid query name defined on the custom business object. In the Solution
Explorer, the object query name is under the object query node name.
○ Search Parameter Name Account ID - Optional - A valid data element path to the search parameter
account ID defined in query.
○ Search Parameter Name Sales Organization ID - Optional - A valid data element path to the search
parameter sales organization ID defined in query.
○ Search Parameter Name Distribution Channel - Optional - A valid data element path to the search
parameter distribution channel. In the Solution Explorer, right-click on the .qry file and select Execute
Query. In the window that opens, use Parameter dropdown menu.
○ Object Thing Type Name - A valid "Short_ID" value taken from UI designer that represents the thing
type name of custom business object. It has a .TT file extension in the Solution Explorer.
○ Search Result Attribute ID - Optional - A valid data element path to the identifier of the business object
that can be used to identify the business object in the search results. If this value is not maintained
then UUID of the business object is shown in the search result. This attribute is used to help the user to
uniquely identify the business object of the corresponding attachment. You can give any element
maintained the custom business object. It is recommended to use the alternative key of the business
object.
Lists are available in work center view and in detail view. At the work center level, the list is used to locate
objects in the system such as accounts, opportunities, and leads. At object detail level, the list is used to locate
list of items in an object. For example, the list of items in a sales quote.
Remember
You can only open 25 tabs in the solution. However, if you want to open additional tabs, you can do so by
closing some of the open tabs, so that the tab count does not exceed 25.
The toggle selection mode button to enter into multi selection mode has been removed. Selection checkboxes
are always visible in multi-select lists for all table visualizations (table view, chunk view, image view, map view
etc.). You can navigate to different objects directly from within the chunk view. With selection checkboxes, the
selection of rows in a list becomes easier and you don't have to do an additional click to enable the selection of
checkboxes.
Remember
Auto adjustment of table column width: You don’t have to expand or reduce the column widths in a table to see
the complete table. The columns automatically adjust to the table size and shrink to minimize the white space.
In case, the table is very long, the columns shrink further by wrapping the header text. Thus, maintaining all the
values on one screen. Whenever there is paging, sorting, or filtering of the columns, the width of the affected
column is recalculated to auto adjusted. You can also manually adjust column widths to your requirement.
Remember
● When you are in edit mode, the minimum width of any column with editable controls increases to
accommodate editing. However, empty and read-only columns remain to the minimum width size.
● Column width changed made by you is not saved. When you come back to a table again, you will see
the original column width.
Even when one column is changed, the complete table is impacted, and all the column sizes are
redistributed.
● This feature is not supported on Microsoft Internet Explorer and Edge browser (version >16).
Dynamic resizing of the table columns can be done under company settings. You can enable the auto
adjustment of table column under Settings Company Settings and turn on the toggle button option
Enable Auto Adjustment of Table Column Width in Fiori Client.
Remember
The smartphone doesn’t feature the conventional table view. It displays the information in a type of chunk
view or condensed chunk view as selected by the user.
Chunk View:
Chunk view is useful for heterogeneous data types. The chunk view displays two rows of attribute values. Using
the chunk view, you can display up to eight attribute values so that you don't scroll horizontally.
Each chunk view entry occupies an entire row. Objects can be further accessed when you click on the title
hyperlink. The icon or thumbnail image indicates the type, object, or image of your choice. The title is the name
of the corresponding object. It contains a hyperlink that, when clicked, takes you to the object overview.
Tip
There are two types of chunk views - Chunk View for worklist and Chunk View for Side Panel (when
available and enabled).
Chunk view is available in desktop, tablet & smartphone as an alternative view for the table/list views. For
mouse-controlled devices like desktop, chunk view shows all navigation links. Whereas for touch-enabled
Note
The administrator can also use smartphone layout to specifically hide some fields in smartphone.
○ If you personalize the list view (add columns, remove columns or change sequence) the changes are
also reflected in chunk view.
○ The default view for smartphone is the chunk view for better touch experience. You also have the
option of condensed chunk view, showing lesser fields in smartphone.
○ In touch-enabled devices, you can only navigate to the leading object. For example, for accounts you
can go to the account name but can’t navigate to the contacts under it.
○ List view isn’t supported in smartphone.
Image View:
Remember
Minimum size of the largest image uploaded and used for image view is 196px196px. The supported image
file formats are PNG and JPG.
Image view provides information at a glance about objects where visual information is easier to consume. For
example, products, people, and so on. Different image views are supported on any lists, where images are
configured. There are three image view sizes supported:
Remember
The map view is useful for objects that require geographical or location information. In the map view, you have
a list on the left side that contains all the objects. The map covers rest of the screen and expands to the bottom
and right of the available window. When you resize the screen, the map also resizes, but it doesn’t zoom in or
out. A map pin represents an item in the list on the map and when selected, highlights the pin.
Calendar View:
There are different views available in the calendar, namely week view, work week view, day view, month view,
and agenda view. With the filter, you can define what kinds of events to see on a calendar. Filters are organized
by type (appointment, phone call, visit, and so on.) or by status (open, in process, complete, overdue, and so
on).
Tip
By default in tablet, the event list is hidden and collapsed in a side menu. One can access the event list by
clicking the hamburger menu on the top left of the worklist.
The hierarchical table view is similar to the table view but allows for better grouping of related items and
categories. A hierarchical table view is available under Territories. Each line in the table represents an object. If
the item is collapsed, the arrow in the object points to the right, and its content isn’t visible. Clicking the arrow
expands the content and clicking the item opens the object.
You see two different behaviors depending on how you make your selection in the table. There’s row selection
that is indicated by light blue background color of entire row and lead selection that is indicated when the
check box is selected.
When you click anywhere in white space except for checkbox, it triggers the row selection and lead selection.
Only one row is selected at a time. If you click again anywhere else, the row and lead selection changes to the
row in the selected area. For example, if you have machine learning pane or if master detail configured on the
list, you see respective frames getting refreshed with the selection. You always have only one lead selected
object.
When you select the checkbox, you explicitly enter the lead selection mode. For example, if you have machine
learning pane or if master detail configured on the list, you see respective frames getting refreshed with the
selection. In explicit lead selection mode, any further clicks in the white space of other row or on check box
leads to additional lead selection, as multiple check boxes get selected. In multiple selections, the machine
learning pane and master detail pane aren’t refreshed without an explicit action to refresh them. For machine
learning pane, the explicit action to refresh is done by clicking the bulb icon under the Actioncolumn.
You can create donut charts using predefined dataset columns in Fiori client. Up to four donut charts are
available. You can select sections of charts, and chart legends to filter the list. With availability of donut charts,
you can quickly filter the list based on the predefined criteria. Each segment of the donut chart is in different
color for visual clarity.
Note
Donut Charts are shown using Belize Theme colors in Blue Crystal theme.
In many objects, you can edit information directly in the worklist view, without navigating to the detail view.
Directly editing in the worklist view reduces the number of clicks, and the time it takes to navigate to object
detail view to make an edit.
The administrator can enable editing in worklist by going to the user profile menu under Settings Company
Settings , by turning on the toggle button for the company setting Enable Editing in Dataset.
Remember
The company setting Enable Editing in Dataset will be retired with May 2020 release and be available as
default.
You can now edit information directly within specific cells of the dataset without having to navigate to the
object detail view.
With inline editing, you can change information directly in specific cells, by hovering and selecting any editable
element in the table. You can edit an item directly on the same page, without navigating to another view. Inline
edit functionality brings significant improvement in the user experience by removing multiple clicks and time
taken earlier to open object detail view for quick changes.
The administrator can enable the feature from the user profile menu under Settings Company Settings ,
by turning on the toggle button for two company settings Enable Editing in Dataset and Enable Inline Editing in
Browser. When both settings are switched on, only then you can do inline edit in data set. With the company
setting Enable Editing in Dataset, only the global editing is enabled.
Remember
The company settings will be retired with May 2020 release and inline editing in datasets becomes the
default behavior.
Learn all the different operations and actions you can do with a list in detail view to access information quickly
and easily.
● You can easily create a new related item by choosing the create (+) button at the bottom left of the object
list.
● You can edit the list in detail view. In the edit mode, you can edit the title, secondary title, and attribute
values. The layout and the width are maintained, but the height may expand to allow space for you to type
and change information.
Remember
○ On desktop and tablet devices, the edit mode launches on top of each individual object.
○ On smartphones, the edit mode launches a full-screen, full-width window.
There’s a paste icon in the table that pastes large amount of copied data ( Excel or data separated by
semicolon) into the table.
Note
1. Copy the data (Excel or data separated by semicolon) you want to paste into the table.
Caution
○ A column can have multiple fields. If the table is empty, the number of actual fields in a column can be
checked by adding a new entry.
○ When pasting the records leave the checkbox field empty, if you want the checkbox unselected.
○ Any random value added in the checkbox field shows the checkbox selected. To show the checkbox
selected correctly, add true or X as the field value.
2. Click the paste icon, an input field shows up. Do CTRL+ V or right-click to paste the external data. In all
tablets, do a long press and paste.
3. 3. When the data is pasted, the new rows are added to the table. If there are errors, a message is displayed
showing the number of errors in the data. Fields with errors are also highlighted in red.
Note
When you paste the data in the input field, the table switches to edit mode
● You must always enter the object ID in the value selection fields.
● One column can have multiple fields. You enter the values for each field in the column, irrespective of the
type of column.
● Make sure that the read only (noneditable) fields are empty. Don’t enter incorrect values for these fields as
it can’t be corrected from the user interface.
● For checkbox, use True, False, X or an empty string. Here empty string and false can be used for
unchecking checkboxes. All other values show the checkbox selected.
● For quantity and amount fields, if you enter any special character, it gets defaulted to 1 or as configured.
Limitations:
You can quickly add or edit list items without having to search in the list. Adding new line items or finding and
editing existing line items in a list is available in the search box, where enabled.
You can search for items in the search box on the list toolbar.
● Add scenario: If the item doesn’t exist in the list, then it gets added to the top of the list.
● Edit scenario: If the item exists in the list, then the corresponding row is highlighted and ready for editing.
Inline editing is available for certain fields in object detail view (desktop only).
Tip
When multiple fields have to be edited, it’s recommended to use global edit.
The administrator can enable the feature from the user profile menu under Settings Company Settings ,
by turning on the toggle button for the company setting Enable Inline Editing in Browser.
Remember
The company setting will be retired with May 2020 release and inline editing will be available as a default.
Restriction
Learn to work with flags and favorites and use them to keep important items handy.
In SAP Cloud for Customer, you can mark the items for quick access. This marking is useful for items that you
access repeatedly, or maybe for reminding yourself to update an item in the near future.
It is just like at home where you may have a favorite coffee mug handy on the shelf for easy access or a
purchased item in the front of the closet that needs to be returned. Similarly, in business, you can add items
such as accounts, activities, or contacts for quick access. You can find the flag, favorites, and tags under the
navigation tab, on the bottom left of the screen.
You can mark items as Flags or Favorites for quick access and keep them until you don't need them.
Favorites are used to mark items that you frequently use and want to keep handy. Flags are used to mark items
that you want to follow up on.
Note
Flags and Favorites in HTML5 appear in the Shelf pane. In SAP Fiori client user-interface, the Flags and
Favorites are available under the productivity icon in the shell bar.
You can flag objects for follow-up, or mark frequently used objects as Favorites.
When an object is flagged or marked as a favorite, the corresponding object marker appears next to it:
You use the flag option when you flag objects for later reference and follow-up. You use the favorite option when
you mark frequently used objects.
Find out about the shelf, how flags and favorites are connected to it, and how to use it to keep important items
at your fingertips.
Context
Procedure
To access the items you flagged or marked as a favorite, click Flag or Favorite icon at the left bottom of the
screen for quick access.
Learn how you can quickly open items marked as flag or favorite.
Context
Procedure
1. To see the list of all items under it, select the flag/favorite icon at the bottom left of the screen.
2. To open an item from either the flag/favorite, select the name of that item, which appears as a link.
Items remain under flag and favorites until you remove them.
Context
Procedure
1. Select the pencil icon in the flags or favorites list. Select the remove (x) icon that appears to the right of
your item.
2. Click Save to keep the changes. The item disappears from the flag and favorites list, and the flag and
favorite indicators are removed from the item.
Tags are unique identifiers that can be associated with to your items to search, sort, categorize, filter, and
segment in an efficient way.
It’s similar to adding keywords or any additional information to any item in the solution. For example, if there
are a few opportunities in your account that requires high priority. You can tag those opportunities as
important, so that you can easily filter them from the other opportunities in your account.
Learn how to add a tag and find your items quickly in the solution.
Context
1. Open the item you want to add a tag to. The tags area is located in the item header.
2. In the tags area, enter a name for your tag then choose SPACEBAR. You have the following options:
1. ○ To enter a public tag that everyone can see, enter the tag text in the entry field.
○ To enter a private tag that only you can see, enter an asterisk (*) before the tag name.
For example, at a sales conference, you talk to five potential customers who are eager to buy your
product. You want to follow up on the leads yourself, so you use a private tag, *hot_leads. You can
find them easily in the system and call them next week.
Note
3. As you type your tag, the system runs an automatic search, comparing your entry to existing tags. You can
accept a suggested tag from the automatic search results. When you accept a suggested tag, the system
creates a copy of that tag for you. You can edit, remove, or delete any tag that you assign to an item without
affecting this tag in the rest of the system.
4. For additional tag, select the tag icon in the item header and add your tag to the list.
5. Your entry is saved and reflected as an addition in the tag number display.
Learn how you can easily remove tags from items you do not use any more.
Context
Procedure
1. Open the item that contains the tag that you want to remove.
2. In the item header under tags, all the tags for this item appear.
3. Delete the existing tag. Or, select the pencil icon that appears when you hover in the Tags area. A Remove
(x) icon appears to the right of your tag. Select it to remove the tag from the item. The tag is removed from
this item only. All other items assigned to this tag keep their assignments and the tag displays in the
solution as one of your tags.
Context
Procedure
1. Open the item that contains the tag that you want to change. In the item header, under the tags icon, all of
the tags for this item appear.
2. Delete the existing tag and replace it with the new tag. Or, select the pencil icon under tags, on the bottom
left area of the screen. Select the tag you want to rename and type a new name.
Learn how to see the different tags assigned to items in the solution.
Context
Procedure
To search the list, enter a search term in the search field at the top of the pane. When you click the result of
the search, it lists the corresponding items. To filter the list, you can use the following predefined filters:
○ Recent Tags: This filter shows the 50 most recently used tags from the last 30 days. This list is sorted
chronologically so that the tags that were used most recently appear at the top of the list.
○ My Private Tags: This filter shows your most frequently used private tags.
○ My Public Tags: This filter shows the most frequently used public tags.
○ Popular : This filter shows a ranked list of the most popular tags, including both your private tags and
all public tags.
A tag can be used multiple times. The more frequently a tag is used, the higher it is on the list.
2.8 Feed
Learn about using the feed that allows you to quickly communicate and collaborate with your network.
Feed is where you post updates to your network and receive updates from your feed sources — the information
and people you require to complete your work. In the feed, you can post feed updates (using shorthand),
comment on feed updates, and delete feed updates. You can also manage your feed sources and feed settings.
As with other items in the solution, you can also search feed updates, use filters to view only certain types of
updates, flag or tag feed updates, or add them to your Favorites.
For more information about integrating SAP Cloud for Customer with SAP Jam Feeds, see the Related Links
section.
Find out where feed updates come from, how to post and comment on feed updates, and where to find private
updates.
Related Information
Learn how to use and manage feed to collaborate with team members and speed up the decision process.
Additionally, get updates on the important items that you follow such as who updated an item, what changes
were made to an item, and so on.
● Post messages and share it with all the users in your organization.
● Mention someone or add a tag in your status messages.
● Send private messages to your colleagues.
● Comment on status messages and reply to private messages.
● Follow automatically by creating auto-follow rules.
● Attach an image or document to messages.
● Receive notification for mentions and changes you made and those that you follow.
Learn about the basics of posting feed updates so you can stay connected with your network.
To post a feed update, enter a text of up to 500 characters in length, then choose Submit. Once you post an
update, it appears in your feed. If other employees are following either you or the item you updated, then your
update also appears in their feed. Employees you mention in your update (with the shorthand @) also
automatically see the update in their feed, even if they are not following you or — when you mention them while
posting an update from an item — the associated item.
Within feed updates, you can use shorthand to tag items or mention people, or send private updates, as
described below.
Shorthand Description
# To tag a feed, enter the # sign and enter the tag name, fol
lowed by the update. If the tag name matches an already ex
isting tag, it can be added automatically.
You can add additional tags to this feed update using the tag
icon, in the future.
Note
Tags are public (once created, can be used by anyone)
or private. They help you categorize and search on
items.
After you enter shorthand and two characters of the item or person — for example, @Ac, @Fr or *Ma— an
automatic search is performed, comparing your entry with existing items or people, and allowing you to select
the correct one.
Note
If a business document has a single-digit number, enter an asterisk after the number, for example 5*.
To comment on a feed update, choose Reply within the update. Enter your comment and submit. Within the
comment of a feed update, you can also use the shorthand @ to tag items or mention people. If you tag an item
in the comment, then your comment also appears in the feed of that item.
Note
You cannot use the shorthand * to send private comments to other employees.
To delete a feed update, choose Delete within the update line. The update and its comments are removed from
your feed. If you delete one of your own feed updates, then the update and its comments are removed from
your feed and from the feed of your followers.
Note
You can delete only feeds created by you. Feeds created by other users can’t be deleted.
To manage your feed settings, choose Feed Settings, where you can determine the following:
● Feeds Followed: Automatically receive system feeds of the users you are following.
● Follow Requests: This is only applicable for accounts and employees.
○ If this option is not checked, whenever you want to follow an account or employee, the respective
account owner or employee gets a notification. Once the follow request is approved, you start following
the account or employee.
○ If the option is checked, you can follow the account or employee automatically. No approval is required.
● E-Mail Digests: To receive periodic summaries of all feed updates via e-mail, choose Send digests of all my
feeds. You can set the frequency of feed e-mails that you want to receive to - Immediately, daily or weekly.
Remember
When the frequency is set to immediately, you get an e-mail for each update. By selecting this option,
you have to select the events in Feed Sources for which the e-mail has to be sent.
● The date by which feed updates are sorted - Feed updates are sorted, by default, according to the date they
were last commented. If you prefer that feed updates be sorted according to the date they were created,
then select According to creation date.
Find out how to adjust which updates you receive from the source you're following and how to automatically
flag and tag incoming updates.
If you are authorized to receive updates from an item that you have chosen to follow, then updates about that
item automatically begin to appear in your feed. If you are not authorized, then a follow request is sent to the
person responsible for approval. If you stop following an item or person, then the source is removed from your
feed, and updates for that item or person no longer appear there.
To manage your feed sources, choose Feed Sources. Here you can see a list of the sources that you are
currently following. For each source that you follow, you can specify the source events that will trigger an
update. To do so, select a source from the list, then choose the edit icon. A new window Manage Source Events
opens up. Select the source events for which you want to receive updates and save your entries.
Learn about setting the time period to display feed on UI and the time period to retain feed data in the system.
As an administrator, navigate to Administrator Common Tasks Feed Duration Settings to set the feed
durations. From the Feed Display Duration dropdown list, you can select the time period to display feed on UI.
From the Feed Delete Duration dropdown list, you can select the time period to retain feed data in the system.
Any feed older than the defined delete duration is deleted from the system, and the deleted data cannot be
recovered.
● For both feed durations, the options of 30 days, 60 days, 90 days, 180 days, and 365 days are available,
and the default value is 365 days. All the feeds older than 365 days are automatically deleted from the
system during upgrade, and the deleted feeds cannot be recovered.
● Feed display duration cannot be longer than feed delete duration.
You can either have the JAM or native feeds in the system.
Both feed types are not supported simultaneously in the system. This is the expected system behavior. So,
when you integrate SAP cloud for Customer with JAM, you can only see the JAM feeds.
The standard behavior is that when you open the details of a received notification, there is no link for the
related object.
If you leave a comment under a system-generated feed, then there is no link in the feed notification details for
the notification receiver. However, you can manually add an object link in the feed comment using, for example
@ABC (ABC represents the object ID or name).
Remember
If you leave a comment under a feed created by a person, then is a related object link in the feed notification
details for the notification receiver.
It could be because you didn't select the related Event of the business object you followed in the feed settings.
Under feed settings, select the business object you followed, and then select related option Address Change.
Or, you have deactivated the system feed generation for your cloud solution in Business Configuration. To
activate the system feed, please ask your administrator to reset the following scoping question:
According to GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), deletion of data is not technically feasible. However,
the administrator can set the soft deletion and hard deletion of feeds under Common Tasks in the
Administrator work center.
If a document is referenced in a feed update and not a comment, only then the post is displayed in the
document Feed tab.
2.9 Search
When you search for business objects in SAP Cloud for Customer, such as accounts, products, activities, or
sales orders, there are multiple methods of finding exactly what you are looking for.
When you tend to search for the same items repeatedly, mark the item as a flag or favorite or add a tag to it and
save valuable time.
You can sort on the column in ascending or descending order or use the filter to search the column for multiple
words.
When a single search word is entered, the search is a pattern based search.
Whether your search is simple or complex, the SAP solution search allows you to work quickly and efficiently by
using one of the following search types:
● Simple
● Enterprise
● Advanced
Learn about performing a basic work center view search in the solution.
In addition to the system-wide enterprise search, you can search from within the work center views assigned to
your business role. This is ideal since you probably know what you have created and can really hone in on the
business object you are searching for.
Let's say you are searching for a phone call in the Activities work center. You navigate to the Phone calls work
center view and from there, you can select an item from the Phone calls list. The system locates categorized
items matching your search criteria belonging to the Phone calls list.
Another example is to navigate to a work center view end simply enter a keyword in search field. Any items
matching your criteria in that work center view in list view show up.
Basic search shows your recent searches and your recently opened items. You can quickly see your recent
searches and recently opened items without having to search for them again.
Note
The search suggestions are available only on the device where the searches are done.
Note
In Fiori client, you can display the results in Chunk View and Table view.
The search term in basic search is retained even when you change the query. Therefore, you can search across
different queries without typing the search term again.
Remember
When you create your own query via KUT and label it “All” and hide the standard SAP All Query, then
'search against all' functionality will not work.
Context
Enterprise search allows you to search through the entire SAP solution. After selecting the search icon, you can
choose to do a simple or advanced search. You can search for a term without specifying any details, search in
all categories or you specify a specific category.
Procedure
Learn how to activate or deactivate several external sources (URL mashups) that are shipped with the solution.
The enterprise search feature can be configured to include external sources. You can also add new external
sources by creating a new URL mashup of the News & Reference category.
Caution
The new URL mashup is now available for selection in the enterprise search drop down list.
Make an extension field available in the basic and advanced worklist searches. Extension fields are
automatically added to the basic and advanced enterprise search depending on the extension field type and
the business context. To improve the usability of the advanced enterprise search, you can add the extension
field to a search category. This allows users to search for the contents of an extension field within a particular
category, such as sales orders.
The following table shows which type of search can be used for each extension field type:
Field Type Basic Worklist Search Advanced Worklist Basic Enterprise Advanced Enterprise
Search Search Search
Time No No No No
Prerequisites
You have created the extension field and have made it visible on the required screens.
Procedure
Context
Advanced Search is used for narrowing down the results by using multiple criteria at a time. The filter icon
( ) represents the advanced search and clicking the icon reveals all of the fields that can be used to
narrow down search results. The filter attributes change depending on the type of object or work center you are
reviewing.
Restore and Go are used to reset and apply the filters respectively. All the filtered results are seen in the table.
The other actions available are to save and organize the filtered queries so that you can use it again later. Click
Save Query to save a filtered query. You are prompted to create a name for this query. Once it is saved, it
appears in the object dropdown. You apply the same filters by finding the same query in the dropdown.
You can add or remove search parameters in an existing query and save it as a new personal query. We have the
'save query as' functionality in HTML5 and Fiori client. In Fiori client, an existing saved query can be saved with
a different name with the button Save Query As.
Save Query As feature allows you to create a new personal query from an existing query without having to
redefine parameters again.
Remember
If a query is set as the default query, you cannot select the Remove checkbox. To delete this query, you first
select some other query as default query from the list. Then, mark the Remove checkbox for the query to
be removed.
Advanced search option is available to search within the results of a simple enterprise search or search on
specific fields names.
Procedure
Changed On: ... To: Displays items edited between the specified dates.
ID: Displays items with the specified ID, for example, Product
ID or employee ID.
* - These fields exist when you chose All Categories. However, the fields vary when different categories are
chosen.
4. To initiate the search, click Search. The solution returns a list of items based on your search criteria.
5. Click Reset to clear your search criteria.
Next Steps
The way you search in the solution is unique depending on your needs and so is the way items are displayed.
When viewing objects, you notice the worklists, which are tables that contain documents and tasks. The
worklist provides a summarized view of all your data records. You can use the search and filter options to locate
the records you need, and an advanced search indicator ( ) is shown when a query with search parameters
is executed. You can also perform actions such as open, edit, create, delete, or release.
Once you have searched and located the correct business object, you can quickly preview the main contents or
make edits.
When you locate business objects, they are displayed as worklist in various views, and you can decide which
view is best for your needs. For example, a table view is a classical list, a chunk view shows the data in four
columns, and the Map View displays Google Maps® or AutoNavi Map® view for the address in the data record.
You also have image view with different image sizes for any lists, where images are configured. Image view
provides information at a glance about objects where visual information is easier to consume. For example,
products, people.
The following table shows which type of search can be used for each extension field type:
Field Type Basic Worklist Search Advanced Worklist Basic Enterprise Advanced Enterprise
Search Search Search
Time No No No No
Prerequisites
You have created the extension field and have made it visible on the required screens.
Procedure
2.10 Notification
Notifications are a way to let you know that something new has happened so you don't miss anything that
might be worth your attention.
The notification is located on the top right, next to the search icon. It displays the category of actions, the time
occurred, unsubscribe from the e-mail, and more details. Clicking or tapping the icon !, opens a dropdown list
that has the recent notifications with the object type information, actions, and option to view the entire detail
about a particular notification. The dropdown displays maximum five items in the list.
In the notification center, you can select what kind of notification you want to see from the variant dropdown or
search for a particular notification. Notification category indicates the type of object and is differentiated by the
icon used in front of each notification item. You click or tap the More link to navigate to a particular object in a
separate tab.
2.11 Map
Learn how to use the map feature based on Google maps or alternatively AutoNavi maps, that provides data
with an interactive map in different objects.
Administrators can configure Google Maps or AutoNavi Maps for different accounts.
Context
Procedure
Sales representatives are constantly on the go, and the ability to pull up an interactive map in your solution and
find which leads, companies, and contacts are nearby is invaluable.
Selecting the Map view displays the addresses from the solution as pins on the map based on the business
object you choose for the map view, and is fully navigable. The map view results are displayed with pagination.
Note
In HTML5 client, you have the choice to use either Google map and Autonavi map. In the Fiori client, you
use Google maps.
● Accounts
● Visits
● Tours
● Route Planning
● Activity List
● Appointments
● Tickets
● Work Tickets
● Ticket Hierarchy
● Target Groups
● Assignments
● Installed Base
● Registered Products
● Utilities Premise (object and tab)
Activate Map
You can activate the map by selecting Google or AutoNavi in Settings. This setting is maintained the next time
you use the map.
● Configure Google Maps or AutoNavi Maps before activating it. For more information on configuring
map, see the Related Links section. If both Google Maps and AutoNavi Maps are configured, Google
Maps is loaded by default. However, in the countries where Google Maps isn’t supported, such as
China, AutoNavi Map is loaded.
● Addresses must be maintained in Chinese or using Latitude and Longitude for pins to be displayed on
AutoNavi Map.
Map Settings
You launch the map settings by selecting the map icon on the right bottom corner of the map. Here you can
define the Map Style and enable or disable different controls on the map with Map Buttons.
Map Style
Map style allows you to choose a map type to display. Default view is selected and you can see the elevation of
the landscape, like mountains and canyons by enabling terrain. Contour lines overlaid on the map show
elevation and gray numbers show altitude. The other view is the Satellite view with aerial imagery of landscape.
You can turn on the label to see the tagged areas in the aerial view.
Map Buttons
The Map contains user interface elements to allow user interaction with the map. These elements are known as
controls and you can enable or disable these controls in your application. Alternatively, you can do nothing and
leave it to the defaults.
Tip
You can see the Search Map Area button on the map after you turn on Search Map Area in Settings.
Note
Search nearby and search by area functionality is available in map and is supported in the following map
views:
● Accounts
● Visits
● Route Planning
● Appointment
● Installed Base
● Registered Product
Nearby Search and Search by Area feature is not enabled by default and requires the administrator to
enable it under Adapt Company Settings General and select the checkbox Enable Nearby Search
and Search by Area on the Map.
Note
Maintain the latitude and longitude information for objects to see the map pins in search nearby and search
by area mode. For more details on the topic, see the Related Links section.
Note
Maintain the latitude and longitude information for objects. Otherwise, the map pins don't show up in the
search nearby and search by area mode. For more information, see the Related Links section.
Map pins are shown in two different colors based on the account role. A blue color map pin represents a
customer and a purple color map pin represents a prospect. With this color coding feature, you can quickly
identify and distinguish between a customer and a prospect account on the account map.
Note
This feature is available only on the account map view for the account roles customer and prospect. Any
other roles maintained show up in the default blue pin color.
Remember
The display of international boundaries based on geo location tracking is currently supported only in
Google Map.
You can enable the region-based map setting to show regional international boundaries for your country. When
you use the map feature within the app, your country’s boundaries aren’t default displayed region-specific in
the map. For example, if you log in from within your country, you see a solid black line between all areas of your
country’s boundaries. However, if you log in from outside your country, you see a dotted line for the region
under a territorial dispute with another country.
You can enable how the map shows up based on the company setting Enable Geolocation Tracking. When the
company setting is enabled by the administrator, you see a localized version of the map as in the web. With the
setting enabled, you see a pop-up from the system asking to know your current location. If you allow the
system to track your location, you see a region-specific display of the map. In future, if you don’t want to allow
the geolocation tracking, you can block the geolocation tracking from under your browser settings. When you
block the geolocation tracking, then Google map API of default country, United States of America is displayed.
Geolocation tracking is only used to show regional international boundaries for your country.
Related Information
As you're working, if you encounter unexpected behavior in the solution that interrupts your work or reduces
the quality of the service, you can search the Help under the user menu for more information or create an
incident that is sent to your system administrator. Help launches the Help Center. You find company-specific
help information plus links to the SAP standard documentation, channels, and community in the Help Center.
Company-specific help can be authored in Fiori client. You can define company-specific help for current screen
or all screens without having to navigate to HTML5 UI.
You can create an incident by going to the user menu and selecting the menu option Report Incident. Your
administrator is the first line of support but if they can't solve the issue for you, they can send the incident to
SAP for further investigation.
When creating an incident, be sure to create it from the screen where you're experiencing the issue because
the system takes a screenshot and automatically attaches it to the incident. You can also add highlights or
callouts on the screen to help support better understand what happened.
To help support process your incident more quickly, always include step-by-step instructions on how to re-
create the behavior you're reporting.
After you submit an incident, you can track it for updates via the menu option Track my Incidents under your
user menu.
We have two real-time support features for the administrators in Fiori client- SAP Expert Chat and Schedule An
Expert.
Prerequisite: One time S-User registration is required to use the real-time support features. For more
information, please contact our Customer Interaction Center .
SAP Expert Chat and Schedule An Expert in the SAP Cloud for Customer app can be accessed from the User
menu> Help Help Center Other Helpful Links .
SAP Expert Chat link was already available in HTML5 and will now be available in Fiori Client. Both features
require S-User registration to access it and are available as a secure link via launchpad.
● Expert Chat::
You can now access the launchpad SAP Expert Chat directly from your tenant. The new link opens the SAP
launchpad chat tool and gives you access to additional support channels to report a new or an existing
issue.
You can chat with product support specialists as well as with our customer interaction teams for updates
on existing incidents. Each chat generates an incident that you can view and edit from the SAP Support
launchpad. The incident contains the chat transcript and can be used to follow up on the reported issue.
However, the chat incidents aren’t visible in the tenant built-in support. Find more details on the new SAP
Expert Chat channel .
Remember
One time S-User registration is required to access chat. For more information, please contact our
Customer Interaction Center .
.
● Schedule An Expert::
With Schedule an Expert, you can book an online session and reduce the number of delayed messages and
information requests that you get from support. You can speak with a support engineer and discuss the
technical details of your open incident by scheduling a 30-minute Skype call. Find more details on the new
SAP Expert Chat channel . For more information, refer to the Schedule an Expert user guide .
Remember
One time S-User registration is required to access and use the chat. For more information, contact our
Customer Interaction Center .
If you require more help than just product support, contact the consulting services .
An operator or administrator is responsible for managing incidents reported by users in the company and, in
some cases, for those reported automatically as a result of health checks.
As an operator or administrator, you are responsible for managing incidents reported by users in your company
and, in some cases, for those reported automatically as a result of health checks. If you are unable to solve an
incident yourself, you can forward it to your provider to request assistance. Since the provider and requester
cannot communicate directly with one another, you as the processor of the incident are responsible for
information flow, for example, for forwarding a solution proposed by the provider to the requester of the
incident.
The Incidents view provides all the tools you require to manage incidents.
● Incident Overview:
An incident is a non-standard occurrence in the system that interrupts the operation of a service, or may
reduce the quality of a service immediately or in the near future. An incident appears to the user as
unexpected system behavior, such as:
○ An unexpected or unclear error message on the screen
○ Incorrect or missing data
○ System performance problems
If you encounter a problem in the application, you can search existing knowledge bases for a solution. If no
solution is available, you can report an incident to your key user to request help in solving the problem.
● Incident Priorities:
When a user reports an incident, he or she must assign it a category and priority so that you as the
processor can see at a glance what kind of problem has occurred and what impact it has on business
productivity.
The following priorities are available:
Very High Critical business processes are affected and crucial tasks cannot be carried out. The incident
requires immediate attention because it could result in business downtime for the organiza
tion. Security-related incidents must always be assigned this priority.
High Key business processes are affected and important tasks cannot be carried out. The incident
requires prompt attention because it could delay business processes.
Medium Business processes are affected, but the incident has only a minor impact on business produc
tivity.
● Incident Statuses:
The status of an incident changes depending on the actions performed on it by the requester, you as the
processor, and your provider if you forward the incident to him or her. The statuses visible to you differ
slightly from those visible to the requester. The following statuses are visible to you as the processor of the
incident:
Status Description
New The incident has recently been reported and has not yet
been taken over for processing.
In Process – Provider Action The processor has forwarded the incident to the provider,
from whom action is now required.
In Process – Requester Action Action is required on the part of the requester of the inci
dent.
In Process – Solution Proposed A solution has been proposed to the requester, from
whom action is now required.
In Process – Reopened The requester has rejected a proposed solution and the in
cident requires further action on the part of the processor.
Completed – Solution Accepted The requester has accepted a proposed solution and the
incident is resolved from his or her point of view.
Completed – Solution Rejected The requester has rejected a proposed solution, but has
canceled the incident because it is no longer valid or has
been solved by other means, or the processor has com
pleted the incident on behalf of the requester after the re
quester rejected the proposed solution.
Closed The processor has closed the incident after the requester
canceled it or after the incident was completed automati
cally because no changes were made to it for 90 days.
Closed – Solution Accepted The processor has closed the incident after the requester
accepted a proposed solution.
The administrator can maintain settings of the task types for tasks, alerts, and notifications under
Administrator Business Task Management .
It is possible to configure certain elements of some of the notifications in the Business Task Management for
Incident Management business configuration activity. To find this activity, go to the activity list of your project
from the Implementation Projects view.
If the activity is not part of your project, you must add it.
When a new incident is reported or changes are made to an incident you are working on, you receive a task or
notification.
All incidents reported by users, and some health check incidents, are forwarded to the Incidents view where
you can view them in detail.
You can control which incidents are displayed in the Incidents view by selecting one of the following values from
the Show dropdown list:
Status Description
New Incidents Incidents that have not yet been taken over for processing.
My Open Incidents Open incidents for which you are specified as the processor.
Incidents Where Provider Needs More Information Incidents that the provider has returned to the processor
with a request for additional information to help resolve the
issue.
Incidents with Solution Proposal from Provider Incidents for which the provider has proposed a solution to
the issue reported but that the processor has not yet pro
posed to the requester.
Incidents in Process Incidents that require action on the part of the processor,
that is, incidents that the processor has taken over for proc
essing and those that have been returned to the processor
by the requester.
My Team's Open Incidents Incidents for which your team is responsible. (The team is
based on your organizational assignment.)
Incidents in Process by Provider Incidents that have been forwarded to your provider, who is
currently attempting to find a solution to the issue reported.
Incidents Requiring Action by Requester Incidents that have been returned to the requester with a
proposed solution or a request for additional information.
Completed Incidents Incidents that are resolved from the requester's point of
view, that is, incidents that the requester has canceled be
cause they are no longer relevant or have been solved by
some other means, or for which the requester has accepted
a proposed solution. Incidents that the processor has com
pleted on behalf of the requester or that have been com
pleted automatically because no changes were made to
them for 90 days are also displayed in this list.
Closed Incidents Incidents that are resolved from the processor's point of
view, that is, incidents that the processor has closed.
If you select Incidents with Solution Proposal from Provider, you can further refine the incidents displayed by
filtering the Provider Solution field. The following statuses are available:
Status Description
Rejected The processor has rejected the provider's solution and re
turned the incident to the provider for further analysis.
More Info Needed Your provider requires more information from you (or the re
quester) to resolve the incident.
Context
If, for example, you are going on vacation and need to ensure that incidents you are currently working on or new
incidents you would normally process yourself are processed by one of your colleagues, you can assign a
specific processor to an incident. You can also use this option if you are unable to solve an incident you are
working on and want to assign it to a colleague for further analysis.
Procedure
1. Open the incident for editing by selecting it from the list on the Incidents view and clicking Edit.
2. In the Processor field, enter the name of the colleague to whom you want to assign the incident.
3. In the Processor field, enter the name of the colleague to whom you want to assign the incident.
4. Click Save. The key user to whom you have assigned the incident is informed that he or she must start
processing the incident.
Procedure
The administrator can also take over an incident with any status for processing. If, for example, one of your
colleagues is ill and you need to take on his or her tasks at short notice, you can take over an incident that
your colleague has already started processing.
From the list on the Incidents view, select the incident you want to process and click Take Over.
Your name appears in the Processor field but the status of the incident does not change.
Procedure
1. Take over the incident and open it for editing. If you want to search for a solution without first taking it over
for processing, for example, to scan through a list of new incidents to see which ones you can solve quickly
and which ones require more effort and may need to be distributed among other administrators, click the
ID of an incident to view its details and then click Start Solution Search. You can then search for a solution
as described below.
2. Look at the incident details and determine whether you can solve the incident immediately. Especially
helpful is the information on the Screenshot tab, which shows a screenshot of the system at the time at
which the problem occurred. The requester can annotate this screenshot to further illustrate the problem
and help you to understand it more quickly.
The Screenshot tab is only displayed if a screenshot has been attached to the incident. A screenshot is
attached automatically to each incident when it is reported unless:
○ The requester deselected the Screenshot Relevant checkbox in the Enter Incident Information step
when reporting the incident.
○ The requester reported the incident from the Add-In for Microsoft Excel.
○ The system could not take a screenshot for technical reasons.
3. If you cannot solve the incident immediately, click Solution Search to search existing knowledge bases for a
solution to the problem.
4. On the Search tab, in the Find field, enter key terms relating to the incident (for example, sales order).
To refine your search, you can click Advanced and define additional search criteria such as the work center
and work center view on which the problem occurred. It is possible that the system has prefilled some of
the additional search criteria fields that are displayed when you click Advanced. To increase the number of
hits your search returns, clear the values in these fields.
5. Click Go. The system searches the following repositories for solutions to the problem:
Repository Description
Community Resources Discussion forums in which users can post questions and
discuss topics
Built-In Help The documents and learning content delivered with the
solution
○ The system displays the documents that match your key terms. The solution search is not language-
specific, which means that the results list may contain documents in languages other than your
application language if your key terms were found in these documents.
○ The display language of your Web browser determines the language in which the documents are
displayed. This means that if you click a document in the results list that has an English title, but your
Web browser language is German, when you open the document it is displayed in German if the
document is available in German. To change the language in which documents are displayed, change
the language of your Web browser.
○ To group the search results by repository type, from the Group By dropdown list, choose Repository
Type.
Tip
○ If you enter keywords in a language other than English and you receive too few hits, repeat your
search using English keywords to increase the chance of receiving a larger number of hits.
○ Another reason for which you may receive too few hits is that the system has prefilled some of
the additional search criteria fields that are displayed when you click Advanced. To increase the
number of hits your search returns, clear the values in these fields.
6. Click the title of the document you want to read and determine whether it solves the problem.
7. If you find a document that solves the problem, add it to the incident by selecting the In Collection
checkbox. Documents that you attach to the incident as solution proposals are listed on the Solution
Collection tab. If you cannot find a document that resolves the incident, forward the incident to your
provider with a request for assistance as described below under Forward an Incident to the Provider.
If you have a question about the issue, you can return the incident to the requester asking for more
information.
Procedure
If you have already started to process an incident, you can add information to it without changing its status.
Procedure
If you cannot find a solution to an issue, forward the incident to your provider to request assistance.
Context
If you forward the incident to the provider, he or she may forward it to SAP for further analysis. If SAP’s root
cause analysis shows that the incident results from a partner product which has been licensed, SAP may
forward this incident, including all corresponding context data, to the support organization of the partner
responsible.
Prerequisites: You have maintained your contact information. You must provide a telephone number and E-mail
address so that the provider can contact you directly.
For security reasons, never include your password or that of the requester anywhere in the incident.
6. Click Save. The status of the incident changes to In Process — Provider Action. Receipt of the
incident by the provider is indicated in two ways:
○ A value is displayed in the External Reference ID field. This is the ID that has been assigned to the
incident in the provider's system.
○ A Note from Provider is displayed on the General tab to the effect that the incident has arrived at
the provider.
If you have already forwarded an incident to your provider and want to provide him or her with additional
information, perform the following steps:
Procedure
If the provider has returned the incident to you with a request for more information, reply to the question by
performing the following steps:
Procedure
If you have found a solution to the issue, or your provider has proposed a solution, return the incident to the
requester along with this solution.
Procedure
If the solution proposed by your provider does not solve the problem, return the incident to him or her.
Procedure
The provider can initiate a secure application sharing session with you or any user in your company.
Context
To do this, the provider sends you a session request that includes the session number. When you receive a
request, start the session at the appointed time by performing the following steps:
Procedure
Depending on your security settings, you might have to click Run more than once.
5. Enter the session number that appears in the request from your provider. (You do not need a password to
join the session.)
6. Click Connect. The Netviewer screen appears.
7. Follow the steps on the screen and agree to share the content of your screen with the provider.
8. If you want to keep a copy of the Netviewer session log file, click Save.
To view the log file, you need the Netviewer NetPlayer, which you can download from the same Web page
from which you started the session.
When you receive a health check incident, the steps you need to follow to solve the issue are listed in the
message. Health checks appear in your application language.
Context
The description appears in English by default. This ensures that the provider can understand it. You can view
the information in your application language by clicking Health Check.
Procedure
If you add text using this feature, everyone involved in processing the incident (the processor and provider)
is able to read it.
Context
Incident Escalation Management is an exceptional process for handling critical incidents that cannot be solved
satisfactorily or within a reasonable period of time by the Incident Management process.
Prerequisites
You have submitted an incident with Very High priority and its initial response time (IRT) has been exceeded.
To request escalation, call the emergency hotline for your country and provide the following information:
● The incident ID
● The business impact of the incident
● The name of at least one contact person and his or her telephone number and E-mail address (ensure that
this person can be contacted 24 hours a day, 7 days a week)
If it is not possible for the requester to complete an incident, for example, because he or she has left the
company, you as the processor must complete the incident on the requester's behalf.
Procedure
Next Steps
You can set an incident to complete quickly without opening the incident, by clicking the Complete button. The
button is also available in the incident edit screen. However, you have to explicitly click Save after clicking the
Complete button.
You can only cancel an incident when the incident IDs are generated. You cannot cancel an incident if the ID of
the incident is pending in Help Center Track My Incidents . The Cancel Incident button is disabled for such
incidents until the incident IDs are generated.
The side pane appears on the right side of the main content.
Side pane is seen in three areas on the user interface. It is available in the work center view and in the detailed
view. It is also available as a global side pane in the personalization and adaptation mode or in the help center
view.
● In the work center view - The pane appears at the right side of the screen. It contains key information
pertaining to the selected item in the list. Currently, the side pane in the work center is used for showing
machine learning content. The groups are divided sections of the side pane that hold related information
together.
Note
○ Expand or Collapse - You can click the active tab to collapse the pane. Clicking on any tabs in the
collapsed mode expands the pane again, and the clicked tab is the active tab.
○ The system remembers last state - The last state of the pane is remembered by system for the
next time you sign into your account. For example, if you collapsed the pane the last time you were
logged on, then you see that the pane as collapsed when you sign into you account.
● As a global side pane in the personalization and adaptation mode or in the help center- The global side
pane appears on the right side of the screen in the personalization or adaptation mode or when the help
center is launched.
When SAP Cloud for Customer is implemented by your administrator, they will define the way your system is
displayed. Since personalization is all about you, tweak the solution into your solution so that it best suits your
working style and uniqueness.
As an end user, you can for example, add your own background image, use drag and drop to easily move screen
sections to another location, set the regional time settings, select whether to display additional onscreen
explanatory text, and manage passwords and certificates.
Go a step further in your personalization experience by adding, changing or hiding labels and adding mashups.
You can also create new queries, change the default queries, and organize the queries in each screen to save
time. The personalization settings that you make on the screen take effect immediately. You can go ahead and
accomplish your daily activities without having to restart the system. If you ever decide to go back to the
original personalization settings, you can set it back to default.
Learn how you can personalize the solution with your preferences regarding system setting, navigation
settings, content, and layout settings with SAP Fiori client.
Remember
As of November 2019 the HTML5 client for SAP Cloud for Customer is no longer available for
administrators and business users. All the administrator and business user functionality is available in the
Fiori client.
The following table gives a list of all the UI elements that you can personalize:
Action UI Elements
On the Fiori Client UI, click your profile on the top right corner of your screen, and select Start Personalization.
The system opens the Personalization Mode side pane.
● To select an area on the screen, right click (for Windows) and tap with two fingers (for Mac).
● To directly edit an area, use . The selected area is indicated by and a yellow border. The
corresponding rows,columns, or buttons appear on the right pane.
For the changes to take effect, click your profile, and select End Personalization. To discard the changes, select
Discard Personalization Changes.
If last selected action is hidden in certain scenarios, then it does not show as the default selection. Instead the
default selection of quick create component is seen. For example, Save in account creation screen.
Note
The Theme Builder is a tool to create a theme to match the branding of your company. Theme builder gives you
advanced control over the look and feel of your app.
Context
You can customize the look and feel of your solution with your company branding using the Theme Builder.
There are three themes available to use Belize theme - Belize Theme (light) and Belize Deep Theme (dark) and
SAP Fiori 3. SAP Fiori 3 theme is the default theme available and provides consistent look-n-feel across all SAP
C/4HANA products.
Note
Only if you’re using Blue Crystal theme, you see the transition to SAP Fiori 3, as SAP Blue Crystal Theme is
retired and not available for selection. However, if you’re using the SAP Belize, SAP Belize Deep or a Custom
theme, then you aren’t affected by the change.
As an administrator, you can enable the themes under user menu > Settings Branding Theme Builder .
Note
● SAP Fiori 3 theme selection can only be done on desktop and laptop.
● It is recommended to use SAP Fiori 3 theme with the company setting - Enable New Navigation Menu
in Fiori Client
● With November (1911) release, SAP Fiori 3 theme is the default theme, and SAP Blue Crystal Theme is
retired.
● For the first time user, a theme is selected and published by default and applied for all the end users.
However, if you want to define your own custom theme, then click Custom Theme.
Under custome theme, you can make finer adjustments to the color in theme builder via the color picker.
Procedure
1. Access the Theme Builder from the user menu > Settings Branding .
2. Choose Custom Theme. You can see the list of UI elements that you can edit for the company brand.
Default values are set to the previously published theme.
3. Select the hex code or the color box. Selecting the color box shows the color picker overlay and you can
change any color there for the UI elements listed, to a desired state color. For example, you can choose
Global Background and change to the background color you want.
You can view the changes in real time as you change in the UI element.
4. Then, select Save to save the changes.
5. As an administrator you can then publish the theme for all the user by selecting Publish. When the selected
theme is published, the check mark appears for custom theme.
6. Or, if you do not like the changes you made, select Revert to revert to the previous published theme.
○ You can also export a custom theme from the test system and import it into the production system.
○ Custom theme is available only in the SAP Fiori client (responsive user interface), both in the browser
and the extended apps.
Results
Using this tool, you can create a theme to match the branding of your company. The following solution areas
can be customized under custom theme:
● Navigation Pane
● Detail View
● Global Search
● You can set your own branding on the logon page in browser. Logo and background image on logon page
can be customized. This change has been done for both Fiori client and HTML5 UI to provide a consistent
user experience. Your administrator can set up the customization in the branding section under Settings in
Fiori client.
Remember
Learn the different ways you can work with queries on each screen.
1. Go to the screen where you want to create a new query. Select the filter icon. Enter the parameters for the
new query. Select Save Query.
2. In the pop-up box, you can give the query a name, and opt to make it your default query.
3. Select Save. A new query is created, and it appears in your default selection drop down list.
Learn how to organize the queries you have created for easy access.
1. Go to the screen where you want to organize your queries. Select the filter icon. Click Organize Queries.
2. In the dialogue box that pops up, you can see all the queries available for the screen. Perform the following
actions:
○ To select a query as your default query, click the radio button next to the name of the query.
○ To remove a query from the list, select the checkbox next to the name of the query.
Note
You can only remove the queries that you have created, and not the once which are pre configured
in the system.
○ To disable object list queries from loading automatically select the Disable checkbox against the query
you do not want to load. When you wish to reload the list, press Click here to execute the query.
3. Select Save. The selected appears as the default query in your default selection drop down list. While the
removed query no longer appears in the list.
You can control the queries that take a long time to execute from automatically loading by using advanced
search and narrowing down the potential result set, before executing the query.
Open advanced search for data lists and select Organize Queries. In the dialog box that opens up, select the
queries for which you want to disable auto initial load.
For example, when searching for a serial Id in a ticket, opening the value help for Serial ID field sets the
customer's context from the ticket. However, service agent may want to search for a serial Id for US based
accounts beginning with 1. Agents can now create a custom query for this, thus overriding the contextual query
to a broader result set.
In value help, the auto execution for the All query is disabled by default.
Disabling the auto execution improves the user experience and performance. You don’t have to wait till the
query is executed, to interact with the UI. For example, if you want to search for a specific term, you can quickly
do so.
To turn on the auto execution for the All query, go to Organize Queries under advanced filter and uncheck the
Disable checkbox for query name All.
You can create new appointments, visits, and phone calls in the calendar. You can also quickly locate and filter
information by work week, day, week, month, and agenda and also by type and by status.
Your calendar shows all of your appointments, visits, and phone calls. Each one is color- coded, based on its
status. You can even view another colleague's calendar or the calendar for your team.
Got a minute? Check out all the calendar features in this video!
Display Workweek and Start Day on Calendar Based on Locale [page 116]
For each employee, you can maintain workweek and start day based on their locale. The calendar
reflects those preferences accordingly.
Context
You can create appointments, visits, or phone calls on the fly right from your calendar. Here's how:
Procedure
1. Depending on the device you are using, select or long press on a block of time in your calendar or choose
the plus icon (+).
2. Select the item type that you want to create.
3. Enter the details and save your entries.
The default view shows your calendar with your activities. Learn how to see the calendar of any of your team
members and find out their schedule.
1. Select the user icon at the bottom right and choose Other Calendars.
2. Search for and select the name of your colleague. Your calendar is replaced by your colleague's calendar.
3. After you have checked your colleague's schedule, choose My Calendar from the user icon to see your
calendar view.
Remember
Managers can use the team calendar to get an idea of their team's activities for the day and get coverage in the
case of illness or vacation time.
This one-minute video shows you how useful the team calendar can be!
When a scheduling conflict arises, you can reschedule your team's activities quickly and in one place, on the
team calendar.
In the team calendar, you can switch the employee responsible for an activity from one team member to
another with drag and drop.
Note
If you use add-ins to synchronize your e-mail with SAP Cloud for Customer, your e-mail software only
defines the organizer of the activity. When you synchronize, your SAP solution uses the name of the
organizer as the employee responsible as well. Therefore, if the original employee responsible was also the
original organizer of the activity, the new employee responsible becomes the organizer.
For each employee, you can maintain workweek and start day based on their locale. The calendar reflects those
preferences accordingly.
Prerequisites
Administrators have enabled resource scheduler for employees to define working hours.
Procedure
Note
If the Working Hours tab is not visible, you can use Personalization or ask your administrator to Adapt
the master layout.
Results
The calendar displays workweek and start day based on the employee's locale that you have defined.
If the Working Day Calendar is not defined, the calendar by default displays Monday as the first day of a
five-day workweek.
Administrators can enable resource scheduler for employees to define working hours.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
General Business Data Resource Scheduler to find the corresponding question about enabling resource
scheduler.
You can personalize your calendar to filter out activity types that are not relevant for your calendar display. Your
preference set through Personalization becomes the default every time you access the calendar.
See relevant information and activities, and plan your day with the homepage. And get a high-level visual
overview of your sales data.
Homepage displays preconfigured business cards based on your business role. You can click a card to see its
details. For example, you can click Today's Activities to see the details of your schedule and activities for today.
You can work with the different cards types, view report details, and also personalize the cards you want to see
on the Homepage.
The news section on the homepage helps you prepare for appointments and phone calls, by displaying stories
about the accounts related to your scheduled activities. The shelf card shows Flags and Favorite items. The
Feeds card shows the feed updates. Use the dashboard cards to drill down and view details and increase your
visibility into transactional data, KPIs, and reports. You can also do mark ups, add notes, and send e-mails right
from the homepage.
Homepage content is cached to improve the sign-in experience. Content caching loads the homepage cards
faster and retrieves the homepage content efficiently, keeping the user experience interactive. You can access
the homepage cards with no updates immediately and don't have to wait for the homepage to load completely
before using it. A visual transition shows the information being updated in the background. You can see the
cached information in gray. he cached data is shown immediately and any updates to the homepage cards
automatically occurs in the background. You can see the previous information while the system updates the
cards with latest information. This transition takes no more than 5 to 10 seconds.
When you log on as the administrator and go to the home page to manage the make changes, you have two
options- Adapt and Personalize. With Adapt, you first choose the user role and then make changes for that user
role. Personalize allows you to make individual changes that you want for yourself and is also available for every
user to personalize their homepage.
Remember
The administrator can define the home page for each role.
Context
If the administrator does not define a home page for a role, the default home page layout is maintained. To
select a role and start defining the home page for all users with that role, do the following:
Procedure
The administrator can access homepage setting as a gear icon on the homepage.
As an administrator, under homepage settings you can enable the users or roles to group cards on their
homepage. To do so, check the checkbox Show cards in Groups under settings. You can also change the
homepage to show as the default start page when the user logs in. To do so, you can uncheck the checkbox Set
Homepage as the Start Page under settings.
The administrator can define the cards for each role under adapt mode.
Procedure
1. In adapt mode, select a role and the different card types (KPI, custom, report, filter, and tools card) for the
user role.
2. To add cards, click, or tap the+ icon, located at the end of each card. As the administrator you have two
options for adding different cards-
1. Add Existing card: Select the different cards you want for the user or business role from the catalog.
2. Create Custom card: You can create the following type of custom cards:
○ URL
○ Floorplan
○ Ticket Creation
○ URL Mashup
○ HTML Mashup
Note
URL Mashup and HTML Mashup custom cards are only available in Fiori client.
With floorplan card option, you can create a card that launches any screen for a work center or detail
view in the solution that the user wants. Custom card also includes custom screens the user may have
defined.
Do the following steps to create a custom card:
○ Choose the custom card you want to create.
○ Add the required fields and click Save. Custom card created is stored in the card Catalog.
3. If you want the changes, select Publish, and if you do not like the changes you made, select Revert.
4. To go back, select Leave Adaptation Mode .
When you are in adapt mode, you can change the appearance of a card by selecting it. You can set the following
attributes for a card:
● card Visualization
● Available
● Visible
● Specify a group for the card, if grouping is available for the role.
Context
The administrator can configure the news card by either selecting the news source or by selecting the url for
RSS feeds to show up on the user's news card.
The Google News API is deprecated and gives errors on the current news card. See the Related Links for more
information. Therefore, the administrator can set up Bing News for all users and roles as the news card. You can
buy Bing News APIs and enable it in the solution. See the Related Links for more information.
Note
Bing News has different markets based on country and language. Right now, in the solution the market is
preset only to US English for Bing news. This means that the business news is in English and from US.
Depending on what is the user’s current news source, there are two use cases to change the news card to Bing
News-
● If the user currently has Google news set up for the news card.
● If the user currently has URL for RSS Feeds selected for the news card.
Note
If you opted for Bing news or opted for RSS feed or already on RSS feed as new source, switching back to
Google news isn’t possible.
Procedure
1. On the home page, select the edit icon at the bottom-right corner.
2. From the pop-up select Adapt.
3. Select the user role.
4. Select the news card.
5. Select the link Switch to Bing New under Select News Source if Google news is set up as the news card.
Select API Key for Bing News if URL for RSS Feeds is set up as the news card.
6. Enter the API key and Save.
○ If the news source is Bing News, no news is shown on the news card in offline mode.
○ Bing news V7 is supported.
You have five different card types ( KPI, Report, Tools, Filter and Custom card) available in the solution.
Remember
As of November 2019 the HTML5 client for SAP Cloud for Customer will no longer be available for
administrators or business users. All business user functionality is available in the Fiori client as of February
2019. All Administrator functionality is planned to be available in the Fiori client for the May 2019 and
August 2019 releases. We recommend you use the Fiori client.
Note
All personalization has to be done using the existing HTML5 UI. All personalization made in HTML5 is
reflected in Fiori client. You can go to HTML5 user interface by selecting the user menu and then selecting
Launch HTML5.
● Tools cards
cards like News and My Upcoming Activities are available online only and enhance your daily productivity.
My Tasks card displays the optimized view of your tasks and clicking on the card allows you to quickly
navigate to the Task work center. The number of overdue tasks, if present, are displayed in a red font.
Otherwise, tasks displayed are prioritized by Today, This Week, This Month, or as Open Tasks.
Note
● Filter cards
Filter cards provide quick access to your saved queries. You can select the filter card to go to the saved
query. You see the custom queries as list items on the Filter card. When you select a query, you directly
navigate to the list. Thus, improving the usability and reducing the number of clicks. To see the filter card
on the homepage, ask your administrator to make the card visible for your role.
● Custom cards
Custom cards display an icon, and can be set to launch a floorplan, ticket creation or an external URL. With
floorplan card option, you can create a card that launches any screen for a workcenter or detail view in the
solution that the user wants. This also includes custom screens the user may have defined. Please contact
your administrator if you would like to create any specific custom cards.
Based on the KPIs defined by your administrator, you can launch an interactive dashboard or KPI overview. KPI
cards provide a snapshot of the key metrics. You can select the KPI card, to view additional details.
The system uses this pattern for KPI views with a threshold value defined. The following KPI cards are
supported:
● Gauge Pattern
The system uses this pattern for KPI views with a threshold value defined.
In Fiori Client, gauge helps extract complex information and gives a graphical view of how you’re doing
towards a goal. It shows KPI views with a threshold value defined and requires either target or threshold or
both to be maintained. It requires at least one of the two (Target or Threshold) to be maintained. Odometer
shouldn’t be used as a pattern for minimize.
There are three options here:
1. When the target and thresholds are maintained-
1. When the current value is less than target value, the odometer split into three sections. Red
section indicating alert, yellow section indicating warning and the green section indicating on track
or better.
2. When the current value is greater than target value, the odometer displays shades of green. This
indicates on track and exceeded by how much.
2. When the target is maintained but threshold isn’t maintained-
1. When the current value is less than target value, the odometer is split into two sections. Yellow
section indicating warning and the green section indicating on track or better. The current value is
displayed in the shade of yellow or neutral color.
2. When the current value is greater than target value, the odometer is split into yellow and green
sections. The current value is displayed in green.
3. When the threshold is maintained but the target isn’t maintained-
1. Odometer is split into three equal sections with red, yellow, and green color. The value is displayed
in a shade of the color where the current value falls.
You can select the report card, for detailed analysis of the report. For optimal performance, we recommned not
to add more than 4 reports on the home page. Reports with table are not supported. The following Report
cards are supported:
Note
Note
Note
Note
You can personalize your homepage screen with your preferences. To personalize your homepage, you enter
the personalization mode by clicking the edit icon located inside the footer toolbar. Once you are in the
personalization mode, you can hover over the content area and see that editable areas are highlighted and
marked by a frame. You can select the icons which allows you to make the corresponding personalized
changes.
In the personalize mode, you can make various changes to the current screen such as rearranging the cards
and groups by dragging and dropping them, adding and deleting card and groups, renaming groups etc. You
can make hidden items visible again by turning on the visible switch. All hidden and available items will appear
in the list and you can add them again.
After completing the personalization of your homepage screen, you can exit the personalization mode by
saving the changes you made. Or if you want to remove the changes, press cancel.
If you are not actively using the homepage, you can disable it from being the default landing page.
Remember
Home Page Settings icon (gear icon) is located on the top right when you are in personalization mode.
With this setting, the first work center view defined for the user or role in becomes the default landing page for
the Fiori client.
In the personalization mode on homepage, you can uncheck the checkbox Set Homepage as the Start Page
under settings.
Learn how to add and edit cards on the homepage. You can rearranging these cards by dragging and dropping
them and also move them to different groups.
Note
For an optimal performance experience, you’ll get a warning message when you exceed the recommended
number of KPI and Report cards on the homepage. The recommended maximum number of KPI cards
supported is 10 and the maximum number of Report-based cards (Custom pattern cards like Bar Chart
cards) supported is 4. You still have the option to add additional cards, but it impacts the performance.
There’s no limit on recommended number of List cards, Tool cards, and Custom cards.
● Add card
There’s a + icon to add a new card at the end of each card. To add cards, click/tap the + icon. You can also
remove a card that you don't need by turning off the visible switch and making it invisible. If the card
preview shows a card as visible, then card is shown on the homepage.
● Edit Existing cards
Click/ Tap on a card to open the settings screen for the respective card. Turning off the Available switch
removes the card from the homepage, and automatically turns off the Visbile switch. You can change the
group of the card, for example, move the card to a different group and then save your changes. card
visualization can also be changed.
● Edit Custom card
Once a custom card is created, it’s placed on the user interface as available and visible. To edit custom
cards, click the card and open the edit dialog as you would usually edit other cards. The dialog includes
details such as Title, Path, and Description that are editable. However, the type of the card (URL vs.
Floorplan can’t be changed).
On the homepage, you can view the content of the mashup card. You can also click to launch the same mashup
shown in the card or you can launch a different mashup that shows more details of the HTML mashup card.
Note that mashups which do not have a port binding are also allowed in the home page card mashups
Based on your requirement and preference, you have the option to cluster the cards into a logical group.
● Add Group
You have the option to cluster cards by creating new groups. There is a + icon to add at the end of each
group. To add new groups, click/tap the + icon. You can also rename the supported groups.
● Delete Group
You can also delete groups created by you besides rearranging groups by dragging and dropping them. A
group created by you shows a Delete button. Delete will simply remove the group permanently so that it will
not be visible on the user interface any longer. You will get a warning message before removing the group.
The administrator can access homepage setting as a gear icon on the homepage.
As an administrator, under homepage settings you can enable the users or roles to group cards on their
homepage. To do so, check the checkbox Show cards in Groups under settings. You can also change the
homepage to show as the default start page when the user logs in. To do so, you can uncheck the checkbox Set
Homepage as the Start Page under settings.
The user profile menu provides the user with access to the user profile, settings, help, and additional settings
for account features.
The menu options are found in a dropdown list. You can navigate to your profile, access different settings, and
log out. The menu options are contextual to the browser or app. The menu options change depending on the
browser or the installed app. For example, sync options and settings are only available via the installed
extended app.
Note
The administrator can hide certain menu options for the users or roles depending on their preference.
● Profile ● Profile
● Open Theme Builder ● Report Incident
● Report Incident ● Track My Incident
● Track My Incident ● Settings
● Settings ● Switch Display Mode
● Switch Display Mode ● Download
● Download ● Annotate
● Annotate ● Start Personalization
● Start Personalization ● Share Your Ideas
● Share Your Ideas ● About
● About
Share Your Ideas- It is a single central place for all product improvement request related activities. You can
browse improvement requests, submit improvement requests, comment, vote, receive updates, and browse
who has voted.
Settings- Selecting Settings from your user menu dropdown takes you to the settings page. You have a wide
range of customization of themes and C4C platform-specific settings to align with your preferences. You can
save or cancel the changes you make.
Various different settings available are all available on one screen on the Fiori client UI:
● My Settings: You can maintain your personal preference settings in Fiori Client.
● My Background Image: You can maintain your personal preference for homepage background image in Fiori
Client. The image size should be less than 3 MB. You can change the background image in desktop, tablets,
and smartphone apps.
Note
Homepage background image size is now limited to 3 MB. If you have an existing background image
larger than 3 MB, it is not affected until you replace it with another image larger than 3 MB.
● My Email Settings: You can specify e-mail signatures you want to use for new messages, replies, and
forwards. You can also quickly change the e-mail signature you want to use before sending out emails.
● Company Settings: You can define settings for company or for a business role.
● Personalization Settings: As administrator, you can define the Fiori personalization settings for business
users.
● Adaptation Settings: As administrator, you can define the Fiori client adaptation settings.
● Branding includes all company level branding related setting.
○ Theme Builder: The selected theme applies across all devices for all users to best suit your brand
image.
○ Background Image: Customize the background image to match your brand. Ensure that the image size
is less than 1 MB.
○ Logo: You have three different branding logos for the solution depending on the type of customer
license you purchase.
○ SAP Sales Cloud branding logo is for customers with SAP Sales cloud solution.
Note
Download- Includes links to download the different add-ins (Microsoft Outlook®, Microsoft Excel®, IBM Lotus
Notes®, Adobe® LiveCycle® Designer), Adobe® LiveCycle® Designer, CTI Client Adapter and mobile apps for iOS,
Android and Windows.
Annotate- Provides tools enabled for free-hand, arrow, rectangle, and call-out texts that you can use on the UI
to share and collaborate. You can save the image on the browser or e-mail it in the extended apps.
Track my Incidents- You can check the status of the incidents created by you.
Report Incident - When you are facing an issue on your SAP Cloud System, use this dropdown menu to report
the issue and get support.
Switch Display Mode- Cozy and compact display modes are available for all types of devices including
desktops, tablets, and smartphones. Compact mode provides denser content so that you can see more
information on the screen. Cozy mode provides easy touch interaction on touch devices. Both modes optimize
white space, therefore presenting more information on the screen. You can switch between these modes based
on your individual preference. Cozy and compact modes offer better screen utilization and flexibility to switch
between the modes.
Default display mode for desktops is compact mode. Default display mode for tablets and smartphones is cozy
mode. You can switch the mode to what suites you from the user menu under Settings.
Note
The following table gives a list of all the UI elements that you can personalize:
Action UI Elements
Note
● To select an area on the screen, right click (for Windows) or tap with two fingers (for Mac). The selected
● To change the sequence of fields, drag and drop them on the right pane using .
For the changes to take effect, click your profile, and select End Personalization. To discard the changes, select
Discard Personalization Changes.
About- You can see the product information page in Fiori Client. It provides you information about the product
name and product version.
View the list of all keyboard shortcuts in the solution to complete some tasks quickly.
You can use the keyboard shortcut - Control+Shift+Z, to edit plain text notes in full-screen mode on desktops.
Full screen offers more useable space to see and edit the note, without having to scroll within a small box.
You can use the keyboard shortcut - Control+Shift+Z, to edit rich text fields in full-screen mode on desktops.
Full screen offers more useable space to see and edit the note, without having to scroll within a small box.
Learn how you can use workflows to support your business processes.
Automate your business processes using workflows. Configure to send notifications, trigger automatic e-mails
and define conditions to update fields or calculated values. Also trigger actions or schedule workflows based
on dates, time or other complex conditions. Workflows also allow you to create multi-step approvals.
The framework is driven by the workflow rules that have four main components namely the Object, Timing,
Conditions and Actions. These components determine how the workflows will be used in the various business
processes.
Object
The first step to creating a workflow rule is selecting the business object for which the rule applies.
The timing determines when the system should evaluate the rule. The three available options are On Create
Only (when the object is created), On Every Save (every time an object is saved) and Scheduled (scheduled
after an event occurs). You can specify, for example, if a workflow rule be triggered when an object like a sales
quote or ticket is created or when saved. There is also an option to schedule the rule for a specific time, for
example two days before the due date of an item.
Conditions
Conditions are the criteria which trigger workflow rules. These conditions may be standard fields, extension
fields, field value change and so on. For example, if you create a sales quote above a certain value (the
condition), the system triggers the associated action. You must maintain conditions in Groups. Maintain
multiple conditions within a group if you need more than one criteria to be met for the workflow rule. Use
separate groups to define OR conditions.
Actions
Actions define tasks that must be executed when a workflow rule is triggered. For example, send an e-mail,
generate a notification, send a text message or update a field of the object (both standard and extension fields
as well as trigger an action). You can define actions using one of the supported rule-types namely the E-mail,
Messaging and Notifications. For detailed information, see the references below.
Approval workflows are configured by your solution administrator and help streamline your business
processes. Approvals are typically routed to your reporting line manager, though there may be multiple levels of
approval required for certain objects or conditions. Your administrator can also incorporate conditions into the
approval process itself such as limits to the amount an approver is allowed to approve. And finally, your
administrator can configure your solution to include e-mail approval notifications in addition to the default
notifications found in the toolbar.
Example:
Campaign Approvals
Example
For example, you have activated the approvals for campaigns in your system, and now you want to define a
two-step approval process. In the first step, campaigns created for the campaign execution type Direct E-
Mail are to be approved by one of two employees in your company. In the second step, campaigns with
target groups greater than 10,000 members are to be approved by the line manager of the employee.
Now suppose that the employee created a campaign with execution type Direct E-Mail, with a target group
that contains 10,523 members, but neglected to specify the start and end date of the campaign.
In response, the system first confirms that this campaign requires approval, so the employee is only
authorized to select Actions Submit for Approval . Then, one of the approvers checks the campaign
and notices that the campaign start and end dates are missing, so the approver adds a comment to the
campaign, and returns it to the employee for revision. The employee corrects the campaign accordingly
and submits it again for approval.
The campaign is then initially approved, but the employee must wait until the line manager also provides
approval, because the target group has more than 10,000 members. The system determines the line
manager from the organizational management hierarchy, upward from the employee, until the first
manager is found.
Example:
Multi-Step Approval for Opportunity
Let’s say your system has been set up with a rule that requires your manager’s approval for any opportunity
that has a less than a 20% probability of closing but that has already been published to the forecast. In
addition, there’s another rule that requires the top-level account owner’s approval for any opportunity at an “A”
category customer within a specific region. When you create an opportunity that fits both of these conditions,
you are prompted to submit it for approval. The system then notifies your manager who can either approve the
opportunity or send it back to you for revision. Once your manager approves it, the system will send a
notification to the top-level account owner who also needs to approve the opportunity before it can move to the
next stage in your business process.
Account management capabilities offer a holistic view of the customer, and allow you to capture, monitor, store
and track all critical business information about customers, prospects and partners.
Account management capabilities offer a holistic view of the customer, and allow you to capture, monitor, store
and track all critical business information about customers, prospects and partners. Use this information to
focus on your most profitable customers, maintain satisfaction and loyalty and consistent interaction across all
channels.
Note
All accounts, individual customers, employees, contacts, partners and competitors are considered as
business partners in the system. Therefore all functions that are common to business partners are
applicable to them.
Note
In SAP Cloud for Customer , the Customers refers to corporate accounts, individual customer accounts and
contacts. Accounts represent organizations with which business is done and Individual Customers
represent persons with whom business is done. Create business accounts to represent your customers in
your system. This chapter explains the features around the corporate accounts and individual customer
accounts. Most features are common to both accounts and individual customers. However you can
maintain contacts only for corporate accounts and not for individual customers. For information on
contacts, see Contacts Management
Accounts management is comprehensive with a host of features and configuration possibilities. For most of
these functional features, you as an administrator, will need to maintain the required configuration. The topics
below describe the configuration in detail.
To scope and enable accounts, select Account Management under Business Configuration Implementation
Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Sales Account and Activity Management .
Administrators can maintain the basic business partner attributes such as titles, relationships, name and so
on.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List General
Business Partners Accounts to maintain the following configuration. Basic descriptions for these
configurations can be found in the system.
Administrators can maintain the basic business configuration for accounts such as roles, classifications,
payment terms and so on.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Accounts to
maintain the following configuration. Basic descriptions for this configuration can be found in the system.
● Do you want to sync accounts and contacts in your solution with Microsoft Outlook?
● Do you want to sync accounts and contacts in Microsoft Outlook with your solution?
● Do you want to see the calculated fields like active pipeline and year to date revenue in the header of the
account detail?
● Do you want to see the calculated fields like active pipeline and year to date revenue in the account
hierarchy facade of the account detail?
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
International Address Versions and select all the countries in the list for which you need to maintain address
data. The activated scripts (for languages corresponding to the address versions) can be used to maintain
master data such as business partner name and address.
Note
You must also specify a default address version that will initially be displayed and that must be maintained
for every record. After the creation of name or address data for a non-default address version you cannot
change the default address version again.
Additionally, scope the question - Do you want to specify textual master data using international address
versions under Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope
Questions Built-in Services and Support Business Environment Addresses and Languages International
Address Versions.
Administrators can configure address check that validates addresses maintained in master data for business
partners and organizational units, during migration and data replication.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Address
Checks to enable address check. The system checks if address data, such as country, region, and postal
code length, is consistent. Inconsistent data leads to error messages and cannot be saved or activated.
Note
Administrators can turn off the country specific formatting for phone numbers to avoid issues during
replication of business partner addresses.
Country specific formatting ensures that if the recommended format for a phone (or mobile) number is not
maintained and the dialing code is not available, then system determines the dialing code from the postal
address. However, during migration or replication, if inbound phone numbers do have the country code but are
prefixed ‘00’ instead of the superior leading ‘+’, this may result in problems with migration. Use the scoping
question to suppress country formatting for such business needs.
Note
The recommended format to maintain a phone or mobile number is to start with a leading ‘+’ followed by
the country dialing code, for example, ‘+49 (6227) 7-47474’.
Administrators can define custom prefixes for business partner names under Business Configuration
Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List General Business Partners Maintain Name
Prefixes .
This configuration allows you to maintain country-specific name prefixes. Before configuring the prefixes, map
them to corresponding values in external systems such as SAP S/4HANA in order to ensure seamless
replication of business partner data.
Administrators can configure Google Maps or AutoNavi Maps for different accounts.
Note
● The use of the Google Maps Service is subject to Google Terms of Service, which are written in http://
www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/ . If you do not accept such Terms of Service, including but
not limited to all limitations and restrictions therein, you may not be able to use Google Maps Service in
SAP Cloud for Customer. The use of Google Maps Service in or through SAP Cloud for Customer
constitutes your acceptance of Google Terms of Service, and it can be terminated by SAP without
reason at any time and SAP is not required to provide an equivalent service via another provider.
As a prerequisite, please create a support ticket to obtain and use the SAP API key for Google Maps.
● The use of AutoNavi Maps Service is subject to AutoNavi Terms of Service, which are written in http://
map.amap.com/doc/serviceitem.html . If you do not accept such Terms of Service, including but not
limited to all limitations and restrictions therein, you may not be able to use AutoNavi Maps Service in
SAP Cloud for Customer. The use of AutoNavi Maps Service in or through SAP Cloud for Customer
constitutes your acceptance of AutoNavi Terms of Service, and it can be terminated by SAP without
reason at any time and SAP is not required to provide an equivalent service via another provider.
As a prerequisite, please create a support ticket to obtain and use the SAP API key for AutoNavi Maps.
Administrators can configure address validation for geo tracking using standard microservices from SAP Cloud
Platform.
Prerequisite
When you purchase a license for the microservice, you are assigned a Request URL to access SAP DQM micro
services. The URL is unique to your data center on SAP Cloud Platform and is required to activate integration
with the SAP Cloud for Customer. You can access this URL under SCP Cockpit Services Data Quality
Services Application URL . Copy this URL to a notepad on your local machine. You assign this URL when
configuring the integration in your cloud for customer system.
1. Select the scoping question - Do you want to use the Address Validation service? under Business
Configuration Edit Project Scope Questions Built in Services and Support Business Environment
Addresses and Languages .
2. Create a communication system with name Address Validation (recommended name) under
Administrator General Settings Integration Communication Systems . Further, under Host Name,
enter the request URL.
Note
Request URL is the Application URL that you have copied under Data Quality Services in SAP Cloud
Platform. Enter the URL without leading Https:// and without trailing /dq/AddressCleanse (as
shown in the graphic below).
Note
Download this certificate to your local machine. Upload this certificate to SAP Cloud Platform.
○ Host Name: the request url you maintained in the communication system is defaulted here
Create a new communication scenario and assign the new communication arrangement to the new
communication scenario.
Upload the client certificate (that you have assigned to communication arrangement in Cloud for Customer
and downloaded to your local machine) to SAP Cloud Platform. For detailed documentation on importing client
certificate to SAP Cloud Platform and configuring client certificate authorization, see Client Certificate
Authorization.
The street address validation along with geo coding is enabled by default for each SAP Cloud for Customer to
SAP DQM micro service call. The following considerations apply as part of the address validation service:
For detailed information on billing for these API calls, refer to Billing/Usage Information (Per API Call)
Additional Information
For detailed information on enabling and configuring DQM Microservices, see the documentation under Data
Quality Management, microservices for location data (DQM microservices).
Administrators can configure duplicate check by maintaining weightages of parameters for the business
partners.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Duplicate Weighing for Business Partners .
Additionally, you can scope one the following questions under Business Configuration Implementation
Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions General Business Data Handling of Business
Partners :
Administrators can configure custom identifiers for accounts and individual customers and use them in a host
of functions. The new tab Identifiers displays the identifiers you maintain for an account or individual customer.
Configure identification types under Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project
Open Activity List General Business Partners Maintain Identification Types .
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Scoping
Questions General Business Data Business Partners Handling of Business Partners and select the
scoping question Do you want to enable accounts merge?.
Note
SAP does not recommend configuring account merge if your customer master records are replicated with
an external system (that is SAP ERP and SAP CRM integration is scoped). This is because a merge
execution does not trigger a corresponding replication in the external system which may give rise to data
inconsistency.
In order to initiate merge, you must have the Data Cleansing work center view assigned to user. In this work
center view, click on New to trigger a manual merge. You can select a maximum of three customer records -
one master and two duplicate records to be merged. Note that this action can be initiated only if the merge
object is in one of the following statuses:
● Not Started
● Merge Failed
● Merge Completed
● Realignment Failed
For detailed troubleshooting information for customer merge, see the section - Account FAQs.
Administrators can configure marketing permissions. With the communication categories, you can specify how
often a customer may be contacted during a certain period of time.
In the Marketing Permissions fine-tune activity you maintain your communication categories and the
communication channels for countries with an explicit opt-in. These settings are required to track whether your
customers opt-in or opt-out for a specific communication channel.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
and then select the Marketing Permissions activity from the activity list.
Caution
It is the responsibility of your organization to comply with national legislation regarding data protection
and the provision of marketing materials. Therefore, administrators must configure the solution for
each country in which, or each customer with whom, your organization intends to conduct marketing
activities and, to the extent legally required, make use of the option to store documents such as opt-ins
or opt-outs.
To add a country where an explicit opt-in is required, click Add Row, enter the country and the
corresponding communication channel, such as e-mail, letter or fax, and save your changes.
2. Maintain Communication Categories:
1. To create a communication category click Add Row
2. Enter a communication category, a description, a limit, and the time frame. With the limit and time
frame you can specify how often a customer can be contacted during a certain period of time. When
adding communication categories we recommend to start with the letter Z
3. Save your work.
You can define attributes or attribute sets and make them visible for users in the advanced searches for
accounts, contacts, and individual customers.
Go to Administrator Sales and Campaign Settings Attributes to view and configure attributes or
attribute sets.
If your solution is integrated with SAP Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM), then you can only
view, but not create or modify, attributes or attribute sets from this screen.
As you maintain attributes, you can configure their characteristics (for example, whether they are mandatory),
their value list and their descriptions in one or more languages. As you maintain attribute sets, which represent
combinations of attributes, you can select the Person-Relevant checkbox to make the attributes visible in the
Attributes tab of the Contacts work center view. You can also select the Organization-Relevant checkbox to
make them visible in that tab on the Accounts or Individual Customers work center views.
Provided if you personalize your solution to make it visible, you can enable your users to access the Attributes
field within the advanced search of accounts, contacts and individual customers and maintain conditions there
that influence the corresponding search behavior. Once this field is visible and your users select it to maintain
conditions, they can specify a combination of attribute sets, attributes, operators and values – for example,
Employee Attributes, Region, Equal, and North America, respectively – to apply to the attributes search. Users
can also specify additional attribute conditions with the logical operator OR. Once these parameters have been
saved, users can apply the associated conditions as an advanced search query to find business partners with
corresponding Attributes, and to display them within the attributes tab of the work center view of the
associated business partner.
From the item details of an account, when you choose the [Summary] function, Attributes for the account now
appear within the resultant account summary.
Note
This enhancement only becomes available once you select Administrator Form Template
Maintenance and then choose the Account Summary form template and revert to the most recent
version.
Access Restrictions
You can configure the business roles in your solution to specify business access restriction
BUSINESS_ATTRIBUTE_ASGNM_READ, thereby making attributes read-only for the associated business users
You can use the new report Business Partner with attribute assignment, whose technical name is
CODBUSATTRBPB_Q0001, to specify search criteria related to Attributes and to find corresponding business
partners. Within this report, you can also right-click on the name of a business partner, then choose Export All
Account and Contacts to New Target Group, to create a target group for the associated accounts and contacts.
Use in Analytics
To drive analytics in relation to attributes, you can use the following new data sources:
CODBUSATTRBPB Business Partner with Attribute Shows all Attribute values assigned to
Assignment the reference business partners.
In the E-mail Blasts dialog, set the flag for Include Employees to allow marketing administrators to send e-mail
blasts to employees listed in a target group. When you select this flag, the e-mail blast that will be sent out
includes target group members (accounts, individual customers, contacts, etc) as well as the employees listed
under the Employees tab screen
You can create and maintain target groups from the following:
● Data Groups
○ Add Members to Target Group: A sales campaign administrator can create a target group and share
the target group ID with the sales representatives who in turn can add their accounts to the target
group. Note that each sales representative can add members without directly accessing the target
group. Additionally, you can also use the Create Target Group menu option.
● Target Group work center: In the Members tab screen under Target Groups work center view, you can
directly search for customers, contacts or accounts and then add them to the target group. Use the
standard or extension field based search parameters to add members to the target groups. It also possible
to search for based on marketing attributes and add them to the target group. You can also mass delete
members within a target group using action Remove from Target Group.
● External Sources: Import target group member assignment from external source using excel add-in
(under Actions New from Microsoft Excel or web services. A2A services area also available to import
segmented target groups into the cloud solution.
● Analytical Reports: Use out of the box analytical reports provided in the solution to use strong analytical
framework to filter member list and add them directly to a target group in just one single click. The
following out of the box standard reports from which account /contacts can be exported to a new target
group:
1. Accounts contact Data- Sales Campaign administrator can slice and dice account contact data
and create a target group from the report.
2. Accounts with Open activities - Sales Campaign administrator can check for open activities /
opportunities and create a target group.
3. Campaign Response Details - This report lists all the responses provided by the members of a
previous campaigns. The Contact and Account data can be segmented based on different criteria. The
contacts can then be exported into a new target group.
● Dynamic Target Groups Define dynamic target groups using conditions within the target group. Based
on these conditions, the application determines the members and adds them automatically to the target
group.
1. In the Target Groups work center view under Sales Campaign work center, click on New.
2. Select the checkbox for Member Determination on the target group creation screen. The target group will
be created with status In Preparation.
It is currently possible to create dynamic target groups only for accounts, contacts and individual
customers.
1. Maintain Conditions
1. From the target group worklist, select and open a dynamic target group. Note that the column
'Member Determination' is checked for dynamic target groups.
2. Under the Member Determination tab, three tables are provided for maintaining the selection
conditions for one type of business partner.
Note
The automatic member determination is currently supported for the following business partner
types - Account, Contact and Individual Customer.
Note
Activate performs a dual function; it activates the target group and schedules the member
determination process. While activation is a one-time activity, the Activate remains enabled as long as
the target group is in status In Preparation.
4. Deactivate Schedule: Use this feature to adjust the determination conditions any time during the member
determination process. This halts the determination process and the Execution Status is set to Not Started.
However, the determination process cannot be halted if the Execution Status is set to Running. Finally, click
on Activate Schedule to resume the determination process.
It is possible to define conditions for extension fields. However, note that the allowed selection criteria for
member determination is the same in both dynamic and manual target group. For example, the set of
attributes for which you can define conditions in the target group and the set of search fields on a static target
group are same.
Note
If the extension field is not added to the search dialog, then the member determination will not
work for the created extension fields.
5. Add the extension field to the conditions table: Open the dynamic target group where you want to
maintain conditions for the extension fields. In the Account Condition table, select and choose Apply to add
the extension field.
Note
The process of configuring conditions for extension fields is similar as described above for other member
types (Contacts and Individual Customers).
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Accounts , and maintain blocking reasons for the following:
Administrators can configure blocks for external follow-up documents. You can block external follow-up
documents to SAP ERP for accounts marked as prospects
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Communication and Information Exchange Integration with External Applications and Solutions Integration
with SAP ERP and select and scope the question - Do you want to block prospects created in your cloud
solution from being replicated to your SAP ERP solution?.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
General Business Partners , and under General Business Partners, define the possible relationships between
business partners in your system. The standard solution provides relationship codes that you can use. Choose
to define new relationship codes or even disable the standard codes. Note that certain standard relationship
codes cannot be deactivated.
Enter a code for and the name of the relationship along with a description for both directions of the
relationship, such as Has Contact for the relationship of business partner 1 with business partner 2 with
business partner 1 being an organization. Depending on the relationship type, choose whether the business
partner is a person or an organization, and select the business partner roles that are permitted for each of the
business partners in the relationship.
You can also link the relationships you define to party role in involved party. Do this, for example, if you want to
automatically determine the party role in documents like lead, opportunity, sales quote, activities based on
specific relationship.
Example: define a new custom Party Role “Reseller” that has the relationship “Has an OEM” assigned to it.
Configure sales area dependent relationships that are evaluated during transactions involving the accounts.
Administrators can configure buying center based on business partner and buying center relationships..
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Account and Activity Management Account Management and select the scoping question - Buying Center -
Do you want to enable buying center based on business partner relationships?.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Account and Activity Management Account Management and select the scoping question - Buying Center -
Do you want to enable buying center based on buying center relationships?.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Party Role Definition and create account teams based on roles. Standard roles are shipped in your system;
Define custom roles such as Direct Sales, Product Expert, and so on.
With BAdI OrgUnitEmployeeMyTeamQueryModify in the SAP Cloud Applications Studio, administrators can
add or remove organizational units from which the employees for the MyTeam are derived.
● For non-managers: The team is defined as Employees in the organization to which the logged on user is
directly assigned, and employees in any organization subordinate to the logged on user’s organization
● For managers (considering the reporting line):
○ Employees in any organization which the logged on user is assigned as manager, and employees in any
organization subordinate to the organization logged on user is assigned as a manager.
Note
You can assign a manager to an org. unit to support the manager’s manager determination for approvals or
workflows. This organizational assignment can lead to an unwanted MyTeam result for the manager
according to the definition above. Another use case for the OrgUnitEmployeeMyTeamQueryModify BAdI
is if you would like to remove the secondary team assignment in the MyTeam query.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales Account and Activity Management Account Management and to enable display of account
hierarchies, select the scoping question Do you want to use account hierarchies?. The structure that you create
in SAP CRM system is displayed in the Account Hierarchy tab of an account. Expand and collapse the account
hierarchy at any level to display as many or as few accounts as you like.
Note
You need to migrate account hierarchies to your cloud solution. For detailed information on how to migrate
account hierarchies, see
Administrators can configure involved party roles. Business partners is a collective term for all the
organizations and people you interact with in your business, and includes accounts, contacts, partners, and
employees. When you create a document, you can designate a business partner as an involved party and
assign them a role.
You can designate roles for sales quotes, leads, opportunities, service tickets, or activities. You can then
automatically determine involved parties for these business transactions and documents using determination
rules and master data.
The offline party determination is possible independent of the party role category; The following active
determinations are supported in offline mode:
Administrators can configure account sales data that includes distribution channel, division, sales area
territory hierarchy level, price lists and price groups.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine Tune
Distribution Channel , to maintain distribution channels for your company. Additionally, assign the
distribution channel to the org. structure for your company using the work distribution maintenance.
Division
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Division to define divisions in your company.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine Tune
Sales Territory Hierarchy Level to create the root sales territory and other territory levels.
Related Information
With BAdI CustomAccessControlListWrite in SAP Cloud Applications Studio administrators can enhance
the access context of transactions by an own implementation using the sales area.
In this release, you can also add sales areas (sales organization, distribution channel, division) to the access
context.
Note
The BAdI is available for Leads, Opportunities, Sales Quotes, Sales Orders, Contracts, Service Tickets, and
Activities.
This BAdI allows administrators to replace the SAP standard access control logic for your business users.
You should be very careful when implementing, testing and using this enhancement. Go to Administrator
General Settings Check User’s Authorization to check the access context of a transaction.
Remember
The BAdI does not allow control of a different access behavior for write and read access.
The BAdi does not allow you to add additional access context other than context 1015, such as adding the
Document Type to the access context.
Administrators can configure customer groups under Business Configuration Implementation Projects
Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune Accounts Maintain Customer Groups .
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Accounts Maintain Payment Terms to maintain payment terms.
Administrators can configure delivery priorities in your SAP Cloud for Customer system and maintain a
mapping to values in SAP ERP system. Prior to this release, it was only possible to map to fixed values from
SAP ERP.
Maintain the configuration under Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open
Activity List General Business Data Business Partners Handling of Business Partners Accounts
Maintain Delivery Priority .
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Open Activity List Fine-Tune General Business
Partner Maintain Tax Number Types and add new tax number types and mark them as Active.
Administrators can assign territory and create rules for territory based determination.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Territory Hierarchy Level to maintain territory hierarchy levels.
Determine if you need to retain business partner data in your system when that data has already been deleted
from an integrated external system.
The graphic below describes process flow to determine the End-of-Purpose for your business partner data. You
can use web services or manually block such business partners in your system using blocking reasons.
New web service interfaces and enhanced interfaces are enabled to support blocking of business partners. Use
these services in scenarios where integrated external systems block or delete business partner data in their
system landscape. These interfaces allow the external systems to query and maintain the End-of-Purpose for
business partners. Since the definition of what constitutes the end-of-purpose for a business partner is
subjective to the external system, these interfaces are empty CHECK interfaces to allow you to create custom
queries.
For business partners blocked using the below mentioned interfaces, data cannot be retrieved in list views in
work centers, value help in related fields, values selectors, analytics, duplicate checks and web service or oData
queries in the application.
Your SAP Cloud for Customer solution is integrated with other systems. The customer account, employee, or
contact record from each system has its own unique identifier. Administrators can configure ID mapping to
assign one account ID to be used for all system account records in a batch job.
Your business works with multiple external systems that exchange data. Customer records are created in each
system. Yet each record contains its own unique identifier. SAP Cloud for Customer administrators can map a
default ID to work with one identifier to be used, for example, with, accounts, list prices, and print forms. If
administrators don’t select a default ID, the solution chooses an arbitrary ID as the default.
Your SAP Cloud for Customer (System A) solution is integrated with two other systems (System B, System C).
System A, B, and C each have their own IDs for a customer account, employee, or, contact record.
In SAP Cloud for Customer, records receive an ID mapping, which is used by any of the integrated systems to
know how they identify the customer record. Here the external system understands the account identifier as
498, but system B uses ID XT6932, and system C uses ID 2754834.
B XT6932
C 2754834
Note
Note
○ 3 - ERP Employee ID
○ 888 - Business Partner ID
○ 988 - Business Partner External ID
6. From the Remote System row, enter or search for the system.
7. Save your entries.
8. After configuration, click Select Object Click Migrate Data . Depending on your data volume, after
approximately 1 hour, the migration batch job is complete. You can view the status from the UI.
Note
There’s a migration of 300 kilobytes (kB) ObjectIdentifierMapping rows per hour. If the data volume
is below 300 kB, the migration occurs o the first execution job. If data volume is above 300 kB, migration
spans over several hours since only a 300-kB records migration is possible.
You set the account external ID default is set to Schema Code 918. If more than one account external ID
exists in various integrated systems, the SAP Cloud for Customer solution uses the first one.
Note
The employee external ID default is set to Schema Code 3. If more than one employee external IDs exist in
various integrated systems, the SAP Cloud for Customer solution uses the first one.
Administrators can configure a preferred contact default ID, that is used in all integrated systems.
Note
There's only one contact relationship, so the contact external ID is the default external ID (Schema
Code 918).
More than one contact relationship for one contact and one contact relationship is marked as the main
relationship. Therefore, the remote external ID is set to the default external ID.
Note
The Contact external ID default is set to schema code 927. More than one Contact external ID exists in
various integrated systems and one contact relationship is marked as the Main relationship. Then, the SAP
Cloud for Customer solution selects an arbitrary ID as the default indicator for one of the existing remote
IDs.
If no contact relationship is marked as main, a random relationship is chosen and the remote external ID is
set to the default external IDs.
Account master data is key information that is required for various sales transactions such as leads,
opportunities, quotes and orders.
Define default customer roles for a customer type. The role is assigned to customers of that type. Additionally,
you can change the description of a standard role provided by SAP to suit your business requirement.
Define business partner roles and use them in account teams and involved parties. You can also sssign multiple
roles to a business partner (account, contact and individual customer). For example, you can have a business
partner assigned to an account, as a ship-to-party, as a partner and a competitor.
● In the account quick create, when you trigger a duplicate check and the system displays accounts with
similar names and data that you can select from.
● In the launch screen with business partner datasets, when you select edit and change the role assigned to
an account.
Administrators can configure involved party roles. Business partners is a collective term for all the
organizations and people you interact with in your business, and includes accounts, contacts, partners, and
employees. When you create a document, you can designate a business partner as an involved party and
assign them a role.
You can designate roles for sales quotes, leads, opportunities, service tickets, or activities. You can then
automatically determine involved parties for these business transactions and documents using determination
rules and master data.
Account relationships represent relationships between accounts as well as between accounts and persons and
other business partners such as partners and partner contacts.
Use the relationships that you have configured to assign relationship between Accounts, Contacts, Partners,
Partner Contacts and so on, based on your business needs.
Relationship types are mostly bi-directional, such as Has a Reseller / Is a Reseller of. Standard relationship
types are configured in the cloud solution; You can also create custom-defined relationship types and maintain
them for sales areas.
In the advanced search for accounts, use account relationships to search for accounts. Two fields, Related-To
and Relationship Role enable search based on relationships.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
General Business Partners , and under General Business Partners, define the possible relationships between
business partners in your system. The standard solution provides relationship codes that you can use. Choose
to define new relationship codes or even disable the standard codes. Note that certain standard relationship
codes cannot be deactivated.
Enter a code for and the name of the relationship along with a description for both directions of the
relationship, such as Has Contact for the relationship of business partner 1 with business partner 2 with
business partner 1 being an organization. Depending on the relationship type, choose whether the business
partner is a person or an organization, and select the business partner roles that are permitted for each of the
business partners in the relationship.
You can also link the relationships you define to party role in involved party. Do this, for example, if you want to
automatically determine the party role in documents like lead, opportunity, sales quote, activities based on
specific relationship.
Example: define a new custom Party Role “Reseller” that has the relationship “Has an OEM” assigned to it.
Configure sales area dependent relationships that are evaluated during transactions involving the accounts.
Buying center refers to all those members of an organization who are key stakeholders and are involved in the
buying process.
Use buying center to collaborate with accounts and contacts using various channels. In the Buying Center tab,
map key stakeholders (involved in buying process) along with their relationships. Information that you create
here is copied for opportunities.
Administrators can configure buying center based on business partner and buying center relationships..
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Account and Activity Management Account Management and select the scoping question - Buying Center -
Do you want to enable buying center based on business partner relationships?.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Account and Activity Management Account Management and select the scoping question - Buying Center -
Do you want to enable buying center based on buying center relationships?.
Standard solution provides two roles - Account Team Member and Employee Responsible - Sales (this role
corresponds to the account owner and therefore has only one member assigned to this role). Maintain account
team members for sales areas and assign them a validity. Additionally, use account teams to:
● Manage accounts and assign activities automatically during various business processes.
● Add employees to account teams (key user authorization required)
● Assign an account to a territory. With this assignment, all users assigned to the territory appear under the
Sales Territory Team in the Account Team tab.
● Define custom roles (such as Direct Sales, Product Expert, and so on) for account team using the Party
Role Definition fine-tuning activity.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Party Role Definition and create account teams based on roles. Standard roles are shipped in your system;
Define custom roles such as Direct Sales, Product Expert, and so on.
An account hierarchy is a collection of accounts linked to each other through a parent-child relationship.
Account hierarchies are possible only for corporate accounts (and not for individual customer accounts).
● Map complex organizational structures of a business partner (for example, buying group, co-operative or
chain of retail outlets). In the Account Hierarchy tab screen view, you can map account structures in an
account.
● Map the complex organizational structure of a large customer with multiple levels of subsidiaries.
● Link an account to a parent account using the Parent Account field. Note that a child account can have only
one parent account.
● Review the active pipeline for a child account and also the roll-up values for its parent account.
Note
You need to migrate account hierarchies to your cloud solution. For detailed information on how to migrate
account hierarchies, see
Maintain ABC Classification type to categorize accounts based on their importance within your
organization..The standard solution offers four levels of categorization, namely A, B, C and D accounts.
To configure, go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List
Fine-Tune Accounts , and choose Maintain ABC Classifications for Accounts
Create specific visit types such as Business Review, Sales Visit and maintain details such as recommended
frequency and duration of visit.
All visits of a customer must be assigned to a valid visit type that you configure in the business configuration
fine-tuning. The Visit Details table in the Visits by Sales Area tab displays a snapshot of visit type,
recommended frequency, visit duration, and so on. Note that these details are not directly dependent on
account or individual customer sales data.
Note
The visit header details continue to be displayed in the Visits tab in customers.
Under Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Maintain Visit Types . All visits that you maintain must be assigned to a valid visit type.
Attributes can be attached to an object to define additional characteristics of the objects. In the solution,
attributes can be associated with different objects like account, contact, individual customer and so on.
Attributes can be of different data types and can by grouped together into an attribute set. You can set different
properties of an attribute like negative value allowed, intervals allowed, multi-value allowed and so on.
A very common use of attributes is to create target groups. For example, if you are a credit card company and
want to create a target group for customers traveling internationally, then you can create an attribute named as
International traveler with a value list YES or NO. Every time your customer spends some money outside your
country using your card you can automatically update International traveler as YES. Subsequently, you can
create a target group of customers where the value of attribute International traveler is YES and send them
promotions like low exchange rate for international traveler or low interest rate if they buy ticket through your
company using your credit card.
Note
Attributes are available in HTML and Responsive UI, in both online and offline mode.
You can define attributes or attribute sets and make them visible for users in the advanced searches for
accounts, contacts, and individual customers.
Go to Administrator Sales and Campaign Settings Attributes to view and configure attributes or
attribute sets.
Note
If your solution is integrated with SAP Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM), then you can only
view, but not create or modify, attributes or attribute sets from this screen.
As you maintain attributes, you can configure their characteristics (for example, whether they are mandatory),
their value list and their descriptions in one or more languages. As you maintain attribute sets, which represent
combinations of attributes, you can select the Person-Relevant checkbox to make the attributes visible in the
Attributes tab of the Contacts work center view. You can also select the Organization-Relevant checkbox to
make them visible in that tab on the Accounts or Individual Customers work center views.
Provided if you personalize your solution to make it visible, you can enable your users to access the Attributes
field within the advanced search of accounts, contacts and individual customers and maintain conditions there
that influence the corresponding search behavior. Once this field is visible and your users select it to maintain
conditions, they can specify a combination of attribute sets, attributes, operators and values – for example,
Employee Attributes, Region, Equal, and North America, respectively – to apply to the attributes search. Users
can also specify additional attribute conditions with the logical operator OR. Once these parameters have been
saved, users can apply the associated conditions as an advanced search query to find business partners with
corresponding Attributes, and to display them within the attributes tab of the work center view of the
associated business partner.
From the item details of an account, when you choose the [Summary] function, Attributes for the account now
appear within the resultant account summary.
Note
This enhancement only becomes available once you select Administrator Form Template
Maintenance and then choose the Account Summary form template and revert to the most recent
version.
Access Restrictions
You can configure the business roles in your solution to specify business access restriction
BUSINESS_ATTRIBUTE_ASGNM_READ, thereby making attributes read-only for the associated business users
You can use the new report Business Partner with attribute assignment, whose technical name is
CODBUSATTRBPB_Q0001, to specify search criteria related to Attributes and to find corresponding business
partners. Within this report, you can also right-click on the name of a business partner, then choose Export All
Account and Contacts to New Target Group, to create a target group for the associated accounts and contacts.
Use in Analytics
To drive analytics in relation to attributes, you can use the following new data sources:
CODBUSATTRBPB Business Partner with Attribute Shows all Attribute values assigned to
Assignment the reference business partners.
Administrators can configure marketing permissions. With the communication categories, you can specify how
often a customer may be contacted during a certain period of time.
In the Marketing Permissions fine-tune activity you maintain your communication categories and the
communication channels for countries with an explicit opt-in. These settings are required to track whether your
customers opt-in or opt-out for a specific communication channel.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
and then select the Marketing Permissions activity from the activity list.
Caution
It is the responsibility of your organization to comply with national legislation regarding data protection
and the provision of marketing materials. Therefore, administrators must configure the solution for
each country in which, or each customer with whom, your organization intends to conduct marketing
activities and, to the extent legally required, make use of the option to store documents such as opt-ins
or opt-outs.
To add a country where an explicit opt-in is required, click Add Row, enter the country and the
corresponding communication channel, such as e-mail, letter or fax, and save your changes.
2. Maintain Communication Categories:
1. To create a communication category click Add Row
2. Enter a communication category, a description, a limit, and the time frame. With the limit and time
frame you can specify how often a customer can be contacted during a certain period of time. When
adding communication categories we recommend to start with the letter Z
3. Save your work.
Use blocking reasons that you configure to block accounts for specific functions.
Note
The blocking reasons that you maintain here must be mapped to the blocking reasons configured in
ERP system.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Accounts , and maintain blocking reasons for the following:
Administrators can configure blocks for external follow-up documents. You can block external follow-up
documents to SAP ERP for accounts marked as prospects
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Communication and Information Exchange Integration with External Applications and Solutions Integration
with SAP ERP and select and scope the question - Do you want to block prospects created in your cloud
solution from being replicated to your SAP ERP solution?.
Maintain payment terms for an account to specify when an invoice has to be paid and whether a discount is
applicable if payment is made before the due date.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Accounts Maintain Payment Terms to maintain payment terms.
Improve compliance for accounts and customers using tax numbers. You can:
● Add new tax number types, activate, or deactivate from the list delivered in the standard system.
Note
Tax number types are used as Social Security Numbers in some countries. However, in , SAP Cloud for
Customer the number types are mainly used for duplication check and data capture. For compliance
reasons, you may want to deactivate specific tax number types (such as the ones used as Social
Security Numbers) for compliance reasons. For detailed information on this topic, refer to the Security
Guide for SAP Cloud for Customer.
.
● Leverage the complete list of tax number types available from your on premise systems
● Search for a business partner using tax number in the advanced search of the enterprise-wide search.
Example scenarios include tax numbers that are also used as social security numbers.
● Use tax numbers as additional identifiers for business partners. The additional identifiers are used when
duplicate check is triggered for accounts.
No validations are available for tax numbers in the cloud solution. You can add validations using the SAP
Cloud Applications Studio. Appropriate validations are however available in the ERP on premise system.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Open Activity List Fine-Tune General Business
Partner Maintain Tax Number Types and add new tax number types and mark them as Active.
Create target groups and export your accounts and contacts to these target groups. Standard out-of-the-box
reports are provided to create and segment account data.
In the E-mail Blasts dialog, set the flag for Include Employees to allow marketing administrators to send e-mail
blasts to employees listed in a target group. When you select this flag, the e-mail blast that will be sent out
includes target group members (accounts, individual customers, contacts, etc) as well as the employees listed
under the Employees tab screen
You can create and maintain target groups from the following:
● Data Groups
○ Add Members to Target Group: A sales campaign administrator can create a target group and share
the target group ID with the sales representatives who in turn can add their accounts to the target
group. Note that each sales representative can add members without directly accessing the target
group. Additionally, you can also use the Create Target Group menu option.
● Target Group work center: In the Members tab screen under Target Groups work center view, you can
directly search for customers, contacts or accounts and then add them to the target group. Use the
standard or extension field based search parameters to add members to the target groups. It also possible
to search for based on marketing attributes and add them to the target group. You can also mass delete
members within a target group using action Remove from Target Group.
● External Sources: Import target group member assignment from external source using excel add-in
(under Actions New from Microsoft Excel or web services. A2A services area also available to import
segmented target groups into the cloud solution.
● Analytical Reports: Use out of the box analytical reports provided in the solution to use strong analytical
framework to filter member list and add them directly to a target group in just one single click. The
1. In the Target Groups work center view under Sales Campaign work center, click on New.
2. Select the checkbox for Member Determination on the target group creation screen. The target group will
be created with status In Preparation.
Note
It is currently possible to create dynamic target groups only for accounts, contacts and individual
customers.
1. Maintain Conditions
1. From the target group worklist, select and open a dynamic target group. Note that the column
'Member Determination' is checked for dynamic target groups.
2. Under the Member Determination tab, three tables are provided for maintaining the selection
conditions for one type of business partner.
Note
The automatic member determination is currently supported for the following business partner
types - Account, Contact and Individual Customer.
Note
Activate performs a dual function; it activates the target group and schedules the member
determination process. While activation is a one-time activity, the Activate remains enabled as long as
the target group is in status In Preparation.
4. Deactivate Schedule: Use this feature to adjust the determination conditions any time during the member
determination process. This halts the determination process and the Execution Status is set to Not Started.
However, the determination process cannot be halted if the Execution Status is set to Running. Finally, click
on Activate Schedule to resume the determination process.
It is possible to define conditions for extension fields. However, note that the allowed selection criteria for
member determination is the same in both dynamic and manual target group. For example, the set of
attributes for which you can define conditions in the target group and the set of search fields on a static target
group are same.
Note
If the extension field is not added to the search dialog, then the member determination will not
work for the created extension fields.
5. Add the extension field to the conditions table: Open the dynamic target group where you want to
maintain conditions for the extension fields. In the Account Condition table, select and choose Apply to add
the extension field.
The process of configuring conditions for extension fields is similar as described above for other member
types (Contacts and Individual Customers).
You can specify the customer groups to which an account belongs. You can maintain the customer group for
each organizational assignment in the sales data of the account master record.
Use customer groups for internal and external collaboration. In the Groups tab under Accounts, create public,
private or external groups within an account to enable collaboration, to share data and other information. You
can use the in-built integration with SAP Jam to enable collaboration within the groups.
Administrators can configure customer groups under Business Configuration Implementation Projects
Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune Accounts Maintain Customer Groups .
3.2.15 Identifiers
Assign additional identifiers when creating accounts and individual customers and trigger a duplicate check
using the identifier. Bi-directional replication of these identifiers between SAP Cloud for Customer and SAP
ERP / SAP S/4HANA is also possible.
Administrators can configure custom identifiers for accounts and individual customers and use them in a host
of functions. The new tab Identifiers displays the identifiers you maintain for an account or individual customer.
Configure identification types under Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project
Open Activity List General Business Partners Maintain Identification Types .
Multiple duplicate records for the same customer may lead to inconsistencies in the system. On triggering a
duplicate check, the system identifies a master record and duplicate records (if any) for an account. You can
then initiate an account merge between the master and duplicate records. As part of merge, the master record
is retained and duplicate records are set to obsolete status and a relationship of 'replaces' and 'Is replaced by'
is created between the master and duplicate records respectively. Duplicate check allows you to:
Use action Check for Duplicates in the toolbar for Customers to initiate a duplicate check for existing accounts,
individual customers, and contacts. When you check for duplicates, the system displays a list of potential
duplicate records. Select a maximum of two records from the list, and click Merge to trigger a merge process.
You can also trigger a duplicate check when creating new accounts, customers, or contacts.
Assign additional identifiers when creating accounts and individual customers and trigger a duplicate check
using the identifier. Bi-directional replication of these identifiers between SAP Cloud for Customer and SAP
ERP / SAP S/4HANA is also possible.
Administrators can configure duplicate check by maintaining weightages of parameters for the business
partners.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Duplicate Weighing for Business Partners .
Additionally, you can scope one the following questions under Business Configuration Implementation
Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions General Business Data Handling of Business
Partners :
You can now call custom logic to calculate duplicates for accounts and individual customers.
Note
Account merge function is available for corporate accounts, individual customers and contacts. This feature
allows master data teams to merge duplicate records into a single golden record.
● Manage multiple duplicate records for the same customer that may result in inconsistencies in the system.
● Create a golden master record from duplicate records for a single account.
● Re-assign open transactions and closed transactions related to the duplicate record to the golden record
(in case there are any open leads or opportunities.
During customer merge, system also reassigns transactions for the accounts. The rules determined for
transasction reassignment are listed here.
Transactions Description
Sales Orders All the Order where duplicate account is an involved party
should be re-parented to the master account .Orders which
could not be re-parented ( because of status or due to any
other technical reason) to master should be logged in the
Merge BO with appropriated error log entry in the applica
tion log so that the user can evaluate the issue
Activities ( Phone Call, Appointments, Tasks and Emails. All activities where duplicate account is an involved party
should be re-parented ( because of status or due to any
other technical reason)to the master account .appointments
which could not be re-parented to master should be logged
in the Merge BO with appropriated error log entry in the ap
plication log so that the user can evaluate the issue
Social Media Messages All social media messages attached to social profile of dupli
cate record will also move from duplicate Record to Master
post Merge
Sales Quotes All the sales quotes where duplicate account is an involved
party should be reparented
Find detailed information on the criteria that needs to be fulfilled for merging tabs in accounts.
Nodes Description
Relationships ● The system will merge the account team and relation
ship records from the duplicate account into master ac
count.
● If a relationship is marked as unique and exists in the
master record, the system will ignore the same record in
duplicate records. For unique relationships master ac
count will always take precedence. All relationships cop
ied from duplicate to master will be deleted from the du
plicate record. All non-unique relationships will be cop
ied over from the duplicate record to the master record.
● A new relationship ‘Is Replaced’ /’Replaces’ will be cre
ated between golden and duplicate record.
Account Team The system will merge the account team and relationship re
cords from the duplicate account into master account.
Sales Area All sales area information from the duplicate will be copied
over to the master account. If the sales area (Sales org, dis
tribution channel, division) information of the master ac
count also exist in the duplicate account, then the sales area
record will not be overwritten, the sales area details main
tained for the master record will take precedence.
Social Profiles If both master and duplicate record have social profile , then
copy the social profile from duplicate to master
EXAMPLE:
Marketing Permissions In general the final result after account merge will be a union
of values from all the accounts. In case of conflict the master
account wins.
Communication Category In general the final result after account merge will be a union
of values from all the accounts. In case of conflict the master
account wins.
Marketing Attributes In general the final result after account merge will be a union
of values from all the accounts. In case of conflict the master
account wins.
Accounts assume various statuses during customer merge. Find detailed information on these statuses in this
topic.
Status Description
Not Started This is the initial status and is set when the Merge object is
created and Merge process has not yet been triggered.
Merge In Process This is the status when the merge has been triggered either
from the web service call or manually from the UI. This sta
tus indicates that merge process has started.
Merge Failed This is the status when the merge operation of merging mas
ter and slave record has failed. The system will not attempt
any transaction reassignment in case the merging of dupli
cate records has failed.
Merge Completed - Realignment In Process This is the status when the merge of two customers has
been successfully completed and the re-parenting of trans
actions assigned to the duplicate record to master record
has started.
Merge Completed - Realignment Failed This is the status when the merge of two customers has
been completed and the reassignment of transactions has
failed.
The Result Log screen displays the application logs that are created by the system for each merge transaction.
The logs are displayed in a hierarchy. Click on the hyperlinked Application Log ID to see if the merge execution
resulted in errors, warnings or other information messages.
The Results section of the application log also displays for the errors, the reason why the transaction
reassignment failed. Re-trigger the merge using the Initiate action available on the customer merge list view.
Fix issues with errors in master data in the duplicate or obsolete business partner records. For example
multiple contracts appear with spelling errors in account name.
Note
2. Define the properties of the other duplicate business partners that should be used by the Master.
Note
View business partner merge details in the business object Changes tab.
Note
View Business Partner merge for an account in the Relationships tab of the revised (duplicate) account.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Scoping
Questions General Business Data Business Partners Handling of Business Partners and select the
scoping question Do you want to enable accounts merge?.
Note
SAP does not recommend configuring account merge if your customer master records are replicated with
an external system (that is SAP ERP and SAP CRM integration is scoped). This is because a merge
execution does not trigger a corresponding replication in the external system which may give rise to data
inconsistency.
In order to initiate merge, you must have the Data Cleansing work center view assigned to user. In this work
center view, click on New to trigger a manual merge. You can select a maximum of three customer records -
one master and two duplicate records to be merged. Note that this action can be initiated only if the merge
object is in one of the following statuses:
● Not Started
● Merge Failed
● Merge Completed
● Realignment Failed
For detailed troubleshooting information for customer merge, see the section - Account FAQs.
By default, the account merge fetches all open transactions of merged or obsolete records. If you need to also
fetch closed transactions, you must maintain the required configuration.
Administrators can maintain the configuration to include or exclude closed transactions of obsolete records in
account merge. To do this, select the scoping question - Do you want to enable enhanced document
realignment during account merge? under Business Configuration Implementation Project Your Project
Use insights from closed transaction history of obsolete records event without including closed transaction
history in account merge. This way you can leverage reporting to show complete picture of primary account.
The new datasource - Account Merge Master Link allows you to map primary record to obsolete records and
thus allows closed transaction history to be reported along with all other activities of primary record.
Use the new business add-in in SAP Cloud Application Studio to turn off address copy from duplicate to the
master record during the merge process. With this BAdI, you can also control what address lines of obsolete
records be copied to or excluded from the primary record.
Administrators can now differentiate between updates to an account triggered by merge or by standard change
process. This differentiation can be implemented using custom logic such that the custom logic is executed
only for change instances occuring due to merge.
An SAP Cloud Application Studio enabled business add-in - ControlCustomerMerge is provided for custom
extensions to the customer merge feature.
This BAdI is included in the business object - Customer and can be implemented to control the following:
● If addresses of the duplicate records must be copied to the master record during Phase 1 of the business
partner merge.
import AP.FO.BusinessPartner.Global;
var result : BadiCustomerMergeControlResult;
result.SkipAddressCopyToMaster = true;
return result;
● If the contact person relationship must be retained with the duplicate record after merge.
import AP.FO.BusinessPartner.Global;
var result : BadiCustomerMergeControlResult;
result.KeeepContactPersonRelationshipToNonMaster = true;
result.SkipAddressCopyToMaster = true;
return result;
The address data format is supported for most internationally accepted formats. Use maps and geo-tracking
using address validation to view and track accounts for sales transactions such as visits.
In the SAP Cloud for Customer standard system you can maintain addresses of customers in different scripts
like Arabic or Simplified Chinese along with Latin characters (Latin characters are used in international
system). You maintain address in the Address tab under Customers. Click on the Edit icon under Action in the
Addresses table to maintain address data.
Note
It is strongly recommended to use Latin as the default script. To use address versions that are not linked to
any scripts, use the address version - Any. This enables you to use any scripts in your system. Also use this
code to map and replicate address versions in SAP ERP, that are not linked to standard language scripts.
Example: To use this code, set the relevant local language or the chosen company language as the version
indicator Any and use it as the default address version.
● The address version is independent of the logon language (and vice-versa). The default character version
maintained in the business configuration is displayed in the customers.
Default as well as alternative versions to be configured Defaulted by system to International; Only alternative ver
sions need to be configured.
Note
In the on-premise system, the value International corre
sponds to Latin in the cloud for customer system. This is
because Latin characters are default for an international
system.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
International Address Versions and select all the countries in the list for which you need to maintain address
data. The activated scripts (for languages corresponding to the address versions) can be used to maintain
master data such as business partner name and address.
Note
You must also specify a default address version that will initially be displayed and that must be maintained
for every record. After the creation of name or address data for a non-default address version you cannot
change the default address version again.
Additionally, scope the question - Do you want to specify textual master data using international address
versions under Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope
Questions Built-in Services and Support Business Environment Addresses and Languages International
Address Versions.
Administrators can configure address check that validates addresses maintained in master data for business
partners and organizational units, during migration and data replication.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Address
Checks to enable address check. The system checks if address data, such as country, region, and postal
code length, is consistent. Inconsistent data leads to error messages and cannot be saved or activated.
To disable the address check, select the Allow Saving of Inconsistent Addresses checkbox. If you select the
checkbox below, you allow the saving of inconsistent addresses for master data. The check results will then be
shown as warnings, and the data will be saved.
Note
Administrators can turn off the country specific formatting for phone numbers to avoid issues during
replication of business partner addresses.
Country specific formatting ensures that if the recommended format for a phone (or mobile) number is not
maintained and the dialing code is not available, then system determines the dialing code from the postal
address. However, during migration or replication, if inbound phone numbers do have the country code but are
prefixed ‘00’ instead of the superior leading ‘+’, this may result in problems with migration. Use the scoping
question to suppress country formatting for such business needs.
Note
The recommended format to maintain a phone or mobile number is to start with a leading ‘+’ followed by
the country dialing code, for example, ‘+49 (6227) 7-47474’.
Under Customers Accounts and Visits Visit Planner , choose Map View to see the geographical
location of each of the addresses of the displayed accounts — both individually, and in relation to one another.
You can also zoom in, zoom out, and pan in any direction.
Note
In autonavi maps for accounts, pin color on the maps is determined using account role (customers and
prospects). Use this to identify and differentiate between customers and prospects in the map. Only two
account roles - Customer and Prospect are shown in colors. All other roles are represented using the
default pin color - blue.
Note
You can keep only one set of map active in the system. You can configure each map individually, or
configure a combination of Google and AutoNavi map. In the former case, the system will display only the
configured map. In the latter case, a toggle button will be available for you to switch to the map of your
choice. Note that you cannot combine a Bing Map with any other map. If both maps are active by accident,
mapping functionality in the HTML5 or the Fiori client, may not function properly.
Search for accounts or individual customers located nearby or within a map area. You can therefore search
within a map using the following options:
● Search Map Area - Within a selected map area, triggers a search for and pins on the map, all customers that
match search criteria.
● Search Nearby - Pins your current map location and triggers a search for customers nearby that match
search criteria.
Note
The Search Nearby and Search Map Area features work only for the accounts that are mapped using geo-
coordinate addresses (latitude and longitude). These features are not available for accounts that utilize
only address information (without geo-coordinates).
Note
An example for the format for latitude and longitude is given as follows: Latitude: 49,293393 and
Longitude: 8,641981.
Note
● The use of the Google Maps Service is subject to Google Terms of Service, which are written in http://
www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/ . If you do not accept such Terms of Service, including but
not limited to all limitations and restrictions therein, you may not be able to use Google Maps Service in
SAP Cloud for Customer. The use of Google Maps Service in or through SAP Cloud for Customer
constitutes your acceptance of Google Terms of Service, and it can be terminated by SAP without
reason at any time and SAP is not required to provide an equivalent service via another provider.
As a prerequisite, please create a support ticket to obtain and use the SAP API key for Google Maps.
● The use of AutoNavi Maps Service is subject to AutoNavi Terms of Service, which are written in http://
map.amap.com/doc/serviceitem.html . If you do not accept such Terms of Service, including but not
limited to all limitations and restrictions therein, you may not be able to use AutoNavi Maps Service in
SAP Cloud for Customer. The use of AutoNavi Maps Service in or through SAP Cloud for Customer
constitutes your acceptance of AutoNavi Terms of Service, and it can be terminated by SAP without
reason at any time and SAP is not required to provide an equivalent service via another provider.
As a prerequisite, please create a support ticket to obtain and use the SAP API key for AutoNavi Maps.
Address checks determine if address data such as country, region and postal code length is consistent. If you
enter inconsistent data, appropriate error message is displayed and you cannot save or activate the address
data.
Address validation services help validate, normalize, and geo-code addresses maintained for accounts and
individual customers. These services are licensed separately by SAP Data Quality Management (SAP DQM)
micro service that is hosted on SAP Cloud Platform. Implement this http based microservice ) also called Data
Quality as a Service, to integrate address validation feature within your SAP Cloud for Customer system.
Use
Note
Before implementing address validation service, you need to be aware of DQM billing for the API calls from
SAP Cloud for Customer . See the section Billing for DQM Service for Address Validation further below in
this topic.
You can validate addresses for accounts and individual customers in the following screens:
1. Account / Individual Customers Quick Create Screen: When you click Validate Address in the quick
create screen, the service displays a dialog with both the original as well as the proposed addresses. You
can choose to accept the proposal or further refine the address. The service also performs a duplicate
address check for the proposed address.
2. In the account Overview tab, use the actions menu to validate address data maintained in the account
header.
3. In the Address tab, select an address and click Validate Address icon in the table.
Administrators can configure address validation for geo tracking using standard microservices from SAP Cloud
Platform.
Prerequisite
When you purchase a license for the microservice, you are assigned a Request URL to access SAP DQM micro
services. The URL is unique to your data center on SAP Cloud Platform and is required to activate integration
with the SAP Cloud for Customer. You can access this URL under SCP Cockpit Services Data Quality
Services Application URL . Copy this URL to a notepad on your local machine. You assign this URL when
configuring the integration in your cloud for customer system.
1. Select the scoping question - Do you want to use the Address Validation service? under Business
Configuration Edit Project Scope Questions Built in Services and Support Business Environment
Addresses and Languages .
2. Create a communication system with name Address Validation (recommended name) under
Administrator General Settings Integration Communication Systems . Further, under Host Name,
enter the request URL.
Note
Request URL is the Application URL that you have copied under Data Quality Services in SAP Cloud
Platform. Enter the URL without leading Https:// and without trailing /dq/AddressCleanse (as
shown in the graphic below).
Note
Download this certificate to your local machine. Upload this certificate to SAP Cloud Platform.
○ Host Name: the request url you maintained in the communication system is defaulted here
Create a new communication scenario and assign the new communication arrangement to the new
communication scenario.
Upload the client certificate (that you have assigned to communication arrangement in Cloud for Customer
and downloaded to your local machine) to SAP Cloud Platform. For detailed documentation on importing client
certificate to SAP Cloud Platform and configuring client certificate authorization, see Client Certificate
Authorization.
The street address validation along with geo coding is enabled by default for each SAP Cloud for Customer to
SAP DQM micro service call. The following considerations apply as part of the address validation service:
For detailed information on billing for these API calls, refer to Billing/Usage Information (Per API Call)
Additional Information
For detailed information on enabling and configuring DQM Microservices, see the documentation under Data
Quality Management, microservices for location data (DQM microservices).
Alignment to org. units helps to cluster accounts within your sales organization. Further, use territories to
further distribute accounts within specific sales territories.
Accounts are often used within the purview of an org. structure. Therefore, create the necessary sales data
required for accounts within the org. structure of your company. Use territories, distribution channels and
divisions for accounts.
● Assign one or more sales organizations, distribution channels and divisions to an account.
● Use the sales area assignment to determine sales data in business transactions.
● Configure access restrictions based on sales area.
Sales Arrangement Data: In addition to the sales data, assign attributes for to an account, attributes for sales
arrangement in the account quick create dialog screen. SAP ERP offers sales arrangement data as mandatory
for account creation. This feature in your cloud solution allows for a seamless replication of account details to
your SAP ERP system. Also, since sales arrangement data is available during account creation, this data is
available for you to manage account restrictions too.
Administrators can configure account sales data that includes distribution channel, division, sales area
territory hierarchy level, price lists and price groups.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine Tune
Distribution Channel , to maintain distribution channels for your company. Additionally, assign the
distribution channel to the org. structure for your company using the work distribution maintenance.
Division
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Division to define divisions in your company.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine Tune
Sales Territory Hierarchy Level to create the root sales territory and other territory levels.
Related Information
Administrators can use the new workflow object for Sales Data to trigger workflows when modifications are
done to sales data of an account. For example, an account is assigned to a new sales area and you need to
inform users about this change. Create workflow rule to trigger a notification or send an e-mail to the account
owner or the territory team.
If a sales area from SAP ERP is set as Marked for Deletion and the same sales area is assigned to a transaction
in SAP Cloud for Customer, then the system displays a warning message to that effect.
Restrict sales data maintenance for accounts and employees using divisions. The field Distribution Channel has
been changed to Sales Data Restriction.
The tab Distribution Channel is renamed to Sales Data Restriction. The tab is only visible for org. units with the
Sales Organization function.
If values are entered in the Distribution Channel field, the system restricts the assignment of a distribution
channel and division to the sales organization in the sales data of an account or employee.
Note
Note
Maintain sales data restrictions for your sales organization by restricting division and distribution channel
values. If the restrictions are maintained, the applicable to customer and employee sales data maintenance.
Administrators can assign territory and create rules for territory based determination.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Territory Hierarchy Level to maintain territory hierarchy levels.
The customer cockpit is a central point of information for sales-relevant data about a customer, such as
address and communication data, key figures, and contact persons.
The customer cockpit is a central point of information for sales-relevant data about a customer, such as
address and communication data, key figures, and contact persons. If your cloud system is integrated with SAP
ERP system, you can launch the ERP cockpit ( Accounts Sales Data ERP Cockpit directly from an
account sales area view and edit transactions in ERP.
1. Search for ERP Account cockpit - SM00105 under Administrator Mash-up Authoring
2. Update the URL to connect to the SAP ERP system.
1. Login to ERP system SICF and execute ldai2q5e.wdf.sap.corp
2. Launch the ERP customer cockpit from your cloud for customer account to quickly edit transactions in
SAP ERP system.
Launch the SAP S/4HANA Customer 360 app from your system and get a complete overview of your
customers in S/4HANA backend system.
Launch this app in the Overview tab for customers under Actions Customer 360 Overview . Use this
connection to your S/4HANA system to:
Administrators can configure the connection to launch 360 overview for customers in your SAP S/4HANA
system.
Under Administrator Mashups , look for URL mashup with description - S/4 HANA 360 Object Page and
replace the dummy URL with the URL for your SAP S/4HANA system.
Administrators can configure social media to enable collaboration with customers and partners.
Your SAP Cloud for Social Engagement solution is delivered with the social media features available but hidden.
As an administrator, you need to enable the social media features of the solution using Adaptation Mode.
1. To enter adaptation mode click Adapt, then choose Enter Adaptation Mode.
2. Navigate to each of the screens listed below and make the screen edits indicated for each.
1. When you're on the screen you want to edit, click Adapt, then choose Edit Screen.
2. Add or remove elements on the Screen Layout tab.
3. Save your changes.
You can test your changes before publishing.
4. When you're finished with your changes you can publish them to make them visible to all users.
Service and Social Administrator Service Under Sections, check the You need to make this change be
Settings box for Social Media to make fore you can set up any social me
and Social Settings
it visible. dia channels in your system.
Individual Customer ● Under Sections, check You need to have at least one cus
Customers Individual
the box for Social tomer record in the system before
Customers then choose a
Information to make it you'll be able to adapt the details
customer to open the details
visible. screen.
screen
With Social Information
selected, under Fields,
ensure the boxes are
checked for Facebook
and Twitter.
● Under Sections, select
Tabs, then in the lower
list, select Social Media
Messages and Social
Profiles.
Related Information
An out-of-the box bi-directional replication with SAP Master Data Governance (MDG) is now available for use in
business partner merge scenarios.
● In the event of a business partner cleansing and consolidation process in SAP MDG, a merge case is
created in SAP Cloud for Customer.
● SAP Cloud for Customer executes merge process and automatically marks the oldest available record
(using creation date) as golden record.
Find a new section - LinkedIn Sales Navigator in the Overview tab and Contacts tab for accounts and contacts
and in the buying center. Click Sign-In in this section to navigate to linkedIn to find relationships and key
contacts. Use the rich LinkedIn profile data to record activities with prospects and customers, view recent
activities of your contacts and find a topic of interest to help you start a conversation with your prospects.
The LinkedIn Sales Navigator uses basic information such as first name, last name, email address, job title, and
company name to find the correct company or person on LinkedIn. You can also perform a search if you are
unable to find appropriate contacts or customers. For your contacts, the Save as Lead option in the widget
allows you to save the person as a lead in the LinkedIn Sales Navigator. Such leads are not recorded in SAP
Cloud for Customer. In addition to basic information mentioned above, there is no further data exchange
between SAP Cloud for Customer and LinkedIn.
Note
If you have signed in to LinkedIn with a different account, you are automatically signed in with that
account. To re-login with the standard account, first clear your previous browsing cookies.
Administrators can enable Sales Navigator to allow users to look up LinkedIn information of an account or a
contact.
Note
Sales Navigator Enterprise licenses are required from LinkedIn to use this feature.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Communication and Information Exchange Integration with External Applications and Solutions Integration
with LinkedIn Sales Navigator to find the corresponding scoping question.
This topic presents an overview of features supported for accounts in offline mode. Accounts create, edit and
display is supported in the offline mode.
Note
CONTACTS
Offline Scope
Edit (directly/
via actions/via
Tab Section Field Create Default Display navigation)
Role Y Y Y N
Name Y N Y Y
Additional Y N Y Y
Name
Additional Y Y
Name 2
Additional Y Y
Name 3
Prospect Y Y
Role Y Y Y Y
Country Y N Y Y
PO Box Y Y
PO Box ad Y Y
dress
PO Postal Y Y
Code
Edit (directly/
via actions/via
Tab Section Field Create Default Display navigation)
Time Zone Y Y
C/O Y Y
address Y Y
Line 1
address Y Y
Line 2
House Num Y N Y Y
ber
Street Y N Y Y
address Y Y
Line 4
address Y Y
Line 5
City Y N Y Y
State Y N Y Y
Postal Code Y N Y Y
Primary Y Y
Contact
Phone Y N Y Y
ABC Classi Y N Y Y
fication
Fax Y N Y Y
Email Y N Y Y
WebSite Y N Y Y
Owner Y N Y Y
Language Y N Y Y
Mobile Y N Y Y
Edit (directly/
via actions/via
Tab Section Field Create Default Display navigation)
Top Level Y N
Owner
Legal Form Y
Industry Y N Y Y
Active Pipe Y N
line
Permission Y N
YTD Reveue Y N
Account ID Y N Y N
External ID Y N
External Y N
System
Created on Y N
Created By Y N
Changed on Y N
Changed by Y N
Duns Y N
Order Block Y N
Delivery Y N
Block
Billing Block Y N
Sales Su Y Y
port Block
Notes N N
Prospect In Y Y
dicator
Edit (directly/
via actions/via
Tab Section Field Create Default Display navigation)
Parent Ac Y N
count
Country Y N
Mobile Y N
Duns Num Y N
ber
Contact Per Y N
mission
Language Y N
Extension Y N
Fields
Distribution Y NA
Channel
Division Y NA
Sales Office Y NA
Sales Group Y NA
Distribution Y N
Channel
Division Y N
Sales office Y Y
Customer Y Y
Group
Delivery Pri Y Y
ority
Order Block Y Y
Edit (directly/
via actions/via
Tab Section Field Create Default Display navigation)
Delivery Y Y
Block
Billing Block Y Y
Sales Sup Y Y
port Block
Sales Group Y Y
Incoterms Y Y
Incoterm Y Y
Location
Currency Y Y
Status Y Y
Start Date/ Y Y
Time
Owner Y Y
Primary Y Y
Contacts
Tasks Subject Y Y
Status Y Y
Start Date/ Y Y
Time
Owner Y Y
Primary Y Y
Contacts
Status Y Y
Edit (directly/
via actions/via
Tab Section Field Create Default Display navigation)
Start Date/ Y Y
Time
Owner Y Y
Primary Y Y
Contacts
E-Mails Subject N N
Status N N
Start Date/ N N
Time
Owner N N
Primary N N
Contacts
Close Date Y Y
Sales Phase Y Y
Owner Y Y
Status Y Y
Progress Y Y
Job Title Y Y
Function Y Y
Department Y Y
Phone Y Y
Fax Y Y
Edit (directly/
via actions/via
Tab Section Field Create Default Display navigation)
Phone Y Y
Fax Y Y
Main Y Y
Action Y Y
Business Y Y
Partner
Address Y Y
Action Y Y
Status Y Y
Owner Y Y
Primary Y Y
Contacts
Phone Y Y
Last Visited Y N
Next Plan Y N
ned Visit
Visit Before Y N
Promotions N NA
Sales Or N N
ders
Product List N NA
Edit (directly/
via actions/via
Tab Section Field Create Default Display navigation)
Charts N NA
Service Re N N
quests
Attach N NA
ments
Account N N
Team
Account Hi N NA
erarchies
Leads N N
Campaign N NA
Sales N N
Quotes
Visit Hours N NA
Installed N Y N
Base
Marketing N N
Attributes
Service con NA
tracts
Sales Terri NA NA
tory
Feed NA NA
Target NA NA
Group
Sales leads NA NA
Registered N Y NA
Products
Edit (directly/
via actions/via
Tab Section Field Create Default Display navigation)
Recent Or NA NA
ders
Groups NA NA
Survey re NA NA
sults
External Fol NA NA
lowup Docu
ment
Offline Action
Opportunities New Y
Visits New Y
Global Block N
Set to Obsolete N
Derive Territory N
International Version N
Customer merge can fail under very few conditions, primarily in case of the customer being open in edit mode
by another user ( locked for editing) or in case there are any PDI validations that result in failure.
Transaction re-parenting from duplicate to master record can fail for many reasons. The primary reasons can
be as follows:-
1. Transaction status does not allow any modification, for example, a service ticket that is in status Confirmed
or Completed cannot be modified on the user interface. Hence a confirmed service ticket cannot be re-
parented during merge process.
2. Another case could be that the transaction is in-approval status like sales quote in approval.
3. Validation in SAP Cloud Applications Studio fails and results in error.
4. Transaction was locked by another user during the merge process and hence could not be modified.
Navigate to the merge details view and click on the Transactions screen. This lists the transactions along with
transaction type which could not be re-parented.
3.13.4 Where can I see the reason why the merge has failed
for a particular transaction?
Navigate to the merge details view and click on the Result Log screen. You will see a Results table. Select the
entry with the status Error and click on Application log ID. In the application log view , click on Results Log
screen. This view lists all the errors which prevented the customer merge or transaction re-parenting.
Navigate to the Data Cleansing work center and customer merge data set. Select the merge instance that has
failed and then click on Initiate. You will observe that the status will change to Merge In Process. The system will
retry merging the customer instances.
Lead generation and management is the first step of your sales and marketing process. In this step, you can
capture any interest in your products and services, and qualify and nurture the interest to turn your potential
customers into real clients.
Leads can come from a wide range of sources. It can be as simple as a customer inquiry on the phone or an
active participation in your email campaign. With SAP Cloud for Customer, you can add a lead into your system
easily. Imagine that you are at a trade show. Someone comes to your booth to seek more information about
your products. You shake hands and exchange business cards. After the conversation, you can just take out
your phone and create the lead on the site by scanning that business card. The solution also allows you to
import a large quantity of leads at once using Microsoft Excel or SAP Cloud for Customer's APIs.
Lead nurturing refines your prospects. To increase your business efficiency, you may just want to focus on the
leads that have a higher chance to be converted to sales opportunities. SAP Cloud for Customer equips you
with a variety of tools that help you score, qualify, and identify leads that are more likely to make a purchase.
Scoping questions and fine-tuning activities that are self-explanatory may not be included in this list.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Scoping
Sales Lead Management and check the box next to the scoping item for using leads.
Administrators can specify the range of numbers that the ID of the lead records can take.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Leads Number Range Maintain Number Range to specify the numbers.
Administrators can maintain involved parties for leads by assigning party roles and using determination rules.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Leads Involved Parties Maintain Involved Parties to edit your involved parties.
Administrators can maintain sources that capture the origin of your leads.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Leads Sources Maintain Sources to edit your sources.
Administrators can maintain categories that classify your elements such as leads and opportunities.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Leads Categories Maintain Categories to edit your categories.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Leads Assignment of Categories Assign Categories to assign your categories.
Administrators can maintain qualifications that classify leads in terms of how promising they are for your
business.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Leads Qualifications Maintain Qualifications to edit your qualifications.
Administrators can customize lead statuses and define conversion actions for each status.
Context
Procedure
1. Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Leads Status Maintain Status .
2. Click Add Row to create a new status.
3. Enter a number as Sort Sequence. It determines where the new status appears in the drop-down list of
your lead status and has no influence on how leads are processed.
4. Specify the Status Code. Customized status codes must begin with the identifier Z.
5. Select an Internal Status in which your new status will be active. A customized status should always be
connected to a pre-delivered status and follow the internal logic that particular status represents.
6. Give a name to your new status in the Description field.
7. Decide whether your new status should be the initial status for newly created leads.
Note
Note
You cannot delete a pre-delivered status, but you can deselect the Active checkbox. In response, the
status will no longer appear, and users cannot search for leads with this status. However, leads that are
assigned to this status will continue to display it.
You can remove a customized status only when it is not in use in the application.
Administrators can maintain reasons that specify why a status has been set.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Leads Reasons Maintain Reasons to edit your reasons.
Administrators can activate reasons for applicable lead statuses via assignment.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Leads Assignment of Reasons Assign Reasons to assign your reasons.
Administrators can specify how many times a lead can be converted into an opportunity.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Leads Maintain Conversion Limit to specify the number of times.
Administrators can upgrade or downgrade the severity level of system messages in leads.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Leads Messages Message Severity Configuration to edit message severity.
Administrators can enable a multi-step approval process for leads through configuration.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales Lead Management Leads to find the corresponding scoping question and enable detailed process
configuration in Administrator Approval Processes .
Administrators can enable users to create a lead without contact information through configuration.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales Lead Management Leads to find the corresponding scoping question.
Administrators can set up the solution to stop capturing lead versions or major changes that allow users to
check lead progression in data source over time.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales Lead Management Leads to find the corresponding scoping question.
Note
The information tracked in the data source contains more details than the standard change history seen
under the Changes tab in a lead. You can use the lead history data source CODMKLEAHHB to create a
report in Business Analytics and gain insights into the lead lifecycle.
Administrators can enable and configure lead aging notifications in scoping and fine-tuning activities.
Context
Administrators must scope the feature before you can configure it.
Tip
We recommend that you trigger lead aging notifications only when relevant, for better system
performance.
2. Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Lead Aging Duration to define the duration for a lead to remain in an unqualified status, beyond which
the lead aging notification will be triggered.
3. Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Business Task Management for Expiration of Lead Aging Alert to define system notification details for
an aged lead.
Administrators can set up the solution to use an existing account as default for lead creation.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales Lead Management Leads to find the corresponding scoping question.
Administrators can restrict specific business roles to create leads using existing accounts only.
Context
Users assigned to roles with this restriction must use an existing account for lead creation.
Administrators can authorize specific business roles to create leads for individual customers only.
Context
Users assigned to roles with this restriction can create leads as individual customers only.
Administrators can enable and configure lead duplicate check in scoping and fine-tuning activities.
Context
Administrators must scope the feature before you can configure it.
Procedure
You can assign Weighting to available lead fields. The higher the weightage for the field, the more
importance is placed on the field when the solution finds duplicates.
You can also enable Duplicate Check for Mass Import for your users when they upload leads from a
spreadsheet or use A2X services. You can configure the Overall Threshold. The threshold defines the
similarity of the match, beyond which a lead will not be imported as a duplicate.
Administrators can enable users to see and change earlier versions of lead notes through configuration.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales Lead Management Leads to find the two corresponding scoping questions.
Administrators can set up the solution to keep sales area data when a lead is converted to an account, or an
account and contact. Sales area data include sales organization, sales group, sales office, distribution channel,
and division.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales Lead Management Leads to find the corresponding scoping question.
Administrators can enable users to select a combination of sales area data including sales organization,
distribution channel, and division during lead creation. The combinations need to be predefined in either or
both of the matching account and employee in the Accounts and Employees work centers.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales Lead Management Leads to find the corresponding scoping question.
Administrators can enable users to reopen accepted or declined leads through configuration.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales Lead Management Leads to find the corresponding scoping question.
Administrators can enable users to create leads with references to previously sold products through
configuration.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales Lead Management Leads to find the corresponding scoping question.
Administrators can set up the solution to retain the current lead status when a qualification level is set.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales Lead Management Leads to find the corresponding scoping question and decouple lead status and
qualification level.
Context
Once the routing rules are defined, leads will be automatically assigned to owners, marketing units, and
territories upon lead creation.
Note
Procedure
1. Go to Administrator Sales and Campaign Settings Define Rules for Lead Assignment to launch the
rules table.
2. If it is your first time to create rules, use Adapt Columns to set up the rules table. You can have up to 20
columns in the table, including last three result columns, Owner, Marketing Unit, and Territory.
We recommend that you remove any unwanted columns and only keep required ones as extra columns
can impact performance.
3. Choose Insert Row above the rules table. A new row with an asterisk in each field will be added to the table.
You can add values to more than one field in a row. The fields in one row evaluate as a logical AND
relationship, which means the field values must all evaluate to true in order for the rule to evaluate to true.
4. Click the asterisk symbol in a cell to enter a value for that field. The rules table offers a variety of logical
operators to define your values.
Tip
We recommend that you take full advantage of operators to consolidate your rules for better system
performance.
For example, if your rules determine assignments based on zip codes, you can use the Between
operator to set up a range of zip codes in sequence, or you can use the Include operator to group zip
codes that have the same prefix.
The rows in the rules table evaluate as a logical OR relationship. The system will compare each rule from
top to bottom until it finds one match, which suggests that the most specific rule should be placed at the
top of the table and generic ones should be near the bottom.
You can rearrange rows by selecting the row and clicking Swap.
6. Click Save when you finish.
7. Click Activate Rules.
For your updated rules, unless you reactivate them, otherwise the previous rule sets will continue to
execute.
Administrators must enable lead routing to territories before using it in lead routing rules.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales Lead Management Leads to find the corresponding question and enable assigning leads to
territories.
Remember
You can see the Territory column in the lead routing rules table, regardless of scoping. However, the lead
routing rules will not assign your leads to territories until you enable it.
Administrators can define when automatic lead routing needs to be triggered using workflow rules.
Context
By default, activated lead routing rules automatically execute upon lead creation. By using workflow rules,
administrators can also set up the solution to run lead routing on saving a lead or on a customized schedule.
Procedure
This selection decides when your rule, in this case Assign Leads Using Rules, will be triggered.
5. (Optional) Define conditions which you can also configure in the routing rules table.
6. For Rule Type, choose Action and select Assign Leads Using Rules.
7. Review and activate your workflow rule.
Local administrators can be assigned to geographical areas for which they can create rules.
Context
Only administrators with global access rights can create and edit lead routing restrictions for local
administrators.
Procedure
1. Go to Administrator Sales and Campaign Settings Define Rules for Lead Assignment to launch the
rules table.
Administrators can use workflow rules to define when leads or opportunities can be automatically refreshed to
obtain an updated list of to-do surveys and tasks.
Prerequisites
As administrators, you should have defined activity plans and routing rules in the Activity Planner work center.
Note
For each survey or task to be routed, the Assign Automatically option must be checked during the creation
of the activity plan.
Context
By using workflow rules, applicable activity plans can be assigned on creating or saving a lead or an
opportunity, or on a customized schedule.
Procedure
This selection decides when your rule, in this case Refresh from Activity Plan, is triggered.
5. (Optional) Define conditions which you can also configure in the Routing Rules section in the Activity
Planner work center.
6. For Rule Type, choose Action and select Refresh from Activity Plan.
Administrators can enable LinkedIn Sales Navigator to allow users to look up publicly available LinkedIn profile
information of an account or a contact.
Note
A LinkedIn Sales Navigator Team or Enterprise license is required to use this feature. You can sign up for a
free trial here .
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Communication and Information Exchange Integration with External Applications and Solutions Integration
with LinkedIn Sales Navigator to find the corresponding scoping question.
Administrators can enable Business Card Scanner so users can capture leads on their mobile devices.
Prerequisites
The appropriate number of licenses for business card scans are required from ABBYY, a non-SAP site at http://
cloud.ocrsdk.com
Note
This software uses ABBYY® FineReader® Engine 11 recognition technologies © 2013, ABBYY Production LLC.
ABBYY and FINEREADER are trademarks of ABBYY Software Ltd., which may be registered in some
jurisdictions.
Procedure
1. Log on to your SAP solution and go to Administrator Business Flexibility Mashup Web Services
Business Card Scanner Service .
2. Click Enter API Keys.
3. Click Show API Keys.
Admnistrators can enable and configure deal finder to help users identify most promising leads.
Note
As a prerequisite, machine learning powered by SAP Leonardo must be enabled so that lead scores can be
calculated in deal finder. For more information, see Machine Learning in SAP Cloud for Customer on the
Help Portal at https://help.sap.com/viewer/p/SAP_HYBRIS_CLOUD_FOR_CUSTOMER
Administrators must add the deal finder tile to the home page to allow users with appropriate roles to access
deal finder.
Save Queries
Administrators must add at least one query with topics as the search parameter for users to see topics in deal
finder.
Note
You can only delete leads that have not been converted.
By default, leads can be deleted by users. As an administrator, if your company does not allow leads to be
deleted, you can Adapt all user screens and hide the delete function.
If you want to allow only a few selected users to delete leads, you can define those using the appropriate access
restrictions.
Administrators can remove personal data from a business object to ensure compliance with the applicable data
protection requirements.
Note
Depersonalization is only available to administrators with access to the Data Protection and Privacy work
center.
In leads, depersonalization triggers a deletion. Once a lead is depersonalized, you can go to Administrators
General Settings Data Management Deleted Data to view the deleted record. You cannot depersonalize a
lead if it contains a person that is blocked for removal.
In case you need to retain certain information, you can download relevant data using OData or Data Workbench
prior to depersonalization.
Note
When employees and contacts are removed from an account, the associated business transactions such as
leads and deal registration are also deleted by default. If needed, administrators can restrict personal data
deletion to the individual level. The transactions remain, allowing sales users to see the complete
information about the customer.
Leads can be generated from different sources such as marketing campaigns, referrals, and social media. Any
unprocessed contact or company information you collect can become a lead. SAP Cloud for Customer offers
you full flexibility to create, track, and follow up on your leads.
You can also add existing or create new relevant leads as reference to the current lead under the Related Leads
tab.
Note
You can only add related leads to a lead that is not converted, or a lead that is converted yet has not
reached maximum conversion limit.
Procedure
1. From your profile menu at the top right, go to the Download section.
2. Download the Add-In for Microsoft Excel.
4. Go to Sales Leads , and click the More icon at the bottom right.
5. Click Import from Microsoft Excel.
6. Open the Microsoft Excel template locally and log in with SAP Cloud for Customer credentials.
7. You can either manually type in or copy and paste your leads information from another spreadsheet.
8. If you have downloaded the add-in, saving the spreadsheet will update your leads in the solution
simultaneously.
Edit multiple leads directly in the list, which saves your effort in going to the detail view of each lead to make
changes.
To enable the feature in Fiori Client, go to Key User Settings Company Setting Enable Editing in Dataset
in Fiori Client.
Once the feature is enabled, you can click the pencil icon in the upper right corner to switch to the edit mode.
Users can filter the worklist that needs to be changed and directly change data in the work list without
navigating to the detailed view.
Note
You can create a lead on the spot using Business Card Scanner on your mobile device.
Prerequisites
Note
The optical character recognition license is required from ABBYY to use this feature.
This software uses ABBYY® FineReader® Engine 11 recognition technologies © 2013, ABBYY Production LLC.
ABBYY and FINEREADER are trademarks of ABBYY Software Ltd., which may be registered in some
jurisdictions.
Procedure
Tip
If the country of your contact is not recognizable from the business card, a popup for manual input will
display. The country information will be required if you intend to use SAP Data Quality Management
services to cleanse and improve your data.
Administrators can enable Business Card Scanner so users can capture leads on their mobile devices.
Prerequisites
The appropriate number of licenses for business card scans are required from ABBYY, a non-SAP site at http://
cloud.ocrsdk.com
Note
This software uses ABBYY® FineReader® Engine 11 recognition technologies © 2013, ABBYY Production LLC.
ABBYY and FINEREADER are trademarks of ABBYY Software Ltd., which may be registered in some
jurisdictions.
Procedure
1. Log on to your SAP solution and go to Administrator Business Flexibility Mashup Web Services
Business Card Scanner Service .
2. Click Enter API Keys.
3. Click Show API Keys.
4. Enter the username and password that you received from ABBYY.
5. Save your entries.
6. Back on the Web Mashup Services screen, select the row of Business Card Scanner Service and activate it.
Lead duplicate check is a combination of account duplicate check and lead duplicate check.
Note
As prerequisites, your administrator must enable and configure both business partner duplicate check and
lead duplicate check.
You can also check for duplicates when performing a mass upload of leads from a spreadsheet or using
A2X services, provided your administrator has enabled this functionality. After you import leads and save
the changes, if any duplicate leads, accounts, or contacts exist, an error displays. This error message tells
you which leads were not imported due to duplication.
● Lead duplicate check during lead conversion
During lead conversion, a duplicate check is executed to find potential matches against accounts and
contacts that already exist in the system. Select a potential match, and review its account and contact
details below the duplicate check results. When you decide to convert the lead using the existing account
and contact, click the check mark in the Accept column.
Your administrator must Adapt the layout and add fields that need to be reviewed.
Administrators can enable and configure lead duplicate check in scoping and fine-tuning activities.
Context
Administrators must scope the feature before you can configure it.
Procedure
2. Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Lead Duplicate Check to configure duplicate check details.
You can assign Weighting to available lead fields. The higher the weightage for the field, the more
importance is placed on the field when the solution finds duplicates.
You can also enable Duplicate Check for Mass Import for your users when they upload leads from a
spreadsheet or use A2X services. You can configure the Overall Threshold. The threshold defines the
similarity of the match, beyond which a lead will not be imported as a duplicate.
Leads are often assigned automatically upon creation, provided the lead routing rules have been defined by
your administrators. If there is no rule applicable, you own all the leads you create.
Administrators can use workflow rules to trigger automatic lead routing not only upon lead creation, but also
on saving a lead or on a customized schedule. As users, you can manually add or change lead assignment
details including owners, marketing units, and territories. You can also manually trigger lead routing to update
exisitng lead assignments.
If you have a group of sales representatives collaborating on one lead, you can add those employees to the
Sales & Marketing Team tab in the lead.
You can reassign your leads using routing rules defined by your administrators.
Context
Lead routing rules can automatically take place upon different triggers, depending on how your administrators
have configured them. For existing lead assignments that need to be updated, users can follow the steps below
to manually trigger lead routing.
Procedure
The Owner, Marketing Unit, and Territory details under leads will be updated as a result of rules.
Context
Once the routing rules are defined, leads will be automatically assigned to owners, marketing units, and
territories upon lead creation.
Note
Procedure
1. Go to Administrator Sales and Campaign Settings Define Rules for Lead Assignment to launch the
rules table.
2. If it is your first time to create rules, use Adapt Columns to set up the rules table. You can have up to 20
columns in the table, including last three result columns, Owner, Marketing Unit, and Territory.
We recommend that you remove any unwanted columns and only keep required ones as extra columns
can impact performance.
3. Choose Insert Row above the rules table. A new row with an asterisk in each field will be added to the table.
You can add values to more than one field in a row. The fields in one row evaluate as a logical AND
relationship, which means the field values must all evaluate to true in order for the rule to evaluate to true.
4. Click the asterisk symbol in a cell to enter a value for that field. The rules table offers a variety of logical
operators to define your values.
Tip
We recommend that you take full advantage of operators to consolidate your rules for better system
performance.
For example, if your rules determine assignments based on zip codes, you can use the Between
operator to set up a range of zip codes in sequence, or you can use the Include operator to group zip
codes that have the same prefix.
The rows in the rules table evaluate as a logical OR relationship. The system will compare each rule from
top to bottom until it finds one match, which suggests that the most specific rule should be placed at the
top of the table and generic ones should be near the bottom.
You can rearrange rows by selecting the row and clicking Swap.
6. Click Save when you finish.
7. Click Activate Rules.
For your updated rules, unless you reactivate them, otherwise the previous rule sets will continue to
execute.
Administrators must enable lead routing to territories before using it in lead routing rules.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales Lead Management Leads to find the corresponding question and enable assigning leads to
territories.
Remember
You can see the Territory column in the lead routing rules table, regardless of scoping. However, the lead
routing rules will not assign your leads to territories until you enable it.
Administrators can define when automatic lead routing needs to be triggered using workflow rules.
Context
By default, activated lead routing rules automatically execute upon lead creation. By using workflow rules,
administrators can also set up the solution to run lead routing on saving a lead or on a customized schedule.
Procedure
This selection decides when your rule, in this case Assign Leads Using Rules, will be triggered.
5. (Optional) Define conditions which you can also configure in the routing rules table.
6. For Rule Type, choose Action and select Assign Leads Using Rules.
7. Review and activate your workflow rule.
Local administrators can be assigned to geographical areas for which they can create rules.
Context
Only administrators with global access rights can create and edit lead routing restrictions for local
administrators.
Procedure
1. Go to Administrator Sales and Campaign Settings Define Rules for Lead Assignment to launch the
rules table.
From a lead, you can go to contact person value help to create and assign a new contact for the lead. The New
Contact action is visible without additional configuration.
Lead nurturing is the process of developing relationships with your buyers through every step of their journeys.
It focuses communication efforts on listening to the needs of your prospects, providing right information, and
responding to their needs.
The solution provides five pre-delivered statuses to help you identify where your contacts and companies are in
the sales pipeline.
You may need to specify a reason to indicate why a status has been set, depending on how your administrators
have configured it.
Administrators can customize lead statuses and define conversion actions for each status.
Context
Procedure
1. Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Leads Status Maintain Status .
2. Click Add Row to create a new status.
3. Enter a number as Sort Sequence. It determines where the new status appears in the drop-down list of
your lead status and has no influence on how leads are processed.
4. Specify the Status Code. Customized status codes must begin with the identifier Z.
5. Select an Internal Status in which your new status will be active. A customized status should always be
connected to a pre-delivered status and follow the internal logic that particular status represents.
6. Give a name to your new status in the Description field.
7. Decide whether your new status should be the initial status for newly created leads.
Note
Note
You cannot delete a pre-delivered status, but you can deselect the Active checkbox. In response, the
status will no longer appear, and users cannot search for leads with this status. However, leads that are
assigned to this status will continue to display it.
You can remove a customized status only when it is not in use in the application.
Administrators can maintain reasons that specify why a status has been set.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Leads Reasons Maintain Reasons to edit your reasons.
Administrators can activate reasons for applicable lead statuses via assignment.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Leads Assignment of Reasons Assign Reasons to assign your reasons.
Administrators can enable users to reopen accepted or declined leads through configuration.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales Lead Management Leads to find the corresponding scoping question.
Administrators can set up the solution to retain the current lead status when a qualification level is set.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales Lead Management Leads to find the corresponding scoping question and decouple lead status and
qualification level.
Lead qualification is a process where you figure out what your prospects need and how likely they will purchase
your products or services.
Administrators can maintain qualifications that classify leads in terms of how promising they are for your
business.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Leads Qualifications Maintain Qualifications to edit your qualifications.
Administrators can set up the solution to retain the current lead status when a qualification level is set.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales Lead Management Leads to find the corresponding scoping question and decouple lead status and
qualification level.
You may have mandatory or voluntary activity plans such as surveys and tasks predefined and assigned by
your administrators to help you qualify your leads.
In the Activity Planner work center, your administrators can enable automatic assignment for activity plans
during creation and define routing rules.
For activity plans that cannot be automatically assigned, you can manually add applicable surveys under the
Surveys tab and tasks under the Activities tab in a lead.
Related Information
You can obtain most current surveys and tasks assigned to your leads or opportunities by refreshing.
Prerequisites
Your administrators have defined activity plans and routing rules in the Activity Planner work center.
Note
For each survey or task to be routed, the Assign Automatically option must be checked during the creation
of the activity plan.
Context
Your administrators can define when applicable activity plans can be automatically assigned to leads or
opportunities using workflow rules. As users, you also can follow the steps below to manually trigger the
routing.
Procedure
Your applicable surveys and tasks appear under the Surveys and Activities tabs as a result of rules.
Administrators can use workflow rules to define when leads or opportunities can be automatically refreshed to
obtain an updated list of to-do surveys and tasks.
Prerequisites
As administrators, you should have defined activity plans and routing rules in the Activity Planner work center.
Note
For each survey or task to be routed, the Assign Automatically option must be checked during the creation
of the activity plan.
Context
By using workflow rules, applicable activity plans can be assigned on creating or saving a lead or an
opportunity, or on a customized schedule.
Procedure
This selection decides when your rule, in this case Refresh from Activity Plan, is triggered.
5. (Optional) Define conditions which you can also configure in the Routing Rules section in the Activity
Planner work center.
6. For Rule Type, choose Action and select Refresh from Activity Plan.
7. Review and activate your workflow rule.
You can create leads with references to previously sold products or services. Those references can help qualify
leads in senarios such as cross, up, and down selling, and offering renewal services.
Once your administrators have enabled the feature, you can add registered products to your leads, create leads
from registered products, and report on leads with references to registered products.
● During lead creation, you can select Serial ID, Associated Product (Reg. Product), Installation Point, and
Installed Base to include a registered product, and it automatically becomes the primary registered
product for that lead.
Note
The registered product fields are only available when you create a lead using an existing account.
● In the detail view of a lead with an existing account, you can go to the Registered Products tab to add more
registered products.
● Registered products can also be connected to a lead using web services such as A2X and OData, or via
data upload using Data Workbench.
If the fields are not visible, you can use Personalization or ask your administrators to Adapt the layout.
When you convert a lead to an opportunity, the registered product information will be carried over.
You can create a lead from a registered product to increase your wallet share from an existing product.
● In the Registered Products work center, you can select one or multiple relevant registered products from
the list, and create a New Lead from the More option at the bottom right. When the lead quick create
screen opens, the registered products pane will be automatically populated with values of the highlighted
registered products.
You can use the data sources below to create your reports regarding registered products, as well as installation
points and installed bases.
CODMKLEAREGPRDGENU Contains all the installed objects of leads. It allows you to an
alyze installed objects of leads.
Administrators can enable users to create leads with references to previously sold products through
configuration.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales Lead Management Leads to find the corresponding scoping question.
A copy of a lead or a follow-up transaction also copies its assigned installation point/registered product.
Lead scoring is a method used to rank your leads and help you identify most valuable prospects.
● Survey scores
Your administrators can assign you with surveys such as a screening checklist or a qualification
questionnaire to help you better understand your leads. The survey results are measured as scores, based
on which you can prioritize your prospects.
● Engagement scores
Your administrators can assign point values to different actions that are triggered during a marketing
campaign. The point total is described as an engagement score, based on which you can get a better idea
of how engaging and qualified your lead is.
● Lead scores
Lead scoring uses a machine learning model that is trained on your historical sales data to find patterns
and key contributors that predict the likelihood of conversion.
● Deal Finder
The deal finder offers a predictively scored and ranked list of incoming leads based on their likelihood of
conversion, which helps you decide the order in which to enagage your prospects.
Related Information
The deal finder offers a predictively scored, ranked list of incoming leads based on their likelihood of
conversion, which helps you decide the order in which to enagage your prospects.
In the deal finder, depending on how your administrators have configured it, you can see queries with different
topics of interest. For example, your administrators may have identified hot leads, or leads that have existing
accounts, for you to review.
Leads in the deal finder are sorted according to their predictive scores. The scoring is driven by machine
learning powered by SAP Leonardo, with which you can also view key factors that impact the resulting scores
Admnistrators can enable and configure deal finder to help users identify most promising leads.
Note
As a prerequisite, machine learning powered by SAP Leonardo must be enabled so that lead scores can be
calculated in deal finder. For more information, see Machine Learning in SAP Cloud for Customer on the
Help Portal at https://help.sap.com/viewer/p/SAP_HYBRIS_CLOUD_FOR_CUSTOMER
Administrators must add the deal finder tile to the home page to allow users with appropriate roles to access
deal finder.
Administrators must add at least one query with topics as the search parameter for users to see topics in deal
finder.
LinkedIn Sales Navigator iframes are embedded in the Overview and Contacts tabs in your leads, opportunities,
buying center, accounts, and contacts. In the overview tab, Sales Navigator gives you information about the
company. When a contact is selected, Sales Navigator shows you a profile about the person. You may see your
contacts' recent activities and find a topic of interest to help you start a conversation with your prospects. Or,
you may find someone you know to introduce you directly to your potential customers.
LinkedIn Sales Navigator uses basic information such as first name, last name, e-mail address, job title, and
company name to find the correct company or person on LinkedIn. In case the result is not the one that you are
To use this feature, you must allow browser cookies from LinkedIn.
● In Google Chrome, go to Settings Advanced Privacy and security Content settings Cookies
Allow and add [*.]linkedin.com.
● In Internet Explorer, go to Internet Options Security Trusted sites Sites and add http://
linkedin.com.
Note
You need a LinkedIn Sales Navigator Team or Enterprise account to use this feature. However, if you have
previously signed in to LinkedIn with a different account on your computer, you may be automatically
signed in with that account. To relogin with the standard account, you must first clear your previous
browsing cookies.
Administrators can enable LinkedIn Sales Navigator to allow users to look up publicly available LinkedIn profile
information of an account or a contact.
Note
A LinkedIn Sales Navigator Team or Enterprise license is required to use this feature. You can sign up for a
free trial here .
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Communication and Information Exchange Integration with External Applications and Solutions Integration
with LinkedIn Sales Navigator to find the corresponding scoping question.
Lead conversion happens when a lead has been qualified and you believe your prospect has an interest in doing
business with you.
Note
As a prerequisite, your leads must be Consistent before being converted. To resolve any lead inconsistency,
you can Check Consistency for each lead to view relevant warning messages and fix the errors accordingly.
To convert a lead, go to the detail view of that lead and make a selection from the Actions menu at the bottom
right. You can have a list of conversion options for each lead, depending on what status your lead resides in and
how your administrators have configured available conversion actions for each status.
Once converted, the lead remains in the system as a record and cannot be deleted. The lead status will change
to Converted, which indicates the lead has reached its end of lifecycle and no more modifications will be
allowed to the lead record. You can further process any follow-up items that arise from the lead, and changes
will not reflect in the lead record.
You can create a sales quote or a sales order right from a lead with an existing account.
In a lead, go to the Sales Quotes or Sales Orders tab to add a new follow-up document, and relevant lead
information will be copied over.
Administrators can specify how many times a lead can be converted into an opportunity.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Leads Maintain Conversion Limit to specify the number of times.
Administrators can set up the solution to keep sales area data when a lead is converted to an account, or an
account and contact. Sales area data include sales organization, sales group, sales office, distribution channel,
and division.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales Lead Management Leads to find the corresponding scoping question.
Default/Determination Off
Section Field Availability Offline line
External ID N N
Name Y N
Account Y N
Company Y N
Contact Y N
Qualification Level Y N
Status Y Y
Consistency Status N N
Source Y N
Priority Y Y
Start Date Y Y
End Date Y Y
Category Y N
Owner Y Y
Owner(Sales) Y N
Marketing Unit Y N
Sales Unit Y Y
Sales Organization Y Y
Distribution Channel Y Y
Division Y Y
Survey Score N N
Created On N N
Created By N N
Changed On N N
Changed By N N
Notes Y N
Sales Territory ID Y N
Additional Name 2 Y N
Additional Name 3 Y N
External System N N
External ID N N
House Number Y N
Address Line 1 Y N
Address Line 2 Y N
Street Y N
Address Line 4 Y N
Address Line 5 Y N
City Y N
Country Y N
State Y N
P.O.Box Y N
Postal Code Y N
County Y N
Phone Y N
Fax Y N
Mobile Y N
E-Mail Y N
Web Site Y N
Latitude Y N
Longtitude Y N
Legal Form Y N
ABC Classification Y N
Industry Y N
D-U-N-S Y N
Contact Permission Y N
Language Y N
Note Y N
Job Title Y N
Academic Title Y N
Nickname Y N
External System N N
External ID N N
Language Y N
Gender Y N
Maritcal Status Y N
Function Y N
Department Y N
VIP Contact Y N
Contact Permission Y N
Engagement Score Y N
Building Y N
Floor Y N
Room Y N
Phone Y N
Fax Y N
Mobile Y N
E-Mail Y N
E-Mail Invalid Y N
Note Y N
Maritcal Status Y N
E-Mail Y N
Phone Y N
Fax Y N
Mobile Y N
House Number Y N
Street Y N
City Y N
Country Y N
State Y N
Postal Code Y N
Nationality Y N
Date of Birth Y N
Title Y N
Academic Title Y N
Profession Y N
Contact Permission Y N
Language Y N
Initials Y N
Best Reached By Y N
Prefix Y N
Products Product N N
Description N N
Category N Y
Quantity N N
External ID N N
Name Y Y
Account Y Y
Company Y Y
Contact Y Y
Qualification Level Y Y
Status Y Y
Consistency Status Y N
Source Y Y
Priority Y Y
Start Date Y Y
End Date Y Y
Category Y Y
Owner Y Y
Owner(Sales) Y Y
Marketing Unit Y Y
Sales Unit Y Y
Sales Organization Y Y
Distribution Channel Y Y
Division Y Y
Survey Score Y N
Created On Y N
Created By Y N
Changed On Y N
Changed By Y N
Notes Y Y
Sales Territory ID Y Y
Additional Name 3 Y Y
External System N N
External ID Y N
House Number Y Y
Address Line 1 Y Y
Address Line 2 Y Y
Street Y Y
Address Line 4 Y Y
Address Line 5 Y Y
City Y Y
Country Y Y
State Y Y
P.O.Box Y Y
Postal Code Y Y
County Y Y
Phone Y Y
Fax Y Y
Mobile Y Y
E-Mail Y Y
Web Site Y Y
Latitude Y Y
Longtitude Y Y
Legal Form Y Y
ABC Classification Y Y
Industry Y Y
D-U-N-S Y Y
Contact Permission Y Y
Language Y Y
Note Y Y
Academic Title Y Y
Additional Academic Y Y
Title
Nickname Y Y
External System N N
External ID N N
Language Y Y
Gender Y Y
Maritcal Status Y Y
Function Y Y
Department Y Y
VIP Contact Y Y
Contact Permission Y Y
Engagement Score Y Y
Building Y Y
Floor Y Y
Room Y Y
Phone Y Y
Fax Y Y
Mobile Y Y
E-Mail Y Y
House Number Y N
Street Y N
City Y N
Country Y N
State Y N
Postal Code Y N
Note Y Y
Maritcal Status Y Y
E-Mail Y Y
Phone Y Y
Fax Y Y
Mobile Y Y
House Number Y Y
Street Y Y
City Y Y
Country Y Y
State Y Y
Postal Code Y Y
Nationality Y Y
Date of Birth Y Y
Customer ID Y N
External System N N
External ID N N
Title Y Y
Academic Title Y Y
Profession Y Y
Contact Permission Y Y
Language Y Y
Initials Y Y
Best Reached By Y Y
Prefix Y Y
Products Product Y N
Description Y N
Category Y N
Quantity Y N
Product ID Y N
Description Y Y
Product Category Y N
Category Y N
Quantity Y Y
External System N N
External ID N N
Status Y N
Category Y N
Start Date/Time Y N
End Date/Time Y N
Owner Y N
Organizer Y N
Visits Subject Y N
Status Y N
Category Y N
Start Date/Time Y N
End Date/Time Y N
Owner Y N
Emails Subject Y N
Status Y N
Category Y N
Start Date/Time Y N
Owner Y N
Tasks Subject Y N
Status Y N
Category Y N
Start Date/Time Y N
Due Date/Time Y N
Owner Y N
Processor Y N
Status Y N
Category Y N
Start Date/Time Y N
Owner Y N
Email Y N
Phone Y N
Primary Y Y
Function Y N
Department Y N
Phone Y N
Mobile Y N
Email Y N
Contact Permission Y N
Primary Contact Y Y
Name Y N
E-Mail Y N
Phone Y N
Primary Y Y
Primary Contact Y N
Type Y N
Changed On Y N
Changed By Y N
Relationship Y N
External Reference Y N
Status Y N
Approval Status Y N
Owner Y N
Overall Discound(%) Y N
Payment Terms Y N
Total Revenue Y N
Created On Y N
Subject Y N
Relationship Y N
Priority Y N
Status Y N
Created On Y N
Assigned To Y N
Ticket Type Y N
Status Y Y
Catgeory Y Y
Offline Actions
Associate to N
Copy N
Check Consistency N
Products Add Y
Delete Y
Delete Y
Delete Y
Ticket New N
Attachments Add Y
Associate Account and Contact allows you to convert the lead without changing its status so you can continue
working in the original lead.
When you convert a lead, the lead status will change to Converted, which indicates the lead has reached its end
of lifecycle and no more modifications will be allowed to the lead record. If you want to keep working in the
original lead, you can use Associate Account and Contact instead of Convert to Account and Contact so the lead
status remains. Any further changes done in the lead will not affect the account and contact.
You can use the Refresh from Activity Plan action in a lead to obtain tasks or surveys that are predefined by your
administrators and assigned to your leads.
Although your administrators may have configured workflow rules to assign activity plans automatically, such
assignments only take place upon specific triggers. As users, you can also trigger routing for activity plans on
demand to acquire relevant tasks or surverys right away.
Related Information
The Notes field is currently unavailable when note history is enabled online.
As administrators, you need to make sure lead routing rules are defined as clearly as possible. Please
remember that the system executes the rules from top to bottom. The lead will be assigned once it matches a
rule, and the system will not continue reading subsequent rules.
Related Information
We do not presume that the lead owner will be the the same as the account owner, so the solution does not
take the owner information from a lead to an account.
Context
As a workaround, administrators can use workflow rules to automatically assign the owner when the user
converts the lead and saves the account.
Procedure
You can perform a search in leads based on the custom status to see if there is any data consuming the status.
Opportunity management allows you to further nurture your qualified prospects, prioritize your potential deals
to improve sales productivity, engage your customers to deliver a solution that meets their needs, and increase
win rate as a result.
When a lead is qualified into an opportunity, it marks the start of a sales cycle. With activity advisor, SAP Cloud
for Customer enables your sales representatives to perform the right set of activities at each sales phase.
Following this sales methodology can save your resources on training and enhance your work efficiency as a
team.
In order to construct the right proposal to win the deal, your sales representatives need to target the right
messages to the right people. SAP Cloud for Customer equips you with buying center that allows you to
maintain your contact relationships and identify key contacts such as decision makers and key influencers.
In the solution, you can capture all the information relevant to your opportunities, including products, partners,
competitors, surveys, and so on. With such information, you can monitor your opportunities more effectively
and enable better forecasting. SAP Cloud for Customer also allows you to capture different types of
opportunities, such as one-time sales, ramp-up contracts, and subscription services.
In addition, you can measure your opportunities by generating estimated values, simulate your pipeline to see
how your potential deals can influence your revenue total, and focus on closing opportunities that have a higher
success rate, as well as help you reach your goals.
Administrators can configure opportunities using scoping, scoping questions, and fine-tuning activities.
Scoping questions and fine-tuning activities that are self-explanatory may not be included in this list.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Scoping
Sales New Business Opportunities and check the box next to the scoping item for using opportunities.
Administrators can specify the range of numbers that the ID of the opportunity records can take.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Opportunities Number Range Maintain Number Range to specify the numbers.
Administrators can maintain involved parties for opportunities by activating applicable party roles and
determination steps.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Opportunities Involved Parties Maintain Involved Parties to edit your involved parties.
Based on your business needs, you can Exclude activated party roles from realignment run or inbound
integration scenarios, for example, when you replicate opportunities from ERP to SAP Cloud for Customer.
For customized party roles, there is an additional determination step called Use Rules for <Party Role Name>.
This option allows you to default parties based on specific conditions that can be defined in Administrator
Sales and Campaign Settings Define Rules for Opportunity Parties .
Related Information
Administrators can maintain sources that capture the origin of your opportunities.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Opportunities Sources Maintain Sources to edit your sources.
Administrators can maintain reasons that specify why a status has been set.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Opportunities Reasons Maintain Reasons to edit your reasons.
Administrators can activate reasons for applicable opportunity statuses via assignment.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Opportunities Assignment of Reasons Assign Reasons to assign your reasons.
Administrators can maintain categories that classify your elements such as leads and opportunities.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Opportunities Categories Maintain Categories to edit your categories.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Opportunities Assignment of Categories Assign Categories to assign your categories.
Administrators can define document types that distinguish one type of opportunity from another. Different
types of opportunities can go through different sales cycles.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Opportunities Document Types Maintain Document Types to edit your opportunity types.
Administrators can customize opportunity statuses that help identify where the prospects are in the sales
pipeline.
Context
You must define a complete set of custom statuses with equivalence of all the five lifecycle statuses.
Procedure
1. Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Opportunities Custom Status Maintain Custom Status .
2. Choose a Document Type.
3. Click Add Row to create a new status.
4. Enter a number as Sort Sequence. It determines where the new status appears in the drop-down list of
your opportunity status and has no influence on how opportunities are processed.
5. Specify the Status Code. Customized status codes must begin with the identifier Z.
6. Decide whether your new status should be the initial status for newly created opportunities.
Note
Note
You can remove a customized status only when it is not in use in the application.
Administrators can include activities in a timeline view so users can have an intuitive idea about when the items
need to be performed.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Opportunities Activity Timeline Maintain Timeline to activate activities.
Activities checked as Internal are shown below the timeline, whereas external activities are displayed above the
line.
Administrators can upgrade or downgrade the severity level of system messages in opportunities.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Opportunities Messages Message Severity Configuration to edit message severity.
Administrators can enable a multi-step approval process for opportunities through configuration.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales New Business Opportunities to find the corresponding scoping question about enabling multi-step
approval process.
Upon activation, you can further configure process details in Administrator Approval Processes .
Administrators can set up the solution to automatically submit opportunities for approval when the
opportunities have fulfilled predefined conditions.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales New Business Opportunities to find the corresponding scoping question about automatically
submitting opportunities for approval.
Administrators can enable users to restart approval process on changes to approval relevant fields in an
approved opportunity.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales New Business Opportunities to find the corresponding question about enabling reapproval for
approved opportunities.
Restriction
If any of the following account fields are defined as approval conditions, changes to them in an approved
opportunity do not lead to resetting the approval status.
● ABC Classification
● Industry
● Prospect
● All the custom extension fields defined in accounts
Administrators can enable an influencer map so users can see top influencial contacts and employees around a
contact.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales New Business Opportunities to find the corresponding scoping question about enabling the
influencer map.
Once you have checked the scoping question, you can Adapt the master layout and add Top Influencers as a
new field to Contacts and Sales Team, as well as the corresponding panes under the Overview tab.
If you want to customize any labels for the influencer map, you can go to Administrator Sales and
Campaign Settings Influencer Map and adapt the master layout there.
Administrators can set up the solution to start capturing opportunity values and major changes so users can
check opportunity progression in data source over time.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales New Business Opportunities to find the corresponding question about enabling historical analysis
for opportunities.
The information tracked in the data source contains more details than the standard change history seen
under the Changes tab in an opportunity. You can use the opportunity history data source CODOPPHHB to
create a report in Business Analytics and gain insights into the opportunity lifecycle.
Administrators can enable users to see and change earlier versions of opportunity notes through configuration.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales New Business Opportunities to find the two corresponding questions about viewing and editing
opportunity note history.
Administrators can set up the solution to automatically re-determine opportunity parties when a change is
made to the associated account team or territory team.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales New Business Opportunities to find the corresponding question about opportunity party re-
determination.
When party re-determination is triggered, a background job that runs every eight minutes will go through Open
or In Process opportunities and realign all the parties in those opportunities.
Note
If you don't want certain party roles to be re-determined, you can Exclude those party roles from
realignment in involved parties configuration.
Opportunities that are In Approval are also excluded from party re-determination.
Related Information
Administrators can enable the Progress field in an opportunity and remind employees to take actions when the
sales progress is Slow or Stalled instead of On Track.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales New Business Opportunities to find the corresponding question about enabling phase progress.
When an opportunity remains in the same sales phase for a certain number of days, its progress can be
considered as slow or stalled instead of on track. During sales cycles and phases configuration, administrators
can specify the maximum days for an opportunity to be considered as On Track before the system moves the
progress to Slow and then Stalled.
Related Information
Administration can enable users to add relevant products during opportunity creation through configuration.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales New Business Opportunities to find the corresponding question about adding products during
opportunity creation.
Administrators can enable users to create opportunities with references to previously sold products through
configuration.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales New Business Opportunities to find the corresponding question about capturing registered
products in opportunities.
Administrators can enable users to schedule revenue on a monthly, quarterly, or yearly basis through
configuration.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales New Business Opportunities to find the corresponding question about revenue scheduling.
Administrators can enable users to split revenue per opportunity among sales team members through
configuration.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales New Business Opportunities to find the corresponding question about splitting revenue among
sales team members.
Administrators can enable revenue scheduling by item quantity distribution and set up the solution to
automatically update the revenue schedule when there is a change in the quantity schedule.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales New Business Opportunities to find the two corresponding questions about quantity scheduling.
Note
Changing in the revenue schedule does not have an impact on the quantity schedule.
Administrators can enable users to select a combination of sales area data including sales organization,
distribution channel, and division during opportunity creation. The combinations need to be predefined in
either or both of the matching account and employee in the Accounts and Employees work centers.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales New Business Opportunities to find the corresponding question about sales area determination
during opportunity creation.
Administrators can set up the solution to pre-populate sales area data including sales organization, distribution
channel, and division during opportunity creation. The default values need to be predefined in either or both of
the matching account and employee in the Accounts and Employees work centers.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales New Business Opportunities to find the corresponding question about defaulting sales area data
during opportunity creation.
Administrators can enable users to select a reason for a standard status change they make directly from the
opportunity list.
Note
Feature enablement is only required for opportunities using standard statuses. Standard status actions
include Set as Open, Set as In Process, Set as Won, Set as Lost, and Set as Stopped. For opportunities using
custom status, this feature is supported by default.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales New Business Opportunities and check the scoping question about enabling reason selection.
Administrators can enable a sales assistant with a list of proposed activities to guide sales representatives
through each sales phase of an opportunity.
Context
Administrators can enable and configure activity advisor in scoping and fine-tuning activities.
2. Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Sales Assistant Maintain Activities to define suggested activities.
3. Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Sales Assistant Assign Activities to Sales Phases to assign predefined activities to specific sales
phases.
Administrators can customize sales cycles and phases for each opportunity type through configuration.
Context
Different types of opportunities can go through different sales cycles and phases.
Procedure
1. Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Sales Cycles and Phases .
2. Define Sales Phases according to your business needs.
3. Define Analysis Phases for company-wide reporting.
4. Click Maintain Sales Cycles to define cycles for different opportunity types, assign sales phases to each
sales cycle, and assign corresponding analysis phase to each sales phase.
If an opportunity remains in one phase for certain days without any updates, it can be considered as slow
and stalled in progress. You can specify the number of the days in sales cycle configuration.
The probability of closing a deal can increase when an opportunity reaches certain sales phases. You can
also specify the chance of success for each phase in sales cycle configuration.
5. Click Specify Default Sales Cycle to select one sales cycle as default for your opportunities.
Related Information
Administrators can define system notification details for a stalled opportunity through configuration.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Business Task Management for Stalled Opportunities to edit the notification task.
Prerequisites
Note
Administrators must activate desired party roles and a determination step called Use Rules for <Party Role
Name> in involved parties configuration. Otherwise, those party roles will not be available for selection in the
rule table, and previous relevant rules will no longer take place.
Context
If activated, the determination rules can be triggered upon opportunity creation and anytime users make a
change to an opportunity field that is part of the rule conditions. Once the determination rules are triggered,
affected business partners will be automatically assigned with specified party roles and designated as involved
parties to opportunities that fulfill the predefined criteria.
Procedure
1. Go to Administrator Sales and Campaign Settings Define Rules for Opportunity Parties to launch
the rules table.
2. If it is your first time to create rules, use Adapt Columns to set up the rules table. You can have up to 20
columns in the table, including last two result columns, Party ID and Party Role.
Tip
We recommend that you remove any unwanted columns and only keep required ones as extra columns
can impact system performance.
You can add values to more than one field in a row. The fields in one row evaluate as a logical AND
relationship, which means the field values must all evaluate to true in order for the rule to evaluate to true.
4. Click the asterisk symbol in a cell to enter a value for that field. The rules table offers a variety of logical
operators to define your values.
Tip
We recommend that you take full advantage of operators to consolidate your rules for better system
performance.
For example, if your rules determine assignments based on zip codes, you can use the Between
operator to set up a range of zip codes in sequence, or you can use the Include operator to group zip
codes that have the same prefix.
The rows in the rules table evaluate as a logical OR relationship. The system will compare each rule from
top to bottom until it finds one match, which suggests that the most specific rule should be placed at the
top of the table and generic ones should be near the bottom.
You can rearrange rows by selecting the row and clicking Swap.
6. Click Save when you finish.
7. Click Activate Rules.
For your updated rules, unless you reactivate them, otherwise the previous rule sets will continue to
execute.
Related Information
Administrators can use workflow rules to define when leads or opportunities can be automatically refreshed to
obtain an updated list of to-do surveys and tasks.
Prerequisites
As administrators, you should have defined activity plans and routing rules in the Activity Planner work center.
For each survey or task to be routed, the Assign Automatically option must be checked during the creation
of the activity plan.
Context
By using workflow rules, applicable activity plans can be assigned on creating or saving a lead or an
opportunity, or on a customized schedule.
Procedure
This selection decides when your rule, in this case Refresh from Activity Plan, is triggered.
5. (Optional) Define conditions which you can also configure in the Routing Rules section in the Activity
Planner work center.
6. For Rule Type, choose Action and select Refresh from Activity Plan.
7. Review and activate your workflow rule.
Administrators can define roles that classify different contacts, and assign roles with respective colors that
display in the buying center.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Opportunities Contact Roles Maintain Contact Roles to edit your contact roles.
Administrators can enable LinkedIn Sales Navigator to allow users to look up publicly available LinkedIn profile
information of an account or a contact.
Note
A LinkedIn Sales Navigator Team or Enterprise license is required to use this feature. You can sign up for a
free trial here .
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Communication and Information Exchange Integration with External Applications and Solutions Integration
with LinkedIn Sales Navigator to find the corresponding scoping question.
Administrators can enable buying center for accounts and opportunities and define specific buying center
relationships in scoping and fine-tuning activities.
Context
You can enable buying center based on either buying center relationships or business partner relationships.
They are exclusive to each other.
Procedure
1. Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Account and Activity Management Account Management to find the corresponding question and
enable the feature.
2. Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Buying Center Relationship Types to define relationship types.
In addition to standard relationship types such as Directed By and Dotted Line To, you can create
relationship types of you own, for example, Is A Friend Of and Went to School With.
You can also specify relationship line colors to increase the visibility of different relationship types in the
buying center.
Administrators can enable buying center for contacts and opportunities and define specific buying center
relationships in scoping and fine-tuning activities.
Context
You can enable buying center based on either buying center relationships or business partner relationships.
They are exclusive to each other.
Procedure
1. Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Account and Activity Management Account Management to find the corresponding question and
enable the feature.
2. Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
General Business Partners Relationships Maintain Relationships to define relationship types.
In this case, you define buying center relationships, together with other general relationships. However,
only those with the Buying Center Relationship option checked display in the buying center.
Administrators can enable Evernote Integration so any notes taken in a user's Evernote account can be brought
over and pinned in opportunities.
Context
Notes from Evernote are managed under the Evernote tab that will be available via adaptation once the
integration has been set up.
Procedure
1. Log on to your SAP solution and go to Administrator Business Flexibility Mashup Web Services
EvernoteService .
Administrators can remove personal data from a business object to ensure compliance with the applicable data
protection requirements.
Depersonalization is only available for users with access to the Data Protection and Privacy work center.
When you depersonalize an opportunity, all personal data such as involved parties and revenue plan partners
will be erased. In the meantime, linkages to follow-up objects such as activities and sales quotes, as well as
related buying center, are removed. The name of the opportunity is anonymized and replaced with XXXXX. You
cannot depersonalize an opportunity if it contains a person that is blocked for removal.
Once an opportunity is depersonalized, you cannot edit or delete that opportunity. However, you can search for
opportunities in the Depersonalized status. If the Data Privacy Status search parameter is not visible, you can
add it through Personalization or ask your administrators to Adapt the layout.
Note
A depersonalized opportunity will no longer be available in My Opportunities query once the ownership
information has been removed.
In case you need to retain certain information, you can download relevant data using OData or Data Workbench
prior to depersonalization.
Administrators can add Datahug to your project scope and enable users to manage pipeline and customer
relationship using Datahug.
Prerequisites
Note
To use Datahug, a separate license is required from SAP Intelligent Sales Execution.
2. Go to Administrator Sales and Campaign Settings Datahug Settings Open Datahug Administrator
and provide an API key and secret for accessing Datahug.
3. Assign the Datahug work center view (ID: COD_DATAHUG_WCF) to appropriate business users or roles for
pipeline and forecast management.
For more details, please check Create Business Roles and Assign Work Centers and Views.
4. Go to the detail view of an opportunity, Adapt the master layout and add the Datahug tab to opportunities.
For more information, please check out Prepackaged Integration with SAP Intelligent Sales Execution (SAP
Datahug).
In SAP Sales Cloud, you can manage opportunities to identify and follow through on the possibility of selling
products or services to a potential customer.
Opportunities can be created in multiple ways. For example, you can create an opportunity using the plus
button from the opportunity list, or you can convert a qualified lead into an opportunity.
You can also add existing or create new relevant opportunities as reference to the current opportunity under
the Related Opportunities tab. If you want to establish a hierarchical relationship among opportunities, you can
go to the Hierarchy tab in an opportunity to add existing or create new child opportunities.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Scoping
Sales New Business Opportunities and check the box next to the scoping item for using opportunities.
Administrators can define document types that distinguish one type of opportunity from another. Different
types of opportunities can go through different sales cycles.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Opportunities Document Types Maintain Document Types to edit your opportunity types.
You can edit multiple products directly in the list, which saves your effort in going to the detail view of each
opportunity to make changes.
From Fiori Client navigate to Key User Settings Company Setting Enable Editing in Dataset in Fiori
Client .
Once the feature is enabled, you can click the pencil icon in the upper right corner to switch to the edit mode.
Users can filter the worklist that needs to be changed and directly change data in the work list without
navigating to the detailed view.
Note
Add important custom party roles in online mode directly to the quick create or overview screen of an
opportunity.
You can assign a maximum of three custom party roles to the UI.
Tip
Note
From an opportunity, you can go to the contact person value help to create and assign a new contact for the
opportunity. The New Contact action is visible without additional configuration.
Products can be included during opportunity creation if your administrators have enabled the feature. For an
existing opportunity, you can go to the Products tab to Add products.
Tip
In the latter case, when you search products, you can choose a built-in query called Related to Documents
to filter out products that are not in the sales area where your opportunity resides.
You can add products one at a time or in bulk from predefined product lists and categories. Under the Products
tab in an opportunity, click More to find the following options.
● Add From List: This option includes all products valid for the account and sales area. The products display
in parallel.
● Add From Product Lists: This option includes all products valid for the account and sales area. The products
display in groups based on product lists.
● Add From All Products: This option includes all products valid for the sales area. The products display in
groups based on product categories.
All the products need to be maintained as master data in the Products work center in order to be searchable in
opportunities. If you want to include a product that does not exist in the master data, such as a product that
has not been introduced to the market, you can add the product by only entering a description. However, such
text items will not be copied over to follow-up sales quotes or sales orders.
When you add products to opporutnities, pricing will be fetched provided that list prices are maintained in the
system and valid for the accounts and sales areas. Negotiated value will be calculated accordingly, yet you can
overwrite it when necessary. Pricing can also be retrieved from ERP via an external pricing call.
Descriptions of the added products are also carried over from product master data and can be overwritten in
opportunities. Notes can be jotted down for every product line item that is added to the opportunity.
You can use the copy-paste function to quickly add a large amount of product data under the Products tab in
opportunities. Data can be copied from Microsoft Excel or delimited text files. Supported delimiters are
semicolon and tab.
Prerequisites
You can add products via copy-paste as long as at least one of the following functions is available.
● Add
● Add from List
● Add from Product Lists
● Add from All Products
If needed, administrators can hide the icon from the product table via adaptation.
Context
Caution
If the opportunity is In Approval, you are not able to use the copy-paste function.
Procedure
Remember
○ Copied data must match the order of the fields in the user interface.
○ The total number of input fields must match the number of fields exposed. The checkbox column is
not taken into account. For combined fields such as List Price, Unit, Quantity, Proposed Value, and
Negotiated Value, they each represent two columns.
○ Do not include a delimiter in any field that allows text entry. For example, do not use a semicolon in
the Description or Notes field.
4. Click in the paste area where shows Paste supported data, such as Excel.
5. Paste data in the area.
You can add products using the copy-paste function as many times as needed. Every time you paste a new
set of entries into the product list, they are added after the existing data.
You can delete multiple associated products from an opportunity at once by selecting the products and clicking
More Remove .
Note
As a prerequisite, your administrator must add the Remove action via adaptation.
Administration can enable users to add relevant products during opportunity creation through configuration.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales New Business Opportunities to find the corresponding question about adding products during
opportunity creation.
Business partners can be automatically assigned with party roles and designated as involved parties to
opportunities, provided your administrators have activated such party roles and maintained party
determination steps in involved parties configuration. As users, you can also manually add involved parties to
your opportunities.
Once configured, opportunity party determination can be automatically triggered under the following
circumstances:
You can also manually maintain involved parties under corresponding tabs in opportunities. If you have multiple
sales representatives working on one opportunity, you can include those employees under the Sales Team tab.
Contacts can be identified under the Contacts tab. Competitors can be tracked under the Competitors tab.
Other partners such as bill-to and ship-to parties can be added to the Involved Parties tab. Parties that are
manually added by users or entered using custom coding are protected from being removed or changed by
party determination.
Administrators can maintain involved parties for opportunities by activating applicable party roles and
determination steps.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Opportunities Involved Parties Maintain Involved Parties to edit your involved parties.
Based on your business needs, you can Exclude activated party roles from realignment run or inbound
integration scenarios, for example, when you replicate opportunities from ERP to SAP Cloud for Customer.
For customized party roles, there is an additional determination step called Use Rules for <Party Role Name>.
This option allows you to default parties based on specific conditions that can be defined in Administrator
Sales and Campaign Settings Define Rules for Opportunity Parties .
Prerequisites
Note
Administrators must activate desired party roles and a determination step called Use Rules for <Party Role
Name> in involved parties configuration. Otherwise, those party roles will not be available for selection in the
rule table, and previous relevant rules will no longer take place.
Context
If activated, the determination rules can be triggered upon opportunity creation and anytime users make a
change to an opportunity field that is part of the rule conditions. Once the determination rules are triggered,
affected business partners will be automatically assigned with specified party roles and designated as involved
parties to opportunities that fulfill the predefined criteria.
Procedure
1. Go to Administrator Sales and Campaign Settings Define Rules for Opportunity Parties to launch
the rules table.
2. If it is your first time to create rules, use Adapt Columns to set up the rules table. You can have up to 20
columns in the table, including last two result columns, Party ID and Party Role.
Tip
We recommend that you remove any unwanted columns and only keep required ones as extra columns
can impact system performance.
You can add values to more than one field in a row. The fields in one row evaluate as a logical AND
relationship, which means the field values must all evaluate to true in order for the rule to evaluate to true.
4. Click the asterisk symbol in a cell to enter a value for that field. The rules table offers a variety of logical
operators to define your values.
Tip
We recommend that you take full advantage of operators to consolidate your rules for better system
performance.
For example, if your rules determine assignments based on zip codes, you can use the Between
operator to set up a range of zip codes in sequence, or you can use the Include operator to group zip
codes that have the same prefix.
The rows in the rules table evaluate as a logical OR relationship. The system will compare each rule from
top to bottom until it finds one match, which suggests that the most specific rule should be placed at the
top of the table and generic ones should be near the bottom.
You can rearrange rows by selecting the row and clicking Swap.
6. Click Save when you finish.
7. Click Activate Rules.
For your updated rules, unless you reactivate them, otherwise the previous rule sets will continue to
execute.
Related Information
Administrators can set up the solution to automatically re-determine opportunity parties when a change is
made to the associated account team or territory team.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales New Business Opportunities to find the corresponding question about opportunity party re-
determination.
When party re-determination is triggered, a background job that runs every eight minutes will go through Open
or In Process opportunities and realign all the parties in those opportunities.
Note
If you don't want certain party roles to be re-determined, you can Exclude those party roles from
realignment in involved parties configuration.
Related Information
The solution provides five standard statuses to help you identify where your opportunities are in the sales
pipeline. If required, custom statuses can be set up by your administrators, in lieu of the standard statuses.
You may need to specify a reason to indicate why a status has been set, depending on how your administrators
have configured it.
You can update multiple opportunity statuses at once directly from the opportunity list, which saves your
efforts in going to the detail view of each opportunity to make changes.
Procedure
1. From the opportunity list, select one or multiple rows for which you want to change the status.
Note
The opportunities selected for a mass update must have the same document type and status.
2. From the Actions menu at the bottom right, make a selection and set the status to the next possible life
stage.
○ If you are using standard statuses provided with the solution, you can choose from Set as Open, Set as
In Process, Set as Won, Set as Lost, and Set as Stopped, depending on their availability.
○ If you are using custom statuses defined by your administrators, you see an action called Set Custom
Status.
3. Select a reason as to why the status is changed.
The feature of setting a reason code for status updated from the list is supported by default for
opportunities using custom status. For opportunities utilizing standard status, your administrators
must turn on a scoping question to enable this feature.
Administrators can customize opportunity statuses that help identify where the prospects are in the sales
pipeline.
Context
You must define a complete set of custom statuses with equivalence of all the five lifecycle statuses.
Procedure
1. Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Opportunities Custom Status Maintain Custom Status .
2. Choose a Document Type.
3. Click Add Row to create a new status.
4. Enter a number as Sort Sequence. It determines where the new status appears in the drop-down list of
your opportunity status and has no influence on how opportunities are processed.
5. Specify the Status Code. Customized status codes must begin with the identifier Z.
6. Decide whether your new status should be the initial status for newly created opportunities.
Note
Note
You can remove a customized status only when it is not in use in the application.
Administrators can maintain reasons that specify why a status has been set.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Opportunities Reasons Maintain Reasons to edit your reasons.
Administrators can activate reasons for applicable opportunity statuses via assignment.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Opportunities Assignment of Reasons Assign Reasons to assign your reasons.
Administrators can enable users to select a reason for a standard status change they make directly from the
opportunity list.
Note
Feature enablement is only required for opportunities using standard statuses. Standard status actions
include Set as Open, Set as In Process, Set as Won, Set as Lost, and Set as Stopped. For opportunities using
custom status, this feature is supported by default.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales New Business Opportunities and check the scoping question about enabling reason selection.
Administrators can define workflow rules that update opportunity custom statuses and reasons based on sales
quote conditions.
This feature allows you for example, to set an opportunity to Won, if the related primary sales quote turns to
Won.
Restriction
Custom values with the same descriptions cannot be distinguished in the workflow rule definition.
A sales cycle starts with recognition of an opportunity and is broken down into major sales phases where
specific activities are executed. Having a structured sales process can help you manage opportunity details,
measure sales performances, and improve business efficiency.
Sales cycles can vary, depending on what you are selling and who you are selling to. Your administrators have
full flexibility to define unique sales cycles and phases for different opportunity types.
Further, administrators can enable and configure a sales assistant called Activity Advisor to propose a checklist
of activity recommendations tailored for each sales phase and guide sales representatives through the entire
sales cycle.
In the solution, when you make a change to the Sales Phase field, following fields will also be automatically
affected, which may draw your attention.
● As you move an opportunity from one phase to the next, the likelihood of winning the deal increases. In
response, you will see the percentage value in the Probability field rises automatically, the increment of
which depends on how your administrators have specified the chance of success for each sales phase
during configuration. As users, you can overwrite the value and manually maintain the field, if necessary.
● The Days in Sales Phase field shows you for how many days an opportunity has been in the current phase.
When you change the sales phase, the value will be reset to zero.
● When an opportunity remains in one sales phase for a certain period of time, the Progress field can change
from On Track to Slow and Stalled on the premise that your administrators have enabled and configured
sales phase progress.
Related Information
Administrators can customize sales cycles and phases for each opportunity type through configuration.
Context
Different types of opportunities can go through different sales cycles and phases.
Procedure
1. Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Sales Cycles and Phases .
If an opportunity remains in one phase for certain days without any updates, it can be considered as slow
and stalled in progress. You can specify the number of the days in sales cycle configuration.
The probability of closing a deal can increase when an opportunity reaches certain sales phases. You can
also specify the chance of success for each phase in sales cycle configuration.
5. Click Specify Default Sales Cycle to select one sales cycle as default for your opportunities.
Related Information
Administrators can enable the Progress field in an opportunity and remind employees to take actions when the
sales progress is Slow or Stalled instead of On Track.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales New Business Opportunities to find the corresponding question about enabling phase progress.
When an opportunity remains in the same sales phase for a certain number of days, its progress can be
considered as slow or stalled instead of on track. During sales cycles and phases configuration, administrators
can specify the maximum days for an opportunity to be considered as On Track before the system moves the
progress to Slow and then Stalled.
Related Information
You can see activities in a graphical display under the Timeline tab to obtain a vivid idea about when the
activities need to be performed between the start and close dates of the opportunity.
You can filter down activities based on type and status to view only the relevant ones. Activities defined as
internal by your administrators are shown below the timeline, whereas external activities are spead above the
line.
Related Information
Administrators can include activities in a timeline view so users can have an intuitive idea about when the items
need to be performed.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Opportunities Activity Timeline Maintain Timeline to activate activities.
Activities checked as Internal are shown below the timeline, whereas external activities are displayed above the
line.
Activity advisor is a sales assistant that helps you establish a structured sales cycle and model your sales
methodologies. It proposes a template with activities recommended to be executed during each sales phase of
an opportunity to increase the chance of success.
Note
As prerequisites, your administrators must enable the feature and define activity suggestions in advance
for each sales phase.
You may have manually added several activities when you created the opportunity. You can review activities
that are already in scope in panes under the Sales Activities tab or in a graphical display under the Timeline tab.
Then you can further consult Activity Advisor under the Sales Activities tab to check and add relevant activities
that have not been included to your opportunity.
We recommend that you include all the mandatory activities and carry them out in each sales phase. However,
missing or incomplete mandatory activities do not hinder you from moving your opportunity to the next sales
phase.
Administrators can enable a sales assistant with a list of proposed activities to guide sales representatives
through each sales phase of an opportunity.
Context
Administrators can enable and configure activity advisor in scoping and fine-tuning activities.
Procedure
2. Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Sales Assistant Maintain Activities to define suggested activities.
3. Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Sales Assistant Assign Activities to Sales Phases to assign predefined activities to specific sales
phases.
You can create opportunities with references to previously sold products or services. Those references can help
evaluate your opportunities in scenarios such as cross, up, and down selling, and offering renewal services.
Once your administrators have enabled the feature, you can add registered products to your opportunities,
create opportunities from registered products, and report on opportunities with references to registered
products.
● During opportunity creation, you can select Serial ID, Associated Product (Reg. Product), Installation Point,
and Installed Base to include a registered product, and it automatically becomes the primary registered
product for that opportunity.
● In the detail view of an opportunity, you can go to the Registered Products tab to add more registered
products.
● Registered products can also be connected to an opportunity using web services such as A2X and OData,
or via data upload using Data Workbench.
If the fields are not visible, you can use Personalization or ask your administrators to Adapt the layout.
You can create an opportunity from one or multiple registered products to increase your wallet share from an
existing product.
● In the Registered Products work center, you can select one or multiple relevant registered products from
the list, and create a New Opportunity from the More option at the bottom right. When the opportunity
quick create screen opens, the registered products pane will be automatically populated with values of the
highlighted registered products. If all the registered products selected belong to the same account, the
account will be defaulted for the opportunity.
● You can also go to the detail view of a registered products by clicking its ID or Serial ID, and create a new
opportunity under the Opportunities tab. When the opportunity quick create screen opens, the related
fields will be automatically populated with values of that registered product.
You can use the data sources below to create your reports regarding registered products, as well as installation
points and installed bases.
Administrators can enable users to create opportunities with references to previously sold products through
configuration.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales New Business Opportunities to find the corresponding question about capturing registered
products in opportunities.
Opportunities often involve a team of sales representatives, contacts, partners, and key stakeholders. The
solution provides you with various ways to keep track of and collaborate with these distinct team members.
For example, you can utilize the Feed tab to share updates and communicate ideas with colleagues about a
specific opportunity. This native collaboration platform can be enhanced with SAP Jam feeds and groups that
allow you to upload content, create polls, conduct surveys, and much more, if your solution is provisioned with
SAP Jam.
Under the Notes tab, you can create, edit, and delete your own notes, and view your team members' notes
captured in note history. For mobile users, the solution also offers voice-to-text support in notes. In addition,
you can also bring over your notes from Evernote if your administrators have configured the integration.
Your administrators can also maintain access restrictions so that only the members of your sales team can
access opportunities assigned to your sales area.
The integration with SAP Jam soution enables you to bring both internal sales employees and external contacts
on a single collaboration platform to facilitate communication and increase customer engagement.
Once your administrators have configured SAP Jam integration, you can go to the Groups tab and create SAP
Jam groups using the deal room template to strategize with sales members about winning an opportunity. You
can also invite your customer contacts to join the groups and share superior content such as presentations and
product specification documents.
The influencer map shows you a spiral of top influencial contacts and employees around a contact, and allows
you to redefine their perceived importance in driving sales.
Employees and contacts that have been assigned to the opportunity have a check mark on their profile
pictures. You can also add top influencers that are not part of the opportunity into the sales team or your
contact list by dragging them into the Add to Opportunity frame.
Administrators can enable an influencer map so users can see top influencial contacts and employees around a
contact.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales New Business Opportunities to find the corresponding scoping question about enabling the
influencer map.
Once you have checked the scoping question, you can Adapt the master layout and add Top Influencers as a
new field to Contacts and Sales Team, as well as the corresponding panes under the Overview tab.
If you want to customize any labels for the influencer map, you can go to Administrator Sales and
Campaign Settings Influencer Map and adapt the master layout there.
With LinkedIn Sales Navigator enabled by your administrators, you can look up publicly available LinkedIn
profile information about accounts or contacts, and nurture your prospects through networking.
LinkedIn Sales Navigator iframes are embedded in the Overview and Contacts tabs in your leads, opportunities,
buying center, accounts, and contacts. In the overview tab, Sales Navigator gives you information about the
company. When a contact is selected, Sales Navigator shows you a profile about the person. You may see your
contacts' recent activities and find a topic of interest to help you start a conversation with your prospects. Or,
you may find someone you know to introduce you directly to your potential customers.
To use this feature, you must allow browser cookies from LinkedIn.
● In Google Chrome, go to Settings Advanced Privacy and security Content settings Cookies
Allow and add [*.]linkedin.com.
● In Internet Explorer, go to Internet Options Security Trusted sites Sites and add http://
linkedin.com.
Note
You need a LinkedIn Sales Navigator Team or Enterprise account to use this feature. However, if you have
previously signed in to LinkedIn with a different account on your computer, you may be automatically
signed in with that account. To relogin with the standard account, you must first clear your previous
browsing cookies.
Administrators can enable LinkedIn Sales Navigator to allow users to look up publicly available LinkedIn profile
information of an account or a contact.
Note
A LinkedIn Sales Navigator Team or Enterprise license is required to use this feature. You can sign up for a
free trial here .
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Communication and Information Exchange Integration with External Applications and Solutions Integration
with LinkedIn Sales Navigator to find the corresponding scoping question.
Buying center is a relationship management tool that tracks and visualizes contact-to-contact and contact-to-
employee relationships related to a given account, contact, or opportunity. If properly maintained, buying
center can help you identify decision makers and key influencers in your opportunities so you can optimize
your sales pitches for prospects accordingly.
Buying center can be enabled by your administrators in two ways. They are exclusive to each other.
If the tabs mentioned above are not visible, you can use Personalization or ask your administrators to Adapt
the master layout.
The migration of buying center data into the solution is also supported.
In an opportunity, you can create buying center relationships from scratch, or import relationships from the
corresponding account or contact and build upon them.
If the feature is based on buying center relationships, the Import from Account option becomes available under
the Buying Center tab in your opportunity. It allows you to bring in relationships that have been maintained in
the corresponding account. If the feature is based on business partner relationships, you will see the Import
from Contact Relationships option instead. The two options are exclusive to each other.
Note
After the relationships are copied over, the import option will no longer be available. In addition, any
changes done in the buying center of an opportunity will not be reflected in the buying center of the
associated account or contact, and vice versa.
Administrators can enable buying center for accounts and opportunities and define specific buying center
relationships in scoping and fine-tuning activities.
Context
You can enable buying center based on either buying center relationships or business partner relationships.
They are exclusive to each other.
1. Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Account and Activity Management Account Management to find the corresponding question and
enable the feature.
2. Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Buying Center Relationship Types to define relationship types.
In addition to standard relationship types such as Directed By and Dotted Line To, you can create
relationship types of you own, for example, Is A Friend Of and Went to School With.
You can also specify relationship line colors to increase the visibility of different relationship types in the
buying center.
Administrators can enable buying center for contacts and opportunities and define specific buying center
relationships in scoping and fine-tuning activities.
Context
You can enable buying center based on either buying center relationships or business partner relationships.
They are exclusive to each other.
Procedure
1. Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Account and Activity Management Account Management to find the corresponding question and
enable the feature.
2. Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
General Business Partners Relationships Maintain Relationships to define relationship types.
In this case, you define buying center relationships, together with other general relationships. However,
only those with the Buying Center Relationship option checked display in the buying center.
Once buying center relationships are created or imported from the associated account or contact, you can
further manage relationships under the Buying Center tab in your opportunity.
Note
Any changes done in the buying center of an opportunity will not be reflected in the buying center of the
associated account or contact, and vise versa.
Under the Buying Center tab, you can select the Table View or the Chunk View to add, edit, and delete contact-
to-contact and contact-to-employee relationships, and define relationship attributes as desired to further
qualify the nature of the relationship. Your administrators can define available relationship types to choose
from through configuration.
Choose the Hierarchy View to see contact-to-contact relationships in a graphical display. The following
intructions can walk you through the buying center features in opportunities.
1. Use the Role Only button to toggle between the role view and the hierarchy view. Roles can be defined
under the Contacts tab. Different roles can have different profile picture colors, depending on how your
administrators have configured contact roles.
2. Different relationship types may have different relationship line colors, depending on how your
administrators have configured buying center relationships or business partner relationships.
3. The number next to the profile picture indicates how many employees have been assigned to the contact in
this buying center. When you click on the number, you will see employees who are assigned to the contact
in this buying center under Buying Center. If there are employees assigned to the contact outside of this
buying center, they will show under Outside.
4. For contacts who are directly linked to the account, their profile pictures display in the shape of a circle. For
those who are not directly linked to the account, their profile pictures display in the shape of a diamond.
5. If you have captured a contact's attitude toward the opportunity or company, you will see a colored dot in
the right corner next to the contact's profile picture. Green means positive, orange means neutral, and red
means unfavorable.
Administrators can define roles that classify different contacts, and assign roles with respective colors that
display in the buying center.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Opportunities Contact Roles Maintain Contact Roles to edit your contact roles.
Opportunity evaluation is a process where you deepen your understanding of your customers' needs and
painpoints, as well as buying concerns, based on which you can identify and focus on opportunities that have a
higher chance of success.
You may have mandatory or voluntary activity plans such as surveys and tasks predefined and assigned by
your administrators to help you nurture your opportunities.
In the Activity Planner work center, your administrators can enable automatic assignment for activity plans
during creation and define routing rules.
For activity plans that cannot be automatically assigned, you can manually add applicable surveys under the
Surveys tab and tasks under the Activities tab in an opportunity.
Related Information
You can obtain most current surveys and tasks assigned to your leads or opportunities by refreshing.
Prerequisites
Your administrators have defined activity plans and routing rules in the Activity Planner work center.
Note
For each survey or task to be routed, the Assign Automatically option must be checked during the creation
of the activity plan.
Context
Your administrators can define when applicable activity plans can be automatically assigned to leads or
opportunities using workflow rules. As users, you also can follow the steps below to manually trigger the
routing.
Procedure
Your applicable surveys and tasks appear under the Surveys and Activities tabs as a result of rules.
Administrators can use workflow rules to define when leads or opportunities can be automatically refreshed to
obtain an updated list of to-do surveys and tasks.
Prerequisites
As administrators, you should have defined activity plans and routing rules in the Activity Planner work center.
Note
For each survey or task to be routed, the Assign Automatically option must be checked during the creation
of the activity plan.
Context
By using workflow rules, applicable activity plans can be assigned on creating or saving a lead or an
opportunity, or on a customized schedule.
Procedure
This selection decides when your rule, in this case Refresh from Activity Plan, is triggered.
5. (Optional) Define conditions which you can also configure in the Routing Rules section in the Activity
Planner work center.
6. For Rule Type, choose Action and select Refresh from Activity Plan.
7. Review and activate your workflow rule.
Opportunity scoring leverages machine learning that is trained on your historical sales data to find patterns and
predict the probability of closing a deal. With machine learning powered by SAP Leonardo, the score pane also
shows you key factors that impact the resulting scores.
Note
Machine learning is only available for the SAP Cloud for Customer Enterprise version, and requires
activation by your administrators.
Related Information
Keeping track of your competitors as well as competitor products in opportunities helps you assess your
competitors and better evaluate your opportunities.
Note
As prerequisites, your administrators must activate Competitor in the Involved Parties configuration so
users can add such a role to an opportunity.
In an opportunity, you can navigate to the Competitors tab and add relevant competitors and competitor
products from the master data maintained in the Competitors work center. The Competitor Products pane does
not appear until at least one competitor has been added to the opportunity.
Related Information
Administrators can maintain involved parties for opportunities by activating applicable party roles and
determination steps.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Opportunities Involved Parties Maintain Involved Parties to edit your involved parties.
Based on your business needs, you can Exclude activated party roles from realignment run or inbound
integration scenarios, for example, when you replicate opportunities from ERP to SAP Cloud for Customer.
For customized party roles, there is an additional determination step called Use Rules for <Party Role Name>.
This option allows you to default parties based on specific conditions that can be defined in Administrator
Sales and Campaign Settings Define Rules for Opportunity Parties .
Related Information
SAP Sales Cloud offers you several tools to estimate your revenue based on your opportunities, compare the
estimates against your revenue-based targets, and help you make best use of your available resources.
You can monitor your opportunities and analyze your sales performance on a real-time basis via sales pipeline
reports that can be included on your home page or in the Analytics work center.
If you have confidence in closing certain opportunities, you can toggle on the Publish to Forecast option in the
opportunity details so the values of those opportunities can be recognized in forecasts for further product
planning.
Work with SAP Intelligent Sales Execution (Datahug) for Opportunities [page 338]
With Datahug offered by SAP Intelligent Sales Execution, you can explore a new approach to managing
your pipeline and customer relationship for opportunities.
You can split revenue among sales members and recognize the individuals to whom the success of an
opportunity can be attributed.
Provided your administrators have enabled revenue scheduling and revenue splits, you can add revenue
partners under the Revenue Splits tab and maintain their contributions to the opportunity revenue by Split
Percentage.
Once you have included all the revenue partners, you can schedule revenues accordingly. Revenue Amount for
each partner will be empty until at least one relevant revenue schedule is created.
Note
It is recommended that you finalize the revenue splits before you proceed to schedule revenues. Any
changes to a Split Percentage field will result in a deletion of existing schedules.
If the Split Percentage column is not visible, you can use Personalization or ask your administrators to Adapt the
master layout.
Related Information
Administrators can enable users to split revenue per opportunity among sales team members through
configuration.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales New Business Opportunities to find the corresponding question about splitting revenue among
sales team members.
Once your administrators have enabled revenue scheduling, you can schedule revenue among various revenue
partners. Revenue can be scheduled either at the header level or at the product level, depending on whether
the Schedule Revenue at Header flag is toggled on or off in the opportunity details.
As a prerequisite, at least one revenue partner must be maintained before revenue schedule becomes
available.
When you select a revenue partner and add a new revenue schedule, the total amount by default displays the
expected value that the partner has contributed to the revenue. You also have the option to use the negotiated
value instead for calculation. Upon creation, the revenue will be distributed evenly throughout the defined
period and based on the frequency you choose.
As a prerequisite, at least one product item must be maintained before revenue schedule becomes available.
When you select a product and add a new revenue schedule, the total amount by default displays the
negotiated value that the partner has contributed to the revenue. Upon creation, the revenue will be distributed
evenly throughout the defined period and based on the frequency you choose.
You can schedule item quantity to track order delivery under the Products tab if your administrators have
enabled product quantity scheduling.
When you select a product and add a new item quantity schedule, you can either allow the system to distribute
quantity evenly throughout the defined period and based on the frequency you choose, or you can manually
apply a fixed quantity of products to each distribution period. For the latter option, you need to select
Distribution Per Period as the quantity schedule type and define Quantity Per Period. If the field is not available,
you can use Personalization or ask your administrators to Adapt the master layout.
When an item quantity schedule is created, a revenue schedule will be derived accordingly for you to further
track payments for each product distribution. The revenue schedule can also be updated upon any changes
made to the quantity schedule if your administrators have enabled the feature in scoping.
Administrators can enable users to schedule revenue on a monthly, quarterly, or yearly basis through
configuration.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales New Business Opportunities to find the corresponding question about revenue scheduling.
Administrators can enable revenue scheduling by item quantity distribution and set up the solution to
automatically update the revenue schedule when there is a change in the quantity schedule.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales New Business Opportunities to find the two corresponding questions about quantity scheduling.
Note
Changing in the revenue schedule does not have an impact on the quantity schedule.
Pipeline simulation gives you a visual snapshot of where your prospects are in the sales pipeline. It also allows
you to explore what-if scenarios by changing key values in opportunities and see simulated impacts on your
revenue in real time.
● Pipeline Bar Chart: The bar chart helps you monitor opportunities as they move through sales phases. This
view helps you identify gaps in the pipeline and better prioritize your opportunities.
● Pipeline Bubble Chart: The bubble chart presents each opportunity in three dimensions. From this view,
you can understand how big the deal is, where the deal resides in the pipeline, and how likely it will be
closed. With such information, you can increase business efficiency by focusing on opportunities with
higher success probability.
● Won vs. Expected: The chart displays the value of deals you won or expect to win by quarter. In the
advanced search, you can also enable a graphic option called Show My Targets to include target plans that
have been assigned to you or your team in the given period. With a complete view of targets and actuals,
you can more easily tell how close you are to reach your sales quota.
Click Start Simulation to activate the simulation mode. You can modify editable fields for any of your listed
opportunities and see how those changes can influence your pipeline. If you are satisfied with the simulated
result, you can save the changes to your opportunities. Otherwise, you can cancel simulation to discard the
changes.
With Datahug offered by SAP Intelligent Sales Execution, you can explore a new approach to managing your
pipeline and customer relationship for opportunities.
Datahug provides a graphical visualization of your pipeline, and helps you understand the true health of your
opportunities and close more deals in less time. As a sales manager, you can slice and dice your pipeline using
a variety of key filters like region or opportunity type. As a sales representative, you can easily focus on deals
with a high value but a low deal score and take actions to get these deals back on track.
By connecting to your e-mail server, Datahug can identify relationship data points and help you build a better
understanding of your customers. You can obtain details such as the last and next touchpoints with the
customer, best connected colleague . Datahug also tells you who you know at the company is not yet
maintained in the system. Based on the relationship strength, Datahug can automatically create contacts for
you.
To use Datahug, a separate license is required from SAP Intelligent Sales Execution.
Once enabled by your administrator, Datahug is available as a separate work center in the navigation menu, as
well as a tab in accounts, contacts, and opportunities. You can manage pipeline in the Datahug work center and
customer relationship in the detail view of each opportunity.
For more information, please check out SAP Intelligent Sales Execution.
Related Information
Work with SAP Intelligent Sales Execution (Datahug) for Forecasting [page 1026]
Administrators can add Datahug to your project scope and enable users to manage pipeline and customer
relationship using Datahug.
Prerequisites
Note
To use Datahug, a separate license is required from SAP Intelligent Sales Execution.
Procedure
2. Go to Administrator Sales and Campaign Settings Datahug Settings Open Datahug Administrator
and provide an API key and secret for accessing Datahug.
3. Assign the Datahug work center view (ID: COD_DATAHUG_WCF) to appropriate business users or roles for
pipeline and forecast management.
For more details, please check Create Business Roles and Assign Work Centers and Views.
4. Go to the detail view of an opportunity, Adapt the master layout and add the Datahug tab to opportunities.
For more information, please check out Prepackaged Integration with SAP Intelligent Sales Execution (SAP
Datahug).
Opportunities can be submitted for approval when they fulfill certain conditions, provided your administrators
have enabled and configured the multi-step approval process for opportunities.
The opportunity approval process can contain multiple steps with different conditions and approvers. Once an
opportunity meets the conditions defined in any one of the steps, the opportunity can be manually or
automatically submitted for approval. If the opportunity meets the conditions defined in several steps
simultaneously, the system checks each step in sequence upon approval submission. The approval checking
proceeds to the next approval step only when the previous step has been granted.
When an opportunity meets approval conditions predefined by your administrators, it can be manually or
automatically submitted for approval.
Note
As prerequisites, your administrators must enable and configure the multi-step approval process for
opportunities, and optionally enable automatic submission for opportunity approval.
● For opportunities that must be manually submitted for approval, the Submit for Approval option becomes
available in the Actions menu at the bottom right.
● For opportunities that are automatically submitted for approval, the opportunity is sent to the approver
when you save the change that triggers the approval process.
Note
If your opportunity has met approval conditions yet cannot be submitted for approval, please contact your
administrators and check:
For an opportunity that is in approval, you can withdraw it from approval if needed. And later, if you make any
changes that fulfill the predefined conditions once again, the opportunity that is in Withdrawn status can be
resubmitted for approval.
Approver, as well as delegates assigned to approvers, can approve an opportunity or send it back for revision
under the Approval tab, in Notifications, or via e-mail.
Administrators can enable a multi-step approval process for opportunities through configuration.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales New Business Opportunities to find the corresponding scoping question about enabling multi-step
approval process.
Upon activation, you can further configure process details in Administrator Approval Processes .
Administrators can set up the solution to automatically submit opportunities for approval when the
opportunities have fulfilled predefined conditions.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales New Business Opportunities to find the corresponding scoping question about automatically
submitting opportunities for approval.
When you modify an approval relevant field in an approved opportunity, the approval status gets reset to Not
Started. In addition, the system reevaluates all the approval relevant fields. If the modified opportunity fulfills
approval criteria predefined by your administrators, a reapproval process can be triggered.
Note
● For opportunities that must be manually submitted for approval, the Submit for Approval option becomes
available in the Actions menu at the bottom right.
● For opportunities that are automatically submitted for approval, the opportunity is sent to the approver
next time you save the opportunity.
Note
During reapproval, the system goes through all the applicable approval steps, including steps that have
been checked in last approval and are still valid in this approval.
Restriction
If any of the following account fields are defined as approval conditions, changes to them in an approved
opportunity do not lead to resetting the approval status.
● ABC Classification
● Industry
● Prospect
● All the custom extension fields defined in accounts
Administrators can enable a multi-step approval process for opportunities through configuration.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales New Business Opportunities to find the corresponding scoping question about enabling multi-step
approval process.
Upon activation, you can further configure process details in Administrator Approval Processes .
Administrators can set up the solution to automatically submit opportunities for approval when the
opportunities have fulfilled predefined conditions.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales New Business Opportunities to find the corresponding scoping question about automatically
submitting opportunities for approval.
Administrators can enable users to restart approval process on changes to approval relevant fields in an
approved opportunity.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales New Business Opportunities to find the corresponding question about enabling reapproval for
approved opportunities.
Restriction
If any of the following account fields are defined as approval conditions, changes to them in an approved
opportunity do not lead to resetting the approval status.
● ABC Classification
● Industry
● Prospect
● All the custom extension fields defined in accounts
Approvers, as well as delegates assigned to approvers, can approve opportunities via e-mail, without having to
log into the system.
Before making the approval decision, approvers can review opportunity details using the summary PDF
attached in the approval e-mail.
● the involved employees are business users and have valid e-mail addresses
● the CA certificates from the employees are uploaded to the system for outgoing e-mails
● each involved employee must subscribe to the e-mail notifications by opening the Notifications view and
choosing Subscribe to E-Mail
● the e-mail clients of the involved employees have enabled the receipt of encrypted e-mails
Administrators can enable a multi-step approval process for opportunities through configuration.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales New Business Opportunities to find the corresponding scoping question about enabling multi-step
approval process.
Upon activation, you can further configure process details in Administrator Approval Processes .
Administrators can set up the solution to automatically submit opportunities for approval when the
opportunities have fulfilled predefined conditions.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales New Business Opportunities to find the corresponding scoping question about automatically
submitting opportunities for approval.
Administrators can enable the solution to decrypt and check signatures for incoming e-mails, as well as
encrypt and sign signatures for outgoing e-mails.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Built-in Services and Support System Management Security to find the corresponding question and
enable e-mail encryption and signature check.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune E-
Mail Encryption and Signature Check to check the followings:
● Under the Incoming E-Mail section, the signature of Business Task Management: Email Notifications
scenario is set to Check.
● Under the Outgoing E-Mail section, the Business Task Management: Email Notifications scenario is
maintained.
Administrators can specify the company domain and define default sender address for e-mail notifications.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune E-
Mail and Fax Settings to do the followings:
Administrators can upload certificates for all employees that need e-mail notifications.
Procedure
1. Each employee should download personal SSO certificate via Internet Explorer.
a. In the Internet Explorer, go to Tools Internet Options Content Certificates and double-click
the SSO certificate.
b. Click Details Copy to File... .
c. Follow the Certificate Export Wizard. Do not export the private key and choose file format Base-64
Encoded X.509.
d. Export and save the certificate locally on your computer.
2. Each personal SSO certificate should be uploaded to corresponding business user in the solution.
a. Go to Administrator General Settings Business Users and select the desired user.
b. Make sure that the user has a valid e-mail address and edit the user's Attributes.
c. Click Actions Manage Certificates to upload the personal S/MIME certificate.
3. Upload CA certificates for all involved employees to receive e-mail notifications.
You can close an opportunity by simply changing its status to won or lost.
When your opportunities are getting close to win, your customers may ask for quotes and place orders. Such
sales quotes and sales orders can be easily created as follow-up items under the Sales Documents tab in
opportunities.
The table lists available fields during opportunity creation in offline mode.
Default/Determination Off
Section Field Availability Offline line
Document Type Y Y
Account Y N
Primary Contact Y Y
Source Y N
Priority Y N
Status (Standard) NA Y
Custom Status Y Y
Sales Cycle Y Y
Sales Phase Y Y
Probability Y Y
Expected Value Y N
Weighted Value Y N
Start Date Y Y
Close Date Y Y
Publish to Forecast Y N
Forecast Category Y N
Sales Organization Y Y
Sales Group Y N
Sales Office Y N
Distribution Channel Y Y
Division Y Y
Territory Y Y
Campaign N N
Sales Unit Y Y
Notes Y N
Category Y N
Owner Y Y
Products ID Y N
Description Y N
Category Y N
Quantity Y N
Negotiated Value Y N
The table lists available fields in the detail view of opportunities in offline mode.
Document Type Y NA
Account Y Y
Primary Contact Y Y
Source Y Y
Priority Y Y
Status (Standard) Y NA
Custom Status Y Y
Consistency Status Y N
Sales Cycle Y NA
Sales Phase Y Y
Probability Y Y
Expected Value Y Y
Weighted Value Y N
Start Date Y Y
Close Date Y Y
Publish to Forecast Y Y
Forecast Category Y Y
Sales Organization Y Y
Sales Group Y Y
Sales Office Y Y
Distribution Channel Y Y
Division Y Y
Territory Y Y
Campaign Y N
Sales Unit Y Y
Category Y Y
Owner Y Y
Products ID Y N
Description Y N
Category Y N
Quantity Y N
Name Y N
E-Mail Y N
Contacts Name Y N
E-Mail Y N
Leads Name Y N
Account Y N
Created On Y N
Source Y N
Description Y Y
Product Category Y N
Quantity Y Y
Negotiate Value Y Y
Proposed Value Y N
Notes Y Y
Status Y N
Sales Phase Y N
Start Date/Time Y N
End Date/Time Y N
Owner Y N
Visits Subject Y N
Status Y N
Sales Phase Y N
Start Date/Time Y N
End Date/Time Y N
Owner Y N
Emails Subject Y N
Status Y N
Sales Phase Y N
Start Date/Time Y N
Owner Y N
Status Y N
Sales Phase Y N
Start Date/Time Y N
Owner Y N
Tasks Subject Y N
Status Y N
Sales Phase Y N
Start Date/Time Y N
Due Date/Time Y N
Owner Y N
Name Y N
E-mail Y N
Phone Y N
Function Y N
Phone Y N
Mobile Y N
E-Mail Y N
Department Y N
Name Y N
Address Y N
E-Mail Y N
Phone Y N
Type Y N
Changed On Y N
Changed By Y N
Description Y N
External Reference Y N
Date Y N
Primary Y N
Owner Y N
Sales Order ID Y N
Description Y N
External Reference Y N
Date Y N
Owner Y N
Tickets Tickets ID Y N
Subject Y N
Priority Y N
Status Y N
Created On Y N
Assigned To Y N
Account Y N
Owner Y N
Relationship Y N
Created On Y N
Status Y Y
Category Y Y
The table lists available actions you can take in opportunities in offline mode.
Ticket New N
Attachments Add Y
New Y
Products Add Y
Delete N
Delete Y
Delete Y
Contact Add Y
Delete Y
You should maintain these fields in your opportunities so they can be included in forecasts.
The system will stop automatically updating the Probability field upon changes to the Sales Phase field if a
manual change has been done.
My Opportunities query displays all the opportunities that you are assigned as a party, not only the ones that
you own.
If an opportunity has met approval conditions yet cannot be submitted for approval, administrators can check
whether approvers are properly defined in Approval Process or if approval submission is allowed for the
applicable custom status that the opportunity resides in.
Related Information
As administrators, you can in general restrict access to data records that do not contain any access relevant
content. In doing so, homeless opportunities will not be visible to business users with restricted access to
opportunities.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Built-in Services and Support System Management User and Access Management to find the
corresponding scoping question.
If you have also enabled Compatibility mode for Access Context 1015 following the path above, opportunities
that contain applicable sales area data but have no territories or parties assigned will also be accessible to
business users with restricted access to opportunities.
You can perform a search in opportunities based on the custom status to see if there is any data consuming the
status.
Learn about sales and service contracts which allow you to quickly create and maintain agreements, maintain
contracts header, item, and covered objects, as well as create contracts from opportunities and sales orders.
Note
Administrators and end-users will find details for both service and sales contracts in this solution guide.
Any pertinent details that apply strictly to service contracts or solely for sales contracts will clearly
identified. This document in available in both the Solution Guide for SAP Cloud for Sales as well as the
Solution Guide for SAP Cloud for Service.
With service contracts you can manage customer support agreements between you and your customers for
items according to the warranty coverage. With the solution you can track details about the type of support
that your customers are eligible for as long as the customer has an active contract. Your contract
administration team will define the contract details, such as entitlements (for service contracts), limited
products, and pricing. In addition, depending on the contract template, other details such as support coverage
based on hours, service level agreements (SLAs), as well support types may also be included in the contract.
Use sales contracts to determine contracts for quantity sales contracts with SAP ERP integration and contract
determination on item level for quotes and orders. One of the principle features of sales contracts includes bi-
directional quantity sales contract integration with SAP ERP. In addition, with sales contracts, contract
determination on item level for orders and quotes is also available.
The Contracts work center supports you in creating service and sales contracts based on the required details
as well as displaying overview details about active contracts. As soon as you have finalized a contract with a
customer and it is active, the contract is determined during ticket creation and automatically added to the
ticket. If the contract contains SLAs (service level agreements), you will see them after the determination in the
ticket.
As a manager, with contract analysis you can view and analyze contract data such as, contract items, contract
value, release history, and more.
Administrators can configure service and or sales contracts using scoping, scoping questions, and fine-tuning
activities.
Administrators can configure sales contracts using scoping, scoping questions, and fine-tuning activities.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Edit Project Scope Scoping Sales New
Business Sales Contracts Business Option: Sales Contracts Questions. Place a checkmark in the
desired sections and save your entries.
Administrators can create custom document types to streamline filtering, define reports, or facilitate
assignments.
Administrators set-up documents types for sales and service contracts to enable data exchange with external
applications such as SAP ERP. Some standard document types are delivered by the solution. Administrator can
create document types that are transferable to SAP ERP configured as External Data in the solution.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Opportunities Document Types Maintain Document Types to edit your opportunity types.
Administrators can define quote, sales and service contract document types for SAP ERP with SAP Cloud for
Customer quotes, sales, and service contracts.
The fine-tuning of Document Types allows multiple settings for SAP ERP integration. You can leverage each
document type as a special business scenario/use case. Depending on your requirements, you can create
multiple document types for your desired business scenarios.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Activity Name: Sales Contracts, Service Contract, or Sales Quotes Document Types Maintain Document
Types. Select your Document Type and modify it to your business solution requirements.
External Pricing – A check in the box enables an external application such as SAP ERP, synchronously requests
prices. The transaction simulation determines not only pricing, but sales quotes, free goods, product
availability, and credit status based on SAP ERP customizing for this document type. From SAP Cloud for
Customer, you trigger the external application, by clicking Action Request External Pricing.
Replication – Administrators define the sales quote and the sales and service contract transfer behavior from
your SAP on-premise system to your cloud solution by selecting one of the following options:
● Bi-directional – Sales quote edits in your cloud solution are replicated to your SAP on-premise system,
syncing both quotes.
Remember
Your SAP on-premise system is the leading system for these sales quotes, sales, and, service contracts.
Quotes created in your cloud solution can be replicated to your SAP on-premise system from Action
Submit. Quotes created in SAP ERP can be edited in SAP Cloud for Customer and the changes are
replicated in SAP ERP.
● Inbound – Quote edits completed in your cloud solution are not replicated to your SAP on-premise system.
Those quotes are overwritten if further replications are triggered from your SAP on-premise system.
Note
We recommend that you control editable fields and actions from the page layout and only open
extension fields that do not require replication. (Creation of the sales quote is only possible in SAP ERP
and changes performed in SAP Cloud for Customer are not sent to SAP ERP).
● Empty – Leaving this field blank indicates the sales quote stays in SAP Cloud for Customer, but this option
still allows you to request external pricing.
Note
This configuration only applies to new sales quotes as well as sales and service contracts. Existing sales
quotes and sales and service contracts behave using the inherited document type configuration. Existing
sales quotes and sales and service contracts behave as specified from the previous active document type
configuration.
Asynchronous Pricing – Administrators can modify the settings for external pricing. A synchronous call is
required to retrieve the complete pricing result from the SAP on-premise system to your cloud solution.
With this configuration, if the document was previously replicated, administrators can disable the synchronous
pricing call to the external system. In addition, you can disable the synchronous call completely, which is valid
for quotes created in your cloud solution. For both configuration options, the pricing status needs to be
calculated successfully through the asynchronous call from the external system. Select the option that suits
your business needs.
● Empty – Leaving this field blank triggers an automatic (once replicated) synchronous pricing call activation
(You see pricing-related errors, but configuration has performance impacts.).
● After replication – If document was replicated successfully, an automatic synchronous pricing call is
deactivated.
● Always – An automatic synchronous pricing call is always deactivated (leads to a performance advantage,
but possible pricing call error messages are no longer displayed directly in the UI, only asynchronously). No
matter the configuration, you can trigger pricing synchronously by clicking Action Request External
Pricing. With this configuration, avoid quote approvals that include external pricing elements.
Note
To avoid data inconsistencies between SAP ERP and SAP Cloud for Customer, only replicated contracts are
used in tickets.
Remember
Only new and sales and service contracts and sales quotes inherit changes in the document type
configuration. Existing contracts and sales quotes behave as specified in past active document type
configuration.
Administrators can explore and learn how to define contract item types.
Item types determine how an item category behaves in a contracts. Item item types are not necessary, but are
relevant if you replicate quotes with an on premise system and administrators should remember to configure
document types.
You can define alternative item types for the item types delivered in the standard solution. These alternative
item types are then displayed for the corresponding items under the Products tab for contracts. You can use
these custom item types to process items based on SAP ERP item categories. You can also use item types for,
in order simulations to retrieve external pricing.
1. To quickly navigate to the fine-tuning activity, go to Business Configuration Overview Sort by:
Activities Search and type Sales Quotes.
2. Click Contracts Item Types Maintain Item Types .
3. Click Add Row.
4. Enter the desired details and save your entries.
If you want to define an item as a free sample or free good that should not affect pricing, flag it as Not
Relevant for Pricing. When an item that is not relevant for pricing is added to a quote, it does contain a price.
However, you can still add a price for this product manually.
As an administrator, you can configure the sales area defaults for service and sales contracts.
Configure Sales Area Defaulting for service contracts by navigating to Business Configuration
Implementation Projects Edit Project Scope Questions Service Entitlement Management Service
Contract Management Business Option: Sales Area Determination for Contracts.
Configure Sales Area Defaulting for sales contracts by navigating to Business Configuration
Implementation Projects Edit Project Scope Questions New Business Sales Contracts Business
Option: Sales Area Determination for Contracts.
Administrators can configure multiple document and item types for contracts.
To edit involved parties, go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open
Activity List Fine-Tune Service Contracts Item Type Determination Rules Maintain Item Type
Determination Rules for Contracts .
Administrators can maintain involved parties for different types of items, such as leads or activities. In this step,
you can assign party roles and use determination rules for involved parties.
To edit involved parties, go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open
Activity List Fine-Tune Sales Contract Item Types Involved Parties Maintain Involved Parties.
Explore how administrators can activate or deactivate determination steps for your party roles for sales
contracts.
1. Go to Business Configuration Activity List Service Contracts (or Sales Contracts) Maintain Involved
Parties .
2. Go to Party Role Account.
3. Click Maintain Determinations.
4. Flag the determination steps.
5. Save and activate the desired determination.
Administrators can configure active contract determination based on contract validity criteria for requested
dates in related tickets.
Configure this option by navigating to Business Configuration Edit Project Scope Questions Service
Customer Care Service Request Management Group: Entitlement Usage for Service Requests. Place a
check mark for question Do you want to determine activated service contracts, based on the contract validity
period at the time of the requested date in the ticket?
The following use cases are relevant when your business requires date considerations for future and past
tickets.
Future tickets are ones you create with a future request date. Contracts, which are currently in Ready status,
can be determined by ticket creation. A typical use case is tickets created in advance by maintenance plan. The
determination occurs if the status is Active at the requested future date of the service work ticket.
Administrators need to configure number ranges to define the range of numbers assigned to sales and service
contracts.
Learn how to set up usage restrictions for contracts to limit coverage based on additional criteria.
If you want to automatically restrict contracts to certain ticket types the first step is to create usage restrictions
in the Contracts fine tuning activity.
Upgrade, downgrade, or hide the severity level of errors and warnings for contracts.
You can configure message severity using the sales or service contract fine-tuning activity in the following
location: Business Configuration Implementation Projects First Implementation Project Open Activity
List Fine-Tune Sales Contracts (or Service Contracts) Message Severity Configuration.
When a covered object is maintained at item level, this contract item is only determined if this covered object
was set as reference object (in a ticket).
Configure this option by navigating to Business Configuration Edit Project Scope Questions Service
Entitlement Service Contract Management Group: Covered Objects on Item Level . Select the Do you want
to work with covered objects on an item level? question.
Administrators can configure the release authorized party for sales and or service contracts.
Go to Business Configuration Activity List Service (or Sales) Contracts Involved Parties and click
the Active flag to activate Authorized Party. Next, in the Involved Parties tab, add the customer which is the
authorized party.
Administrators can learn how to configure contract determination in tickets by scoping the system to
determine the search strategy.
Navigate to Business Configuration Edit Project Scope Questions Service Customer Care Service
Request Management Group: Entitlement Usage for Service Requests. .
Select the Do you want to determine contracts in tickets (disregarding customer account) based only on
Registered Products or Installation Points as reference? question.
Open a contract and navigate to Attachments, click Add to view the list of attachment types.
Administrator can configure contract types and usage restrictions based on additional criteria such as ticket
type.
You can create different contract document types with restricted coverage based on the context they are used
in. You can associate specific contract types with specific ticket types to auto assign the appropriate contract
for a ticket type.
Users can specify usage restrictions for each contract item. When a user creates a work ticket, the system
automatically applies the specified usage restrictions based on the ticket type.
Learn how to set-up item processing codes used for quantity contracts.
Context
Item processing codes are essential when working with quantity contracts. They determine how items (and
their related products) are handled in the following business process. Specifically if there is an increase,
decreases, or no impact in ticket items. Follow the steps below to set-up item processing codes for your
business.
Procedure
1. 1. Navigate to Business Configuration Open Activity List Fine-Tune Show All Activities Tickets for
Customer Support Maintain Item Processing Codes.
2. Select Add Row.
3. To create item processing codes, populate the required fields.
4. Save your entries.
You configure payment terms in the solution, based on company business needs. Payment terms define when
an invoice must be paid, and whether a discount is applicable, depending if payments were made within the
agreed upon time period.
Configure payment terms for contracts by navigating to Business Configuration Implementation Projects
Open Activity List Fine-Tune Find: Accounts Payment Terms Maintain Payment Terms.
● Contracts Header, view the Payment Terms. Click the dropdown to select the correct payment term.
● Contracts Items tab, view the payment section in General Data. Click the dropdown to select the correct
payment term.
General availability has been made for administrators to configure contract item determination to use in offline
mode. Navigate to Business Configuration Edit Project Scope Questions Service Customer Care
Service Request Management and place a check mark for question Do you want to determine contract
items for tickets in offline mode?
Administrators can use the Data Workbench to modify sales and service contract types even after they are
created.
Administrators can configure a restriction so that business role users cannot perform Excel exports for service
and sales contracts.
Configure Excel export authorization restrictions by navigating to Administrator Business Roles Select
role (that includes the Contracts work center) Fields & Actions Business Actions Restrictions Add row
and search for Microsoft Excel.
The depersonalization function allows users to remove personal data from a business object, such as
contracts, to ensure compliance with the applicable data protection requirements.
Depersonalization is only available for users with access to the Data Protection and Privacy work center.
The Data Privacy Management tab allows those responsible for data protection issues in an organization to
respond to personal information removal and disclosure.
Remove personal data in contracts by navigating to Contracts All Contracts (or select desired contracts
Actions Depersonalize.
Users can create a contract and add details such as name, service level, dates, and involved parties. Additional
details such as covered objects, items, pricing, are added in their respective sections in the contract.
You can create the contract, request pricing, and send it to the customer for review before activating it upon
receipt of the customer’s signature. Further details such as covered objects, items, pricing, are added in their
respective sections in the contract.
As long as contracts are in negotiations, such as an internal or external review process with customers, the
contract status will remain with status In Preparation, meaning the contract is created but not ready to be used
in service tickets.
You also have the option to select from existing contract templates which were are usually created by your
contract administrator or manager. As an end-user, the contract template will help you save time by pre-
populating fields especially for standard customer contract requests.
Some companies only have a fixed (standard) number of contracts with a defined portfolio of services in their
market offering. Therefore, customized contracts won’t be created and the contract representative will select
one of the company’s standard contracts.
Note
If you enter a serial ID, the corresponding product is added automatically. You can also use the value
help to search for the serial ID or you can register it. To register a product select New Registration from
the value help.
4. Select Add and the customer’s desired product (covered object) are appended to the contract.
Note
Depending on how the product item was created in the solution, details such as the serial ID, registered
products, product category, will be automatically populated in the contract fields.
When adding product items to a covered object, select the Product Value Selection Show
Advanced Filter from the Products tab. This allows you to quickly filter filters such as Product
Category ID and Product Category Description.
5. Navigate to the Itemstab to assign for example, an entitlement product ‘Extended warranty’ for the
previously added covered object.
Note
In this case, a product ‘Extended Warranty´ has been added as a contract item. The desired warranty
for example, ‘Warranty 50%’ is automatically added.
6. Assign an entitled services & parts product, for example ‘Repair Hours'.
Note
This agreement gives the customer the right in case of an incident (within contract validity) to raise a
claim of a 50% discount for all of the repair hours required to fix the product issue.
Administrators can explore and learn how to define contract item types.
Item types determine how an item category behaves in a contracts. Item item types are not necessary, but are
relevant if you replicate quotes with an on premise system and administrators should remember to configure
document types.
You can define alternative item types for the item types delivered in the standard solution. These alternative
item types are then displayed for the corresponding items under the Products tab for contracts. You can use
these custom item types to process items based on SAP ERP item categories. You can also use item types for,
in order simulations to retrieve external pricing.
1. To quickly navigate to the fine-tuning activity, go to Business Configuration Overview Sort by:
Activities Search and type Sales Quotes.
2. Click Contracts Item Types Maintain Item Types .
3. Click Add Row.
4. Enter the desired details and save your entries.
Note
If you want to define an item as a free sample or free good that should not affect pricing, flag it as Not
Relevant for Pricing. When an item that is not relevant for pricing is added to a quote, it does contain a price.
However, you can still add a price for this product manually.
As an administrator, you can configure the sales area defaults for service and sales contracts.
Configure Sales Area Defaulting for service contracts by navigating to Business Configuration
Implementation Projects Edit Project Scope Questions Service Entitlement Management Service
Contract Management Business Option: Sales Area Determination for Contracts.
Configure Sales Area Defaulting for sales contracts by navigating to Business Configuration
Implementation Projects Edit Project Scope Questions New Business Sales Contracts Business
Option: Sales Area Determination for Contracts.
Administrators need to configure number ranges to define the range of numbers assigned to sales and service
contracts.
Upgrade, downgrade, or hide the severity level of errors and warnings for contracts.
You can configure message severity using the sales or service contract fine-tuning activity in the following
location: Business Configuration Implementation Projects First Implementation Project Open Activity
List Fine-Tune Sales Contracts (or Service Contracts) Message Severity Configuration.
Create contracts using templates, which automatically populate data in selected fields.
Context
Procedure
Note
The contract type (sales or service) is defaulted and equal to the type applied by the user in the last
contract setup.
Note
You can create contracts directly from the opportunity and some relevant details are copied to the contract. If
desired, you can bypass creating an opportunity and create a contract (proposal) directly.
Context
In some cases, a customer might during their decision and proposal process inquire about a service contract
before purchasing it which is why an opportunity is created for a contract.
For the companies providing contracts, opportunities are an indispensable prerequisite for calculating the
company revenue forecast.
Procedure
Create a related contract by copy everything into a new contract except the contract ID, external reference,
signed on, begins on, ends on and internal comment.
Context
Related Contracts are associated and processed, for example, in contract renewal process.
Procedure
1. Go to Contracts and open the contract from which you want to create the related contract.
2. Go to Related Contracts tab and choose New.
3. Enter the entries, such as Signed On, Begins On, and Ends On.
4. Save the entries.
Users can assign one territory to a contract, as well as search for and display territory changes in contracts.
To assign a single territory to a contract (noting that only one territory per contract is allowed),
Note
Follow the procedures to define a realignment run for contracts and territories.
Learn how to maintain access context for the Contracts work center.
1. Open the business role by clicking the work center Administrator General Settings Business Roles
and select the hyperlink of the business roles you want to assign an access context to.
2. Click the Access Restrictions tab.
3. Select the CONTRACT_WCVIEW assign territory access context to it.
4. In the Read Access field, select Unrestricted or Restricted.
Note
Choosing Unrestricted means that the user has access to all business data related to the tab. Choosing
Restricted means that the user only has access to specific business data, depending on the access
context.
Note
Not every work center tab has access context that can be modified.
From the Restriction Rule dropdown, select the desired rule for the contract work center tab:
Note
Choose only No Access if the Write Access has been set to Restricted and this selection means that the
user has no write access to the work center tab.
7. If you choose to restrict the Write Access, from the Restriction Rule dropdown, select the desired rule you
wish to restrict.
Once users have created contracts, they can modify contract details such as updating or adding the involved
parties, covered objects, billing plan, customer call notes, as well as assigning territories assignment. When
working with contracts, users benefit from the basic and advanced search to easily query contracts.
Copy and Paste Product Mass Entries in Service Contracts [page 382]
Users can can copy items from Excel using the copy and paste function in the product table.
Users can maintain involved parties on header level and item level.
1. From the Products tab, use personalize or adapt to add Item Involved Parties.
2. Administrators must go to fine-tuning activity Sales Quotes Involved Item Parties .
3. Party roles on item level are copied from header parties. If you do not need party roles for reporting or
follow-up processes, we recommend deactivating them in the item party schema.
Note
Ship-to parties are maintained in the sales quote product table. Please keep the activation in the item
schema in case a copy and follow-up action should also copy the item party.
Open a contract and navigate to Attachments, click Add to view the list of attachment types.
Create a contract for an account. In the contract header, set the flag Include Authorized Parties. Next you can
add the party role Authorized Party.
Note
When working with contracts in accounts, users can set up details that consider account hierarchies for
contracts.
Learn how configure and use the determine customer for ship-to party roles in account relationships for
contracts.
Remember
Administrators need first maintain involved parties. Go to Business Configuration Activity List
Service (and or Sales) Maintain Involved Parties . Go to party role account and click Maintain
Determinations and flag the determination steps for the account.
Follow the steps to determine customer for ship-to party roles in account relationships for contracts.
Administrators can learn which party roles can be activated or deactivated for contracts with territories.
Territories can be considered for party determination for the following roles:
Note
1. Navigate to the Fine-Tune party role Service Contracts Maintain Involved Party Party Role
Assignment.
2. Click Add Row.
Note
Note
You can only remove custom party roles from your party schema. Removal of the Activate flag can be
used as an alternative.
Note
Only active party roles appear in the Involved Parties value help.
You can explore the types of items used in contracts, how to structure and renumber contract items, as well as
add contract items from templates.
When covered objects are maintained at item level, the contract item will only be determined if this covered
object was set as reference object (in a ticket).
If there is no entry for a covered object on item level, this contract item can also be determined. The
determination is then derived from either the covered objects of the next higher item level or by the covered
objects stored on header level.
If you don’t maintain covered objects on header and on item-level, then all objects are covered.
Example
● Contract Gold
○ Covered objects tab (Header Level): [Covered Objects] A, B, and C
In SAP ERP there are covered objects (internally known as technical objects) only on item level. To be
compatible, we recommended a design the cloud contract as follows:
In SAP ERP, the logic is: no technical object assigned on contract item level implicates the contract item is valid
for all technical objects.
You can maintain a covered object for an item in a contract and also remove one or more covered object for an
item in a contract. Highlight the items you wish to remove, and then select More Remove .
You can search for contracts using the Contracts list table. This query searches for covered objects at the
header or item level. Other functions include:
● Copy: When users copy a contract, the covered objects maintained at item level are also copied.
● Change: Any modifications to covered objects on item level (including creation, modifications, and or
removal) are displayed in the contract Changes tab.
When covered objects are maintained at item level, the contract item will only be determined if this covered
object was set as reference object (in a ticket).
If you don’t maintain covered objects on header and on item-level, then all objects are covered.
Example
● Contract Gold
○ Covered objects tab (Header Level): [Covered Objects] A, B, and C
○ Items tab
Line 10 Extended Warranty - Covered Object tab: >no entry< [= ´A´, ´B´ and ´C´ are covered]
○ Item 20 Extended Support Covered Objects tab: >´A´<
[= [only] product ´A´ is covered]
○ Item 20-10 (subset) Covered Object tab: ´no entry´
[= [only] ´A´ is covered
In SAP ERP there are covered objects (internally known as technical objects) only on item level. To be
compatible, we recommended a design the cloud contract as follows:
In SAP ERP, the logic is: no technical object assigned on contract item level implicates the contract item is valid
for all technical objects.
You can maintain a covered object for an item in a contract and also remove one or more covered object for an
item in a contract. Highlight the items you wish to remove, and then select More Remove .
You can search for contracts using the Contracts list table. This query searches for covered objects at the
header or item level. Other functions include:
● Copy: When users copy a contract, the covered objects maintained at item level are also copied.
● Change: Any modifications to covered objects on item level (including creation, modifications, and or
removal) are displayed in the contract Changes tab.
Administrators can use the Data Workbench to modify sales and service contract types even after they are
created.
Users can can copy items from Excel using the copy and paste function in the product table.
This task allows you to quickly paste Items, Covered Objects, Entitled/ Excluded Services & Parts. Ensure that
the copied data exactly matches the order of columns in the user interface.
1. Open a contract.
2. Go to the Items tab of a contract.
3. Click the Paste icon and the paste field appears.
4. Click in the Paste supported source data, such as Excel field.
5. Use your keyboard paste function, such as Ctrl + V (or Shift + Insert) to paste the data in the field.
For users with assigned Business Roles, you can set Read and/or Write Access Rules for Contracts via Access
Restrictions.
02 Sales data of Employee Access only if Employee Sales Data (Sales Organization,
Division, Distribution Channel) is equal to the Sales Data
used in Contract.
03 Employee, Sales Data of Employee Access only if the employee forms part of at least one of the
Involved Parties of the contract or the Employee Sales Data
(Sales Organization, Division, Distribution Channel) is equal
to the Sales Data used in the Contract.
04 Sales Organization of Employee Access only if the Sales Organization is equal to the Sales
Organization used in the Contract.
05 Employees for Managers Managers have access to all the contracts of the employees
they are responsible for.
06 Employee, Accounts (Account Team) Access if the employee is directly assigned as involved party
in the contract and/or if employee is assigned to the
Account Team of the Contract Account.
You can use the predefined contract queries to display relevant contracts or download contracts for offline.
Contracts are included as part of the realignment runs while single territory per account is configured. When
the territory of an account is updated, the territory of the associated contracts is also updated. The update
interval for open contracts is 8 minutes and for closed contracts is 30 minutes.
Incoterms inform sales contracts the respective obligations, costs, and risks involved in the delivery of goods
from the seller to the buyer.
Learn about covered objects, the reference object in the ticket and how agents can navigate from the ticket
contract hyperlink directly to the contract, search for contracts, embed tickets in contracts, and determine
relevance of covered objects in ticket header.
Service Determination Relevance of Item Covered Objects in Ticket Header [page 386]
Administrators can configure Determination Relevance of Covered Objects.
Compare Service Determination Relevance of Item Covered Objects in Ticket Header [page 386]
Users can compare values entered as ticket references (such as Products, iBase, and Serial ID) to
covered objects assigned to contract items to determine an applicable contract.
Choose Item Processing Codes for Quantity Service Contracts [page 387]
Learn about item processing codes and how the target, release, and remaining quantities are
calculated as well as the affect on your service tickets (items).
Users can display tickets directly from a service contract by navigating to Contract and searching for or
selecting a contract. From the contract, navigate to the Ticket tab.
You can search for tickets associated with contract (on header and item level).
Note
Based on the selected query, there are different field compositions for advanced search and result
columns.
The covered object is equal to the reference object in the ticket – for that reason the agent can easily navigate
from the ticket contract hyperlink directly to the contract to inform customers about their entitlements.
Context
A customer has an issue with a product and contacts the service representative providing them their contract
id or contract name. To react quickly to the customer’s request, the representative wants to view only the
tickets only for a particular customer contract.
Procedure
4. From the ticket overview, select Summary Preview to review billing details.
5. If desired, add notes to the ticket.
6. Save your entries.
For quantity contracts, you can select the quantity contract item and search in its Release History for
related tickets to see remaining quantity.
You can also navigate to the Ticket tab of the contract to see all tickets related to the contract.
Administrators can embed the tickets table tab in a contract overview section.
To have a highly flexible query for contract related tickets, we recommend embedding tickets section in
contracts.
You can now view the embedded Tickets table including all of its queries.
Contract are determined and automatically added to a work ticket during ticket creation. This also applies to a
SLA (service level agreement), which might form as part of a contract that you would be able to view after
ticket determination in the ticket header.
● Contract determination in a ticket occurs based on ticket header information and item data.
● There is no direst dependency between the contract determination given by ticket header and the
contracts determined by the ticket items.
● It is possible to maintain multiple contracts in item level.
● Contract hierarchy is supported.
● Setting different contract determination logic and parameters is possible via BaDI implementation.
With the configuration, users can create a new contract and choose one of the following Determination
Relevance of Covered Objects types:
● Limited to Item Covered Objects - This selection is the system default. If a user enters in the ticket
processing a Serial ID as a Ticket Reference Object, the contract determination on ticket header is only
considered for contracts where this Serial ID is listed as a covered object on contract item.
● Consider Header Covered Objects - If a user chooses this selection (or leaves the field blank), and enters
ticket processing such as a Serial ID as a Ticket Reference Object, the contract determination on ticket
header is only considered for contracts where this Serial ID is listed as a covered object on contract header
Users can compare values entered as ticket references (such as Products, iBase, and Serial ID) to covered
objects assigned to contract items to determine an applicable contract.
When working with tickets that have a contract, the solution considers covered object assigned to contract
items. It also considers covered objects assigned to the contract header referencing covered objects that fit.
Learn about item processing codes and how the target, release, and remaining quantities are calculated as well
as the affect on your service tickets (items).
With quantity contracts, you can administer contract determination for defined products which should be
restricted in a period to a specific target quantity.
In general, code types are used in tickets (items) to determine how items (and their related products) are
handled in the business process. Therefore, if you have contracts in the system, the code types you choose
when setting up item processing codes have a considerable influence on the way your business works with
quantity contracts. Mainly, the choices made will result in how the target, release, and remaining quantities are
calculated, so consider these factors when setting up your solution.
Whether the item processing code increases, decreases, or has no impact in ticket items, you’ll find various
service transaction processing type codes depending on your solution set-up. Depending on the item
processing code, different handling for quantity call off (release) in contract items are relevant.
Learn about the item processing codes that have a (decrease) impact in quantity contracts.
The following item processing codes defined in fine-tuning have a (decrease) impact on defined product
quantities in quantity contracts if they are used in tickets:
Example
A ticket is created and the technician provides a service, for example, using a spare part or time in accordance
with the contract covered objects. Once the service occurs and is recorded in the solution, you will see a
modification in the target definitions resulting in an increase in the release quantity and a reduction in the
remaining quantity.
Learn about the item processing code that has an (increase) impact in quantity contracts.
The following item processing code defined in fine-tuning has an (increase) impact on defined product
quantities in quantity contracts if they are used in tickets:
Example
The service technician provided a service in accordance with the contract covered objects. The stock for
example, a boiler was returned. Once the service occurs and is recorded in the solution including the boiler
return, you will see a modification in the target definitions resulting in a decrease in the release quantity and an
increase in the remaining quantity.
Learn about the item processing code that have no impact in quantity contracts.
The following item processing codes defined in fine-tuning have no impact on defined product quantities in
quantity contracts if they are used in tickets.
Example
In the first example, the technician provided a service in accordance with the contract covered objects. The
stock, for example, one boiler was already sent as ´Part Advance Shipment to Customer Consignment Stock
part´ to the customer. This has had an impact on the product quantity of the quantity contract.
For this reason a ticket item with type ´Part Consumption from Customer Consignment Stock´ won´t have any
further impact on the product quantity of the quantity contract resulting in the release quantity and remaining
quantity staying the same.
In the second example, the technician creates a complaint item about a product. As there is not yet a clear
picture about the next steps for this ticket item, there is not an impact on target definitions. The same applies
for external procurement for example in a DIY (Do it yourself).
Learn how the systems uses contract determination to search for and reference to existing contracts created in
the system as well as the assignment of tickets in contracts. Contracts are determined orders if they have the
same product, customer (sold-to party) and org. data (sales org unit, distribution channel, and division).
Compare Service Determination Relevance of Item Covered Objects in Ticket Header [page 386]
Users can compare values entered as ticket references (such as Products, iBase, and Serial ID) to
covered objects assigned to contract items to determine an applicable contract.
Users can compare values entered as ticket references (such as Products, iBase, and Serial ID) to covered
objects assigned to contract items to determine an applicable contract.
When working with tickets that have a contract, the solution considers covered object assigned to contract
items. It also considers covered objects assigned to the contract header referencing covered objects that fit.
Explore how you can use the contract determination log to view which sales and services contracts were
determined and why.
Note
The log is available for sales orders, sales quotes, and work tickets.
Create a contract for an account. In the contract header, set the flag Include Authorized Parties. Next you can
add the party role Authorized Party.
Note
Users can assign quantity contracts to eligible parties for call-off quantities in sales orders and sales quotes.
Users can choose from one of the following in Overview section of a sales contract.
● Include Account Hierarchy: The account of the contract and all subordinated accounts within the account
hierarchy are considered for contract determination.
● Include Authorized Parties: The account of the contract and all authorized parties added to the involved
parties of the contract are considered for contract determination.
Note
To use include authorized parties, go to fine-tuning Sales Contract Involved Parties and activate the
party role Authorized Party.
During contract determination, the number of contract items is reduced by excluding specific contract items in
stages using the elimination process in the check logic.
The main goal is always to find the most applicable contract(s), as well inapplicable, blocked, or obsolete
contracts. This allows the service technician to make an informed decision about the correct contract to use
for a service ticket.
Learn the contract determination logic for account hierarchy, installed base, and installation point (service
reference objects).
To gain a better understanding, here are examples of account hierarchy contract determination.
The service technician creates a service ticket and adds the customer account details. If the customer has a
contract covering all products and all serial numbers, the contract is always applicable.
The service technician creates a service ticket and adds the customer account details. The contract is not
found, because it is too specific. If the product P1 is entered, the contract is found because it matches exactly.
The contract is also found if the Serial ID is entered, because all Serial IDs are covered.
The service technician creates a service ticket. If the customer and the product are entered in the ticket, the
contract is not found, because it is too specific. If the Serial ID S1 is entered in the ticket, the contract is found,
because it matches exactly.
The service technician enters the customer in the service ticket. The solution logic determines that Product P1
and contract C1 are applicable. For product P2, contract C2 is applicable. For product P3, no contract is
determined.
The service technician enters the customer account in the service ticket. Two contracts are found, both are
applicable, and neither one is most applicable. Therefore, no automatic assignment is needed. The service
technician receives a message to manually select a contract.
Learn the contract determination logic for Installation Point (service reference objects).
The service technician enters the Installation Point ID in the ticket and the solution states no contract exists. A
contract does exist with an Installation Point, which is located one hierarchy overhead, meaning this contract is
also applicable.
The most applicable contract is the contract of the Installation Pointt element, which was entered in the ticket.
If no contract exists, the most applicable contract is for the Installation Point element is located at the next
hierarchy level.
Learn about the contract determination logic sequences that are relevant for customer-centric.
In a service request header, the contract usage restriction code is considered in the determination logic. The
contract has at item level a list of one or more contract usage restriction codes.
Note
When your business uses customer-centric contract determination, the customer (account) is relevant in
the search criteria.
If the contract usage restriction code of the service request header is covered in one of the list of the contract
items. Then the contract is the most applicable. If no contract item has a list of contract usage restriction code,
then all contract usage restriction codes are covered and this contract is also applicable.
Enter the installation point and Installed base in the service ticket and the solution first searches for contracts
and items
Note: When your business uses object-centric contract determination, the customer (account) is not a relevant
search criterion.
Note: The solution locates contracts and items for customers (accounts) which are different from the
customer in the service ticket.
The solution analyzes the contracts and items and ranks them in order of significance.
Example
A machine has an incident at customer A at site ABC for product 123 but the applicable contract (with product
123 as covered object) determined was made for customer B. If you create a ticket entering product 123 the
relating contract is determined although the customer in the ticket is A.
A service ticket is created using the customer ID. The solution does not recommend a contract. The customer
does have a contract located in the hierarchy, meaning the contract is also applicable.
The most applicable contract is the contract for the customer entered in the ticket. If no contract exists, the
most applicable contract is for the customer at the next hierarchy level.
Each customer from the hierarchy has their own contract. If in the ticket the company St. Ingbert, has been
entered, the contract for company St. Ingbert is the most applicable. The two other contracts for company
Germany and company Europe are also applicable.
The contract for company St. Ingbert is blocked and the ticket processor enters customer company St.
Ingbert. Then, the contract for the company Germany is the most applicable and the contract for company
Europe is also valid.
The contract for company St. Ingbert is blocked. The contract for company Germany is also blocked. The ticket
processor enters customer company St. Ingbert. Then, the contract for the company Europe is the most
applicable contract.
When working with contracts in accounts, users can set up details that consider account hierarchies for
contracts.
Define Quote and Contract Document Types for SAP ERP Integration [page 398]
Administrators can define quote, sales and service contract document types for SAP ERP with SAP
Cloud for Customer quotes, sales, and service contracts.
Administrators can define SAP ECC contract transfer behavior in business configuration for contracts.
For each document type an administrator should select one of the following contract replication types:
Remember
If none of the replication selections are made (blank selection), contract changes are not transferred to or
from SAP ECC.
Administrators can define quote, sales and service contract document types for SAP ERP with SAP Cloud for
Customer quotes, sales, and service contracts.
The fine-tuning of Document Types allows multiple settings for SAP ERP integration. You can leverage each
document type as a special business scenario/use case. Depending on your requirements, you can create
multiple document types for your desired business scenarios.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Activity Name: Sales Contracts, Service Contract, or Sales Quotes Document Types Maintain Document
Types. Select your Document Type and modify it to your business solution requirements.
External Pricing – A check in the box enables an external application such as SAP ERP, synchronously requests
prices. The transaction simulation determines not only pricing, but sales quotes, free goods, product
Replication – Administrators define the sales quote and the sales and service contract transfer behavior from
your SAP on-premise system to your cloud solution by selecting one of the following options:
● Bi-directional – Sales quote edits in your cloud solution are replicated to your SAP on-premise system,
syncing both quotes.
Remember
Your SAP on-premise system is the leading system for these sales quotes, sales, and, service contracts.
Quotes created in your cloud solution can be replicated to your SAP on-premise system from Action
Submit. Quotes created in SAP ERP can be edited in SAP Cloud for Customer and the changes are
replicated in SAP ERP.
● Inbound – Quote edits completed in your cloud solution are not replicated to your SAP on-premise system.
Those quotes are overwritten if further replications are triggered from your SAP on-premise system.
Note
We recommend that you control editable fields and actions from the page layout and only open
extension fields that do not require replication. (Creation of the sales quote is only possible in SAP ERP
and changes performed in SAP Cloud for Customer are not sent to SAP ERP).
● Empty – Leaving this field blank indicates the sales quote stays in SAP Cloud for Customer, but this option
still allows you to request external pricing.
Note
This configuration only applies to new sales quotes as well as sales and service contracts. Existing sales
quotes and sales and service contracts behave using the inherited document type configuration. Existing
sales quotes and sales and service contracts behave as specified from the previous active document type
configuration.
Asynchronous Pricing – Administrators can modify the settings for external pricing. A synchronous call is
required to retrieve the complete pricing result from the SAP on-premise system to your cloud solution.
Replicated sales documents also require a synchronous pricing update once the sales document is updated
during a save in SAP Cloud for Customer.
With this configuration, if the document was previously replicated, administrators can disable the synchronous
pricing call to the external system. In addition, you can disable the synchronous call completely, which is valid
for quotes created in your cloud solution. For both configuration options, the pricing status needs to be
calculated successfully through the asynchronous call from the external system. Select the option that suits
your business needs.
● Empty – Leaving this field blank triggers an automatic (once replicated) synchronous pricing call activation
(You see pricing-related errors, but configuration has performance impacts.).
● After replication – If document was replicated successfully, an automatic synchronous pricing call is
deactivated.
● Always – An automatic synchronous pricing call is always deactivated (leads to a performance advantage,
but possible pricing call error messages are no longer displayed directly in the UI, only asynchronously). No
matter the configuration, you can trigger pricing synchronously by clicking Action Request External
Pricing. With this configuration, avoid quote approvals that include external pricing elements.
To avoid data inconsistencies between SAP ERP and SAP Cloud for Customer, only replicated contracts are
used in tickets.
Remember
Only new and sales and service contracts and sales quotes inherit changes in the document type
configuration. Existing contracts and sales quotes behave as specified in past active document type
configuration.
Offline service contract features include search and match of ticket parameters to the applicable contract
parameters.
Note
Offline Service Contract Covered Objects in Item Determination is available for both test and productive use.
To enable this phased delivery feature, create an incident or contact your SAP Cloud for Customer
representative.
Reference Product ID of Ticket Item Against Product ID (also as category) of Without Product Category Hierarchy
Contract Covered Object (Item)
Reference Installation Point ID of Ticket Against Installation Point ID of Contract Without Installation Point Hierarchy
Item Covered Object (Item)
General availability has been made for administrators to configure contract item determination to use in offline
mode. Navigate to Business Configuration Edit Project Scope Questions Service Customer Care
Service Request Management and place a check mark for question Do you want to determine contract
items for tickets in offline mode?
No deviation (typical use case) - Proposed [e.g. offline] Contract = ´[online] Contract´ ´Conflict´ constellation:
MOST APPLIBALE CONTRACT: applicable ´ Proposed Contract ´ [= that is the most applicable Contract in
online mode] was transferred from offline to online field ´Contract´
APPLICABLE CONTRACT: applicable ´Proposed Contract´ [~ and no most applicable exists in online mode]
was transferred from offline to online
Deviation:\u000BRecommendation is to set up Workflow Rules for Tickets with critical Contract Transfer
Detail Values (such as ´inapplicable proposed contract…´, ´no contract proposed´) to filter and check final
Contract Assigment to these Ticket Items:
TRANSFERRED BUT MOST APPLICABLE EXISTS: applicable ´Proposed Contract´ [~ but most applicable
Contract exists in online mode but was not taken] was transferred from offline to online.
INAPPLICABLE CONTRACT NOT TRANSFERRED: inapplicable ´Proposed Contract´ [=in online mode this
contract can not (!) be determined] which was not transferred from offline to online.
NO CONTRACT PROPOSED BUT MOST APPLICABLE CONTRACT EXISTS: no ´Proposed Contract´ [~ but
most applicable Contract exists in online mode] was transferred from offline to online
Resolution of Deviation: underlying Question is: Should the online or the offline determined contract ´rule´?
If online contract item should be used (normally better since offline is only a proposal) then trigger action
Redetermine, select manually the contract item in OVS or use value:
If offline contract item should be used (rare use case) then set the “Contract Transfer Detail”:
PROPOSED CONTRACT MANUALLY ACCEPTED: Accept offline proposal [= a) no ´ Proposed Contract ´ was
manually assigned offline (e.g. no contract warranty due to customer fault) nevertheless even if online
applicable contracts exist: then no contract should be set online. b) an applicable ´ Proposed Contract ´ was
determined offline and this one should be used although other/ most applicable contract(s) online exist(s)]
\u000BINAPPLICABLE PROPOSED CONTRACT ENFORCED inapplicable ´Proposed Contract [=in online
mode this contract can not (!) be determined] which nevertheless was transferred from offline to online and
there enforced to online field ´ Contract ´
Learn how the system uses contract pricing to determine the price of a material based on the contract.
The contracts solution retrieves complete price information including tax from the SAP ERP external system.
Context
Your administrator has set-up external pricing in your solution so that you can retrieve complete price
information from SAP ERP for your service contracts.
Complete all of the steps below before you request external pricing from SAP ERP.
1. Open the contract which should already include the covered objects and items.
2. Navigate to the Items.
3. Select Billing Plan to add the customer’s desired details, such as how and when they want to billed for the
contract services.
These prices will vary depending on how your administrator has set-up the solution.
4. Navigate to Pricing where you can enter various types of discounts per line item.
5. Save your entries.
6. Select Request External Pricing in order to retrieve the pricing from the external SAP ERP system.
Now all of the details the customer needs in order to sign the contract are available.
7. Select Preview Send and the customer will receive a preview of the contract document.
Once the customer signs the contract it should be sent back to your company.
8. Select Activate and the contract status is changed to Active or Ready (if the contract is agreed but only
valid for a future date).
9. Select Transfer and the contract is sent to SAP ERP where all details are stored and a contract is created.
The solution will provide you with transfer status information and the External ID from SAP ERP.
The contract ID displayed in the contract header is the number created by SAP Hybris Cloud for Service.
The External Reference is any number or set of characters the customer desires to use and is entered
manually in the header by the contract administrator or associate.
Create reports using the data collected from your contracts to better understand them and make
improvements.
Administrators can include item covered objects in report by navigating to Business Analytics Design Data
Sources Contract Item Covered Objects .
Administrators can configure a restriction so that business role users cannot perform Excel exports for
contracts.
Configure Excel export authorization restrictions by navigating to Administrator Business Roles Select
role (that includes the Contracts work center) Fields & Actions Business Actions Restrictions Add row
and search for Microsoft Excel.
Having trouble using contracts? Check this list of questions and answers for help.
Yes, creation or adaption of customer fields are possible and will be considered for contract template usage.
Learn about contract service level priorities and Service Level Objective (SLO)s.
Example: If arrival at the customer site is guaranteed by a standard service level is eight (8) hours, but the
contract service level is one (1) hour, then the contract service level will be used in the ticket.
Your administrator can set-up work flow solutions to be used for renewal purposes.
These work flows can be set-up using notifications and/or opportunities informing you in advance when
contracts are due to expire. In addition, with the Contracts Expiring Soon query you can filter for contracts
where the Ends On date lies between the current date and the current date plus 28 days.
When you activate a contract, the system performs several checks to ensure that the contract is valid.
● A contract which must have a start and end date and the end date must be after the start date
● The covered objects you have entered added parties. The system checks whether they exist in the system
Learn what happens to contract determination, when about the service ticket objects are modified.
The service technician creates a ticket and adds the mandatory business objects such as the customer
account.
One of the following fields is changed at item level and item service reference objects level of the ticket. The
contract item determination starts automatically for the ticket item:
Learn about the search criterion used in contract determination for tickets.
The service technician creates a ticket and adds the mandatory business objects such as the customer
account.
If one of the following fields is changed at ticket header level, the contract determination is started
automatically for the header and service reference objects, including all ticket items:
Users can view SAP ECC statuses in the Contracts overview. The External Status, External Reference Status
(relevant only for sales quantity contracts call-offs), and External Invoice Status are available on the header and
item level.
Sales quote processing is used when offering products to customers and prospects in accordance with specific
terms with fixed conditions.
Sales quotes are presented to existing customers, prospects, or potential buyers to have the chance to review
the costs of products or services your company offers.
Quotes can be created directly from an opportunity and include the products from that opportunity. With SAP
Cloud for Customer, your company sales professionals can create and maintain quotes using a desktop or a
tablet device, either online or offline.
Your administrator creates and then activate product lists to be used in your quotes. With product lists, you can
combine a set of products associated with accounts. When you create a sales quote for accounts that has
associated product lists, the product list appears in the form.
You can quickly create a quote, copy one, or modify an existing quote. You add or update items (products and
or services) that reside in your company database. You can also add and view more details such as external
references, notes, and involved parties. A company administrator configures and modifies the fine-tuning
activity for sales quotes to meet the needs of your company. This solution set-up offers you, the sales
representative, more possibilities to work with quotes to meet your needs.
Example
A sales representative creates a sales quote from an opportunity. Involved parties, products, as well as related
quantities are copied to the sales quote.
The Administrator has set-up the solution, which uses details such as accounts, products, and date to calculate
net value. The sales representative can overwrite the automatically determined prices and discounts or add
further discounts and surcharges. Depending on the system configuration, the sales quote may require
approval, when thresholds such as total net value or total given discounts are exceeded.
The sales representative sends the sales quote to the customer according to the output settings. If the
customer accepts the sales quote, it can be set to Won and the status changes to Completed. With an external
integration, such as SAP ERP, you can also transfer the sales quote into a sales order in the external system.
Administrators can configure sales quotes using scoping, scoping questions, and fine-tuning activities.
Recommendation
We recommend that you review all the scoping questions in the areas that are relevant and that you have
included in your scope. When you select a question, more information appears on the tabs in the details
section of the screen.
Scoping questions and fine-tuning activities that are straightforward may not be included in this list.
Navigate to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope
Implementation Focus Scoping Sales Product and Service Portfolio for Sales Sell Standard Products .
Navigate to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope
Implementation Focus Scoping Sales New Business Sales Quotes .
To use sales quotes, administrators must add the ability to sell standard products, and activate sales quotes to
the scope of the project.
Sales quotes enable you to sell products and services to prospective customers interested in your them. You
can offer prospects a quote with product details, including prices and discounts.
When you log on as an administrator, you can find the scoping questions under Business Configuration
Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Implementation Focus Questions Sales
Product and Service Portfolio for Sales Sell Standard Products Business Option: Sell from Stock .
Review and place a checkmark under You will be able to sell products.
Item types determine how an item category behaves in a sales document. Item item types are not necessary,
but are relevant if you replicate quotes with an on premise system and administrators should remember to
configure document types.
You can define alternative item types for the item types delivered in the standard solution. These alternative
item types are then displayed for the corresponding items under the Products tab for sales orders. You can use
these custom item types to process items based on SAP ERP item categories. You can also use item types for,
in order simulations to retrieve external pricing.
1. To quickly navigate to the fine-tuning activity, go to Business Configuration Overview Sort by:
Activities Search and type Sales Quotes.
2. Click Sales Quotes Item Types Maintain Item Types .
3. Click Add Row.
4. Enter the desired details and save your entries.
Note
If you want to define an item as a free sample or free good that should not affect pricing, flag it as Not
Relevant for Pricing. When an item that is not relevant for pricing is added to a quote, it will not contain a
price. However, you can still add a price for this product manually.
Administrators can define items as a free sample or free good so that pricing is not affected.
You can define item types as not pricing relevant. The activity allows users to only add the item type to the item
without setting the price to zero or a 100% discount. For example, a product is added to quote as a free good or
sample.
Note
This Not Pricing Relevant item type is available in external pricing and offline pricing sales orders. You can
still add a price for this product manually.
Administrators need to define item increment numbers, which allow you to control Item Increment and Sub
Item Increment ranges.
Note
Increment configuration eliminates limitations for bill of materials (BOM) explosion when there are
many Sub Items in external pricing.
Administrators can set up your solution to determine the item type for follow-up documents. The follow-up
sales quote to sales order process allows you to copy item types that are used for SAP ERP and CRM
processing.
Note
Users can use adaptation or personalization to add the item type to the sales quote product table.
Note
You can also use code list restrictions to filter item types based on a document type.
Administrators need to configure code list restrictions to restrict the display of certain code values for a
specific set of users in quote and order documents.
Administrators need to configure number ranges to define the range of numbers assigned to sales quotes.
Administrators can create and maintain document types. They can be used in the system and within reports to
filter documents.
Procedure
1. Navigate to Business Configuration Overview Activities Search and type Maintain Document
Types.
2. Click Add Row and enter the required document type code and a description.
Decide whether you want to enable your document type for Direct Customer Acceptance. This means that
a quote does not need printouts or a confirmation because the customer has already accepted the quote
directly during the sales rep visit.
Depending of your scope decide whether you want to enable the document type for External Pricing. This
means that the prices are calculated in an external system and are shown then in the quote.
3. If you want to define custom number increments for items or subitems, enter the increments you want to
use.
Increment configuration allows you to explode a bill of material (BOM) explosion with lots of subitems
via external pricing.
Note
You can only delete document types that have not been used in the system. Select the entry you want
to delete and click Delete.
As an administrator, you can configure payment terms and Incoterms (International Commercial Terms) to
define when an invoice must be paid as well as the charges you company or the buyer pays.
Locate the fine-tuning activity by navigating to Business Configuration Overview Search Accounts
and click Maintain Payment Terms.
Note
Payment terms are defaulted from the sales data of the account to the sales quote.
If a sales quote is copied, administrators can configure the copying of the Pricing Date and Incoterms.
Procedure
Administrators can learn about external pricing call configuration to retrieve the complete pricing result from
SAP on premise systems to your cloud solution.
If external pricing is selected, a synchronous call is required to retrieve the complete pricing result from the
SAP on premise system to your cloud solution. Replicated sales documents also require a synchronous pricing
update once the sales document is updated during save.
If the document was previously replicate, with this configuration, you can disable the synchronous pricing call
to the system,. In addition, you can disable the synchronous call completely, which is also valid for quotes
created in your cloud solution. For both configuration options, the pricing status is calculated successfully
through the asynchronous call from the external system. The user can still trigger pricing synchronously by
clicking the asynchronous call action.
To configure external pricing call, go to fine-tuning activity Sales Quotes Document Types .
Asynchronous pricing does not expose Credit Limit, Credit Exposure Amount, or Credit Exceeding Amount. If
pricing simulation was triggered in the system once for that corresponding pricing procedure, you can add
conditions on header and item level. Pricing elements exposed to the item and header are also supported for
asynchronous pricing.
For internal pricing, administrators can configure a reason for rejection to keep the total value in quotes and
orders, including quotes that are completely or partially lost.
To configure the canceled items in total calculation, go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects
Your Implementation Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune Reason for Rejection and choose the
desired Available Reasons for Rejection that should not reduce the Total calculation.
● (Today's Date)
● Requested Date (Header)
Configure the pricing date defaults by navigating to the fine-tuning activity Sales Quote Document
Types .
Highlight the desired document type and select the desired logic type from the pricing date dropdown field.
Define the sales quote default requested date, which is available in the header area.
Configure quote validity and requested dates by navigating to the fine-tuning activity Date Profiles Date
Variable for Sales Sales Quotes .
Highlight the desired document type and select the desired logic type from the pricing date dropdown field.
Note
The requested date on header is copied to requested date on items. Manually changed dates on items are
not overwritten by the header date.
Administrators can explore how to configure inbound quote replication to take place only from inbound SAP on
premise systems.
Remember
Quote edits completed in your cloud solution are not replicated to your SAP on premise system. If further
replications are triggered from your SAP on premise system, edits are overwritten.
To configure inbound quote replication, go to fine-tuning activity Sales Quotes Document Types .
We recommend that you control editable fields and actions from the page layout, and only open extension
fields that do not require replication.
Administrators restrict read and write access to sales quotes by navigating to Business Roles Access
Restrictions Access Context 1015 .
Tip
As an administrator, learn about configuring workflow rules triggers automatic e-mail messages, notifications,
field updates, and actions for sales quotes and other business objects.
Workflow rules are used to update fields in sales quotes. Administrator can define work flow rules for various
types of items:
● Accounts
● Contacts
● Individual customers
● Opportunities
● Tickets
● Contracts
● Sales Quotes
● Visits
Access the workflow rules worklist by navigating to Administration Business Operations Workflow
Workflow Rules .
You can also configure workflow rule recipient determination. This configuration allows users to select account
team and territory team notifications for sales quotes. Access the rule by navigating to Administrator
Workflow Rules . Define a new rule, under Recipient Determination, add a determination for Account Team and
or Territory Team.
Administrators can explore how to incorporate conditions into the sales quote approval process, such as limits
to the amount an approver is allowed to approve.
Activate the sales quote approval process by navigating to Business Configuration Implementation Projects
Your Project Edit Project Scope Sales New Business .
Once you scope sales quote, then you detail the approval process. For this step, you define the approval
conditions and an approver before the approval process is ready to use. Navigate to Administrator
Approval Processes .
Note
At least one approval process must be active. To define an approval process, copy the default approval
process and adapt the approval validity, ensuring one process has an unlimited validity.
Administrators can configure sales quote versioning, allowing users to send customers sales quotes with the
same sales quote ID (Group ID) in addition to a version number.
Configure sales quote versioning by navigating to Business Configuration Scoping Element: Sales New
Business Sales Quotes and place a check mark for the question Do you want to user Sales Quote
Versioning?
User can only create an external follow-up document for SAP ERP for quote that are not in Active status and
have been submitted.
Remember
Adjust the form templates (aside from the Sales Quote Demo) so that the Group ID appears in the printout.
Administrators can set up block reasons for document types. The block assignments allow you to stop the
creation of sales quotes, sales orders, or other transactions for certain accounts considering their sales area.
Procedure
1. Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Accounts .
2. Select Sales Document Order Block.
3. Add a row for each order block reason you want to use to block sales documents and select from the list of
document types.
4. Define the following:
○ Order Block Reason - Reasons that you would like to use to block sales order creation for accounts
Note
The blocking reasons that you maintain here are mapped to the blocking reasons configured in an
ERP system.
○ Document Type - Assign a document type to the order block reasons to enable blocking sales order
creation for accounts.
5. Assign the blocks to accounts and block them in the header section of accounts.
Administrators can learn how to configure resubmit for sales quotes. Once quotes have been approved, the
business option allows your company to control the approval status and or the output status.
If you do not select the business option, each change in the quote (aside from adding attachments) changes
the approval status to Not Started. Also, to further process the quote, users must submit it again for an
approval and output.
Note
If a quote with bi-directional replication to SAP on Premise system exists, a reset of the approval status is
not possible.
When you select this option, the automatic reset of these statuses from most modifications is deactivated.
Instead, the reset can be configured based on conditions in the workflow rules. The reset is achieved from one
of the following actions:
Note
The Submit action generates a new output document without the need for an additional approval
process.
Administrators can perform advanced quote approval process modifications. You can edit or add steps, change
the order of existing approval steps, and define approver conditions. Navigate to Administrator Approval
Processes: Sales Quote Work Distribution Customer Defined Involved Party or Customer Defined Territory
Owner.
Follow the steps to finalize the advanced sales quote approver determination:
1. Navigate to the fine-tuning activity Party Role Definition. Create a new party role and assign party category
Approver.
2. Navigate to the fine-tuning activity Involved Parties for Sales Quotes. Add the role to the sales quotes
involved parties.
Note
You can also define determination for the standard party role Approver.
3. Add a new determination step User Rules for <z-party> for the newly created party.
4. Continue by navigation to Administrator Sales and Marketing Settings Define Rules for Sales Quote
Parties .
5. Finally, navigate to Administrator Approval Processes to add the work distribution Customer Defined
Involved Party to the sales quote approval process.
If for example, a custom defined time period is exceeded, administrators can create a rule to revoke sales
quotes with status In Approval to Not Started.
Administrators can create a rule by defining the Rule Type action Reset Submit.
Remember
As of the February 2018 release, only approval status Approval Not Necessary and Approved are supported
for revocation.
To block external follow-up documents for prospects, disable the action Create External Follow-up Document in
SAP ERP. This action means prospects won't receive follow-up documents.
Navigate to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope
Communication and Information Exchange Integration with External Applications and Solutions Integration
with SAP ERP Do you want to block prospects created in your cloud solution from being replicated to your SAP
ERP solution?
Administrators can learn how to analyze sales quote party determination or re-determination.
This enablement makes party and re-determination more transparent for administrators.
Navigate to the personalize or adapt mode. From the Involved Parties tab of sales quotes, add the
Determination Method field.
Note
If the determination is copied or created as follow-up once accounts are changed, you manually enter the
party role Account.
Administrators can change the minimum order quantity error message to a warning message. Additional
messages that be can be changed, for example, messages for matching sales unit with sales organizations.
This action is useful when SAP ERP customizing is less restrictive and your default minimum order quantity is a
recommended level.
Restriction
Navigate to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope
Questions Sales New Business Group: Graphical Signatures for Sales Quotes Do you want to capture
and attach a graphical signature to the Sales Quote (Valid for touch enabled devices only)?
Note
You can capture signatures from your customers or prospects as confirmation of a sales quote under
Actions Sign . In the Add Signature dialog, add a signature in the box.
Once you add a signature, it is available as an attachment in the sales quote. After you saved a signature, the
Sign option under Actions is disabled.
Administrators can enable the use of formatted texts for notes in sales quotes.
Configure the use of external and internal notes by navigating to Business Configuration Scoping Element:
Sales New Business Questions Sales Quotes: Do you want use formatted texts for Sales Quotes?
Once the scoping is complete, users can enter and edit standard notes on header and item (Internal and
External Note).
If you're using the sales quote form template Sales Quote Demo, then the formatted texts are included when
printing.
To enable formatted texts in other quote form templates, switch the data type from plain text to rich text in
Adobe® Livecycle Designer.
As an administrator, explore how to use the integrated Adobe® LiveCycle® Designer to make advanced changes
to sales quote form templates.
Procedure
Note
Adapt general changes on the output form from the master template in Master Template Maintenance.
2. Select the form template variant you want to edit and choose Open Adobe LiveCycle Designer .
3. Make your changes.
4. Preview your changes using historical data or sample data.
5. Click Save.
6. Click Publish to finalize your entries.
Administrators can scope output forms so users can add images to sales quote output forms.
Navigate to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope
Questions Sales New Business Communication for New Business Questions Sales Quote Forms Do
you want to add product images to the Sales Quote form template?
Note
When users add product images to form output messages, system performance is influenced.
As administrator, learn about default sales quote form templates or output channels by sales organizations.
Adapt the columns to make a new selection of attributes visible in this table. Navigate out of the screen and
return to it to see the changes.
Navigate to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope
Implementation Focus Questions Communication and Information Exchange Integration with External
Applications and Solutions Integration into Sales, Service, and Marketing Processes Group: Sales Quotes .
Ensure that there is a checkmark for the following questions:
● Do you want to replicate sales quotes from an external application or solution to your cloud solution?
● Do you want to replicate sales quotes from you cloud solution to an external application or solution?
Add a row and enter the required details, keeping in mind the following important fields:
● Direct Customer Acceptance: When this option is selected, the system transfers sales quotes using the
Submit action from your cloud solution to an SAP ERP system. It also allows users to edit replicated sales
quotes created in your SAP ERP cloud solution.
● Replication: By choosing this option, the sales quote output, document submission is be disabled.
(Configuration is also enabled using the Replication flag).
Administrators can extend sales quotes with your own fields for business objects such as items and involved
parties.
Item Level Extension Fields - Administrators can cluster extension fields on product item in an separate
section below the product table. From sales quote business object to Adapt Product Add Section
Customer Extensions .
Involved Party Fields - Administrators can define extension fields for the sales quote Involved Parties tab.
These fields belong to the Quote-Party-MDAV-CODCQTPTYB.
Account Sales Data to Sales Quote Header - Administrators can define the account sales data extension
fields flows to sales quote or sales order header.
As an administrator, you can create product lists of the Cross/Up/Down Selling type to enable users to select
from those products in a sales quote.
Related Information
Administrators can learn how to configure reasons for rejection. The codes are used in documents such as
quotes, orders, or contracts to define the reasons for rejection.
You define rejection reasons to describe why a document or item has been canceled.
Note
When adding your own entries, the data you enter into field Rejection Reason Code must begin with the
letter Z.
Users can cancel sales quotes on header and on item level. When canceled on header level, the rejection reason
is copied over to the items.
Administrators can upload certificates needed for e-mail notifications for all employees.
Context
To enable e-mail notifications, upload the CA certificates in this area for the e-mail address for generic business
task management for all involved employees and managers.
Procedure
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune E-
Mail and Fax Settings
Enter your company domain, such as example.com, as the Allowed Sender E-Mail Domain.
Administrators can configure sales order approval via e-mail with scoping activities.
● The involved employees are business users and have valid e-mail addresses, and that the CA certificates
from the employees are uploaded to the system for outgoing e-mails.
● The involved employee are subscribed to the e-mail notifications by opening the Notifications view and
choosing Subscribe to E-Mail.
● The e-mail clients of the involved employees have enabled the receipt of encrypted e-mails.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Built-in Services and Support System Management Security and check the box for the encryption and
signatures in e-mail question.
Note
This question is optional and only
relevant if you want trigger auto
matically an approval for your op
portunities if the entered data fulfill
the defined criteria.
Do you want to
automatically submit
tickets for an approval
workflow after one or more
specified conditions are
fulfilled?
Note
This question is optional and only
relevant if you want trigger auto
matically an approval for your tick
ets if the entered data fulfill the de
fined criteria.
E-mail Notifications - E-mail encryption Build-in Services and Support Do you want to use
and signature encryption and signature
System Management Security
for e-mails?
Navigate to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-
Tune Sales Quotes Item Types Maintain Item Types place a check mark in the Not Relevant for Weight
Calculation box.
By placing a check mark in the Not Relevant for Weight Calculation item type field, the item is not relevant for
weight (and volume) calculation. If the base item type is already not weight relevant, the system disables the
option.
The corresponding SAP ERP customizing field must match your choice.
You can automatically assign surveys and tasks to sales quotes from an activity plan by defining Workflow
Rules.
As an administrator, you can assign survey and task assignment workflow rules using the following actions
provided under the gear icon in the Workflow Rules work center tab by defining workflow rules.
Administrators must adjust by following the sales quote document types to enable a sales contract as follow-
up to the quote scenario.
Navigate to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-
Tune Sales Quotes Document Types and ensure the Replication column is blank. This ensures the sales
contract as follow-up quote is not integration relevant.
Note
It is a prerequisite that a quote used in a sales contract as follow-up scenario is not integration relevant.
Note
Sales contract as follow-up to quote is not supported if you sell a template-based service contract, for
example, an extended warranty together with a product as a package.
Note
Product items in the quote which are not associated with items of an existing sales contract could be used
for sales order set-up and or the creation of new sales contracts.
Associating the quote to sales orders and contract are listed in Sales Documents tab for orders and
contracts.
Administrators can configure settings to create sales quotes in full create mode. This allows you to skip a few
additional UI steps required when creating in the quick create mode.
Select the checkbox Create Sales Quotes in detail view under Administrator Sales and Campaign Settings
Sales Quotes Confiugre Sales Quote related options Sales Quote Configuration .
Restriction
There is a limitation in this release. If you create sales quotes in offline mode, you need to ensure that this
configuration is deactivated.
Note
Product proposals automatically created from Product Lists have to be removed by the user in case no
proposed quantity has been maintained in the Product List. Users can use the action Remove Zero-Quantity
Items.
Administrators can configure quote line item deletion after the quote is submitted to the customer.
Go to Fine-tune Sales Quote Message Severity and modify the column to your business needs.
Normally, quotes submitted to customers cannot be deleted, with this configuration, users will be able to
delete quote items for quotes that have already been submitted to the customer.
Go to fine-tuning activity Sales Quotes Involved Parties Assign Party to UI and assign up to three roles.
Administrators can define workflow rules that update opportunity custom statuses and reasons based on sales
quote conditions.
This feature allows you for example, to set an opportunity to Won, if the related primary sales quote turns to
Won.
Restriction
Custom values with the same descriptions cannot be distinguished in the workflow rule definition.
Depending on the selected document type, administrators can integrate CLM directly to SAP Cloud for
Customer sales quotes.
Note
This feature is available as a beta version. To use this feature and add CLM to your scope, create a ticket or
contact your SAP representative.
Remember
Configure CLM to support features such templates, digital signatures, approvals, terms and conditions, and
negotiations (internal and external customer).
Note
Learn how to create sales quotes to indicate to your customers the prices of the products and services your
company offers.
As a sales representative or sales team member, you’ll create quotes from an existing opportunity, which could
include the product quantities and discounts. Once you create the quote, you can then share the quote details
with your team so they are up-to-date with the progress of the negotiation.
Create Follow-up Orders from Cloud for Customer to SAP ERP Bi-directional Integrated Quotes [page 437]
You can trigger follow-up SAP ERP sales orders from a bi-directional integrated sales quote directly
from SAP Cloud for Customer.
1. Open an existing opportunity or navigate to Sales Quote on the SAP Fiori Client to create a new one by
selecting the plus sign ( + ).
Note
When converting opportunities to sales quotes, many details such as accounts and products from the
opportunity are copied over to the new sales quote
Note
The sales quote is created with status Open and products without any entered quantities are not listed
in the quote.
5. Select Actions Submit to trigger further processing, for example, sending it using fax, e-mail, or
printing it for sending it using a postal service.
Note
If an approval is required, the output starts as soon as the quote has been approved.
6. To preview the sales quote, select Actions Preview and a window opens with the quote PDF
document.
Click Refresh to update the complete sales quote data. This action is useful when bi-directional replication
requires an immediate update or when the user receives error messages requiring a sales quote refresh to
continue.
Caution
You will notice a decreased system performance when working with sales quotes or sales orders exceeding
500 products. Adding products to the sales document affects the performance of all item-related
functions, such as pricing, output, or transfer to external systems.
Administrators restrict read and write access to sales quotes by navigating to Business Roles Access
Restrictions Access Context 1015 .
Tip
Administrators can set up block reasons for document types. The block assignments allow you to stop the
creation of sales quotes, sales orders, or other transactions for certain accounts considering their sales area.
Procedure
1. Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Accounts .
2. Select Sales Document Order Block.
3. Add a row for each order block reason you want to use to block sales documents and select from the list of
document types.
4. Define the following:
○ Order Block Reason - Reasons that you would like to use to block sales order creation for accounts
Note
The blocking reasons that you maintain here are mapped to the blocking reasons configured in an
ERP system.
○ Document Type - Assign a document type to the order block reasons to enable blocking sales order
creation for accounts.
5. Assign the blocks to accounts and block them in the header section of accounts.
Define the sales quote default requested date, which is available in the header area.
Configure quote validity and requested dates by navigating to the fine-tuning activity Date Profiles Date
Variable for Sales Sales Quotes .
Note
The requested date on header is copied to requested date on items. Manually changed dates on items are
not overwritten by the header date.
Administrators need to configure number ranges to define the range of numbers assigned to sales quotes.
Administrators must adjust by following the sales quote document types to enable a sales contract as follow-
up to the quote scenario.
Navigate to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-
Tune Sales Quotes Document Types and ensure the Replication column is blank. This ensures the sales
contract as follow-up quote is not integration relevant.
Note
It is a prerequisite that a quote used in a sales contract as follow-up scenario is not integration relevant.
Note
Sales contract as follow-up to quote is not supported if you sell a template-based service contract, for
example, an extended warranty together with a product as a package.
Note
Product items in the quote which are not associated with items of an existing sales contract could be used
for sales order set-up and or the creation of new sales contracts.
Associating the quote to sales orders and contract are listed in Sales Documents tab for orders and
contracts.
Administrators can configure settings to create sales quotes in full create mode. This allows you to skip a few
additional UI steps required when creating in the quick create mode.
Select the checkbox Create Sales Quotes in detail view under Administrator Sales and Campaign Settings
Sales Quotes Confiugre Sales Quote related options Sales Quote Configuration .
Restriction
There is a limitation in this release. If you create sales quotes in offline mode, you need to ensure that this
configuration is deactivated.
Note
Product proposals automatically created from Product Lists have to be removed by the user in case no
proposed quantity has been maintained in the Product List. Users can use the action Remove Zero-Quantity
Items.
Administrators can enable the action Create External Follow-up Document for sales quotes that are integrated
bi-directionally.
Go to business area Communication and Information Exchange Integration with External Applications and
Solutions Integration into Sales, Service, and Marketing Process . Mark the question Do you want to create
follow-up documents from sales quotes via your cloud solution to an external application? and the action is
enabled.
Note
Ensure that you configure the relevant communication arrangement Create Follow-up Sales Order for
Replicated Sales Quote located in the SAP Business Suite.
Users can create follow-up sales quotes directly from the sales order, which references the sales quote
including the sales order items to a sales quote.
To use the feature, go to adapt or personalize. Add the hidden tab Sales Documents to the detailed tab of the
sales order.
From a sales quote, you can go to the Contacts value help to create and assign a new primary contact. No
configuration is necessary to view the action New Contact.
Users can create sales quotes directly from the quote contact person detailed section.
To create sales quotes from a contact person, users must assign the Contact to the Account.
When you create sales quotes from a contact person, it defaults the Contact as Primary Contact and the related
account to the new sales quote.
Note
The Advanced Search supports ID and External ID (hidden field) queries and is also applicable in the
Accounts sales quote tab.
From a sales quote, go to the Contracts tab and click New. The status of the follow-up quote changes to Won
after the contract is created.
Note
To view and use this functionality, from Sales Quotes, go to Personalization and add the hidden section
Contracts to the Sales Document tab. You can also add the header quote field Requested End Date. This
field represents the contract validity together with the Requested (Start) Date.
The following fields are supported when using the Basic search for sales quotes:
● Sales Quote ID
● Description
● Product ID
● Party ID (for all parties)
● Party (Formatted name for all parties)
● Primary Contact ID
● Sales Quote External ID
You can also use the Advanced Filter search which displays a comprehensive list of fields to narrow your sales
quote search.
Note
The General section contains an extensive list of fields you may not have available.
2. Save your entries and exit from the personalization or adapt mode.
3. In the desired sections, enter the search query field data.
4. Click Go to view the search results.
Note
Click Save or Organize Queries to save time for the next search query.
Administrators can use the Data Workbench to modify sales contract types even after they are created.
From a sales quote, go to the Contracts tab and click New. The status of the follow-up quote changes to Won
after the contract is created.
Note
To view and use this functionality, from Sales Quotes, go to Personalization and add the hidden section
Contracts to the Sales Document tab. You can also add the header quote field Requested End Date. This
field represents the contract validity together with the Requested (Start) Date.
You can trigger follow-up SAP ERP sales orders from a bi-directional integrated sales quote directly from SAP
Cloud for Customer.
Since orders are directly created as follow-up in SAP ERP system, this feature allows you to consider product
reservations made in SAP ERP quote or special price conditions. The details are copied to follow-up sales order.
Create multiple follow-up sales orders in SAP ERP before the reference status is set to Finish.
Explore how to add products to sales quotes, use cross-up-down sell, assign opportunities, work with involved
parties, and more.
Display Net and Gross Weight, Total Volume in Sales Quote Header [page 444]
You can view the calculated net and gross weight, as well as volume data in sales quotes when your
administrator configures them in the product master.
Add Quick Products from Product Lists to Sales Quotes [page 445]
Learn how to quickly add products and related quantities to sales quotes or sales orders using the
action Product Lists.
Copy and Paste Product Mass Entries in Sales Quotes [page 450]
You can copy items from Excel using the copy and paste function in the product table.
Select products to add to your sales quotes based on previous quotes, orders, and product proposals.
When users create quotes and add products, the sales price defaults to the product list price. Depending on
your permissions, you can edit the product line item prices and discounts.
Related Information
Add Quick Products from Product Lists to Sales Quotes [page 445]
Create Sales Quotes [page 430]
You can edit multiple sales quotes directly in the list, which saves your effort in going to the detail view of each
sales quote to make changes.
From Fiori Client navigate to Key User Settings Company Setting Enable Editing in Dataset in Fiori
Client.
Once the feature is enabled, you can click the pencil icon in the upper right corner to switch to the edit mode.
Users can filter the worklist that needs to be changed and directly change data in the work list without
navigating to the detailed view.
Note
Note
If you use bi-directional quote integration with synchronous pricing, save is not allowed, if change is price
relevant.
Procedure
1. Create a new sales quote and add line items or open an existing one with line items.
2. Select the Products tab.
3. Select the line item you want to copy.
4. Click Actions.
5. Select Copy.
When sales quote line items are copied, a new line item number is assigned. The item details as well as the
item’s notes and attachments are also duplicated.
Administrators can change the minimum order quantity error message to a warning message. Additional
messages that be can be changed, for example, messages for matching sales unit with sales organizations.
This action is useful when SAP ERP customizing is less restrictive and your default minimum order quantity is a
recommended level.
Restriction
If you’ve set a minimum order quantity for a product, the system validates the quantity and displays an error
message if the minimum quantity hasn’t been met. For products with multiple units of measure, you can set a
quantity conversion to ensure that the minimum order quantity check is still valid for each unit of measure.
If your company has defined a minimal order quantity for sales quotes, an error message is displayed. The
message will state the minimum quantity of products required to proceed with the sales quote processing. To
override the message, in the quantity field of the line item, enter the minimum amount and save your entries.
Sales quote minimum order quantity applies to sales quotes created online or offline.
Administrators can maintain the minimum order quantity in product master sales data dependent.
If your company has defined a minimal order quantity for sales quotes, an error message is displayed. The
message will state the minimum quantity of products required to proceed with the sales quote processing. To
override the message, in the quantity field of the line item, enter the minimum amount and save your entries.
Note
Sales quote minimum order quantity applies to sales quotes created online or offline.
Administrators can maintain the minimum order quantity in product master sales data dependent.
Explore how to work with item types in sales transactions such as follow-up documents.
Your administrator has configured item types to determine how an item category behaves in a sales document.
Note
You may need to add the Item Type field using Personalize or Adapt from the sales quote Product tab.
Note
You can use code list restrictions to filter item types based on a document type.
Complete the fine-tuning configuration activity for Sales Quotes Item Types .
Note
This activity is similar to the configuration activity for sales orders. The difference is that each are
completed separately as the values are not copied from one to the other.
You can also define code list restrictions, to filter the available item types based on document type. Add the
Item Type field to the Products tab for sales quotes from adaptation or personalization.
Item types determine how an item category behaves in a sales document. Item item types are not necessary,
but are relevant if you replicate quotes with an on premise system and administrators should remember to
configure document types.
You can define alternative item types for the item types delivered in the standard solution. These alternative
item types are then displayed for the corresponding items under the Products tab for sales orders. You can use
these custom item types to process items based on SAP ERP item categories. You can also use item types for,
in order simulations to retrieve external pricing.
1. To quickly navigate to the fine-tuning activity, go to Business Configuration Overview Sort by:
Activities Search and type Sales Quotes.
2. Click Sales Quotes Item Types Maintain Item Types .
3. Click Add Row.
4. Enter the desired details and save your entries.
Note
If you want to define an item as a free sample or free good that should not affect pricing, flag it as Not
Relevant for Pricing. When an item that is not relevant for pricing is added to a quote, it will not contain a
price. However, you can still add a price for this product manually.
Administrators can define items as a free sample or free good so that pricing is not affected.
You can define item types as not pricing relevant. The activity allows users to only add the item type to the item
without setting the price to zero or a 100% discount. For example, a product is added to quote as a free good or
sample.
Note
This Not Pricing Relevant item type is available in external pricing and offline pricing sales orders. You can
still add a price for this product manually.
Administrators need to define item increment numbers, which allow you to control Item Increment and Sub
Item Increment ranges.
Note
Increment configuration eliminates limitations for bill of materials (BOM) explosion when there are
many Sub Items in external pricing.
Administrators can set up your solution to determine the item type for follow-up documents. The follow-up
sales quote to sales order process allows you to copy item types that are used for SAP ERP and CRM
processing.
Note
Users can use adaptation or personalization to add the item type to the sales quote product table.
Note
You can also use code list restrictions to filter item types based on a document type.
Use item types to process items based on SAP ERP logic for external pricing and integration.
Note
Users may need to add the Item Type field using Personalize or Adapt in sales quote Product tab.
Use the calculate quantity action to create a summary of the number of items for each unit of measure.
This summary can help identify potential upselling opportunities if a specific quantity needs to be met for a
promotion.
Related Information
You can view the calculated net and gross weight, as well as volume data in sales quotes when your
administrator configures them in the product master.
To view and use this functionality, from Sales Quotes, go to Personalize or Adapt and add the hidden fields Net
Weight, Total Weight, and Volume to the header item.
Note
Sales quotes using external pricing or bi-directional integration receive the net weight, gross weight, and
volume directly from SAP ECC.
Procedure
2. Click Quick Create. Alternatively, you can add quick products from the quote or order from Actions
More .
When your administrator maintains Product Lists, you can multiselect products based on defined
proposals that depend on:
○ Target groups
○ Accounts
○ Account hierarchy
○ Sales data
○ Territory
Cross, up, and down selling offers proposed products, which can be added to a sales document when selected
by the user.
When sales quotes include required products from the list, users see a list of related products, product
upgrades, or economical products in the sales transactions.
1. If you use cross-sell products, to the sales quote or sales order, navigate to Recommended Products on the
Products tab.
Note
The Recommended Products tab is only visible if your administrator has defined cross-selling. Up and
down-selling is indicated using an action. Clicking the action allows you to select and exchange the
product. For quotes, you can add the product as an alternative item.
Note
The Up/Down Selling Products field indicates that users can replace the product to use up or down-sell.
The icon only appears if your administrator has defined the applicable product proposals.
Related Information
Administrators can add customer part numbers to quotes by navigating to Products Product
Administration and the part numbers are integrated to SAP ERP.
Users can enter the customer part number located in the sales quote Products tab in the Description field. The
system converts the ID to an internal ID.
Note
Note
The part number is not dependent on the sales organization or the distribution channel.
You can use text items that allows you to define and structure subitems. If you only enter a product description
in its corresponding field without an adding a product ID, the item is treated as a text item. In addition, the item
number can be edited.
The action Renumber can be used to reorder items. This action allows you to put items in-between a certain
order. If the sales quote has not been submitted to a customer, the Line field is editable.
Note
Cluster sales quote items using text items and Parent Line field. You can also click Action to create a subline
for a text item.
You can also use the action Renumber to add alternative items.
A sales quote can be created as a follow-up document from an opportunity. When the task is done, involved
parties and products are copied over to the sales quote.
Note
Note
You can set an assigned opportunity as Primary Quote. This action creates the Update Opportunity
field. Once you click Update Opportunity,
4. Notice that the Expected Value of the assigned opportunity has modified once you save your entries.
5. Click Refresh.
6. Click the Document Flow tab to view the assigned opportunity.
Assign an existing opportunity to an external sales quote (for example, only quotes that are replicated from
SAP S/4HANA or SAP ERP to SAP Cloud for Customer).
The assign opportunity to external read-only quotes feature allows you to connect and track external sales
quotes for an opportunity. View the sales in Document Flow.
Display the External Product ID popup selection for Cross/Up/Down Selling or the Recommended Products
view. To add the External Product ID field, go to Adapt or Personalization.
Determine involved parties for sales quotes using party roles and the applicable determination rules, which
allow you to streamline team assignments. In addition, it ensures that business partners are correctly assigned
to business documents in accordance with your company needs.
Example
You can create a sales quote and add an account as the ship-to party. In this example, the account is the
business partner, and ship-to is the party role. The ship-to account may be a subsidiary of a parent company,
which is a different account. You may have the parent company account as the bill-to party.
Administrators can learn how to analyze sales quote party determination or re-determination.
This enablement makes party and re-determination more transparent for administrators.
Navigate to the personalize or adapt mode. From the Involved Parties tab of sales quotes, add the
Determination Method field.
Note
If the determination is copied or created as follow-up once accounts are changed, you manually enter the
party role Account.
Go to fine-tuning activity Sales Quotes Involved Parties Assign Party to UI and assign up to three roles.
Navigate to adaptation or personalization mode. Add the Address field for the Party Details and Contacts tabs
on the Involved Parties tab for sales quotes.
1. From the Products tab, use personalize or adapt to add Item Involved Parties.
2. Administrators must go to fine-tuning activity Sales Quotes Involved Item Parties .
3. Party roles on item level are copied from header parties. If you do not need party roles for reporting or
follow-up processes, we recommend deactivating them in the item party schema.
Note
Ship-to parties are maintained in the sales quote product table. Please keep the activation in the item
schema in case a copy and follow-up action should also copy the item party.
Add important custom party roles directly in the quote Quick Create or from the sales quote Overview screen.
The feature is not supported in offline mode.
Change the delivery address on item level by selecting a different Ship-to party or Ship-to address.
You can also modify a document address. When changed, the document address is only applicable for the
transaction, also referred to as a one-time address.
If the Ship-to field is not visible on sales quotes, add it by navigating to the adapt for personalize mode.
The Address field changes to Document Address if the address is not copied from master data.
You can copy items from Excel using the copy and paste function in the product table.
This task allows you to quickly paste products to a sales quote. Ensure that the copied data exactly matches
the order of columns in the user interface so that the combined fields represent two columns.
Note
The number of input fields should not exceed the maximum number of exposed fields.
Users can disable the copy and paste function allowing you to quickly paste products to a sales quote in the
product table. To disable the function, go to Adaptation Sales Quotes Products deselect Copy&Paste.
The depersonalization function allows users to remove personal data from a business object, such as sales
contracts, to ensure compliance with the applicable data protection requirements.
Depersonalization is only available for users with access to the Data Protection and Privacy work center.
The Data Privacy Management tab allows those responsible for data protection issues in an organization to
respond to personal information removal and disclosure.
Remove personal data in contracts by navigating to Contracts All Contracts (or select desired contracts
Actions Depersonalize.
Sales quote processing is used to offer products to customers according to specific terms with fixed
conditions. In addition, the seller is bound by the sales quote for a specific period of time.
Process Flow
The following steps explain the typical process flow for sales quote processing. During this process, you access
the Sales tab.
1. The sales representative creates a sales quote, enters an account, and the products to be offered.
2. The system uses details such as accounts, products, and date to calculate a net value. The user can
overwrite the automatically determined prices and discounts or add further discounts and surcharges.
3. Optionally, if certain thresholds have been exceeded, the sales quote may need approval according your
approval processes.
4. The sales quote is sent to the customer through the Submit action according to the output settings.
5. If the customer accepts the sales quote, the user sets it to Won and the status changes to Completed. With
an external integration, such as SAP ERP, you can also transfer the sales quote into a sales order in the
external system through Action Create Sales Order .
Follow-up activities, such as appointments, tasks, phone calls, and e-mails can be created directly from the
sales quote. Activities can also be viewed in the document flow of a sales quote.
Users can select the action Add Tasks from Activity Plan to assign predefined tasks from an activity plan to the
sales quote. The Activity Plan supports the creation of tasks that, can be used to follow a sales methodology.
Note
E-mails can also be assigned to the sales quote using MS Outlook integration.
Configure activities, for example, appointments, e-mail, phone calls, and tasks to record information sales
quote results from interactions between business partners in the solution.
Administrators can scope activities list by navigating to Business Configuration Implementation Projects
Your Project Edit Project Scope Implementation Focus Scoping Sales Account and Activity
Management Activity Management .
You can attached documents on item and on header level. If the attachments need to be part of the output,
select the relevant attachments in the output settings. Click Submit and the output is triggered.
Administrators can scope output forms so users can add images to sales quote output forms.
Navigate to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope
Questions Sales New Business Communication for New Business Questions Sales Quote Forms Do
you want to add product images to the Sales Quote form template?
Note
When users add product images to form output messages, system performance is influenced.
Learn how to distinguish the meaning of various sales quote and sales order statuses.
The statuses refer to canceled items. The status can be found on sales quote header and item level.
● Not Canceled: The user did not set a Reason for Rejection.
● Canceled: The complete quote is canceled for header status; item is canceled for item status.
● Partially Canceled: At least one item is canceled (The user sets the reason for rejection on item level).
Note
● Not Started: The initial status if a quote is created in SAP Cloud for Customer.
● In Process: A replication message was triggered to the external SAP ERP system. The SAP Cloud for
Customer sales quote becomes read only. If no confirmation message is received by the SAP Cloud for
Customer system, message monitoring is required to analyze the top level cause. Transfer Logs tab allows
you to revoke (the replication of) the sales quote. Revoking allows changing the SAP Cloud for Customer
quote again to correct the data. This action causes the message to fail and replicates it again.
● Finished: The transfer is completed and confirmation message from the on Premise system has been
successfully returned to SAP Cloud for Customer.
● Interrupted: The transfer was interrupted due to an error in the external system. Error information provided
by the external system is displayed on the Transfer Logs tab. The sales quote is editable and can be
processed once the error is resolved.
● Not Relevant: Not applicable.
Note
The Approval status changes to Not Started once the Approved or In Revision quote is modified. This
action is not valid for bi-directional replication document types. An approved quote is submitted
automatically to SAP ERP once the quote is approved. If the quote was created in SAP ERP, no
approval status is displayed in SAP Cloud for Customer
.
● Approval Not Necessary: The quote has been submitted and approval conditions are not met.
● In Approval: The quote action Submit has been triggered and approval conditions are reached to start the
approval process.
The quote cannot be edited except for entering text in the approval note.
Note
The approval submits the quote automatically based on the defaulted output settings. If bi-directional
replication is used, the approval automatically causes the quote submission to SAP ERP.
● Revision: A quote has been sent back for revision by a respective manager.
● Rejected: With this status, users should click Send back for Revision.
● Withdrawn: Based on the user action, the submission process has been revoked for an approval of a
relevant quote.
The credit status is derived from external pricing with on Premise system.
● Limit Exceeded
● Limit not Exceeded
● Manually
● Check Pending
● Not relevant
These following statuses refer to follow-up sales orders that are created in SAP Cloud for Customer or in SAP
ERP.
Note
Learn how to track an external follow-up document (developed mainly for a sales order in SAP ERP) from your
cloud solution. This is useful to track if an error happens and the status does not change to Finished.
If no confirmation message is received by the SAP Cloud for Customer, the Follow-up Transfer Status remains in
status In Process. In addition, message monitoring is required to analyze the top level cause.
Note
● Not Started
● In Process
● Finished
To view and use the Follow-up Transfer Status field add it from adapt or personalize. You can add the field in
Advanced Search, the result list, and the detailed section.
With integration with an external system, where you, for example, process your sales orders, you can capture
references to the follow-up documents in the quote Sales Documents External Follow-Up Documents .
If your administrator has configured external follow-up documents, the action Create External Follow-up
Document, creates a follow-up sales order.
Related Information
To block external follow-up documents for prospects, disable the action Create External Follow-up Document in
SAP ERP. This action means prospects won't receive follow-up documents.
Navigate to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope
Communication and Information Exchange Integration with External Applications and Solutions Integration
with SAP ERP Do you want to block prospects created in your cloud solution from being replicated to your SAP
ERP solution?
You can add internal and external notes to a sales quote only on header level.
Notes maintained as External are automatically printed to the standard sales quote output print form delivered
with the solution. This function includes sales org. and distribution channel dependent notes maintained in the
product master by the administrator. With this function, the notes are automatically copied to the external
product note of the sales quote.
When working in the Notes tab, you can increase the size by enlarging the pane.
Note
Administrators can enable the use of formatted texts for notes in sales quotes.
Configure the use of external and internal notes by navigating to Business Configuration Scoping Element:
Sales New Business Questions Sales Quotes: Do you want use formatted texts for Sales Quotes?
Once the scoping is complete, users can enter and edit standard notes on header and item (Internal and
External Note).
If you're using the sales quote form template Sales Quote Demo, then the formatted texts are included when
printing.
Note
To enable formatted texts in other quote form templates, switch the data type from plain text to rich text in
Adobe® Livecycle Designer.
Administrators can configure sales quote versioning, allowing users to send customers sales quotes with the
same sales quote ID (Group ID) in addition to a version number.
Configure sales quote versioning by navigating to Business Configuration Scoping Element: Sales New
Business Sales Quotes and place a check mark for the question Do you want to user Sales Quote
Versioning?
User can only create an external follow-up document for SAP ERP for quote that are not in Active status and
have been submitted.
Adjust the form templates (aside from the Sales Quote Demo) so that the Group ID appears in the printout.
Users can send customers sales quotes with the same sales quote ID (Group ID) in addition to a version
number to customers.
Users can create and track sales quote versions in the sales quote Versions tab. When you highlight a quote and
click Action New Version , the selected quote is copied with the same Group ID and version increment.
Remember
Only one active sales quote version with the same Group ID can exist and be edited. Click Action
Activate Version to activate the quote version.
Use the life cycle status vale Inactive Version to filter quotes for reporting.
Use advanced or basic search to locate and track quote versions using the Group ID field in your search criteria.
By default, it is set according to the account master data set-up by your Administrator.
1. Open a quote.
2. Navigate to the Personalization or Adapt mode.
3. In the header, select Add Items Add Fields .
4. Place a checkmark in the Language field.
5. Save your entries.
Note
If you change the language after you already entered some items, the item descriptions have not been
automatically translated.
Please keep in mind that you can print forms only in languages with a translated template form.
Learn about the sales quote approval process and how to define an approval process for acceptance of sales
quotes, including e-mail approval.
If your administrator has configured approvals, a task is triggered to forward the quote or hinder it from moving
to the next stage.
Administrators can set up multilevel approval processes. Based on the configuration settings, user can:
When approving quotes in e-mails, the approver approves the quote or sends it back for revision from
Notification actions or using the sales quote Approval tab. Alternatively, you can directly approve the quote in
from e-mail. If there is no system access, the sales quote print preview document is appended to the e-mail.
Approvals are submitted automatically based on the sales quote output settings.
Note
E-Mail approvals require a certification setup for Microsoft Outlook and Multipurpose Internet Mail
Extensions (MIME) configurations.
Administrators can explore how to incorporate conditions into the sales quote approval process, such as limits
to the amount an approver is allowed to approve.
Activate the sales quote approval process by navigating to Business Configuration Implementation Projects
Your Project Edit Project Scope Sales New Business .
Once you scope sales quote, then you detail the approval process. For this step, you define the approval
conditions and an approver before the approval process is ready to use. Navigate to Administrator
Approval Processes .
Note
At least one approval process must be active. To define an approval process, copy the default approval
process and adapt the approval validity, ensuring one process has an unlimited validity.
Administrators can perform advanced quote approval process modifications. You can edit or add steps, change
the order of existing approval steps, and define approver conditions. Navigate to Administrator Approval
Follow the steps to finalize the advanced sales quote approver determination:
1. Navigate to the fine-tuning activity Party Role Definition. Create a new party role and assign party category
Approver.
2. Navigate to the fine-tuning activity Involved Parties for Sales Quotes. Add the role to the sales quotes
involved parties.
Note
You can also define determination for the standard party role Approver.
3. Add a new determination step User Rules for <z-party> for the newly created party.
4. Continue by navigation to Administrator Sales and Marketing Settings Define Rules for Sales Quote
Parties .
5. Finally, navigate to Administrator Approval Processes to add the work distribution Customer Defined
Involved Party to the sales quote approval process.
Related Information
Administrators can learn how to configure resubmit for sales quotes. Once quotes have been approved, the
business option allows your company to control the approval status and or the output status.
If you do not select the business option, each change in the quote (aside from adding attachments) changes
the approval status to Not Started. Also, to further process the quote, users must submit it again for an
approval and output.
Note
If a quote with bi-directional replication to SAP on Premise system exists, a reset of the approval status is
not possible.
When you select this option, the automatic reset of these statuses from most modifications is deactivated.
Instead, the reset can be configured based on conditions in the workflow rules. The reset is achieved from one
of the following actions:
Configure Re-submit for Quote Approvals by navigation to Business Configuration Scoping Element: Sales
New Business Sales Quotes Do you want to control the reset of the approval status and output status via
workflow rules?
Note
The Submit action generates a new output document without the need for an additional approval
process.
If for example, a custom defined time period is exceeded, administrators can create a rule to revoke sales
quotes with status In Approval to Not Started.
Administrators can create a rule by defining the Rule Type action Reset Submit.
Remember
As of the February 2018 release, only approval status Approval Not Necessary and Approved are supported
for revocation.
When you create workflow rules for either sales quotes or sales orders, you can choose to have the solution
determine recipients from either the account team or territory team.
Workflow rules can be used to configure the sending of notifications, text messages, or E-Mails to internal or
external parties based on defined conditions.
You can also use workflow rules to update fields in the sales quotes. User can view executed workflow rules in
the sales quote under the Workflow Changes tab.
Learn more about sales quote details you can view or modify.
Overview
On the Overview tab you see the latest quote changes, products, and involved parties.
Products
● On the Products tab, you can add or delete products, enter external and internal notes, and add
attachments.
You can also view and change the internal and external notes for the sales quote and the products: The
Internal Note details ares only stored with the document. If you use external integration., the External Note
is forwarded to the customer and forwarded to the external system.
If you use integration with an external system to calculate the prices for the products, you receive product
prices by clicking Actions Request Pricing . The fields Pricing Status and Pricing Procedure inform you
about the current status of the request.
Note
○ When you copy a line item, the notes and attachments are copied as well.
○ You can also add products from the product list by clicking Actions Add from List .
Involved Parties
● On the Involved Parties tab, you add or delete parties and contacts. You can also select an address that was
maintained in master data.
Sales Document
● The Sales Documents tab is where you find an overview about the related sales quotes and the sales order
requests and sales orders processed in the SAP ERP system.
Document Flow
● The Document Flow tab is where you view all preceding and all follow-up documents for a particular quote.
Attachments
● On the Attachments tab, you add attachments, for example, local files, web links, and links to Library
content.
If the customer accepted the quote directly during a visit, and signed it on the tablet, the customer's
signature is displayed.
Note
Activities
● On the Activities tab, an overview of the activities are displayed. You can also add appointments, tasks, and
phone calls. E-mails related to a quote are displayed and you can add tasks from the determined activity
plans.
Output
● On the Output tab, you view see the output history and the sent PDF document files. Resend the document
by clicking Resubmit.
Feed
● The Feed tab displays major updates of the quote.
Changes
● On the Changes tab, you follow-up on all changes made in the document.
● On the sales quote Changes tab, you can see all changes made in the quote, but you can also filter for a
specific time period. The list includes the originating and the new value after the change.
Tickets
● On the Tickets tab, you can find all related tickets for the particular sales quote and you can create tickets
based on the quote.
Surveys
● On the Surveys tab, you can add and edit surveys from the determined activity plans to the document.
Learn how to collaborate with colleagues on sales quotes, which are relevant to you using the feed.
When users create or maintain quotes, an action is displayed in Feed or within the sales quote on the Feed tab.
Users can manage feed settings by navigating to Personalize Feed Settings Feed Sources.
Select a person you follow and click Edit to open the Manage Source Events screen. Flag the desired automatic
updates feed events triggered by the person you follow and add more tags if desired.
Users assigned to product lists can track product list modifications by adding the Changes field to the Product
List tab.
Administrators can define workflow rules that update opportunity custom statuses and reasons based on sales
quote conditions.
This feature allows you for example, to set an opportunity to Won, if the related primary sales quote turns to
Won.
Restriction
Custom values with the same descriptions cannot be distinguished in the workflow rule definition.
You have several options to complete a sales quote. If the sales quote is accepted, you can create a follow-up
sales order either in the solution or as follow-up order in SAP ERP. In both cases, the follow-up order changes
the quote to status Completed and progress to Won.
Canceling a sales quote is another way to complete a sales quote. Once you cancel a quote on header level by
setting a Reason for Rejection, the progress is displayed as Lost.
Note
Normally, quotes submitted to customers cannot be deleted unless your administrator has configured
Quote Line Deletion after Customer Submittal. With this configuration, users will be able to delete quote
items for quotes that have already been submitted to the customer.
Create Multiple Sales Orders from One Sales Quote [page 468]
Users can create multiple SAP Cloud for Customer sales orders from one sales quote.
Enable Quote Output Submission with Bi-Directional SAP ERP Integration [page 472]
Administrators can configure and enable the fine-tune activity to allow printing of sales quotes with bi-
directional SAP ERP integration.
7.6.1 Signatures
Signatures can be enabled in Business Configuration Implementation Project Edit Project Scope
Questions Sales New Business Sales Quote Graphical Signature for Sales Quotes Do you want to
capture and attach a graphical signature to the sales quote (Valid for touch enabled devices only)?
Note
Once configured, employees can sign a sales quote with a graphical signature and can create a new graphical
signature.
To embed the employee signature to a quote, administrators are required to go to Adobe LiveCycle Designer
and adapt the output form.
Use output settings to determine how the sales quote is sent to accounts.
From the quote, select Actions Submit . The output of the sales quote is triggered, depending on the
maintained output settings. In the output settings you can define if a sales quote should be sent for example,
using e-mail. The e-mail of the primary contact person is the default. A quote, which has been submitted to a
customer appears with progress status Pending.
Note
If a quote approval is required, the submit action triggers the approval notification. After final approval, the
output is triggered automatically based on the defined output settings.
Context
From your sales quote, you'll create follow-up sales quote based on an existing one which is not the same as
copying a sales quote. When you create a follow-up sales quote, the header, item, and document flow are
updated. When you copy a sales quote, the header and data are not copied and the document flow is not
updated.
Procedure
1. In the sales quote where you want to create a follow-up quote from, select the Sales Documents tab.
2. Under Sales Quotes click New, the data from the current quote is copied into the quote.
3. Adapt the entries and select Save and Open.
The system copies the whole quote including the products into a new document and opens it.
4. View the old quote to find the new quote located in Sales Documents.
Continue to work with the new sales quote as desired.
To block external follow-up documents for prospects, disable the action Create External Follow-up Document in
SAP ERP. This action means prospects won't receive follow-up documents.
Preview sales quotes before sending them to customers or prospects or share the preview document with
colleagues.
The sales quote preview is displayed in PDF form (generated by configuring form templates) when you click
Actions Preview .
For sales quotes with a Completed status, go to Attachments and add files (header and item attachments).
Use the document flow to view for example, the sales quote chain of associated documents such as
opportunities, orders, and delivery.
Note
You cannot access the printable sales quote PDF (derived in SAP ERP) in the document flow.
Tip
Navigate to the sales quote Document Flow PDF to view the latest quote sent to accounts.
1. Open a business document such as a sales quote or sales order or find one using Search.
2. On the Document tab you see all preceding and all follow-up documents for this quote.
Note
You can view transactions such as activities in the sales quote document flow.
In the Document Flow, you can also view follow-up transactions in SAP ERP. For example, follow-up orders,
delivery or invoice transactions, including access to the related PDF documents (using the web service).
The Document Flow also displays SAP ERP references for sale and quotes and sales orders in SAP Cloud for
Customer. Click the triangle in the yellow frame to open and close related SAP ERP transactions.
Users can create multiple SAP Cloud for Customer sales orders from one sales quote.
The sales quote status changes to Won if a sales order reference exists.
Users can track the related call offs in the product table Ordered Quantity field. Navigate to Personalize to add
the hidden Ordered Quantity field.
Note
Ordered items which are not fully referenced to the SAP Cloud for Customer quote, will set the quote status
to In process. As of the 1902 release, the quote status becomes In process not only if a referenced item in
the order has been completely removed, but also when the referenced item quantity will be reduced
Sales quote and sales order output first depends on how your administrator configures the form templates.
Second, after configuration, when users submit sales quotes or orders to accounts, the document layout
depends on the template selection users choose in Edit Output Settings.
Note
Printing of price elements depends on the print configuration of the pricing schema.
Note
The Sales Quote Demo template includes enhancements, such as product images, formatted notes,
signature, GTIN, or customer part number.
Administrators configure Print forms - A read-only portable document format (PDF) documents that are
generated from data stored in the system. Print forms can be printed, sent as an e-mail attachment, or faxed to
business partners.
As an administrator, explore how to use the integrated Adobe® LiveCycle® Designer to make advanced changes
to sales quote form templates.
Procedure
Note
Adapt general changes on the output form from the master template in Master Template Maintenance.
2. Select the form template variant you want to edit and choose Open Adobe LiveCycle Designer .
3. Make your changes.
4. Preview your changes using historical data or sample data.
5. Click Save.
6. Click Publish to finalize your entries.
Adapt the columns to make a new selection of attributes visible in this table. Navigate out of the screen and
return to it to see the changes.
You define rejection reasons to describe why a document or item has been canceled.
Note
When adding your own entries, the data you enter into field Rejection Reason Code must begin with the
letter Z.
Users can cancel sales quotes on header and on item level. When canceled on header level, the rejection reason
is copied over to the items.
Note
Canceling a sales quote can be accomplished in various ways. Open the quote and:
Note
If a quote is partially canceled, for example, a single line item is set to lost, the status of the quote is In
Process.
Context
You can delete quotes if quotes have not been submitted to customers and if no follow-up document or activity
exists.
Procedure
The progress status Pending displays that quotes have been submitted and cannot be deleted.
3. Click Actions.
4. Choose Delete and the sales quote is deleted from the system.
Tip
Quotes that have been submitted to a customer cannot be deleted, but you can cancel them.
Procedure
1. Search for the quote with the line items you want to cancel.
2. Set the line item Reason for Rejection. Alternatively, triggering the action Set to Lost cancels all items.
Tip
You can also maintain a specific reason for rejection on item level for the sales quote.
Administrators can configure and enable the fine-tune activity to allow printing of sales quotes with bi-
directional SAP ERP integration.
Navigate to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-
Tune Sales Quotes Document Types Maintain Document Types Sales Quote with Replication . Place a
check mark under Direct Customer Acceptance to enable quote output submission with bi-directional
integration.
Note
Users can offer competitive pricing to your customers when working with sales quotes and sales orders. Your
administrator has preconfigured product price lists or your price determination in transactions is based on
price master data derived from an external SAP system. You can manually apply discounts and miscellaneous
surcharges to sales quotes and orders. Users can overwrite certain pricing elements to make pricing more
flexible.
Here's an overview of the SAP Cloud for Customer solution pricing types:
Internal Pricing – The solution offers internal net pricing. It is used if your company derives pricing from price
lists or discount lists based on the solution master data. Internal pricing takes prices from the price list created
by your administrator and can include optional predefined discounts. Depending on the solution set-up, users
can apply various types of discounts, for example, to the total value or product item.
External Pricing – External pricing can be used for companies that retrieve their complete price information
including tax details from an external SAP system. End-users request pricing via a user action to retrieve the
external pricing result and apply discounts or other price elements if necessary. Also, your administrator can
use the solution to determine credit limits and product availability information from this user action.
Offline Pricing – If your company has the SAP Cloud for Customer, extended edition, you can use offline
pricing . In offline mode, you can calculate an estimated price value including a fixed or percentage based
discount for your quotes and order items created in offline. Sync the discount details when you are working
online again. You can also view the external pricing result in offline mode.
Add New Product Price Elements for Quotes and Orders [page 477]
Administrators can use adaptation mode to add three additional price elements to the sales quote and
sales order product table. The total price elements have been increased to eight to allow for better
usability around price details. End users can add these new fields using personalization, if they have
been enabled by the administrators.
Request External Pricing with SAP ERP, SAP CRM, SAP S/4HANA [page 478]
Learn more about how to request external pricing for sales quotes with SAP ERP, SAP CRM or SAP S/
4HANA on premise solution.
SAP Cloud for Customer provides various internal price elements in the sales quotes and sales orders. Open a
sales quote or sales order and go to the Products tab. The table displays the most important price details. This
information and can be easily overwritten depending on how your administrator configures the solution.
Every product or service you have entered in the sales quote or order has its own line item number. From the
line item you see the line item number, product ID, description, price, quantity, discount, and more depending
on your solution setup.
As an administrator, you can configure payment terms and Incoterms (International Commercial Terms) to
define when an invoice must be paid as well as the charges you company or the buyer pays.
Locate the fine-tuning activity by navigating to Business Configuration Overview Search Accounts
and click Maintain Payment Terms.
Note
Payment terms are defaulted from the sales data of the account to the sales quote.
If a sales quote is copied, administrators can configure the copying of the Pricing Date and Incoterms.
Procedure
Related Information
● (Today's Date)
● Requested Date (Header)
Configure the pricing date defaults by navigating to the fine-tuning activity Sales Quote Document
Types .
Highlight the desired document type and select the desired logic type from the pricing date dropdown field.
Administrators or key users can navigate to Adapt to disable the mandatory check for the list price used for
internal pricing. The function is useful if your company works with manual prices.
Disable the mandatory check for internal pricing by navigating to Fine-tune Configure Price Strategy and
ensure there is a checkmark in the Mandatory field.
Administrators can change the price element user interface fields with the description of the assigned
condition type or pricing procedure step. This configuration improves usability for users where there are
different pricing procedures which lead to a change in the condition description.
Administrators can maintain the configuration under Fine-tune External Pricing Labeling External Pricing
Element.
Learn how to apply discounts and miscellaneous charges to sales quotes and sales orders.
Context
Open one of your sales quotes or create a new one. From the Products tab view of the sales quote, click Edit and
overwrite the overall discount, list price line item, or line item discount. Click Update Pricing Save your
changes. .
You can add further price components for each line item when you navigate to the Pricing tab and the Item
Pricing section of the sales quote. Select the line item Expand and from the drop-down box, select desired
component.
Tip
You can add a price component for a complete sales quote when you:
Procedure
2. Navigate to the sales quote tab Pricing Total Pricing Add Row and apply additional price
components for the entire sales quote.
7.7.4 Add New Product Price Elements for Quotes and Orders
Administrators can use adaptation mode to add three additional price elements to the sales quote and sales
order product table. The total price elements have been increased to eight to allow for better usability around
price details. End users can add these new fields using personalization, if they have been enabled by the
administrators.
Define the labels in fine-tune activity External Pricing Labeling External Pricing Element.
Estimate the amount of space needed for an order for delivery capacity planning purposes.
Use the calculate quantity action to create a summary of the number of items for each unit of measure. This
quantity overview helps identify potential upselling opportunities if there is available space for more products in
the same delivery.
Related Information
When processing a sales order, ensure your customers are within their credit limit.
When you simulate or transfer an order, you will see the credit status, credit limit, and credit exposure that has
been defined from the SAP ERP system. If the sales order amount exceeds the customer's limit, you will get a
warning message.
You can use credit status as a part of approval conditions for your sales order.
Related Information
7.7.7 Request External Pricing with SAP ERP, SAP CRM, SAP
S/4HANA
Learn more about how to request external pricing for sales quotes with SAP ERP, SAP CRM or SAP S/4HANA
on premise solution.
Your administrator has correctly set-up external pricing. You create a quote, request the pricing from the
external system by clicking Actions Request Pricing . Similarly, you can use the action Simulate to
retrieve external pricing for a sales order.
The external system then simulates a complete document, and you receive the results in your quote or order.
In the solution, you can adapt the following header hidden fields and make them visible for external pricing:
On the detailed tab of the sales quote Products tab, the following fields are displayed:
● Product Pricing – Displays the pricing overview for the selected Product.
● Total Pricing – Displays the pricing overview for the complete sales quote.
● Adjusted Item Price – Considers item and header price elements
● Adjusted Item Value – Considers item and header price element times requested quantity.
Note
Fields List Price and Product Discount (%) are not available in the product table for external pricing.
Follow-up Documents
You have an integration with an external system, process your sales orders, and can capture the references to
the follow-up documents in the quote. Navigate to Sales Documents External Follow-Up Documents .
If you have scoped external pricing, adapt and translate the condition types and pricing procedures from the
external system to your own needs in the External Pricing fine-tune activity.
Also, set the External Pricing checkbox for the corresponding sales quote document types.
If your solution includes integration to an external system and you've chosen to enable external pricing, you can
configure the external price elements at the item and header levels for sales quotes to provide quick access to
view and edit the pricing data. By configuring these elements, you can also remove the Product Pricing and
Total Pricing tabs from the Products tab of the sales quote. Execute these steps to define the configuration:
Administrators can learn about external pricing call configuration to retrieve the complete pricing result from
SAP on premise systems to your cloud solution.
If external pricing is selected, a synchronous call is required to retrieve the complete pricing result from the
SAP on premise system to your cloud solution. Replicated sales documents also require a synchronous pricing
update once the sales document is updated during save.
To configure external pricing call, go to fine-tuning activity Sales Quotes Document Types .
Asynchronous pricing does not expose Credit Limit, Credit Exposure Amount, or Credit Exceeding Amount. If
pricing simulation was triggered in the system once for that corresponding pricing procedure, you can add
conditions on header and item level. Pricing elements exposed to the item and header are also supported for
asynchronous pricing.
Users can expose the Condition Base Value and Condition Pricing Date in the pricing details of the external
pricing result in SAP Cloud for Customer.
Users must navigate to Adapt or Personalize to add the condition base hidden fields.
ATP, also referred to as product availability, is the projection of future material stock availability based on the
rules in SAP ERP.
Remember
The confirmation is non binding based on the Requested Date (header date copied to items).
The simulated delivery schedule is displayed and the delivery dates are included in the output message, but not
part of the standard print form.
If the product availability quantity and delivery date are not displayed in product table, add them by going to the
adapt or personalization mode.
Simulate or transfer an order from SAP ERP to view the free goods that are available. With external pricing, you
can also trigger free goods determination.
When you simulate or transfer an order, you see the available free goods. If you change products or product
quantities in a sales order, free good items are removed and you must simulate or transfer the order again. Free
goods determination supports both exclusive (for example, buy ten and get one free) and inclusive (for
example, buy 10 and pay only 9) procedures.
Note
When you simulate or transfer an order, you can view the multi level bill of materials (BoM) explosion from SAP
ERP/CRM.
Note
Price or quantity adjustments for a BoM are only supported on the header item.
Use product substitution to automatically replace one product that you enter with another one when
processing a sales quote.
Learn how to configure and integrate SAP Cloud for Customer sales quotes and CLM.
Configure Cloud for Customer Sales Quotes for CLM Integration [page 482]
Depending on the selected document type, administrators can integrate CLM directly to SAP Cloud for
Customer sales quotes.
Integrate Cloud for Customer Sales Quotes with CLM [page 483]
Based on the selected document type, integrate CLM directly to SAP Cloud for Customer sales quotes.
Depending on the selected document type, administrators can integrate CLM directly to SAP Cloud for
Customer sales quotes.
Note
This feature is available as a beta version. To use this feature and add CLM to your scope, create a ticket or
contact your SAP representative.
Remember
Configure CLM to support features such templates, digital signatures, approvals, terms and conditions, and
negotiations (internal and external customer).
Note
Note
This feature is available as a beta version. To use this feature and add CLM to your scope, create a ticket or
contact your SAP representative.
If CLM is selected for a document type, standard sales quote output document submission is disabled for this
document type.
Note
● Sales Quote Volume: Shows the values in sales quotes. By default, the net values for the current year are
displayed.
● Sales Quote Volume by Account: Shows the values in sales quotes. By default, the net values for the current
year are displayed.
You work with sales quotes in offline mode with in a limited scope.
Here are useful details for working with sales quotes in offline mode. In offline mode, you can:
You can derive estimated prices and provide manual discounts in offline mode to your added products.
Having trouble using sales quotes? Check this list of questions and answers for help.
Use versioning to keep the existing version numbering and track the referenced quote.
You can create follow-up sales quotes from a sales quote in the Sales Documents tab of a quote.
When using sales quote versioning, you copy one version to another to keep the existing version and track the
referenced quote. You can also copy a quote by navigating to the quote header and selecting Copy. This action
does not keep a quote references.
Note
Changes done in the same quote can be tracked partly in the Changes section or in the quote history shown
in the Output section.
You can also create follow-up sales quotes from a sales quote in the Sales Documents tab. This follow-up action
allows you to copy one version to another to keep the existing version and track the referenced sales quote. You
can also copy a quote, but a copy does not retain the reference to the source sales quote. In any case, the
output history allows you to view the versions send to the customer.
The field Date refers to the creation date of the quote. The date is displayed on the print out, is the relevant date
for sales quote volume reporting, and is used to derive the Pricing Date. Additionally, there is a Requested Date,
which can be defaulted using the fine-tuning activity Date Profiles.
Learn how the solution works with currencies for sales quotes.
The currency defaults from the sales data of the account master record. If no currency is maintained for
accounts, the system takes the sales organization currency from the organizational structure (if applicable).
Otherwise, it selects the company currency maintained in the organizational model, which is derived from the
sales unit in the sales quote
Note
Remember
Internal pricing requires a currency conversion, which can be maintained in Products under the common
task Exchange Rates for Currencies. If SAP ERP integration is set up, you can replicate exchange rates from
SAP ERP to SAP Cloud for Customer.
Learn how to set default output settings so that quotes are sent to the desired output.
To send sales quotes to customers and prospects using e-mail, you can set default output settings, for
example, from print to e-mail.
Learn about replicating and editing sales quotes to and from SAP ERP, which is only supported with external
pricing.
On a sales quote with replication document, the following statuses are available:
Key users can trigger follow-up sales order in SAP ERP for quotes that are replicated bidirectionally in SAP ERP
or SAP CRM.
A PDF print of the sales quote (derived in SAP ERP) can be accessed in the document flow.
Note
Transfer Logs allows you to view details on interrupted transfers and to revoke the transfer of data.
SAP Cloud for Customer can help you reflect and record sales interactions around quotes and orders.
In sales, you have a list of products you want to sell. If you also have a list of customers who are interested in
those products, you can take your first steps toward making a sale.
To start, you should have your products in your SAP Cloud for Customer solution. You can either add them all at
once or you can add new ones into the solution as you add them to your product line. You can add details,
including prices and discounts for certain products.
As you start to get prospective customers interested in your products, you can offer them a quote. You can
reuse most of the information from an existing opportunity in the quote, which saves you time and typing. You
select the products the customer is interested in and maybe add a couple of cross-selling products or products
from a product list tailored to that customer.
When you've defined your products, you can run pricing. Pricing either runs in SAP Cloud for Customer directly
or you can use the pricing engine in SAP ERP system. External pricing can trigger an availability check, so you
know at this point whether the requested items are available.
If the quote requires approval, you can submit it for approval right in the system. After the quote is approved, it
is submitted to the customer in PDF format. If the customer does not accept the quote, you can either change
You can create a sales order right from the quote, which copies all the details from the quote and completes the
quote. You can also create orders directly in the solution from a customer visit. Alternatively, you can create the
order as a follow-up document in SAP ERP or directly in SAP Cloud for Customer. If you have integrated SAP
ERP, you can run pricing, a product availability check, and credit limit check. Sales orders created in SAP Cloud
for Customer can be replicated into your integrated SAP ERP system, and sales orders created in SAP ERP can
be replicated to SAP Cloud for Customer.
Order information, including delivery and invoice information, is carried through to other areas in SAP ERP and
in SAP Cloud for Customer, such as the 360 overview, so you can see it at a glance.
Administrators can configure sales orders using scoping, scoping questions, and fine-tuning activities.
Scoping questions and fine-tuning activities that are straightforward may not be included in this list.
Administrators can configure sales order document types in the business configuration.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine Tune
Sales Orders Maintain Document Types and define custom document types. Any custom document type
must be created in the 'Z' space (start with letter 'Z').
Administrators can configure the allowed involved parties at the sales order header and item level.
Assign party roles, assign a contact and specify whether they are mandatory and unique for the order. Select
Exclude for Inbound Integration if you do not need an inbound ERP integration for party roles. Maintain this
assignment under Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List
Sales Orders Maintain Involved Parties /´Maintain Involved Item Parties .
You can also determine if only the main party role or all parties (for standard and custom party roles) must be
determined from the account team, territory team or account relationships. The field Take Over (under
Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune Involved
Parties Maintain Determination lists three possibilities:
● All parties
Note
This feature is not available in the offline determination for involved parties.
Note
You should have maintained the involved party roles. For detailed information, see .
Administrators can set the default Pricing Date to use in new Sales Orders and copied Sales Orders.
To ensure accurate pricing data when creating and copying Sales Orders, Administrators can configure what
date to use as the default Pricing Date in a Sales Order. Choose how each type of Sales Order will be configured
based on the following four options:
● (Current) Date
○ New Sales Order Pricing Date defaults to the current date
○ Copied Sales Order Pricing Date defaults to the Pricing Date from the original Sales Order
● (Current) Date Included in Copy
○ New Sales Order Pricing Date defaults to the current date
○ Copied Sales Order Pricing Date defaults to the current date
● Requested Date (Header)
○ New Sales Order Pricing Date defaults to the Requested Date from the header
○ Copied Sales Order Pricing Date defaults to the Pricing Date from the original Sales Order
● Requested Date (Header) Included in Copy
○ New Sales Order Pricing Date defaults to the Requested Date from the header
○ Copied Sales Order Pricing Date defaults to the Requested Date from the header
Administrators can go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity
List Fine Tune Sales Orders Maintain Document Types to choose the configuration for each type of
document.
Example
If today is March 5th and you are copying an existing order with a pricing date of March 1st, the default Pricing
Dates for each setting are:
Requested Date
(Current) Date In Requested Date (Header) Included In
(Current) Date cluded In Copy (Header) Copy
New Sales Order De March 5th March 5th March 7th March 7th
fault Pricing Date
Copied Sales Order March 1st March 5th March 1st March 7th
Default Pricing Date
Administrators can set up block reasons for document types. The block assignments allow you to stop the
creation of sales quotes, sales orders, or other transactions for certain accounts considering their sales area.
Procedure
1. Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Accounts .
2. Select Sales Document Order Block.
3. Add a row for each order block reason you want to use to block sales documents and select from the list of
document types.
4. Define the following:
○ Order Block Reason - Reasons that you would like to use to block sales order creation for accounts
Note
The blocking reasons that you maintain here are mapped to the blocking reasons configured in an
ERP system.
○ Document Type - Assign a document type to the order block reasons to enable blocking sales order
creation for accounts.
5. Assign the blocks to accounts and block them in the header section of accounts.
In this activity, you can add configurable price components to the product table to enable user to manually add
some price components from ERP and map them here directly to document types. Go to Business
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine Tune
Configure Price Strategy Configure Pricing Procedure to set your pricing options.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine Tune
Approval for Sales Orders to define your approval tasks.
Approval workflow for multi-level approvals can also be used to determine the next level reporting managers. If
the appropriate approval process and conditions for the approval task are maintained and the defined
conditions are met, then the system determines next level reporting manager from the organization structure
maintained in your system.
Create approval processes using the three price elements displayed in sales order header level as discounts (or
any other price condition).
Multi level approval process must already be enabled in your system. To do this, select the scoping question
Enable multi-level approval for sales orders? under Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your
Project Edit Project Scope Questions Sales New Business Sales Orders .
Administrators can configure sales order approval via e-mail with scoping activities.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Built-in Services and Support System Management Security and check the box for the encryption and
signatures in e-mail question.
Note
This question is optional and only
relevant if you want trigger auto
matically an approval for your op
portunities if the entered data fulfill
the defined criteria.
Do you want to
automatically submit
tickets for an approval
workflow after one or more
specified conditions are
fulfilled?
Note
This question is optional and only
relevant if you want trigger auto
matically an approval for your tick
ets if the entered data fulfill the de
fined criteria.
E-mail Notifications - E-mail encryption Build-in Services and Support Do you want to use
and signature encryption and signature
System Management Security
for e-mails?
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune E-
Mail and Fax Settings
Enter your company domain, such as example.com, as the Allowed Sender E-Mail Domain.
Administrators can upload certificates needed for e-mail notifications for all employees.
Context
To enable e-mail notifications, upload the CA certificates in this area for the e-mail address for generic business
task management for all involved employees and managers.
Procedure
You can use SAP Cloud for Customer to enter your orders, confirm them when you receive accurate pricing and
availability information, and transfer them to the ERP system for future processing.
Caution
You will notice a decreased system performance when working with sales quotes or sales orders exceeding
500 products. Adding products to the sales document affects the performance of all item-related
functions, such as pricing, output, or transfer to external systems.
Determine Involved Parties for Sales Order Header and Item Level [page 509]
Determine involved parties for sales orders using party roles and the applicable determination rules.
Create Multiple Sales Orders from One Sales Quote [page 521]
Users can create multiple SAP Cloud for Customer sales orders from one sales quote.
Create Sales Orders and Sales Quotes as Follow-Up Documents [page 521]
Create a sales order or sales quote as a follow-up document from a sales order.
Sales order document type templates allow you to support various business scenarios.
Define templates that you can use to predefine maintenance mode, whether asynchronous pricing is valid
(available only for a combination of external and internal modes), pricing date, contract determination and
values for item increment. Standard order (OR) document type is shipped with standard system. Create
custom document types in the 'Z' space.
Administrators can configure sales order document types in the business configuration.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine Tune
Sales Orders Maintain Document Types and define custom document types. Any custom document type
must be created in the 'Z' space (start with letter 'Z').
Depending on your system setup, you have different types of sales orders.
You can edit orders in the SAP Cloud for Customer system as long as they are not in completed or canceled
status.
Note
Select products to add to your sales order based on previous orders, product lists, and product proposals.
When you create an order from within a visit or an account, the initial form data is prepopulated with
information (such as relationships, sales org data, payment terms, and so on) from that visit/account.
Sales order also supports search and add by Barcode Scanning, using the device camera or certain external
devices, for a speedy order capture.
When you create a new sales order, select Add Product. The Add Product screen may be pre-populated with
products via automatic proposals, if configured by your administrator. Additionally, it offers product selection
with a quick product search help and mass product additions via options such as Product Lists, All Products,
Past Orders and Promotions.
Click the Products tab and then click More to find these options:
● Add From All Products: In this option, all products in different product categories valid for the sales area in
the sales order are displayed for selection.
● Add from Product List: This option includes groupings of products valid for the account if enabled by your
administrator.
Note
You only see promotions with Released status in the Sales Order tab.
● Add from Past Orders: This option allows you to choose products from historical orders placed for that
particular account or by you. The past orders are split by the different query variants available.
○ My Past Orders displays the list of all past orders created by you. The Account Sales Orders option
displays list of all sales orders for the given account. The My Past Orders for Account option displays
list of all sales orders created by you for the given account.
● Add from Combined Lists: This option allows you to choose a combination of products from product lists,
product proposals and promotions.
● Barcode Scanning: Add products using barcode scanner. The scanned products are automatically added to
your selection. When you click on the barcode scanner icon, the camera loads allowing you to capture the
barcode. Note that barcode scanning is only available if you are using the Extended Edition app for the
solution.
● Quick Add Products: The quick add screen is available from Add Product when you launch a new sales order
or from the Products tab in the sales order. For detailed information on the Quick Add Products feature, see
documentation in the next topic Quick Add Products.
Note
These options are available even after you have saved a sales order. From within an existing sales order, you
can access this screen by selecting Quick Add Products under Products.
Dynamically add new products using field help in the Product column or directly enter product ID. It is also
possible to edit already existing products. Navigate to product master data using the icon next to the field.
The quick add of products is available from the quick create screen of a new sales order or using the Quick Add
Products in the Products tab within the order. All actions are enabled as icons on the toolbar above the table.
These include Mass Add Products, Remove Zero Quantity Items, Calculate Quantity, and Copy and Paste.
Note
These preference settings are enabled by default. To disable the new settings and use the previous settings,
select the checkbox for Disable Additional Usability Options under Administrator Sales and Campaign
Settings Sales Documents Configure Preferencs for Sales Documents .
Use the Product ID column to add products using external or internal product ID. This column is enabled with
value help and you must select a product from the product search.
Use the Product ID (No suggestions) column to add products using the Sales Cloud internal product ID. This
column does not trigger a product search on entry of the product ID.
Note
The Search & Add text box is available in the fast order entry screen and under the Products tab.
● The searched product is automatically added to the product list (as top row in the table) if it is not in the
list.
● If the searched product exists in the table, then the relevant row is highlighted for identification.
● If the existing products are on different pages, the same are also highlighted.
The feature not only enables copy and paste, but also validates the copied quantities with the minimum order
quantity configured for the order. For example, if the quantity for a copied product is more or less than the
minimum order quantity, the particular row in the table is highlighted for correction.
Note
The order of columns in your MS Excel sheet must match the order in your UI. Additionally, as in Excel, the
number of input fields must not exceed the maximum column fields exposed.
If no other proposed quantities are available, you can also use the increment counter to maintain product
quantity, This option is particularly helpful for improved usability performance on mobile devices. You can now
choose to set default quantity to '0' by selecting the relevant scoping question.
Administrators can maintain configuration to set default product quantity to zero. Go to Business
Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions Sales Product
As you work with the order, for example change quantities, the weight aggregation happens automatically and
on simulation, the same data is updated in SAP ERP using calculations in SAP ERP system. At the header level,
the aggregation is shown in the highest unit of measure (UoM).
Note
Key user must add the fields Net Weight, Gross Weight or Volumne in sales order header and item using
adaptaion.
You may want to exclude item types from weight calculation, for example in free goods scenario where you do
not want to aggregate weight. Administrators can select the flag - Not Relevant for Weight Calculation for item
types under Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Sales
Orders Maintain Item Types . If the base item type is already not weight relevant, this option is disabled.
Make sure that the configuration for item types matches with the corresponding customizing in SAP ERP
system.
Use the copy action to copy an entire line item in a sales order.
If you’ve set a Minimum Order Quantity for a product in the product master data, the system validates the
quantity and displays an error message if the minimum quantity hasn’t been met. For products with multiple
Example
Use the calculate quantity action to create a summary of the number of items for each unit of measure.
This summary can help identify potential upselling opportunities if a specific quantity needs to be met for a
promotion.
Related Information
Define the delivery priority at item level using the Delivery Priority column in the products table.
Item types allow you to process items based on SAP ERP logic for external pricing and integration.
You can use item types to apply manual discounts to internal and external orders.
Administrators can configure item types and also set them as a free sample or free good so that pricing is not
affected.
Define your own item types to reflect your company practices. Administrators can go to Business
Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine Tune Sales Orders
Maintain Item Types to choose the configuration for each item type.
Item types determine how an item category behaves in a sales document. Item item types are not necessary,
but are relevant if you replicate orders with an on premise system and administrators should remember to
configure document types.
You can define alternative item types for the item types delivered in the standard solution. These alternative
item types are then displayed for the corresponding items under the Products tab for sales orders. You can use
these custom item types to process items based on SAP ERP item categories. You can also use item types for,
in order simulations to retrieve external pricing.
To set an item type as a free good, select the flag - Administrators can define items as a free sample or free
good so that pricing is not affected.When an item that is not relevant for pricing is added to a order, it will not
contain a price. However, you can still add a price for this product manually.
Note
This Not Pricing Relevant item type is available in external pricing and offline pricing sales orders. You can
still add a price for this product manually.
Administrators need to define item increment numbers, which allow you to control Item Increment and Sub
Item Increment ranges.
Increment configuration eliminates limitations for bill of materials (BOM) explosion when there are many Sub
Items in external pricing. Define item increments under Business Configuration Implementation Projects
Your Project Open Activity List Fine Tune Sales Orders Maintain Document Types .
Minimum order quantity is sales area dependent; Administrators can maintain this value in the product master
data.
The system validates the quantity and displays an error message if the minimum quantity hasn’t been met. For
products with multiple units of measure, you can also set a quantity conversion to ensure that the minimum
order quantity check is still valid for each unit of measure. If the validity check fails, the system displays an
error message. To override this message, enter a value equal to or greater than the minimum quantity and save
your entries.
Define a sequence for products in Product List that is applied in a Sales Order.
Context
You can choose the sequence in which products are displayed in a Product List. The sequence that you choose
in your Product List is applied to the list of products in a Sales Order. When adding products to an order, use
Quick Add Products then Add From Product List to use this feature.
When you add products to a Sales Order from multiple Product Lists, the sequence of the products in each list
is reflected in your Sales Order. Each item is given new sequence values in the order to reflect this sequence.
The sequence of the Product Lists in the Quick Add Products screen is also reflected in your Sales Order when
adding multiple products from multiple Product Lists at the same time.
Tip
If you want products from individual Product Lists to show up in a specific sequence in your order, add
products from one Product List at a time using the Add Products. For example, when you select products
from List A and click Add Product, and do the same for Product List B, C, and D, in your order you see
orders from List A in their set sequence followed by items from List B, C, and D in their set sequence.
Products in the Quick Add Products screen appear in reversed order. Once you save and open your order,
products are listed in the correct order.
Procedure
1. Open a Product List, and under Proposed Products, add the hidden field Sequence to view the sequence
values.
2. Go to More and select Renumber to edit your sequence.
3. Enter any numerical value in the Sequence column.
4. Once you’ve saved the new values, the system automatically reorders the list based on the number values
in this column.
When you add products from past sales orders, the sequence of products is reflected in the new order.
When you add products to a sales order from past orders in the quick add products screen, the sequence of the
products within the past order is retained in the new sales order. If you add products from multiple orders, the
sequence within each order is retained in the new order.
In the quick add products screen, the past orders are listed by creation date, with the latest products first. In
your past orders, you have past order A, past order B, and past order C. You add three products from past order
A, four products from past order B, and two products from past order C. In your new sales order, the three
products from past order A will be listed in the same sequence set for the past order, followed by the four
products from past order B in the same sequence set for the past order, followed by the two products from past
order C in the same sequence set for the past order.
For scenarios where multiple products are assigned to the same GTIN, it is possible to select from a list of
products that share the same GTIN. This is valid for order entry using barcode scanning or while searching for
products using GTIN. To avoid a GTIN conflict, you can now select one product from the list of products with
the same GTIN. Similarly, when searching for products, the system displays a list of products that matches the
GTIN; you can select one product from the results list.
When you click Combined Lists in the order entry screen, you can select the appropriate category for Product
Lists or Promotions. In the search results, the products are listed along with the name of product list or
promotion.
Note
1. A product appears only once in the search results even if it is assigned to multiple product lists or
promotions.
2. This feature is available both in online and offline.
If your administrators have selected the flag - Automatic Proposal when configuring product lists, then
products are added to sales orders by default.
Related Information
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If accounts have been blocked, you cannot create a sales order for those accounts. If you try to create a quote
or order, an error message with the order block reason is displayed.
Administrators can set up block reasons for document types. The block assignments allow you to stop the
creation of sales quotes, sales orders, or other transactions for certain accounts considering their sales area.
Procedure
1. Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Accounts .
2. Select Sales Document Order Block.
3. Add a row for each order block reason you want to use to block sales documents and select from the list of
document types.
4. Define the following:
○ Order Block Reason - Reasons that you would like to use to block sales order creation for accounts
Note
The blocking reasons that you maintain here are mapped to the blocking reasons configured in an
ERP system.
○ Document Type - Assign a document type to the order block reasons to enable blocking sales order
creation for accounts.
5. Assign the blocks to accounts and block them in the header section of accounts.
Determine involved parties for sales orders using party roles and the applicable determination rules.
Use the Involved Parties tab from within a sales order to add and determine further involved business partners
(parties), such as partners or competitors into your sales orders. The Involved Parties tab allows to change the
address for parties and contacts to a Document Address which is a one-time address. This address does not
change master data and is only applicable for the document processing itself.
Streamline team assignments and ensure that business partners are correctly assigned to business
documents in accordance with your company needs.
Example
You can create a sales order and add an account as the ship-to party. In this example, the account is the
business partner, and ship-to is the party role. The ship-to account may be a subsidiary of a parent company,
which is a different account. You may have the parent company account as the bill-to party.
Administrators can configure the allowed involved parties at the sales order header and item level.
Assign party roles, assign a contact and specify whether they are mandatory and unique for the order. Select
Exclude for Inbound Integration if you do not need an inbound ERP integration for party roles. Maintain this
assignment under Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List
Sales Orders Maintain Involved Parties /´Maintain Involved Item Parties .
You can also determine if only the main party role or all parties (for standard and custom party roles) must be
determined from the account team, territory team or account relationships. The field Take Over (under
Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune Involved
Parties Maintain Determination lists three possibilities:
● All parties
● Main party, otherwise arbitrary one
● Only main party
Note
This feature is not available in the offline determination for involved parties.
Note
You should have maintained the involved party roles. For detailed information, see .
Party roles can now be determined for orders, using the work distribution rules.
Use custom party role assignments for orders in the quick create and Overview tab in the detailed view.
Administrators can enable using custom party roles such as a distributor during order create. It is possible to
add upto three custom party roles to the order creation screen (quick create and overview).
To configure, first define the required custom party roles and under Assign Party to UI, select the Header Party
Element for the role. Maintain this configuration under Business Configuration Implementation Project
Your Project Open Activity List Sales Orders Maintain Involved Parties .
Create orders for your ship-to-party visits with the toolbar action Create Ship-To-Party Order.
When you create a follow-up order from the visit, this action defaults the ship-to-party in the order instead of
the sold-to-party. This feature enables you to quickly default involved parties in an order and speed-up your
order taking process.
Note
In the Changes view within a sales order, you can see detailed information about the changes that have been
made to the order. You can see who made the changes, what the changes were, and when they were made. You
can also use the search fields to find changes made during a specific timeline, changes made by a specific user,
or changes made based on attributes.
Use the dropdown menu to view predefined categories such as 'My Orders' or 'Orders for My Territories.' You
can enter a specific search term by using the magnifying glass icon that will search the category you've chosen
in the dropdown menu.
Select the filter icon to access the advanced search which includes the option to search by additional
attributes.
Manage activities, such as appointments, tasks, phone calls, and e-mails from within a sales order. Activites
can be viewed and created directly from a sales order so you can easily follow-up with your customers. All
activities related to a sales order can also be viewed in the Document Flow tab.
You can add and delete attachments to your sales orders. Any updates that you make to attachments in the
cloud solution will be reflected in the sales order in the external system and vice-versa.
Note
The graphical signatures that are captured will be stored as attachments in this screen. You can click on the
hyperlink to view the signature.
Related Information
You can create a ticket from the Tickets view within a sales order or from the More menu in the Products view.
You can enable editing the worklist by clicking the user profile and clicking Settings Company Settings
and turning on the toggle button for the company setting Enable Editing in Dataset in Fiori Client .
● Account
● Reason for Rejection
● Order Reason
● External Reference
● Description
● Delivery Priority
● Incoterm
● Incoterm Location
● Opportunity
● Campaign
● Primary Contact
● Creation Date
● Pricing Date
● Requested Delivery Date
● Owner
● Ship-To
● Bill-To
● Territory
● Sales Unit
● Sales Group
● Sales Office
● Distribution Channel
● Division
Go to your Feed Settings to configure the types of updates to sales orders you want to see in your feed. You can
follow the changes made to sales orders like owner change or approval.
View a vertical split-screen layout for products and involved parties details.
In a sales order under the Products or Involved Parties tab, select to view the master list and item details
on one screen. On the left use the list to easily switch between items. When you select an item in the list, view
the details for the selected item on the right. In the upper-right corner, use the collapse icon to collapse and
Note
Adminstrators can disable this view by going to Adapt Company Settings and selecting the checkbox
for Disable Vertical Split View for Master-Detail in Sales Order. However, after the 1902 release, the vertical
split-screen view will be the default view, and you won't be able to disable it.
View details such as date sent, recipient, and status of e-mails sent from a sales order.
In a sales order, you can use Actions Send E-Mail to send an e-mail directly from the sales order. Under
Activities Send E-Mail Action History , view all e-mails sent by using this action and the status.
Note
Under Activities for a sales order, the E-Mails section shows the e-mail activities created in reference to the
sales order and any e-mails sent via workflows for notifications. The Send E-Mail Action History only shows
e-mails sent by using Actions Send E-Mail in your SAP Cloud for Customer system.
The Past Orders hyperlink is both in online and offline displays a host of insights for past orders, both
completed and historical orders.. This feature is available in the past order column under order items.
In the online, the table displays chronology of all historical orders including completed past orders. The
graphical analysis for completed orders has been enhanced and you can now displays three variables on the X-
axis: Requested Item Quantity, Item Net Amount and Item Net Price. On the Y axis, unit increments in 1000s are
displayed.
In the offline, the table displays a list of all previous orders, along with totals and quantities ordered.
Use pre-defined settings to encourage cross, up, and down selling when creating sales orders.
When you create a sales order, you have the opportunity to increase your sales but upselling and cross selling
additional products. You can also help customers transition to new or other products by downselling those that
may be discontinued or unfavorable.
Cross Selling
Use the Recommended Products section in the Products tab of a sales order to quickly added complementary
products to your sales orders when the opportunity presents itself.
In the Products tab of a sales order, an icon next to a product will signify if up or down selling is available for the
product. Use product lists to define up and down selling opportunities.
Learn how to create cross, up, or down selling product lists types, allowing users to select from those products
in a sales quote or sales order.
Note
In the newly created product list, the Required Products tab appears. For other product lists types,
addition tabs may also appear. For example, the Excluded Products tab appears when creating new
product exclusion list types.
7. Choose the type of desired proposed products, for example, Cross Selling, Down Selling, Up Selling.
Display registered products and use advance search to view them in the new tab - Registered Products. The
main registered product is also displayed in the order overview. Following fields are displayed: Product ID,
Product Description, Serial ID, Registered Product Description
Use internal pricing for sales orders of maintenance mode - Internal and that are not integrated with SAP ERP
system. To use internal pricing, maintain price lists and customer-specific price lists, along with discount lists
and a single pricing procedure.
● Allows price adjustments including action Update Pricing in the Pricing tab (this tab appears only for sales
orders with maintenance mode - Internal).
● Edit List Price and Product Discount (%) in the Products table.
● Edit Overall Discount (%) in the Overview.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine Tune
Configure Price Strategy Configure Pricing Procedure to set your pricing options.
Users can create multiple SAP Cloud for Customer sales orders from one sales quote.
The sales quote status changes to Won if a sales order reference exists.
Users can track the related call offs in the product table Ordered Quantity field. Navigate to Personalize to add
the hidden Ordered Quantity field.
Note
Ordered items which are not fully referenced to the SAP Cloud for Customer quote, will set the quote status
to In process. As of the 1902 release, the quote status becomes In process not only if a referenced item in
the order has been completely removed, but also when the referenced item quantity will be reduced
Create a sales order or sales quote as a follow-up document from a sales order.
A sales order or sales quote must have a consistent status and the pricing calculated successfully status to be
created as a follow-up document.
Create follow-up sales orders in your SAP ERP system from a sales quote in your sales cloud solution.
This feature requires that sales quotes are bi-directional integrated with your SAP ERP system. Key business
benefit is that a follow-up order is created considering product reservations and any other special price
conditions that are maintained in ERP system.
Select the action Create External Follow-Up Document in your SAP Cloud for Customer solution to create a
follow-up sales order directly in your ERP sytem. You can create multiple follow-up sales orders in ERP. Note
that the Reference Status for the quote must be set to Not Yet Finished to be able to create follow-up orders.
● Select the scoping question Do you want to create follow-up documents for sales quotes from your cloud
solution to an external application? under Business Configuration Implementation Project Your
Project Edit Project Scope Questions Communication and Information Exchange Integration into
Sales, Service, and Marketing Processes .
● Set up the communication arrangement Create Follow-up Sales Order for Replicated Sales Quote in SAP
Business Suite.
Reuse existing pricing procedures for supported fields from ERP by simply exporting them from SAP ERP and
uploading them in SAP Cloud for Customer.
Caution
Lean offline pricing that you may have implemented is deprecated and is supported only until 1805. Once
you have enabled the new flexible offline pricing, the previous lean offline pricing will no longer work.
Note
You need to make sure that your SAP Cloud for Customer ERP add-on (CODERINT) should be in
CODERINT 6.0 SP26 level or above.
● Customer
● Products
● Sales Organization
● Distribution Channel
● Division
● Country of Sold-to-Party
● Customer Group of Sold-to-Party
● Incoterms
● Incoterms Location
● Payment Terms
● Document Type
● Sales Unit
● Sales Group
● Sales Office
● Account Classification
● Item Category
● Document Sales Org
● Material Groups 1-5/Product Groups 1-5 (in SAP Cloud for Customer)
● Material Group/Product Category (in SAP Cloud for Customer)
● Account Hierarchy
Note
Offling pricing will only be available after a sales order has been simulated while online for each order type,
pricing procedure, and sales area combination defined in the fine tuning activity under Business
Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune Offline Pricing
Using External Pricing Determine Pricing Procedure Rules .
Sync your pricing master data to offline. As a prerequisite, maintain the configuration required to sync your
pricing master data to offline.
Based on the configuration, appropriate procedure will be determined for calculation within offline runtime.
Scope of the price master data for download is also decided based on this setting from the sales organization
perspective.
Sync of pricing master data is context based and depends on availability of the corresponding business objects
in offline.
The following objects act as context for pricing master data download:
Note
If the pricing master data involves accounts, products and sales organization, then the corresponding data
is downloaded to offline only if those accounts, products and sales organizations are already synced to
offline.
Use configurable price elements in sales orders offline to add a discount to an order item or header and map it
to a configurable price element.
When you map the discount to a configurable price element, the field appears in both online and offline.
Configurable price elements were earlier available only in online. The standard system supports up to five
configurable price elements at item level and three at the header level.
● Map your pricing elements such as prices, surcharges, discounts, taxes and so on to corresponding
configurable price elements.
● Maintain a label for the price element.
● Assign the appropriate authorizations under Authorization Levels for External Pricing.
● Map the price element from the pricing procedure to the condition type.
Note
To use these configurable price elements, add them to your UI screens using the adaptation mode.
Use product weights for estimating prices in offline. Administrators can enable price calculation using weights
in flexible offline pricing.
To use this feature, administrators must enable condition types for price calculation based on product net or
gross weight. You must also have maintained weights for products in the product master data. To configure the
feature, set up a condition type based on condition class - Gross Weight or Net Weight.
View the pricing status in offline to determine if you need to estimate and fetch latest pricing. Use the action
Estimate Price to calculate offline prices based on latest changes to the sales document.
When you estimate price, the Pricing Status changes from Not Calculated to Calculated Successfully and
subsequently the Estimate Price action gets disabled. If you make updates to the document after calculating
prices, the pricing status is reset to Not Calculated and the Estimate Price action gets enabled, indicating that
you must trigger pricing calculation again.
Administrators can enable manual discount as a header condition in pricing procedure. This allows users to
enter a manual discount in the sales order header.
Note
In the ERP/S/4HANA pricing procedure, you must have maintained a header condition type for manual
discount condition.
To enable the feature, go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity
List Fine-Tune External Pricing Assignments of External Price Elements , and maintain the following
configuration:
● Map the discount field to a configurable price element for header called Total Price Element.
● Maintain an appropriate label for the field.
● Assign appropriate authorizations.
● Map the field to the header condition type in the pricing procedure.
Complete sales orders with signatures, approval processes, simulation for external orders, and order
summaries.
Track Order With Involved Party Contact Using Live Activity [page 538]
When a contact from an order reaches out to contact center, use the live activity to identify the order
for quicker processing.
Capture graphical signatures from both your employee and the buyer in a sales order.
Context
When you add a graphical signature to your sales order, you have the option to add two types of signatures:
Buyer Signature or Employee Responsible Signature.This feature is available both online and offline
Procedure
Note
You can add a total of two graphical signatures, but only one for each type of party. Once you add one
type of signature, the option is removed from the dropdown menu.
3. In the Add Signature dialog, add a signature in the box and select Add and New (to add the second
signature), Add and Close (if you wish to add only one signature) and Cancel to close the dialog without
adding signatures.
Results
Once a signature is added, you can view it in the Attachments tab of the sales order. After you've saved one
buyer signature and one employee responsible signature, the Sign option under Actions is disabled.
Set-up your sales order e-mail workflows with individual customer as destination. To do this, use the Accounts
Contacts of Sales Order under the Recipient Determination set-up in workflow rules.
Submit sales orders for approval process using the new workflow action - Submit Orders for Approval.
The following workflow actions are available for sales orders now: Revoke, Submit for Approval, Transfer,
Withdraw from Approval.
Administrators can set different approval processes for sales orders that must be completed in order for the
order to be submitted for processing. A sales order can have multiple levels of approvals and will follow the
process the administrator has defined. Administrators can also set sales orders to be submitted automatically
as part of the sales order approval process.
You can see the approval process, history, and details under the Approvals tab.
To submit an order for approval, go to Actions Submit for Approval or you can choose Withdraw from
Approval if you accidentally submit for approval.
Manager can approve sales orders via email notification or in the Approvals tab in the sales order.
Before using approvals via e-mail, ensure the following pre-requisites are met:
● E-Mail Notifications: Ensure that the involved employees are business users and have valid e-mail
addresses, and that the CA certificates from the employees are uploaded to the system for outgoing e-
mails.
● E-Mail Notifications: Each involved employee must subscribe to the e-mail notifications by opening the
Notifications view and choosing Subscribe to E-Mail.
● E-Mail Notifications: Check that the e-mail clients of the involved employees have enabled the receipt of
encrypted e-mails.
A sales order can be approved or sent back for revision from within an e-mail, without having to log into the
system.
E-mail approval requires certificates setup for Outlook and Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME)
configuration.
Administrators can configure sales order approval via e-mail with scoping activities.
● The involved employees are business users and have valid e-mail addresses, and that the CA certificates
from the employees are uploaded to the system for outgoing e-mails.
● The involved employee are subscribed to the e-mail notifications by opening the Notifications view and
choosing Subscribe to E-Mail.
● The e-mail clients of the involved employees have enabled the receipt of encrypted e-mails.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Built-in Services and Support System Management Security and check the box for the encryption and
signatures in e-mail question.
Note
This question is optional and only
relevant if you want trigger auto
matically an approval for your op
portunities if the entered data fulfill
the defined criteria.
Do you want to
automatically submit
tickets for an approval
workflow after one or more
specified conditions are
fulfilled?
Note
This question is optional and only
relevant if you want trigger auto
matically an approval for your tick
ets if the entered data fulfill the de
fined criteria.
E-mail Notifications - E-mail encryption Build-in Services and Support Do you want to use
and signature encryption and signature
System Management Security
for e-mails?
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine Tune
Approval for Sales Orders to define your approval tasks.
Approval workflow for multi-level approvals can also be used to determine the next level reporting managers. If
the appropriate approval process and conditions for the approval task are maintained and the defined
conditions are met, then the system determines next level reporting manager from the organization structure
maintained in your system.
Create approval processes using the three price elements displayed in sales order header level as discounts (or
any other price condition).
Multi level approval process must already be enabled in your system. To do this, select the scoping question
Enable multi-level approval for sales orders? under Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your
Project Edit Project Scope Questions Sales New Business Sales Orders .
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune E-
Mail and Fax Settings
Enter your company domain, such as example.com, as the Allowed Sender E-Mail Domain.
Administrators can upload certificates needed for e-mail notifications for all employees.
Context
To enable e-mail notifications, upload the CA certificates in this area for the e-mail address for generic business
task management for all involved employees and managers.
Procedure
The sales order summary is displayed in a PDF when you go to Actions Preview . You can view a sales
order summary when you are online and offline. The summary may display different information in online
versus offlin edepending on how your administrator has configured the templates.
Use Actions E-mail to send the sales order in an e-mail. To use this feature, you will need to configure the
required form templates. For sales orders, form template can be created and is available as part of active
templates under Administrator Business Flexibility Form Template Maintenance .
Select the Sales Order as template group and use Actions Create E-mail Template . Note that you can
create different templates for your requirements.
The Sales Order form template has the following sections for which you can add additional fields: Sales Order
ID, Contact Information, Terms and Conditions, Notes, Table (with columns for Item Product Requirement
Specification and Item Notes), Letter Text and Signature Text.
In the Form Template Selection, select Show Rules for Sales Order and you can specify the Document Type,
Account, Country Code, Customer Group, Sales Unit for which the form template will be valid.
Note
For example, if you specify a document type here, then E-mail action will use the template for all sales
orders with this document type.
The language for your sales order summary is determined by the default set by the customer or, if one is not
set, the default language for your user in the system will be set.
You can choose a different language for the summary from within a sales order. In the sales order Overview find
the field for Language and select a language from the dropdown menu. The languages in this list are determind
by the communication languages your administrator has defined.
Products already entered as items will not change the language output of the product description.
Your SAP Cloud for Customer system checks to makes sure that functional parameters are met and gives a
consistent or inconsistent status that signifies whether or not sales orders can be completed. Sales orders with
an inconsistent cannot be completed
Use Actions Set as Completed to complete an internal sales order. You do not need to simulate or
transfer internal sales orders.
When a contact from an order reaches out to contact center, use the live activity to identify the order for
quicker processing.
Note
In a sales order, under Involved Parties, you can click the phone number link to call the phone number listed
under phone or mobile number.
When you click the phone number link, you are taken to the live activity center where you can enter notes and
save your phone call. When you are finished, your phone call is saved in the sales order under Activities
Phone Calls .
Note
Click-to-call is only available in the SAP Fiori Client. The computer telephony integration (CTI) solution
must also be embedded.
Integrate your SAP Cloud for Customer system with SAP ERP to get all pricing, shipping, and delivery
information for external sales orders.
Integration with an ERP system is a prerequisite for running most of the processes for sales orders. The
integration framework is documented in the Prepackaged Integration with SAP ERP guide.
Note
Only integration with SAP ERP is supported in the current release. If a connection has been established
with an on-premise ERP system, then the sales orders that you create will be replicated in the external ERP
system. Note that Transfer is possible only if the pricing status is set to Calculated Successfully. Therefore,
you can transfer only after you have completed the simulation.
Order Replication - Restrict Changes to SAP Cloud for Customer [page 545]
Use document type External Inbound to ensure that changes made to orders replicated from your SAP
ERP solution are restricted to SAP Cloud for Customer and not transferred back to your ERP system.
Use 'Finish' to Collectively Trigger Simulate and Transfer Actions [page 546]
Use action Finish to combine collectively perform a save, simulate and transfer of the order to ERP
system all with a single click. Orders can be revised multiple times until all of the order items and the
Provide your customers with accurate pricing and delivery information before confirming an order.
Use the simulate action when you want to capture an order and would like accurate pricing (net price,
discounts, and net value), product availability (delivery dates, ATP quantities and ATP type), and statuses
(credit and rejection) information. The action allows the system to simulate the order captured in SAP Cloud
for Customer in ERP and return with all of the information mentioned above. You can adjust items or quantities
in an order and simulate multiple times before finalizing the order for transfer.
Note
● Before the simulation is triggered, total pricing details are not available and the pricing status of the
sales order is set to Not Calculated. After simulation is complete, the net price is updated in the sales
order header and the pricing status is set appropriately (for example, the pricing status is set to
Calculated Successfully or Calculated with Errors). The total price component details is updated in the
Products tab screen.
● Actions Transfer is disabled if you modify the order after simulate. You will need to simulate
again to be able to transfer the order to external ERP system.
You can find the simulate option on the screen under Actions.
Simulate or transfer an order from SAP ERP to view the free goods that are available. With external pricing, you
can also trigger free goods determination.
When you simulate or transfer an order, you see the available free goods. If you change products or product
quantities in a sales order, free good items are removed and you must simulate or transfer the order again. Free
goods determination supports both exclusive (for example, buy ten and get one free) and inclusive (for
example, buy 10 and pay only 9) procedures.
Note
When processing a sales order, ensure your customers are within their credit limit.
When you simulate or transfer an order, you will see the credit status, credit limit, and credit exposure that has
been defined from the SAP ERP system. If the sales order amount exceeds the customer's limit, you will get a
warning message.
You can use credit status as a part of approval conditions for your sales order.
Related Information
When you simulate or transfer an order, you can view the multi level bill of materials (BoM) explosion from SAP
ERP/CRM.
Note
Price or quantity adjustments for a BoM are only supported on the header item.
Get product substitution suggestions for products that are out of stock or discontinued.
Configure the alternate products you want to be substituted for a product in your SAP ERP system. Then, when
you simulate or transfer a sales order, if a product has an alternate product to substitute, you can view it in the
Products tab. You can see the original product as well as the item that is being substituted in its place.
View and edit pricing elements in your sales order. View your pricing procedure in the header of your sales
order and the Product Pricing and Total Pricing in the Products tab.
In this activity, you can add configurable price components to the product table to enable user to manually add
some price components from ERP and map them here directly to document types. Go to Business
Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine Tune External Pricing
and define the following:
View estimated product availability after you have simulated or transferred an order.
In the Products view, under Product Availability, view the estimated ATP (Available To Promise) quantity and
delivery date simulated from SAP ERP.
Fields ATP Quantity and ATP Delivery (Date) in product table can be added through personalization.
Sales orders can have various statuses generated internally in the cloud solution.
● Credit Status states if the number of units were exceeded or not or if credit status is relevant for the order.
● Pricing Status is internal to the cloud solution and determines if transfer can be initiated for sales order.
The following pricing statuses are possible for an order:
○ Calculated Successfully: Simulation has been carried out and the data has been successfully read
from ERP system and displayed in the cloud solution
○ Not Calculated: No simulation has yet been initiated for the sales order.
○ Calculated with Error: Simulation has encountered errors .
● Cancellation Status signifies whether or not the order has been cancelled.
● Rejection Status is reflected at both header and item level along with the reason for rejection.
● Delivery Status is displayed for both header and item level along with the ATP delivery and quantity.
Note
To simulate sales orders offline, you will need to be connected to the network.
Note
When creating an order offline, use the Save and Open action on the item proposal screen to save your
order. Then, to retrieve pricing information, use the Simulate or Transfer actions from the sales order
screen.
View SAP ERP error messages while editing your sales order to resolve validation issues.
When you simulate a sales order, if SAP ERP finds any issues in the validation or determination for the sales
order, error messages are displayed on the sales order screen. The error messages are displayed until the sales
order is closed. You can view the error messages while you edit the sales order. Then, simulate the order again
to refresh the error messages and check to see if you have resolved the issues.
Finalize a sales order and send it out for fulfillment, billing, and shipping.
After you've simulated an order and are ready to move forward, you'll need to transfer the order to SAP ERP to
get it finalized.
The transfer status is internal to the cloud solution and helps to identify the sales order sync status with ERP
system.
One of the following values will be displayed as transfer status depending on the status of the sync:
Transfer of an order involves actual creation of the order in ERP and will trigger any follow-up processes
configured in ERP like fulfillment and billing.
Transfer statuses provide you with insight into the sync status of the SAP Cloud for Customer sales order with
SAP ERP system.
One of the following values will be displayed as transfer status depending on the status of the sync:
Note
Transfer is possible only if the pricing status is set to Calculated Successfully. Therefore, you can transfer
only after you have completed the simulation. Use action Finish to initiate both simulate and transfer
together in the background.
Click on Actions Transfer to replicate the order you created in SAP Cloud for Customer to the ERP
system.
The finish action can be used to combine all of the actions of save, simulate and transfer of the order to ERP in
a single click.
Orders can be revised multiple times until all of the order items and the order itself is completed.
Click on Actions Finish to perform a save, simulate and transfer together (if there are no errors in
simulation).
Use document type External Inbound to ensure that changes made to orders replicated from your SAP ERP
solution are restricted to SAP Cloud for Customer and not transferred back to your ERP system.
Under Business Configuration Implementation Project Your Project Open Activity List Sales Orders
Maintain Document Types , select the document type External Inbound if you do not want updates made in
SAP Cloud for Customer to reflect in your ERP system.
For prospects that are replicated to ERP, the Simulate, Transfer, and Finish actions are enabled.
For prospects that are not replicated to ERP, the Transfer, and Finish actions are disabled. The simulate action
is still enabled so that you can check the estimated prices if required.
Use action Finish to combine collectively perform a save, simulate and transfer of the order to ERP system all
with a single click. Orders can be revised multiple times until all of the order items and the order itself is
completed. Note that Finish triggers both simulate and transfer collectively as background actions.
Following standard reports are provided for sales orders under Analysis Reports in HTML5, if configured
by your administrator.
● Sales Order Item Value by Product Category: Shows the history of the product quantity ordered and the
net amount for the item.
● Sales Order Value by Account: Shows the net amount and the other sales order data.
● Sales Order Value by Month: Shows the net amount and other sales order data.
Following data sources are provided for sales orders in the standard system:
This topic presents the following information about sales orders in offline mode - validations, determinations,
fields and actions supported, and additional information.
Find below the information about sales orders implementation logic for change scenario in offline mode
Sales Unit Sales Unit Determination Sales unit from the org If the sales area is modified,
model from the logged in
then the following logic ap
user
plies:
Product Lists Manual Proposals(Add from All product lists that are
List) valid for today and :
1. Promotions directly at
account level
2. Promotions at parent
account level
3. Promotions at target
group level
Note
The calculation
and sync of con
ditions is based
on the assump
tion that the first
two flexible con
ditions (PPE1,
PPE2) are map
ped to manual
discount (%) and
manual discount
(absolute).
Actions in Add Products Action Save Saves the order and re
screens turns to the search list
Note
No simulation is per
formed for offline or
ders
Fields
Information about offline sales orders field level availability is detailed in this topic.
Most of the sales order fields are now also available offline. The fields that have some offline determination
have been listed in the table below.
Default/Determination Default/Determination
Object Header Field Availability Offline Online Offline
Order Header
Account Y N N
Document Type Y Y Y
Description Y N N
Requested Date Y Y Y
Sales Unit Y Y Y
Distribution Channel Y Y N
External Notes Y N N
Ship-To N Y Y
Pricing Date Y Y Y
Owner Y Y Y
Sales Organization Y Y Y
Territory Y (Disabled) Y NA
Internal Notes Y N N
Division Y N N
Primary Contact Y N Y
External Reference Y N N
Language Y Y N
Currency Y Y N
Add Products
(screen)
Product Y Y Y
Quantity Y Y N
Product Category Y Y Y
Promotion Y Y Y
Manual Discount % Y N N
(Offline Only)
Manual Discount Y N N
Currency (Offline
Only)
Extension Scenario Y Y N
Item Type Y N N
UoM Y Y Y
GTIN Y Y N
External Product ID Y Y N
Overview Y Y
Primary Contact Y Y
External ID Y N
Pricing Status Y N
Credit Status Y N
External Reference Y Y
Description Y Y
Creation Date Y Y
Requested Date Y Y
Cancellation Status Y N
Net Value Y N
Tax Y N
Payment Terms Y Y
Inco Terms Y Y
Owner Y Y
Sales Unit Y Y
Distribution Channel Y Y
Division Y Y
Products Line Y NA
Product Y NA
Description Y NA
Net Price Y NA
Quantity Y NA
Net Value Y NA
Name Y NA
Address Y NA
E-mail Y NA
Phone Y NA
Main Y NA
Product ID Y Y
Product Description Y Y
Net Price Y Y
Quantity Y NA
Net Value Y Y
Tax Amount Y NA
Description Y NA
Status Y N
Manually Added Y N
Amount Y NA
Quantity Y N
ATP Type Y N
Internal Notes Y N
Description Y NA
Status Y NA
Manually Added Y N
Price Component Y
Value
Name Y N
Address Y N
E-mail Y N
Phone Y N
Main Y Y
Delete Action N Y
Type Y N
Changed On Y N
Changed By Y N
Delete Action Y Y
Status Y N
Start Date/Time Y N
Owner Y N
Primary Contact Y N
Tickets Tickets ID Y N
Description Y Y
Relationship Y N
Priority Y N
Status Y N
Created On Y N
Assigned To Y N
Action - New N Y
Actions
Find information about the different actions available in offline for Sales Orders
Global New Y
Preview N
Copy N
Send E-mail N
Transfer N
Simulate Y
Finish Y
Save Y
Cancel Y
Past Orders Y
Add Y
In Line Delete Y
Sort Y
Save and Simulate Save the simulated the order and open
the sales order - Product tab screen in
focus.
Additonal Information
● You can add products in offline fast order entry using bar code scanning. The following conditions are valid
for bar code scanning:
Note
● ○ If you are using a third-party application for scanning, you can only scan one product at a time. Note
that the app has to be launched each time you need to scan.
○ If you are using an in-built bar code scanner on the device, you can scan multiple products after you
launch the plug-in for this application the first time you use the app.
○ Item category selection : You can change the item category for a line item for orders with
maintenance mode Internal & External.
○ Availability of estimated prices during product selection for offline orders.
○ Configurable Price Elements Mapping for Offline Manual Discount: Mapping between pricing
conditions and configurable price elements (CPE) for enabling offline manual discounts in sales order.
A new configuration under Business Configuration Open Activity List External Pricing
Assignment of External Price Elements for Offline Pricing is available for this feature.
○ Create and Edit Signature Capture: It is possible to create and edit signatures in offline and sync back
to the cloud solution.
Custom party role determination is now supported in offline. Currently the party role determination in offline is
supported only for the party role - Partner Party.
Administrators can configure partner party role under Business Configuration Implementation Projects
Your Project Open Activity List Party Role Definition .
In the Party Role Definition under Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open
Activity List Party Role Definition , first define a custom party role of Partner Party category, as an involved
party.
Next, under Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Sales
Orders Maintain Involved Parties , activate the determination steps for the party role. Additionally, maintain
the Take Over behaviour of the party. Only two take over options are allowed for sales orders - Only Main or
Copy from Account. When a user creates a new sales document in offline, this custom party role determination
fetches the relevant involved party from the account using the determination rules.
Configure product lists based on product categories. In offline mode, users can access the product list with all
products belonging to that product category.
While working in offline mode, you can copy orders along with the product and quantity details.
Note
To simulate sales orders offline, you will need to be connected to the network.
Note
When creating an order offline, use the Save and Open action on the item proposal screen to save your
order. Then, to retrieve pricing information, use the Simulate or Transfer actions from the sales order
screen.
Having trouble using Sales Orders? Check this list of questions and answers for help.
Note
In case more than one Sales Area is found for an Employee or an Account, then the system recommends
the first one.
Product lists are configured for accounts and sales area. If the flag for Automatic Proposal is selected in the
product list configuration, then you will see that products are pre-populated into the item proposal when you
initiate an order.
Proposed quantities can be maintained for the products in a product list. When you add items from a product
list into an order, you can see these quantities and use them as a reference for ordering.
If there is no proposed quantity maintained for the product, then the product’s minimum ordered quantity is
considered. The minimum ordered quantity is maintained at the sales area level of each product. If the product
is getting added from past order, then the quantity is proposed from the past order.
All the active promotions that are valid at the time of the sales order creation and that are also valid for the
selected account are displayed to you at the time of the creation of a sales order.
You can quickly add multiple products after saving an order, by going to the Products tab in the sales order and
clicking More Quick Add Products and choosing products from All Products, Past Orders, Product Lists
and Promotions.
. This opens the same screen that you use at the time of initial order entry but with an empty item proposal
table.
Under Products tab in a sales order, for each line item you have the option to create a new follow-up ticket.
Based on which document type has been setup by your administrator for external pricing in the maintenance
mode, you can see or not see the option to Simulate, Transfer and Finish in your sales order.
Only the sales orders whose document type have maintenance mode set as External and Internal have
simulate, transfer and finish under actions menu enabled.
Stop the transfer process of a Sales Order so you can delete it.
Context
When a Sales Order is stuck in the transfer process, you can't delete it. The Revoke Transfer action stops the
process and therefore changes its transfer status. Once the order's transfer status is changed to Not Started,
you can delete it. The Revoke Transferoption is available to orders with a transfer status of In Process only.
Procedure
As an administrator, learn how to configure and use involved parties—the people you interact with in business
transactions.
You can determine involved parties for business transactions using party roles and the connected
determination rules. This determination allows you to streamline team assignments. It also ensures that
business partners are correctly assigned to business documents in a way that matches your company process.
Business partner is the collective term for all the companies and people you interact with in your business, and
includes accounts, contacts, partners, and employees. When you create a document, you can designate a
business partner as an involved party and assign them a role.
You can designate roles for sales quotes, leads, opportunities, service tickets, or activities. You can then
automatically determine involved parties for these business transactions using determination rules and master
data.
Example
You can create a sales quote and add the employee as the Ship-to party. In this case, the employee is the
business partner, and Ship-to is the party role.
Administrators can configure involved parties using scoping, scoping questions, and fine-tuning activities.
Scoping questions and fine-tuning activities that are self-explanatory may not be included in this list.
Note
If you use determination from relationships for custom parties, ensure you apply the following prerequisites
in your system.
● You have already maintained relationships in the General Business Partners fine-tuning activity. Navigate to
Business Configuration Open Activity Lists Fine-Tune General Business Partners to create and
adapt any custom relationships you plan to use in your involved party determination.
● You have assigned these relationships between accounts, contacts, partners, and partner contacts from
the appropriate details screen on the Involved Party Relationships tab.
Navigate to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-
Tune and search for the desired business transaction activity such as, Involved Parties for Registered Product,
Leads, Sales Quotes, Opportunities, and click Maintain Involved Parties.
As an administrator, you can configure which party roles you want to use in your application.
Context
Some party roles have been set to mandatory by default and cannot be deactivated. You will notice these since
the fields are grayed out.
If you use involved parties for opportunities, place a checkmark in the Internal field. The Internal checkmark
allows the system to control if the party can only be added to the opportunity Sales Team section
Procedure
1. Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-
Tune and search for the desired business transaction activity.
2. Click Maintain Involved Parties.
3. Ensure that the roles that are used in your business are activated.
The Party Role selection can be controlled from Code List Restrictions. This is helpful in cases where a party
role depends on the document type. The party schema itself is not document type dependent.
4. Click Add Row and enter the details for your new custom party role.
First, navigate to Fine Tune Party Role Definition to define new party roles. Standard party roles
cannot be assigned to the party schema by the administrator or key user, but the predelivered one should
fulfill most requirements.
5. Click in the Mandatory checkbox to define if a party role is mandatory for a document.
If you define a role as mandatory, users cannot save transactions in the document. The error message
prevents users from saving the transaction.
The defined system behavior benefits the user because they can still completely save their current data
entry in the document. If a mandatory party is missing which for example, prevents the creation of a follow-
up sales order from a sales quote, the document contains inconsistent details.
Preventing save on errors in party processing can only be achieved using custom coding in the SAP Cloud
Applications Studio.
6. Select the Unique checkbox and only one party role can exist once in a document.
If parties are determined from an account relationship, the system copies only the main relationship into
the document.
If you try to add more than one party role, an error message is displayed, but the system allows users to
save the inconsistent transaction.
7. Select the Forbid Manual Changes checkbox.
Administrators can create new party roles to add to the company party schema. By defining party roles, you
can assign employees to specific accounts. When creating new party role entries, the Party Role Code must
begin with the letter Z.
Procedure
1. Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-
Tune.
2. Search for and select Party Role Definition.
3. In the Description field, you can rename existing party roles. A change of description is valid for all assigned
business objects.
You can also use Language Adaptation tool to rename a party role.
Since the following terms are used in transactions, rename the standard party roles 39- Employee
Responsible and 142- Employee Responsible - Sales to Owner. 142- Employee Responsible - Sales is used in
account sales and territory teams and mapped to 39- Employee Responsible in transactions. The Party
Category field allows you to control certain business logic such as:
○ Party Category Competitor Party control, for example, the role selection on the opportunities
Competitor tab.
○ Party Category Approver Party allows you to use this party role for work distribution in approval
processes
○ Category Other Org Unit Party filter is only on organizational units for the party selection and allows
determination via rules.
4. You can also define new relationship types in fine-tuning activity General Business Partner. This allows you
to use party determination based on the account’s relationship maintained in Account master record. The
Main relationship to an account can be copied to the transaction, if the party role is part of the party
schema and corresponding determination step is active.
5. If you select the Responsibility Role checkbox, you can add this party role to the Account Team and or
Territory Team. If required, you can add this party role for party determination in the party schema.
6. Select Sales Data as required.
7. Select Unique in Account Team as required.
Administrators can configure the determinations of standard party roles that allow you to differentiate if only
the main party or all parties should be determined from the account team (territory team or an account
relationship).
Context
In the solution, administrators can configure Take Over options in Determination of Involved Parties The
configuration is not applicable for offline determination..
Procedure
Administrators can add, delete, activate, or deactivate predelivered determination steps for the selected party
role. The determination steps appearing for the selected party roles depend on the configuration of the party
role completed in fine-tuning activity Party Role Definition.
As an administrator, you can configure which party roles you want to use in your application.
Context
Some party roles have been set to mandatory by default and cannot be deactivated. You will notice these since
the fields are grayed out.
If you use involved parties for opportunities, place a checkmark in the Internal field. The Internal checkmark
allows the system to control if the party can only be added to the opportunity Sales Team section
Procedure
1. Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-
Tune and search for the desired business transaction activity.
2. Click Maintain Involved Parties.
3. Ensure that the roles that are used in your business are activated.
The Party Role selection can be controlled from Code List Restrictions. This is helpful in cases where a party
role depends on the document type. The party schema itself is not document type dependent.
4. Click Add Row and enter the details for your new custom party role.
First, navigate to Fine Tune Party Role Definition to define new party roles. Standard party roles
cannot be assigned to the party schema by the administrator or key user, but the predelivered one should
fulfill most requirements.
5. Click in the Mandatory checkbox to define if a party role is mandatory for a document.
If you define a role as mandatory, users cannot save transactions in the document. The error message
prevents users from saving the transaction.
The defined system behavior benefits the user because they can still completely save their current data
entry in the document. If a mandatory party is missing which for example, prevents the creation of a follow-
up sales order from a sales quote, the document contains inconsistent details.
Preventing save on errors in party processing can only be achieved using custom coding in the SAP Cloud
Applications Studio.
If parties are determined from an account relationship, the system copies only the main relationship into
the document.
If you try to add more than one party role, an error message is displayed, but the system allows users to
save the inconsistent transaction.
7. Select the Forbid Manual Changes checkbox.
As a recommendation, you can restrict the party role from the selection using Code List Restrictions. Party
roles that are not automatically determined can still be deleted. The Forbid Manual Changes flag also
restricts the maintenance of document addresses in the transaction of the effected party role.
8. In the Inbound Integration field, select Exclude to replicate documents with SAP ERP/SAP CRM. By
selecting Exclude, your system avoids party redetermination in SAP Cloud for Customer during inbound
processing. In this case, the party ownership belongs to the on-premise system. When changes are
performed afterwards in SAP Cloud for Customer, party redetermination is still be executed.
Administrators can configure the determinations of standard party roles that allow you to differentiate if only
the main party or all parties should be determined from the account team (territory team or an account
relationship).
Context
In the solution, administrators can configure Take Over options in Determination of Involved Parties The
configuration is not applicable for offline determination..
Procedure
Administrators can activate or deactivate predelivered determination steps for the selected party role.
Note
1. Navigate to the Fine-Tune party role such as Sales Quotes, Leads, Opportunities Maintain Involved Party
Party Role Assignment.
2. Click Add Row.
3. Add custom party roles to a party schema.
4. If you no longer require specific party roles, delete them.
Note
You can only remove custom party roles from your party schema. As an alternative, you can deactivate
them.
Note
Only active party roles appear in the Involved Parties value help.
Learn about the predelivered party roles and recommendations for assigning business partners to party roles
combinations.
Competitor A party that competes for sales in the Account or Individual Customer
same target market.
Bill-to A party that receives the bill for the Account or Individual Customer
goods or services supplied.
Sender A party from whom the message origi Employee, Contact, Partner Contact, or
nates. Individual Customer
Recipient (CC) A party that is to receive a copy of a Employee, Contact, Partner Contact, or
message. Individual Customer
Recipient (BCC) A party that is to receive a copy of a Employee, Contact, Partner Contact, or
message without the other recipients’ Individual Customer
knowledge.
Service and Support Team A party that is responsible for the proc Organizational Unit with Function 'Cus
essing of customer complaints. tomer Service'
Payer A party that pays for goods or services. Account or Individual Customer
Organizer A party that is responsible for the or Employee, Contact, Partner Contact, or
ganization of an appointment. Individual Customer
Employee Responsible A party that is responsible for some Employee or Partner Contact
thing. Often, this employee also has
tasks to fulfill or is responsible for up
dating the document. The party can be
an internal or external employee.
Activity Contact A party that has a reference to the cur Contact or Partner Contact
rent activity.
Sales Unit An organizational unit that is responsi Organizational Unit with Function 'Sa
ble for the sales and distribution of les'
products in business processes.
Call Participant A party that participates in real-time Employee, Contact, Partner Contact, or
communication, for example, a phone Individual Customer
call or Internet chat session.
Sales Employee A party that is included in the sales de Employee or Partner Contact
partment of an enterprise, or that car
ries out sales tasks.
Administrators can create new party roles to add to the company party schema. By defining party roles, you
can assign employees to specific accounts. When creating new party role entries, the Party Role Code must
begin with the letter Z.
Procedure
1. Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-
Tune.
2. Search for and select Party Role Definition.
3. In the Description field, you can rename existing party roles. A change of description is valid for all assigned
business objects.
You can also use Language Adaptation tool to rename a party role.
Since the following terms are used in transactions, rename the standard party roles 39- Employee
Responsible and 142- Employee Responsible - Sales to Owner. 142- Employee Responsible - Sales is used in
account sales and territory teams and mapped to 39- Employee Responsible in transactions. The Party
Category field allows you to control certain business logic such as:
○ Party Category Competitor Party control, for example, the role selection on the opportunities
Competitor tab.
○ Party Category Approver Party allows you to use this party role for work distribution in approval
processes
○ Category Other Org Unit Party filter is only on organizational units for the party selection and allows
determination via rules.
4. You can also define new relationship types in fine-tuning activity General Business Partner. This allows you
to use party determination based on the account’s relationship maintained in Account master record. The
Main relationship to an account can be copied to the transaction, if the party role is part of the party
schema and corresponding determination step is active.
Administrators can learn how to add new or existing party roles to business objects such as leads,
opportunities, and quotes.
Context
To use new or existing roles, you add new party roles to the relevant business object in the associated fine-
tuning activity. You can add party roles to sales quotes, leads, opportunities, service tickets, or activities.
Procedure
1. Go to Business Configuration, and the relevant fine-tuning activity for sales quotes, leads, opportunities,
service tickets, or activities.
2. Choose Maintain Involved Parties.
3. Click Add, Edit, or Delete roles.
Predelivered party roles cannot be renamed or reassigned. If you checked Forbid Manual Changes, the
automatically determined role and employee cannot be changed.
If you checked Forbid Manual Changes, the automatically determined role and employee cannot be
modified.
4. To decide how the role is assigned, click Maintain Determinations.
You cannot add determinations yourself, but you can enable or disable the determinations the system
proposes.
If you see more than one determination step, then the system uses the enabled steps in order.
Example
The Employee responsible role for an opportunity might first determined by the step Employee
Responsible of Account Team, then the step Employee Responsible of Territory Team. Then, when an
opportunity is created, the system first looks for the employee responsible for the account of the
Having trouble using involved parties? Check this list of questions and answers for help.
There are several consistency checks performed when a business partner is used in a party role for a document
based on the party role category. Administrators can go to fine-tuning activity to set-up or change a Party Role
definition.
For example, partner role category Competitor Party only allows you to enter the business partner type
Competitor.
There are some checks that determine if you can change a party role, administrators can set an involved party
to read-only in business configuration to ensure consistency in your company business processes.
In most cases, when you create a new document based on an existing document, the involved parties are
copied to the new document.
When creating new documents from existing ones, the involved parties are copied to the new document unless
the party role is the employee responsible or the sales unit. Instead, the system triggers a new determination
for these roles in the new document.
If you created an involved party role, it is also copied to a new document, assuming the role has also been
added to the target document. For example, you created a party role and added it to a sales quote, then created
an item from that sales quote. Now you add the role to the items for the role to be copied.
When you first create a document such as a sales quote, initially, no parties are assigned. Once you enter an
account, other involved party roles, such as the employee responsible, or ship-to party, are determined
automatically.
In addition, you can manually change these parties, if your system is set up to allow you to change them. Go to
Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune and
search for the desired business transaction activity.
Note
Party roles are automatically determined again when a document is changed, unless the party has been
manually changed.
9.5.4 Can you define extension fields for involved parties for
quotes?
Key users can define extension fields for involved parties tab from for sales quotes. Extension fields will be part
of Quote-Party-MDAV CODCQTPTYB. There are also other data source that allow you to report in the involved
parties.
If you find that the system is determining involved parties incorrectly, or is unable to find involved parties, there
are a few reasons for the error.
The party determination steps do not match your business case. You can enable and disable party
determination rules to solve this issue.
The master data required to determine parties is missing or inconsistent. Make sure you have added the role to
the correct business object and that you have maintained the responsibility and or relationship assignments
Activities are methods of recording information from interactions between business partners during the
customer relationship lifecycle. Managing activities properly also gives transparency to other sales team
members working on the same account.
In SAP Cloud for Customer, activities include appointments, e-mails, phone calls, and tasks. Visits are
technically similar to appointments, and may also be considered a type of activity. They can be created in and
associated with many other business objects in the solution.
Example
If a reseller has a question about a product that her company has just included in their product range, she
may call your customer support center. The customer support representative logs the call as a phone call in
the solution. The account information is part of the phone call record, so the phone call is associated with
the account in the system. Depending on your system's setup, the customer service agent may be able to
create a service ticket to follow up on a phone call that has taken place. Any relevant emails and
appointments can also be associated with the same account. Later on, you can use the associated
activities to trace the progress of the issue and its resolution.
Administrators can configure activities using scoping, scoping questions, and fine-tuning activities.
Scoping questions and fine-tuning activities that are self-explanatory may not be included in this list.
Recommendation
When you log on as an administrator, you can find the scoping questions under Business Configuration
Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions Sales Account and Activity
Management Activity Management .
We recommend that you review all the scoping questions in the areas that are relevant and that you have
included in your scope. When you select a question, more information appears in the details section of the
screen.
Before users can manage different activities in the solution, administrators must add them to the scope of the
project.
Procedure
1. Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Scoping
Sales Account and Activity Management Activity Management and check the box next to the
scoping item for using activity management.
For more details, please check Create Business Roles and Assign Work Centers and Views.
Administrators can maintain categories that classify your elements such as activities, leads, and opportunities.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Activities Maintain Categories to edit your categories.
Note
This list is used for activities, leads, and opportunities, depending on your scoping. If you modify an entry in
one area, then the entry is modified in the others as well.
If you delete entries that are used in documents, the technical codes remain in the documents. Only the
code descriptions are removed.
Related Information
Administrators must activate any custom categories that they have created by assigning them to
corresponding activity types.
Note
Create or update categories before they appear in the list for assignment.
To assign your custom categories to item types, go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects
Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune Activities Assign Categories to assign categories for
appointments, e-mails, tasks, and phone calls.
Related Information
Administrators can create custom activity types to streamline filtering, define reports, or facilitate
assignments.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Activities Maintain Document Types to edit your activity types.
Note
Administrators can maintain involved parties for appointments, e-mails, phone calls, or tasks by activating
applicable party roles and determination steps.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Activities Involved Parties for <Item Type> Maintain Involved Parties for <Item Type> to edit your involved
parties.
Note
In addition to certain predelivered party roles, you can also assign customized party roles to activities. As
prerequisites, you must go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open
Activity List Fine-Tune Party Role Definition to define customized party roles. Only customized party
Related Information
Administrators upgrade or downgrade the severity level of system messages in appointments, e-mails, phone
calls, and tasks.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Activities Messages for <Item Type> Message Severity Configuration for <Item Type> to edit message
severity.
Administrators can enable users to select a combination of sales area data including sales organization,
distribution channel, and division during activity creation. The combinations must be predefined in either or
both of the matching account and employee in the Accounts and Employees work centers.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales Account and Activity Management Activity Management and enable the scoping question about
specifying a predetermined combination of sales area data.
Administrators can set up the solution to pre-populate sales area data including sales organization, distribution
channel, and division during activity creation. The default values must be predefined in either or both of the
matching account and employee in the Accounts and Employees work centers.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales Account and Activity Management Activity Management and enable the scoping question about
defaulting sales area data.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales Account and Activity Management Activity Management and enable the scoping question about
using summaries as meeting minutes for appointments, phone calls, and visits.
Administrators can restrict users to share activity or visit summaries with internal parties only.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales Account and Activity Management Activity Management and enable the scoping question about
preventing summaries from being sent to external parties.
Administrators can enable sales operations or account managers to assign standard surveys and tasks to
phone calls using activity plans and routing rules. The configuration also allows sales representatives to
execute surveys and tasks during phone calls.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales Account and Activity Management Activity Management and enable the scoping question about
executing surveys and tasks during phone calls.
For outbound e-mails, administrators can set up the system to display the sender's e-mail address only,
instead of the sender's e-mail address "on behalf of" an automated system e-mail address.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales Account and Activity Management Activity Management and enable the scoping question about
using only the employee's e-mail address as the sender.
Administrators can specify default durations that are pre-populated in appointment, phone call, and task
creation.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Date Profiles . Under Activities, set default duration for appointments, phone calls, and tasks.
Administrators can set up the system to automatically generate and send appointment or phone call
summaries using workflow rules.
Prerequisites
You have maintained appointment or phone call summary templates in the Form Template Maintenance work
center. For more information, please see Form Templates.
Context
The procedure includes mandatory steps to automatically generate and send an appointment or phone call
summary. You can define other optional fields based on your business requirements as needed.
Procedure
For example, you can set up the system to trigger the rule when the status of an appointment or phone call
is set to Completed.
6. Click Next to define actions.
For example, you can send appointment summaries to all the appointment attendees and send phone call
summaries to all the phone call participants.
12. Click Next to review your workflow rule.
13. Activate the workflow rule.
Administrators can set up the system to automatically send an immediate acknowledgment of an incoming e-
mail using workflow rules.
Prerequisites
You have enabled and maintained communication channels for both inbound and outbound e-mails. For more
information, please see E-Mail Communication Channel.
Context
The procedure includes mandatory steps to set up an e-mail delivery confirmation. You can define other
optional fields based on your business requirements as needed.
Procedure
For example, you can set up the system to trigger the rule for all incoming e-mails with an open status.
6. Click Next to define actions.
Administrators can disable certain business roles to export activities to Microsoft Excel.
Context
Procedure
10.2 Appointments
Appointments are planned activities that appear in calendars, including external appointments and scheduled
meetings with business partners who may or may not be customers. Appointments contain the details that you
expect, such as information about the attendees, as well as the date and time.
From a technical standpoint, visits are also a type of appointment and behave similarly. Visits contain more
details, such as promotions, tasks, surveys, planograms, notes from the last visit, or follow-up items.
You can use appointments to keep track of meetings and record them in your SAP solution:
● Generate a summary of an appointment in PDF format. Use the summary as an internal record or send it to
participants as meeting minutes.
Related Information
You can define appointments to visually mark your time out of the office in your calendar.
Use the Show As field to indicate Out of Office. The appointment appears in SAP Cloud for Customer in your
calendar and the team calendar highlighted in purple.
Example
You plan to attend a trade show on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. To communicate to your colleagues
that you are not available on those days, you can create an appointment for the trade show and mark it as
Out of Office.
If you use one of the groupware add-ins for Microsoft Outlook, Gmail, or IBM Notes, the systems synchronize
the out-of-office setting. Just create an appointment in your groupware calendar, mark it as out of office, and
add it to your SAP solution. When the appointment is synchronized, your out-of-office setting in your
groupware calendar automatically sets the out-of-office indicator in SAP Cloud for Customer.
Related Information
Private appointments synchronized from groupware are distinctly visualized with a lock icon. You can see
private appointments both in the list and on the calendar to avoid scheduling conflicts. However, you cannot
reschedule a private appointment or open it for further details due to privacy concerns.
To see the lock icon, your administrator must add the Private column via adaptation.
Note
This enhancement only applies to client-side appointments synchronized from groupware. There is no
change in behavior for other private activities such as e-mails and tasks.
The system can automatically generate appointment or phone call summaries and send them to desired
recipients.
As prerequisites, administrators must create a workflow rule to define conditions that an activity should meet
for the summary to be generated and sent, and select a predefined form template as the summary PDF
attachment.
Administrators can set up the system to automatically generate and send appointment or phone call
summaries using workflow rules.
Prerequisites
You have maintained appointment or phone call summary templates in the Form Template Maintenance work
center. For more information, please see Form Templates.
The procedure includes mandatory steps to automatically generate and send an appointment or phone call
summary. You can define other optional fields based on your business requirements as needed.
Procedure
For example, you can set up the system to trigger the rule when the status of an appointment or phone call
is set to Completed.
6. Click Next to define actions.
7. For Rule Type, choose E-Mail.
8. Enter the Subject of the summary e-mail.
9. Choose a template html file that contains content of the summary e-mail.
10. To include a PDF summary as an attachment, select the appointment or phone call summary template and
variant that you have maintained.
11. Under Recipient Determination, click Add Determination and choose recipients.
For example, you can send appointment summaries to all the appointment attendees and send phone call
summaries to all the phone call participants.
12. Click Next to review your workflow rule.
13. Activate the workflow rule.
10.3 E-Mails
You can use e-mails in your SAP solution. If your company uses one of the e-mail add-ins, e-mails are
synchronized to and from your inbox.
Your SAP solution can help you save time with e-mails:
● You can create outbound e-mails from the Activities tab in accounts, contacts, individual customers, leads,
opportunities, and sales quotes.
● For outbound e-mails, a Bounced field is available to indicate when an e-mail is not successfully delivered
due to, for example, server or domain issues.
● If you use one of the e-mail add-ins, you can reference associated items in your SAP solution right from
your e-mail inbox.
● In outbound e-mails, by default, the sender information shows the employee's e-mail address "on behalf
of" an automated system e-mail address. If needed, the system e-mail address can be removed.
Related Information
You can create e-mail signatures for personal or corporate use, and maintain a default signature that
automatically populates in your outgoing messages.
Prerequisites
Procedure
The values of the placeholders are dynamically populated based on logged in user credentials.
6. When you finish, click Save.
Results
When you create e-mails, you can see a default signature pre-populated in the e-mail editor.
Tip
If you want to use a different signature for a particular e-mail, you can remove the default signature and
click the sign button to choose another signature.
You can create e-mail templates for business objects including accounts, contacts, individual customers, leads,
opportunities, sales orders, and sales quotes. When creating e-mails from respective objects, you can save
time by using those predefined templates.
Prerequisites
Procedure
This template can only be used when an e-mail is created from the chosen business object.
5. Enter Subject and Template Text.
6. To further edit and format the template, click Save and Open.
7. Use formatting tools to edit your template.
8. If needed, define and add placeholders to the template.
The values of the placeholders are dynamically populated when you choose the template during e-mail
creation.
If you want to include contact name in the e-mail template, you can use a placeholder #ContactName#
to represent the value in the contact name field. When you create an e-mail using the template, the
contact name is dynamically populated based on the specific contact.
Results
In the business object, go to Activities and create an e-mail. From the editing toolbar, you can click the e-mail
template icon to find the predefined template.
When an e-mail message is delivered to your e-mail list in SAP Cloud for Customer, the system can
automatically send a delivery confirmation to the sender.
As a prerequisite, administrators must create a workflow rule to define conditions that an incoming message
should meet for a receipt to be sent.
Administrators can set up the system to automatically send an immediate acknowledgment of an incoming e-
mail using workflow rules.
Prerequisites
You have enabled and maintained communication channels for both inbound and outbound e-mails. For more
information, please see E-Mail Communication Channel.
Context
The procedure includes mandatory steps to set up an e-mail delivery confirmation. You can define other
optional fields based on your business requirements as needed.
For example, you can set up the system to trigger the rule for all incoming e-mails with an open status.
6. Click Next to define actions.
7. For Rule Type, choose E-Mail.
8. Enter the Subject of the e-mail delivery receipt.
9. Choose a template html file that contains content of the e-mail delivery receipt.
10. Under Recipient Determination, click Add Determination and choose Message From.
11. Click Next to review your workflow rule.
12. Activate the workflow rule.
E-Mail Viewer allows you to read e-mails without losing their original formatting and structure. You can view
inline images, theme fonts, links, and so on.
As a prerequisite, your administrator must add the E-Mail Viewer tab via adaptation.
Note
This feature is only available in e-mails that are synchronized to and sent from SAP Cloud for Customer
after May 2019.
By using the e-mail data source, you can specify the Initiating Email characteristic along with the Service
Request Block Reason characteristic to create a report on all the unassigned e-mails.
You can use phone-call activities to track and document your phone calls with business partners in the SAP
solution.
● Generate a summary of a phone call in PDF format. You can use the summary as an internal record or you
can send it to participants as meeting minutes.
● Your administrator can assign tasks and surveys to phone calls, using activity plans and routing rules.
Tasks and surveys are predefined in activity plans by your system administrator. They can be general
checklists, industry-specific surveys, or recommended tasks to complete during the call.
Note
Tasks and surveys for phone calls are not available offline.
● Your administrator can use workflow rules to send notifications to participants in a phone call to alert them
of a change in the phone call.
Related Information
You may have mandatory or voluntary activity plans such as surveys and tasks predefined and assigned by
your administrators to help you craft sales call script and execute outbound telesales strategies efficiently.
Note
As a prerequisite, your administrators must enable survey and task execution during phone calls in scoping
questions.
In the Activity Planner work center, your administrators can enable automatic assignment for activity plans
during creation and define routing rules.
For activity plans that can be automatically assigned, surveys and tasks are added to applicable phone calls
upon a background job that runs every 10 minutes. You can manually trigger routing by refreshing to obtain
most current surveys or tasks.
For activity plans that cannot be automatically assigned, you can manually add applicable surveys under the
Surveys tab and tasks under the Tasks tab in a phone call.
Note
Tasks and surveys for phone calls are not available offline.
Related Information
You can obtain most current surveys and tasks assigned to your phone calls by refreshing.
Prerequisites
Your administrators have defined activity plans and routing rules in the Activity Planner work center.
Note
For each survey or task to be routed, the Assign Automatically option must be checked during the creation
of the activity plan.
Applicable activity plans are automatically assigned to phone calls upon a background job that runs every 10
minutes. As users, you can also follow the steps below to manually trigger the routing.
Procedure
Results
Your applicable surveys and tasks appear under the Surveys and Tasks tabs as a result of rules.
Administrators can enable sales operations or account managers to assign standard surveys and tasks to
phone calls using activity plans and routing rules. The configuration also allows sales representatives to
execute surveys and tasks during phone calls.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales Account and Activity Management Activity Management and enable the scoping question about
executing surveys and tasks during phone calls.
The system can automatically generate appointment or phone call summaries and send them to desired
recipients.
As prerequisites, administrators must create a workflow rule to define conditions that an activity should meet
for the summary to be generated and sent, and select a predefined form template as the summary PDF
attachment.
Administrators can set up the system to automatically generate and send appointment or phone call
summaries using workflow rules.
Prerequisites
You have maintained appointment or phone call summary templates in the Form Template Maintenance work
center. For more information, please see Form Templates.
Context
The procedure includes mandatory steps to automatically generate and send an appointment or phone call
summary. You can define other optional fields based on your business requirements as needed.
Procedure
For example, you can set up the system to trigger the rule when the status of an appointment or phone call
is set to Completed.
6. Click Next to define actions.
7. For Rule Type, choose E-Mail.
8. Enter the Subject of the summary e-mail.
9. Choose a template html file that contains content of the summary e-mail.
10. To include a PDF summary as an attachment, select the appointment or phone call summary template and
variant that you have maintained.
11. Under Recipient Determination, click Add Determination and choose recipients.
For example, you can send appointment summaries to all the appointment attendees and send phone call
summaries to all the phone call participants.
12. Click Next to review your workflow rule.
13. Activate the workflow rule.
You can utilize Activity BTD Reference data source together with Survey Answer or Activity Task data source to
report on survey or task data captured for activities.
Following topics show you how to create a joined data source with activities and surveys (or tasks), and how to
create a report on phone call surveys (or tasks).
The procedure includes mandatory steps to create a joined data source with activities and surveys (or tasks).
You can define other optional fields based on your business requirements as needed.
Procedure
○ Document Type
○ Document UUID
○ Survey ID (to retrieve information for all the surveys maintained in activities)
○ Value Collection UUID (to retrieve information for surveys that have been answered only)
Example
If Survey ID is joined to BTD Reference ID as shown above, then you must remove the row with Survey
ID as Joined Data Source Fields.
Related Information
The procedure includes mandatory steps to create a report on phone call surveys (or tasks). You can define
other optional fields based on your business requirements as needed.
Procedure
1. Select the joined data source you have created with activities and surveys (or tasks).
Tip
If you intend to report on surveys (or tasks) for a single activity type such as phone call, it is
recommended that you set fixed values as below. If you want to reuse the same report for analyzing
surveys (or tasks) for all supported activity types, you can only maintain BTD Reference Type as fixed
value and enter the activity type during runtime.
Related Information
Tasks help you plan your time effectively. You can also use them to design processes or best practices. Tasks
are a tool for recording your work or for remembering what you still need to do.
You can create either standalone tasks or tasks that are associated with other business objects in your SAP
solution. You can associate a task with an object by creating the task from the object such as accounts, leads,
and opportunities. As an administrator, you can associate tasks with phone calls or visits, using activity plans
and routing rules.
Related Information
You can quickly change the processor of multiple tasks at once from the list, which saves your efforts in going
to the detail view of each task to make changes.
Prerequisites
Administrators must go to Company Settings and toggle on the option to Enable Editing in Dataset.
Procedure
1. In the task list, click the pencil icon to launch the edit mode.
An activity list is a collection of activities of a certain type. You can use template-based activity lists to organize
and mass create appointments, phone calls, or tasks.
Prerequisites
Administrators must enable activity lists in scoping questions under Activity Management.
Procedure
If end date and time is defined, all activities are created with the same start and end date and time.
7. Define default Duration and Gap between activities when you want to create activities in a logical sequence.
Example
Let's say your first activity starts at 8:00 a.m. If the duration is set to 1 hour and the gap is 30 minutes,
then the next activity will start at 9:30 a.m.
8. To assign the owner of each individual activity based on the account, check the Owner Determination flag.
9. Add notes and attachments that appear for every activity generated from this activity list.
10. Add accounts, contacts, or individual customers to the activity list, which automatically generates
activities.
If you create activities by adding contacts, the contacts are automatically added to involved parties as
attendees or participants in the activities generated.
11. If needed, you can change activity settings at each line item.
12. When you finish, Save your entries.
You can add individual activities to an existing activity list, for reference purposes.
Procedure
This topic presents an overview of features supported for activities in offline mode. Activities create, edit and
display is supported in the offline mode.
APPOINTMENTS
Offline scope
Edit (direct/via
actions/via
Tab Section Field Create Default Display Navigation)
Document Type Y Y Y Y
ID Y N
Status Y NA Y Y
Account Y N Y Y
Primary Con Y Y Y Y
tact
Organizer Y Y Y Y
Location Y N Y Y
Edit (direct/via
actions/via
Tab Section Field Create Default Display Navigation)
Location Line 2 Y N Y Y
Start Date/ Y Y Y Y
Time
End Date/Time Y Y Y Y
Category Y Y Y Y
Priority Y Y Y Y
Owner Y Y Y Y
Created On Y NA
Created By Y NA
Last Changed Y NA
On
External ID Y NA
Sales Territory Y N Y Y
Activity List Y NA
Sales Organiza Y N Y Y
tion
Distribution Y N Y Y
Channel
Division Y N Y Y
Extension Y N Y Y
Fields
Attendees Y N
Notes Y N
Attachments Attachments Y Y
Edit (direct/via
actions/via
Tab Section Field Create Default Display Navigation)
Notes Notes Y N Y Y
Follow-Up Items Y Y
Related Items N N
Offline Actions
Set as Complete Y
Set as Canceled Y
Generate Summary N
Add Attachments Y
TASKS
Offline Scope
Edit (directly,
via actions or
via naviga
Tab Section Field Create Default Display tions)
ID Y N
Status Y Y Y Y
Subject Y Y Y Y
Processor Y Y N Y
Edit (directly,
via actions or
via naviga
Tab Section Field Create Default Display tions)
Start Date/ Y Y Y Y
Time
Due Date/Time Y Y Y Y
Date Com Y N
pleted
Planned Dura Y N N N
tion
Actual Duration N N
Completion (%) Y Y Y Y
Category Y Y Y Y
Priority Y Y Y Y
Account Y N Y Y
Primary Con Y Y
tact
Owner Y Y Y Y
Created On Y NA
Created By Y NA
Last Changed Y NA
On
External ID Y NA
Sales Territory Y N Y Y
Activity List Y NA
Sales Organiza Y N Y Y
tion
Distribution Y N Y Y
Channel
Edit (directly,
via actions or
via naviga
Tab Section Field Create Default Display tions)
Division Y N Y Y
Extension Y N Y Y
Fields
Notes Y N
Attachments Y Y
Notes Y Y
Offline Actions
Set to Complete Y
Set to Cancelled Y
Add Attachment Y
PHONE CALLS
Offline Scope
Edit(direct /via
actions/ via
Tab Section Field Create Default Display navigations)
ID Y N
Status Y Y Y Y
Edit(direct /via
actions/ via
Tab Section Field Create Default Display navigations)
Subject Y Y Y Y
Organizer Y N Y Y
Start Date/ Y Y Y Y
Time
End Date/Time N N Y Y
Direction Y N Y N
Category Y Y Y Y
Priority Y Y Y Y
Account Y N Y Y
Primary Con Y Y Y Y
tact
Owner Y Y N N
Campaign N N Y Y
Response Op Y Y
tion
Created On Y NA
Created By Y NA
Last Changed Y NA
On
External ID Y NA
Sales Territory Y N Y Y
Ticket ID N N
Activity List Y N
Sales Organiza Y N Y Y
tion
Edit(direct /via
actions/ via
Tab Section Field Create Default Display navigations)
Distribution Y N Y Y
Channel
Division Y N Y Y
Extension Y N Y Y
Fields
Notes Y N
Attachments Y Y
Participants Role/Name/ Y Y
Phone/Email/
Address
Notes Y Y
Offline Actions
Set Complete Y
Set as Canceled Y
Generate Summary N
Add Attachment Y
Add Participant Y
Having trouble using activities? Check this list of questions and answers for help.
The calendar view of an account shows all upcoming appointments between your company and that account in
one calendar, even if they were scheduled by other colleagues. For example, you can check the account
calendar to ensure that you're not scheduling a customer visit at the same time the customer has a meeting
scheduled with another colleague.
If the location is left blank when you save a new appointment, the solution uses the account's main address as
the default location. You can update the appointment as necessary.
The location in the system allows 80 characters. If the appointment was synchronized from the e-mail add-in,
the solution copies the first 80 characters of the location. If you need more space for the location, you can use
personalization to add a second line for the location.
If you personalize your appointment and visit display, when you synchronize an appointment or visit from the e-
mail add-in, the rest of the characters (up to 255 characters total) appear in line 2.
If you enter location information in line 2 directly in the browser, there is no character limit.
Deleted activities disappear from the system. Canceled activities still appear in the system, which means that
you can use them to track activities that were originally scheduled, but not completed.
If you use one of the e-mail add-ins, canceled activities are synchronized. In your e-mail inbox, a canceled
activity and a deleted activity are reflected the same way. For example, for an appointment, if you are the
organizer, the appointment is canceled and a cancellation is sent to participants.
The activity planner lets you create activity plans and routing rules for them. The visit planner helps you filter
and determine which accounts you want to visit.
Use the activity planner to create an activity plan, which is a collection of tasks and surveys. You can also create
routing rules to direct these collections to visits, opportunities, service tickets, or phone calls, for example.
Use the visit planner to determine which accounts to schedule for site visits. You can use filters such as
accounts that are overdue for visits, or accounts within your region.
Routes offer the same features as the visit planner, plus some additional features such as plotting visits on a
map. The routes feature allows you to plan visits for your employees more effectively.
Tip
If you're a new customer or just start to use visits, we recommend using routes to plan visits.
An e-mail blast is a mass-e-mail tool that you can use to send information to a large group of recipients at the
same time. For example, sales personnel may use e-mail blasts to send out quick informational e-mails to
announce new products, send monthly newsletters, or call attention to a company blog.
To use e-mail blasts, your administrator must make the appropriate settings in your solution.
Companies use visit planning and execution to help sales personnel plan and record site visits and associated
activities.
At your company headquarters, your management team knows that many visits have similarities. There are
certain questions you ask frequently, about product popularity or sales statistics. There are certain things you
do, such as checking the in-store display for correctness or ensuring that any demo products are working
properly. Management captures these standard questions in surveys and the standard activities become tasks.
Management can create rules that add surveys and tasks to the appropriate visits. For example, sales
personnel check in-store displays at every visit for account C, so management routes the in-store display task
to all site visits for account C. When you or your sales manager plan and create visits, some tasks and surveys
are assigned automatically, and you can add other assigned surveys and tasks as appropriate. You can even
create your visit schedule by planning collections of visits called routes. Routes can span one day, a week, or
even months.
When you visit the customer site, you can use visit features such as surveys, check-in/check-out, and tasks for
collecting and recording key information in the system. For example, when you check in to the visit, the time,
date, and location can be recorded in the system. As you work through the tasks and survey questions with the
customer, the answers you enter are recorded in the system for this visit.
Often, there are follow-up activities that you must do after the visit, such as ordering a replacement part for a
demonstration product. You can create such activities during the visit and follow up on them afterward. Later,
Administrators can configure visits using scoping, scoping questions, and fine-tuning activities.
Scoping questions and fine-tuning activities that are self-explanatory may not be included in this list.
Note
To use visits, administrators must add visits to the scope of the project.
Procedure
1. Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Scoping
Sales Account and Activity Management Activity Management and check the box.
2. In the Questions step, under Sales Account and Activity Management Activity Management ,
answer the questions in the Visits section.
3. Assign the visits work center to the appropriate users or roles.
All colleagues to whom you have assigned the visits work center can create and work with visits and use
tools such as routes and the visit planner.
The visit planner allows them to plan and schedule individual visits and routes. They can also use it to plan
days or weeks of visits at a time, and use templates to save time and increase consistency.
If you want to use check-in and check-out, log on as an administrator and activate it in scoping.
Tip
Decision Point
Log on as an administrator and go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit
Project Scope Questions Sales Account and Activity Management Activity Management and answer
the questions for visits.
Tip
Test It!
This business option lets you enforce the mandatory settings for surveys and tasks. If you use this option, your
sales or service representatives must complete all the mandatory items within a visit before they can close the
visit.
Log on as an administrator and go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit
Project Scope Questions Sales Account and Activity Management Activity Management and in the
Visits section, answer the question related to this option.
As an administrator, if you set up this business option, users cannot edit specific visit information until they
check in to the visit. This feature allows you to ensure that execution actions are completed during the visit.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales Account and Activity Management Activity Management .
In the Visits section, find the relevant question and select the checkbox to indicate that you want to use this
feature.
Administrators can set up the solution to validate users' proximity to accounts' geolocation during visit check-
in, ensure that users execute visits onsite, and improve transparency and alignment with business processes.
Procedure
1. Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales Account and Activity Management Activity Management to find the corresponding question
and enable proximity validation for visits.
2. Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Maintain Visit Check In Range to configure check-in range by country.
Note
The check-in range must be configured for the system to run proximity validation.
Administrators can set up the solution to notify users when they leave the customer location without checking
out of the visit. Checking out promptly can reduce data inconsistencies and ensure proper tracking of visit
execution time.
Context
Procedure
1. Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales Account and Activity Management Activity Management to find the corresponding question
and enable check-out prompt for visits.
2. Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Maintain Visit Check-Out Range to configure check-out range by country.
Administrators can disable the “Create New Visit?” prompt when users check out from a visit. The
configuration applies to both online and offline modes.
To disable this prompt, go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit
Project Scope Questions Sales Account and Activity Management Activity Management .
Under Visits, answer the question about disabling the check-out prompt.
As an administrator, you can set up your SAP solution to prevent users from checking into more than one visit
at a time.
This option only allows visit owners to check in to a visit if they are not checked into any other visits at that
time. If visit owners try to check into a visit when they are still checked in to another one, an error appears. The
error lists the visit ID of the visit that they should check out of first.
Caution
Use the data workbench to ensure that you start with a clean slate (with all visits checked out).
4. Export the resulting list of visits and set them to status Completed.
5. Import the same list of visits that now have status Completed.
6. Reactivate any validation steps in scoping.
For more information about the data workbench, go to the SAP Help Portal at http://help.sap.com, search
for "SAP Cloud for Customer", and under Integration, choose Data Workbench user guide.
Log on as an administrator and go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit
Project Scope Questions Sales Account and Activity Management Activity Management .
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Maintain Visit Types to create or edit your visit types.
Administrators can maintain involved parties for appointments and visits by activating applicable party roles
and determination steps.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Activities Maintain Involved Parties for Appointments to edit your involved parties.
Administrators can upgrade or downgrade the severity level of system messages in appointments and visits.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Activities Message Severity Configuration for Appointments to edit message severity.
Administrators can specify the default duration that is pre-populated in visit creation.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Date Profiles . Under Activities, set default duration for visits.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Scoping
Questions Sales Account and Activity Management Activity Management and check the box next to the
scoping question for using surveys.
As an administrator, before you set up imaging intelligence, add it to the scope of your project and enable it.
Note
Prerequisite
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Scoping
Sales Account and Activity Management Activity Management and check the box.
In the Questions step, under Sales Account and Activity Management Activity Management , in the
Visits section, select the checkbox to enable image recognition in your SAP solution.
Administrators can upload product images and planograms so that imaging intelligence can compare them to
actual shelf images.
Prerequisites
Context
Log on as an administrator and go to Administrator Sales and Campaign Settings Open Planocheck
Administrator .
Procedure
The data and images become the baseline for each product that imaging intelligence uses for comparing
with items on actual shelves.
2. On the Planograms tab, use the button to upload your planograms in .xls or .xlsx format.
1. Attach Stores
Add each store in which you want to use this planogram.
2. Activate it to replace any previous versions.
3. Update it to save your changes.
4. On the Manufacturers tab, add manufacturers.
On the screen that appears, enter the required information:
1. Enter the manufacturer's name.
2. Enter the manufacturer's code, which is the first 8 numbers of the UPC code for that manufacturer.
3. Under Customer, make the appropriate setting:
○ True means that you want to display corrective actions for this manufacturer's products
○ False means that you do not want to display corrective actions for this manufacturer's products
When visits are created, all automatically assigned surveys or tasks are added immediately. Alternatively, you
can choose to limit the amount of automatic assignments by limiting how far in the future the system should
add surveys or tasks to visits. For example, if you define a window of 5 days, the system adds surveys and tasks
to only those visits that fall within the next 5 days.
Log on as the administrator and go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project
Open Activity List Fine-Tune and add Define Time Window to Add Surveys/Tasks to Visits to your project.
Open this business object and enter the number of days that you want the system to look ahead when it adds
automatically assigned tasks and surveys to visits.
Administrators can use workflow rules to define when visits can be automatically refreshed to obtain an
updated list of to-do surveys and tasks.
Prerequisites
As administrators, you should have defined activity plans and routing rules in the Activity Planner work center.
Note
For each survey or task to be routed, the Assign Automatically option must be checked during the design
process.
By using workflow rules, applicable activity plans can be assigned on creating or saving a visit, or on a
customized schedule.
Procedure
This selection decides when your rule, in this case Refresh Visit, will be triggered.
5. (Optional) Define conditions which you can also configure in the Routing Rules section in the Activity
Planner work center.
6. For Rule Type, choose Action and select Refresh Visit.
7. Review and activate your workflow rule.
Customers with large volumes of data can use a web service to define data within a certain date range, extract
it, and then archive it.
Your SAP solution limits the numbers of visits and its tasks or surveys, in each tenant, to a maximum of 150
million records. When this maximum number is exceeded, your SAP solution marks the oldest data in your
system for deletion. Data marked for deletion is kept in the system for 45 days, after which it is permanently
deleted. You can proactively archive some of your data periodically using a web service to schedule extraction
of a specified date range’s data. Using OData services, you can extract data from your SAP solution into a
target system for archiving, such as SAP BW.
Before you visit a customer site, make sure that you have all the information you need, and that it is up to date.
Customer site visits are a part of creating and keeping good relationships with customers. They can also be a
way to discuss, run, and monitor marketing activities, such as campaigns. You can use tools such as tasks,
surveys, and campaigns to gather and record information from each customer visit.
Creating a visit or opening an existing one is the first step in capturing information on a customer site visit.
On the Visits tab, you can open an existing visit or create a new one. You can also create or view visits from your
calendar.
Related Information
When you add or edit involved parties in activities or visits, you can see and edit any extension fields that your
administrator has added for accounts, contacts, attendees, and other parties.
Related Information
For more transparency about participants who are involved in activities or visits, administrators can add
extension fields from account, contact, and employee headers to any involved party element.
Context
You can include details relevant to the account or user for easy reference when viewing the parties involved for
a specific activity or visit. You can enable this feature like this:
Procedure
1. Decide on an extension field from the account, contact, or employee header that you want to see in an
involved party element.
2. Log on as an administrator and create or edit that extension field in the account, contact, or employee
header.
3. On the Extension Scenarios tab, enable scenario Business Partner – General Information to Activity – Party.
4. Go to an involved party element (tab or table) in an activity or visit. When you adapt that element, you can
add the extension field that you enabled.
For each account or individual customer, you can define its availabilities for visiting, visit frequency, and
duration. Such visit information can be further utilized when you create a single visit in accounts or plan routes.
In each account, under Visiting Hours, you can specify days and hours when the customer is available for a
visit.
When you plan visits for the account, the visit date and time are validated against the visiting hours, which
helps you avoid scheduling conflicts.
In each account or individual customer, under Visits, you can maintain visit frequency and duration for a
general visit to the customer.
Visit information including Recommended Frequency and Visit Duration is used when:
● You create a visit within the account under the Visits tab.
● You add the account to a route without specifying visit type or sales data.
In each account or individual customer, under Visits Details, you can maintain visit frequency and duration for a
specific visit type and sales area.
Visit Type allows you to categorize visits based on different business needs. Following are some use cases of
leveraging visit type in visit planning.
Visit information including Recommended Frequency and Visit Duration is used when:
● You create a visit within the account under the Visits Details tab.
● You add the account with a specified visit type and sales area to a route.
Note
It is optional to define sales area for a visit type, and it is possible to add sales area that is independent of
the account. However, if you do have sales area maintained for a visit type, in order for predefined visit
frequency and duration to be considered during route planning, you must also maintain sales area under
the Sales Data tab in the account.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Maintain Visit Types to create or edit your visit types.
You may have mandatory or voluntary activity plans such as surveys and tasks predefined and assigned by
your administrators to help you execute your visits efficiently.
Your administrators can enable automatic assignment for activity plans during the design process and define
routing rules in the Activity Planner work center.
Surveys and tasks that can be automatically assigned are routed based on certain rules to your visits under the
following circumstances.
For activity plans that cannot be automatically assigned, you can manually add applicable surveys under the
Surveys tab and tasks under the Tasks tab in a visit.
Related Information
You can obtain most current surveys and tasks assigned to your visits by refreshing the visits.
Note
As prerequisites, your administrators must define activity plans and routing rules in the Activity Planner
work center. For each survey or task to be routed, the Assign Automatically option must be checked during
the design process.
Activity plan routing rules can automatically take place upon different triggers, depending on how your
administrators have configured them. As users, you can manually trigger the routing in one of the following
ways.
● From the list of visits, select one or more visits that you want to update, and choose Actions Refresh
Selected Visits .
● Go to the detail view of a visit, and choose Actions Refresh Visit .
After you create a visit offline, you can add relevant surveys and tasks by simply clicking the Add button under
the corresponding Surveys and Tasks tabs.
As a prerequisite, your administrators must download routing rules for desired users. Together with routing
rules, associated activity plans will be automatically downloaded as well.
Restriction
● Offline worklist determination is only valid for visits created offline. For visits created online, the worklist
items are automatically determined online and synchronized to offline. In offline mode, any changes to
visits synchronized from online do not trigger re-determination.
● One-off tasks are not supported and are not available for selection.
● Only checklist and product surveys are supported. All other survey types are not available for selection.
Administrators can use workflow rules to define when visits can be automatically refreshed to obtain an
updated list of to-do surveys and tasks.
Prerequisites
As administrators, you should have defined activity plans and routing rules in the Activity Planner work center.
Note
For each survey or task to be routed, the Assign Automatically option must be checked during the design
process.
Context
By using workflow rules, applicable activity plans can be assigned on creating or saving a visit, or on a
customized schedule.
Procedure
This selection decides when your rule, in this case Refresh Visit, will be triggered.
5. (Optional) Define conditions which you can also configure in the Routing Rules section in the Activity
Planner work center.
6. For Rule Type, choose Action and select Refresh Visit.
7. Review and activate your workflow rule.
When visits are created, all automatically assigned surveys or tasks are added immediately. Alternatively, you
can choose to limit the amount of automatic assignments by limiting how far in the future the system should
add surveys or tasks to visits. For example, if you define a window of 5 days, the system adds surveys and tasks
to only those visits that fall within the next 5 days.
Log on as the administrator and go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project
Open Activity List Fine-Tune and add Define Time Window to Add Surveys/Tasks to Visits to your project.
Open this business object and enter the number of days that you want the system to look ahead when it adds
automatically assigned tasks and surveys to visits.
You can use tools like surveys, tasks, and image recognition to capture the results of your visits.
Checking in captures the date, time, and location (GPS) of the visit and opens the visit for editing, which allows
you to record information about this visit in the system.
Note
If you don't see the Check In button, choose Actions Set as In Process .
If you want to use check-in and check-out, log on as an administrator and activate it in scoping.
Tip
Decision Point
Log on as an administrator and go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit
Project Scope Questions Sales Account and Activity Management Activity Management and answer
the questions for visits.
Tip
Test It!
As an administrator, you can set up your SAP solution to prevent users from checking into more than one visit
at a time.
This option only allows visit owners to check in to a visit if they are not checked into any other visits at that
time. If visit owners try to check into a visit when they are still checked in to another one, an error appears. The
error lists the visit ID of the visit that they should check out of first.
Caution
Use the data workbench to ensure that you start with a clean slate (with all visits checked out).
4. Export the resulting list of visits and set them to status Completed.
5. Import the same list of visits that now have status Completed.
6. Reactivate any validation steps in scoping.
For more information about the data workbench, go to the SAP Help Portal at http://help.sap.com, search
for "SAP Cloud for Customer", and under Integration, choose Data Workbench user guide.
Log on as an administrator and go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit
Project Scope Questions Sales Account and Activity Management Activity Management .
In the Visits section, for the question about preventing users from checking into multiple visits, select the
checkbox to indicate that you want to use this feature.
Administrators can set up the solution to validate users' proximity to accounts' geolocation during visit check-
in, ensure that users execute visits onsite, and improve transparency and alignment with business processes.
Procedure
1. Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales Account and Activity Management Activity Management to find the corresponding question
and enable proximity validation for visits.
2. Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Maintain Visit Check In Range to configure check-in range by country.
Note
The check-in range must be configured for the system to run proximity validation.
As an administrator, if you set up this business option, users cannot edit specific visit information until they
check in to the visit. This feature allows you to ensure that execution actions are completed during the visit.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales Account and Activity Management Activity Management .
In the Visits section, find the relevant question and select the checkbox to indicate that you want to use this
feature.
Record details of your customer site visit by working through the tasks and surveys in the visit.
Context
The tasks and surveys that are in a visit remind you to do certain actions such as checking product placement
or discussing an upcoming promotion with the store manager. Record the details by adding information in the
surveys and tasks.
Example
Related Information
In a visit, you can view a chronological list of past and upcoming interactions with the account you are visiting,
and navigate to the objects as needed. With this timeline view, you can gain greater business context that helps
you better execute your current visits.
You can filter objects in the timeline by date range or by document type. You can also view relevant notes and
attachments when available.
This feature is only available in the Fiori client and optimized for side pane. If the Timeline tab is not visible, use
Personalization or ask your administrator to Adapt the master layout.
If your company has purchased and set up the SAP Cloud for Customer Imaging Intelligence add-on, you can
use image recognition to check planogram compliance.
Related Information
When you're at the customer site, it's a good time to check whether they are ready for any upcoming
promotions.
If you see that a promotion for a certain product is coming up, you can increase the customer stock for that
product. Just create sales orders from the Sales Orders tab.
Within the Visit tab, view current and valid promotions for the selected Account. You can also view the number
of running and incoming promotions here.
The calendar view is available within the Promotions view under a specific Account, Product, and Visit. You can
choose the Month View, Quarter View, or a Selected Range that you define. Horizontal colored bars in a chart
view make it easy to view Planned Dates, Buying Dates, and Actual Dates for your promotions.
Promotion Dates
● Buying Start and Buying End Dates - During this time, the promotion is valid for customers.
● Actual Date - The actual date is when the orders made during the buying dates are executed.
● Planned Date - The planned dates span from the initial creation to the completion of the promotion.
Make a note of the contact person you worked with during this visit under Contacts. You can:
Checking out automatically sets the status of the visit to Completed. If your administrator has deactivated the
button for checking out in scoping, you can complete a visit directly by choosing Actions Set as
Complete .
Tip
To edit the visit after you have checked out, set the status back to In Process and then make your changes.
Administrators can set up the solution to notify users when they leave the customer location without checking
out of the visit. Checking out promptly can reduce data inconsistencies and ensure proper tracking of visit
execution time.
Context
Procedure
1. Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales Account and Activity Management Activity Management to find the corresponding question
and enable check-out prompt for visits.
2. Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Maintain Visit Check-Out Range to configure check-out range by country.
Administrators can disable the “Create New Visit?” prompt when users check out from a visit. The
configuration applies to both online and offline modes.
To disable this prompt, go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit
Project Scope Questions Sales Account and Activity Management Activity Management .
Under Visits, answer the question about disabling the check-out prompt.
This business option lets you enforce the mandatory settings for surveys and tasks. If you use this option, your
sales or service representatives must complete all the mandatory items within a visit before they can close the
visit.
Log on as an administrator and go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit
Project Scope Questions Sales Account and Activity Management Activity Management and in the
Visits section, answer the question related to this option.
After a visit, you can create any necessary follow-up items. You can also generate a visit summary and share
the visit results with attendees.
Tip
To edit the visit after checkout, go to the detail view of the visit, choose Actions Set as In Process ,
and then make your changes.
You can schedule follow-up appointments or phone calls right from the visit if you touch on an item that you
must get back to your customer about. You can also create a follow-up item if you discover that the customer
needs additional products, an upgrade, or spare parts or repairs.
The following table outlines the types of requests, lists examples, and indicates how to order them in the
system.
Appliance for storage (refrigerator) or Spare parts or repairs Follow-Up Items New Service
demonstration (mini-grill) does not
Ticket
work
After you check out from a visit, you can review the visit by generating a summary.
Procedure
Once you have generated a visit summary, you can share it with the rest of the attendees.
Prerequisites
Email address should be predefined for each attendee for summaries to be sent via email.
Procedure
The Select column must be checked before the Send Summary option becomes available.
Default/Determination Off
Section Field Available Offline line
Name Y N
Status
Account Y N
Owner Y Y
Organizer Y Y
Start Date/Time Y Y
End Date/Time Y Y
Sales Organization Y N
Distribution Channel Y N
Division Y N
Sales Territory Y N
Extension Fields Y N
Geo-fields
Check-In Time
Check-Out Time
Route
Notes
Name
Status Y Y
Account Y Y
Owner Y Y
Organizer Y Y
Start Date/Time Y Y
End Date/Time Y Y
Sales Organization Y Y
Distribution Channel Y Y
Division Y Y
Sales Territory Y Y
Extension Fields Y Y
Geo-fields Y Y
Check-In Time Y Y
Check-Out Time Y Y
Route Y N
Notes Y Y
Contacts Name/Address/E-mail Y NA
Notes Notes Y Y
Completed Tasks N
Completed Surveys N
Category Y Y
Status Y Y
Priority Y Y
Mandatory Y Y
Created On Y NA
Additional hidden Y Y
fields
Notes Y Y
Status Y Y
Category Y NA
Total Score N N
Mandatory N NA
Function Y Y
Department Y Y
Address Y Y
E-mail Y Y
Primary Contact Y Y
Phone Y Y
E-mail Y Y
Address Y Y
Actions Y Y
Orders Orders Y Y
Promotions Promotions Y NA
Campaigns Campaigns N NA
Related Items N N
Attachments Attachments Y Y
Changes Changes NA NA
Offline Actions
Check-Out Y
Set as In Process Y
Set as Canceled Y
Refresh Visit N
Generate Summary N
Tasks Add N
New Y
Set as In Process Y
Set as Completed Y
Survey Submit Y
Add Picture Y
Add Products Y
Contacts Add Y
New Y
Attendee Add Y
Orders New Y
Having trouble using visits? Check this list of questions and answers for help.
11.6.1 Why don't I see tasks and surveys when I create a visit?
Tasks and surveys may be generated a few minutes after you create your visit or a few days before the visit.
If you want to see tasks and surveys immediately when you create a visit, refresh the visit with Actions
Refresh Visit .
Otherwise, tasks and surveys do not appear immediately when you create visits. This is due to one of the
following reasons:
● There is a background job that runs every 10 minutes that generates tasks and surveys for new visits. Wait
a few minutes and check again.
● Your administrator may have set up your system to generate tasks and surveys a certain number of days
before the visit. To see if this is the case, check with your administrator.
The frequency that you or your manager set in the account is how the solution determines when this account is
due (or overdue) for a visit.
To define visit frequency for an account, access the account, choose the Visits tab, and set the recommended
frequency for visits.
Note
If you want to define visit frequency based on visit type and sales area, go to the Visit Details tab instead.
You can see the customer's schedule, including any other appointments that may be scheduled by other
colleagues, by looking at the calendar for the account. Compare that with your own calendar. You can also
define visiting hours for the account.
The calendar view of an account shows all upcoming appointments for that account in one calendar, even if
they were scheduled by other colleagues.
To check your schedule for upcoming visits and appointments, check your calendar.
In addition to appointments and visits, phone calls also appear on your calendar.
You can view other users' schedules if you are authorized to do so.
In addition, if you have defined visiting hours for the account, when you save the visit (or activate the route), the
solution checks to make sure the visit time you have scheduled falls within that account's defined visiting
hours.
The solution checks a few things to ensure that you see only the relevant campaigns in your visits.
The campaigns that appear in the visit include campaigns that meet the following criteria:
For more information about specific campaigns, check the Campaigns tab, where you can link to the assigned
campaigns directly.
Check the account status. If it's set to blocked or obsolete, then you can no longer create transactions from
that account, including opportunities, leads, sales quotes, tickets, visits, and activities.
At the moment, it is not possible to use the approval work flow with visits.
You can either create a visit from the opportunity, which will create the link, or you can add an existing visit to
an existing opportunity.
Context
Procedure
If the survey question is defined as type Amount and marked as mandatory, you must enter a number that falls
within the defined number range.
If zero should be a valid response, contact the person who designed the survey. They may need to adjust the
type or the upper and lower limits that are defined for this question.
Related Information
The filter My Accounts Overdue for Visits uses account settings and visit history to suggest accounts to visit.
In routes and in the visit planner, you can filter accounts to only show those that are overdue for visits.
Accounts that meet the following criteria appear in the results list for the My Accounts Overdue for Visits filter:
● Accounts that have never been visited (accounts with no last visit or next visit)
● Accounts whose visit-before date is in the past
● Accounts with no visit-before date defined and whose next-visit date is in the past
By using routes, you can plan a group of visits and arrange them in a logical sequence for your sales
representatives.
A route can involve one or multiple accounts. You can create one-day routes or routes that span across a period
of time. You can also set up your system to use the visiting information defined per account to propose
recurring visits within a specified date range.
You can preview your schedule on calendar to avoid time conflicts. Use map view to visualize the route and
resequence accounts if needed. When you are satisfied with the visit sequence and timing in the route, you can
generate all the visits in the route at once.
If you plan to use the same route more than once, consider creating a route template first. In reusing scenarios,
creating route templates not only saves your time, but also ensures accuracy and consistency.
For commonly repeated routes, you can define repetition frequency and validity period in the template. Based
on those recurrence settings, you can set up the system to schedule and automatically generate routes and
subsequence visits as they approach.
Example
As a sales manager, your team has a group of customers on the west side of town that you want someone
on your team to visit once per month. You use a route template to define the sequence and timing of these
These are Denise's accounts. Most months, you as the route organizer generate the visits in this route for
her, or she generates the route herself as the route owner. When she is on vacation, you can easily change
ownership of the visits in this route to another team member.
Administrators can configure routes using scoping, scoping questions, and fine-tuning activities.
Scoping questions and fine-tuning activities that are self-explanatory may not be included in this list.
Recommendation
When you log on as an administrator, you can find the scoping questions under Business Configuration
Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions Sales Account and Activity
Management Activity Management .
We recommend that you review all the scoping questions in the areas that are relevant and that you have
included in your scope. When you select a question, more information appears in the details section of the
screen.
Before users can plan visits using routes, administrators must add routes to the scope of the project.
Procedure
1. Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Scoping
Sales Account and Activity Management Activity Management and check the box next to the scoping
item for using routes.
2. Assign the Visits work center view (ID: COD_VISIT_WCF) to appropriate business users or roles.
For more details, please check Create Business Roles and Assign Work Centers and Views.
Results
All colleagues to whom you have assigned the visits work center can create and work with visits, use routes to
plan days or weeks of visits at a time, and use route templates to save time and increase consistency.
Administrators can set up the system to schedule route creation and the subsequent visit generation based on
the recurrence settings defined in the route template.
Context
Administrators must scope the feature before you can configure it.
Procedure
1. Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales Account and Activity Management Activity Management to find and enable the question
about scheduling periodic creation of routes.
2. Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Define Window for Route Scheduling and enter the number of days ahead that you want commonly
repeat visit plans to be generated.
Administrators can enable the use of web services to read, edit, or delete routes for which visits have not been
generated.
For more information about web services, see the Web Services Quick Guide in the SAP Cloud Applications
Studio documentation.
Routes is the single point of entry for visit planning for sales representatives.
Context
You can create a route to organize your visits into a logical sequence.
Context
Note
If you want to reuse this group of visits, consider creating a route template first. A route template
streamlines the creation process for the next time that you want to use this route.
Procedure
1. Create a route.
Remember
You can only define the days of the week to exclude for a route during creation.
Next Steps
Related Information
After the route is created, you can replace the route owner by opening the route and clicking Actions
Change Owner .
This action also allows you to change the owner of all subsequent visits that have been previously generated
from the route.
In calendar, you can save your visit plan for the day as a route or route template for future use by choosing Save
as Route or Save as Template.
If you think that you may want to repeat this sequence of visits once again, save it as a route. If you want to
reuse this sequence of visits on a recurring basis, save your visit plan for the day as a route template instead.
Administrators can enable the use of web services to read, edit, or delete routes for which visits have not been
generated.
For more information about web services, see the Web Services Quick Guide in the SAP Cloud Applications
Studio documentation.
What you define in route details are valid for all visits proposed in the route.
In the route, go to More Details where you can make these settings:
Route Details
Option Description
Start Time You can maintain a default start time when the
daily route should begin.
Visit Prep Time (Average) You can maintain a default preparation time for
all visits proposed in the route.
Visit Duration (Average) You can maintain a default duration for all visits
proposed in the route.
Note
For each account or individual customer,
you can maintain visit duration at its header
or sales area level. In such cases, the pro
posed visit may use the customer-specific
value instead of the default visit duration
that you maintain here. For more details,
please see Maintain Visit Information [page
626].
Automatic Rescheduling With this flag on, when you add or move visits
within the route, subsequent visits are resched
uled automatically.
Always Show Route Owner's Schedule To avoid scheduling conflicts, as you plan visits
within the route, the system can populate visits
and appointments that have been scheduled for
the route owner on that day. With this flag on, as
soon as you add a visit with a specified date to
the route, the owner's schedule for that day au
tomatically displays.
Restriction
This feature is not applicable when the
owner is derived from territory.
Derive Owner From Territory With this flag on, you must specify a sales terri
tory instead of a route owner. Every time the
system generates a visit from this route, the
owner of the sales territory becomes the visit
owner. It ensures that visits are dynamically as
signed despite any personnel changes.
Visit Type You can maintain a default visit type for all visits
proposed in the route.
Note
Proposed visits may use visit frequency and
duration tied to the visit type, provided such
visit information has been predefined in the
account or individual customer. For more
details, please see Maintain Visit Informa
tion [page 626].
Sales Organization You can plan visits by sales area. When you add
accounts using the Visits Due for Owner filter,
Distribution Channel the system only suggests accounts and individ
ual customers that are due for the specified
sales area.
Note
Proposed visits may use visit frequency and
duration tied to the sales area, provided
such visit information has been predefined
Perfect Store Visit With this flag on, all visits proposed in the route
are considered perfect store visits by default.
You can switch on and off the perfect store indi
cator for each individual proposed visit in the
route.
Notes Notes that you add here appear for every visit
generated from this route.
You can create day-by-day visit plans that involve multiple accounts as well as individual customers.
Prerequisites
Go to More Details and define default settings for all visits that you are going to propose in the route.
Procedure
Example
○ The Visits Due for Owner query suggests accounts where the Visit Before date maintained at the
account level is equal to or later than the route start date. Overdue visits are not considered. You
can use the Visit Between search field to further look for accounts due in a specified date range.
○ The Role search field allows you to filter accounts based on whether they are prospects or existing
customers, and plan visits accordingly.
○ The Future Visit Planned search field allows you to filter accounts based on whether a Next Planned
Visit date is maintained at the account level.
○ Sales area and visit type that you have maintained under More Details are prepopulated in
advanced search for the default query.
Days that are excluded for visiting are automatically skipped in this route planning.
5. When you are happy with the visits and their sequence, save your entries.
Next Steps
Verify your route and make sure that there are no time conflicts and the route is optimal.
When proposing an account within a specified date range, the system can also suggest the number of visit
recurrences based on Recommended Visit Frequency maintained in the account.
Context
Results
Visits including their recommended recurrences within the specified date range are displayed in the table.
Related Information
You can view your path for each day of your route on map and adjust the sequence of visits to optimize your
trip.
In the route or route template, go to Overview and click More Show Map . A map appears, showing the
visit schedule with both proposed and existing visits and travel path for the first or selected day. To see the
route of a different day, select the corresponding date or day at the top of the list.
You can use the arrows next to each visit to move it up or down in the trip sequence. The visit schedule updates
in real time with preparation time and travel time being considered. When you close the map view, the route
saves the new sequence that you plan for the day.
Related Information
You can provide authorization for others to use this route and add attachments that are useful for each visit in
this route.
Involved Parties Define the owner, organizer, and assign Attendees listed on this tab can see and
this route to attendees edit this route, as well as use it to gener
ate visits.
Attachments Add any documents that might be use Attachments that you add here appear
ful for these visits as attachments for every visit that you
generate from this route.
You can check the travel path, spot and eliminate scheduling conflicts, and optimize the sequence of visits for
each day of the planned route.
You can view your path for each day of your route on map and adjust the sequence of visits to optimize your
trip.
In the route or route template, go to Overview and click More Show Map . A map appears, showing the
visit schedule with both proposed and existing visits and travel path for the first or selected day. To see the
route of a different day, select the corresponding date or day at the top of the list.
You can use the arrows next to each visit to move it up or down in the trip sequence. The visit schedule updates
in real time with preparation time and travel time being considered. When you close the map view, the route
saves the new sequence that you plan for the day.
You can see the calendar of the employee for whom you are planning the visits in this route to ensure
availability.
In the route, go to the Overview tab and click More Show Calendar View . The calendar in SAP Cloud for
Customer appears with proposed visits as well as existing visits and appointments highlighted in different
colors for clarity.
Route optimization based on maiTour allows you to plan routes based on strategic sales targets, business
goals, front- and back-office rules, and marketing guidelines.
Note
To use this feature, please contact SAP for pricing and setup information.
You can use Actions Check Route to prevent time conflicts on your calendar.
● Existing visits and appointments that appear on the route owner's calendar in SAP Cloud for Customer
● Visiting hours and days for customers, as defined in the account
● Days excluded for visiting, as defined in the route
Conflicts generate messages that appear in the row for the affected visits like this:
● An error symbol appears in the Message column that you must add with personalization
● The field with the conflict is highlighted and the message appears when you hover over the highlighted field
Activate the route, and generate all the visits that you have planned in this route with the click of a button.
Context
Note
Before visits are generated, if you want to edit an activated route, you can simply set the status back to In
Preparation and make changes. If visits are already generated, you can no longer change the route status.
Procedure
Results
There is a background job that runs every 8 minutes to generate visits. When the background job is complete,
the processing status of the route is set to complete. In the column of Activity, you can see a link to each visit
generated.
The organizer and owner that are defined at route level appear as the organizer and owner of the visits
generated from the route. The person that you designate as the owner can also see the route and the visits.
If you or others plan to use a route more than once, you can save time by creating a route template first. You
can then use the template to create routes as soon as you know the start dates.
You can create a route template to conveniently regenerate visit plans for reusing scenarios.
Procedure
Next Steps
In calendar, you can save your visit plan for the day as a route or route template for future use by choosing Save
as Route or Save as Template.
If you think that you may want to repeat this sequence of visits once again, save it as a route. If you want to
reuse this sequence of visits on a recurring basis, save your visit plan for the day as a route template instead.
What you define in route template details are valid for all routes that are generated from this template.
In the route template, go to More Details where you can make these settings:
Route Details
Option Description
Start Time You can maintain a default start time when the
daily route should begin.
Visit Prep Time (Average) You can maintain a default preparation time for
all visits proposed in the route.
Visit Duration (Average) You can maintain a default duration for all visits
proposed in the route.
Note
For each account or individual customer,
you can maintain visit duration at its header
or sales area level. In such cases, the pro
posed visit may use the customer-specific
value instead of the default visit duration
that you maintain here. For more details,
please see Maintain Visit Information [page
626].
Automatic Rescheduling With this flag on, when you add or move visits
within the route, subsequent visits are resched
uled automatically.
Always Show Route Owner's Schedule To avoid scheduling conflicts, as you plan visits
within the route, the system can populate visits
and appointments that have been scheduled for
the route owner on that day. With this flag on, as
soon as you add a visit with a specified date to
the route, the owner's schedule for that day au
tomatically displays.
Restriction
This feature is not applicable when the
owner is derived from territory.
Derive Owner From Territory With this flag on, you must specify a sales terri
tory instead of a route owner. Every time the
system generates a visit from this route, the
owner of the sales territory becomes the visit
owner. It ensures that visits are dynamically as
signed despite any personnel changes.
Visit Type You can maintain a default visit type for all visits
proposed in the route.
Note
Proposed visits may use visit frequency and
duration tied to the visit type, provided such
visit information has been predefined in the
account or individual customer. For more
details, please see Maintain Visit Informa
tion [page 626].
Sales Organization You can plan visits by sales area. When you add
accounts using the Visits Due for Owner filter,
Distribution Channel the system only suggests accounts and individ
Note
Proposed visits may use visit frequency and
duration tied to the sales area, provided
such visit information has been predefined
in the account or individual customer. For
more details, please see Maintain Visit In
formation [page 626].
Perfect Store Visit With this flag on, all visits proposed in the route
are considered perfect store visits by default.
You can switch on and off the perfect store indi
cator for each individual proposed visit in the
route.
Notes Notes that you add here appear for every visit
generated from this route.
For a route that is of a recurring nature, you can maintain its repetition frequency and validity period. Your
administrator can further set up the system to schedule and automatically generate routes and subsequent
visits based on those recurrence settings.
Related Information
You can define the days of the week on which you do not plan to conduct visits. For example, if you must be in
the office on Wednesdays, you can stipulate that the system should not create customer site visits on
Wednesdays.
You can create reusable visit plans that involve multiple accounts as well as individual customers.
Prerequisites
Go to More Details and define default settings for all visits that you are going to propose in the route template.
Context
Note
You cannot enter actual dates in a route template. You simply enter the visits you want to make on day one,
day two, and so on. Actual dates appear when you or another authorized user creates a route from this
template. Days that are excluded for visiting are automatically skipped during route generation.
Procedure
Example
○ The Visits Due for Owner query suggests accounts where the Visit Before date maintained at the
account level is a day in the future. Overdue visits are not considered.
○ The Role search field allows you to filter accounts based on whether they are prospects or existing
customers, and plan visits accordingly.
○ The Future Visit Planned search field allows you to filter accounts based on whether a Next Planned
Visit date is maintained at the account level.
○ Sales area and visit type that you have maintained under More Details are prepopulated in
advanced search for the default query.
You can use map view when you search for an account to add to a route.This feature is especially useful when,
for example, an account has multiple sites in one city. You can visually locate them on map and easily select the
one you want.
Related Information
You can view your path for each day of your route on map and adjust the sequence of visits to optimize your
trip.
In the route or route template, go to Overview and click More Show Map . A map appears, showing the
visit schedule with both proposed and existing visits and travel path for the first or selected day. To see the
route of a different day, select the corresponding date or day at the top of the list.
You can use the arrows next to each visit to move it up or down in the trip sequence. The visit schedule updates
in real time with preparation time and travel time being considered. When you close the map view, the route
saves the new sequence that you plan for the day.
Related Information
You can provide authorization for others to use this template and add attachments that are useful for each visit
in this template.
Involved Parties Define the owner, organizer, and assign Employees listed on this tab can see
this template to sales employees and edit this template, as well as use it
to generate routes.
Attachments Add any documents that might be use Attachments that you add here appear
ful for these visits as attachments for every route and
subsequent visit that you generate from
this template.
Activate the route template, and create routes from this template with the click of a button.
Procedure
2. Create routes from this template by choosing Actions Create Route from Template .
Results
You can track the routes that have been generated from this route template under the Template History tab.
Related Information
For commonly repeated visit plans, the system can automatically generate routes and subsequent visits at
regular intervals. This feature is only applicable to routes that have a recurring nature.
As prerequisites, your administrator must enable the feature and configure window for route scheduling.
During route generation, any day exclusions that you have defined are taken into account.
Example
Let's say you have created a 3-day route template and want the route to repeat weekly on every Tuesday of
April. In configuration, your administrator has specified that any routes and resulting visits planned in a
route template with recurrence settings maintained should be generated 4 days ahead of time. If April 1 is a
Tuesday, the route and resulting visits for the week of April 1 are generated 4 days prior, on March 28. Then
on April 4, the system generates the route and resulting visits for the week of April 8.
Related Information
Administrators can set up the system to schedule route creation and the subsequent visit generation based on
the recurrence settings defined in the route template.
Context
Administrators must scope the feature before you can configure it.
Procedure
1. Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales Account and Activity Management Activity Management to find and enable the question
about scheduling periodic creation of routes.
2. Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Define Window for Route Scheduling and enter the number of days ahead that you want commonly
repeat visit plans to be generated.
This topic presents an overview of features supported for routes in offline mode.
Offline Scope
Edit (directly/
via actions/via
Tab Section Field Create Default Display navigation)
Route Y N
Related Information
Having trouble using routes? Check this list of questions and answers for help.
As of February 2015, routes replaced tours. If you have been using tours, we recommend that, in the future, you
use routes for planning and generating visits.
Yes. When adding accounts to your visit plan, you can utilize the Role field in advanced search to filter accounts.
You can then set up separate routes for prospects and existing customers.
Yes. Route optimization with maiTour can suggest optimal routes based on site locations, distances, account
criteria, and other relative information.
Related Information
Yes. Administrators can enable web services (A2X) for you to manage routes.
For more information about web services, see the Web Services Quick Guide in the SAP Cloud Applications
Studio documentation.
The route map view and calendar view are supported in HTML5 and SAP Cloud for Customer only.
You can upload planograms and compare them to pictures of product displays that you take at customer sites.
Imaging intelligence pinpoints the differences between the planogram and the picture and provides
suggestions for adjustments to ensure that the customer-site display matches the planogram.
Administrators can configure SAP Cloud for Customer Imaging Intelligence using scoping, scoping questions,
and fine-tuning activities.
Recommendation
We recommend that you review all the scoping questions in the areas that are relevant and that you have
included in your scope. When you select a question, more information appears on the tabs on the details
section of the screen.
When you log on as an administrator, you can find the scoping questions under Business Configuration
Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions Sales Account and Activity
Management Activity Management .
Scoping questions and fine-tuning activities that are straightforward may not be included in this list.
As an administrator, before you set up imaging intelligence, add it to the scope of your project and enable it.
Note
Prerequisite
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Scoping
Sales Account and Activity Management Activity Management and check the box.
In the Questions step, under Sales Account and Activity Management Activity Management , in the
Visits section, select the checkbox to enable image recognition in your SAP solution.
Administrators can upload product images and planograms so that imaging intelligence can compare them to
actual shelf images.
Prerequisites
Context
Log on as an administrator and go to Administrator Sales and Campaign Settings Open Planocheck
Administrator .
Procedure
The data and images become the baseline for each product that imaging intelligence uses for comparing
with items on actual shelves.
2. On the Planograms tab, use the button to upload your planograms in .xls or .xlsx format.
1. Attach Stores
Add each store in which you want to use this planogram.
2. Activate it to replace any previous versions.
3. Update it to save your changes.
4. On the Manufacturers tab, add manufacturers.
On the screen that appears, enter the required information:
1. Enter the manufacturer's name.
2. Enter the manufacturer's code, which is the first 8 numbers of the UPC code for that manufacturer.
3. Under Customer, make the appropriate setting:
○ True means that you want to display corrective actions for this manufacturer's products
○ False means that you do not want to display corrective actions for this manufacturer's products
Just take a picture to compare the display that was defined in the planogram with the actual display.
Note
Prerequisite
Administrators can upload product images and planograms so that imaging intelligence can compare them to
actual shelf images.
Prerequisites
Log on as an administrator and go to Administrator Sales and Campaign Settings Open Planocheck
Administrator .
Procedure
The data and images become the baseline for each product that imaging intelligence uses for comparing
with items on actual shelves.
2. On the Planograms tab, use the button to upload your planograms in .xls or .xlsx format.
When you upload planograms, they have status Created, which means that Ricoh is analyzing them. When
the analysis is complete, the planograms have status OK.
3. When the planogram reaches status OK, edit it to add the following information:
1. Attach Stores
Add each store in which you want to use this planogram.
2. Activate it to replace any previous versions.
3. Update it to save your changes.
4. On the Manufacturers tab, add manufacturers.
On the screen that appears, enter the required information:
1. Enter the manufacturer's name.
2. Enter the manufacturer's code, which is the first 8 numbers of the UPC code for that manufacturer.
3. Under Customer, make the appropriate setting:
○ True means that you want to display corrective actions for this manufacturer's products
○ False means that you do not want to display corrective actions for this manufacturer's products
You can personalize your screen to show the Share of Shelf for products.
It's important to know the percentage of shelf space for your product to ensure that you are maintaining the
agreed-upon amount of space on a shelf or display.
The share of shelf space appears in visits on the Planograms tab as a percentage. The SAP solution calculates
the manufacturer's share of shelf space less any corrective actions and competitors' share of shelf space.
Activity planner is used to plan activities such as surveys and tasks that help you achieve different business
goals. By using routing rules, you can assign the surveys and tasks to business objects that are associated with
specific accounts or territories.
Activity planning enables you to transform marketing initiatives and sales execution strategies into executable
surveys and tasks. Let's say there is a new product launch next month. As part of the sales execution plan,
every sales representative needs to talk to customers about this event in the next couple of visits. In addition,
they need to collect sales data by conducting certain product surveys. As sales operations or key account
managers, you can create activity plans that group relevant tasks and surveys. You can then define routing
rules and make sure that the right set of tasks and surveys are intelligently assigned to each applicable visit for
execution.
You can plan surveys and tasks for multiple objects. For example, you can assign questionnaire surveys that
sales representatives must complete when they qualify a lead. Instead of adding standard surveys to each
applicable lead, planning activities ahead of time facilitates qualification process and improves your work
efficiency as a team. You can also assign customer satisfaction surveys to service tickets and gain insights into
sale representatives' service performance.
Administrators can configure the activity planner and the corresponding routing rules using scoping and
scoping questions.
Before users can plan surveys and tasks using activity planner, administrators must add it to the project scope.
Procedure
1. Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Scoping
Sales Account and Activity Management Activity Management and check the box next to the
scoping item.
Related Information
Administrators can set up the solution to pre-populate organizational unit based on the logged-in user who is
creating the activity plan or routing rule.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales Account and Activity Management Activity Management .
Under Activity Planner, answer the question about defaulting organizational unit based on the logged-in user.
You can create activity plans to organize standards list of tasks and surveys. Based on your business needs, the
activity plan can be assigned to various business objects. You can also mass upload activity plans via the SAP
Cloud for Customer APIs.
Prerequisites
You must have access to the Activity Planner work center to create an activity plan.
Context
Activity plans must be used together with routing rules. By using routing rules, the tasks and surveys within an
activity plan can be determined and assigned to applicable business objects for further use.
When setting properties for the activity plan, you have following two indicators that you can turn on:
○ Mandatory
If you toggle on this button at the activity plan level, all the tasks and surveys that you add to the plan
are designated as mandatory by default. This button is also available in each individual task or survey,
which you can toggle off as desired.
It is useful to turn on this option when all or most of your tasks and surveys are mandatory to be
completed.
○ Assign Automatically
If you toggle on this button at the activity plan level, all the tasks and surveys that you add to the plan
allow automatic assignment by default. This button is also available in each individual task or survey,
which you can toggle off as desired.
It is useful to turn on this option when all or most of your tasks and surveys must be assigned
automatically.
3. To continue adding tasks and surveys to the activity plan, choose Save and Open.
4. To create a task in the activity plan, go to the Tasks tab and click New.
For a task to be used in visits, you must clarify the Frequency. Choosing Always allows the task to be
generated in every applicable visit. Choosing Once allows the task to be generated only until the task is
completed for an account.
Note
Some tasks and surveys only need to be completed once per account. For example, setting up a
promotional display for a major sporting event only needs to be done once, and makes sense only until
that sporting event is over.
When you define one-time tasks or surveys in the activity planner, your SAP solution handles them as
follows:
You complete the one-time task or survey during the You don't see that task or survey again for the remain
first visit. der of the date range defined in the activity plan.
You complete the visit without completing the one-time One-time tasks or surveys either:
task or survey. ○ Automatically move to an existing or generated
visit within the date range defined in the activity
plan.
○ Stay in the original visit as incomplete tasks or sur
veys forever, for example, when the activity plan is
no longer in the validity period.
Here you can also decide whether this particular task is mandatory to be completed and if it must be
assigned automatically.
Note
○ For tasks and surveys that are automatically assigned, they are added to applicable business
objects when the routing rules are triggered.
Please check respective object documentation for when and how the routing rules can be
triggered.
○ For tasks and surveys that are not automatically assigned, sales users can manually add them to
applicable business objects if needed.
5. To add notes and attachments to a task, select the task in the table and you can see the Notes and
Attachments sections pop up.
Notes and attachments are passed down when tasks are assigned.
6. To attach a survey to the activity plan, go to the Surveys tab and click Add.
Note
You can only add surveys that are Active to an activity plan.
For a survey to be used in visits, you must clarify its frequency of use. You can also decide whether this
particular survey is mandatory to be completed and if it must be assigned automatically.
7. (Optional) Go to the Organizational Units tab and define sales units only to which the activity plan applies.
8. (Optional) Go to the Involvement tab and define sales employees and units that are involved with the
activity plan.
Sales people or groups involved can switch to the Activity Plans for Me or My Area view in the activity plan
list to see plans that are relevant to them.
9. When you finish creating the activity plan, click Save.
Next Steps
Create routing rules to define criteria that a business object must fulfill to receive the activity plan.
Before users can plan surveys and tasks using activity planner, administrators must add it to the project scope.
Procedure
1. Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Scoping
Sales Account and Activity Management Activity Management and check the box next to the
scoping item.
Related Information
Administrators can set up the solution to pre-populate organizational unit based on the logged-in user who is
creating the activity plan or routing rule.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales Account and Activity Management Activity Management .
Under Activity Planner, answer the question about defaulting organizational unit based on the logged-in user.
You can create routing rules to assign tasks and surveys within an activity plan to various business objects. The
routing rules contain a series of conditions that a business object must meet to receive certain activity plans.
Prerequisites
You must have access to the Activity Planner work center to create a routing rule.
Context
Following steps show you how to create a routing rule. As to when and how the routing rule can be triggered,
please check respective object documentation for details.
Procedure
Note
3. To continue setting up conditions that define this routing rule, choose Save and Open.
4. Under the Conditions tab, click Add Group and define the condition.
Conditions are structured in groups. When a routing rule is triggered, different condition groups are
evaluated as a logical OR relationship; conditions within one group are evaluated as a logical AND
relationship.
To create another condition under the same group, in the Actions column of the previous condition you
added to the group, click the plus icon.
Tip
There are two conditions related to the account hierarchy: Top-Level Account and Higher-Level Account.
In both cases, all accounts that fall under a root account or a higher-level account are affected when
that condition is true. However, only the top-level account condition includes itself in the result. If you
want to group an entire account hierarchy including the root account, use the Top-Level Account
condition. To include all accounts that fall under a non-root account, as well as the higher-level account
itself, use Higher-Level Account and add the higher-level account ID to the condition.
5. To select the activity plans that follow this routing rule, go to the Activity Plans tab and click Add.
You can see and select activity plans with future dates as follows:
6. (Optional) Go to the Organizational Units tab and define sales units only to which the routing rule applies.
7. (Optional) Go to the Accounts tab and define accounts or target groups only to which the routing rule
applies.
8. (Optional) Go to the Involvement tab and define sales employees and units that are involved with the
routing rule.
Sales people or groups involved can switch to the Routing Rules for Me or My Area view in the routing rule
list to see rules that are relevant to them.
9. When you finish creating the routing rule, click Save.
Related Information
Before users can plan surveys and tasks using activity planner, administrators must add it to the project scope.
Procedure
1. Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Scoping
Sales Account and Activity Management Activity Management and check the box next to the
scoping item.
Administrators can set up the solution to pre-populate organizational unit based on the logged-in user who is
creating the activity plan or routing rule.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales Account and Activity Management Activity Management .
Under Activity Planner, answer the question about defaulting organizational unit based on the logged-in user.
Having trouble using activity planner? Check this list of questions and answers for help.
You can use the cross-referenced fields to find out which activity plans contain a certain routing rule, or which
routing rules are used for a particular activity plan.
In the activity plan list, your administrators can adapt the master layout and add the Routing Rule field to the
advanced search. It allows you to search and sort activity plans based on the routing rule.
Similarly, in the routing rule list, your administrators can adapt the master layout and add the Activity Plan field
to the advanced search. It allows you to search and sort routing rules based on the activity plan.
A perfect store delivers the right product, in stock, at the right time, at the right price. It is a methodology that
makes the most of retail execution information and takes a highly disciplined approach to achieving maximum
sales. To achieve a perfect store, you must provide an exceptional customer experience at each point of
engagement within a store.
A point of engagement is a location where your products are on display for sale and need to be audited in a
store. Examples include a promotional display, a regularly stocked shelf, or a cooler. Combining your points of
engagements into an engagement map outlines a store or store segment. Engagement maps can include a
visual representation of a store layout to assist your sales representatives in completing their tasks.
At each point of engagement, your sales representatives collect data by conducting surveys and answering
survey questions. Based on the survey responses, key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics that
administrators have created allow sales representatives to gain real-time insights into the store performance,
respond to problems as they occur, and increase field sales efficiency.
The perfect store solution is only available in the SAP Fiori Client.
Administrators can configure perfect store using scoping and scoping questions.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Scoping
Industry Solution Consumer Product Extended Perfect Store Execution and check the box next to the
scoping item for using perfect store.
Administrators can enable users to define store scoring based on surveys scores instead of KPI scores.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Industry Solution Consumer Product Extended Perfect Store Execution to find the corresponding
question about disabling KPI-based scoring.
Administrators can enable users to add store layouts to illustrate the engagement map.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Industry Solution Consumer Product Extended Perfect Store Execution to find the corresponding
question about setting up an engagement map with visuals.
Administrators can enable sales operations or account managers to assign standard tasks and surveys to
perfect store visits using activity plans and routing rules. Such tasks and surveys are not considered for perfect
store or KPI scoring.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Industry Solution Consumer Product Extended Perfect Store Execution to find the corresponding
question about enabling standard worklist determination for perfect store visits.
Related Information
Administrators can set up the system to show KPI values with two decimal places and increase precision in the
measurement.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Industry Solution Consumer Product Extended Perfect Store Execution to find the corresponding
question about displaying KPI values in decimal.
An engagement map represents a store layout or a segment that consists of several points of engagement
where a sales representative must go to evaluate product displays, for example. Per engagement map, you can
define key performance indicators and metrics based on the data to be collected during retail audits.
You can create an engagement map, assign points of engagement, set up key performance indicators (KPIs),
and define store scoring.
Context
If the administrator has enabled survey-based scoring methodology for measuring store performance, KPI-
based store scoring setup in not available in the engagement map creation.
Procedure
The threshold that is set for an engagement map is used to display the overall perfect store score for a visit.
Note
Tip
Under Attachments, you can upload a Local File Store Layout as a visual representation of the
store. You can plot points of engagement on the image that can visually guide sales representatives
through the store visit.
6. Click Next and assign points of engagements to your engagement map in following ways:
○ Add reusable points of engagement that you have predefined in the Points of Engagement work center.
○ Create points of engagement that are specific to this engagement map.
1. Click Create New.
2. Proceed just as you would to create a reusable point of engagement.
3. Once you finish defining all the components in the point of engagement, click Actions
Activate .
4. Go back to the new engagement map, and above the points of engagement table, click Add.
5. Under the Specific Points of Engagement section, select the point of engagement you just created
and click OK.
7. Prioritize the order of the points of engagement, if needed.
8. Click Next and assign the engagement map to relevant customers and target groups.
Tip
When you add an account to the engagement map, a checkbox Include Account Hierarchy allows you to
add children accounts under the chosen account in an account hierarchy.
Note
Only one engagement map can be used per visit per customer. However, as engagement maps can be
created for accounts, target groups, and account hierarchies, it may result in one account being
assigned to multiple engagement maps due to the hierarchy structure. In this case, an error message is
displayed and the most recently created engagement map is used for the visit.
Note
KPIs with the same sequence number are displayed together in the KPI summary. KPIs with no
sequence number show at the end of the list.
A logically ordered list of KPIs makes for easy and intuitive interpretation of store metrics for sales
representatives.
11. Click Next and set up store scoring using relevant KPIs that you just defined in the previous step.
13. When all the components in the engagement map are ready for use, click Actions Activate .
Results
When a visit is created for a relevant account with an active engagement map, you can use perfect store
features during that visit.
Related Information
You can assign or create points of engagement directly on a store layout image.
Prerequisites
You have attached a Local File Store Layout as a visual representation of the store.
Context
This task shows you how to assign points of engagement on a store layout as you create an engagement map.
1. During the creation of an engagement map, as you assign points of engagement, choose the Map View. The
layout image displays.
2. Click a location on your image and drop a pin.
3. Click the pin, and the point of engagement list displays.
4. You can assign a reusable point of engagement or create a point of engagement that is specific to the
engagement map.
○ Select an existing point of engagement from the list and click Assign.
Tip
Before you assign a point of engagement, you can change the pin location by removing and
redropping. After you assign a point of engagement, if you want to change the pin location, drop
another pin at the desired location and assign the same point of engagement once again. The
previous pin gets removed automatically.
The number in each pin corresponds to the priority order of a point of engagement. If a point of
engagement is not mapped to a pin on the layout image correctly, you can reprioritize the order of
the points of engagement.
○ Click Create and the point of engagement creation screen pops up. Proceed as you would to create a
reusable point of engagement and activate the point of engagement.
Note
Results
When executing a perfect store visit, sales representatives can choose the map view to view this image and
easily identify the points of engagement within a given location.
Administrators can enable users to add store layouts to illustrate the engagement map.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Industry Solution Consumer Product Extended Perfect Store Execution to find the corresponding
question about setting up an engagement map with visuals.
You can create an engagement map with less time and effort by copying an existing engagement map.
Procedure
1. Copy an engagement map from the list or in the detail view of an engagement map.
○ In the engagement map list:
1. Select the engagement map that you want to copy.
2. From More options, click Copy.
○ In the detail view of the engagement map that you want to copy:
1. Click Actions Copy .
A new engagement map opens with most information copied over, except the following:
○ Attachments and notes
○ Points of engagement that are not maintained in the points of engagement list and that are only
specific to the engagement map
○ Points of engagement that are deactivated for survey-based store scoring
○ Key performance indicators (KPIs)
○ KPI scoring information when KPI-based store scoring is enabled
2. Proceed through tabs and edit settings as required to create the engagement map.
3. Review your entries and click Save.
Related Information
You can create versions of an engagement map to accommodate any layout changes.
Procedure
When you create a version, the solution copies all the information in the existing engagement map into a
new version.
2. Proceed through tabs and edit settings as required to create the version of the engagement map.
In the new version, you can redefine store layout, points of engagement, key performance indicators, and
metrics.
3. Review your entries and click Save.
4. When all the components in the engagement map are ready for use, click Actions Activate .
As soon as you activate the new version, the previous version of engagement map becomes Obsolete
automatically.
Related Information
If an engagement map is no longer valid for any accounts, you can set the engagement map to Obsolete.
Points of engagement are specific locations where sales representatives collect data and perform retail audits
in a store. You can create reusable points of engagement or points of engagement that are specific to an
engagement map.
● Reusable points of engagement are created in Points of Engagement and can be added to multiple
engagement maps.
● Specific points of engagement are created from within an engagement map and can only be used in that
engagement map.
For each point of engagement, administrators can add mandatory or voluntary surveys, survey questions, and
tasks that sales representatives must complete at that particular location.
You can create a point of engagement that can be reused in multiple engagement maps.
Context
A point of engagement created in Points of Engagement can be reused in multiple engagement maps. A point of
engagement created in an engagement map is not reusable and only specific to that engagement map. This
task shows you how to create a reusable point of engagement.
Note
You can add only one asset ID to each point of engagement. However, if there are multiple registered
products assigned to the product ID and the associated account in a visit, all the assigned registered
products are included.
Points of engagement can be valid for a specific date range or for an unlimited amount of time. Once a
validity period is over, you can no longer add the point of engagement to an engagement map. If the point
of engagement is used in an engagement map, once the validity period ends, it cannot be used for any
scoring calculations. You can also create points of engagement with future validity dates for scenarios such
as an upcoming display or a seasonal promotion. The point of engagement, including the associated
surveys, cannot be used for scoring until the point of engagement is valid.
7. In Details, add notes to provide sales representatives with additional information at a point of engagement
during visit execution.
Eligible questions include multiple choice single select and multiple choice multi select.
Note
Once questions are added to the point of engagement, further changes made to questions in the
question bank are not reflected in the point of engagement. The questions must be updated in the
point of engagement individually.
10. Under the Tasks tab, create tasks and define if they are mandatory for completion.
11. Under the Organization Units tab, add relevant organizational units.
12. Under the Attachments tab, add relevant content such as display diagrams and product layouts.
14. When the point of engagement is ready for use, click Actions Activate .
You must activate the point of engagement before you can add it to an engagement map.
If an active point of engagement is used in an engagement map, you cannot further edit it. To edit an
active point of engagement that is not used in any engagement map, click Actions Set as In
Preparation and then make your changes.
You can create a point of engagement with less time and effort by copying an existing point of engagement.
Procedure
1. Copy a point of engagement from the list or in the detail view of a point of engagement.
○ In the point of engagement list:
1. Select the point of engagement that you want to copy.
2. From More options, click Copy.
○ In the detail view of the point of engagement that you want to copy:
1. Click Actions Copy .
A new point of engagement opens with most information copied over, except the following:
○ Attachments and notes
○ Surveys and questions with expired validity
○ Surveys and questions that are deactivated for survey-based store scoring
2. Proceed through tabs and edit settings as required to create the point of engagement.
3. Review your entries and click Save.
4. When the point of engagement is ready for use, click Actions Activate .
Related Information
If a reusable point of engagement is no longer valid for any engagement maps, you can set the point of
engagement to Obsolete.
For survey-based store scoring, before you can change the status of the point of engagement, you must clear
weightages for this point of engagement in all engagement maps.
In a point of engagement, you can go to the Engagement Maps tab to check all the engagement maps where
the point of engagement is assigned.
You can build your own key performance indicators (KPIs) to evaluate key business metrics within the context
of a store. Such metrics can further contribute to measuring the overall store performance.
KPIs are created per engagement map. You can set up KPIs during engagement map creation or in the detail
view of an existing engagement map. The KPI calculation is based on responses from surveys or questions that
are associated with different points of engagement in the engagement map.
You can create simple KPIs when your metrics only require simple summation or comparison logic. For
example, measure the total number of responses that match a specified value, or responses that reach a
desired value as compared to a reference target.
Context
You can set up KPIs during the creation of an engagement map or in an existing engagement map. This task
shows you how to create a simple calculation KPI in an existing engagement map.
Note
You can only edit and add KPIs to an engagement map that is In Preparation.
2. Under the KPIs tab, next to Simple KPIs - Calculation, click Add.
3. Enter a name for your KPI.
4. Enter a Tag as a short code for your KPI. This field is mandatory.
For example, you can use OSA to represent your KPI that is created for checking on-shelf availability.
5. Set threshold values as benchmarks for your scoring result, and enter a legend for each range.
6. Define KPI components that are derived from responses from product surveys.
a. Select a point of engagement.
Only points of engagement that have a product survey assigned are available for selection.
b. Select a survey, a question, and a response.
For each point of engagement, you can add only one response per question per survey.
Eligible question options include multiple choice single select and multiple choice multi select.
During store audits, if the sales representative chooses the same answer that you have defined here, a
value of one goes into the calculation. Other responses are valued at zero points.
c. Add the component to your KPI.
d. Define as many components as you need.
7. When you finish, click OK.
You can create a simple calculation KPI to check items that are out of stock. The KPI uses a survey question
that asks if a product is in stock. Select the answer 'No, the product is not in stock' as the response option for
your KPI component. If the product is out of stock, the product gets one point. Otherwise, the product gets
zero point. Each product in the product survey gets one or zero point, and the points are aggregated into an
overall score. Set the overall score threshold to determine what is a green outcome and what is a red outcome.
For example, you may set the threshold at 65 on a 100-point scale. If 65% or more products are out of stock,
your score is displayed in red. If less than 65% of products are out of stock, your score is displayed in green.
Measure performance based on the comparison of an audit response against a specified audit field value.
Prerequisites
You must include Product Extension Fields or Product List Extension Fields question type in the associated
product survey. Those questions are used as reference questions to set up comparison KPIs.
Context
You can set up KPIs during the creation of an engagement map or in an existing engagement map. This task
shows you how to create a simple comparison KPI in an existing engagement map.
Note
You can only edit and add KPIs to an engagement map that is In Preparation.
2. Under the KPIs tab, next to Simple KPIs - Comparison, click Add.
3. Enter a name for your KPI.
4. Enter a Tag as a short code for your KPI. This field is mandatory.
For example, you can use OSA to represent your KPI that is created for checking on-shelf availability.
5. Set threshold values as benchmarks for your scoring result, and enter a legend for each range.
6. Define KPI components that are derived from responses from product surveys.
a. Select a point of engagement.
Only points of engagement that have a product survey assigned are available for selection.
b. Select a survey, a question, and a reference question.
For each point of engagement, you can add only one response per question per survey.
Eligible question options include questions with quantity or amount answer types.
During store audits, if the answer that the sales representative chooses matches the answer to the
reference question, a value of one goes into the calculation. If not, a value of zero is counted in the
calculation.
c. Add the component to your KPI.
d. Define as many components as you need.
7. When you finish, click OK.
Example
You can create a simple comparison KPI to check promotional pricing compliance. The KPI compares the
actual in-store price to the promotional price. Select one question that asks for 'actual sales price' and one
reference question that asks for 'target sales price' as your components. If the actual sales price matches the
target sales price, the product gets one point. Otherwise, the product gets zero points. Each product in the
product survey gets one or zero points, and the points are aggregated into an overall score. Set the overall
score threshold to determine what is a green outcome and what is a red outcome. For example, you may set
the threshold at 8 on a 10-point scale. If 80% or more products have the correct pricing, your score is displayed
in green. Otherwise, your score is displayed in red.
You can build your own key performance indicators (KPIs) to evaluate key business metrics within the context
of a store. Such metrics can further contribute to measuring the overall store performance.
KPIs are created per engagement map. You can set up KPIs during engagement map creation or in the detail
view of an existing engagement map. The KPI calculation is based on responses from surveys or questions that
are associated with different points of engagement in the engagement map.
You can create advanced KPIs when your metrics involve complex logic and you want to build flexible formulas
using various operators and variables across audits. Advanced KPIs also allow you to use other KPIs as
variables in the calculations.
Context
You can set up KPIs during the creation of an engagement map or in an existing engagement map. This task
shows you how to create an advanced KPI in an engagement map that has already been created.
Procedure
You can only edit and add KPIs to an engagement map that is In Preparation.
Note
○ All the variables that are used to build the KPI come from one single survey
○ You want to define focus products that need to be weighed higher in the KPI calculation
○ Variables that are used to build the KPI come from multiple surveys
○ You want to use other KPIs as variables in the KPI calculation
Checklist Sur
KPI Level Product Surveys veys Questions KPIs Focus Products
Survey Level ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Engagement Map ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Level
Note
○ Scoring relevant KPIs are calculated and displayed as metrics when sales representatives audit the
point of engagement to which the surveys used to build the KPIs are assigned. Scoring relevant
KPIs can also be used to build compound KPIs at the engagement map level.
○ Non-Scoring relevant KPIs are not displayed as metrics during perfect store visit execution. Non-
scoring relevant KPIs are only used to build compound KPIs at the engagement map level.
6. Enter an Identifier Tag as a short code for your KPI. This field is mandatory.
For example, you can use OSA to represent your KPI that is created for checking on-shelf availability.
7. If you want the system to interpret an unanswered numeric, quantity, or amount field value as zero during
calculation, toggle on the Calculate No Response As Zero button. It reduces errors in KPI calculations,
allowing the ease of use for sales representatives when they respond to large sets of questions.
Note
8. Set threshold values as benchmarks for your scoring result, and enter a legend for each range.
9. Define KPI variables that are derived from responses from surveys or survey questions.
Surveys or questions that are valid for the KPI level and the point of engagement become available for
selection.
b. Select a survey, a question, and a response when applicable.
c. Enter an identifier tag as a short code for this particular variable, and press Enter on your keyboard.
For example, you can use R1 to represent your first response variable.
d. Click Add to Variables.
e. Define as many variables as you need to create the KPI formula.
Note
When you create a KPI at the engagement level, you can also use other KPIs as variables. As a
prerequisite, those KPIs must be previously defined in the same engagement map before they can be
added as variables.
Depending on which KPI level and survey you select, the solution may offer a pre-delivered list of
constants.
10. If you create the KPI at the survey level and select a product survey for variables, you can define focus
products with distinct weightages to be considered in the KPI calculation.
Note
○ Static Focus Products allows you to define weightages for individual focus products.
○ Dynamic Focus Products allows you to define the weightage for a group of focus products that fall
into a specific product classification within a survey.
11. Build your KPI formula using available functions and operators.
12. Click Check to validate the formula for consistency.
13. When you finish, click OK.
Related Information
Focus products, also known as hero products, are central to your brand and probably drive the most customer
loyalty. When you measure important metrics, such essential products can hold more weightage in the
calculation.
For the same metric that is being measured, one focus product can hold different weightages at different points
of engagement. For example, your new products can account for a 100 percent weightage at the promotional
When you create a KPI at the survey level and a product survey is selected for defining variables, you can define
focus products in your KPI details under following two categories:
Related Information
When you create a KPI at the survey level and a product survey is selected for defining variables, we provide a
list of standard constants to help you build formulas.
The table lists available operators we offer in the advanced KPI formula editor.
Operators
Operator Description
== Equal To
!= Not Equal To
The result is 1 if both operand 1 and operand 2 do not equal 0. Otherwise, the result is 0.
OR Logical OR
The result is 1 if operand 1 or operand 2 does not equal 0. Otherwise, the result is 0.
The table lists available functions we offer in the advanced KPI formula editor.
Functions
COUNT FP. Returns the total number of focus prod COUNT FP.(R1)
ucts matching the variables that have COUNT FP.(R1 AND R2>0)
been defined. The variables are re
sponses from one or multiple surveys.
Variables can be set with or without
conditions.
SUM FP. Returns the total value of the variables SUM FP.(R1)
that have been defined and received
Note
from focus products. The variables are
sequences of numbers which can be SUM FP. is used to add responses
amount, quantity, or numeric fields from all the focus products deter
from one or multiple surveys. mined in the survey.
Note
You can only use AGG.WT. when fo
cus products are defined.
Example
Let's say you defined a KPI to count
items that are out of stock. During
store audits, the sales representa
tive found that 8 out of 10 products
were out of stock. As a result, if the
score scale is 1, the KPI score is 0.8.
If the score scale is 100, then the
KPI score is 80.
You can use either KPI scores or survey scores as input to calculate the overall store score.
KPI-based scoring is provided as the default option. If you want to use survey scores as basis to measure store
performance, your administrator can switch to survey-based scoring methodology in scoping questions.
KPI-based scoring allows you to use the store metrics that you measure as score factors to further evaluate the
overall store performance.
Context
You can set up perfect store scoring during the creation of an engagement map or in an existing engagement
map. This task shows you how to assign weightages to your metrics that aggregate to the final store score in an
existing engagement map.
Procedure
Only the KPIs that are valid for this particular engagement map are available for selection.
4. Assign a weightage to each of the KPIs that you add.
5. Save your entries.
Results
During visit execution, based on the audit responses a sales representative enters, KPI scores are calculated in
real time. The final score is calculated by summing up the weighted scores of KPIs that are relevant for store
scoring.
Context
You can set up perfect store scoring during the creation of an engagement map or in an existing engagement
map. This task shows you how to assign weightages and points to your metrics that aggregate to the final store
score in an existing engagement map.
Procedure
Only the KPIs that are valid for this particular engagement map are available for selection.
4. Assign a weightage to each of the KPIs that you add.
5. Check Assign Points.
When the option is checked, three columns appear with each representing a score range. Green is for good,
yellow is for fair, and red is for poor. The threshold for each range is defined per KPI.
Note
For KPIs that only have two score ranges, the Yellow column is not editable.
6. Assign points to each score range that the KPI score may fall into during visit execution.
For example, a KPI that measures items that are out of stock can get full points if it falls in the green range
and zero points if it falls in the red range.
Note
The highest point must not exceed the scale that is set per engagement map.
During visit execution, based on the audit responses a sales representative enters, KPIs are calculated in real
time. Depending on how you have defined the benchmarks for the scoring result, the scored KPI falls into a
score range and receives corresponding points. The final store score is calculated by summing up the weighted
points of KPIs that are relevant for store scoring.
Survey-based store scoring allows you to calculate a perfect store score for a visit based on survey and
question scores.
As prerequisites, administrators must enable survey-based store scoring for perfect store via a scoping
question and complete following steps:
Example
In a visit, there are two points of engagement. Point of Engagement 1 has two surveys with equal weightage,
and Point of Engagement 2 has one survey and one question with equal weightage. The scoring is calculated as
follows:
When the score scale is set at 1, the overall store score is 0.475. When the score scale is set at 10, the overall
store score is 4.75.
Administrators can enable users to define store scoring based on surveys scores instead of KPI scores.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Industry Solution Consumer Product Extended Perfect Store Execution to find the corresponding
question about disabling KPI-based scoring.
During a visit, sales representatives can use perfect store features and view real-time insights into store
performance.
Prerequisites
The engagement map is determined at the time of the visit based on the sales organizations and accounts. In
the visit, click Actions Refresh Visit to trigger the determination and ensure that you are viewing the
most updated perfect store information in the visit.
Context
1. In the visit, under Perfect Store, click Actions Start Perfect Store Execution .
2. Complete objectives assigned to each point of engagement.
3. Click the score badge for This Visit Score.
For survey-based store scoring, clicking the visit score badge also calculates scores for all the points of
engagement.
4. Under each point of engagement, if available, you can view KPI scores for respective point of engagement,
and drill down into each KPI to see the breakdown of product compliance.
5. Click Save and then Close.
6. Under Perfect Store, you can see KPI scores for the store visit, and drill down into each KPI to see the
breakdown of product compliance.
When creating follow-up sales orders in a perfect store visit, you can add products based on specific question
responses that you selected in perfect store surveys. It allows you to take the next best action on low-
performing metrics such as out-of-stock. This feature is currently available online only.
As a prerequisite, when designing the survey, administrators must go to Follow Up Actions and specify the
question response or quantity proposal that triggers the creation of a sales order.
Create a Sales Quote or Sales Order as A Follow-Up Item from a Survey [page 767]
Following data sources and reports are available for perfect store reporting.
CODPSPKPIU Perfect Store Visits and KPIs Contains perfect store scores, KPI
scores, and KPI-related information.
CODPSPSURQUEVALU Perfect Store Visits and Surveys Contains perfect store scores, point of
engagement scores, surveys, ques
tions, and responses.
ID Name Description
CODPSPSURQUEVALU_Q0001 Perfect Store: Responses to survey and Provides the survey and questions re
question at each point of engagement sponses for a point of engagement in
perfect store visits for all accounts.
CODPSPKPIU_Q0001 Perfect Store: Trend of store scores and Provides the trends of averages of store
KPI scores and KPI scores across all perfect store
visits for all accounts.
CODPSPSURQUEVALU_Q0002 Perfect Store: Trend of store scores and Provides the trends of averages of store
point of engagement scores and PoE scores across all perfect store
visits for all accounts.
Related Information
Tasks and surveys are assigned to points of engagement where the objectives need to be completed. Then, the
points of engagement are assigned to an engagement map created per account. When a visit is created, the
engagement map including its components is determined to the visit based on the account.
Yes. Once administrators enable this feature, you can assign standard tasks and surveys to perfect store visits
using activity plans. However, such tasks and surveys are not considered for perfect store or KPI scoring.
Sales representatives do not see standard tasks and surveys during perfect store execution. They can see and
complete these tasks and surveys under the Tasks and Surveys tabs in a visit.
Related Information
You can execute perfect store visits, compute store scores and metrics offline. However, as of now, creating
perfect store components and visits in the offline mode is not possible.
Restriction
When you execute perfect store visits offline, Last Visit Score and KPI Details are not available.
As prerequisites for perfect store visit execution offline, administrators must go to Administrator General
Settings Offline Settings Data Download Rules to set download rules for visits. Engagement map
attachments, point of engagement attachments, and store layout images require extra download configuration
under the Attachment Download tab.
No. The perfect store solution is provided as part of the SAP Cloud for Customer enterprise version.
Surveys are an integral feature in retail execution and service scenarios in SAP Cloud for Customer. You can
design surveys that sales representatives will use to capture business related data at customer locations. The
information captured in the surveys offers you an insightful direction for your next set of business actions. The
survey offering includes comprehensive survey design, execution as well as reporting capabilities.
From a usage perspective, surveys in SAP Cloud for Customer can be broadly categorized as internal and
external surveys.
● Internal Surveys: The internal surveys are used at customer locations to capture the necessary
information regarding sales, product display and so on. Note that internal surveys can be consumed only if
they are assigned to a business object such as visit, service ticket, lead, opportunity and so on.
● External Surveys: The external surveys on the other hand are filled by the customers and are typically
used to capture the satisfaction quotient of a target group audience or customers.
Administrators can configure surveys using scoping, scoping questions, and fine-tuning activities.
Scoping questions and fine-tuning activities that are straightforward may not be included in this list.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Scoping
Questions Sales Account and Activity Management Activity Management and check the box next to the
scoping question for using surveys.
Administrators can configure survey categories in fine-tuning activities to meet your business needs.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Surveys Maintain Survey Categories to edit your categories.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Surveys Maintain Question Categories to edit your categories.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Surveys Maintain Answer Categories to edit your categories.
Administrators can create rules for the system to dynamically assign products or product lists to a survey at
runtime.
Context
This rule framework allows you to define both product determination and classification.
Procedure
1. Go to Administrator Sales and Campaign Settings Define Rules for Survey Product Determination
to launch the rules table.
2. If it is your first time to create rules, use Adapt Columns to set up the rules table. You can have up to 20
columns in the table, including last three result columns, Product, Product List ID, and Classification.
Tip
We recommend that you remove any unwanted columns and only keep required ones as extra columns
can impact system performance.
3. Choose Insert Row above the rules table. A new row with an asterisk in each field is added to the table.
You can add values to more than one field in a row. The fields in one row evaluate as a logical AND
relationship, which means the field values must all evaluate to true in order for the rule to evaluate to true.
4. Click the asterisk symbol in a cell to enter a value for that field. The rules table offers a variety of logical
operators to define your values.
5. Continue to add rows for each desired result.
The rows in the rules table evaluate as a logical OR relationship. The system compares each rule from top
to bottom until it finds one match, which suggests that the most specific rule should be placed at the top of
the table and generic ones should be near the bottom.
You can rearrange rows by selecting the row and clicking Swap.
6. Click Save when you finish.
7. Click Activate Rules.
For your updated rules, unless you reactivate them, otherwise the previous rule sets continue to execute.
Administrators can enable this SAP Cloud for Customer, Extended Edition feature by selecting a scoping
question.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales Account and Activity Management Activity Management Surveys to find the corresponding
scoping question.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Surveys Maintain Product Classification for Survey to assign a product classification icon for surveys.
Note
Administrators can configure survey options in SAP Cloud for Customer, Extended Edition.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales Account and Activity Management Activity Management Surveys to view the scoping questions
for Surveys in Extended Edition.
You can choose to display the product image, ID, or description, and to allow products from past orders to be
added in SAP Cloud for Customer, Extended Edition.
Administrators can integrate this feature by using oData and web services.
To learn more about oData and web services, go to the SAP Cloud for Customer Help Center and under the
Integration section, view the SAP Cloud for Customer OData API and the Web Service API documentation.
General surveys, also known as checklist surveys, contain a collection of questions in a list format.
Create a product survey to answer the same set of questions for multiple products. You can add individual
Products, products from a Product List, and products from a Product List Category to a Product Survey. These
products can be added during design time as well as runtime.
You can dynamically add products from product lists based on a product list category. For example, if you set a
product list category for Seasonal Sales in the survey, and create a product list called Summer Products
assigned to this product list category, then the Summer Products product list will automatically be added to
the survey if its valid for the account being visited.
You can search for products using extension fields. First, create extension fields for products, then add the
extension fields as questions in the survey.
In the following example, Address type and Colour are extension fields.
Create your own criteria to audit your competitors' products in store. For example, you may want to check
availability, prices, or promotions for your competitor's product to see how your products compare. Competitor
product surveys are created like a regular product survey, but with competitor products instead.
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To collect information regarding products that have been installed at a specific account, use a registered
product survey.
Create a registered product survey like regular product survey, but without adding products to it. Instead, when
you assign a survey to a visit, it automatically includes the registered products that have been set for the
assigned account.
Related Information
All registered products for all involved parties are included in registered product surveys.
When you assign a registered product survey to a visit, all registered products for the account being visited are
automatically populated in the survey. This includes all registered products where the account being visited is
listed as an involved party, regardless of the role assigned. Previously, only registered products with the visit
account assigned the role of customer would have been considered and populated in the survey.
Use the serial ID, description, and extension fields of registered products instead of the product ID to search for
registered products in surveys.
Create extension fields for registered products, then add the extension fields as questions in the survey.
When designing a registered product survey, define a product or product category for your registered products.
During runtime, the system displays registered products based on these requirements.
Gain insight about your competitors with competitor surveys. Measure performance across multiple categories
and compare these results to your own. Use this data to improve your performance and stay ahead of your
competition.
Competitor surveys collect data about the competitors related to an opportunity. If you add a competitor
survey to an opportunity, the competitors listed in the opportunity will be added to the survey by default. If
you'd like to add additional competitors to a survey, you can do so when designing the survey.
Context
Create satisfaction surveys that you can send out to your customers using an e-mail template. Your customers
can rate how satisfied they are with several answer options based on a scale you create. You can also use all
other question types in satisfaction surveys to collect more details about your customers.
After users complete a satisfaction survey, they receive a message signifying that they have completed the
survey and thanking them for their participation. You can configure this message for each of your satisfaction
surveys to meet your brand and business needs.
Note
Satisfaction surveys aren't available on the iPad and are therefore also not available for offline usage.
Procedure
1. Add a new survey, choose the Satisfaction category and fill in the basic information.
2. Add satisfaction questions by selecting Customer Satisfaction under Question Category and use Multiple
Choice (select one) questions to set your scale. Here, you could choose to use numerical values and give a
rating scale in your short descriptions or use the answer options to describe satisfaction.
3. Add other additional question types if you'd like to collect other data in your survey.
4. Under Survey End Message, format and enter the message you'd like your participants to receive upon
completion.
5. Select Save.
Define survey categories based on survey types for your reporting needs.
Survey categories are different from survey types. Survey types are predefined survey formats whereas survey
categories are classification names created by your administrator. Survey categories define each survey type
further by giving them custom names. Create reports based on these categories to gather data in a larger
business context.
Example
You can create one survey category for Seasonal Products, one for Standard Products, and one for Promotional
Products. All categories will have the product survey type, but will belong to different survey categories. You
can apply these categories for many different surveys you create and then create reports based on each
category to evaluate performance in each category.
Administrators can configure survey categories in fine-tuning activities to meet your business needs.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Surveys Maintain Survey Categories to edit your categories.
Design your survey questions, layouts, and other options to create a unique output.
Add Products and Search Products Using Barcode Scanner [page 742]
You can conveniently add products in a survey and search products inside a survey using a barcode
scanner.
Survey statuses are important to keep in mind when designing surveys because they define what actions are
available for users.
Once you start creating a survey, you'll need to pay attention to its status.
● In Preparation (initial status): In this status you can add, change or delete questions and answers. Surveys
with status In Preparation cannot be assigned to an activity plan or a visit.
From In Preparation you can switch to Active.
● Active: Indicates that the survey is ready to be used. You can use the survey for activity plans and store
visits. If a survey is active you can't change, add or delete questions from it, but you can edit the
attachements, products, categories, and score values.
From Active you can switch to In Preparation and Obsolete.
● Obsolete: The survey can no longer be assigned to new visits or activity plans. If the survey is already used
for open, or in process store visits, the survey can still be completed during the visit.
From Obsolete you can switch to In Preparation and Active.
Note
You can switch from Obsolete and Active to In Preparation only when there are no answers available for this
survey.
Configure your surveys with different types of questions and reporting features.
● Amount - Enter a value in a specific currency. Validations are performed against the lower or upper limits
you have set.
● Date - Use the calendar button to enter a date in a supported date format.
● Date Range - Use the calendar button to choose start and end dates.
● Matrix - Gather more details at once using a matrix of rows and columns. Only available in the SAP Fiori
Client.
● Multiple Choice (select multiple) - Choose one or more predefined answer options.
● Multiple Choice (select one) - Choose only one predefined answer option.
● Numeric Value - Capture numeric (integer) responses and can be included without specifying the unit of
measurement or the currency as a mandatory field.
● Quantity - Enter a value for a specific unit of measure.
You can capture a signature in a survey when you submit a survey. On signature capture, the survey status is
set to Completed and can no longer be modified. You can view the signature at the end of the survey summary
PDF.
Add a signature question to your survey when designing it. You can use the Mandatory flag to require a
signature for completion.
Note
Currently, only one signature question type is allowed for a single survey.
● SAP Cloud for Customer, Extended Edition - In the HTML5 edition, you can still capture a signature but the
survey status will not be set to Completed.
● Internal surveys - This feature is not supported for external or satisfaction surveys.
You can view the Signed Status for a survey. The following statuses are set by the system:
In the design screen set the Hide Question toggle button to Yes.
Note that only calculated fields and extension field questions can be hidden.
For all default question types in a survey, you have the option to place the question on a new page within your
survey. Use the page break checkbox when designing your question. The question that has the box checked
and all following questions are shown on a new page.
Incremental numeric boxes are available for amount, quantity, and numeric type of questions.
Based on the number you define in the Increase/Decrease By field, during runtime, the value of the field is
changed on each click.
Note that if derivation method is enabled for these types of questions, then the feature is not applicable. When
you select an option in the Derivation Method field, the system hides the Increase/Decrease By field.
Note
Add attachments to display in your surveys, and allow participants to attach files when completing surveys.
You can add attachments to individual questions at design time in the survey by setting the flag for
Attachments. Add attachments to surveys using one of the following options: Local file, Web link, and Library.
You can add PPTs, PDFs, JPGs, PNGs, and URLs as attachments.
For performance reasons, we recommend attaching a maximum of one large picture, 10 medium pictures,
or 30 small pictures per survey.
Use the Planogram Attachment Category to attach account-level attachments. Select the Attachment Type
Category you'd like to add, and then, during runtime, the attachments relevant for the account and category
will be available to view.
If you want participants to be able to add attachments to questions when they are completing a survey, set the
flag for Runtime Attachments at the question level.
Note
For matrix surveys, you cannot add attachments at the question level. You can only add attachments at the
product level in matrix surveys.
When creating survey questions, you can assign a Question Category to help classify the question in a larger
business context. You can then create reports based on a specific question category.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Surveys Maintain Question Categories to edit your categories.
Choose the format for the answers to your multiple choice survey questions.
The format for your multiple choice survey answer fields depends on the type of question. Some question
types allow you to choose an answer format. The following options are available:
● Toggle
● Radio Button
● Dropdown List
● Checkbox
When creating answers for your survey questions, you can add them to an Answer Category to help describe
the meaning of the answer in a larger business context. You can then create reports based on a specific answer
category.
Example
If you have a question that asks users to rate their experience on a scale from 1 to 5 with 1 being very
dissatisfied and 5 being very satisfied, you can apply the category negative to answers 1 and 2, neutral to
answer 3, and positive to answers 4 and 5. These same categories can be applied to other answers, and then
you can run a report based on answers that were positive, neutral, and negative. You can collect this data for a
particular survey or account to view your results on a broader or more focused scale.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Surveys Maintain Answer Categories to edit your categories.
Set a default answer for multiple choice, amount, quantity, and text questions.
Choose a default answer to show during runtime for your survey questions when you design each question.
● For multiple choice, set the Default Answer flag next to the answer you want to set as default.
● For date questions, use the calendar next to Default Answer to select a default date.
● For amount, quantity, and text questions, enter a value in the Default Answer field.
Answers to a question can be populated based on the answers provided to other questions.
Quick calculated answer values are available based on the responses you provide thus helping you in easy
inference of the responses.
Note
Add values for scoring to multiple choice, quantity, and amount questions.
Assigning values at the question level allows you to weight certain questions to have a higher impact on the
results overall. Survey respondents do not see these score values when they are completing the survey. The
scores are shown in your PDF summary or in your survey reports.
Related Information
Text you enter here appears in a help icon next to the question. The survey respondent can click the icon to see
the text.
The short description field is for internal purposes only and is not shown to survey respondents. Short
descriptions are helpful when selecting questions from the question bank.
When designing a question, use the mandatory checkbox to require the respondent to answer the question to
submit the survey. When completing the survey, the question displays an asterisk and an error is given when an
attempt to submit the survey is made without answering the question.
Effectively collect data for different sources and categories with individual matrix questions. Decide how many
rows and columns for each matrix question and what answer options to display.
● Radio Button
● Checkbox
● Numeric Value
● Text Value
● Dropdown List
Example
The Survey Question Bank stores frequently used questions that can be added to multiple surveys. You can add
questions to the questions bank when you are creating questions for a survey or create questions in the bank
directly for a later use.
When designing a survey question, use Add To Question Bank to save your question so you can use it again in
another survey. When you are ready to use one of your saved questions, use Add From Question Bank to select
a previously prepared question.
● In Preparation – Questions are modifiable and can't be used in a survey. This is a default status when
questions are created from question bank.
● Active – Questions can be used in surveys. This is the default status when the question is created from the
survey and added to the question bank.
● Obsolete – Questions cannot be used in a survey. The status can only be changed to Active if the question
is used in a survey. It can be changed to In Preparation at any time.
You can copy answers from a previous visit's survey by selecting the Include Previous Answers flag in the survey
details view. All answers from a previous visit's survey get copied for the current survey. To exclude the
previous answers for a specific question in the survey, select the flag forExclude Previous Answer available at
the individual survey question level. This flag overrides the Include Previous Answers setting and ensures that
previous answers do not get copied for the selected question.
Note
The Exclude Previous Answer flag appears in survey questions only if you have selected the flag for Previous
Answers in the survey header.
When designing surveys for use in opportunities, you can now specify to copy either previous answers or
previous products from the last survey executed.
The survey completion process is streamlined for improved efficiency. The copy process is executed
automatically during survey execution. To enable this function, select the previous answers checkbox and the
previous runtime products checkbox while designing the survey.
Simplify the layout of your product survey questions, and answer all questions for all products quickly.
With the Matrix View checkbox in the survey you can simplify the layout of the questions for each product. The
matrix view allows you to view the products in your survey as rows and the questions in your survey as
columns.
Note
Matrix view is for product surveys, competitor product surveys, and registered product surveys only.
In the SAP Fiori Client, quickly access the sort and filter options directly beneath each question. Select the
question at the top of the column to see more options such as
The number of pages rendered in a survey depends on the available height of the device screen and the
number of products.
Pagination offers the ability to navigate to and jump between different pages in a survey. The scrolling between
pages is faster and it significantly improves performance, particularly in large product matrix surveys. Note that
when you sort or apply filters, the filters are applied across all products in the survey. Use the rewind feature to
rewind to page 1.
During survey design, select the flag Pagination in the Details tab to enable pagination for a survey.
Note
This feature is only available in SAP Cloud for Customer, Extended Edition.
Based on how respondents answer the current question, they can skip certain questions, if no longer
applicable, and jump to a later question in the survey sequence.
Context
This feature allows you to branch respondents to different questions in the survey sequence based on their
responses.
Tip
It is recommended that you define all the questions in the survey before you set the branching logic.
Procedure
1. Under the Design tab, select the question to which you want to add the branching logic.
2. In the Branch To field, choose the next question that you want respondents to see after they answer the
current question. For multiple-choice (select one) questions, branching is defined at the answer option
level. You can choose a different branching target for each answer option.
Branching only allows forward progress within a survey. You can only select a future question as the
branching target.
If branching is not defined, respondents are taken to the next question in your survey sequence.
3. In the Unanswered Branch To field, define what the next question is when no answer is submitted.
If the field is not defined and no answer is submitted for a question with branching, respondents are taken
to the next question in your survey sequence.
Note
The Unanswered Branch To field was earlier called Default Branching. From the February 2019 release,
enhancements have been made so that the behavior is consistent across all the clients. To know more
about how differently it worked before, read this blog .
Once you apply branching in your survey, the Branching Logic flag gets automatically checked in the survey
details.
Next Steps
Preview your survey with a Simulation to see if the questions are logically displayed as expected.
In the matrix view, all questions are displayed, but respondents can only answer questions that are applicable
based on the branching logic. The others are grayed out.
Based on how a respondent answers a previous question, answer options in a question can be dynamically
filtered. You can define the source question and maintain answer option dependencies when you design the
question.
Context
This feature allows you to craft a more concise survey only showing answer options that are relevant to the
respondent.
Tip
It is recommended that you define all the questions in the survey before you define answer option
dependencies.
1. Under the Design tab, select the question whose answer options need to be dynamically displayed.
2. Toggle on the Add Source Question button.
3. Select a Source Question.
Note
Only multiple choice single select questions are available for selection. One question can be selected as
a source question more than once.
4. For each answer option, you can select one or multiple source answer options.
When multiple source answer options are selected, that means as long as the respondent chooses any one
of those source answer options during survey execution, the selected answer option is displayed.
5. Once you finish defining source answer options for all the answer options, save your entries.
Next Steps
Preview your survey with a Simulation to see if the answer options are dynamically filtered as expected.
You can add products to your survey while you are completing it.
Set the flag for Add Products from Product List in the Details tab to enable adding products when completing
surveys. The products that you add when you are completing a survey can be filtered using parameters such as
product category, sales organization, and distribution channel.
Related Information
Products or product lists can be dynamically assigned to a survey at runtime, provided the product
determination rules have been defined by your administrators.
This feature is helpful when product determination is based on various conditions and you are not sure which
specific products or product lists should be added during survey design time. Products or product lists that are
Note
If you have explicitly added certain products to the survey, those products are displayed in the survey
regardless of the rules.
Related Information
Administrators can create rules for the system to dynamically assign products or product lists to a survey at
runtime.
Context
This rule framework allows you to define both product determination and classification.
Restriction
Procedure
1. Go to Administrator Sales and Campaign Settings Define Rules for Survey Product Determination
to launch the rules table.
2. If it is your first time to create rules, use Adapt Columns to set up the rules table. You can have up to 20
columns in the table, including last three result columns, Product, Product List ID, and Classification.
Tip
We recommend that you remove any unwanted columns and only keep required ones as extra columns
can impact system performance.
3. Choose Insert Row above the rules table. A new row with an asterisk in each field is added to the table.
The rows in the rules table evaluate as a logical OR relationship. The system compares each rule from top
to bottom until it finds one match, which suggests that the most specific rule should be placed at the top of
the table and generic ones should be near the bottom.
You can rearrange rows by selecting the row and clicking Swap.
6. Click Save when you finish.
7. Click Activate Rules.
For your updated rules, unless you reactivate them, otherwise the previous rule sets continue to execute.
The process of adding product information in the survey is simplified thus the productivity is improved.
Note
● This feature is only available for the mobile apps in the online scenario.
● To use this feature, the barcode of Global Trade Item Number (GTIN) should be maintained for the
products.
The Add Products option during survey execution can now be switched off as part of survey design.
You can now disable the Add Product option during survey execution by selecting the Block Runtime Products
Addition checkbox when you design the survey. It offers you an enhanced control when the addition of
products during survey execution is not desired.
The product classification is based on a rule framework. Products can also be classified as mandatory based
on the rule framework. The classification enables you to quickly identify all the surveyed products of a certain
classification and allows for more efficient prioritization and completion. It can be used to ensure that the
mandatory products are answered before the completion of the survey.
As an administrator, you can maintain the classifications in the fine tuning activity. To maintain the rule
framework, go to Administrator Sales and Campaign Settings Define rules for Survey Product
classification .
You can assign a sales or service organization to a survey to make it restrict access to members of the
organization. Once the organization has been assigned, it takes one day to apply the changes and reflect the
new access restrictions.
Related Information
For each multiple choice (select multiple) and multiple choice (select one) question, set a score value at the
question level and at the answer level when you design them.
Add scoring options for quantity and amount questions in your surveys.
Context
Define score values at the question level and answer level for quantity and amount questions when designing
your survey.
Procedure
1. When you are editing a quantity or amount question in a survey, enter a value next to Score for the question
2. Under Answer Ranges and Corresponding Score Values define the Min and Max values to create answer
ranges that correspond to a Score. Answer range min and max values must align the upper and lower limit
values you have set for the answer field. The range includes the min and max values you set so you cannot
set the same value for the max of one answer range and the min of the next answer range.
Results
In the Design tab for your survey, you see the Score, the Minimum Score, and Maximum Score for the question.
Calculate your minimum and maximum scores for multiple-choice questions and surveys overall.
In a multiple-choice survey, the values you set during design time determine the Minimum Score , Maximum
Score, and actual score for each question.
Use the personalization feature to make the fields visible for the actual score and the maximum and minimum
scores that can be reached in the Design tab. In theResults tab, you can add the field for Total Score, and in the
survey header you can add the Score Min/Max field to view the overall minimum and maximum scores
available in a survey.
Note
The scores are not shown when the employee fills out the survey.
Overall Survey The overall survey minimum score The overall survey maximum The overall survey actual score
Total is the sum of all minimum scores in score is the sum of all maximum is the sum of all actual scores in
the survey. scores in the survey. a suvey.
This total is
shown in the
Details view of
the survey as
Score Min/Max.
If a survey has multiple sections with scoring assigned in each of these sections, the survey summary shows
the score for each section.
When you are designing a survey, use the Simulation action to ensure that it meets your needs. You can view
the format and all questions, exceptions, and products in the simulation as well as select answers for the
questions. The answers you select are only for preview purposes and the data is saved or stored.
Use exceptions to check for inappropriate responses and help collect more accurate data in internal surveys.
Exceptions for answers in internal surveys help identify invalid responses in real time or offer additional
information based on predefined conditions. Exceptions help identify potential user errors such as entering a
price that is too low or too high for an item. This feature allows users to correct their entry before submitting
the survey, and therefore creates more accurate data reporting overall.
You can view exceptions for a survey in the Exceptions view. Select a description under Conditions to view the
question it applies to under Related Questions.
Create survey exceptions after you’ve added all questions to your survey.
Context
Exceptions can be created only for amount, date, multiple choice – multiple select, multiple choice – single
select, and quantity question types.
Note
Procedure
Related Information
For amount, quantity, and date questions, you can use other questions from your survey as a reference to
create a comparison exception. When you design a survey, go to Exceptions to add an exception for your
survey. Select the Use Reference Question checkbox and select a question from your survey. Use the same
operators as you would a regular survey exception to define the exception criteria and add the exception to
your survey.
Example
If you have a question that asks for the manufacturer's retail price of a product and a question that asks for the
list price for the product, you can create an exception that appears if the list price does not equal the
manufacturer's retail price.
Exceptions for answers in internal surveys help identify invalid responses in real time or offer additional
information based on predefined conditions. Exceptions help identify potential user errors such as entering a
price that is too low or too high for an item. This feature allows users to correct their entry before submitting
the survey, and therefore creates more accurate data reporting overall. View exceptions next to each question
You can view exceptions for a survey in the Exceptions view. Select a description under Conditions to view the
question it applies to under Related Questions.
Create a survey and add descriptions, questions, and answers in additional languages.
Context
When you create a survey, you can manually add other language options for the descriptions, questions, and
answers. During design time, select the globe icon to edit the language options.
Note
Procedure
1. Open a survey and under Details, select the globe icon next to the name of the survey.
2. Select Add to add an additional language to the description. You can Delete a selected (highlighted) item in
the list.
3. Once you have added or removed the languages, select Update Languages to sync all of the available text
fields within a survey with the languages. This action updates all text fields with the same languages you
set for the survey name.
Caution
If you delete a language, and select Update Languages all corresponding text fields within your survey
will deleted. Any existing text that you have entered for questions, descriptions, and answers in the
language you deleted will also be deleted.
4. Once you have added additional languages to the survey from the survey name, you can go to the Design
tab to add text for existing questions in the new languages.
You can only add and remove additional languages to your survey from the survey name. You cannot
add or remove languages from any other field.
5. Select the globe icon next to a text field such as the survey name, question, description, or answer.
6. Enter the corresponding text for the language you just added. The language field will be prepopulated
according to your entry for the survey name.
7. Select OK.
Note
You must enter text in all applicable fields for all languages to activate a survey. The system displays a
warning symbol and message when you have left a text field blank.
Odata services are available for both design time and runtime time of surveys.
The OData services can help in mass migration from one system to another in survey design time. The services
can be used to update or modify responses within a survey from an external system.
You can now update marketing attributes for Accounts and Contacts using a survey.
Multiple attributes can be updated in one survey question. To enable this function, add a question of type
'attribute' and select the attribute set and attribute to be added in the survey.
Note
Context
Create satisfaction surveys that you can send out to your customers using an e-mail template. Your customers
can rate how satisfied they are with several answer options based on a scale you create. You can also use all
other question types in satisfaction surveys to collect more details about your customers.
After users complete a satisfaction survey, they receive a message signifying that they have completed the
survey and thanking them for their participation. You can configure this message for each of your satisfaction
surveys to meet your brand and business needs.
Note
Satisfaction surveys aren't available on the iPad and are therefore also not available for offline usage.
Procedure
1. Add a new survey, choose the Satisfaction category and fill in the basic information.
2. Add satisfaction questions by selecting Customer Satisfaction under Question Category and use Multiple
Choice (select one) questions to set your scale. Here, you could choose to use numerical values and give a
rating scale in your short descriptions or use the answer options to describe satisfaction.
3. Add other additional question types if you'd like to collect other data in your survey.
4. Under Survey End Message, format and enter the message you'd like your participants to receive upon
completion.
5. Select Save.
As an administrator, you can transfer surveys from one system to another using the Transport Management
System.
This provide you with an easy way of migrating surveys from a test to a productive environment thus helping
you save implementation time.
Note
You can download the zip file on the Transport Content tab and verify its content.
You can check the assemble and release information on the Transport Logs tab.
8. Log on to the target system and go to Administrator Transport Management All Transport
Requests .
A survey object with the Imported status appears in the table.
9. Select the imported object and you can see the list of surveys assembled in the source system.
10. Choose Action Activate to transport all the surveys to the target system.
Create a Sales Quote or Sales Order as A Follow-Up Item from a Survey [page 767]
Design your survey to create and populate a sales quote or sales order automatically based on the
answers to the questions in the survey.
Use the following actions when you are filling out a survey:
● Save as Draft: Save your surveys as drafts so you can pick them up later for completion.
● Finish: Complete responses for a specific product in product checklist surveys.
● Submit: Officially set a survey to status Completed and save the survey to your system.
Note
Additionally, in SAP Cloud for Customer, Extended Edition, features such as reset, submit, sort and filter for
columns, and products filter by category are supported for matrix type surveys.
You can easily distinguish between surveys in open status and in draft status using a Draft indicator field, and
quickly find the surveys you still need to complete.
Note
This feature is enabled but hidden by default. You can use the key user tool to make the Draft indicator field
available on the screen.
Use the progress bar to view your completion rate when completing a survey.
At the bottom of your survey, view how many questions you've answered and the total number of questions in a
survey in the progress bar. It updates automatically each time you answer a question. For product surveys,
you'll see your progress for the product you're currently viewing and the number of questions per product.
Note
The progress bar is only available for surveys without branching, checklist surveys, and the checklist view
of product surveys.
Use the exception icon to ensure that you have entered appropriate answers.
When you check for exceptions, the exception icon appears next to each question with an inappropriate
answer. Click the exception icon to see its description. You can then correct your answers to make the
exceptions disappear.
When you are completing a survey, you can add attachments to it.
When you are completing a survey, you can capture an image with your device camera and add it as an
attachment to an answer. You have the option of selecting a size for this attachment such as small (400x400),
medium (600x600), or large (800x800). You can also select the original size of the attachment. The system
remembers your most recent selection and applies it to the next image you attach.
For performance reasons, we recommend attaching a maximum of one large picture, 10 medium pictures,
or 30 small pictures per survey.
Once a survey has been completed within a visit, you can generate a PDF summary of the results.
Context
Survey summaries can include detailed information about the customer and answers to survey questions.
Summaries can vary in their content based on how your administrator has configured the survey summary
template.
Procedure
Aggregated scores are displayed at the bottom of the survey summary PDF document.
Note
To generate the survey summary, you must have already completed and submitted the survey.
The aggregation is for both for scores (assigned for questions and answers) as well as for answer options (in a
question). The aggregation is calculated as follows
● Scores for product surveys - Product level maximum and actual scores
● Scores for checklist type surveys - Question level maximum and actual scores
● Answer options (Relevant only for product surveys) - Actual count and the percentage value are
displayed for the answer options selected for a question.
● Aggregation is calculated only for Amount, Multiple Choice, and Quantity based questions
● Aggregation rules can be displayed as: Absolute Value (valid for multiple choice questions) and Percentage
Average (valid only for amount and quantity type of questions)
Note
You must have maintained scores at each question and answer option level when designing a survey.
Pictures added to the survey are available in the survey summary pdf.
You can use the pictures as a quick reference to check the answers available in the survey summary pdf.
Note
● Only runtime attachments are available in the appendix section of the document.
● Only checklist view surveys are enabled for this feature.
Sort and search through all attachments tied to surveys. Use the advanced search options to filter by a specific
survey or date and other options to find the attachments you need.
In product surveys that do not use matrix view, track progress of product questions using the status indicator
that is displayed alongside the product.
● A green bar indicates that the survey has been Set to Finish for the product.
● A green bar with white stripes indicates that a survey is in progress for the product.
● A blue bar indicates that the survey has not been started for the product.
Note
Related Information
For product matrix surveys, during survey execution, you can copy products that you add to the next survey.
Set the flag Previous Answers if you want to copy the answers for these products from the previous visit.
Deselect the flag for Previous Runtime Products in the Details tab to turn-off this feature. This function is
possible for visits belonging to the same account.
During survey execution in the Extended Edition, you can add products to a survey from past orders by using
the Past Orders in the Add Products menu.
When you click Past Orders, you can select a specific query from the My Products bucket. The options include
Account Sales Orders, My Past Orders, My Past Orders for Account and My Past Orders for Account and Sales
Area.
The sales orders that match the selected query are displayed to the left of your screen. To the right, you see a
list of products that belong to the selected order. By default, the list displays products for the first sales order in
the list.
Related Information
Administrators can enable this SAP Cloud for Customer, Extended Edition feature by selecting a scoping
question.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales Account and Activity Management Activity Management Surveys to find the corresponding
scoping question.
In each question header, use the three dots view the following options:
Complete Question
View the full text of the question and answers if the matrix view has hidden part of the question.
When you are filling out a product matrix survey with many products, save time by entering the same answer
for all products for one question. Mass answer entry is especially helpful when there is a most-used answer for
a question.
Choose Set all answers to and select an answer option. You can then change the answers for specific products
when necessary.
Filter
Choose the funnel icon to see filtering options such as ascending or descending or sort by answer.
Attachments
Select the photo icon to view any attachments available for the question.
Related Information
Go to the Survey Results view for an individual customer to see all surveys assigned to the individual customer.
Use the dropdown menu to select the business object you'd like to search from such as a visit and see the list of
completed surveys. You can see the details of the survey by selecting the survey name.
You can create and view follow-up tasks while conducting a product or checklist survey. In the matrix view of a
product survey, follow-up tasks can be created per product. In checklist surveys, follow-up tasks can be created
at the survey level. This feature is currently available online only.
As a prerequisite, when designing the survey, administrators must turn on the Follow-up Tasks indicator.
Design your survey to create and populate a sales quote or sales order automatically based on the answers to
the questions in the survey.
Prerequisites
Create a product survey that includes two specific question types that initiate the creation of a sales quote or
order. You'll need to create a multiple choice single select question with an answer that initiates the creation of
a sales quote or order for a product and a quantity question that determines the quantity of the product to add.
You must create these questions before you add the follow-up action to your survey.
1. When designing a survey, under Follow-Up Actions, Add a follow-up item to your survey.
2. Select Create Sales Quote or Create Sales Order from the dropdown menu.
3. Select a question from the Question dropdown menu. Only multiple choice single select questions are
available here.
4. Select the answer choice you want to trigger the creation of the sales quote.
5. Select a question from the Quantity dropdown menu. The sales quote or sales order uses the answer to the
quantity question to populate the quantity field.
Note
Selecting a quantity question and autopopulating the sales quote or sales order is optional. You can
manually input the quantity in the sales quote or order.
Example
Let's say you want to create a sales quote as a follow-up item from a survey and autopopulate quantity based
on the answer to a question. First, you'd create a multiple choice (select one) question that asks if you would
like to create a sales quote for this product with the answers yes and no. Next, you'd create a quantity question
that asks how many items to add to the sales quote. Then add the follow-up sales quote. Set the sales quote
question and the answer yes as the trigger for the creation of the sales quote. Then set the quantity question to
autopopulate the sales quote.
When a sales representative is filling out a survey, they can add products to a product checklist survey by
selecting Add Products.
Extra registered products can be added to the survey on an ad hoc basis during execution.
Create reports using the data collected from your surveys to better understand your current performance and
make improvements.
You can create different types of reports based on questions, answers, and other survey categories or simply
export a single survey's results.
You can generate survey reports based on data sources such as question categories, answer categories, survey
categories that you have defined in fine tuning or by the individual group or group of individuals who designed
● Reports with the prefix Visit Survey: are the aggregated data about surveys used in visits.
● Reports with the prefix Business Partner Survey: are the aggregated data about accounts, contacts,
and employees within satisfaction surveys.
The data sources for surveys include full text of questions and answers so you can create reports based on the
exact questions and answers.
Context
If you'd like to create a report based on the data collected from a single survey, use the export feature from
within a specific survey. This feature exports all stored data from a single survey into an Excel spreadsheet for
manual filtering or advanced reporting.
Procedure
You may find interesting patterns in your survey reports and want to take actions based upon your findings. For
example, you might find many customers answered a satisfaction survey negatively during a certain time
period and want to create a special promotion for these unsatisfied customers. You can create a target group
directly from a survey report and then assign a promotion to that target group.
You can create target groups from the following survey reports:
The key marketing capabilities in SAP Cloud for Customer are designed to help you convert marketing
initiatives into sales opportunities. The scope involves creating target groups and campaigns, using surveys
with embedded analytics, automated sales follow-ups, and monitoring key metrics. You can also use the
integrated Content work center view to manage your marketing creative assets such as e-mail templates and
external surveys.
Administrators can configure sales campaigns using scoping, scoping questions, and fine-tuning activities.
Scoping questions and fine-tuning activities that are self-explanatory may not be included in this list.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Project Your Project Edit Project Scope Scoping
Sales Campaign Campaign Management Campaign Execution and select the checkbox.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Project Your Project Edit Project Scope Scoping
Sales Campaign Campaign Management Target Groups and select the checkbox.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Project Your Project Edit Project Scope Scoping
Sales Campaign Enhanced Sales Campaign Functionalities and select the checkbox.
Administrators can enable the use of marketing permissions for sales campaigns with a scoping question.
Using marketing permissions, you can control the information and advertisements that are offered directly to
your customers using e-mail, fax, or phone call.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Project Your Project Edit Project Scope Scoping
Sales Campaign Campaign Management Marketing Permission and select the checkbox.
Administrators can enable the use of multistep approval process for sales campaigns.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Project Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales Campaign Campaign Management Campaign Execution and select the checkbox next to the
scoping question for multi-step approval.
Administrators can enable the campaign replication from SAP Marketing with scoping questions.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Communication and Information Exchange Integration with External Applications and Solutions Integration
into Sales, Service, and Marketing Processes Campaigns and select the checkboxs next to the campaign
replication questions.
Administrators can enable the use of direct e-mail to target groups for campaigns with a scoping question.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Project Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales Campaign Campaign Management Campaign Execution and select the checkbox next to the
scoping question for direct e-mail to target groups.
Administrators can enable business users to view and edit SAP Marketing permissions for accounts and
contacts with a scoping question.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Communication and Information Exchange Integration with External Applications and Solutions Integration
of Master Data and select the checkbox next to the question for marketing permissions and subscriptions
information from an external application.
Administrators can configure custom communication channels for sales campaigns in fine-tuning activities.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Marketing Permissions Maintain Communication Channels Add Row and enter a Communication
Channel and Description.
Administrators can configure communication categories for sales campaigns in fine-tuning activities.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Marketing Permissions Maintain Communication Categories Add Row and enter a Communication
Category, a Description, a Contacting Limit, and a Time Frame.
With the limit and time frame, you can specify how often a customer can be contacted during a certain period
of time. When adding communication categories, we recommend starting with the letter Z.
Administrators can configure communication channels for countries with an explicit opt-in in fine-tuning
activities.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Marketing Permissions Maintain Communication Channels for Countries with an Explicit Opt-In Add Row
and enter the Country and the corresponding Communication Channel, such as e-mail, letter, or fax.
Caution
It is the responsibility of your organization to comply with national legislation regarding data protection and
the provision of marketing materials. Therefore, administrators must configure the solution for each
country in which, or each customer with whom, your organization intends to conduct marketing activities
and, to the extent legally required, store documents such as opt-in or opt-out.
Administrators can configure SMS blasts for campaigns via mashup web services.
Procedure
Outbound SMS Messages - Request your gateway provider to supply an endpoint URL for outbound SMS
messages.
2. Go to Administrator Business Flexibility Mashup Web Services to create the mashup web service
for these outbound messages.
Note
Go to Administrator Sales & Campaign Settings Sales Campaign Messaging and choose New to set
up a new messaging channel.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Project Your Project Open Activity List E-Mail and Fax
Settings Activation of Mass E-Mail and follow the instructions to enter your sub-domains.
If a business user has access to a sales campaign but no access to see or edit sales campaigns in this sales
organization, the sales campaigns are not visible for the business user.
To introduce access restrictions for sales campaigns in your solution, go to Administrator General Settings
Users Business Roles and edit the business role of interest. On the subsequent screen, go to Access
Restrictions tab and select the Campaigns work center view. Then define Read Access and Write Access as
Restricted and provide the appropriate restrictions at the sales organization level.
Note
Any change in the sales organization for a sales campaign takes one day to come into effect, hence the
business user access will be available accordingly.
Administrators can create a URL mashup that allows business users to edit SAP Marketing permissions.
Procedure
Example
<protocol>://<server>:<port>/sap/bc/ui5_ui5/ui2/ushell/shells/abap/FioriLaunchpad.html
#MarketingContact-displayFactSheet?
InteractionContactID=<ID>
&OriginID=<OriginID>
Note
The link appears with your mashup title in the General area. The link opens the associated contact in the SAP
Marketing system.
Context
You can configure conditions for extension fields. However, the allowed selection criteria for member
determination is the same in both dynamic and manual target group. For example, the set of attributes for
which you can define conditions in the target group and the set of search fields in a static target group are the
same.
Procedure
1. Go to Customers Accounts .
Note
If the extension field is not added to the search dialog, then the member determination does not work
for the created extension fields.
The process of configuring conditions for extension fields is similar for other member types (contacts and
individual customers).
Target groups are used to segment your market and to target the right customers or prospects for each
campaign.
You can leverage the following solutions to create effective target groups:
Note
You can extend the filter criteria for target group determination. For example, you can add additional
fields for accounts or contacts to enhance the filter criteria.
Create effective target groups from your existing customer and prospect database leveraging marketing, sales,
and service insights.
Create or update target groups with members from existing customer and prospect database, which can be
filtered on different parameters including marketing attributes. Or create target groups from predelivered
standard analytical reports. You can also define the target groups offline, based on marketing attributes and
analytical reports (for example, campaign response details), and then upload them to your cloud solution.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Project Your Project Edit Project Scope Scoping
Sales Campaign Campaign Management Target Groups and select the checkbox.
Context
You can configure conditions for extension fields. However, the allowed selection criteria for member
determination is the same in both dynamic and manual target group. For example, the set of attributes for
which you can define conditions in the target group and the set of search fields in a static target group are the
same.
Procedure
1. Go to Customers Accounts .
Note
If the extension field is not added to the search dialog, then the member determination does not work
for the created extension fields.
The process of configuring conditions for extension fields is similar for other member types (contacts and
individual customers).
Create and update target groups from Accounts, Contacts, or Individual Customers work center view.
Context
Sales campaign administrators can create a target group and share the target group ID with the sales
representatives who can then add their accounts to the target group.
Note
Sales representatives can add members without directly accessing the target group.
Procedure
1. Go to Customers Accounts , Contacts, or Individual Customers, and choose the accounts or contacts
that you want to add to the target group.
2. From the three dots menu, choose Create Target Group to create a new target group with the selected
accounts or contacts. Or choose Add Members to Target Group to update an existing target group by
adding the selected accounts or contacts.
Create target groups by directly searching and adding accounts, individual customers, contacts, targets
groups, and leads to the target groups.
Context
In Target Groups work center view, you can directly search for accounts, individual customers, contacts, targets
groups, and leads, and then add them to your target group. Use the standard or extension field based search
parameters to add members to the target groups. You can also search members by marketing attributes and
add them to the target group.
Procedure
1. Go to Sales Campaign Target Groups , and select the plus sign (+) to create a new target group.
2. Include basic details for your target group and choose No for Member Determination.
Note
Import target group members from external sources using Microsoft Excel.
Procedure
1. Go to Target Groups, and from the three dot menu, select New from Microsoft Excel ®.
2. In the popup dialog box, select a Language from the dropdown list to Download a template.
Note
7. Choose Actions Upload From File and from the popup dialog box, choose Select file to upload
the .csv file you created in step 3.
The accounts and contacts in the .csv file is added to the new target group.
Use the member list filter for analytics reports to create a list of members and add them directly to a target
group. You can export accounts or contacts to a new target group from the following reports:
● Accounts Contact Data: The sales campaign administrator can slice and dice account contact data and
create a target group from the report.
● Accounts with Open Activities: The sales campaign administrator can check for open activities or
opportunities and create a target group.
● Campaign Response Details: This report lists all the responses provided by the members of a previous
campaign. The contact and account data can be segmented based on different criteria. The contacts can
then be exported into a new target group.
Create dynamic target groups that automatically update the members based on predefined conditions.
Context
Define dynamic target groups using conditions within the target group. Based on these conditions, the
application determines the members and adds them automatically to the target group. You can schedule your
target group to check its member list regularly to ensure that your target group is always up-to-date.
1. Go to Sales Campaign Target Groups and select the plus sign (+) to create a new target group.
2. Include basic details for your target group and choose Yes for Member Determination.
3. Choose Save and Open.
8. Choose Actions Activate to initiate the member determination process that runs as a background
job.
Note
○ On Overview tab, you can check the activation progress in the Execution Status area. On successful
activation, the Execution Status changes to Scheduled and the Status of the target group changes
to Active.
○ You can adjust the determination conditions any time during the member determination process.
Choose Actions Deactivate Schedule to halt the determination process and the Execution
Status is changed to Not Started. However, if the Execution Status is set to Running, the
determination process cannot be halted. After you have done the change with the determination
conditions, choose Activate Schedule to resume the determination process.
Example
You can create a dynamic target group for all accounts in Germany that belong to the industry segment
manufacturing. The system adds all the accounts from Germany within industry segment - manufacturing to
the group.
Communication channels determine how the customers can be contacted for a campaign.
Communication channel is crucial as it determines the complete execution process for a campaign. The
standard solution supports the following communication channels. You can maintain only one communication
Note
Marketing permissions for a customer determine if a customer has given the consent to be contacted.
Therefore, it is essential that the customers in a target group for a campaign have the necessary consent
maintained in the master data for marketing permissions. You can find the Marketing Permissions tab in the
master data for Contacts and Individual Customers.
The system comes with a standard set of communication channels: Fax, E-mail, SMS, and Telephone. You can
add custom channels for additional social media outlets or communication tools based on the types of
communication you use for your Campaigns.
Administrators can enable the use of marketing permissions for sales campaigns with a scoping question.
Using marketing permissions, you can control the information and advertisements that are offered directly to
your customers using e-mail, fax, or phone call.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Project Your Project Edit Project Scope Scoping
Sales Campaign Campaign Management Marketing Permission and select the checkbox.
Administrators can configure custom communication channels for sales campaigns in fine-tuning activities.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Marketing Permissions Maintain Communication Channels Add Row and enter a Communication
Channel and Description.
Administrators can configure communication channels for countries with an explicit opt-in in fine-tuning
activities.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Marketing Permissions Maintain Communication Channels for Countries with an Explicit Opt-In Add Row
and enter the Country and the corresponding Communication Channel, such as e-mail, letter, or fax.
Caution
It is the responsibility of your organization to comply with national legislation regarding data protection and
the provision of marketing materials. Therefore, administrators must configure the solution for each
country in which, or each customer with whom, your organization intends to conduct marketing activities
and, to the extent legally required, store documents such as opt-in or opt-out.
Administrators can configure communication categories for sales campaigns in fine-tuning activities.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Marketing Permissions Maintain Communication Categories Add Row and enter a Communication
Category, a Description, a Contacting Limit, and a Time Frame.
With the limit and time frame, you can specify how often a customer can be contacted during a certain period
of time. When adding communication categories, we recommend starting with the letter Z.
Administrators can restrict access to sales campaigns based on the sales organization which the business user
is in.
If a business user has access to a sales campaign but no access to see or edit sales campaigns in this sales
organization, the sales campaigns are not visible for the business user.
To introduce access restrictions for sales campaigns in your solution, go to Administrator General Settings
Users Business Roles and edit the business role of interest. On the subsequent screen, go to Access
Restrictions tab and select the Campaigns work center view. Then define Read Access and Write Access as
Restricted and provide the appropriate restrictions at the sales organization level.
Note
Any change in the sales organization for a sales campaign takes one day to come into effect, hence the
business user access will be available accordingly.
You can create e-mail or SMS campaigns directly out of the system.
Go to Sales Campaign Campaigns New or Target Groups Actions New Campaign to create
new sales campaigns.
Send personalized HTML e-mail messages directly from your cloud solution.
Each account or contact of the assigned target group and with a valid e-mail address, will receive personalized
e-mail messages. You can also personalize the e-mail content and placeholders, such as the formatted name of
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Project Your Project Open Activity List E-Mail and Fax
Settings Activation of Mass E-Mail and follow the instructions to enter your sub-domains.
Administrators can enable the use of direct e-mail to target groups for campaigns with a scoping question.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Project Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales Campaign Campaign Management Campaign Execution and select the checkbox next to the
scoping question for direct e-mail to target groups.
Track hard and soft bounces as well as unsubscribe clicks for your e-mail campaigns.
The key response to an e-mail is whether the customers opened the e-mail, read and also clicked the enclosed
hyperlinks for further information. You can check the response to the e-mail on the Execution Details tab of the
specific e-mail campaign.
● Hard Bounce: A hard bounce can be defined as an undelivered e-mail for reasons such as an invalid e-mail
address. In the event of a hard bounce, the outbound tracking record status for a campaign is updated and
an appropriate reason (such as Delivery Failed or E-Mail Address not Correct) is set.
Note
If the reason E-mail Address not Correct is set, then the flag E-mail Invalid is automatically set for the
corresponding contact. This is to avoid using the invalid e-mail address in any future campaigns. This
information is also updated in the Not Contacted list on the Execution Details tab.
● Soft Bounce: A soft bounce response is set if an e-mail cannot be delivered for reasons such as the inbox is
full, server is temporarily unavailable, or an out-of-office reply is set. The soft bounces are displayed as Soft
Bounce: Temporary not Available in the Not Contacted list on the Execution Details tab.
● Unsubscribe: The recipient can unsubscribe by sending back a preconfigured e-mail to a certain e-mail
address. The recipient will be removed from any future campaigns. The corresponding e-mail
communication information for the recipient including e-mail and marketing permissions mail is updated in
the master data as Opt-Out. To resubscribe the customer again, set the e-mail channel back to Opt-In on
the Marketing Permissions tab of the contact, individual customer, or lead.
Go to Sales Campaign Target Groups and select a target group. On the E-Mail Blasts tab, select an e-mail
blast. On the Overview tab, choose Yes to Include Employees. Then, the e-mail blast will be sent to the target
group members, such as accounts, individual customers, and contacts, as well as the employees listed on the
Employees tab.
To send out personalized mass e-mail message to a target group, first create an HTML template with a desired
layout, message texts, and placeholders for the various attributes to be personalized during campaign
execution with the target group member attribute values.
You can use any HTML editor to create this template, and then upload the HTML template to the campaign.
Recommendation
We recommend that you use an HTML text editor such as Microsoft Expression Web. Currently, HTML5 is
not supported.
Note
For the upload to work correctly, ensure that the following prerequisites are fulfilled:
Procedure
To create an e-mail template for international audiences, you first create separate e-mail templates in the
required languages, and then upload these files in a single e-mail template instance in the system. During
campaign execution, the language maintained in the contact header dynamically determines the language of
the e-mail template.
To encode the file content in UTF-8, set the META tag in the header of the HTML source code as follows:
If you use external hyperlinks in the HTML body with the href tag, these links are tracked automatically in
direct e-mail campaigns.
You can edit the paragraphs with the tag <div class="editable"> in the system if your system is set up to
support it.
Enter the placeholders in the HTML within a span tag with the following syntax:
<span class=”variable”>
/<ES name Data Type>/<ES name of element>
</span>
For example:
<span class=”variable”>
/FormCampaignExecutionPlaceholder/Customer/FormattedName
</span>
You can enter the same placeholder several times in the HTML. During campaign execution, the value of the
span tag is replaced by the corresponding value from the account or contact person that receives the e-mail
message.
For example:
<span class=”variable”>
Ms. Mary Valdez
</span>
Tip
● If your e-mail template contains images, store the images in a publicly accessible image server and
referenced them in the template using the img tag.
● Include placeholders for accounts, contacts, and individual customers in your template. The system
fills in the appropriate placeholder based on the item type of the target group member.
/ Account: Name
FormCampaignExecutionPlacehold
Individual Customer: First Name
er/Customer/NameOrFirstName
/ Account: Academic title of the contact person (for example: Dr. or Prof.)
FormCampaignExecutionPlacehold
er/ContactPerson/
AcademicTitleName
/ Account: Function of the contact person from the business card (for example:
FormCampaignExecutionPlacehold Product Manager)
er/ContactPerson/
BusinessCardFunctionName
/ Account: Department name of the contact person from the business card (for
FormCampaignExecutionPlacehold example: Development)
er/ContactPerson/
BusinessCardDepartmentName
/ Response code ID generated for each member of the target group during the ex
FormCampaignExecutionPlacehold ecution of the campaign
er/ResponseCodeID
/ If your system is set up to support it, you can add satisfaction surveys to your e-
FormCampaignExecutionPlacehold mail templates:
er/Survey/SurveyID
<a href="https://{/
FormCampaignExecutionPlaceholder/Survey/
SurveyID}<ID of your survey>">any text</a>
For example:
<a href="https://{/
FormCampaignExecutionPlaceholder/Survey/
SurveyID}1234">Please complete a survey.</a>
When your customer clicks the link in the e-mail and sends back the unsubscribe e-mail, the system treats the
unsubscribe e-mail automatically and changes in the contact master data the consent for channel E-Mail to
Opt-Out on the Marketing Permissions tab.
Example
<a href="mailto:{/FormCampaignExecutionPlaceholder/
MailingPermissionDenyMailToURI}">Click here to be removed from future
marketing mailings.</a>
In the e-mail message, the anchor tag includes your return e-mail address and an ID code. For example:
<a href="mailto:unsubscribe.marketing.mailing@asl-
cust004.mail.dev.sapbydesign.com?
subject=DenyMailingPermission6B7DF34541279407D4EFD1C24E6BC393867CDDA8">Click
here to be removed from future marketing mailings.</a>
Please note that you have to conduct your CMS with the SAP Cloud for Customer system using a web service
(A2X). For more information, go to the SAP Help Portal > Integration > Web Service APIs > Manage Marketing
Permissions.
<href="http://{/FormCampaignExecutionPlaceholder/SubscriptionLink/
SubscriptionURI}your URL">any text of the link</a>
Here is a code example for a simple e-mail template that you can use as starter for your own templates:
<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type">
</head>
<body>
<span class="variable">/FormCampaignExecutionPlaceholder/ContactPerson/
FormattedName</span>
<p>Please join us for the conference!</p>
<p><a href="mailto:{/FormCampaignExecutionPlaceholder/
MailingPermissionDenyMailToURI}">Click here to be removed from future marketing
mailings.</a></p>
<p>If you want to unsubscribe from this newsletter or if you want to subscribe
for an additional one please click this <a href="http://{/
FormCampaignExecutionPlaceholder/SubscriptionLink/SubscriptionURI}scn.sap.com/
user-preferences!input.jspa">link</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.sap.com/HANA">News about SAP HANA</a></p>
<div class="editable">
<p>This paragraph shall be editable in the editor.</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Note
The unsubscribe link will override the Business Configuration that checks whether to unsubscribe at a
channel level or category level and reflects the web services payload action.
Go to Sales Campaign Content , you can upload e-mail templates and restrict access to the e-mail
template objects by sales organization or service organization.
Note
You define access restrictions for a combination of e-mail template and e-mail addresses, so you should
have already defined the e-mail addresses as sub-domains in the fine-tuning.
Send personalized Short Messaging Service (SMS) directly from your cloud solution.
Send SMS blasts to members of a target group and define the actions and triggers for the SMS campaigns that
you can use for analyzing the campaign results.
Administrators can configure SMS blasts for campaigns via mashup web services.
Procedure
Outbound SMS Messages - Request your gateway provider to supply an endpoint URL for outbound SMS
messages.
2. Go to Administrator Business Flexibility Mashup Web Services to create the mashup web service
for these outbound messages.
3. If you use SAP Mobile Services as the gateway provider, choose New Rest Service .
Note
Go to Administrator Sales & Campaign Settings Sales Campaign Messaging and choose New to set
up a new messaging channel.
You can create multistep sales campaigns based on triggers and actions.
Go to Sales Campaign Campaigns to open a campaign On the Build tab, you can add triggers and
actions.
Triggers are the starting point where the system triggers an action. You can define the following triggers in your
system.
Trigger Explanation
Submitted Form Trigger an action if the addressee submits a form back to your company.
E-Mail Interaction Trigger an action if an addressee opens or replies to an e-mail or does not open or reply during
a certain time frame.
Clicked Link Trigger an action if the addressee clicks a hyperlink in an e-mail or does not click within a cer
tain time frame.
Actions are follow-up activities for a specified trigger in the campaign. You can define the following actions in
your system.
Action Explanation
Send E-Mail Send an e-mail directly from the system with the selected e-mail template to the addres
sees that correspond to the preset triggers.
Create Lead Create a lead with a preset status assigned either to the selected employee directly or de
termined by lead routing rules.
Create Activity Create either e-mail or phone call activities with a specified subject that are assigned to the
account manager or employee.
Export List Create a campaign where you get a file with the required data to handle the campaign ex
ternally.
Create Phone Call Trigger mass phone call activity creation. This action creates one phone call activity per tar
get group member during campaign execution.
Update Target Group Update an existing target group based on the trigger defined in the campaign. For example,
automatically add all members who submitted the survey to another target group. In this
way, marketing administrator can execute multistage campaigns in your system.
Send SMS Send an SMS to each member of the target group if the system is configured and inte
grated with a mobile gateway service (SAP Cloud for Customer offers out of box integration
with SAP Mobile services).
In the first step of the campaign, you can design a survey campaign to a larger target group to see who are
interested in a new product which your organization is planning to launch. With the Update Target Group
action, customers who submit the survey are automatically added to a new target group. You can then
design another campaign to set up a call list for all interested participants and Create Phone Call activity for
each responsible account owner to call the customers and invite them to a special product launch event.
Build multistage campaigns to connect with the right customer, at the right time, through the right channel,
with the right message.
Multistage campaigns are used in business scenarios where you want to:
● Reach out to various market segments through the different stages of a campaign.
● Trigger different actions based on customer interactions with your campaign content.
● Plan to allocate resources to different stages of a campaign.
Example
Let's say you are an automobile manufacturer and you want to launch a multistage campaign for current
owners of an older model of a car you sell. You want to offer them a special deal to update to the latest
model. You can set up a multistage campaign that sends an initial e-mail to all contacts in your records who
have purchased the older model. If the recipients click the link in the e-mail saying they are interested, the
system creates a new target group for them. This new target group is then moved on to the next stage in
the campaign that is a phone call from a sales representative to offer a test drive of the new model. The
system also creates phone call activity for each contact in the target group and assign it to a sales
representative.
Manage sales campaigns in your SAP Cloud for Customer system or replicate them from SAP Marketing.
Use the Employee Responsible field for better organization and searchability.
When you create a campaign, add an employee from your system as the Employee Responsible in the details
area. It is easy to filter campaigns based on who is responsible for and track which employees are assigned to
which campaigns.
Define how you classify campaign responses to enable follow-up sales activities.
Note
To use response options, enable them using Personalization. Each response option can only be added once
in a campaign.
Response options can be assigned a positive, negative, or neutral classification to be able to capture the
customer sentiment or interest. The response options are saved with status Active and can be assigned to
campaigns that have not been activated.
The response options are mainly used for giving any semantics to activities that are related to a campaign. If
you defined a standard response option for a campaign, then this option is preset in the activity when you enter
the related campaign. However, you can always change the option to another value later.
Currently there is reporting and user interface selection based on the response option. For leads and
opportunities, we assume to have positive feedbacks already. Response options can only live with a campaign.
When you set a response option to Obsolete, you cannot see it anymore in the value help and you cannot assign
it to campaigns.
Note
You can only assign response options to a campaign that has not been executed (in status Planned).
You can create a new campaign response and assign it to campaigns which have not been activated.
Context
When creating a new response option, the classification field allows you to select, for example, all positive
activities in reporting. When a campaign is assigned to an activity, there is a check, whether response options
are assigned to this campaign.
If there is a default response option, this default displays in the newly created activity. You can change the
response to another option assigned to the campaign later.
Procedure
The response option is saved with the Active status and can be assigned to campaigns that have not been
activated.
Administrators can set approval processes that must occur to activate a campaign.
Use the workflow approval process to exercise checks on campaign activation. You can use the multistep
approval process to define these checks. When creating an approval process, you can specify a sales
organization as the condition to trigger the approval process.
Administrators can enable the use of multistep approval process for sales campaigns.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Project Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales Campaign Campaign Management Campaign Execution and select the checkbox next to the
scoping question for multi-step approval.
Set a sales campaign as Obsolete to make it unusable in all aspects of your system.
You can integrate your SAP Marketing with your SAP Cloud for Customer and manage your marketing
campaigns in SAP Cloud for Customer.
Administrators can enable the campaign replication from SAP Marketing with scoping questions.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Communication and Information Exchange Integration with External Applications and Solutions Integration
into Sales, Service, and Marketing Processes Campaigns and select the checkboxs next to the campaign
replication questions.
View your SAP Marketing campaigns in your SAP Cloud for Customer system.
If you use SAP Marketing to manage your marketing campaigns, you can replicate basic campaign data to your
SAP Cloud for Customer. The basic header details are replicated from your SAP Marketing in real time as read-
only data. Target group members are not replicated from SAP Marketing. Replicated campaigns are not
enabled for approval within SAP Cloud for Customer.
Go to Sales Campaign Campaigns to find more details about campaigns replicated from SAP Marketing:
● The Data Origin column displays where the campaign was created so you can easily differentiate and sort
by creation location.
● The External Lifecycle Status represents the SAP Marketing campaign status and can be viewed in the
campaign details.
If you have replicated your SAP Marketing campaigns to SAP Cloud for Customer, you can view your replicated
campaign details in the Accounts, Contacts, Individual Customer, and Visits details views.
When you open an account, contact, individual customer, or visit in the Campaigns view, you can see External
Campaigns. Select an external campaign to see all marketing interactions from SAP Marketing in the
Interactions for External Campaign area.
Note
Administrators can enable business users to view and edit SAP Marketing permissions for accounts and
contacts with a scoping question.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Communication and Information Exchange Integration with External Applications and Solutions Integration
of Master Data and select the checkbox next to the question for marketing permissions and subscriptions
information from an external application.
Administrators can create a URL mashup that allows business users to edit SAP Marketing permissions.
Procedure
Example
<protocol>://<server>:<port>/sap/bc/ui5_ui5/ui2/ushell/shells/abap/FioriLaunchpad.html
#MarketingContact-displayFactSheet?
InteractionContactID=<ID>
&OriginID=<OriginID>
Note
Results
The link appears with your mashup title in the General area. The link opens the associated contact in the SAP
Marketing system.
SAP Marketing users and SAP Sales Cloud users can collaborate on campaigns through SAP Jam.
Create a Jam group in SAP Marketing and make it public so it can be seen in SAP Sales Cloud. Go to the Groups
tab in a sales campaign to view the Jam group for your campaign. Groups must be created in SAP Marketing
and not in SAP Sales Cloud for the replication to work.
Note
Campaign analytics give you an insight into customer preferences and trends by allowing you to monitor your
campaigns and responses.
You can also track the planned marketing budgets and actual marketing spend tied to campaigns. In the
Business Analytics work center, you can access some out of the box reports such as the following:
● Campaign Revenue Analysis: Compares revenue generated from campaigns versus other sources.
● Campaign Scorecard: Compares leads and opportunities created from campaigns versus won
opportunities.
Example
If you have triggered an e-mail campaign to a target group, you can see the e-mail metrics on the Results tab of
an open campaign. The system provides you with a graph of different data such as, number of e-mails sent,
number of e-mails opened, number of unique clicks, number of hard bounces, and so on.
The campaign response metrics are displayed on the Results tab of an open campaign. View the results in
graphical or in number metrics and classify the campaign results as positive, negative, or neutral.
Then determine the follow-up sales activities for your sales representatives. Some feature highlights are:
● Track campaign responses and provide visibility on marketing interactions to account owners.
● Turn campaign responses into sales opportunities and leads.
● Capture mass responses for a campaign using excel add-in.
● Create follow-up target groups based on campaign responses.
● Automatically update new target group based on survey response or link clicks for e-mail campaigns.
● Capture campaign response from contact details view.
● Embedded survey automation in campaigns using customized HTML e-mail templates.
When you execute a campaign, the target group information for accounts, contacts, and individual customers
are exported to a comma separated value (CSV) file compatible with Microsoft Excel.
Prerequisites
Administrator activated Campaign Management with Campaign Execution in the scoping of your project.
Context
You can define one or more file formats for the CSV file that determines which information is exported and the
order in which it appears in the file.
Procedure
Lead engagement scores can be used to help trigger actions when using sales campaigns for specific
prospects.
Go to Sales Campaign Lead Scores , and then configure engagement scores for the corresponding
consumer behavior patterns and define follow-up actions to ensure that sales teams focus on the most
promising leads. For example, if an engagement score exceeds 70, marketing operations users can define the
lead qualification level as hot.
Engagement score is a dimension of the lead score concept that reflects the behavior of customers and
prospects in relation to whether they clicked a link, opened an e-mail, submitted a form, and so on. The
engagement score is calculated based on marketing interactions between your company and your customer.
For example, if you start an e-mail campaign, the system can analyze whether the customer has clicked
hyperlinks in the sent out e-mail, responded by e-mail to your campaign, or unsubscribed for information by e-
Procedure
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Project Your Project Edit Project Scope Scoping
Sales Campaign Enhanced Sales Campaign Functionalities and select the checkbox.
● Opened E-Mail: Trigger an action if the addressee opened or replied to the e-mail or has not opened or
replied during a certain time frame.
● Create Lead: Create a lead with a status, and assign an owner to it.
● Create Activity: Create an e-mail, phone call, or task with a subject and a note, and assign an owner to it.
● Set Lead Qualification Level: Define a lead as cold, warm, or hot based on the engagement score.
● Change Engagement Score: Increase or decrease the engagement score by a specific number of points.
Open an existing lead score and choose Actions Activate . The triggers and actions you have defined in
your lead score are applied. Only one lead score can be active at a time.
Note
In addition to creating and activating lead scores, you can also deactivate, copy, and delete your lead scores
from the Actions menu.
Having trouble using Sales Campaigns? Check this list of questions and answers for help.
In addition to manually assigning members to a target group, you can also create dynamic target groups that
will automatically update the members based on predefined conditions.
Related Information
You can create an e-mail template and trigger a campaign to send out e-mails to all members in a target
groups.
You can create an e-mail template in Sales Campaign Content and then use this template by triggering a
campaign in Sales Campaign Campaigns .
We recommend that a target group of maximum 50,000 members to be used in a mass e-mail campaign for
optimal performance.
Once the campaign starts, the status will be updated by the system automatically. But there can be different
reasons why this status update does not happen:
● Because of the high workload on the server, the campaign cannot be started at the planned start date and
time. It will be started once the system has free resources.
● The campaign has been started but it failed. One reason, for example, can be a server shutdown. The
status of the campaign is corrected automatically on a daily basis, which means the next day you should
see that the status has been changed to Failed.
The system has created and sent a personalized e-mail to the mailbox of this member, but this mailbox does
not exist.
The mail server received a so-called Delivery Status Notification. This notification is processed automatically
and updated the campaign information of the Contacted list. The member has been moved to the list Not
Contacted and a corresponding reason has been set. In addition, the indicator E-Mail Invalid has been set for
the e-mail address of this member. You can see this indicator in the corresponding account or contact person
master data. Here you can correct the email address and remove this indicator again. In a future campaign, this
e-mail address would be used again and the campaign activation will send a personalized e-mail to this
mailbox. If the indicator is not removed, a future campaign would filter out this e-mail address. It would appear
in the Not Contacted list with a corresponding reason.
The campaign has been started successfully, but it could not create and send all personalized e-mails.
As a result, the status of the campaign is set to Finished with Errors. One reason could be that the campaign
execution was scheduled for a future date and time but the campaign was locked by another user at this date
and time. You can click the hyperlink of the execution status and open an application log with detailed
messages. Analyze the messages and restart the failed campaign.
Use promotions to reward customer loyalty, create brand awareness, and increase revenue. Promotions can
motivate your customer to buy larger quantities or add new products to an order that can help you meet your
sales goals and objectives.
Create a promotion to show your customers your appreciation by offering a special deal on your most ordered
products or to encourage customer to try the latest addition to your inventory. You can even add attachments
like flyers and brochures to help illustrate your promotions.
When you are preparing for a customer visit, you can view the promotions available to that specific customer
from the account or visit view. Then, when you are ready to take an order from the customer, you can add the
promotional products right from the sales order screen. If your customer is interested in a specific product or if
you are trying to sell a specific product, you can view available promotions for a specific product from the
product tab.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Project Your Project Edit Project Scope Scoping
Questions Sales Campaign Promotion Management Promotions and check the box.
Administrators can enable promotion replication from SAP CRM Trade Promotion Management (TPM).
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Project Your Project Edit Project Scope Scoping
Questions Sales Campaign Promotion Management Promotions and check the box for enabling
promotions in integration scenarios.
Create promotions in SAP Cloud for Customer or replicate them from SAP CRM Trade Promotion Management
(TPM) to use them in your system.
You can create promotions for an Account, Hierarchy Node, or Target Groups based on your needs.
Note
Promotions created in SAP Cloud for Customer only exist in the SAP Cloud for Customer system and
cannot be replicated to an external system.
To add products to your promotions, you must select a Product Planning Basis under General Information for
your promotion. Depending on your configuration, you can add a Product, Product Category, Product Group as
well as combinations of these options from the menu. Once you have chosen an option here, you can add items
to your promotion.
Add products to your promotion in the Products view by choosing Add. Depending on your system setup, you
can also add Product Groups or Product Categories to your promotion. Specify the unit measurement and
effective dates for the product. From the Products view, you can also add products that you'd like to exclude
Define the Involved Parties and Excluded Parties for your promotion.
For Involved Parties, you can assign different groups or individuals to different roles and include the business
partners who are associated with the promotion.
Under Excluded Parties, choose which Accounts within the Involved Parties you'd like to exclude.
It is useful to assign larger groups as involved parties and then exclude specific groups or individuals when
making a promotion available for many groups at once instead of adding each smaller group to the promotion
one at a time.
Add attachments such as brochures or links with more information about the promotion.
Select Add to add a Local File, Web Link, a file From Library, or WebDAV Document to your promotion.
You can create a new promotion by making a copy of an existing promotion. Any promotion in your system,
regardless of its External Status, can be copied to a new promotion. Give your promotion a new name and the
following details get copied:
View SAP CRM Trade Promotion Management (TPM) promotions in your SAP Cloud for Customer system.
All promotions replicated from SAP CRM TPM are read-only in your SAP Cloud for Customer system.
All valid promotions are downloaded based on business configurations and the criteria within the initial
download report: CRMPCD_PROMOTION_EXTRACT.
Promotions created in SAP Cloud for Customer cannot be replicated to the back end CRM. Even if your
system is integrated with SAP ERP, promotions created in SAP Cloud for Customer are standalone
promotions in SAP Cloud for Customer only.
Administrators can enable promotion replication from SAP CRM Trade Promotion Management (TPM).
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Project Your Project Edit Project Scope Scoping
Questions Sales Campaign Promotion Management Promotions and check the box for enabling
promotions in integration scenarios.
If your system is integrated with SAP CRM TPM, you can view your trade spend in SAP Cloud for Customer for
an individual promotion.
Capitalize on cross and up selling opportunities by knowing what promotions are available for accounts, visits,
and products.
Use the dropdown menu to choose which promotions to display then sort, search, and filter them to view
specific results. Within your results, you can sort by External Status. This status determines the availability of
the promotion to the sales team.
If you want to view promotions for specific Accounts, Products, Visits, and Sales Orders, choose the Promotions
view from within the specific account or work center. Only the promotions linked to the account, product, visit,
or sales order appear within each view.
The calendar view is available within the Promotions view under a specific Account, Product, and Visit. You can
choose the Month View, Quarter View, or a Selected Range that you define. Horizontal colored bars in a chart
view make it easy to view Planned Dates, Buying Dates, and Actual Dates for your promotions.
Promotion Dates
● Buying Start and Buying End Dates - During this time, the promotion is valid for customers.
● Actual Date - The actual date is when the orders made during the buying dates are executed.
● Planned Date - The planned dates span from the initial creation to the completion of the promotion.
Note
Within the Visit tab, view current and valid promotions for the selected Account. You can also view the number
of running and incoming promotions here.
If your system is integrated with SAP CRM TPM, you can view your trade spend in SAP Cloud for Customer for
an individual promotion.
Procedure
1. When adding products to a sales order, select the Promotions tab to see the promotions available for the
customer account.
2. Choose which products you’d like to add, enter a quantity, and add them to your sales order.
3. Save the order and retreive pricing. Once the sales order is saved, and sent to retrieve pricing, the
promotional pricing gets applied.
Note
You only see promotions with Released status in the Sales Order tab.
You can see the promotion image while adding a promotional product in a sales order. The image helps you to
quickly identify a promotion and select the correct promotional product that you want to add to a sales order.
When a promotion has ended and all promotional orders have been fulfilled, change the External Status to
Finished to deactivate the promotion. You cannot edit a promotion after you have set the status to Finished, but
you can copy the promotion.
CODCOIBTDB - BTD References for Sales Order Items – Promotional products can be part of the sales order.
This BTD references can be used to analyze the promotional revenue from sales orders.
CODPRMHB - Promotions – This data source contains all the relevant data that would be required to analyze
the promotions that are available.
CODPRMPCU - Product and Product Category in Promotions – This data source can be used with the above
two data sources to analyze the promotions that are relevant for either a product or for a product category.
CODPRMPGU - Product and Product Group in Promotions - This data source can be used with CODCOIBTDB,
CODPRMHB to analyze the promotions that are relevant for either a product or for a product group.
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Objective N N Y N
Tactic N N Y N
Account Type N N Y N
Target Grou N N Y N
External Status N N Y N
Currency N N Y N
Product Plan N N Y N
ning Basis
Buying Start N N Y N
Date
Buying End N N Y N
Date
Priority N N Y N
Employee Re N N Y N
sponsible
Sales Unit N N Y N
Sales Organiza N N Y N
tion
Distribution N N Y N
Channel
Division N N Y N
Territory N N Y N
Actual Start N N Y N
Date
Notes Notes N N Y N
Description Description N N Y N
Objective Objective N N Y N
Products Description N N Y N
Unit N N Y N
Effective From N N Y N
Effective To N N Y N
Exclude N N Y N
Role N N Y N
Name N N Y N
Action N N Y N
Add N N Y N
Actions N N Y N
Description N N Y N
Unit N N Y N
Effective From N N Y N
Effective To N N Y N
Exclude N N Y N
Actions N N Y N
Attachments Attachments
Title N N Y N
Type N N Y N
Changed On N N Y N
Changed By N N Y N
Actions N N Y N
Global Refresh Y
Yes, promotions from the backend TPM/CRM system can be replicated to your SAP Cloud for Customer
system. However, only the fields that are relevant for retail execution are available.
Yes, promotions can be created as stand-alone promotions in SAP Cloud for Customer, but cannot be
replicated to any other system such as SAP ERP.
No, promotional pricing is not replicated from SAP ERP or stored in SAP Cloud for Customer. You'll need to
retrieve pricing from your SAP ERP system after creating a Sales Order.
Yes, you can edit the list of Involved and Excluded Parties within each promotion.
Context
Once you create a promotion, and add a Planning Account, you can choose to add or remove additional parties.
Procedure
After you have completed taking an order, retrieve pricing from SAP ERP to see the promotional prices.
Promotional prices are not stored in SAP Cloud for Customer.
Context
Your system must be integrated with an external SAP ERP system to retrieve promotional pricing. Once you
have created a sales quote or sales order, you can retrieve pricing.
Procedure
Learn how the solution suggests products or products by product categories in sales or service transactions.
Product Lists with SAP Cloud for Customer offers your company flexible product proposals in sales
transactions enabling users to streamline sales processes.
Administrators set up default products from product lists so that when users create sales transactions such as
quotes or orders, proposed quantities are listed.
When users create quotes or orders, depending on the set-up, the solution suggests products depending on
accounts, account hierarchy, sales area, target group, or territory. With the creation of certain product lists,
users can quickly add products and related quantities for quotes or orders.
In addition, administrators can set up cross, up, or down-selling. Cross-selling offers proposed products that
can be added to a required product in the sales document when the required product is part of the sales
transaction. Up or down selling proposes products that replace a required product in the sales document when
selected by the end user.
If your company would like to restrict or exclude product selections in sales transactions, administrators can
set up in the solution as well.
Administrators add multiselect products from product lists in offline mode to the company sales transactions.
Administrators can also use product lists in offline mode (extended tablet app).
Administrators can use product lists when sales quotes or sales orders is scoped. In addition, there are product
lists fine-tuning activities.
Recommendation
We recommend that you review all the scoping questions in the areas that are relevant and that you have
included in your scope. When you select a question, more information appears on the tabs in the details
section of the screen.
When you log on as an administrator, you can find the scoping questions under Business Configuration
Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions Sales New Business Sales
Orders Questions for Sales Orders Group: Product List for Sales Orders .
Scoping questions and fine-tuning activities that are straightforward may not be included in this list.
To use product lists, administrators should ensure that sales orders or sales quotes are in scope.
Product lists enable you to suggest products or products by product category. You can also decide whether you
want your sales team to use products list types or default products.
1. Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales New Business Sales Orders and check the box.
2. Assign the Product Lists work center to the appropriate business roles.
Note
To use product lists in offline mode, assign colleagues to the Product Lists tab.
As an administrator, learn how to configure a sequence of the proposed products within a product list.
Add the products to sales quotes or sales orders in the same sequence represented in the product list.
Clicking Renumber defines in increments of ten (10). This action is helpful in cases when you later add
products to another sequence.
Note
In the quote or order fast entry, products appear in reverse order. Added products display on the top
row.
As an administrator, learn how to define access control restrictions for product lists.
Administrators can restrict access control to read and write access to the Product Lists enter tab.
1. To define access control for product lists, navigate to Administrator General Settings Users
Business Roles .
2. Click the Business Role ID for the user you want to change the access rights for.
3. Click View All Access Restrictions and highlight COD_PRODUCTLIST_WCVIEW.
4. In the Read Access row, select Restricted.
5. Under Restriction Rule, select 2 – Employee.
After defining access control, users with the modified business role have product list selections in their
transactions. This step eliminates the need to add the Product Lists tab to their business role.
Note
If users work in offline mode using product lists, administrators should assign the product lists tab to those
users.
1. Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
All Activities .
2. Search for and open Product List Categories.
3. Click Add Row.
4. Enter a category ID and description.
5. Save your entries.
If no other proposed quantities are maintained, you can default the requested quantity is sales quotes and
sales orders to zero (0). The configuration improves your usability in cases where order entry occurs mainly on
mobile devices. The use of the business option is helpful when adjustments on requested order quantities are
mainly changed using an increment counter on the user interface.
Navigate to Business Configuration Scoping Element: Sales Sell Standard Products Product Quantity
Default Do you want to change the product quantity default in sales documents from one to zero?
● Product Proposal - Define a validity for all accounts, individual customer assignments, sales areas,
territories, or target groups. You can also create product proposals using product categories.
● Cross/Up/Down Selling - Define cross-sell, up-sell, or down-sell to recommend related products, more
expensive products, or products that conform to a customer budget.
● Product Exclusion - Exclude products, product categories so that defined products from lists are not visible
to users in sales transactions.
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You can copy items from Excel using the copy and paste function in product lists.
Related Information
1. To create a product list, from the Products tab choose Product Lists, and select New.
2. Enter a description for the appropriate product list type and a validity period. In addition, decide whether
the list is valid for all accounts and whether it is automatically proposed.
Note
Mark Valid for All Accounts if the product list is valid for all customers, prospects, and individual
customers.
Mark Automatic Proposal if you want products to be automatically added to the sales document
including the proposed product quantity.
Tip
5. If the list is only valid for specific accounts or target groups, add them to the Accounts tab.
Note
The Accounts tab disappears when the list is valid for all accounts.
If you use accounts with hierarchies and you want to include them in the determination, subordinate
accounts are also determined.
6. Narrow the determination by adding sales areas and sales territories on the Sales tab.
Remember
The product list is determined if the sales document has the correct account, sales area, and sales
territory maintained.
When users create sales transactions, product lists assigned to their accounts, sales, areas, and territories are
available.
Tip
Personalize or adapt the advanced search screen for product lists to enable a search for hidden fields.
As an administrator, learn how to configure a sequence of the proposed products within a product list.
Add the products to sales quotes or sales orders in the same sequence represented in the product list.
Tip
Clicking Renumber defines in increments of ten (10). This action is helpful in cases when you later add
products to another sequence.
Note
In the quote or order fast entry, products appear in reverse order. Added products display on the top
row.
As an administrator, learn how to define access control restrictions for product lists.
Administrators can restrict access control to read and write access to the Product Lists enter tab.
1. To define access control for product lists, navigate to Administrator General Settings Users
Business Roles .
2. Click the Business Role ID for the user you want to change the access rights for.
3. Click View All Access Restrictions and highlight COD_PRODUCTLIST_WCVIEW.
4. In the Read Access row, select Restricted.
5. Under Restriction Rule, select 2 – Employee.
After defining access control, users with the modified business role have product list selections in their
transactions. This step eliminates the need to add the Product Lists tab to their business role.
Note
If users work in offline mode using product lists, administrators should assign the product lists tab to those
users.
When your administrator creates products and defines Automatic Proposal when creating new product lists,
products are automatically added to the sales document including the proposed product quantity.
Automatic proposals are defined per validity for all accounts or based on individual customers (including
account hierarchy) assignments. In addition, sales areas, territories, and target groups can be defined in
automatic proposals .
When users create sales transactions such as quotes, products may be automatically defaulted. For example,
product catalogs, product catalogs would be included in the quote transaction.
Learn about migrating product lists from external sources to SAP Cloud for Customer using migration
templates.
Administrators upload data into their system such as product lists by using the migration tool. Download the
required templates, enter the necessary data into them, and follow the steps to import the product list data to
your system.
Alternatively, you can upload product lists and other business objects using the Data Workbench.
To copy a product list, from Products, choose the Product Lists tab to open the list you want to copy. Then, click
Actions Copy . All details of the original product list are copied over and you can edit the new list details,
such the product list name and its products.
Explore how the maintained product lists validity affects product lists.
Several types of validity can be created when working with product lists:
● Valid for All Accounts - Selecting this checkbox means that the product list is valid for all customers,
prospects, and individual customers.
● Valid From - The created product list is available once the administrator activates it.
● Valid To - The product list is no longer available after the display date. There is also a validity on proposed
product lists, which should be within the header validity range.
Learn about using and defining the proposed products to be selected based on product list category (including
its hierarchy).
Product categories include detailed information about goods your company produces or sells. For example, the
product name, and product ID.
Product categories are used to organize the products you company sells. For example, if you sell boilers, your
categories might be combi boilers, heat only boilers, or system boilers. If you company only sells one product
type such as computer keyboards, you could create product categories for laptops, gaming, ergonomic
keyboards.
Relevant for administrators or key users, fine-tuning is required to define the product list category. The
category can be used to define which list should be copied to a survey.
Note
If the Category field is not displayed, you can add it to the New Product List screen by navigating to
Personalize or Adapt.
Tip
Product list categories have no correlation to product categories in the product master.
1. Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
All Activities .
2. Search for and open Product List Categories.
3. Click Add Row.
4. Enter a category ID and description.
5. Save your entries.
Learn how to define an advanced product list search query, for example, by sales organization, distribution
channel, or division.
Tip
You can use product list queries to distribute product lists to offline clients.
Personalize or adapt the advanced search screen for product lists to enable a search for hidden fields.
From Product Lists, concurrently search for a product and add it if it does not already exist in the table.
The feature also applies to accounts. If an account does not already exist, you can concurrently search for it
and add it to the list.
Note
Learn about the product list BAdI which allows you to narrow down the product lists determination result.
Note
You can copy items from Excel using the copy and paste function in product lists.
This task allows you to quickly paste accounts and products to a product lists. Ensure that the copied data
exactly matches the order of columns in the user interface so that the combined fields represent two columns.
Note
The number of input fields should not exceed the maximum number of exposed fields.
You can reduce time with a mass update of products assignments without configuration by their administrator.
Mass update product assignments such as, Proposed Products, Restricted Products, Excluded Products.
1. Click Actions.
2. Go to the Product Lists.
3. 2. Select the Product Lists that need updating.
Note
Learn how to quickly add products and related quantities to sales quotes or sales orders using the action
Product Lists.
Procedure
2. Click Quick Create. Alternatively, you can add quick products from the quote or order from Actions
More .
When your administrator maintains Product Lists, you can multiselect products based on defined
proposals that depend on:
○ Target groups
○ Accounts
○ Account hierarchy
○ Sales data
○ Territory
Learn how the solution uses cross selling to display proposed products to users when creating sales
transactions.
Cross, up, and down selling offers proposed products, which can be added to a sales document when selected
by the user.
When sales quotes include required products from the list, users see a list of related products, product
upgrades, or economical products in the sales transactions.
Note
The Recommended Products tab is only visible if your administrator has defined cross-selling. Up and
down-selling is indicated using an action. Clicking the action allows you to select and exchange the
product. For quotes, you can add the product as an alternative item.
Note
The Up/Down Selling Products field indicates that users can replace the product to use up or down-sell.
The icon only appears if your administrator has defined the applicable product proposals.
19.3.1.1 Create Product Lists for Cross, Up, and Down Selling
Learn how to create cross, up, or down selling product lists types, allowing users to select from those products
in a sales quote or sales order.
Note
In the newly created product list, the Required Products tab appears. For other product lists types,
addition tabs may also appear. For example, the Excluded Products tab appears when creating new
product exclusion list types.
7. Choose the type of desired proposed products, for example, Cross Selling, Down Selling, Up Selling.
You can add products to your opportunities from proposed product recommendations for cross selling. Up and
down selling is supported by using an action that proposes - up or down sell products to replace the selected
product.
If you have already defined product lists that include up- and down sell products in sales quotes and sales
orders, the action to replace a product is also displayed in the opportunity.
Note
Add Recommend Product from Cross Selling Product Lists from Adaptation mode.
Administrators can learn about defining product lists types, which exclude and restrict the selection of
products and product categories in sales transactions.
Administrators can exclude products or product categories from a product list selection. Products from those
lists are not visible to users in the product list item selection in sales transactions.
Example
For a certain territory or sales area, certain products are not being sold. These products can be excluded by
a product list
When the list type Product Exclusion is created, the Excluded Product tab appears. Administrators can add
exclude products in sales transactions.
Exclude products, product categories or both from a product list selection. Products from those lists are not
visible in the product list item selection in a sales transaction. Users receive an error message stating Product
<ID> not valid; it is excluded by at least one product list.
Administrators can restrict products or product categories from a restricted product list. Users can only add
products to sales transactions from those lists.
When the list type Product Restrictions is created, the Restricted Product tab appears. Administrators can
restrict the desired product in sales transactions.
Restrict the selection for products, product categories in sales transaction based on a restricted product list.
Only products from those lists are allowed to be added to a sales transaction. In addition, products from those
lists can only be added to a sales transaction. If a product is selected outside a valid restricted product list,
users receive an error message stating Product <ID> not valid; it is not allowed (restricted
by product list).
Use this function by selecting Product Restriction from the Type list.
Learn about the product list feed, which allows you to follow product lists that are relevant to you.
When an administrator creates product lists, an action appears in the product list feed displayed in Feed or
within the product list on the Feed tab.
Users can view feed product list changes by using the follow action.
Users assigned to product lists can track product list modifications by adding the Changes tab to the Product
List tab.
Go to Personalize Start Personalization and click Add Tab to make the Changes tab visible.
You can add multiselect products from product lists in offline mode to your sales transactions.
Note
If users work in offline mode using product lists, administrators should assign the product lists tab to those
users.
You can select the query My Accounts Product Lists to download product lists for offline use. The query
includes the following product lists:
● Valid for all accounts assigned to account hierarchies belonging to My Accounts (from the Account Team
and or Territory Team).
● Assigned to target groups including My Accounts.
● Assigned to a territory belonging to Territory (including sub-territories).
An administrator can configure this setting by navigating to Administrator General Settings: Offline
Settings .
Note
The My Account's Product Lists query is not available for online selection.
SAP Cloud for Customer helps you stay competitive by allowing you to easily apply flexible internal, external,
and offline pricing discounts.
You can offer competitive pricing to your customers when working with sales quotes and sales orders. As
prerequisites, your administrator has preconfigured product price lists or your price determination in
transactions is based on price master data derived from an external SAP system. You can manually apply
discounts and miscellaneous surcharges to sales quotes and orders. You can overwrite certain pricing
elements, which makes pricing more flexible.
Here's an overview of the SAP Cloud for Customer solution pricing types:
Internal Pricing – The solution offers internal net pricing. It is used if your company derives pricing from price
lists or discount lists based on the solution master data. Internal pricing takes prices from the price list created
by your administrator and can include optional predefined discounts. Depending on the solution set-up, users
can apply various types of discounts, for example, to the total value or product item.
External Pricing – External pricing can be used for companies that retrieve their complete price information
including tax details from an external SAP system. End-users request pricing via a user action to retrieve the
external pricing result and apply discounts or other price elements if necessary. Also, your administrator can
use the solution to determine credit limits and product availability information from this user action.
Learn the basics on how SAP Cloud for Customer internal pricing works including how to apply discounts to
sales quotes and sales orders.
SAP Cloud for Customer provides various internal price elements in the sales quotes and sales orders. From
the Products tab of table view of the sales quote or sales order, the most important price information is
displayed and can be easily overwritten depending on how your solution is configured. Below find the details on
how to apply the elements as well as a description of them.
Learn how to apply the pricing discounts from the header view or item view of sales quotes and orders.
Context
Every product or service you have entered in the sales quote or order has its own line item number. From the
line item you see the line item number, product ID, description, price, quantity, discount, and more depending
on your solution set-up.
1. Open one of your sales quotes or sales orders, or create a new one.
2. From the Products tab view of the sales quote, click Edit.
3. Overwrite the list price line item or the line item discount and click Update Pricing.
4. You can also modify the Overall Discount (%) from the header view.
5. Save your changes.
Learn how to apply discounts and surcharges to the sales quote and sales orders line items.
Context
When viewing a sales quote from the Pricing tab, which is where detailed pricing can be viewed and modified,
there are two sections:
● Item Pricing – You can view and update pricing details for selected line items. Expand an item to see all its
relevant price components. If input fields are grayed out such as Tax, they cannot be edited. In addition,
other price elements such as surcharges can be added to a line item.
Note
The solution does not currently offer tax determination with internal pricing.
● Total Pricing - You can view and update pricing details for the entire document. In addition, some other
price elements can be added here, such as Overall Discount (%).
Note
If a sales team is working on a specific sales quote, depending on their role, your administrator can
maintain access restrictions so that designated team members have the ability to modify the pricing details
or just view them. In addition, many pricing updates may be displayed in the Feed depending on your
solution set-up.
Context
You can add sales quote price components for each line item.
Procedure
Note
If you click Completely the solution also deletes manual adjustments made by the user. By clicking Keep
Manual Changes the solution will keep edits done manually. The flag Manually Changed will be selected.
Learn about currency and quantity conversions and how they affect the sales quote pricing calculation.
During the price calculation, currency conversion occurs if the currency of the price master data differs from
the document currency, depending on the exchange rates maintained as master data. The document currency
is defaulted from the account master sales data or from the selling company data.
In addition, during the price calculation, quantity conversion occurs if the unit of measure requested in the
document differs from the price unit maintained in the price list. A prerequisite is that the quantity conversions
are maintained in the product master data.
Example
A product master data maintains a quantity conversion “1 pallet = 20 each”, the price list specifies a price unit
of “50 USD/1 each”, and the sales quote requests 5 pallets - in this case, the 5 pallets are converted to 100 units
and price is calculated at 5000 USD.
Having trouble using internal pricing? Check this list of questions and answers for help.
Yes, to gain a basic understanding of price lists and how the solution sequentially applies them, see the text
below.
As an end-user, you don’t need to worry about how the solution applies the discounts and surcharges from the
price lists. It is important to understand the basics of how price lists work in order for you to better
comprehend the solution’s pricing.
Your administrator creates list prices for products and services which are managed in Price Lists. These lists
are maintained, have a validity period, and need to be released before they are active and optionally can require
approval.
Once the price lists are released and end-users begin to create sales quotes, the system will look at the
following to determine the correct pricing a customer should receive:
The system determines the net list price of a product or service. In addition, the system will check all price lists
that fit the parameters passed from the sales or service document such as customer, sales organization,
product, product category, and posting date.
Your administrator centrally defines and manages discounts. As an end-user, it is helpful to know that to
determine the product discounts for a product or service, the system checks all discount lists that fit the
parameters passed from the sales document such as customer, customer group, product, product category
and pricing date.
Unlike the list price calculation, in the Product Discount (%), once all discounts have been calculated and
applied, all relevant product discounts will be considered in the price calculation.
Note
SAP Cloud for Customer supports discounts in percentage, no fixed discount lists. (Discounted are always
the discounted values, for example,. List Price = 100 USD, 1st discount 10% = 10 USD, 2nd discount 10% =
9 USD, 3rd discount 10% = 8,10 USD).
The contents below will provide a high-level overview of internal pricing and price elements in the solution.
As a general rule, the internal net pricing depends on the price master data your Administrator has maintained
in the Products work center. This includes a mandatory price list, optional discount lists, freight, and
There are various types of price lists including base price, distribution chain specific, and customer specific.
Your Administrator will maintain these lists for your company, so you as an end-user don’t need to worry about
them. In addition, there are discount lists which will also be maintained by your Administrator. The discount
lists include an overall customer group, overall customer, customer product specific, and customer product
category specific.
Keep in mind, the way your Administrator will configure your solution determines if the discounts and price lists
are applicable to your customer.
The table below provides a description of the main price elements an end-user can manually apply to sales
quotes or sales order.
You can find the following fields under Sales Quote Pricing Edit .
List Price Price lists (created by your For customers that may be
company Administrator) can entitled to special prices, the
be customer specific, distri system first checks for a cus
bution chain specific, and tomer-specific price list. If
base price lists. there is no customer-specific
price found, then it checks
for a distribution chain spe
cific price list. Finally, if there
is no distribution-chain-spe
cific price, it checks for the
base price list.
Product Discount (%) To determine the discount, For customers that may have
the system checks all dis a special discount for a cer
count lists that fit the param tain product, the system
eters passed from the sales checks for a discount list with
or service documents. All customer product discounts.
found discounts are consid
ered in the price calculation.
Tip
Once the discounts and/or surcharges are applied, you can apply on Overall Discount (%) This is an
additional general discount applied to the total item net value which you as an end-user must apply
manually. To apply the overall discount navigate to the Sales Quote (or and sales orders) Pricing
Edit header view or Total Pricing section and enter the desired percentage (&) discount.
The following table displays the set of price components that may display depending on your solution’s
configuration. Menu paths are for the SAP Cloud for Customer, Edge edition unless otherwise noted in the
table.
You can find the following fields under Sales Quote Pricing Edit Add Row .
Scales Your Administrator can de You can use a scale to define
fine scales for prices in the that a single boiler costs 500
price master data which de USD. However, if you buy at
pend on different quantities. least 10 boilers the price de
The scale you use deter creases to only 450 USD per
mines how values are calcu unit.
lated.
Total Calculated by adding the to This is the total price that will
tal net value. appear on the output form.
As an end-user you probably won’t have write access to the Products work center or the pricing master data,
because of your business role. You will though, be able to view the pricing elements of a sales quote and sales
order and apply various discount types and surcharges to them depending on your solution set-up.
Only your administrator can assure that price master data is maintained since a product price is mandatory. An
Administrator can also, for example, define certain price or discount lists in the Products work center.
End-users can also define additional discounts or surcharges manually for a quote in the sales quote Pricing
tab.
Note
As an end-user, you can add existing price components and also rename the price component from the
product level on the Pricing tab in each sales quote.
You can manually add the cost of a product on sales quote Pricing tab.
To calculate the profit margin, your Administrator must scope this in the business configuration.
As an Administrator, navigate to fine-tuning activity Configure Pricing Strategy. Here you can rename the price
component descriptions for Quality Loss Fee on product level and Restocking Fee on header level. Both price
You can add existing price components and also rename the price component on the pricing tab on product
level (not header conditions) for each quote.
As an end-user, you can only overwrite a calculated price value in the opportunity. Depending on Pricing Date,
the solution performs a a price determination if a quote is created as a follow-up document from an
opportunity. The outcome is an accurate price result.
No, we only support net pricing. Tax determination is out of scope for Internal Pricing.
Learn about SAP Cloud for Customer external pricing and how retrieve complete price information including
tax from an external system.
If your administrator has set-up external pricing in your system, you can retrieve complete price information
including tax from an external system for your sales quote documents. The configuration, if external pricing is
applicable, depends on the selected document type.
When you create a sales quote in your system and you have a connection to an external system, such as SAP
CRM and SAP ERP, a request can be triggered to the external system to simulate a sales order.
Please keep in mind the following tips when you work with external pricing.
Once your administrator has correctly set-up external pricing, you create your quote, request the pricing from
the external system by clicking Actions Request Pricing. Similarly, you can use the action Simulate to
retrieve external pricing for a sales order.
The external system then simulates a complete document, and you receive the results in your quote or order.
In the solution, you can adapt the following header hidden fields and make them visible for external pricing:
On the detailed view of the sales quote Products tab, the following fields are displayed:
● Product Pricing – Displays the pricing overview for the selected Product.
● Total Pricing – Displays the pricing overview for the complete sales quote.
● Adjusted Item Price – Considers item and header price elements.
● Adjusted Item Value – Considers item and header price element times requested quantity.
Note
Fields List Price and Product Discount (%) are not available in the product table for external pricing.
Follow-up Documents
If you have an integration with an external system, where you, for example, process your sales orders, you can
then capture the references to the follow-up documents in the sales quote under Sales Documents
External Follow-Up Documents.
Learn about SAP Cloud for Customer external pricing for free goods, product availability check, as well as
enhanced external pricing.
When you have enabled the external pricing in your system you receive for a specific sales quote document
type, pricing details from the external system. In addition, the solution also provides:
● Complete pricing information including tax and gross and net values
● Free goods determination
● Product availability check
● Credit status
The prerequisite is that your administrator has enabled the external pricing for the document type and for the
pricing itself aligned the pricing texts (conditions and subtotal descriptions) in the business configuration.
You can view and edit a limited amount of External Price Elements directly on header or in products table of
sales quote or sales order. You can also completely hide the Product Pricing and Total Pricing view in order to
focus on the main price elements.
Having trouble using external pricing? Check this list of questions and answers for help.
Pricing is done through order simulation in on-Premise. If only one contract or promotion is automatically
determined in the simulated document without the user selecting the relevant contract or promotion, the price
calculation consider these determinations. In addition, the correct price result is displayed.
Yes. The solution also displays inactive price elements, such as, recommend Retail Price. This is indicated on
the user interface with a yellow status icon.
You can leverage tools you use every day, such as your e-mail inbox, to become more productive.
We all know the feeling: You’re looking through your inbox and realize that you have to open another program to
record – and sometimes even retype – customer interactions. Wouldn’t it be convenient to enter information
into your solution without leaving your inbox? Well, you can! If your company uses e-mail groupware such as
Microsoft Outlook, IBM Notes, or Gmail as its company e-mail software, you can use some SAP Cloud for
Customer features right from your inbox.
As an example, you can do the following in the Add-In for Microsoft Outlook:
After you install the appropriate add-in for your groupware application, you can log on to the solution right from
your inbox. When you select a contact in your groupware, you can easily see leads, opportunities, sales quotes,
campaigns, and activities.
When you select an e-mail, any information in SAP Cloud for Customer about the sender also appears in your
inbox. There is a bi-directional synchronization that includes contacts, e-mail, appointments, tasks, and visits.
If you update any of those items in your e-mail client, they are also updated in your solution, and if you update
them in your solution directly, they are also updated in your e-mail client.
You can also search through accounts and contacts in your SAP solution right from your e-mail inbox. Easily
download contacts from your SAP solution and synchronize them to your Microsoft Outlook inbox.
Working in your solution from your groupware improves your productivity. For example, from your inbox, you
can link contacts with accounts, and you can drag and drop e-mail messages onto existing accounts,
Even when you’re offline, you can create or update contacts and activities in your inbox. The next time you
connect to the system, the data that you entered offline is synchronized with your solution.
Depending on the e-mail program that your company uses, choose the e-mail add-in that makes the most
sense for you.
Microsoft SAP Cloud for Customer Add-In for Mi Client-side None SAP Cloud for Customer Add-In
Outlook crosoft Outlook for Microsoft Outlook [page 851]
Microsoft SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side Server-side SAP Sales SAP Cloud for Customer, Server-
Outlook integration for Microsoft Outlook Cloud, enter Side Integration for Microsoft
prise edition Outlook [page 905]
Gmail SAP Cloud for Customer, Add-In for Client-side None SAP Cloud for Customer Add-In
Gmail for Gmail [page 965]
Gmail SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side Server-side SAP Sales SAP Cloud for Customer, Server-
integration for Gmail Cloud, enter Side Integration for Gmail [page
prise edition 968]
IBM Notes SAP Cloud for Customer, Add-In for Client-side None
IBM Notes
The SAP Cloud for Customer Add-In for Microsoft Outlook allows you to exchange information between
Microsoft Outlook and SAP Cloud for Customer.
Requirements for SAP Cloud for Customer Add-In for Microsoft Outlook (Version 4.0 or Higher) [page
852]
Microsoft Outlook versions supported by the add-in and required frameworks and packages.
Scope and Configure SAP Cloud for Customer Add-In for Microsoft Outlook [page 853]
Administrators can configure this add-in using scoping, scoping questions, fine-tuning, and settings in
the add-in itself.
SAP Cloud for Customer Add-In for Microsoft Outlook FAQ [page 892]
Having trouble using SAP Cloud for Customer Add-In for Microsoft Outlook? Check this list of
questions and answers for help.
Microsoft Outlook versions supported by the add-in and required frameworks and packages.
Note
Don’t use both the client-side and the server-side add-in for Microsoft Outlook. If you decide to use SAP
Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for Microsoft Outlook, uninstall the SAP Cloud for Customer
Add-In for Microsoft Outlook.
Note
Administrators can configure this add-in using scoping, scoping questions, fine-tuning, and settings in the add-
in itself.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Scoping
Questions Sales Account and Activity Management Activity Management and check the box next to the
scoping question for integration of local e-mail applications.
To allow download of individual customers from SAP Cloud for Customer to Microsoft Outlook, administrators
must maintain the required configuration in SAP Cloud for Customer as well as in Microsoft Outlook. After
defining these settings, add your contacts to Microsoft Outlook to ensure that they are synchronized.
Context
Caution
The employee (user) must belong to the account team of an individual customer for the individual
customer to be downloaded to the outlook client. However, this condition does not apply when individual
customers are downloaded by looking-up and using e-mail address.
Procedure
The following controls are provided in the system to enable or disable download of individual customers to
Microsoft Outlook. Note that these settings are controlled by an administrator business role and override
the settings made in Microsoft Outlook.
Note
If you disable this setting, the individual customer contacts from SAP Cloud for Customer are no longer
available in Microsoft Outlook. However, all data created for this user can be accessed whenever the
download of individual customers is enabled again.
Administrators can define a default profile for all users who use the SAP Cloud for Customer Add-In for
Microsoft Outlook.
Context
You can send around guidelines for users to set up their profiles for the add-in. However, it may be easier to
simply define a default profile for your company. Users can then adapt it to their own workstyle later, if they
choose.
Procedure
The settings you see are the same ones that can be made directly in the add-in.
2. Make the settings to define the default profile for the add-in for all users at your company.
3. Save your settings.
When your company upgrades to the next release and as each user logs on, your default profile overwrites
any settings they may have made previously.
As an administrator, you can set up your system to exclude e-mail marked as either private or e-mail marked as
confidential from being synchronized to SAP Cloud for Customer.
Context
Procedure
As an administrator, you can set up your system to prevent notes and attachments from being synchronized to
and from SAP Cloud for Customer for appointments and visits.
Context
Note
These settings always affect both appointments and visits. For example, it is not possible to prevent
synchronization for appointments and not for visits.
Procedure
1. Log on as an administrator and choose Administrator General Settings Users Business Roles .
2. Use the filter to show all active business roles.
3. Select and edit the role for which you want to prevent synchronization of notes and attachments.
4. In the user role, add the appropriate business action restriction:
○ To prevent synchronization of attachments for appointments and visits
(GW_APPT_ATTACH_UPLOAD_DOWNLOAD)
○ To prevent synchronization of notes for appointments and visits
(GW_APPT_NOTES_UPLOAD_DOWNLOAD)
If you are using the SAP Cloud for Customer Add-In for Microsoft Outlook, as the administrator, you can set
your system to select the Visit indicator by default for all new appointments that are created from Microsoft
Outlook.
If your users primarily create visits instead of appointments, as the administrator, you can enable the default
Visit checkbox by logging on as an administrator and choosing Administrator Groupware Add-In Settings
Microsoft Outlook General Settings Create appointments in Microsoft Outlook as visits by default (users can
change as necessary) .
Note
Users can change this setting manually, so if they create visits often and only create appointments
occasionally, they can just deselect this indicator to create an appointment.
As the administrator, you can push the SAP solution URL to all users for initial logon. Predefining the URL
streamlines the process and eliminates confusion and errors due to typos as users enter the URL manually.
Context
When users have logged on to the SAP Cloud for Customer Add-In for Microsoft Outlook before, URLs that
were used previously appear for selection. However, for users who are logging on for the first time, there is no
history. Pushing the URL for the SAP solution to all users provides a default URL for users at initial logon.
Procedure
○ In the Microsoft Windows Registry Editor, create a new registry entry for the server URL:
1. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\SAP\Business ByDesign FrontEnd\CD
\ServerConfig.
2. Insert a new string value with name ServerAddress and data containing the domain URL.
○ On your local machine, add the following line to config.properties: ServerUrl=<your server’s
url>
Note
Results
When users log on to the add-in from Microsoft Outlook for the first time, your tenant’s URL appears by default.
In addition to each end user being able to install the add-in manually, administrators can use an MSI file to
install the add-in on multiple clients remotely.
Context
Procedure
1. As an administrator, you can download the MSI file from the SAP Software Download Center at https://
support.sap.com/software/installations.html .
2. Search for C4C_OUTLK_ADDIN_MSI and download it.
Example
For example, you could use the following command line for silent installation:
Each user who wants to use SAP Cloud for Customer functions from Microsoft Outlook must install the add-in
on his or her computer. In some companies, administrators install it centrally for all users.
If your administrator has not installed the add-in centrally, you'll need to install it manually on your computer.
To update the add-in, follow the same procedure. To download the add-in, you must have administrative rights
on the computer.
Prerequisites
To avoid compatibility issues with previous releases, make sure that you have installed the latest version of the
add-in.
Procedure
2. Choose the download link for the add-in for Microsoft Outlook.
3. Install the add-in.
When you restart Microsoft Outlook, SAP Cloud for Customer appears on your Microsoft Outlook screen as
a separate tab in the ribbon.
In addition to each end user being able to install the add-in manually, administrators can use an MSI file to
install the add-in on multiple clients remotely.
Context
Procedure
1. As an administrator, you can download the MSI file from the SAP Software Download Center at https://
support.sap.com/software/installations.html .
2. Search for C4C_OUTLK_ADDIN_MSI and download it.
Example
For example, you could use the following command line for silent installation:
As the administrator, you can push the SAP solution URL to all users for initial logon. Predefining the URL
streamlines the process and eliminates confusion and errors due to typos as users enter the URL manually.
Context
When users have logged on to the SAP Cloud for Customer Add-In for Microsoft Outlook before, URLs that
were used previously appear for selection. However, for users who are logging on for the first time, there is no
history. Pushing the URL for the SAP solution to all users provides a default URL for users at initial logon.
○ In the Microsoft Windows Registry Editor, create a new registry entry for the server URL:
1. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\SAP\Business ByDesign FrontEnd\CD
\ServerConfig.
2. Insert a new string value with name ServerAddress and data containing the domain URL.
○ On your local machine, add the following line to config.properties: ServerUrl=<your server’s
url>
Note
You can copy your server’s URL from the Microsoft Windows Registry Editor under SAP
Business ByDesign Front End CD ServerConfig . The address appears in the ServerAddress
row in the Data column and ends in ondemand.com.
Results
When users log on to the add-in from Microsoft Outlook for the first time, your tenant’s URL appears by default.
Procedure
1. Enable the side pane in Microsoft Outlook by enabling the add-in SAP Cloud for Customer.
2. As a user, you can make these settings locally from Microsoft Outlook. In the SAP Cloud for Customer
section of the ribbon, choose Settings.
Note
As an administrator, you can make some of these settings globally and cascade them to all users. To do
so, log on to your system as an administrator and choose Administrator General Settings
Groupware Add-In Settings Microsoft Outlook .
By default, the add-in shows activities from the past 30 days. On this tab, you can adjust this setting to
display activities up to one year (365 days) in the past.
4. Check the SAP Cloud for Customer folder locations in Microsoft Outlook by choosing Synchronization
Folders.
The add-in automatically creates the synchronization folders, including the following:
○ Default Folder
This folder is the main folder where error and conflict information is stored.
○ Accounts Folder (only necessary for sales users)
This folder contains the accounts downloaded from SAP Cloud for Customer.
○ Contacts Folder (only necessary for sales users)
This folder contains the contacts downloaded from SAP Cloud for Customer.
To change any of these folders, click the folder link, select a new folder, and choose OK.
5. In the Notifications/Errors section, define how and in which cases the system should notify you.
6. If you are a service agent using Microsoft Outlook to reply to tickets, under Service, you can enable the
service scenario. Additionally, you can define a default account to use when you reply to tickets.
7. Under Proxy Settings, define the default proxy settings that the system should use.
Administrators can define a default profile for all users who use the SAP Cloud for Customer Add-In for
Microsoft Outlook.
Context
You can send around guidelines for users to set up their profiles for the add-in. However, it may be easier to
simply define a default profile for your company. Users can then adapt it to their own workstyle later, if they
choose.
Procedure
The settings you see are the same ones that can be made directly in the add-in.
2. Make the settings to define the default profile for the add-in for all users at your company.
3. Save your settings.
When your company upgrades to the next release and as each user logs on, your default profile overwrites
any settings they may have made previously.
If you no longer want to use the SAP Cloud for Customer Add-In for Microsoft Outlook, you can uninstall it.
Context
Note
If you want to update your add-in, there is no need to uninstall it. Just update the add-in.
Procedure
1. On your computer, from your list of installed programs, uninstall the add-in for Microsoft Outlook.
2. In Microsoft Outlook, find the folder that has the same title as the SAP solution and delete it.
Related Information
Install or Update the Add-In for Microsoft Outlook Integration [page 859]
The SAP Cloud for Customer Add-In for Microsoft Outlook allows you to exchange information between
Microsoft Outlook and SAP Cloud for Customer. After installing the add-in, you can do the tasks listed below
right from Microsoft Outlook.
Prerequisites
You have installed the SAP Cloud for Customer Add-In for Microsoft Outlook locally on your computer and
made the appropriate settings.
Related Information
Set Up SAP Cloud for Customer Add-In for Microsoft Outlook [page 859]
Microsoft Outlook versions supported by the add-in and required frameworks and packages.
Note
Don’t use both the client-side and the server-side add-in for Microsoft Outlook. If you decide to use SAP
Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for Microsoft Outlook, uninstall the SAP Cloud for Customer
Add-In for Microsoft Outlook.
Note
Context
If your administrator has set up single sign-on (SSO), you are logged on automatically and the SAP Cloud for
Customer sidebar appears. If you don't see the SAP Cloud for Customer sidebar in Microsoft Outlook, log on
manually like this:
1. In Microsoft Outlook, under SAP Cloud for Customer, click the button to log on to SAP Cloud for Customer.
2. If your administrator has predefined the system, it appears in field SAP System URL. If the field is blank,
select or manually type in the URL for your SAP Cloud for Customer system and choose OK.
Your Microsoft Outlook is now connected with the SAP Cloud for Customer system that you selected.
3. If there is a problem with the certificate for your user, or if you are not working with certificates, the solution
requires you to enter your user ID and password.
Note
Under Settings, if you choose the option for remembering your password and automatic logon, you
stay logged on automatically with the same user name and password in the system. If the logon fails,
for example if you change your password, automatic logon is disabled to avoid locking you out. In that
case, simply log on with your new password and set the automatic logon option again.
You can confirm that you have logged on to the system by checking the title of the button that you used to
log on. If the text has switched to Log Off, you have logged on successfully.
Recommendation
If you are logged on to SAP Cloud for Customer with the add-in for many hours without any action, you
may receive an authorization error when trying to use a Microsoft Outlook integration function. In this
case, your user cookies may have expired. Simply log off and log on again.
4. Enter your URL in the SAP System field, leaving out the path or directory information at the end of the URL.
For example, you log on with URL http://Test.sap.corp:7000, and not http://Test.sap.corp:
7000/irj/portal.
Note
When you are working offline and cannot log on to the system, any changes to relevant e-mails,
appointments, and tasks, or new items for synchronization to SAP Cloud for Customer are kept in a
pool in Microsoft Outlook. Actual synchronization of these items occurs automatically as soon as you
log on to SAP Cloud for Customer using the add-in.
When you select an e-mail, the add-in automatically recognizes e-mails from customers defined as contacts in
your SAP solution, based on e-mail address. Information related to that contact and account appears in the
side pane. You can access contact and account information, as well as related opportunities, leads, sales
orders, tickets, and activities for the current week, and you can personalize how you would like to view the
content.
In the SAP Cloud for Customer Add-In for Microsoft Outlook, items that appear in the side pane are organized
into pages that contain 100 items.
Page numbers appear in the footer of each list. To navigate between pages, use the arrows.
When you click a column header, the system sorts the contents of one page.
On the Shelf, items are sorted by name in ascending order. Use the (Sort) button to define a different default
sort order for your shelf.
Use the search field to find objects that were added as references to the contact that appears in the side pane.
Procedure
1. Open Microsoft Outlook, log on to the add-in, and expand the side pane.
2. Enter the ID of the object in the search field.
Results
If you use the native feed, you can see and work with feed posts right from your inbox.
Note
If you enable SAP Jam in SAP Cloud for Customer, the feed tab in the Microsoft Outlook side pane displays
the last feeds before you switched to SAP Jam. It is not possible to see feed posts from SAP Jam in the side
pane at this time.
● Display the feed updates that are in SAP Cloud for Customer for the relevant contact and account.
● Enter a new feed update just like you would in the SAP solution.
Feed updates are synchronized automatically, so your feed update also appears in SAP Cloud for
Customer.
Note
A feed update entered for an account references the account, and a feed update entered for a contact
references the contact, similar to entering a feed update in the account or contact item view.
If you want to know the status of the synchronization process, you can display the details from your inbox.
Procedure
To provide more information during incident handling, you can enable HTTP tracing.
You can find this option in Microsoft Outlook in the add-in bar under Help Enable HTTP Tracing .
Recommendation
We recommend using this feature only if you are directed to do so by an administrator or support
personnel. Leaving it activated during normal use may affect performance.
With SAP Cloud for Customer Add-In for Microsoft Outlook, you can create contacts, associate them with other
objects in your SAP system, pin them, and even add contacts from your SAP solution into Microsoft Outlook.
You can create accounts and contacts right from your inbox. At the next synchronization, they appear in your
SAP solution.
Context
To separate personal data from business data in Microsoft Outlook, the add-in creates separate folders for
accounts and contacts in SAP Cloud for Customer.
Note
The user who creates and synchronizes a new account from Microsoft Outlook is automatically the owner
for that account.
Note
The ability to create and synchronize accounts and contacts depends on your system authorizations, as
well as your synchronization settings. If you have any questions or difficulties, contact your administrator.
Procedure
1. In Microsoft Outlook, go to your contacts and select the contacts folder for SAP Cloud for Customer.
Note
Creating contacts from the SAP Cloud for Customer folder ensures that your business and personal
contacts stay separate.
You cannot edit accounts in Microsoft Outlook. If you must update an account, open your SAP solution and
update it there.
7. Assign the account to the contact and save your entries.
Note
Accounts created directly in the Accounts from SAP Cloud for Customer folder cannot be synchronized.
Accounts can only be created from the contact area. However, once the account is created in the
system, after the next synchronization, it appears in the accounts folder.
8. To synchronize this contact and its associated account with SAP Cloud for Customer, choose Add
Contact Submit .
Related Information
Add Contacts from SAP Cloud for Customer into Microsoft Outlook [page 873]
In SAP Cloud for Customer, you enter data in two fields; one for the street name and the other for the house
number. In Groupware, there is only one field for street address (includes the street name and house number).
Modify the Groupware street address to avoid an empty street number in SAP Cloud for Customer.
In the message that appears at the bottom of the screen after an e-mail was synchronized with your SAP
solution, there is a link to details. The information behind this link now includes contact information. If the
contact was synchronized with your local Microsoft Outlook client, the contact's name also appears in the
dialog box.
To see all available contact information in the SAP solution, click the link.
If you are using the SAP Cloud for Customer Add-In for Microsoft Outlook, you can drag and drop contacts into
accounts.
In Microsoft Outlook under Contacts, when you open the contacts folder for SAP Cloud for Customer in any
view other than People view, the add-in side panel appears. From the side panel, you can search for an account
and then associate a contact with that account by using drag and drop. Your association of the contact to an
account is synchronized with the SAP solution.
You can keep information appearing in the side pane, even when you select another object, by pinning it.
Context
When you select an e-mail in your inbox from an SAP Cloud for Customer contact, the information for that
contact appears in the side pane. Selecting a message from a different SAP Cloud for Customer contact
updates the information in the side pane.
If you want the information for a specific contact to remain available in the side pane, pin that information as
follows:
Procedure
1. When the information that you want to stay in the side pane appears in the side pane, click the pin icon at
the top of the side pane to keep this contact information available while you select other e-mail messages.
2. Click the pin icon again to unpin the information, allowing the side pane to dynamically update contact
information based on the message that you select.
You can download all of your contacts from the SAP solution into Microsoft Outlook at once, or one at a time.
Context
There are a few different ways to download your contact information from your SAP solution into Microsoft
Outlook. Here they are:
● Download all your contacts from the system to Microsoft Outlook at once like this:
1. In the SAP Cloud for Customer Add-In toolbar, choose Settings.
2. If you want the contacts that you download to be updated if changes are made, choose Keep Contacts
Synchronized.
If you skip this setting, the contacts are downloaded but not updated.
Note
Contacts without accounts and new contacts and accounts may not be updated to Microsoft
Outlook automatically, even if you made this setting. To ensure that these types of contacts are
also updated, repeat this step periodically.
3. Make the appropriate selections for initial synchronization, and choose Download Contacts.
By default, the add-in looks up all accounts under My Accounts and downloads all contacts listed for those
accounts.
Note
If you only want to download contacts that you have added on the Relationships tab, use checkbox
Download only the contacts with whom I have established relationships.
Results
The contact information is transferred from SAP Cloud for Customer and appears in your contacts in Microsoft
Outlook.
To allow download of individual customers from SAP Cloud for Customer to Microsoft Outlook, administrators
must maintain the required configuration in SAP Cloud for Customer as well as in Microsoft Outlook. After
defining these settings, add your contacts to Microsoft Outlook to ensure that they are synchronized.
Context
Caution
The employee (user) must belong to the account team of an individual customer for the individual
customer to be downloaded to the outlook client. However, this condition does not apply when individual
customers are downloaded by looking-up and using e-mail address.
Procedure
The following controls are provided in the system to enable or disable download of individual customers to
Microsoft Outlook. Note that these settings are controlled by an administrator business role and override
the settings made in Microsoft Outlook.
If you disable this setting, the individual customer contacts from SAP Cloud for Customer are no longer
available in Microsoft Outlook. However, all data created for this user can be accessed whenever the
download of individual customers is enabled again.
If you use SAP Cloud for Customer Add-In for Microsoft Outlook, you can add e-mails to your SAP solution or
add e-mails with reference to other objects right from your inbox.
Contact information may be associated automatically with another object. However, you can also associate
contact information from an e-mail manually.
Context
If you have contact information showing in the SAP Cloud for Customer side pane, you can associate a
formatted or unformatted e-mail with an opportunity, lead, sales quote, campaign, or account listed under that
contact. Simply drag and drop the e-mail onto the SAP item in the side pane to which you want to associate it.
If you wish to add an e-mail for synchronization and do not have relevant contact information visible in the side
pane, proceed as follows:
Procedure
1. In Microsoft Outlook, open an existing e-mail, and under SAP Cloud for Customer, choose Add E-Mail.
Note
You can add one or more e-mails directly, without opening them, by right-clicking on them in your
inbox, and choosing Add E-Mail.
Note
When you create an e-mail, you can synchronize and send it by choosing Send and Add E-Mail. This
step combines the synchronize and send steps, saving you time.
Results
The e-mail that you synchronized from Microsoft Outlook appears in SAP Cloud for Customer on the Activities
tab.
If you added an account, opportunity, contact, or lead as a reference, it also appears in the item view for that
item.
Any images in the body of the e-mail appear as attachments in your SAP solution.
You can add e-mails, appointments, visits, and tasks with reference to any of your SAP Cloud for Customer
accounts, opportunities, or leads.
Context
Visits are technically similar to appointments, and the SAP solution handles them in the same way.
In the following steps, an e-mail activity is used as an example, but the steps are similar for all activity types.
If you have contact information showing in the SAP Cloud for Customer side pane, you can associate an e-mail,
visit, appointment, or task to an opportunity, lead, activity, sales quote, sales order, campaign, or account listed
under that contact simply by using drag and drop.
If you wish to add an e-mail, appointment, or task for synchronization and do not have relevant contact
information visible in the side pane, proceed as follows:
Procedure
1. Add an activity with reference to an account, campaign, sales order, or sales quote like this:
a. In Microsoft Outlook, to synchronize an e-mail to SAP Cloud for Customer, open an e-mail and choose
SAP Cloud for Customer Add E-Mail .
Note
When you use Add E-Mail, the system adds the e-mail to the object directly, without referencing an
account. If you drag and drop the e-mail onto the object, the system also adds the account
reference.
You can also search for another account and add the e-mail with that account as a reference.
When you add an e-mail with reference to an account, you can filter the search results by type (account
or individual customer). Your filter settings persist until you change them.
An e-mail activity is created automatically in SAP Cloud for Customer under the account that you chose.
2. Add an activity with reference to an opportunity or lead like this:
Note
a. In Microsoft Outlook, to synchronize an e-mail to SAP Cloud for Customer, open an e-mail and choose
SAP Cloud for Customer Add E-Mail .
The e-mail is copied automatically into SAP Cloud for Customer and appears in the opportunity or lead
that you selected.
In the SAP Cloud for Customer Add-In for Microsoft Outlook, you can drag and drop attachments from an e-
mail directly onto an object in the side pane, such as an opportunity or lead. When you open the object in your
SAP solution, the attachment appears in the object directly.
You can remove an e-mail message from the SAP solution (browser only) if you linked it to the SAP system
originally.
When you remove an e-mail from your SAP solution, the e-mail is not deleted: it still exists in Microsoft Outlook.
The link to that e-mail is simply removed from SAP Cloud for Customer.
To remove e-mails from SAP Cloud for Customer, under Activities, hover over an e-mail and choose Remove.
As an administrator, you can set up your system to exclude e-mail marked as either private or e-mail marked as
confidential from being synchronized to SAP Cloud for Customer.
Context
Procedure
If you use the SAP Cloud for Customer Add-In for Microsoft Outlook, you can synchronize appointments and
visits so that updates in your SAP solution appear in Microsoft Outlook, and the other way around.
Appointment information may be associated automatically with other objects. However, you can also associate
appointment information manually.
Context
Visits are technically similar to appointments, and the SAP solution handles them in the same way.
Note
If you have contact information showing in the SAP Cloud for Customer side pane, you can associate an
appointment with an opportunity, lead, activity, sales order, or account listed under that contact simply by
using drag and drop. The appointment is associated automatically with the lead, opportunity, activity, sales
order, or account.
Note
You can only synchronize appointments for which you are the organizer. If you are a participant, you receive
any updates from the organizer's Outlook appointment.
Note
If you wish to add an appointment for synchronization and do not have relevant contact information visible in
the side pane, proceed as follows:
Procedure
1. In Microsoft Outlook, open an appointment, and under SAP Cloud for Customer, choose Add Appointment.
Note
You can add an appointment directly, without opening it, by right-clicking on the appointment in your
calendar, and choosing Add Appointment.
When you create a new appointment, you can synchronize and send it by choosing Save, Send, and
Sync Appointment. This step combines multiple steps, saving you time.
2. If you want this item to be a visit, select the Visit indicator. Otherwise, you are creating an appointment.
3. Add a reference to an account, if desired.
4. Choose Submit.
An appointment activity is created in SAP Cloud for Customer, based on information in the Microsoft
Outlook appointment.
5. You can open, create, or edit an appointment in SAP Cloud for Customer as well. To synchronize any future
changes to the appointment in SAP Cloud for Customer or in Microsoft Outlook, repeat the preceding
steps.
Recommendation
If you add or change attendees in an SAP Cloud for Customer appointment, you can send the meeting
request as follows:
1. Ensure that the appointment is synchronized, by repeating the preceding steps.
2. Open the appointment in Microsoft Outlook and send the meeting request.
Results
The appointment that you synchronized from Microsoft Outlook appears in SAP Cloud for Customer on the
Activities tab.
Note
If you added an account, opportunity, contact, or lead as a reference, it also appears in the item view for
that item.
As an administrator, you can define for certain users that only visits (and not appointments) are synchronized
with their SAP solution.
Context
If you have a group of users who only need visits to be updated in their SAP solution, you can define business
action restrictions for their business role.
This setting is only valid for appointments that are created after this setting is made. Any appointments
that were synchronized previously are still synchronized.
Procedure
○ GW_APPT_ONLY_UPLOAD
To sync only visits from the SAP solution to Microsoft Outlook, you must block the solution from
uploading appointments. To do so, add this restriction and disable it.
○ GW_APPT_ONLY_DOWNLOAD
As an administrator, you can set up your system to prevent notes and attachments from being synchronized to
and from SAP Cloud for Customer for appointments and visits.
Context
Note
These settings always affect both appointments and visits. For example, it is not possible to prevent
synchronization for appointments and not for visits.
Procedure
1. Log on as an administrator and choose Administrator General Settings Users Business Roles .
2. Use the filter to show all active business roles.
3. Select and edit the role for which you want to prevent synchronization of notes and attachments.
4. In the user role, add the appropriate business action restriction:
If you are using the SAP Cloud for Customer Add-In for Microsoft Outlook, as the administrator, you can set
your system to select the Visit indicator by default for all new appointments that are created from Microsoft
Outlook.
If your users primarily create visits instead of appointments, as the administrator, you can enable the default
Visit checkbox by logging on as an administrator and choosing Administrator Groupware Add-In Settings
Microsoft Outlook General Settings Create appointments in Microsoft Outlook as visits by default (users can
change as necessary) .
Note
Users can change this setting manually, so if they create visits often and only create appointments
occasionally, they can just deselect this indicator to create an appointment.
You can add e-mails, appointments, visits, and tasks with reference to any of your SAP Cloud for Customer
accounts, opportunities, or leads.
Context
Visits are technically similar to appointments, and the SAP solution handles them in the same way.
In the following steps, an e-mail activity is used as an example, but the steps are similar for all activity types.
If you have contact information showing in the SAP Cloud for Customer side pane, you can associate an e-mail,
visit, appointment, or task to an opportunity, lead, activity, sales quote, sales order, campaign, or account listed
under that contact simply by using drag and drop.
If you wish to add an e-mail, appointment, or task for synchronization and do not have relevant contact
information visible in the side pane, proceed as follows:
1. Add an activity with reference to an account, campaign, sales order, or sales quote like this:
a. In Microsoft Outlook, to synchronize an e-mail to SAP Cloud for Customer, open an e-mail and choose
SAP Cloud for Customer Add E-Mail .
Note
When you use Add E-Mail, the system adds the e-mail to the object directly, without referencing an
account. If you drag and drop the e-mail onto the object, the system also adds the account
reference.
b. Choose Add Reference and select the object to which you want to add the e-mail.
You can also search for another account and add the e-mail with that account as a reference.
When you add an e-mail with reference to an account, you can filter the search results by type (account
or individual customer). Your filter settings persist until you change them.
An e-mail activity is created automatically in SAP Cloud for Customer under the account that you chose.
2. Add an activity with reference to an opportunity or lead like this:
Note
a. In Microsoft Outlook, to synchronize an e-mail to SAP Cloud for Customer, open an e-mail and choose
SAP Cloud for Customer Add E-Mail .
The e-mail is copied automatically into SAP Cloud for Customer and appears in the opportunity or lead
that you selected.
For tasks in SAP Cloud for Customer Add-In for Microsoft Outlook, you can see details about associated visits
after the task is synchronized.
Following synchronization, click the Task Details link. Details about the associated visits appear. The visit ID is a
link that allows you to navigate to the visit directly in SAP Cloud for Customer.
If you are the owner of an appointment and the appointment is canceled in the SAP solution, a notification
appears in your Microsoft Outlook.
When you cancel meetings in Microsoft Outlook, the canceled status is synchronized with SAP Cloud for
Customer.
Unlike deleted visits or appointments, canceled visits or appointments still appear in the SAP solution, which
means you can use them to track visits or appointments that were originally scheduled but not completed.
Note
For meetings that happened in the past, there is no need to send a cancellation, so only choose Cancel
Meeting.
● Someone other than the organizer deletes a synchronized meeting in SAP Cloud for Customer
Prerequisites
○ All attendees have e-mail addresses mapped to their contacts in the SAP system
○ Meeting request has been sent to all attendees previously
1. If you are someone other than the organizer, open the appointment in the SAP system and choose
Actions Set as Canceled .
2. Following synchronization, in Microsoft Outlook, in the system tray, the organizer must click the SAP
icon and choose Send Meeting Requests to Attendees.
3. Select the meeting that you want to cancel and choose Send.
Note
In SAP Cloud for Customer, you can edit a meeting that has already been canceled. However, if the
cancellation was already sent to attendees in Outlook, the changes cannot be synchronized to Microsoft
Outlook.
When you delete visits, appointments, or tasks, there is no longer a record of them in the SAP solution.
Context
Visits are technically similar to appointments, and the SAP solution handles them in the same way.
Note
Unlike deleted visits or appointments, canceled visits or appointments still appear in the SAP solution. As a
result, you can use canceled visits or appointments to track visits or appointments that were originally
scheduled but not completed.
In the steps listed below, an appointment is used as an example, but the steps are similar for visits,
appointments, and tasks.
Procedure
Note
You can only synchronize appointments for which you are the organizer. If you are a participant, you
receive any updates from the organizer's Microsoft Outlook appointment.
Results
For appointments and tasks that were previously synchronized, the deletion is synchronized in both Microsoft
Outlook and SAP Cloud for Customer. There is no longer a record of them in the SAP solution.
If you use the SAP Cloud for Customer Add-In for Microsoft Outlook, you can add tasks, see visits that are
linked with tasks, and delete tasks.
Task information may be associated automatically with another object. However, you can also associate task
information manually.
Context
All of your tasks are bi-directionally synchronized between Microsoft Outlook and your SAP solution.
Tasks are synchronized for the processor only (defined in your SAP solution).
Recommendation
After a task is synchronized with Microsoft Outlook, we recommend that you avoid changing the processor
in your SAP solution and in Microsoft Outlook. If you change the processor at this point, the task appears in
the calendars of both users, but any updates only appear in the current processor's calendar.
Note
Advanced features of task management in Microsoft Outlook, such as assigning tasks to others, are not
supported and lead to problems.
Note
If you have contact information showing in the SAP Cloud for Customer side pane, you can associate a task
with an opportunity, lead, sales order, activity, or account listed under that contact simply by using drag
and drop. The task is associated automatically with the lead, opportunity, sales order, activity, or account.
Future tasks and tasks within the last 30 days are synchronized and appear in Microsoft Outlook. Tasks
older than 30 days are no longer synchronized.
If you wish to add a task for synchronization and do not have relevant contact information visible in the side
pane, proceed as follows:
Procedure
1. In Microsoft Outlook, open a task in your To-Do List and choose SAP Cloud for Customer Add Task .
In the task details, if you enter a name in the Company Name field, it is used as the account name in the
system. Similarly, if you create a task in the system and synchronize it to Microsoft Outlook, the account
name appears in the task details as the company name.
2. Add a reference to an account, lead, or opportunity, if desired.
3. Choose Submit.
A task activity is created in SAP Cloud for Customer, based on information in the Microsoft Outlook task.
4. You can open, create, or edit a task in SAP Cloud for Customer as well.
Note
If you change a task in SAP Cloud for Customer, the changes are automatically synchronized to
Microsoft Outlook within 5 minutes. However, if you change a task in Microsoft Outlook that has already
been synchronized, there is no automatic synchronization. In this case, open the task in Microsoft
Outlook, make your changes, and then choose Add Task to trigger synchronization to SAP Cloud for
Customer.
Results
The task that you synchronized from Microsoft Outlook appears in SAP Cloud for Customer on the Activities
tab.
If you added an account, opportunity, contact, sales order, activity, or lead as a reference, it also appears in the
item view for that item.
You can add e-mails, appointments, visits, and tasks with reference to any of your SAP Cloud for Customer
accounts, opportunities, or leads.
Context
Visits are technically similar to appointments, and the SAP solution handles them in the same way.
In the following steps, an e-mail activity is used as an example, but the steps are similar for all activity types.
If you have contact information showing in the SAP Cloud for Customer side pane, you can associate an e-mail,
visit, appointment, or task to an opportunity, lead, activity, sales quote, sales order, campaign, or account listed
under that contact simply by using drag and drop.
If you wish to add an e-mail, appointment, or task for synchronization and do not have relevant contact
information visible in the side pane, proceed as follows:
Procedure
1. Add an activity with reference to an account, campaign, sales order, or sales quote like this:
a. In Microsoft Outlook, to synchronize an e-mail to SAP Cloud for Customer, open an e-mail and choose
SAP Cloud for Customer Add E-Mail .
Note
When you use Add E-Mail, the system adds the e-mail to the object directly, without referencing an
account. If you drag and drop the e-mail onto the object, the system also adds the account
reference.
b. Choose Add Reference and select the object to which you want to add the e-mail.
You can also search for another account and add the e-mail with that account as a reference.
When you add an e-mail with reference to an account, you can filter the search results by type (account
or individual customer). Your filter settings persist until you change them.
An e-mail activity is created automatically in SAP Cloud for Customer under the account that you chose.
2. Add an activity with reference to an opportunity or lead like this:
Note
a. In Microsoft Outlook, to synchronize an e-mail to SAP Cloud for Customer, open an e-mail and choose
SAP Cloud for Customer Add E-Mail .
The e-mail is copied automatically into SAP Cloud for Customer and appears in the opportunity or lead
that you selected.
For tasks in SAP Cloud for Customer Add-In for Microsoft Outlook, you can see details about associated visits
after the task is synchronized.
Following synchronization, click the Task Details link. Details about the associated visits appear. The visit ID is a
link that allows you to navigate to the visit directly in SAP Cloud for Customer.
When you delete visits, appointments, or tasks, there is no longer a record of them in the SAP solution.
Context
Visits are technically similar to appointments, and the SAP solution handles them in the same way.
Unlike deleted visits or appointments, canceled visits or appointments still appear in the SAP solution. As a
result, you can use canceled visits or appointments to track visits or appointments that were originally
scheduled but not completed.
In the steps listed below, an appointment is used as an example, but the steps are similar for visits,
appointments, and tasks.
Procedure
Note
You can only synchronize appointments for which you are the organizer. If you are a participant, you
receive any updates from the organizer's Microsoft Outlook appointment.
Results
For appointments and tasks that were previously synchronized, the deletion is synchronized in both Microsoft
Outlook and SAP Cloud for Customer. There is no longer a record of them in the SAP solution.
As a service agent, you can use the SAP Cloud for Customer Add-In for Microsoft Outlook to respond to tickets
right from your inbox. Make a few quick settings to activate the service-specific features.
Make a couple service-specific settings to allow you to respond to service tickets using Microsoft Outlook.
Prerequisites
Ensure that you have access to the shared e-mail account in your company used to respond to tickets. Make
sure that you use this account when replying to your customers. You may need to select the correct account
manually when you compose e-mails.
Procedure
1. In the SAP Cloud for Customer Add-In for Microsoft Outlook toolbar, choose Settings Service .
2. Enable service agent responses to tickets and auto synchronization of tickets.
Related Information
Set Up SAP Cloud for Customer Add-In for Microsoft Outlook [page 859]
Get Started [page 863]
If you use the SAP Cloud for Customer Add-In for Microsoft Outlook, you can respond to tickets from the agent
workspace using Microsoft Outlook.
Procedure
1. In the agent workspace, ensure that the Use Microsoft Outlook checkbox is selected.
Choosing either response option opens a Microsoft Outlook window prepopulated with the customer's e-
mail address.
3. Compose your response.
Note
Make sure that you are replying from the correct e-mail account.
Keep the ticket number in the subject line of the e-mail so that it stays associated with the ticket.
Results
The e-mail is associated with the ticket and appears in the interactions.
Having trouble using SAP Cloud for Customer Add-In for Microsoft Outlook? Check this list of questions and
answers for help.
The download page of your SAP solution only contains the EXE installer. Administrators can download the MSI
installer from the SAP Software Download Center.
Related Information
The SAP Cloud for Customer Add-In for Microsoft Outlook does not allow you to associate an e-mail,
appointment, or task directly to a contact. The association can only be done to account, opportunity, or lead.
When associating an e-mail with an account, the SAP solution tries to determine the contacts that may be
related to the e-mail. To do so, it checks the sender or recipients in the e-mail and then looks them up in the
SAP solution to see if a contact exists with the e-mail ID. In some cases, it also tries to make a best guess using
the name.
If the SAP solution cannot determine a contact, then the e-mail is not associated to the contact, even though
this contact is displayed in side pane as a result of the search.
Problems with the accounts or contacts folders may be caused by both contacts and accounts pointing to the
same folder.
Context
The following steps should resolve issues related to the contact and accounts folders:
Procedure
1. Under Settings, change the path of the Accounts folder to SAP Cloud for Customer Accounts.
For some users, if you have enabled automatic logon, the In Progress status appears and the logon button is
grayed out.
Context
You can resolve this issue with one of the following options:
Procedure
Related Information
Log On to SAP Cloud for Customer From Microsoft Outlook [page 864]
The accept button is grayed out for the organizer when attendees send new time proposals.
Sometimes although the add-in loads successfully, the functions are disabled. In this case, the buttons are
visible but grayed out.
Context
This problem may be caused by the user downgrading their Microsoft Outlook version, or a corrupt or blank
config file. Depending on the suspected cause, use one of the following fixes:
Procedure
Since these registry keys can destabilize the Microsoft Office application if they are not modified correctly,
we do not recommend this option. The keys are not related to the SAP add-in but related to Microsoft
Office. Nevertheless, the procedure is outlined here.
In this example, Microsoft Outlook 2013 was installed earlier and the customer downgraded to Microsoft
Outlook 2010.
1. Close any open instances of Microsoft Outlook.
2. Open the registry editor (Windows Run command > regedit.exe).
3. Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\{00063001-0000-0000-
C000-000000000046}\TypeLib or HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Wow6432Node\Interface
\{00063001-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}\TypeLib.
4. Check the value for Version.
Since the customer has downgraded from Microsoft Office 2013 to Microsoft Office 2010, the value
should be 9.4 and not 9.5.
Note
Stack trace:
at
SAP.BYD.Office.Outlook.Core.Configurations.Configuration.Initialize(Configuratio
nStoreType configurationStoreType) at
SAP.BYD.Office.Outlook.Core.Configurations.Configuration..ctor() at
SAP.BYD.Office.Outlook.Core.Configurations.Configuration.GetInstance() at
SAP.BYD.Office.Outlook.Core.Configurations.FolderManager.LoadExistingConfigurati
on() at SAP.BYD.Office.Outlook.Addin.Controller.MainController.Initialize() at
SAP.BYD.Office.Outlook.Addin.AddInManager.<Application_Startup>b__0()
In this case, your only options are to delete the corresponding config file or delete the entire config folder.
The config folder is under %LOCALAPPDATA%\SAP\C4C.
In some cases, if synchronization fails or information does not appear in the side pane, the add-in responds
with the message "You do not have sufficient permission to perform this operation."
Context
Procedure
The user may be prevented from adding new content (includes folder creation). In such a case, the folders
are not created and the add-in can behave incorrectly. Try this:
Note
The <x>.0 placeholder represents the version of Microsoft Outlook: for example, 16.0 is Microsoft
Outlook 2016, 15.0 is Microsoft Outlook 2013 and 14.0 is Microsoft Outlook 2010.
Microsoft Outlook imposes strict time limits for add-ins. These time limits include 1000 ms for loading, 500 ms
for folder switches and for shutdown. If the add-in exceeds this time limit, then Microsoft Outlook disables the
add-in.
Prerequisites
Context
When you reactivate the add-in, if it works without further issues, try the following approaches to resolve the
issue.
Procedure
Policy attributes can also be used by the IT admin as part of their group policy object (GPO).
1. Close Microsoft Outlook.
2. Copy this script into Notepad and save the file as registry_policy_script.reg.
Note
Note
Related Information
If you have all the necessary roles and access rights assigned to you, but the visit indicator is still disabled, ask
your administrator to delete and then re-create your profile in the SAP solution.
● User is the organizer for the appointment. This is the case for new appointments.
● The e-mail ID of the organizer matches the mail ID of the Microsoft Outlook profile (default e-mail ID).
The e-mail IDs not matching is the culprit in most cases and it can happen due to many reasons. For example:
● Name change: The e-mail ID had also changed. Though the user could receive e-mails with both old and
new e-mail IDs and all synchronization worked, the visit indicator was disabled.
● Multiple e-mail IDs: User chooses a calendar with a different default e-mail ID. This is a complex case and
does not happen often with business users.
The add-in tries to resolve the primary e-mail ID of the user and checks the primary e-mail ID against the
default e-mail ID. When this check fails, the indicator is disabled.
Related Information
21.2.10.10 The side pane does not open. How can I fix it?
Even when the add-in is enabled and users click the Show Side Pane button, the side pane does not appear.
Causes could include: having multiple inbox windows open, using third-party add-ins with conflicting views, or
the Microsoft Outlook profile may be corrupt.
Depending on which case you suspect is causing the problem, try one of the following fixes:
● If you have multiple inboxes open, try to limit yourself to having only one inbox open at a time.
● In the case of third-party add-in interference, try one of the following options:
○ Disable any third party add-ins that are not in use.
○ Open Microsoft Outlook with the following switch from the Microsoft Windows run command:
outlook.exe /cleanviews.
● If you suspect that the Microsoft Outlook profile is corrupt, delete and re-create your Microsoft Outlook
profile.
Context
Procedure
In the August 2016 release, the add-in was modified to load in the shortest time possible. However there are
couple of factors that might still slow down the performance of Microsoft Outlook.
Related Information
When synchronizing activities from your SAP solution to Microsoft Outlook, the SAP Cloud for Customer Add-
In for Microsoft Outlook might raise a message in the conflict folder. This indicates a conflict in the user
information between the activity and user profile.
Each activity type affected by this user mismatch has a different consequence.
E-mail The from e-mail ID of an activity in the E-mail is saved in the sent items of Mi
SAP solution does not match the cur crosoft Outlook with the from value
rent e-mail ID of the Microsoft Outlook matching the current user's Microsoft
profile. Outlook profile (default). Conflict infor
mation is logged in the Conflicts folder.
Task Owner's e-mail ID of task in the SAP sol Message is saved in the default task
ution does not match the current user folder with the owner matching the cur
e-mail ID of the Microsoft Outlook pro rent Microsoft Outlook profile user (de
file. fault).
Note
If the task due date is more than
one month in the past, the task is
not created and a conflict message
is not raised.
Contact and account During synchronization to the SAP solu Contact is saved if it is subscribed to.
tion from Microsoft Outlook, the e-mail Otherwise, the contact is unsubscribed
ID of the current user does not match from synchronization. If unsubscription
the e-mail ID of the current Microsoft happens, the conflict is still raised
Outlook profile. though the contact is not saved.
Users created using Service Agent If a conflict message is raised with a For Outlook add-in to function properly,
message where the system user e-mail create users as proper employees in the
ID is blank, it means that the current system and not via the service agent
user was created using the service option. During the initial logon, the add-
agent option. in retrieves some information from the
employee objects and uses it for valida
tion during the synchronization proc
ess. If validation fails, a conflict is raised
though the process itself does not stop.
You've installed the SAP Cloud for Customer Add-In for Microsoft Outlook, but it doesn't appear when you open
your inbox.
Context
Sometimes Microsoft Outlook disables the SAP Cloud for Customer Add-In for Microsoft Outlook, so end users
cannot see it. You can fix this issue like this:
Procedure
In rare cases, the SAP Cloud for Customer Add-In for Microsoft Outlook loads properly, but all buttons are
disabled.
Context
Downgrading Microsoft Outlook to a previous version, such as downgrading Microsoft Outlook 2016 to the
2013 version, creates an inconsistency that causes this problem.
Someone who is aware of the registry editor and the consequences of incorrect operation, such as your system
administrator, can check the cause of the problem like this:
Procedure
○ If the system is running a 32-bit Microsoft Outlook application on a 64-bit Microsoft Windows system,
go to registry key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Wow6432Node\Interface\{00063001-0000-0000-
C000-000000000046}\TypeLib.
○ In all other cases, go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\{00063001-0000-0000-
C000-000000000046}\TypeLib.
3. Check that the version corresponds with your version of Microsoft Outlook.
4. Go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\{00062FFF-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}. Check the key.
Only the key for your version of Microsoft Outlook should be present. A mismatch is the cause of this issue.
If you have found a mismatch, resolve this issue by performing a repair installation of Microsoft Outlook.
When you compose an e-mail, all other buttons work properly, but the Save and Send E-Mail button is the only
one that is disabled. This happens when the service scenario is enabled.
Context
If your add-in is used by service agents, this behavior is correct. If you only use the feature for sales, simply
disable the service scenario like this:
Procedure
No, the SAP Cloud for Customer Add-In for Microsoft Outlook does not support synchronization of recurring
appointments.
Add-in functions are not displayed when you select a recurring appointment.
Related Information
Yes. In the SAP Cloud for Customer Add-In for Microsoft Outlook, visits are technically similar to appointments,
and the SAP solution handles them in the same way.
The definitions of meetings and appointments are slightly different, depending on whether you're looking at it
from the perspective of Microsoft Outlook or your SAP solution.
Microsoft Outlook considers appointments and meeting requests to be two different entities:
In SAP Cloud for Customer, appointments are considered appointments, regardless of whether they contain
attendees.
SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for Microsoft Outlook is a cloud application that performs two-
way synchronization of data between your SAP Cloud for Customer account and mailbox server. In addition, it
provides access to SAP Cloud for Customer data right from your e-mail inbox.
Scope and Configure SAP Cloud for Customer, Server-Side Integration for Microsoft Outlook [page 906]
As an administrator, you must define and set up the server-side integration for Microsoft Outlook.
FAQ for SAP Cloud for Customer, Server-Side Integration for Microsoft Outlook [page 963]
Having trouble using this add-in? Check this list of questions and answers for help.
As an administrator, you must define and set up the server-side integration for Microsoft Outlook.
SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for Microsoft Outlook is a service that performs two-way
synchronization of data between SAP Cloud for Customer and the Microsoft Exchange mailbox. It allows users
to interact with SAP Cloud for Customer directly from an e-mail application. This interaction can happen in the
following ways:
● By placing contacts, appointments, visits, tasks, or e-mails into special folders or by assigning these items
to the SAP category in Microsoft Outlook.
● By providing Microsoft Outlook users (on Microsoft Windows, OS X, Web-based, or mobile) with the add-in
that can interact with SAP Cloud for Customer.
Administrators must set up this integration for users by provisioning users, managing provisioned users,
creating organizations and assigning users to them, and creating and managing profiles with configuration
settings.
Manage Installation of SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for Microsoft Outlook [page 930]
As an administrator, you may want to mass-deploy the add-in, check installation status for a user, or
install the add-in manually.
Customize SAP Cloud for Customer, Server-Side Integration for Groupware [page 936]
As an administrator, you can customize the default appearance and behavior of the SAP Cloud for
Customer, server-side integration for groupware.
Only SAP Cloud for Customer administrators can access the groupware settings. Ordinary users (SAP Cloud
for Customer tenants without administrative rights) do not have access to the groupware settings. Therefore,
before proceeding to the groupware settings, make sure that you have an appropriate user in SAP Cloud for
Customer that has administration permissions.
To access the groupware settings, in SAP Cloud for Customer, go to E-Mail Integration Groupware
Settings .
When you access the Groupware Settings tab for the first time as an administrator, you are automatically
provisioned to the SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for groupware. Specifically, this means that
you are automatically:
When you are provisioned by the system, you also receive a notification e-mail in your inbox. The solution uses
the e-mail address that was configured in SAP Cloud for Customer.
After you are provisioned, you can perform other administrative tasks, such as provisioning other users,
creating new organizations or profiles, or configuring settings for SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side
integration for groupware.
Related Information
Since the SAP solution allows the user roles to be changed, an administrator can become an ordinary user or
vice versa.
When such a change in roles occurs, SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for groupware adapts to
the situation – when a user logs on to SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for groupware, the user
permissions are automatically adjusted based on the new user’s role in the SAP solution.
More and more business happens when people are away from their desks, out in the field. Administrators can
make a few settings to enable their company to work right from mobile devices.
As an administrator, you can enable SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for Microsoft Outlook to
work in the Microsoft Outlook mobile app.
Log on as an administrator to SAP Cloud for Customer HTML client and go to E-Mail Integration Groupware
Settings Users . In the row of the user you want to enable, in the Actions column, choose Install SAP Hybris
Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for Microsoft Outlook. Reinstalling the add-in enables the add-in to
work on supported mobile platforms and reactivates the users that you selected.
A profile is a collection of configuration settings and parameters. When administrators provision users, a profile
is assigned to each user. To be provisioned, users must be assigned to a profile.
To see a list of available profiles, log on to the HTLML5 client as an administrator and choose E-Mail
Integration Groupware Settings Profiles .
Note
Server-side integration uses OData V2 APIs for synchronization. For add-in, server-side integration uses
OData V1 APIs.
Administrators can create profiles, which are collections of configuration settings and parameters. During
provisioning, administrators must assign users to profiles.
Profile Types
Profile Description
Default profile template After provisioning, users are automatically assigned a de
fault profile template. This profile contains the default con
figuration for SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side
integration for groupware. The default profile template is
provided by the Professional Services team and cannot be
edited by an administrator or an ordinary user. However, the
default profile template can be used for creating other profile
templates.
Profile template Profile that can be created and edited by administrators. The
profile template can either be created from a default profile
template or from scratch, and it can be assigned to either or
dinary users or administrators. Ordinary users cannot edit
profile templates, but they can switch between available pro
files using the dashboard in SAP Cloud for Customer, server-
side integration for groupware. A profile template can also
be specified instead of the default profile when administra
tors create new organizations.
Customized profile If an ordinary user changes the settings that are defined by
the selected profile template (for example, changes the syn
chronization settings on the dashboard), this profile tem
plate becomes a customized profile. The customized profile
is only effective for the user who created it, but such a profile
can be saved as a profile template by an administrator. When
converted to a profile template, it can be shared among
other users.
Administrators can create new profile templates from either a default profile or from another profile template.
Profle templates cannot be created from scratch.
Context
To see a list of available profiles, log on to the HTLML5 client as an administrator and choose E-Mail
Integration Groupware Settings Profiles .
Procedure
1. Log on to the HTLML5 client as an administrator and go to E-Mail Integration Groupware Settings
Profiles .
2. Find the profile that you want to base your new profile on. You can use both the default profile template and
user-created profile templates.
To identify a default profile, look in the Actions column for a profile for which the trash icon is disabled
(since the default profile cannot be deleted).
3. In the Actions column, click the copy icon.
4. On the screen that appears, enter the appropriate information.
5. Save your changes.
Administrators can configure the search so that it only returns exact matches.
By default, the add-in adds wildcards (*) automatically before and after search terms that users enter. If you do
not want the wildcards to be added automatically, use the strict search, which only returns exact matches.
Note
Log on to the HTLML5 client as an administrator and go to E-Mail Integration Groupware Settings and
make the setting to use the strict search. The setting applies to all users and all searches.
SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for groupware uses synchronization filters to determine which
records to synchronize between the user’s mailbox and SAP Cloud for Customer. Administrators can configure
different filters for each record type.
Context
When you configure the profile’s synchronization filters, for each record type, you can choose from the
following options:
● My Records
Synchronizes records where the user is an owner. For contacts – synchronize records where the user is an
owner of the associated account.
● My Team's Records
Only applicable for contacts and accounts. For contacts – synchronizes records where the user or the
members of the user’s team are the owners of the associated account; for accounts – synchronizes
records where the user or the members of the user’s team are owners.
● Do Not Synchronize
Procedure
1. Log on to the HTLML5 client as an administrator and go to E-Mail Integration Groupware Settings
Profiles and open the profile that you want to edit.
2. On the Sync Settings tab, go to the card for the type or record you want to edit.
3. Under Settings, select the synchronization filter that you need.
4. Save your entries.
Administrators can restrict ordinary users from performing certain actions. These restrictions can be set for
individual record types and can apply to both the SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for
groupware and synchronization settings.
Context
Note
An ordinary user is not allowed to change restrictions even in the context of a customized profile.
Procedure
Note
By default, individual customers are not synchronized with the user’s mailbox. However, it is possible to
enable synchronization for the records of this type by using the Synchronize Individual Customers
restriction. If you select this restriction, users can share individual customers via the Individual
Customers folder that is added to the user’s mailbox.
Note
For attachments, you can specify the file name extensions that you want to allow or block. To do so,
under Sync Settings General Sync Settings , in the Allowed File Extensions for Attachments or
Prohibited File Extensions for Attachments box, either select the extensions from a list or type a list of
such extensions separated by commas or spaces. Note that, when you add extensions, the leading dot
is optional. In other words, both .docx and docx are allowed.
Administrators can edit smart descriptions, which allow fields that are not mapped to native mail server fields
to be displayed for the user.
Context
● For contacts, individual customers, and accounts, the values of the specified fields appear in the notes
section.
● For tasks, field values appear in the body of the task.
Note
A set of SAP Cloud for Customer fields that are available for selection is defined by the user’s metainfo.
Service fields are omitted.
To specify the fields that are to be shown as smart descriptions, do the following:
Procedure
You can add as many fields as you need by repeating the last two steps.
Results
If, for some reason, the content of the fields specified as smart descriptions cannot be displayed, these fields
are omitted. For example, if the user does not have permission to view the content, the field does not appear.
Administrators can apply any profile changes they make to all users, even if the profile is already in use.
To push a profile change to all users at once, log on to the HTML client as an administrator and go to E-Mail
Integration Groupware Settings Organizations . Open an organization, choose the profile you want to
apply, and choose Settings Save and Apply Profile for All Users .
To make user management easier, administrators can divide users into groups called organizations. An
organization can be configured to provide its users with specific common configuration.
When a new user is provisioned, administrators must assign the new user to an organization, either default or
newly created; otherwise, the user cannot be provisioned. Unprovisioned users are not assigned to any
organization.
Users in the same organization share common, organization-specific synchronization settings. By adding users
to or removing them from the organization, an administrator can manage which configurations are used by
which users.
When a new SAP Cloud for Customer tenant is provisioned to SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration
for groupware, a new default organization is created. This default organization cannot be deleted; however,
administrators can edit its name and settings.
A new or default organization is also assigned a template profile (a collection of specific configuration settings
and parameters), which administrators can change later. This template profile is automatically applied to all
users in the organization.
At the level of organization, you can define the following settings for its users:
You can view a list of organizations by logging on to the HTLML5 client as an administrator and choosing E-
Mail Integration Groupware Settings Organizations .
You can show or hide columns in the list by using the hamburger icon.
Related Information
At the organization level, administrators can control how users access their mailboxes.
Context
When a new organization is created, specify the type of mailbox access to be used for the organization’s users.
When the access type is selected and configured, it is applied to all users in the organization. Users can only
use the defined access type to access their mailboxes.
As an administrator, you can change the mailbox access type at any time. To change the mailbox access type
for the organization, do the following:
Procedure
Configure the access type by entering appropriate information in the fields that appear.
You can verify whether the impersonating account specified for the organization can access accounts of
the users added to this organization. To do so, on the Organizations tab, under Actions, choose the key icon
( ).
Results
Caution
If the change of the mailbox access type is not accompanied by corresponding changes in the organization
users’ settings, it may affect the ability of those users to access their mailboxes.
Context
Procedure
Results
All organizations must be associated with a profile template. The profile template is assigned automatically to
all users in this organization. As an administrator, when you create a new organization, you must specify the
profile template that the system uses by default.
Context
Administrators can change the default profile template to any other profile after the organization is created;
however, if that profile gets deleted or renamed, the organization reverts automatically to the profile that was
specified as default.
Procedure
Administrators can view statistics about the last synchronization session for each user in the organization.
Context
Procedure
You can show or hide columns in the list by using the icon.
Context
Procedure
Context
Note
Procedure
Note
If a user in the organization cannot be reset (for example, SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side
integration for groupware can no longer access the user’s mailbox), but you still must delete the
organization, you can force deletion of the user without resetting it. Note that any changes that were
made by SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for groupware to the user’s mailbox (such as
adding extra folders) are not removed.
To force the deletion of an organization that contains users that could not be reset, on the
Organizations tab, open the organization that you want to force-delete and choose Settings Force
Delete
As an administrator, you must create users in SAP Cloud for Customer and provision them to SAP Cloud for
Customer, server-side integration for groupware. At that point, users can access and use SAP Cloud for
Customer, server-side integration for groupware.
Provisioning is the process for administrators to create and activate users, and manage user access to SAP
Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for groupware. Provisioning also starts the synchronization
between the e-mail inbox and the SAP solution for provisioned users.
Context
Note
You must have active profiles and active organizations in the system before you start profiling users.
Recommendation
Using the same e-mail address across different tenants and for both testing and productive use may cause
problems.
● Testing
● Productive use
● Each tenant
Provisioning of users can only be performed by an administrator in SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side
integration for groupware, who belongs to an SAP Cloud for Customer tenant and has administrative rights.
Administrators are provisioned automatically the first time they access the Groupware Settings tab.
To see a list of users that can be provisioned, log on to the HTLML5 client as an administrator, go to E-Mail
Integration Groupware Settings Provisioning .
You can show or hide columns in the list by using the icon.
Procedure
You can filter users by business role and provision the entire list at the same time.
You can also provision several users at once by selecting them with the check mark to the left of their
names and choosing Activate Selected.
3. On the next screen, the default organization is selected. Check and change it as necessary.
4. Specify the profile that is assigned to all users in the organization by default.
5. (Optional) Select the checkbox to send a welcome e-mail to the user.
An e-mail with instructions on how to proceed with SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for
Microsoft Outlook or SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for Gmail is sent to the user following
provisioning.
6. Click Provision.
Results
Note
If an administrator provisions a user without this user receiving a welcome e-mail, then the provisioned
user is not informed of this action and does receive instructions on how to proceed with or configure
SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for groupware.
The SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for Microsoft Outlook or SAP Cloud for Customer, server-
side integration for Gmail is installed automatically for provisioned users after they successfully sign in to the
appropriate mail server (Microsoft Exchange or Gmail).
If the following requirements are met, no further actions are required for provisioned users:
● The organization that the user is assigned to uses the mailbox access type Microsoft Exchange
Impersonation.
● The user’s SAP Cloud for Customer e-mail address is the same as the user’s address in the exchange
server.
● The user’s e-mail address is added to the list of addresses of users who are impersonated.
Otherwise, a provisioned user must either follow instructions in the welcome e-mail, or an administrator must
manually configure SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for groupware for that user.
Related Information
As an administrator, when you delete a user, it means that this user can no longer use SAP Cloud for Customer,
server-side integration for groupware and synchronize data. In other words, a deleted user becomes an
unprovisioned user. Such users appear on the Provisioning tab, and, if required, can be provisioned again.
Context
Caution
If an SAP Cloud for Customer user is deactivated or deleted, the corresponding SAP Cloud for Customer,
server-side integration for groupware user still remains active and billable. For such user to be completely
unprovisioned and deleted from SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for groupware, he or she
must be explicitly deleted by an administrator.
Procedure
Note
If for some reason, a user cannot be reset (for example, SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side
integration for groupware can no longer access the user’s mailbox), but you still must delete the user,
you can force the deletion of the user without resetting it. Note that any changes that were made by
SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for groupware to the user’s mailbox (such as adding
additional folders) are not removed.
To force the deletion of a user, log on to the HTLML5 client as an administrator, go to E-Mail
Integration Groupware Settings Users , open the user that you want to force-delete and choose
Settings Force Delete .
2. Log on as an administrator to SAP Cloud for Customer HTML client, go to E-Mail Integration
Groupware Settings Users , and do one of the following:
As an administrator, after you provision users to SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for
groupware, you can manage various user-related settings like disabling synchronization for users or assigning
them to another organization. You can also delete provisioned users, transitioning them back to an
unprovisioned state and preventing them from using SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for
groupware.
You can show or hide columns in the list by using the icon.
Note
On the Users tab, users for whom the mailbox is initialized appear in bold font.
Related Information
By default, synchronization is disabled for a newly provisioned user until that user completes an initial
configuration for SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for groupware, using the welcome wizard. In
the list on the Users tab, the users for which synchronization is enabled are shown in black, while the users for
which it is suspended are shown in red.
Note
To change synchronization for a user, on the Users tab, under Actions, choose the synchronization icon.
You can change the synchronization status for several users at the same time by selecting them, choosing
Settings, and clicking Enable Synchronization or Disable Synchronization.
There can be differences between the organization’s synchronization status and an individual user’s
synchronization status. SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for groupware compares these
statuses when determining the effective status. The organization’s status always overrides the individual user’s
status except when synchronization is disabled for the user that belongs to the organization for which the
synchronization is enabled – in this situation, the user’s status overrides the organization’s status.
By default, SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for groupware automatically synchronizes data
every 30 minutes, but administrators can synchronize manually at any time. You cannot force synchronization
more than once per minute.
Context
Procedure
1. Log on to the HTLML5 client as an administrator, and go to E-Mail Integration Groupware Settings
Users .
2. Under Actions, choose the appropriate icon.
You can force synchronization for several users at the same time by selecting them, choosing Settings, and
clicking Force Sync.
In SAP Cloud for Customer, when associated with visits, users can be either visit organizers or visit owners. As
an administrator, you must configure which visits are synchronized for users.
Context
You can define which visits must be synchronized for the user – where the user is an owner or organizer – as
follows:
Procedure
During the provisioning process, as the administrator, you assign users to a template profile (either specified or
default for the organization). After provisioning, you can change the profile that is assigned to the user.
Context
Procedure
Related Information
As an administrator, you can specify the organization each user is assigned to during the provisioning process.
Otherwise, users are automatically assigned to the default organization. After provisioning, you can change the
organization to which users are assigned.
Context
Note
When assigning users to other organizations, be aware that the new organization may use different mailbox
access types or Microsoft Exchange Server impersonation settings. As a result, it may affect the ability of
SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for groupware to access the user's mailbox.
Procedure
When an initial synchronization is started, SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for groupware
performs the initialization of the user’s mailbox. It adds new folders and categories. However, if an error occurs
that may affect the integrity of synchronized data, administrators may need to reinitialize the user’s mailbox.
Context
Caution
When reinitializing a user’s mailbox, all previously synchronized data is removed from the mailbox.
Therefore, make sure that the user has backed up his or her data before performing this operation.
Procedure
Results
Administrators can reset a user’s mailbox and disable synchronization for that user. For example, this operation
is required when preparing an organization for deletion, since the organization cannot be removed until all of its
users are reset in this manner.
Context
Procedure
Note
If synchronization is re-enabled for the user, the user’s mailbox is automatically initialized during the
next synchronization session.
For troubleshooting purposes, it is possible for administrators to verify a connection status between SAP Cloud
for Customer, server-side integration for groupware and the user’s mail server. If the connection is not
available, the most likely cause is that the password has expired or some of the settings are not correct.
To check connectivity between SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for groupware and Microsoft
Exchange or Gmail, do the following:
Procedure
As an administrator, you can enable SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for Microsoft Outlook to
share e-mails automatically by changing settings in the user profiles.
Procedure
1. Log on as an administrator to SAP Cloud for Customer HTML client and go to E-Mail Integration
Groupware Settings Profile , open a profile, enable auto-sharing for e-mail, and choose Save.
2. Assign the updated profile to the appropriate users.
Related Information
To find out more information about a user's synchronization sessions, administrators can view user statistics.
Context
Procedure
You can show or hide columns in the list by using the icon.
Context
Procedure
As an administrator, you may want to mass-deploy the add-in, check installation status for a user, or install the
add-in manually.
The SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for Microsoft Outlook is an optional but essential part of
SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for groupware. The user provisioning process does not imply
the automatic installation of the add-in for the user.
Depending on the user’s mailbox access type, you can install SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration
for Microsoft Outlook in one of the following ways:
● If the Microsoft Exchange Direct Logon access type is used, you install the SAP Cloud for Customer, server-
side integration for Microsoft Outlook after you change the user’s e-mail address.
● If the Microsoft Exchange Impersonation access type is used, you install the SAP Cloud for Customer,
server-side integration for Microsoft Outlook after you enable synchronization for the user.
As an administrator, you can remotely verify whether the SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for
Microsoft Outlook is installed for the user.
Context
Procedure
As with any other add-in for Microsoft Outlook, administrators can mass-deploy the SAP Cloud for Customer,
server-side integration for Microsoft Outlook to provisioned users.
Context
For mass deployment, you need the add-in manifest. To download the manifest, do the following:
Procedure
Results
After you have downloaded the manifest, for information on how to mass-deploy add-ins, see the
documentation for Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft Outlook.
If the SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for Microsoft Outlook was not installed for a provisioned
user, an administrator can install it manually for that user.
Context
Procedure
Administrators can trigger SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for groupware to resend a welcome
e-mail to users.
Context
Procedure
As an administrator, you can edit the user name and mailbox settings that were specified during the
provisioning process or defined by the organization to which the user belongs.
Context
You can either change the user's general settings or the mailbox access settings.
Procedure
○ If the Microsoft Exchange Direct Logon access type is used, you can modify any of the fields that
appear.
For Microsoft Office 365: If the user uses the OAUTH2 authentication, you can switch back to the basic
authentication method (access via the logon and password) and delete the refresh token (click
Invalidate Password).
○ If the Microsoft Exchange Impersonation access type is used, you can modify the e-mail address only.
Administrators can use information about synchronization issues for troubleshooting purposes.
Context
SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for groupware tracks all the synchronization issues that occur
for users.
Procedure
Note
If due to a synchronization issue, SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for groupware
automatically disables synchronization for the user, this user receives a notification e-mail with
instructions on how to proceed. As the administrator, if you also want to be notified of these issues, you
can specify one or more e-mail addresses to which the copies of these notification e-mails are sent. To
do so, on the Settings tab, enter the e-mail addresses in the E-Mails for Notifications field.
Administrators can make settings to freeze the description for appointments, visits, and meetings in the
HTML5 client after initial synchronization.
Log on to the HTLML5 client as an administrator and go to E-Mail Integration Groupware Settings
Settings Calendar Configuration . Select the checkbox to freeze the contents of the description field after
initial synchronization.
Administrators can set up auto-sharing for appointments and meetings in the HTML5 client.
Log on to the HTLML5 client as an administrator and go to E-Mail Integration Groupware Settings
Profiles and select a profile. Under Sync Settings Calendar Sync Options , select the appropriate
checkboxes to enable auto-sharing according to your company's needs. Then apply these settings to the
respective users.
If a user wants to use the solution in a language that is different from their initial logon language, administrators
must apply localization for another language.
During the provisioning process, SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for groupware detects the
current SAP Cloud for Customer UI language and uses this language for user mailbox customization.
The language that SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for groupware uses is the language of the
user interface (UI) of SAP Cloud for Customer. To change the language of the add-in, you or your administrator
must change the logon language of SAP Cloud for Customer.
The following user interface elements belonging to SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for
groupware can be localized:
● Folder names
● Category names
● Information messages
Following their initial logon, if a user logs on to SAP Cloud for Customer in a different language, the UI language
for the add-in is not updated for provisioned users. Users can change their SAP Cloud for Customer, server-
side integration for groupware UI language themselves on the dashboard under Sync Settings Detailed
Settings Localization .
Remember
When a new localization is applied to the user, the user’s mailbox is reinitialized and all previously
synchronized data is removed from the mailbox. Therefore, make sure that the user has backed up all data
before performing this operation.
Administrators can remotely remove the SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for Microsoft Outlook
that was installed for the user.
Context
Procedure
As an administrator, you can customize the default appearance and behavior of the SAP Cloud for Customer,
server-side integration for groupware.
● Which record types to show or hide in SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for Microsoft
Outlook or SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for Gmail
● Which fields to show in both the record card (basic view) or in the detailed record view
● The sort order for record cards
● Criteria to use for searching the records
● How data should be retrieved for opened e-mails or events and how e-mail tracking should behave
Administrators can customize the fields that are available for all record types.
Context
Your company may not need to track certain information, or may use different terms than the terms in the add-
in. You can customize each record type to fit your company's needs.
Procedure
Administrators can configure fields for sorting and searching for each record type.
Context
Procedure
1. Log on to the HTLML5 client as an administrator, go to E-Mail Integration Groupware Settings Profiles
Add-In Settings , on the record type you want to edit, choose Settings.
2. Configure the following settings:
○ Under Sort By, select the fields by which the record cards are sorted by when they appear in the main
add-in window or in search results.
○ Under Search By, specify one or more fields to search by when users run a search.
Administrators can define up to four fields to show in the basic view of each record type.
Context
To select which record fields to show in the record card, do the following:
Procedure
1. Log on to the HTLML5 client as an administrator, go to E-Mail Integration Groupware Settings Profiles
Add-In Settings , and on the record type you want to edit, choose Basic View.
2. In the Fields in Basic View list, select the field to show.
Administrators can define which fields to show and hide in the details view for records.
Context
To select which record field to show in the detailed view, do the following:
Procedure
1. Log on to the HTLML5 client as an administrator, go to E-Mail Integration Groupware Settings Profiles
Add-In Settings , and on the record type you want to edit, choose Detailed View.
2. Choose Add field to detailed view and select a field to add.
You can add as many fields as you need.
Since SAP Cloud for Customer does not support reminders, SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration
for groupware allows administrators to set a default reminder time for tasks, appointments, and visits retrieved
from SAP Cloud for Customer.
Context
Procedure
2. Under Sync Settings General Sync Settings , for tasks, appointments, or visits, set the reminder time
in the Remind About... fields. If you want to disable a reminder, choose Reminder is OFF.
A list of the main concepts the administrator should be familiar with when managing SAP Cloud for Customer,
server-side integration for groupware for Microsoft Outlook or Gmail.
Main Concepts for SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for groupware
Term Description
SAP Cloud for Customer - Administrator A user that belongs to an SAP Cloud for Customer tenant
and has administrative rights. Only an administrator can ac
cess the Groupware Settings tab and manage other adminis
trators or ordinary users of SAP Cloud for Customer, server-
side integration for Microsoft Outlook or SAP Cloud for
Customer, server-side integration for Gmail.
SAP Cloud for Customer - User A user in an SAP Cloud for Customer tenant that does not
have administrative rights. A user has no access to the
Groupware Settings tab and cannot manage other users.
profile template A profile that serves as a template for a user. A profile tem
plate provides some predefined configuration settings that
can later be customized by a user. When a user changes set
tings in the profile template, such profile template becomes
a customized profile.
default profile template A profile that provides users with the default SAP Cloud for
Customer, server-side integration for Microsoft Outlook or
SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for Gmail
configuration. A default profile template is created automati
cally and cannot be edited. It can also be used as a basis for
creating new or customized profiles.
Most likely, your administrator has already set up SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for
Microsoft Outlook, signed you up for an account, installed the add-in, and applied the default settings. In case
you need to repeat some steps or change settings, use the following procedures.
In addition to uninstalling SAP Cloud for Customer Add-In for Microsoft Outlook, there are a few steps you
should take to preserve any SAP data that is in your Microsoft Outlook e-mail client.
Context
Note
The same user should not use both the client-side and the server-side add-in for Microsoft Outlook. Using
the two solutions together or modifying appointments during the migration period will lead to duplicates. If
you decide to use SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for Microsoft Outlook, uninstall the SAP
Cloud for Customer Add-In for Microsoft Outlook.
Caution
When you uninstall SAP Cloud for Customer Add-In for Microsoft Outlook, SAP-specific folders in the contacts,
tasks, and e-mail areas remain. To prevent data loss and confusion, do the following:
Procedure
1. In Microsoft Outlook, in the contacts area, under the SAP-specific folder, copy all account and contact
information you want to keep.
You can copy your accounts and contacts into new, separate folders or into temporary folders.
2. Repeat step 1 for tasks and any other SAP-specific folders you may have in Microsoft Outlook.
3. When you have all data that you want to back-up copied into other folders, delete the SAP-specific folders.
4. For calendar synchronization:
1. Ensure that the client-side add-in is disabled.
2. Do not change appointments during the migration period when the client-side add-in is turned off and
the server-side add-in does the initial sync.
When you install the SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for Microsoft Outlook, new SAP
folders are created.
Related Information
For better performance, the total number of records that SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for
groupware can synchronize is limited to 10000. This limit is predefined and cannot be changed, even by an
administrator.
Some SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for groupware plans have a limit on the maximum
number of synchronized records. Once the limit is reached, SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for
groupware may limit the number of records retrieved from SAP to your Microsoft Exchange.
Example
Suppose you have 15,000 contacts in SAP, and your plan allows for a maximum of 10K records. If you
synchronize only the contacts, then only 10,000 of those 15,000 will be synchronized between your SAP
solution and Microsoft Exchange. SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for groupware will
retrieve the newest 10,000 contacts based on the contact creation date.
Note
The number of e-mail messages that users can synchronize with SAP Cloud for Customer is unlimited.
Within the limit of 10000 records, there is also a limit on the number of records for each record type. By default,
these limits are as follows:
● For contacts, accounts, and individual customers: maximum 3000 records of each type
● For visits, appointments, and tasks: maximum 1000 records total
Note
SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for groupware synchronizes the newest records first.
When a number of records exceeds the specified limit, older records beyond this limit are skipped.
To start using SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for groupware, you need to provide some
information about you and your configuration by signing up for an account in SAP Cloud for Customer, server-
side integration for groupware. Your administrator may complete the sign-up process for you.
Context
Tip
If you try to complete the steps below, but the fields are grayed out, it means that your system
administrator has already completed these steps for you.
Procedure
Specify your Microsoft Office 365 or Microsoft Exchange account that will be used with SAP Cloud for
Customer, server-side integration for groupware. Under Sync Settings E-Mail Configuration
Change , do one of the following:
○ To log in to your Microsoft Office 365 account, click the Microsoft Office 365 logo. In the window that
appears, specify your account e-mail and password.
○ If you use an on-premise installation of Microsoft Exchange, your exchange server is hosted by some
third-party provider, or you use Outlook.com Mail (Outlook.com), choose the button containing the
Microsoft Exchange logo, click the advanced setup link, and do the following:
1. Enter your e-mail address.
2. Enter your password.
3. In some configurations, you may be asked to provide your exchange user name. In this case,
specify it in the User Name box. This name is usually your domain name followed by a backslash
and your account ID. For example, if your domain is "work" and your Windows account ID is
"johndoe," enter work\johndoe.
4. In most cases, SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for groupware automatically finds
the required EWS endpoint URL, but if the solution did not find it or you need to specify it manually,
select the Specify Exchange Web Services URL Manually check box and enter the Exchange Web
Services endpoint URL.
5. Choose Next.
2. Select the data that you want to synchronize.
Select what types of records you want to synchronize – appointments, tasks, or contacts – by activating or
deactivating the corresponding button:
○ Appointments and Tasks
Note
When using a custom SAP set, select the set that includes contacts owned by you. Otherwise,
new contacts that you add from Microsoft Exchange to SAP may be removed from Microsoft
Exchange at a later time because they are not the part of the selected set.
SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for groupware triggers the initial synchronization in the
background and installs the SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for Microsoft Outlook for
compatible e-mail clients.
Related Information
As an administrator, you can edit the user name and mailbox settings that were specified during the
provisioning process or defined by the organization to which the user belongs.
Context
You can either change the user's general settings or the mailbox access settings.
○ If the Microsoft Exchange Direct Logon access type is used, you can modify any of the fields that
appear.
For Microsoft Office 365: If the user uses the OAUTH2 authentication, you can switch back to the basic
authentication method (access via the logon and password) and delete the refresh token (click
Invalidate Password).
○ If the Microsoft Exchange Impersonation access type is used, you can modify the e-mail address only.
If the SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for Microsoft Outlook was not installed automatically
when you signed up for an account, you can install it manually.
Procedure
Go to the section of Microsoft Office where you can manage add-ins. Using the search, find SAP Cloud for
Customer, server-side integration for groupware and activate the switch to install the add-in.
4. If you are not using Microsoft Office 365 and the add-in does not appear, contact your administrator for
assistance.
As an administrator, you can remotely verify whether the SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for
Microsoft Outlook is installed for the user.
Context
Procedure
As with any other add-in for Microsoft Outlook, administrators can mass-deploy the SAP Cloud for Customer,
server-side integration for Microsoft Outlook to provisioned users.
Context
For mass deployment, you need the add-in manifest. To download the manifest, do the following:
Procedure
After you have downloaded the manifest, for information on how to mass-deploy add-ins, see the
documentation for Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft Outlook.
If the SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for Microsoft Outlook was not installed for a provisioned
user, an administrator can install it manually for that user.
Context
Procedure
After your administrator has set up the server-side integration, you will notice the following changes in your e-
mail application:
To personalize your settings, in your SAP solution under E-Mail Integration User Settings Sync Settings ,
change your profile accordingly.
Administrators can apply profile updates to all users quickly and at the same time.
Context
As an administrator, when you change a profile that is the default profile for an organization, you can apply the
profile changes to all users in that organization.
Procedure
1. Log on to your SAP solution as an administrator and make the profile changes in the default profile for an
organization.
3. Select the organization and the updated profile and choose Settings ( ) Save and Apply Profile for All
Users .
Results
The profile changes that you made are reflected for all users of the organization that you selected.
Filters from your SAP solution appear in the synchronization settings for accounts, individual customers, as
well as contacts.
When you set up synchronization for accounts, individual customers, and contacts under E-mail Integration
User Settings Sync Settings Detailed Settings Customize , the filters that appear include filters from
your SAP solution. You can see filters that your administrator created as well as any filters that you defined in
personalization. You can use these filters to define which objects to synchronize.
When you log on to SAP Cloud for Customer the first time, the add-in uses the logon language as the default
language for SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for groupware. If you want to log on later in a
different language, trigger the language update for the add-in manually.
Context
Remember
When a new localization is applied, your mailbox is reinitialized and all previously synchronized data is
removed from the mailbox. Therefore, make sure that you have backed up all of your data before
performing this operation.
To update the language of the add-in to match the language with which you are currently logged on to SAP
Cloud for Customer, do the following:
Procedure
2. Go to E-Mail Integration User Settings Sync Settings Detailed Settings and choose Localization.
Your administrator can also apply localization for your user.
Results
The language in which you are logged on to SAP Cloud for Customer and your add-in now appear in the same
language.
If a user wants to use the solution in a language that is different from their initial logon language, administrators
must apply localization for another language.
During the provisioning process, SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for groupware detects the
current SAP Cloud for Customer UI language and uses this language for user mailbox customization.
The language that SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for groupware uses is the language of the
user interface (UI) of SAP Cloud for Customer. To change the language of the add-in, you or your administrator
must change the logon language of SAP Cloud for Customer.
● Folder names
● Category names
● Information messages
Following their initial logon, if a user logs on to SAP Cloud for Customer in a different language, the UI language
for the add-in is not updated for provisioned users. Users can change their SAP Cloud for Customer, server-
side integration for groupware UI language themselves on the dashboard under Sync Settings Detailed
Settings Localization .
Remember
When a new localization is applied to the user, the user’s mailbox is reinitialized and all previously
synchronized data is removed from the mailbox. Therefore, make sure that the user has backed up all data
before performing this operation.
The SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for Microsoft Outlook allows you to exchange information
between Microsoft Outlook and SAP Cloud for Customer.
If your administrator has made the necessary settings, you can use SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side
integration for Microsoft Outlook on the Microsoft Outlook app.
Note
Due to restrictions in the Microsoft Outlook for mobile app, the add-in is only available in the e-mail read
mode.
As an administrator, you can enable SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for Microsoft Outlook to
work in the Microsoft Outlook mobile app.
Log on as an administrator to SAP Cloud for Customer HTML client and go to E-Mail Integration Groupware
Settings Users . In the row of the user you want to enable, in the Actions column, choose Install SAP Hybris
Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for Microsoft Outlook. Reinstalling the add-in enables the add-in to
work on supported mobile platforms and reactivates the users that you selected.
The add-in works in the context of your e-mail or appointment, and provides you with rich contextual
information from your SAP solution and powerful actions to process e-mail efficiently.
Procedure
○ In Microsoft Outlook for Mac, or Outlook for Web, click the SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration
tab located right above your e-mail message or appointment.
○ When composing a response to someone, click the Add-Ins button above the message, and select SAP
Cloud for Customer, server-side integration from the list.
When you select an e-mail, the add-in automatically recognizes e-mails from customers defined as contacts in
your SAP solution, based on the e-mail address. Information related to that contact and account appears in the
side pane. You can access contact and account information, as well as related opportunities, leads, sales
orders, and activities for the current week, and you can personalize how you would like to view the content.
You can pin information in the side pane so that it persists even when you click another item in Microsoft
Outlook.
Note
Pinning is currently supported in Outlook 2016 for Windows (build 7668.2000 or later for users in the
Current or Office Insider Channels, build 7900.xxxx or later for users in Deferred channels). For more
information, see the Microsoft Outlook documentation.
If you use the SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for Microsoft Outlook, you can do a lot right
from your inbox. For example, you can add e-mails to your SAP solution or add e-mails with reference to other
objects.
You can share formatted or unformatted e-mail messages with your SAP solution. As the e-mail has been
shared, it appears as a completed task in SAP. This task is associated automatically with other relevant SAP
records that were mentioned in the e-mail.
Context
Note
If you skipped the registration of SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for groupware or did not
complete the registration wizard, you cannot share your e-mails with the SAP solution via the SAP E-Mails
folder or by assigning them to the SAP Cloud for Customer category.
Procedure
○ You can assign e-mails to the SAP category by using Categorize in Microsoft Outlook.
Note
In Microsoft Outlook, you cannot assign categories to a new e-mail, thus making sharing via the
assignment to the SAP category impossible from the compose window.
Note
After an e-mail is synchronized, the solution moves it back to the Inbox or Sent Items folder, depending
on whether it was sent or received.
Note
Any images in the body of the e-mail appear as attachments in your SAP solution.
Your administrator can set SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for Microsoft Outlook to
synchronize all e-mails automatically.
As an administrator, you can enable SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for Microsoft Outlook to
share e-mails automatically by changing settings in the user profiles.
Procedure
1. Log on as an administrator to SAP Cloud for Customer HTML client and go to E-Mail Integration
Groupware Settings Profile , open a profile, enable auto-sharing for e-mail, and choose Save.
2. Assign the updated profile to the appropriate users.
Related Information
When you create an e-mail, appointment, visit, or task from your inbox, you can see contacts that are related to
the account that you defined for the activity. Select the appropriate contacts to include in the activity.
If you want to add other contacts, click the header to see other filters from your SAP solution, such as My
Contacts or All Contacts.
If your e-mail contains contacts that exist in the SAP solution, you can save e-mail attachments directly to this
contact.
Procedure
Note
In Microsoft Outlook, you cannot assign categories to a new e-mail, thus making sharing via the
assignment to the SAP category impossible from the compose window.
○ Move new or existing items to the appropriate SAP-specific folder in Microsoft Outlook: SAP Contacts, SAP
E-Mail or SAP Tasks.
You can also use these SAP-specific folders in Outlook to access activities stored in the SAP solution.
Note
After an e-mail is synchronized, the solution moves it back to the Inbox or Sent Items folder, depending
on whether it was sent or received.
If you use SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for Microsoft Outlook, you can create contacts,
associate them with other objects in your SAP system, pin them, and even add contacts from your SAP
solution into Microsoft Outlook.
You can assign contacts to different items in your SAP solution, right from your e-mail application.
Procedure
1. Share a contact with the SAP solution by doing one of the following:
○ Move new or existing items to the appropriate SAP-specific folder in Microsoft Outlook: SAP Contacts,
SAP E-Mail or SAP Tasks.
You can also use these SAP-specific folders in Outlook to access activities stored in the SAP solution.
Note
After an e-mail is synchronized, the solution moves it back to the Inbox or Sent Items folder,
depending on whether it was sent or received.
○ You can assign items to the SAP category in the same way: by using Categorize in Microsoft Outlook.
The item is added to your SAP solution at the next synchronization session.
Note
Apple Mac users: Be aware that, by default, when you assign a contact to a category, all messages
that you receive from that contact are automatically assigned to the same category. Since contacts
shared with the add-in are automatically assigned to the SAP category, messages received from a
shared contact will also be assigned to the SAP category and, as a result, will be automatically
shared with the SAP solution during the next synchronization session. To turn off this preference,
on the Outlook menu, choose Preferences Categories , and then deselect the Assign
categories to messages from categorized contacts check box.
○ If a new person is referenced in your e-mail, you can add this person to your SAP solution as a contact
from the Not Found in SAP card by clicking the Contact icon.
2. To access existing contacts in your SAP solution, do one of the following:
○ If the contact mentioned in your e-mail is also available in your SAP solution, the corresponding
contact card appears in the add-in.
○ SAP contacts that match the synchronization filters can be found in the SAP Contacts folder in
Microsoft Outlook. You can change these settings in your SAP solution under E-Mail Integration
User Settings Dashboard Customize .
Changes you make in your e-mail application are transferred to your SAP solution.
Procedure
Results
Changes that were made to the contact in the add-in appear immediately in the SAP solution, while changes
made in Microsoft Outlook will appear in the SAP solution only after the next synchronization.
You can track interactions with a contact by adding e-mails to the activity history.
Procedure
To add an email to the contact’s activity history (as a completed task), do one of the following:
Note
After an e-mail is synchronized, the solution moves it back to the Inbox or Sent Items folder, depending
on whether it was sent or received.
You can save time by accessing contact information right from your e-mail application.
Procedure
To open a contact in the SAP solution right from your e-mail application, do one of the following:
○ On the corresponding card, depending on the activity type, do one of the following:
○ For contacts:
Choose Open in CRM .
○ For tasks, appointments, or visits:
Click the activity type (task, appointment, or visit) and choose Open in CRM .
○ In Microsoft Outlook , open the contact and click the URL specified in the Web page address box.
For tracking, you can assign items in the SAP solution to a contact.
Procedure
To assign an activity or associate a contact with other records, on the contact card, click and choose the
option you need.
If you use SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for Microsoft Outlook, you can synchronize
appointments and visits so that updates in your SAP solution appear in Microsoft Outlook, and the other way
around.
If you use Microsoft Outlook and your administrator has made the required settings, your system automatically
synchronizes appointments and meetings.
Your administrator can set up your SAP solution to synchronize appointments and meetings according to one
of these sets of criteria:
● Any appointments or meetings that include at least one attendee whose e-mail address is defined as a
contact in your SAP solution
● All appointments or meetings, even if the attendees are not defined in your SAP solution
Note
Auto-sharing does not work retroactively. It is only valid for appointments and meetings that are created
after your administrator has set up this feature.
Administrators can set up auto-sharing for appointments and meetings in the HTML5 client.
Log on to the HTLML5 client as an administrator and go to E-Mail Integration Groupware Settings
Profiles and select a profile. Under Sync Settings Calendar Sync Options , select the appropriate
checkboxes to enable auto-sharing according to your company's needs. Then apply these settings to the
respective users.
If your administrator has made the necessary settings, the description of appointments, visits, and meetings
stays the same, even if other details are updated and synchronized.
This feature can be useful if you want to include company-internal information in the notes for an appointment,
visit, or meeting.
● The description is synchronized initially and saved as a note in the SAP solution.
● If you update the appointment, visit, or meeting in your SAP solution, any changes to the description are
not synchronized.
When this feature is enabled and you create an appointment, visit, or meeting in your SAP solution:
● The description is synchronized initially and added to the body in Microsoft Exchange.
● If you update the appointment, visit, or meeting in Microsoft Outlook, any changes to the description are
not synchronized.
Administrators can make settings to freeze the description for appointments, visits, and meetings in the
HTML5 client after initial synchronization.
Log on to the HTLML5 client as an administrator and go to E-Mail Integration Groupware Settings
Settings Calendar Configuration . Select the checkbox to freeze the contents of the description field after
initial synchronization.
Manage your schedule by sharing your appointments and visits with your SAP solution.
Context
Note
For calendar events, all future appointments and visits are synchronized. For visits or appointments in the
past, only those from the past month and are synchronized to the SAP solution. Appointments and visits
that do not fall within this range are skipped during synchronization.
Procedure
To share an appointment or visit with your SAP solution, do one of the following:
○ You can assign items to the SAP category in the same way: by using Categorize in Microsoft Outlook. The
item is added to your SAP solution at the next synchronization session.
Results
● Appointments or visits for which you are the organizer or owner are synchronized in both directions. In
other words, if you change the appointment or visit in either your inbox or your SAP solution, the change is
reflected in the other location too.
● Appointments or visits for which you are not the organizer or owner are synchronized in one direction only
- from your inbox to your SAP solution.
In SAP Cloud for Customer, when associated with visits, users can be either visit organizers or visit owners. As
an administrator, you must configure which visits are synchronized for users.
Context
You can define which visits must be synchronized for the user – where the user is an owner or organizer – as
follows:
Procedure
Procedure
When you create an e-mail, appointment, visit, or task from your inbox, you can see contacts that are related to
the account that you defined for the activity. Select the appropriate contacts to include in the activity.
If you want to add other contacts, click the header to see other filters from your SAP solution, such as My
Contacts or All Contacts.
If you're working in your e-mail in box but need to access an appointment or visit in your SAP solution, you can
open it right from your inbox.
Procedure
1. To open an appointment or visit, on the item or contact card click Appointment or Visit.
Procedure
Share a task with the SAP solution by doing one of the following:
○ You can assign items to the SAP category in the same way: by using Categorize in Microsoft Outlook. The
item is added to your SAP solution at the next synchronization session.
○ Move new or existing items to the appropriate SAP-specific folder in Microsoft Outlook: SAP Contacts, SAP
E-Mail or SAP Tasks.
You can also use these SAP-specific folders in Outlook to access activities stored in the SAP solution.
Note
After an e-mail is synchronized, the solution moves it back to the Inbox or Sent Items folder, depending
on whether it was sent or received.
Procedure
○ Open the task in Microsoft Outlook and edit the task details.
Note
Changes that you make with this method appear in the SAP solution only after the next
synchronization.
Note
Changes that you make with this method appear immediately in the SAP solution.
When you create an e-mail, appointment, visit, or task from your inbox, you can see contacts that are related to
the account that you defined for the activity. Select the appropriate contacts to include in the activity.
If you want to add other contacts, click the header to see other filters from your SAP solution, such as My
Contacts or All Contacts.
You can save time by accessing contact information right from your e-mail application.
Context
To open a task in the SAP solution right from your e-mail application, do the following:
Procedure
Having trouble using this add-in? Check this list of questions and answers for help.
In the dashboard, you can find more information about many questions you may have. Additionally, when SAP
Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for Microsoft Outlook cannot access your SAP or Microsoft
Exchange data, or when synchronization fails ten consecutive times, you receive an e-mail notification of the
problem.
A synchronization issue occurs when SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for groupware is unable
to synchronize data between your SAP solution and Microsoft Exchange due to some reason.
Context
Synchronization issues are caused by incomplete data in your e-mail application (like missing contact’s last
name) or by rules in your SAP solution that may prevent users from editing or deleting records of certain types.
If a synchronization issue occurs, SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for groupware uses one of
the methods to notify the user about the situation:
● The item for which an issue occurred is assigned to two categories – the Sync Error category and the
status category that provides more details about the issue.
● Information about the synchronization issue appears on the Issues page in the dashboard of SAP Cloud for
Customer, server-side integration for groupware. To view issues for a certain item type, under Issues, select
the item type.
Tip
You can easily open the SAP (or Microsoft Exchange, depending in the cause) item that caused the
issue by clicking the corresponding icon in the issue description.
Procedure
1. If the issue occurred because the required field is empty, fill in the missing data.
2. If you do not know how to resolve the issue, contact your system administrator.
If your Microsoft Exchange or SAP credentials become outdated, SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side
integration for groupware can no longer synchronize your data. You receive a notification e-mail informing you
of the problem; the corresponding message also appears in the dashboard.
Context
1. In the dashboard of SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for groupware, in the connection
status section, click Change Settings.
2. Enter your new credentials.
3. (Optional) Force synchronization to ensure that the status of your items is updated.
If your company uses Gmail as your company e-mail client, you can use this add-in to connect to SAP Cloud for
Customer directly and get things done!
Set Up SAP Cloud for Customer Add-In for Gmail [page 965]
The SAP Cloud for Customer Add-In for Gmail allows you to exchange information between Gmail and
SAP Cloud for Customer. To use this add-in, install it and make a few settings.
The SAP Cloud for Customer Add-In for Gmail allows you to exchange information between Gmail and SAP
Cloud for Customer. To use this add-in, install it and make a few settings.
Procedure
1. Go to the Google Chrome Web Store and search for “SAP Cloud for Customer Add-In for Gmail”.
2. Add the app to Chrome.
The end user license agreement (EULA) appears. Scroll down to read the agreement, and then accept or
reject it with the buttons at the bottom of the page.
If you reject the agreement, you cannot use the app. You can review the EULA later on and accept it
under Options License .
Procedure
1. Open a Google Chrome browser and from the browser menu, choose Tools Extensions .
5. Add your system URL to the allowed cookies by choosing Settings Advanced Privacy
and security Content settings Cookies .
1. In the Allow section, choose Add.
2. Check the URL of your SAP solution. Enter [*.] followed by the text that comes directly before and
directly after the last dot in the URL.
Example
Your company uses an SAP solution ends with /mycrm.ondemand.com. To add the cookie that
allows this URL, enter [*.]ondemand.com here.
You can use the SAP Cloud for Customer Add-In for Gmail to see and use information from your SAP solution
right in your Gmail inbox.
Procedure
○ If you can see the SAP Cloud for Customer sidebar, it means that your administrator has set up single
sign-on (SSO). No further action is necessary - you are logged on!
○ Otherwise, a logon screen appears. Enter your user name and password for your SAP solution.
You can create items in your SAP solution right from your Gmail inbox.
Context
A toolbar with a subset of features appears in the Gmail sidebar. You can use the icons that appear here the
same way that you would in the SAP solution.
Example
For example, you can use the icons that appear to create contacts or accounts in the SAP system, right from
your Gmail inbox.
Procedure
1. To synchronize an e-mail with your SAP solution, choose the icon that appears nearest to the name of
the contact.
To open your SAP solution from the Gmail sidebar, choose Details.
Items that exist in your SAP solution, such as leads or opportunities, appear in the tabs within the sidebar. You
can link e-mail messages with them easily.
Procedure
1. To link the selected e-mail to an item that appears here, choose the icon that appears next to that item.
Like the client-side solution, the server-side integration powers your inbox with contextual insights from SAP
Cloud for Customer. It also adds intelligent features that make it easy to get things done right from your Gmail
inbox.
SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for Gmail synchronizes your information at server level, so
client-level setup is minimized.
Note
Scope and Configure SAP Cloud for Customer, Server-Side Integration for Gmail [page 969]
As an administrator, you must define and set up the server-side integration for Gmail.
Set Up SAP Cloud for Customer, Server-Side Integration for Gmail [page 995]
SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for Gmail allows you to exchange information between
Google applications and SAP Cloud for Customer. To use this feature, you'll need to complete a couple
one-time setup steps.
As an administrator, you must define and set up the server-side integration for Gmail.
SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for Gmail is a service that performs two-way synchronization
of data between SAP Cloud for Customer and Gmail. It allows users to interact with SAP Cloud for Customer
directly from an e-mail application.
Administrators must set up this integration for users by provisioning users, managing provisioned users,
creating organizations and assigning users to them, and creating and managing profiles with configuration
settings.
Only SAP Cloud for Customer administrators can access the groupware settings. Ordinary users (SAP Cloud
for Customer tenants without administrative rights) do not have access to the groupware settings. Therefore,
before proceeding to the groupware settings, make sure that you have an appropriate user in SAP Cloud for
Customer that has administration permissions.
To access the groupware settings, in SAP Cloud for Customer, go to E-Mail Integration Groupware
Settings .
When you access the Groupware Settings tab for the first time as an administrator, you are automatically
provisioned to the SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for groupware. Specifically, this means that
you are automatically:
When you are provisioned by the system, you also receive a notification e-mail in your inbox. The solution uses
the e-mail address that was configured in SAP Cloud for Customer.
After you are provisioned, you can perform other administrative tasks, such as provisioning other users,
creating new organizations or profiles, or configuring settings for SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side
integration for groupware.
Since the SAP solution allows the user roles to be changed, an administrator can become an ordinary user or
vice versa.
When such a change in roles occurs, SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for groupware adapts to
the situation – when a user logs on to SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for groupware, the user
permissions are automatically adjusted based on the new user’s role in the SAP solution.
A profile is a collection of configuration settings and parameters. When administrators provision users, a profile
is assigned to each user. To be provisioned, users must be assigned to a profile.
To see a list of available profiles, log on to the HTLML5 client as an administrator and choose E-Mail
Integration Groupware Settings Profiles .
Note
Server-side integration uses OData V2 APIs for synchronization. For add-in, server-side integration uses
OData V1 APIs.
Administrators can create profiles, which are collections of configuration settings and parameters. During
provisioning, administrators must assign users to profiles.
Profile Types
Profile Description
Default profile template After provisioning, users are automatically assigned a de
fault profile template. This profile contains the default con
figuration for SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side
integration for groupware. The default profile template is
provided by the Professional Services team and cannot be
edited by an administrator or an ordinary user. However, the
default profile template can be used for creating other profile
templates.
Profile template Profile that can be created and edited by administrators. The
profile template can either be created from a default profile
template or from scratch, and it can be assigned to either or
dinary users or administrators. Ordinary users cannot edit
profile templates, but they can switch between available pro
files using the dashboard in SAP Cloud for Customer, server-
side integration for groupware. A profile template can also
be specified instead of the default profile when administra
tors create new organizations.
Customized profile If an ordinary user changes the settings that are defined by
the selected profile template (for example, changes the syn
chronization settings on the dashboard), this profile tem
plate becomes a customized profile. The customized profile
is only effective for the user who created it, but such a profile
can be saved as a profile template by an administrator. When
converted to a profile template, it can be shared among
other users.
Administrators can create new profile templates from either a default profile or from another profile template.
Profle templates cannot be created from scratch.
Context
To see a list of available profiles, log on to the HTLML5 client as an administrator and choose E-Mail
Integration Groupware Settings Profiles .
Procedure
1. Log on to the HTLML5 client as an administrator and go to E-Mail Integration Groupware Settings
Profiles .
2. Find the profile that you want to base your new profile on. You can use both the default profile template and
user-created profile templates.
To identify a default profile, look in the Actions column for a profile for which the trash icon is disabled
(since the default profile cannot be deleted).
3. In the Actions column, click the copy icon.
4. On the screen that appears, enter the appropriate information.
5. Save your changes.
Administrators can configure the search so that it only returns exact matches.
By default, the add-in adds wildcards (*) automatically before and after search terms that users enter. If you do
not want the wildcards to be added automatically, use the strict search, which only returns exact matches.
Note
Log on to the HTLML5 client as an administrator and go to E-Mail Integration Groupware Settings and
make the setting to use the strict search. The setting applies to all users and all searches.
SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for groupware uses synchronization filters to determine which
records to synchronize between the user’s mailbox and SAP Cloud for Customer. Administrators can configure
different filters for each record type.
Context
When you configure the profile’s synchronization filters, for each record type, you can choose from the
following options:
● My Records
Procedure
1. Log on to the HTLML5 client as an administrator and go to E-Mail Integration Groupware Settings
Profiles and open the profile that you want to edit.
2. On the Sync Settings tab, go to the card for the type or record you want to edit.
3. Under Settings, select the synchronization filter that you need.
4. Save your entries.
Administrators can restrict ordinary users from performing certain actions. These restrictions can be set for
individual record types and can apply to both the SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for
groupware and synchronization settings.
Context
Note
An ordinary user is not allowed to change restrictions even in the context of a customized profile.
Procedure
Note
By default, individual customers are not synchronized with the user’s mailbox. However, it is possible to
enable synchronization for the records of this type by using the Synchronize Individual Customers
restriction. If you select this restriction, users can share individual customers via the Individual
Customers folder that is added to the user’s mailbox.
Note
For attachments, you can specify the file name extensions that you want to allow or block. To do so,
under Sync Settings General Sync Settings , in the Allowed File Extensions for Attachments or
Prohibited File Extensions for Attachments box, either select the extensions from a list or type a list of
such extensions separated by commas or spaces. Note that, when you add extensions, the leading dot
is optional. In other words, both .docx and docx are allowed.
Administrators can edit smart descriptions, which allow fields that are not mapped to native mail server fields
to be displayed for the user.
Context
● For contacts, individual customers, and accounts, the values of the specified fields appear in the notes
section.
● For tasks, field values appear in the body of the task.
Note
A set of SAP Cloud for Customer fields that are available for selection is defined by the user’s metainfo.
Service fields are omitted.
To specify the fields that are to be shown as smart descriptions, do the following:
Procedure
You can add as many fields as you need by repeating the last two steps.
Results
If, for some reason, the content of the fields specified as smart descriptions cannot be displayed, these fields
are omitted. For example, if the user does not have permission to view the content, the field does not appear.
Administrators can apply any profile changes they make to all users, even if the profile is already in use.
To push a profile change to all users at once, log on to the HTML client as an administrator and go to E-Mail
Integration Groupware Settings Organizations . Open an organization, choose the profile you want to
apply, and choose Settings Save and Apply Profile for All Users .
To make user management easier, administrators can divide users into groups called organizations. An
organization can be configured to provide its users with specific common configuration.
When a new user is provisioned, administrators must assign the new user to an organization, either default or
newly created; otherwise, the user cannot be provisioned. Unprovisioned users are not assigned to any
organization.
Users in the same organization share common, organization-specific synchronization settings. By adding users
to or removing them from the organization, an administrator can manage which configurations are used by
which users.
When a new SAP Cloud for Customer tenant is provisioned to SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration
for groupware, a new default organization is created. This default organization cannot be deleted; however,
administrators can edit its name and settings.
A new or default organization is also assigned a template profile (a collection of specific configuration settings
and parameters), which administrators can change later. This template profile is automatically applied to all
users in the organization.
At the level of organization, you can define the following settings for its users:
You can show or hide columns in the list by using the hamburger icon.
Related Information
At the organization level, administrators can control how users access their mailboxes.
Context
When a new organization is created, specify the type of mailbox access to be used for the organization’s users.
When the access type is selected and configured, it is applied to all users in the organization. Users can only
use the defined access type to access their mailboxes.
Gmail users must use the Google Direct Logon. If the users in the organization access their Gmail inboxes
directly, specify the direct logon access type for the organization.
As an administrator, you can change the mailbox access type at any time. To change the mailbox access type
for the organization, do the following:
Procedure
Configure the access type by entering appropriate information in the fields that appear.
3. Save your changes.
Caution
If the change of the mailbox access type is not accompanied by corresponding changes in the organization
users’ settings, it may affect the ability of those users to access their mailboxes.
Context
Procedure
Results
Related Information
All organizations must be associated with a profile template. The profile template is assigned automatically to
all users in this organization. As an administrator, when you create a new organization, you must specify the
profile template that the system uses by default.
Context
Administrators can change the default profile template to any other profile after the organization is created;
however, if that profile gets deleted or renamed, the organization reverts automatically to the profile that was
specified as default.
Procedure
Administrators can view statistics about the last synchronization session for each user in the organization.
Context
Procedure
You can show or hide columns in the list by using the icon.
Context
Procedure
Administrators can delete an organization only if all users in this organization are reset. Once the organization
is deleted, all users in the organizations are deleted too.
Context
Note
Procedure
Note
If a user in the organization cannot be reset (for example, SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side
integration for groupware can no longer access the user’s mailbox), but you still must delete the
organization, you can force deletion of the user without resetting it. Note that any changes that were
made by SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for groupware to the user’s mailbox (such as
adding extra folders) are not removed.
To force the deletion of an organization that contains users that could not be reset, on the
Organizations tab, open the organization that you want to force-delete and choose Settings Force
Delete
As an administrator, you must create users in SAP Cloud for Customer and provision them to SAP Cloud for
Customer, server-side integration for groupware. At that point, users can access and use SAP Cloud for
Customer, server-side integration for groupware.
Provisioning is the process for administrators to create and activate users, and manage user access to SAP
Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for groupware. Provisioning also starts the synchronization
between the e-mail inbox and the SAP solution for provisioned users.
Context
Note
You must have active profiles and active organizations in the system before you start profiling users.
Recommendation
Using the same e-mail address across different tenants and for both testing and productive use may cause
problems.
● Testing
● Productive use
● Each tenant
Provisioning of users can only be performed by an administrator in SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side
integration for groupware, who belongs to an SAP Cloud for Customer tenant and has administrative rights.
Administrators are provisioned automatically the first time they access the Groupware Settings tab.
To see a list of users that can be provisioned, log on to the HTLML5 client as an administrator, go to E-Mail
Integration Groupware Settings Provisioning .
You can show or hide columns in the list by using the icon.
Procedure
You can filter users by business role and provision the entire list at the same time.
You can also provision several users at once by selecting them with the check mark to the left of their
names and choosing Activate Selected.
3. On the next screen, the default organization is selected. Check and change it as necessary.
4. Specify the profile that is assigned to all users in the organization by default.
5. (Optional) Select the checkbox to send a welcome e-mail to the user.
An e-mail with instructions on how to proceed with SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for
Gmail is sent to the user following provisioning.
6. Click Provision.
Results
Note
If an administrator provisions a user without this user receiving a welcome e-mail, then the
administrator must be aware that the provisioned user is not informed of this action and cannot receive
instructions on how to proceed with or configure SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for
groupware.
The SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for Gmail is installed automatically for provisioned users
after they successfully sign in to the Gmail server.
Otherwise, a provisioned user must either follow instructions in the welcome e-mail, or an administrator must
manually configure SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for groupware for that user.
Related Information
As an administrator, when you delete a user, it means that this user can no longer use SAP Cloud for Customer,
server-side integration for groupware and synchronize data. In other words, a deleted user becomes an
unprovisioned user. Such users appear on the Provisioning tab, and, if required, can be provisioned again.
Context
Caution
If an SAP Cloud for Customer user is deactivated or deleted, the corresponding SAP Cloud for Customer,
server-side integration for groupware user still remains active and billable. For such user to be completely
unprovisioned and deleted from SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for groupware, he or she
must be explicitly deleted by an administrator.
Procedure
Note
If for some reason, a user cannot be reset (for example, SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side
integration for groupware can no longer access the user’s mailbox), but you still must delete the user,
you can force the deletion of the user without resetting it. Note that any changes that were made by
SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for groupware to the user’s mailbox (such as adding
additional folders) are not removed.
To force the deletion of a user, log on to the HTLML5 client as an administrator, go to E-Mail
Integration Groupware Settings Users , open the user that you want to force-delete and choose
Settings Force Delete .
2. Log on as an administrator to SAP Cloud for Customer HTML client, go to E-Mail Integration
Groupware Settings Users , and do one of the following:
Related Information
As an administrator, after you provision users to SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for
groupware, you can manage various user-related settings like disabling synchronization for users or assigning
them to another organization. You can also delete provisioned users, transitioning them back to an
unprovisioned state and preventing them from using SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for
groupware.
You can show or hide columns in the list by using the icon.
Note
On the Users tab, users for whom the mailbox is initialized appear in bold font.
Related Information
By default, synchronization is disabled for a newly provisioned user until that user completes an initial
configuration for SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for groupware, using the welcome wizard. In
the list on the Users tab, the users for which synchronization is enabled are shown in black, while the users for
which it is suspended are shown in red.
Note
To change synchronization for a user, on the Users tab, under Actions, choose the synchronization icon.
You can change the synchronization status for several users at the same time by selecting them, choosing
Settings, and clicking Enable Synchronization or Disable Synchronization.
There can be differences between the organization’s synchronization status and an individual user’s
synchronization status. SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for groupware compares these
statuses when determining the effective status. The organization’s status always overrides the individual user’s
status except when synchronization is disabled for the user that belongs to the organization for which the
synchronization is enabled – in this situation, the user’s status overrides the organization’s status.
By default, SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for groupware automatically synchronizes data
every 30 minutes, but administrators can synchronize manually at any time. You cannot force synchronization
more than once per minute.
Context
Procedure
1. Log on to the HTLML5 client as an administrator, and go to E-Mail Integration Groupware Settings
Users .
2. Under Actions, choose the appropriate icon.
You can force synchronization for several users at the same time by selecting them, choosing Settings, and
clicking Force Sync.
In SAP Cloud for Customer, when associated with visits, users can be either visit organizers or visit owners. As
an administrator, you must configure which visits are synchronized for users.
Context
You can define which visits must be synchronized for the user – where the user is an owner or organizer – as
follows:
Procedure
During the provisioning process, as the administrator, you assign users to a template profile (either specified or
default for the organization). After provisioning, you can change the profile that is assigned to the user.
Context
Procedure
Related Information
As an administrator, you can specify the organization each user is assigned to during the provisioning process.
Otherwise, users are automatically assigned to the default organization. After provisioning, you can change the
organization to which users are assigned.
Context
Note
When assigning users to other organizations, be aware that the new organization may use different mailbox
access types or Microsoft Exchange Server impersonation settings. As a result, it may affect the ability of
SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for groupware to access the user's mailbox.
Procedure
When an initial synchronization is started, SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for groupware
performs the initialization of the user’s mailbox. It adds new folders and categories. However, if an error occurs
that may affect the integrity of synchronized data, administrators may need to reinitialize the user’s mailbox.
Context
Caution
When reinitializing a user’s mailbox, all previously synchronized data is removed from the mailbox.
Therefore, make sure that the user has backed up his or her data before performing this operation.
Procedure
Results
Administrators can reset a user’s mailbox and disable synchronization for that user. For example, this operation
is required when preparing an organization for deletion, since the organization cannot be removed until all of its
users are reset in this manner.
Context
Procedure
Note
If synchronization is re-enabled for the user, the user’s mailbox is automatically initialized during the
next synchronization session.
For troubleshooting purposes, it is possible for administrators to verify a connection status between SAP Cloud
for Customer, server-side integration for groupware and the user’s mail server. If the connection is not
available, the most likely cause is that the password has expired or some of the settings are not correct.
To check connectivity between SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for groupware and Microsoft
Exchange or Gmail, do the following:
Procedure
Log on to the HTLML5 client as an administrator and go to E-Mail Integration Groupware Settings
Profiles and select a profile. Under Sync Settings E-Mail Sync Options , select the checkbox to enable
auto-sharing.
To find out more information about a user's synchronization sessions, administrators can view user statistics.
Context
Procedure
You can show or hide columns in the list by using the icon.
Context
Procedure
As an administrator, you can customize the default appearance and behavior of the SAP Cloud for Customer,
server-side integration for groupware.
● Which record types to show or hide in SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for Microsoft
Outlook or SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for Gmail
● Which fields to show in both the record card (basic view) or in the detailed record view
● The sort order for record cards
● Criteria to use for searching the records
● How data should be retrieved for opened e-mails or events and how e-mail tracking should behave
Administrators can customize the fields that are available for all record types.
Context
Your company may not need to track certain information, or may use different terms than the terms in the add-
in. You can customize each record type to fit your company's needs.
Procedure
Administrators can configure fields for sorting and searching for each record type.
Context
Procedure
1. Log on to the HTLML5 client as an administrator, go to E-Mail Integration Groupware Settings Profiles
Add-In Settings , on the record type you want to edit, choose Settings.
2. Configure the following settings:
○ Under Sort By, select the fields by which the record cards are sorted by when they appear in the main
add-in window or in search results.
○ Under Search By, specify one or more fields to search by when users run a search.
Administrators can define up to four fields to show in the basic view of each record type.
Context
To select which record fields to show in the record card, do the following:
Procedure
1. Log on to the HTLML5 client as an administrator, go to E-Mail Integration Groupware Settings Profiles
Add-In Settings , and on the record type you want to edit, choose Basic View.
2. In the Fields in Basic View list, select the field to show.
Administrators can define which fields to show and hide in the details view for records.
Context
To select which record field to show in the detailed view, do the following:
Procedure
1. Log on to the HTLML5 client as an administrator, go to E-Mail Integration Groupware Settings Profiles
Add-In Settings , and on the record type you want to edit, choose Detailed View.
2. Choose Add field to detailed view and select a field to add.
You can add as many fields as you need.
Since SAP Cloud for Customer does not support reminders, SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration
for groupware allows administrators to set a default reminder time for tasks, appointments, and visits retrieved
from SAP Cloud for Customer.
Context
Procedure
2. Under Sync Settings General Sync Settings , for tasks, appointments, or visits, set the reminder time
in the Remind About... fields. If you want to disable a reminder, choose Reminder is OFF.
A list of the main concepts the administrator should be familiar with when managing SAP Cloud for Customer,
server-side integration for groupware for Microsoft Outlook or Gmail.
Main Concepts for SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for groupware
Term Description
SAP Cloud for Customer - Administrator A user that belongs to an SAP Cloud for Customer tenant
and has administrative rights. Only an administrator can ac
cess the Groupware Settings tab and manage other adminis
trators or ordinary users of SAP Cloud for Customer, server-
side integration for Microsoft Outlook or SAP Cloud for
Customer, server-side integration for Gmail.
SAP Cloud for Customer - User A user in an SAP Cloud for Customer tenant that does not
have administrative rights. A user has no access to the
Groupware Settings tab and cannot manage other users.
profile template A profile that serves as a template for a user. A profile tem
plate provides some predefined configuration settings that
can later be customized by a user. When a user changes set
tings in the profile template, such profile template becomes
a customized profile.
default profile template A profile that provides users with the default SAP Cloud for
Customer, server-side integration for Microsoft Outlook or
SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for Gmail
configuration. A default profile template is created automati
cally and cannot be edited. It can also be used as a basis for
creating new or customized profiles.
SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for Gmail allows you to exchange information between Google
applications and SAP Cloud for Customer. To use this feature, you'll need to complete a couple one-time setup
steps.
Tip
If you try to complete these steps, but you see any of the following, it means that your system administrator
has already added the extension to Gmail and enabled it:
In either of these cases, you still need to synchronize your SAP data with Google and configure the Google
Chrome extension.
To synchronize data from your SAP solution with your Google applications, define the URL for your SAP
solution.
Procedure
1. Log on to the HTLML5 client of your SAP solution and go to E-Mail Integration User Settings Sync
Settings E-Mail Configuration Change .
2. Choose Google.
3. In the window that appears, log on to your Google account and allow access.
Results
Your SAP solution is linked to your Gmail applications. E-mails, appointments, contacts, and tasks from your
SAP solution appear in your Gmail applications.
Filters from your SAP solution appear in the synchronization settings for accounts, individual customers, as
well as contacts.
When you set up synchronization for accounts, individual customers, and contacts under E-mail Integration
User Settings Sync Settings Detailed Settings Customize , the filters that appear include filters from
your SAP solution. You can see filters that your administrator created as well as any filters that you defined in
personalization. You can use these filters to define which objects to synchronize.
If you want to use the sidebar as a window into your SAP solution, add the extension to Google Chrome.
Procedure
1. Add the extension to your Google Chrome browser in one of the following ways:
To use the Google Chrome extension for SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for Gmail, each user
must map the extension to the SAP solution. To do so, just define the URL in the extension the first time you
use it.
Procedure
Define the URL for your SAP solution in one of the following ways:
Results
You can log on to SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for Gmail and use the sidebar in your Google
accounts.
Administrators can apply profile updates to all users quickly and at the same time.
Context
As an administrator, when you change a profile that is the default profile for an organization, you can apply the
profile changes to all users in that organization.
1. Log on to your SAP solution as an administrator and make the profile changes in the default profile for an
organization.
3. Select the organization and the updated profile and choose Settings ( ) Save and Apply Profile for All
Users .
Results
The profile changes that you made are reflected for all users of the organization that you selected.
With SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for Gmail, you can see and use information from your
SAP solution right from your inbox.
If your company uses Gmail, this add-in could be just what you're looking for!
When you map your SAP solution to Google, all your SAP appointments, contacts, and accounts are
synchronized with Google. If you use the sidebar, you can also get business insights and create many types of
SAP items right from your Gmail inbox. Additionally, the sidebar allows you to save e-mails and appointments
to many SAP Cloud for Customer items without leaving your inbox.
Related Information
Set Up SAP Cloud for Customer, Server-Side Integration for Gmail [page 995]
Procedure
In the following cases, you may need a few more clicks to see the sidebar:
○ If you do not see the sidebar at all, in your Google Chrome browser, choose and check that you
defined the SAP tenant. If not, repeat the step to configure the Google Chrome extension.
○ If the sidebar appears but requires further action from you, such as granting access to your Google
account, follow the instructions provided on the screen to grant access.
Note
As a security measure, the sidebar requires you to grant access periodically. It's the equivalent of
confirming your logon information periodically for a bank or other secured site.
Results
Your appointments, tasks, contacts, and formatted or unformatted e-mail from SAP Cloud for Customer are
synchronized. They appear in the Google applications.
Any images in the body of e-mails appear as attachments in your SAP solution.
If you are using the sidebar, when you click an e-mail in your inbox, the extension searches in your SAP solution
and displays any existing information about the sender.
Related Information
When you set up your SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for Gmail, all e-mails, appointments,
contacts, and tasks were synchronized with Google. Afterwards, the synchronization takes place periodically.
You can add new items to the synchronization or remove items from synchronization.
Context
Add or remove items from synchronization with Google by adding or removing those items from the following
predelivered SAP folders, categories, or calendars in Google.
For calendar events, all future appointments and visits are synchronized. For visits or appointments in the past,
only those from the past month are synchronized to the SAP solution. Appointments and visits that do not fall
within this range are not synchronized.
You can synchronize any meeting with your SAP solution, even if you are not the organizer or owner.
Meeting requests that you receive in your inbox are synchronized in one direction only: from Gmail to your
SAP solution.
Gmail
Contacts
Calendar
Tasks
You can use the updated Google Calendar view in SAP Cloud for Customer, server-side integration for Gmail.
Procedure
1. In the Google Calendar, select a time slot, and choose calendar type SAP Cloud for Customer.
2. Choose More Options.
You can associate appointments and visits with SAP Cloud for Customer, right from your Gmail calendar.
Procedure
The appointment or visit is associated with the object and business partner.
If you use Gmail and your administrator has made the required settings, your system automatically
synchronizes e-mails. Your SAP solution automatically synchronizes any e-mail sent to or received from an e-
mail address that is defined as a contact in your SAP solution.
Note
Auto-sharing does not work retroactively. It is only valid for e-mails that are sent or received after your
administrator has set up this feature.
When you create an e-mail, appointment, visit, or task from your inbox, you can see contacts that are related to
the account that you defined for the activity. Select the appropriate contacts to include in the activity.
If you want to add other contacts, click the header to see other filters from your SAP solution, such as My
Contacts or All Contacts.
Sales target planning enables you to carry out top-down sales planning from top-level managers to individual
team members.
Sales targets are planned by top-level managers who are typically in charge of defining revenue goals across
the company for the entire year. These targets are distributed to regional sales managers and further assigned
across multiple time horizons and among sales representatives. To meet various needs from different
functional roles, SAP Cloud for Customer offers full flexibility for your team to create target plans based on
different dimensions. For example, sales directors can plan at territory or sales unit level while sales managers
can plan based on product group, salesperson, or account.
The solution provides strong Microsoft Excel integration. Sales users can use native Microsoft Excel capabilities
to perform necessary calculations, with minimum change management effort.
Sales managers and employees can also track their pipeline performance by comparing the estimated revenue
with the sales target via reports, and monitor their progress in real time.
Administrators can configure sales target planning using scoping and fine-tuning activities.
Administrators must add sales planning and forecasting to the project scope to enable the features.
Prerequisites
Opportunity management must be scoped in before users can work with sales forecasting.
Procedure
1. Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Scoping
Sales Sales Planning and Forecasting and check the box next to the scoping item.
2. Assign these work centers and views to appropriate users or roles.
Note
Sales representatives with access to the Forecasts work center can create forecasts only for their
own use. Sales managers with access to the Forecasts work center can create forecasts for the
sales units that they manage. Users with access to the Forecast Administration work center can
create forecasts for any sales users.
Related Information
Administrators can activate system notifications to inform sales employees that a target has been assigned to
them.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Business Task Management for Sales Planning to edit the notification task.
The sales manager can create a plan structure based on multiple dimensions such as sales region,
salesperson, account, product, and territory.
Prerequisites
You must have access to the Sales Target Planning work center to create target plans.
Tip
If you are creating a target plan based on the dimensions already defined in an existing target plan, you can
reuse the structure by copying the existing target plan.
Note
You can create only one target plan for each combination of sales unit and time horizon. Overlapping
periods for the same sales unit are not allowed. Additionally, you can create a target plan for only up to
one year period. If you want to create a plan across a couple of years, you must create multiple target
plans.
As long as the sales plan remains In Preparation, you may change the currency when desired.
If the direct manager has set a target for the given sales unit and horizon, the Total Target for Sales Unit
field gets automatically populated. The current logged-in sales manager can further distribute the sales
target downward to subordinates.
4. Select planning dimensions and determine the level of granularity on which the plan is created, and click
Next.
1. Activate dimensions that you want to include in your target plan structure.
2. For each activated dimension, click Edit to add specific items.
Example
Let's say you want to create a multi-dimensional target plan based on employees and product
categories. You first activate Employee and Product Category as dimensions and then add specific
employees and product categories. Once the plan structure is finalized, you can further set targets for
each employee associated with each specific product category using the SAP Cloud for Customer add-
in for Microsoft Excel.
Tip
For you to add accounts to a target plan more easily, your administrators can adapt the master layout
in advanced search and include PDI or extension fields.
For example, you can create an optimistic version and a pessimistic version.
6. (Optional) Copy target data from an existing plan and obtain a baseline to build upon, and click Next.
1. Select plan horizon of the copy source.
Note
The source only considers target plans created for the same unit. In addition, the source and target
plan horizon must be for the same period, yet years can be different. Planning dimensions must
also be matched. If multiple source versions exist, the system copies the version that is active.
2. Select the version of the target plan to which you want to copy the source data.
You can copy last year's target data and increase it by 10% for this year's target.
Next Steps
Under the Confirmation step, you can click Open Plan in Excel to download the target plan, and further maintain
target details using the SAP Cloud for Customer add-in for Microsoft Excel.
Related Information
Administrators must add sales planning and forecasting to the project scope to enable the features.
Prerequisites
Opportunity management must be scoped in before users can work with sales forecasting.
Procedure
1. Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Scoping
Sales Sales Planning and Forecasting and check the box next to the scoping item.
2. Assign these work centers and views to appropriate users or roles.
○ Sales Target Planning
○ Forecasts
○ Forecast Administration
Note
Sales representatives with access to the Forecasts work center can create forecasts only for their
own use. Sales managers with access to the Forecasts work center can create forecasts for the
Related Information
The sales manager can create a plan structure by copying an existing plan. This feature is helpful when the
copy source and target plans are built upon the same dimensions.
Procedure
1. In the plan list, select the target plan that you want to copy.
2. From actions above the list, click Copy.
Note
The target data is not automatically copied when you use the Copy function from the list. If you also
want to copy the target data from an existing plan, you must define the copy source in the step of Copy
Target Data.
Related Information
Sales managers can define specific targets using the SAP Cloud for Customer add-in for Microsoft Excel. If
needed, the plan structure can also be modified.
The plan owner can set targets based on value in the desired currency, or on volume of the goods or services
sold if the product is part of the dimensions.
Prerequisites
You must install the SAP Cloud for Customer add-in for Microsoft Excel. To install the add-in, from your profile
menu, click Download Add-In for Microsoft Excel , and run the .exe file.
Note
You can create target plans as long as you have access to the Sales Target Planning work center. However,
for you to edit plan data in the report, your administrators must assign the sales target planning report to
the matching work center view.
Procedure
1. In the line of the target plan to be edited, click the workbook icon ( ) to download the plan data.
Note
If multiple versions exist, the system downloads the version that is active.
In addition to native Microsoft Excel functions, you can also use planning functions provided by SAP Cloud
for Customer to perform calculations. In the header menu of the workbook, click SAP Cloud for
Customer Show / Hide Planning and select either Distribute Equally or Revaluate.
Example
The sales manager decides to enhance the total target to a specific number and alter sales targets for
some sales employees. Then, the sales manager would like Microsoft Excel to perform the math. As a
result, the remaining total target increase or decrease gets distributed based on proportion among the
rest of the sales representatives.
The sales manager wants to raise the total target by 10% for all sales employees. To achieve this goal,
the sales manager must first select the total target cell, enter 10 in the PERCENT field, click Run and
then let Microsoft Excel do the subsequent calculations. As a result, the target for each sales
representative gets increased by 10%.
6. In the header menu of the workbook, click SAP Cloud for Customer Upload Input .
The button toggles back to Refresh, indicating changes are uploaded successfully.
7. Click Refresh to see the updated results.
8. Close Microsoft Excel.
9. Refresh your target plan in the system, and you can see the updated target data.
Related Information
Assign a Report
The plan owner can modify the structure of an existing target plan including its plan horizon, dimensions, and
versions.
Prerequisites
If you want to change the horizon or dimensions of an existing target plan, the plan must be in the status In
Preparation.
Caution
When you deactivate a dimension, related data gets removed in all the plan versions. If you want to
keep your existing data, you must save it to a local file before changing the dimensions.
The plan owner must activate the target plan so that sales employees can see and further work with the targets
assigned to them via reports.
Procedure
1. In the plan list, select the target plan that is ready for activation.
Tip
Administrators can configure Business Task Management for Sales Planning so the employees can be
notified when a target is assigned to them.
Administrators can activate system notifications to inform sales employees that a target has been assigned to
them.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Business Task Management for Sales Planning to edit the notification task.
Sales planning reports enable salespeople to monitor their pipeline performances against sales targets in real
time. Reports are available under Analysis Reports .
SAP Cloud for Customer offers several standard reports for sales planning. Here are some examples.
● Sales Target vs. Pipeline: It shows the comparison of targets with a progression based on opportunities for
all employees.
● My Progress: Sales Target/Pipeline for Employees: You can view reports by month or by sales unit.
● Our Progress: Sales Target/Pipeline for Managers: You can view reports by month or by sales unit.
Your administrators also can utilize the target plan data source CODTARGETPLANV to create customized
reports. The target plan data source can be joined with sales forecast data source and opportunity data
sources to provide a complete view of sales performance.
Related Information
In SAP Cloud for Customer, the forecast is calculated based on the value of the opportunities to be closed or
the products to be sold. When a deal looks very promising, the sales representative can publish this
opportunity to forecast so that the value of the opportunities can be counted into the revenue estimate. When a
forecast is submitted, the sales manger further evaluates its reliability and requests a revision if needed. On
receiving forecasts from all the team members, the sales manager creates an aggregate forecast accordingly
and submits it to the next level above.
To enhance forecast accuracy, we allow each forecast owner to bring in their subjective judgment, and they can
override forecast figures at every level of the organizational hierarchy. In addition, the forecast owner can
always send updated forecast versions to reflect any changes in relevant opportunities along the way.
Sales managers and employees can also track their forecast by comparing the estimated revenue with the
sales target and pipeline performance via reports, and monitor their progress in real time.
Administrators can enable and configure sales forecasting using scoping, scoping questions, and fine-tuning
activities.
Administrators must add sales planning and forecasting to the project scope to enable the features.
Prerequisites
Opportunity management must be scoped in before users can work with sales forecasting.
Procedure
1. Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Scoping
Sales Sales Planning and Forecasting and check the box next to the scoping item.
Note
Sales representatives with access to the Forecasts work center can create forecasts only for their
own use. Sales managers with access to the Forecasts work center can create forecasts for the
sales units that they manage. Users with access to the Forecast Administration work center can
create forecasts for any sales users.
Related Information
Administrators can maintain categories that classify opportunities in sales forecasting and relevant pipeline
reporting.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Sales Forecast Category to edit your categories.
Administrators can decide which forecast level is selected by default during forecast creation.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Sales Forecast Level to select the default forecast level.
Administrators can restrict forecast level, source, and period that the forecast owner can choose from during
forecast creation. It helps improve data consistency in forecast creation across users.
Procedure
Note
You can create one code list restriction for each desired business role. If the field is left empty, the code
list restriction applies to all users and you cannot create another code list restriction for this business
object.
Administrators can enable users to create a forecast for only the sales unit that is maintained during forecast
creation.
When a regular or aggregate forecast is created, the forecast by default includes applicable opportunities from
all the sales unit assigned to the sales user. This configuration allows sales users to create forecasts for each
sales unit that is assigned and obtain a more accurate view on the expected revenue.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales Sales Planning and Forecasting Sales Forecasts to find the corresponding question and enable
forecasts to only include opportunities from the matching sales unit, as well as its subunits.
Administrators can activate system notifications to inform the manager that a new forecast version is
submitted.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Business Task Management for Sales Forecast Sales Forecast Submission Notification Settings to edit the
notification task.
Administrators can activate system notifications to inform the forecast owner that a revision is requested.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Business Task Management for Sales Forecast Sales Forecast Revision Notification Settings to edit the
notification task.
Administrators can add Datahug to your project scope and enable users to manage forecasts using Datahug's
forecast tracker.
Prerequisites
Note
To use Datahug, a separate license is required from SAP Intelligent Sales Execution.
Procedure
2. Go to Administrator Sales and Campaign Settings Datahug Settings Open Datahug Administrator
and provide an API key and secret for accessing Datahug.
For more details, please check Create Business Roles and Assign Work Centers and Views.
4. Contact SAP Intelligent Sales Execution for further configurations.
For more information, please check out Prepackaged Integration with SAP Intelligent Sales Execution (SAP
Datahug).
The depersonalization function allows you to remove personal data from a business object to ensure
compliance with the applicable data protection requirements.
Depersonalization is only available for users with access to the Data Protection and Privacy work center.
You can depersonalize a forecast in the Forecast Administration work center, and depersonalizing a forecast
triggers a deletion. Once a forecast is depersonalized, you can go to Administrators General Settings
Data Management Deleted Data to view the deleted record.
In case you need to retain certain information, you can export forecasts to Microsoft Excel prior to
depersonalization.
Sales representatives and sales managers can create sales forecasts based on opportunity header revenue or
on the product revenue.
Prerequisites
Administrators must define sales units and assign managers and employees to each sales unit under
Administrator General Settings Org Structures . Different functional roles have different options
available when creating forecasts.
Note
You must have access to the Forecasts work center to create forecasts for your own use, or for your team if
you are a sales manager. Administrators with access to the Forecast Administration work center can create
forecasts for any sales users.
Note
You can create only one forecast for each time horizon. Overlapping periods are not allowed.
5. Select a forecast Level. Different options are available, depending on your functional role.
Opportunity aggregate forecast Create a roll-up forecast based on op Sales manager
portunity forecasts submitted by
team members
Note
As a sales manager, you are authorized to create both regular and aggregate forecasts. A regular
forecast includes all the relevant opportunities owned by you and your team members. An aggregate
forecast includes the latest forecast versions submitted by your team members.
6. Select a Source. Different options are available, depending on the forecast level you choose.
For a product forecast, you can Include Quantity to forecast based on product quantity.
The forecast selects the opportunities that are marked relevant for forecast and with closing dates falling in
the defined time horizon. Upon creation, the forecast is assigned status In Preparation.
Next Steps
You can review and modify forecast details using the SAP Cloud for Customer add-in for Microsoft Excel.
Administrators must add sales planning and forecasting to the project scope to enable the features.
Prerequisites
Opportunity management must be scoped in before users can work with sales forecasting.
Procedure
1. Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Scoping
Sales Sales Planning and Forecasting and check the box next to the scoping item.
2. Assign these work centers and views to appropriate users or roles.
○ Sales Target Planning
○ Forecasts
○ Forecast Administration
Note
Sales representatives with access to the Forecasts work center can create forecasts only for their
own use. Sales managers with access to the Forecasts work center can create forecasts for the
sales units that they manage. Users with access to the Forecast Administration work center can
create forecasts for any sales users.
Administrators can maintain categories that classify opportunities in sales forecasting and relevant pipeline
reporting.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Sales Forecast Category to edit your categories.
Administrators can decide which forecast level is selected by default during forecast creation.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Sales Forecast Level to select the default forecast level.
Administrators can restrict forecast level, source, and period that the forecast owner can choose from during
forecast creation. It helps improve data consistency in forecast creation across users.
Procedure
Note
You can create one code list restriction for each desired business role. If the field is left empty, the code
list restriction applies to all users and you cannot create another code list restriction for this business
object.
As the forecast owner, you can maintain overrides based on your real life experience and submit updated
versions as needed so the forecast can predict your sales more accurately.
The forecast owner can download the forecast data and modify forecast details using the SAP Cloud for
Customer add-in for Microsoft Excel.
Prerequisites
You must install the SAP Cloud for Customer add-in for Microsoft Excel. To install the add-in, from your profile
menu, click Download Add-In for Microsoft Excel , and run the .exe file.
Context
You can have multiple versions in one forecast. All the versions can be downloaded and reviewed in Microsoft
Excel. However, only an inactive version can be edited. Once submitted, a version becomes active and cannot
be further edited. Each forecast can have only one inactive version.
Procedure
8. In the header menu of the workbook, click SAP Cloud for Customer Upload Input .
The button toggles back to Refresh, indicating that changes were uploaded successfully.
9. Close Microsoft Excel.
10. Refresh the forecast in the system, and you can see the updated revenue estimate.
The forecast owner can update the forecast regularly so that any changes in the relevant opportunities can be
promptly reflected in the forecast.
The forecast owner must submit forecasts for consideration in aggregate forecasts created by upper-level
managers.
Context
You can have multiple versions in one forecast. However, only an inactive version can be edited and
submitted.You can submit a forecast only when the forecast contains an inactive version. Each forecast can
have only one inactive version.
Procedure
When you submit the forecast, its status changes to Submitted. The forecast version becomes Active and
no longer editable.
If not satisfied with the forecast as submitted, the sales manager can request a revision. In that case, the
forecast owner must submit another forecast version.
A sales manager can review a team member's forecast and request a revision if needed.
Prerequisites
Tip
Administrators can configure Sales Forecast Submission Notification Settings so the manager can be
notified when a forecast is submitted.
Procedure
4. In the line of the newly submitted version, click the workbook icon ( ) to download the forecast data.
5. Review forecast details using the SAP Cloud for Customer add-in for Microsoft Excel.
6. If you are not satisfied with the forecast as submitted, select that forecast version in the detail view. From
the Actions menu at the bottom right, click Revise.
The status of the forecast version changes to In Revision. The forecast no longer shows in the My Team
Forecasts view or is considered for aggregate forecasts.
Administrators can activate system notifications to inform the manager that a new forecast version is
submitted.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Business Task Management for Sales Forecast Sales Forecast Submission Notification Settings to edit the
notification task.
When a forecast revision is requested, the forecast owner must submit a revised forecast.
Prerequisites
Tip
Administrators can configure Sales Forecast Revision Notification Settings so the forecast owner can be
notified when a revision is requested.
Procedure
Tip
If an inactive version already exists, make sure that your forecast is up-to-date before you revise it.
Updating the forecast allows you to include new opportunities created in the forecast period or exclude
opportunities that are no longer relevant to the forecast.
3. In the line of the inactive version, click the workbook icon ( ) to download the forecast data.
4. Modify forecast details using the SAP Cloud for Customer add-in for Microsoft Excel.
5. Refresh your forecast in the solution.
6. Select the inactive version that contains revision. From the Actions menu at the bottom right, click Submit.
Related Information
Administrators can activate system notifications to inform the forecast owner that a revision is requested.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Business Task Management for Sales Forecast Sales Forecast Revision Notification Settings to edit the
notification task.
Sales forecasting reports enable salespeople to monitor their forecasts, pipeline performances, and sales
targets in real time. Reports are available under Analysis Reports .
SAP Cloud for Customer offers several standard reports for sales forecasting. Your administrators can also
utilize the forecast data source CODFORECASTV to create customized reports. The forecast data source can be
joined with sales target plan data source and opportunity data sources to provide a complete view of sales
performance.
You can also view comparisons of forecasts, targets, and pipelines using the predefined forecasting dashboard
under Analysis Dashboard .
Related Information
With Datahug offered by SAP Intelligent Sales Execution, you can explore a new approach to managing your
forecasts.
Once your administrator has enabled Datahug, you can use its Forecast Tracker feature to create forecasts and
perform deal-by-deal adjustments based on analysis. You can also roll up your forecast numbers within the
same workspace and therefore completely wave goodbye to spreadsheets. Just from one single screen, you
can acquire essential information you need to run your weekly sales calls, track forecast history over time, and
gain a comprehensive insight into your forecasts.
Note
To use Datahug, a separate license is required from SAP Intelligent Sales Execution.
For more information, please check out SAP Intelligent Sales Execution.
Related Information
Work with SAP Intelligent Sales Execution (Datahug) for Opportunities [page 338]
Administrators can add Datahug to your project scope and enable users to manage forecasts using Datahug's
forecast tracker.
Prerequisites
Note
To use Datahug, a separate license is required from SAP Intelligent Sales Execution.
Procedure
2. Go to Administrator Sales and Campaign Settings Datahug Settings Open Datahug Administrator
and provide an API key and secret for accessing Datahug.
3. Assign the Datahug work center view (ID: COD_DATAHUG_WCF) to appropriate business users or roles.
For more details, please check Create Business Roles and Assign Work Centers and Views.
4. Contact SAP Intelligent Sales Execution for further configurations.
For more information, please check out Prepackaged Integration with SAP Intelligent Sales Execution (SAP
Datahug).
Having trouble using forecasts? Check this list of questions and answers for help.
You should maintain these fields in your opportunities so they can be included in forecasts.
As a sales manager, you have the flexibility to create both regular and aggregate forecasts. A regular forecast
includes all the relevant opportunities owned by you and your team members. An aggregate forecast includes
the latest forecast versions submitted by your team members.
Employee is a separate entity. However, for business configuration within your system, employees are also
represented as business users in the system. Therefore, for every employee record that you create, a
corresponding business user is automatically created in the system.
Note
All accounts, customers, employees, contacts, partners and competitors are considered as business
partners in the system. Therefore, all functions that are common to business partners are applicable to
them.
Accurate employee data is essential to keep your business running smoothly — whether to make job titles,
organizational assignments and reporting lines transparent to your workforce, or simply to ensure that your
colleagues’ contact information is always up-to-date.
You have decided whether you want to create employee records manually, or upload employee data via the
migration tool in the implementation project activity Migration of Employee Data.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope General
Business Data Employee and Service Agents Employees to scope employees.
In addition, in order to create and maintain employee data, go to Business Configuration Implementation
Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions General Business Data Business Partners
Employees and Service Agents Employees Employee Maintenance and select the scoping question - Do
you want to create and edit employee records in your cloud solution?.
If you have integrated your solution with an SAP Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM) or SAP ERP
system, then you can replicate employee master data changes within those systems to SAP Cloud for
Customer.
To configure employee data replication, go to Administrator work center and then choose Employee
Staging Area, to obtain an overview of all employees that require replication, and to determine the status of
your replication requests. In this view, you can also perform the following associated actions:
Note
If you encounter replication requests with errors, then we strongly recommend that you correct them
in the external system from which the data originated, unless you perform code mapping corrections
within SAP Cloud for Customer. For more information, see .
In the Complete Employee Master Data Replication view of the Data Integration work center, administrators can
schedule jobs to replicate the changes made to the employees in the SAP CRM or SAP ERP system into the
SAP Cloud for Customer solution.
During the initial load, the complete set of employees is replicated to the Cloud solution. After the initial upload
from the external system, all the changes made in these systems are replicated to the Cloud solution by
scheduling jobs. This view provides an overview of employees that needs to be replicated and the status of the
replication request. It also allows you to manually edit and submit failed replication requests that were not
automatically uploaded due to errors in data.
Note
If there are replication requests with errors, we strongly recommend you correct them in the external
system from which the data originates. An exception to this will be to make any code mapping corrections
in the Cloud system.
You can view all the successfully replicated employees under People Employees view.
This view provides you with an overview of all employee replication requests. By default, only the unsuccessful
or not yet started replication requests are displayed. You can view detailed information for every replicated
employee listed in the table, when you select the Remote Employee ID and select Edit.
● The General Data section displays information such as the system from which the data is being replicated,
basic information about the replication request, and if the replication is relevant. If the selected employee
By default, only replication requests that are unsuccessful or that have not yet started are displayed. To view
detailed information for every replicated employee listed in the table, select the Remote Employee ID, then
choose Edit.
● If the selected employee should not be replicated, or if additional information is required but unavailable,
then choose Mark as Irrelevant to exclude that entry from processing. To include the entry at a later date in
the replication process, choose Mark as Relevant.
● Review the Personal Data section for information about the employee to be replicated.
● The Organizational Assignments section displays the organization to which the employee is assigned, and
the validity period of the assignment. You can individually select whether an assignment is relevant or not
relevant for processing. If you want to exclude a change from replication, choose Remove. To update the
assignment with additional changes, choose Add Row.
Result: When you migrate the information in this template, the roles will be assigned to the employees.
The system has scheduled daily jobs to replicate the employees. If however, you want to replicate employees
manually:
● Select a replication request in the table, and choose Edit. Review the information and choose Replicate.
● To schedule all replication requests, click Replicate All.
The status of the replication request(s) is updated and the request is added to the run.
Administrators can maintain number ranges for employee records in your system. The internal identification
for each employee record is randomly assigned from the specified number range.
To maintain number ranges for employees, go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your
Project Open Activity List Fine Tune Number Ranges for Employees and Service Agents .
Number ranges for employees control how the number of newly created employee and service agent master
data records is determined with. With manual number assignment you can enter the Employee number during
first data entry. With automatic number assignment, the system automatically increments the number of the
next employee by one, starting with the Start Number.
Note
Automatic number D does not apply to the Employee data migration. The Total Length determines the
length of the number displayed in the application including the prefix.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Built-in
Services and Support System Management , and enable Job Scheduling.
Note
You cannot change the Job ID once the job has been saved.
4. Attach a Job Description, if required. To do this, click Add, and then attach your file or link.
You can replace a job description later, by editing the job and clicking Replace.
5. Click Save or Save and Close to save the new job.
Note
You can also create the next new job directly from this screen by clicking New.
The new job has been saved to the system and added to the Job Definition overview list that appears when
you first access the work center view. Whether the job is Active, Inactive, or Deprecated depends on the
expiry date.
Administrators can import job definitions with the migration tool. If you have created jobs in a test system
(manually or with the migration tool), you can simply upload them to your production system using the
migration tool instead of creating them all again manually.
You can verify migrated records in the Job Definition view of the Organizational Management work center.
Compare the data in your legacy system with the data that has been migrated to your SAP solution.
An employee can be assigned to multiple org units. When you create an employee, specify also the manager to
represent the employee reporting line. An employee needs to be assigned to one Primary org unit. Additionally,
assign an employee to multiple org. units once you remove the primary flag for an employee from other org.
units where employee is assigned.
Maintain sales data such as the sales organization, distribution channel and division if the employee you are
creating belongs to a sales unit.
For more information, see Configure Org. Structures in the administrator guide.
1. Go to Administrator General Settings Work Distribution and choose Employee Work Distribution.
2. In the Employee Work Distribution view, select a work category.
3. Click Edit.
Note
You cannot change work distribution for past dates. If the Edit button is disabled, check the Effective
Date and ensure that you have not entered a date that occurs in the past.
Note
If you change or delete a work distribution rule that begins before the effective date, the rule is only
valid to the date before the effective date. If you only change the rule, the system creates a new rule
based on the existing rule and includes the changes you make. The new rule is valid as of the effective
date.
1. Go to Administrator General Settings Work Distribution and choose Employee Work Distribution.
2. In the Employee Work Distribution view, select a work category.
3. Click Edit.
Note
You cannot change work distribution for past dates. If the Edit button is disabled, check the Effective
Date and ensure that you have not entered a date that occurs in the past.
1. Go to Administrator General Settings Work Distribution and choose Employee Work Distribution.
2. In the Employee Work Distribution view, select a work category that has the status Defined Work
Distribution.
3. Click Action and select the option Set to Undefined.
Administrators can configure approval process for employee time recording using the standard multistep
approval process for time reports and time recording. To do this, follow these steps:
1. Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope General
Business Data Employees and Service Agents Employees and select the scoping element Employees
2. Next, go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope
Questions General Business Data Employees and Service Agents Employees and in the Enable Time
Recording group, select the question - Do you wish to enable time recording feature?
Administrators can define notifications for delegates, where the delegate receives notifications of tasks to be
completed, or general notifications for the employee who is absent. Follow the steps given below to create a
delegate notification:
Note
When you or the employee activates delegate, the system automatically provides copies of notifications to
the delegate without the administrator having to manually maintain this view.
Note
You will see a list of existing delegates, if any. You can activate them by selecting Activate.
Note
Determine if you need to retain business partner data in your system when that data has already been deleted
from an integrated external system.
The graphic below describes process flow to determine the End-of-Purpose for your business partner data. You
can use web services or manually block such business partners in your system using blocking reasons.
New web service interfaces and enhanced interfaces are enabled to support blocking of business partners. Use
these services in scenarios where integrated external systems block or delete business partner data in their
system landscape. These interfaces allow the external systems to query and maintain the End-of-Purpose for
business partners. Since the definition of what constitutes the end-of-purpose for a business partner is
subjective to the external system, these interfaces are empty CHECK interfaces to allow you to create custom
queries.
For business partners blocked using the below mentioned interfaces, data cannot be retrieved in list views in
work centers, value help in related fields, values selectors, analytics, duplicate checks and web service or oData
queries in the application.
Administrators add the event under Administrator General Settings Event Notification Business object:
Employee Create Add or modify existing events as necessary.
Employees are always created with an assignment to an organizational unit. Therefore, you must create the
necessary sales data required to use employees for various business needs within the org. structure of your
company. You can also use territories, distribution channels and divisions for your employees.
● In My Team queries and relative selects in reports will consider primary and secondary employee
assignments.
● Data access based on org. unit also considers secondary employee assignments.
● Reporting line manager determination in Notifications and Approvals will consider primary employee
assignment.
● For Access Restrictions with business context 1015 (Sales Documents, Accounts). If an employee is
assigned to an organizational unit without an assigned distribution channel or division, that employee will
not be restricted from accounts or sales documents based on his or her sales data.
For more information, see Access Restrictions based on Employee Sales Data in the Setting-Up SAP Cloud
for Customer document.
An employee can be assigned to multiple org units. When you create an employee, specify also the manager to
represent the employee reporting line. An employee needs to be assigned to one Primary org unit. Additionally,
assign an employee to multiple org. units once you remove the primary flag for an employee from other org.
units where employee is assigned.
Maintain sales data such as the sales organization, distribution channel and division if the employee you are
creating belongs to a sales unit.
For more information, see Configure Org. Structures in the administrator guide.
The Access Restriction rule 1015 - Employee, Territory, Account, Sales Data provides access based on employee
sales data only.
Note
A relationship change triggers a corresponding update for access restrictions. For any changes made
to the Works for relationship for employees, an update is triggered for the identity restrictions for
access restriction rule 6 - My Workforce. However the corresponding update of access restrictions
happens with a time lag of 24 hours.
1. In the worklist of the Employees view, select an employee record, then choose Edit.
2. Edit as much information as you require.
3. If you want to delimit the validity of an employee record, enter the appropriate date in the Valid To field.
From this date onward, this employee record cannot be used for new business processes.
4. Choose Save.
When working in the Employee tab, the Mapping for Integration section displays all External IDs for employee
records.
A job is a description of the duties of an employee as you would find it in the employment contract.
The job consists of an ID and a name. It also has an expiry date, which initially is set to unlimited, but can be set
to a specific date if a job should no longer be used. To create a list of the jobs required within your company, you
can either enter job definitions manually or import them using the migration tool.
When employees are assigned or hired to an org unit, they require an association with a job in the system. The
job then characterizes the employee assignment and is also used in to fulfill service-related tasks. In the Show
dropdown in this view, you can display jobs according to the following criteria:
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Built-in
Services and Support System Management , and enable Job Scheduling.
Next, go to Business Configuration Implementation Project Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Integrate and Extend to manually enter job definitions or migrate using the migration tool.
Note
You cannot change the Job ID once the job has been saved.
4. Attach a Job Description, if required. To do this, click Add, and then attach your file or link.
You can replace a job description later, by editing the job and clicking Replace.
5. Click Save or Save and Close to save the new job.
Note
You can also create the next new job directly from this screen by clicking New.
The new job has been saved to the system and added to the Job Definition overview list that appears when
you first access the work center view. Whether the job is Active, Inactive, or Deprecated depends on the
expiry date.
Administrators can import job definitions with the migration tool. If you have created jobs in a test system
(manually or with the migration tool), you can simply upload them to your production system using the
migration tool instead of creating them all again manually.
You can verify migrated records in the Job Definition view of the Organizational Management work center.
Compare the data in your legacy system with the data that has been migrated to your SAP solution.
If an employee is on vacation or temporarily absent, employees can define delegates for themselves, defining
relevant access rights by area. Administrators can create delegates for all employees. You can create delegates
for yourself, or administrators can create delegates for employees who are away from the office, either for a
short period or long period of time. The delegated employee gains certain access rights of the substituted
employee for the specified period of time.
Role Where?
Note
Users can only define delegates for themselves. Administrators can define delegates for all
employees.
Once the employee is selected, the system displays all the work centers assigned to him or her.
2. A delegate to replace the employee.
3. The start date and end date during which you want the delegate to take over responsibilities.
Note
If you enter the start date of a substitution in the future, then the system saves the delegate with
the status Not Started. By default, only active delegates are displayed. If you want to see future
delegate assignments, use the filter Planned Delegates.
4. Define which Access Rights that you want to grant to the delegate.
You can create either a full substitution or a partial substitution. In full substitution, you grant the
delegate access to all the work centers assigned to the employee. In partial substitution, you create
multiple delegates, granting access to only selected work centers to each of the delegates.
Note
If you want to end a substitution before the specified end date, choose Actions Delete .
Administrators can define notifications for delegates, where the delegate receives notifications of tasks to be
completed, or general notifications for the employee who is absent. Follow the steps given below to create a
delegate notification:
Note
When you or the employee activates delegate, the system automatically provides copies of notifications to
the delegate without the administrator having to manually maintain this view.
Note
You will see a list of existing delegates, if any. You can activate them by selecting Activate.
Note
Create and configure rules to distribute work items to employees. The system uses these rules to determine
the employee responsible for work items. Depending on the work category, the system directs the work items
to the determined employee, or provides the employee as a proposal in the relevant business document.
Work distribution defines the process of assigning work to an org unit or employee. By default, work items in
the solution are visible to all users that have the corresponding access rights. However, for some business
processes the org unit or employee responsible for a work item has to be determined. For these areas, you can
define work distribution rules that enable you to automatically assign business documents and tasks to
dedicated org units or employees.
The work category is the central element for work distribution. A work category represents a specific part of
work in a business area and is related to one or more business documents. Each work category provides
parameters that you can use to define work distribution rules, according to which the system determines the
responsible org unit or employee for a business document.
1. Go to Administrator General Settings Work Distribution and choose Employee Work Distribution.
2. In the Employee Work Distribution view, select a work category.
3. Click Edit.
Note
You cannot change work distribution for past dates. If the Edit button is disabled, check the Effective
Date and ensure that you have not entered a date that occurs in the past.
Note
If you change or delete a work distribution rule that begins before the effective date, the rule is only
valid to the date before the effective date. If you only change the rule, the system creates a new rule
8. Go to the Rule Details section and specify the parameters for the rule.
Each parameter appears as a tab, for example, Company. Using the parameters, you can specify exactly
both which parameter is to be included in the rule or excluded from the rule.
9. Click Check to verify whether your rule is consistent.
10. Click Save or Save and Close.
1. Go to Administrator General Settings Work Distribution and choose Employee Work Distribution.
2. In the Employee Work Distribution view, select a work category.
3. Click Edit.
Note
You cannot change work distribution for past dates. If the Edit button is disabled, check the Effective
Date and ensure that you have not entered a date that occurs in the past.
1. Go to Administrator General Settings Work Distribution and choose Employee Work Distribution.
2. In the Employee Work Distribution view, select a work category that has the status Defined Work
Distribution.
3. Click Action and select the option Set to Undefined.
In the Competitors work center view, create new competitors and maintain competitor information and use
competitor classification to classify the level of competition. Create competitor products and maintain product
comparison level for the competitor products.
Administrators can scope and configure competitors using scoping, scoping questions and fine-tuning
activities.
As an administrator, you can classify your competitors with various competition levels, for example, high,
medium, or low threats. To maintain this configuration. go to Business Configuration' Implementation
Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune Competitor .
Administrators can setup the migration of competitors and competitor products from external systems to your
cloud solution.
Administrators can set up migration of competitor products from external systems to your cloud solution.
Create your own criteria to audit your competitors' products in store. For example, you may want to check
availability, prices, or promotions for your competitor's product to see how your products compare. Competitor
product surveys are created like a regular product survey, but with competitor products instead.
Related Information
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Gain insight about your competitors with competitor surveys. Measure performance across multiple categories
and compare these results to your own. Use this data to improve your performance and stay ahead of your
competition.
Competitor surveys collect data about the competitors related to an opportunity. If you add a competitor
survey to an opportunity, the competitors listed in the opportunity will be added to the survey by default. If
you'd like to add additional competitors to a survey, you can do so when designing the survey.
Use contacts to represent the relationship between contacts and accounts. Contacts can be maintained only
for corporate accounts.
Note
All accounts, customers, employees, contacts, partners and competitors are considered as business
partners in the system. Therefore, all functions that are common to business partners are applicable to
them.
Contacts are persons that have a relationship with a corporate account and may be involved in business
processes like activities, orders, opportunities, and so on. You can maintain the details for contacts by creating
a contact or using the relation between a contact and an account. You can define a contact as sales area
dependent and assign them to multiple accounts. You can also configure custom relationships between
accounts and contacts in your SAP Cloud for Customer system.
● Present a 360° view of the relationship that your organization has with a specific contact
● Create the following for contacts:
○ Phone calls
○ Appointments
○ Tasks
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Sales
Account and Activity Management and select Account Management.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Scoping
Questions General Business Data Business Partners Handling of Business Partners and select the
scoping question Do you want to enable accounts merge?.
Note
SAP does not recommend configuring account merge if your customer master records are replicated with
an external system (that is SAP ERP and SAP CRM integration is scoped). This is because a merge
execution does not trigger a corresponding replication in the external system which may give rise to data
inconsistency.
In order to initiate merge, you must have the Data Cleansing work center view assigned to user. In this work
center view, click on New to trigger a manual merge. You can select a maximum of three customer records -
one master and two duplicate records to be merged. Note that this action can be initiated only if the merge
object is in one of the following statuses:
● Not Started
● Merge Failed
● Merge Completed
● Realignment Failed
For detailed troubleshooting information for customer merge, see the section - Account FAQs.
By default, the account merge fetches all open transactions of merged or obsolete records. If you need to also
fetch closed transactions, you must maintain the required configuration.
Administrators can maintain the configuration to include or exclude closed transactions of obsolete records in
account merge. To do this, select the scoping question - Do you want to enable enhanced document
realignment during account merge? under Business Configuration Implementation Project Your Project
Edit Project Scope Questions General Business Data Business Partners Handling of Business Partners
Business Partner Merge .
Use the new business add-in in SAP Cloud Application Studio to turn off address copy from duplicate to the
master record during the merge process. With this BAdI, you can also control what address lines of obsolete
records be copied to or excluded from the primary record.
Administrators can now differentiate between updates to an account triggered by merge or by standard change
process. This differentiation can be implemented using custom logic such that the custom logic is executed
only for change instances occuring due to merge.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Contacts , and maintain the following for your business requirements:
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
Migration of Personal Addresses for Contacts , to migrate personal addresses for contacts. For detailed
information, see the documentation in the system.
Administrators can configure contact to employee assignment. Directly assign contacts to employees in the
Contacts detailed view. You can also assign a main employee responsible for the contact. The standard query
My Contact has been enhanced to consider the direct contact-employee assignment.
The following configuration must be maintained to enable the employee - contact assignment:
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
General Business Partners , and under General Business Partners, define the possible relationships between
business partners in your system. The standard solution provides relationship codes that you can use. Choose
to define new relationship codes or even disable the standard codes. Note that certain standard relationship
codes cannot be deactivated.
Enter a code for and the name of the relationship along with a description for both directions of the
relationship, such as Has Contact for the relationship of business partner 1 with business partner 2 with
business partner 1 being an organization. Depending on the relationship type, choose whether the business
partner is a person or an organization, and select the business partner roles that are permitted for each of the
business partners in the relationship.
You can also link the relationships you define to party role in involved party. Do this, for example, if you want to
automatically determine the party role in documents like lead, opportunity, sales quote, activities based on
specific relationship.
Example: define a new custom Party Role “Reseller” that has the relationship “Has an OEM” assigned to it.
Configure sales area dependent relationships that are evaluated during transactions involving the accounts.
Administrators can configure buying center based on business partner and buying center relationships..
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Account and Activity Management Account Management and select the scoping question - Buying Center -
Do you want to enable buying center based on business partner relationships?.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Account and Activity Management Account Management and select the scoping question - Buying Center -
Do you want to enable buying center based on buying center relationships?.
You can define attributes or attribute sets and make them visible for users in the advanced searches for
accounts, contacts, and individual customers.
Go to Administrator Sales and Campaign Settings Attributes to view and configure attributes or
attribute sets.
Note
If your solution is integrated with SAP Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM), then you can only
view, but not create or modify, attributes or attribute sets from this screen.
Provided if you personalize your solution to make it visible, you can enable your users to access the Attributes
field within the advanced search of accounts, contacts and individual customers and maintain conditions there
that influence the corresponding search behavior. Once this field is visible and your users select it to maintain
conditions, they can specify a combination of attribute sets, attributes, operators and values – for example,
Employee Attributes, Region, Equal, and North America, respectively – to apply to the attributes search. Users
can also specify additional attribute conditions with the logical operator OR. Once these parameters have been
saved, users can apply the associated conditions as an advanced search query to find business partners with
corresponding Attributes, and to display them within the attributes tab of the work center view of the
associated business partner.
From the item details of an account, when you choose the [Summary] function, Attributes for the account now
appear within the resultant account summary.
Note
This enhancement only becomes available once you select Administrator Form Template
Maintenance and then choose the Account Summary form template and revert to the most recent
version.
Access Restrictions
You can configure the business roles in your solution to specify business access restriction
BUSINESS_ATTRIBUTE_ASGNM_READ, thereby making attributes read-only for the associated business users
You can use the new report Business Partner with attribute assignment, whose technical name is
CODBUSATTRBPB_Q0001, to specify search criteria related to Attributes and to find corresponding business
partners. Within this report, you can also right-click on the name of a business partner, then choose Export All
Account and Contacts to New Target Group, to create a target group for the associated accounts and contacts.
To drive analytics in relation to attributes, you can use the following new data sources:
CODBUSATTRBPB Business Partner with Attribute Shows all Attribute values assigned to
Assignment the reference business partners.
Administrators can configure marketing permissions. With the communication categories, you can specify how
often a customer may be contacted during a certain period of time.
In the Marketing Permissions fine-tune activity you maintain your communication categories and the
communication channels for countries with an explicit opt-in. These settings are required to track whether your
customers opt-in or opt-out for a specific communication channel.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
and then select the Marketing Permissions activity from the activity list.
Caution
It is the responsibility of your organization to comply with national legislation regarding data protection
and the provision of marketing materials. Therefore, administrators must configure the solution for
each country in which, or each customer with whom, your organization intends to conduct marketing
activities and, to the extent legally required, make use of the option to store documents such as opt-ins
or opt-outs.
To add a country where an explicit opt-in is required, click Add Row, enter the country and the
corresponding communication channel, such as e-mail, letter or fax, and save your changes.
2. Maintain Communication Categories:
1. To create a communication category click Add Row
2. Enter a communication category, a description, a limit, and the time frame. With the limit and time
frame you can specify how often a customer can be contacted during a certain period of time. When
adding communication categories we recommend to start with the letter Z
3. Save your work.
Your SAP Cloud for Social Engagementsolution is delivered with the social media features available but hidden.
As an administrator, you need to enable the social media features of the solution using Adaptation Mode.
1. To enter adaptation mode click Adapt, then choose Enter Adaptation Mode.
2. Navigate to each of the screens listed below and make the screen edits indicated for each.
1. When you're on the screen you want to edit, click Adapt, then choose Edit Screen.
2. Add or remove elements on the Screen Layout tab.
3. Save your changes.
You can test your changes before publishing.
4. When you're finished with your changes you can publish them to make them visible to all users.
Service and Social Administrator Service Under Sections, check the You need to make this change be
Settings box for Social Media to make fore you can set up any social me
and Social Settings
it visible. dia channels in your system.
Individual Customer ● Under Sections, check You need to have at least one cus
Customers Individual
the box for Social tomer record in the system before
Customers then choose a
Information to make it you'll be able to adapt the details
customer to open the details
visible. screen.
screen
With Social Information
selected, under Fields,
ensure the boxes are
checked for Facebook
and Twitter.
● Under Sections, select
Tabs, then in the lower
list, select Social Media
Messages and Social
Profiles.
Related Information
Determine if you need to retain business partner data in your system when that data has already been deleted
from an integrated external system.
The graphic below describes process flow to determine the End-of-Purpose for your business partner data. You
can use web services or manually block such business partners in your system using blocking reasons.
New web service interfaces and enhanced interfaces are enabled to support blocking of business partners. Use
these services in scenarios where integrated external systems block or delete business partner data in their
system landscape. These interfaces allow the external systems to query and maintain the End-of-Purpose for
business partners. Since the definition of what constitutes the end-of-purpose for a business partner is
subjective to the external system, these interfaces are empty CHECK interfaces to allow you to create custom
queries.
For business partners blocked using the below mentioned interfaces, data cannot be retrieved in list views in
work centers, value help in related fields, values selectors, analytics, duplicate checks and web service or oData
queries in the application.
Administrators add the event under Administrator General Settings Event Notification Business object:
Employee Create Add or modify existing events as necessary.
Account merge function is available for corporate accounts, individual customers and contacts. This feature
allows master data teams to merge duplicate records into a single golden record.
Map Obsolete Records to Primary Record For More Insights [page 1070]
Use insights from closed transaction history of obsolete records event without including closed
transaction history in account merge. This way you can leverage reporting to show complete picture of
primary account.
During customer merge, system also reassigns transactions for the accounts. The rules determined for
transasction reassignment are listed here.
Transactions Description
Sales Orders All the Order where duplicate account is an involved party
should be re-parented to the master account .Orders which
could not be re-parented ( because of status or due to any
other technical reason) to master should be logged in the
Merge BO with appropriated error log entry in the applica
tion log so that the user can evaluate the issue
Activities ( Phone Call, Appointments, Tasks and Emails. All activities where duplicate account is an involved party
should be re-parented ( because of status or due to any
other technical reason)to the master account .appointments
which could not be re-parented to master should be logged
in the Merge BO with appropriated error log entry in the ap
plication log so that the user can evaluate the issue
Social Media Messages All social media messages attached to social profile of dupli
cate record will also move from duplicate Record to Master
post Merge
Sales Quotes All the sales quotes where duplicate account is an involved
party should be reparented
Find detailed information on the criteria that needs to be fulfilled for merging tabs in accounts.
Nodes Description
Relationships ● The system will merge the account team and relation
ship records from the duplicate account into master ac
count.
● If a relationship is marked as unique and exists in the
master record, the system will ignore the same record in
duplicate records. For unique relationships master ac
count will always take precedence. All relationships cop
ied from duplicate to master will be deleted from the du
plicate record. All non-unique relationships will be cop
ied over from the duplicate record to the master record.
● A new relationship ‘Is Replaced’ /’Replaces’ will be cre
ated between golden and duplicate record.
Account Team The system will merge the account team and relationship re
cords from the duplicate account into master account.
Sales Area All sales area information from the duplicate will be copied
over to the master account. If the sales area (Sales org, dis
tribution channel, division) information of the master ac
count also exist in the duplicate account, then the sales area
record will not be overwritten, the sales area details main
tained for the master record will take precedence.
Social Profiles If both master and duplicate record have social profile , then
copy the social profile from duplicate to master
EXAMPLE:
Marketing Permissions In general the final result after account merge will be a union
of values from all the accounts. In case of conflict the master
account wins.
Communication Category In general the final result after account merge will be a union
of values from all the accounts. In case of conflict the master
account wins.
Marketing Attributes In general the final result after account merge will be a union
of values from all the accounts. In case of conflict the master
account wins.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Scoping
Questions General Business Data Business Partners Handling of Business Partners and select the
scoping question Do you want to enable accounts merge?.
Note
SAP does not recommend configuring account merge if your customer master records are replicated with
an external system (that is SAP ERP and SAP CRM integration is scoped). This is because a merge
In order to initiate merge, you must have the Data Cleansing work center view assigned to user. In this work
center view, click on New to trigger a manual merge. You can select a maximum of three customer records -
one master and two duplicate records to be merged. Note that this action can be initiated only if the merge
object is in one of the following statuses:
● Not Started
● Merge Failed
● Merge Completed
● Realignment Failed
For detailed troubleshooting information for customer merge, see the section - Account FAQs.
By default, the account merge fetches all open transactions of merged or obsolete records. If you need to also
fetch closed transactions, you must maintain the required configuration.
Administrators can maintain the configuration to include or exclude closed transactions of obsolete records in
account merge. To do this, select the scoping question - Do you want to enable enhanced document
realignment during account merge? under Business Configuration Implementation Project Your Project
Edit Project Scope Questions General Business Data Business Partners Handling of Business Partners
Business Partner Merge .
Use the new business add-in in SAP Cloud Application Studio to turn off address copy from duplicate to the
master record during the merge process. With this BAdI, you can also control what address lines of obsolete
records be copied to or excluded from the primary record.
Administrators can now differentiate between updates to an account triggered by merge or by standard change
process. This differentiation can be implemented using custom logic such that the custom logic is executed
only for change instances occuring due to merge.
Accounts assume various statuses during customer merge. Find detailed information on these statuses in this
topic.
Status Description
Not Started This is the initial status and is set when the Merge object is
created and Merge process has not yet been triggered.
Merge In Process This is the status when the merge has been triggered either
from the web service call or manually from the UI. This sta
tus indicates that merge process has started.
Merge Failed This is the status when the merge operation of merging mas
ter and slave record has failed. The system will not attempt
any transaction reassignment in case the merging of dupli
cate records has failed.
Merge Completed - Realignment In Process This is the status when the merge of two customers has
been successfully completed and the re-parenting of trans
actions assigned to the duplicate record to master record
has started.
Merge Completed - Realignment Failed This is the status when the merge of two customers has
been completed and the reassignment of transactions has
failed.
Use insights from closed transaction history of obsolete records event without including closed transaction
history in account merge. This way you can leverage reporting to show complete picture of primary account.
The new datasource - Account Merge Master Link allows you to map primary record to obsolete records and
thus allows closed transaction history to be reported along with all other activities of primary record.
The Result Log screen displays the application logs that are created by the system for each merge transaction.
The logs are displayed in a hierarchy. Click on the hyperlinked Application Log ID to see if the merge execution
resulted in errors, warnings or other information messages.
The Results section of the application log also displays for the errors, the reason why the transaction
reassignment failed. Re-trigger the merge using the Initiate action available on the customer merge list view.
You can maintain a contact team for a contact. As a sales representative, you can also upload your contacts.
Your contacts can be secure because all users can only access their contacts. You can also assign employees to
a contact in the Contact Team screen and assign an employee as the main contact in the team. (this feature is
subject to available authorizations). Your administrator can use the standard business partner migration
template object to migrate contact team members.
Administrators can configure contact to employee assignment. Directly assign contacts to employees in the
Contacts detailed view. You can also assign a main employee responsible for the contact. The standard query
My Contact has been enhanced to consider the direct contact-employee assignment.
The following configuration must be maintained to enable the employee - contact assignment:
Maintain international address versions for contact-account relationship attributes. It is also possible to
replicate them from / to SAP ERP and SAP S/4HANA. In the Relationships tab for contacts, select the row and
use the toolbar action Maintain International Version to maintain the address version.
Note
The scripts for these address versions must already be maintained for the related account. For example, to
add Hebrew address versions for a contact-account relationship, the Hebrew version must already be
maintained for the account.
Maintain different relationships that contacts may have with your accounts.
Each contact may have different relationships with accounts. You can create different contacts to represent
these different relationships using the relationship types. Further, you can also maintain buying center relevant
information for contacts. Your administrator must have maintained the buying center configuration. The
administrator can use the configuration to define hierarchical or non-hierarchical relationships contact-to-
contact or contact-to-employee relationships.
Contact relationships define the nature of a contact. They represent relationships between contacts, accounts
as well as with other business partners such as partners and partner contacts. Use the relationships that you
have configured to assign relationship between Accounts, Contacts, Partners, Partner Contacts and so on
based on your business needs.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
General Business Partners , and under General Business Partners, define the possible relationships between
business partners in your system. The standard solution provides relationship codes that you can use. Choose
to define new relationship codes or even disable the standard codes. Note that certain standard relationship
codes cannot be deactivated.
Enter a code for and the name of the relationship along with a description for both directions of the
relationship, such as Has Contact for the relationship of business partner 1 with business partner 2 with
business partner 1 being an organization. Depending on the relationship type, choose whether the business
partner is a person or an organization, and select the business partner roles that are permitted for each of the
business partners in the relationship.
You can also link the relationships you define to party role in involved party. Do this, for example, if you want to
automatically determine the party role in documents like lead, opportunity, sales quote, activities based on
specific relationship.
Example: define a new custom Party Role “Reseller” that has the relationship “Has an OEM” assigned to it.
Configure sales area dependent relationships that are evaluated during transactions involving the accounts.
Buying center refers to all those members of an organization who are key stakeholders and are involved in the
buying process.
Use buying center to collaborate with accounts and contacts using various channels. In the Buying Center tab,
map key stakeholders (involved in buying process) along with their relationships. Information that you create
here is copied for opportunities.
Administrators can configure buying center based on business partner and buying center relationships..
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Account and Activity Management Account Management and select the scoping question - Buying Center -
Do you want to enable buying center based on business partner relationships?.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Account and Activity Management Account Management and select the scoping question - Buying Center -
Do you want to enable buying center based on buying center relationships?.
26.7 Attributes
Attributes can be attached to an object to define additional characteristics of the objects. In the solution,
attributes can be associated with different objects like account, contact, individual customer and so on.
Attributes can be of different data types and can by grouped together into an attribute set. You can set different
properties of an attribute like negative value allowed, intervals allowed, multi-value allowed and so on.
A very common use of attributes is to create target groups. For example, if you are a credit card company and
want to create a target group for customers traveling internationally, then you can create an attribute named as
International traveler with a value list YES or NO. Every time your customer spends some money outside your
country using your card you can automatically update International traveler as YES. Subsequently, you can
create a target group of customers where the value of attribute International traveler is YES and send them
promotions like low exchange rate for international traveler or low interest rate if they buy ticket through your
company using your credit card.
Note
Attributes are available in HTML and Responsive UI, in both online and offline mode.
You can define attributes or attribute sets and make them visible for users in the advanced searches for
accounts, contacts, and individual customers.
Go to Administrator Sales and Campaign Settings Attributes to view and configure attributes or
attribute sets.
Note
If your solution is integrated with SAP Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM), then you can only
view, but not create or modify, attributes or attribute sets from this screen.
As you maintain attributes, you can configure their characteristics (for example, whether they are mandatory),
their value list and their descriptions in one or more languages. As you maintain attribute sets, which represent
combinations of attributes, you can select the Person-Relevant checkbox to make the attributes visible in the
Attributes tab of the Contacts work center view. You can also select the Organization-Relevant checkbox to
make them visible in that tab on the Accounts or Individual Customers work center views.
Provided if you personalize your solution to make it visible, you can enable your users to access the Attributes
field within the advanced search of accounts, contacts and individual customers and maintain conditions there
that influence the corresponding search behavior. Once this field is visible and your users select it to maintain
conditions, they can specify a combination of attribute sets, attributes, operators and values – for example,
Employee Attributes, Region, Equal, and North America, respectively – to apply to the attributes search. Users
can also specify additional attribute conditions with the logical operator OR. Once these parameters have been
saved, users can apply the associated conditions as an advanced search query to find business partners with
corresponding Attributes, and to display them within the attributes tab of the work center view of the
associated business partner.
From the item details of an account, when you choose the [Summary] function, Attributes for the account now
appear within the resultant account summary.
This enhancement only becomes available once you select Administrator Form Template
Maintenance and then choose the Account Summary form template and revert to the most recent
version.
Access Restrictions
You can configure the business roles in your solution to specify business access restriction
BUSINESS_ATTRIBUTE_ASGNM_READ, thereby making attributes read-only for the associated business users
You can use the new report Business Partner with attribute assignment, whose technical name is
CODBUSATTRBPB_Q0001, to specify search criteria related to Attributes and to find corresponding business
partners. Within this report, you can also right-click on the name of a business partner, then choose Export All
Account and Contacts to New Target Group, to create a target group for the associated accounts and contacts.
Use in Analytics
To drive analytics in relation to attributes, you can use the following new data sources:
CODBUSATTRBPB Business Partner with Attribute Shows all Attribute values assigned to
Assignment the reference business partners.
Administrators can configure marketing permissions. With the communication categories, you can specify how
often a customer may be contacted during a certain period of time.
In the Marketing Permissions fine-tune activity you maintain your communication categories and the
communication channels for countries with an explicit opt-in. These settings are required to track whether your
customers opt-in or opt-out for a specific communication channel.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Fine-Tune
and then select the Marketing Permissions activity from the activity list.
Caution
It is the responsibility of your organization to comply with national legislation regarding data protection
and the provision of marketing materials. Therefore, administrators must configure the solution for
each country in which, or each customer with whom, your organization intends to conduct marketing
activities and, to the extent legally required, make use of the option to store documents such as opt-ins
or opt-outs.
To add a country where an explicit opt-in is required, click Add Row, enter the country and the
corresponding communication channel, such as e-mail, letter or fax, and save your changes.
2. Maintain Communication Categories:
1. To create a communication category click Add Row
2. Enter a communication category, a description, a limit, and the time frame. With the limit and time
frame you can specify how often a customer can be contacted during a certain period of time. When
adding communication categories we recommend to start with the letter Z
3. Save your work.
Your SAP Cloud for Social Engagementsolution is delivered with the social media features available but hidden.
As an administrator, you need to enable the social media features of the solution using Adaptation Mode.
1. To enter adaptation mode click Adapt, then choose Enter Adaptation Mode.
2. Navigate to each of the screens listed below and make the screen edits indicated for each.
1. When you're on the screen you want to edit, click Adapt, then choose Edit Screen.
2. Add or remove elements on the Screen Layout tab.
3. Save your changes.
You can test your changes before publishing.
4. When you're finished with your changes you can publish them to make them visible to all users.
Service and Social Administrator Service Under Sections, check the You need to make this change be
Settings box for Social Media to make fore you can set up any social me
and Social Settings
it visible. dia channels in your system.
Individual Customer ● Under Sections, check You need to have at least one cus
Customers Individual
the box for Social tomer record in the system before
Customers then choose a
Information to make it you'll be able to adapt the details
customer to open the details
visible. screen.
screen
With Social Information
selected, under Fields,
ensure the boxes are
checked for Facebook
and Twitter.
● Under Sections, select
Tabs, then in the lower
list, select Social Media
Messages and Social
Profiles.
Related Information
Find a new section - LinkedIn Sales Navigator in the Overview tab and Contacts tab for accounts and contacts
and in the buying center. Click Sign-In in this section to navigate to linkedIn to find relationships and key
contacts. Use the rich LinkedIn profile data to record activities with prospects and customers, view recent
activities of your contacts and find a topic of interest to help you start a conversation with your prospects.
The LinkedIn Sales Navigator uses basic information such as first name, last name, email address, job title, and
company name to find the correct company or person on LinkedIn. You can also perform a search if you are
unable to find appropriate contacts or customers. For your contacts, the Save as Lead option in the widget
allows you to save the person as a lead in the LinkedIn Sales Navigator. Such leads are not recorded in SAP
Cloud for Customer. In addition to basic information mentioned above, there is no further data exchange
between SAP Cloud for Customer and LinkedIn.
Note
If you have signed in to LinkedIn with a different account, you are automatically signed in with that
account. To re-login with the standard account, first clear your previous browsing cookies.
Administrators can enable Sales Navigator to allow users to look up LinkedIn information of an account or a
contact.
Note
Sales Navigator Enterprise licenses are required from LinkedIn to use this feature.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Communication and Information Exchange Integration with External Applications and Solutions Integration
with LinkedIn Sales Navigator to find the corresponding scoping question.
Partners in the SAP Cloud for Customer system refers to individuals who are associated with the resellers,
brokers, service providers, distributors, or other entities with which your organization collaborates.
The SAP Cloud for Customer system offers following feature possibilities for partners:
● Partner Channel Management that offers a whole lot of possibilities to set-up business and communication
channels with your partners.
● Partner Portal that enables channel partners to design a new generation user experience that they can use
collaborate on critical opportunities.
● Partners work center that facilitates the exchange of information between members of your organization
with partner contacts. In the Partners work center, you can:
○ Maintain and manage partner and partner contacts
○ Create, edit and mass upload partner and partner contact details
○ Assign partner program and partner type to partners
○ Configure and assign relationships between partners and accounts so that partners are automatically
determined in business transactions.
Note
All accounts, customers, employees, contacts, partners and competitors are considered as business
partners in the system. Therefore, all functions that are common to business partners are applicable to
them.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Open Activity List Partners
Maintain Partner ABC Classification .
Note
Following data migration and upload templates are available to support the above scoping questions:
The above scoping questions capture the following features of the solution: partner funds management
information, partner loyalty points, partner programs and partner types.
As an administrator, use following assignments to configure access restrictions for partners and partner
contacts:
Configure business roles with access restriction rule - Partner Contact of Partner to enable partner contacts
share objects or transactions with other partner contacts within a partner organization. This configuration
does not require any further territory or org. assignments.
Currently this restriction rule is available for access contexts 1015 and 1016. It is possible to restrict all master
data and transactional work center views with 1015 (Employee, Territory, Account, Sales Data) and 1016
(Employee, Territory, Account, Sales Data).
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Sales Account and Activity Management Account Management Business Partner Types and select the
scoping question Would you like to manage partners, such as resellers, in your system?. This selection
allows you to choose partners and partners contacts to manage business relationships with partners (such as
resellers) and their contacts.
Administrators can configure the various partner programs listed below. Go to Business Configuration
Implementation Projects Your Project Fine-Tune Partner Channel Management Partner Management
Partner Program Management Partner Programs , and define the following:
Use Partner Channel Management (PCM) solution to work together with partners allowing closer collaboration.
If your solution includes integration with the SAP HANA Cloud Portal, you can make partner channel
management available in the partner portal.
Partner Channel Management (PCM) allows you to manage partner relationships to optimize channel
operations for sales and service related processes. To achieve this, you can onboard partners and provision
access to the SAP Cloud for Customer for the partner contacts. Once onboarded, an active collaboration can
be set-up between the vendors and partners including content management. Use the analytics to manage
channel partner relationships throughout the partner life cycle.
Highlight of the collaboration is the partner led lead management and deal registration as well as approval
process for sales. Also use PCM in managing tickets with service partners.
Example
Social Opportunity Management: A sales manager uses the Deal Room work pattern to collaborate with sales
team from SAP Cloud for Customer, with a goal to win a sales opportunity.
Deal registration on partner portal enables channel partners to work with leads and opportunities in sync with
and without conflict with other partners.
To enable users to use the deal registration feature, you must ensure that,
● Your business users are authorized to access the Sales Deal Registration work center view, where
deals are managed.
● The corresponding master data for partner contacts, products, pricing and so on are available in your
solution.
Once deal registration is active in your solution, the partner contact creates and submits a prospective deal, as
follows.
Note
If desired, the partner contact can select the Use Existing Account option to assign the deal to a
prospect that already exists in your solution.
5. In the Status field, the partner contact specifies one of the following entries:
○ Draft, allowing the deal to be finalized later, or
○ Submitted, causing the deal to be routed to the brand owner for consideration
6. The partner contact saves the deal.
Note
If the partner contact has submitted the deal, then he or she cannot edit it again, unless the brand owner
assigns it Draft status at a later time.
Once the prospective deal is submitted, the brand owner considers it, as follows.
Once the prospective deal is in review, the brand owner determines whether to create a new account for the
prospect, or to assign an existing account to it, as follows.
1. The brand owner opens any deal to which the status Submitted or In Review is assigned.
2. The brand owner chooses Actions Convert to Account .
If duplicate checks for business partners are active in the system, potential duplicates are displayed.
3. To complete customer aliasing, the brand owner performs one of the following actions:
○ Clicks on the link of the potential duplicate business partner to assign that account to the deal, or
If the brand owner decides to accept the deal, the following steps occur.
1. The brand owner opens any deal to which the status In Review is assigned.
2. The brand owner modifies the status from In Review to Accepted, enabling it to be converted to an
opportunity, when applicable.
3. The brand owner saves the deal.
Once the brand owner is satisfied with the accepted deal and wants to convert it to an opportunity, the
following steps occur.
1. The brand owner opens any deal to which the status Accepted is assigned.
2. The brand owner chooses Actions Convert to Opportunity .
In response, the deal is converted to an opportunity.
3. The brand owner saves the deal.
In response, the status Converted is assigned. Neither the partner contact nor the brand owner can edit
the deal further, for it has become an opportunity.
Deal Registration
To make the Sales Deal Registration work center view visible in your system and thereby
enable authorized users to manage deals, you, as an administrator, select the checkbox of the
Deal Registration
In fine tuning, you, as an administrator, add the Deal Registration activity, then edit the activity to
define the engagement type codes — for example Co-Sell, or Re-Sell — and to determine the ques
tions that channel partners will answer when they submit prospective deals. If you are not satisfied
with these pre-delivered questions, then you can edit or delete them, as desired, or add new ones.
Administrators can configure and use the reports for deal registration. These reports offer you more insight
about deal conversion rate, deal items by product, and deals by status are available, along with new data
sources related to deal registration.
1. Deal Conversion Rate - Last 12 Months, whose technical name is CODDEALU_Q0001, displays the rate of
conversion of deals to opportunities in the last 12 months
2. Deal Items by Products, whose technical name is CODDEALI_Q0001, displays the distribution of deal items
by products.
3. Deals by Status, whose technical name is CODDEALH_Q0001, displays the distribution of deals by status.
CODDEALU Deal Registration Funnel Contains all deal registrations and their
related objects.
CODDEALHB Deal Registration Header Details Contains the deal registration docu
ment’s header information.
CODDEALIB Deal Registration Item Details Contains the deal registration docu
ment’s item information
The depersonalization function allows you to remove personal data from a business object to ensure
compliance with the applicable data protection requirements.
Depersonalization is only available for users with access to the Data Protection and Privacy work center.
In deal registration, depersonalization triggers a deletion. Once a deal registration is depersonalized, you can
go to Administrators General Settings Data Management Deleted Data to view the deleted record.
You cannot depersonalize a deal registration if it contains a person that is blocked for removal.
In case you need to retain certain information, you can download relevant data using OData or Data Workbench
prior to depersonalization.
Bring your partners on a single collaboration platform to increase partner engagement and loyalty. Use
dedicated communities to connect with your partner contacts to exchange ideas, collaborate and deliver
superior content.
Note
The entire section for Partner Portal documentation is deprecated. The partner portal is powered by SAP
Cloud Platform. See the topic Integration Landscape for Partner Portal in this chapter.
The partner portal enables channel partners to design a new generation user experience that they can use
collaborate on critical opportunities. Use partner portal to:
Set up your partner portal so that your channel managers can engage more efficiently with your partner
network.
You can quickly create a Partner Channel Management (PCM) solution from the SAP HANA Cloud Platform
portal service GitHub repository and deploy it to your account. For more information, see: https://
github.com/SAP/hcp-portal-service-for-pcm . .
Use the portal to give your partners all the information they need and make it easier to do business with your
company. The goal is to help channel managers to efficiently engage with partners and enable their experts by:
Set Up Overview
The partner portal is based on SAP HANA Cloud Platform and leverages various platform services such as the
portal launchpad, identity and user management, connectivity and roles, security as well as SAP Web IDE /
SAPUI5 for custom development and extensions.
Customers can create their own partner sites or start with the provided apps delivered via the predefined
integration with SAP Cloud for Customer which serves as the central system of record for the relevant business
objects (partners, leads, opportunities, etc.) and the configuration of their meta data. The partner portal
solution provides pre-configured web applications that visualize the data from SAP Cloud for Customer
exposed via oData services.
Recommendation
To ensure proper functionality, user accounts for your partner managers must be created on the portal site,
not on the SAP Cloud for Customer system.
27.3.3.1 Prerequisites
SAP Service Cloud has set up and configured the integration between your SAP Cloud for Customer system
and the SAP HANA Cloud Portal, a separately licensed solution.
For information on integrating your SAP Cloud for Customer system with SAP HANA Cloud Portal, contact your
SAP Service Cloud representative.
To initiate the logon, first create setup the trust between the customer account and SCI.
Context
For the logon scenario, proceed as follows to create trust between the customer account and SCI.
Procedure
1. In the SAP HANA Cloud Platform Cockpit, open the customer account.
1. Navigate to the Trust settings.
2. Edit the Local Service Provider settings.
3. Change the Configuration Type to Custom.
4. Choose Generate Key Pair to display the signing key and certificate.
5. Change the Principle Propagation to Enabled.
6. Save your settings, then choose the Get Metadata link to download the metadata.
7. Open the Trusted Identity Provider tab, then choose Add Trusted Identity Provider.
8. Browse to locate the IDP metadata file, then upload it.
Note
9. On the General tab, change the User ID Source to attribute and the Source Value to mail.
10. On the Attributes tab, choose Add Assertion-Based Attribute, then add the following attribute mapping.
first_name firstname
last_name lastname
mail email
11. Save your entries, then exit the customer account settings.
1. Choose Applications.
Upon completing this procedure, you should be able to log on to the SAP HANA Cloud Portal space with
the user ID (that is, e-mail) that was assigned to it when the customer's account was provisioned.
Note
If you cannot log on with this user ID, ensure that it has been added to the SCI account by visiting the
SCI administrator page and uploading the user and user details in a .csv file format.
For the SAP ID invitation flow scenario, proceed as follows to create trust between the customer account and
the SCI API.
Context
Procedure
1. Request a certificate to be used for authentication from the SAP Support Portal .
2. Open a KeyStore Explorer application, then proceed as follows.
1. Choose Create a new KeyStore.
2. Specify the JKS type.
3. Choose Tools Import Key Pair .
4. Choose PKCS #12.
5. In the Decryption Password field, specify the certificate password, then choose the certificate file.
6. Choose an alias, or accept the default setting.
7. When you are prompted to choose a new password, enter the original certificate password.
8. Save the .jks file with the file name sapid.jks.
9. When you are prompted to choose a new password, enter, again, the original certificate password.
3. In the SAP HANA Cloud Platform Cockpit, open the customer account.
1. Choose Destinations.
2. Upload the sapid.jks file.
4. Open your SCI IDP account.
Note
For the SAP Cloud for Customer invitation flow scenario, proceed as follows to create trust between the
customer account and SAP Cloud for Customer.
Context
Procedure
1. Open the trust management settings of the SAP HANA Cloud Platform customer account.
1. Copy the entry in the Local Provider Name field.
2. Copy the entry in the Signing Certificate field, and save it in .cer format.
2. Within a separate browser window, log on to SAP Cloud for Customer in the Microsoft Silverlight® client
with administrator authorizations.
1. In the Administrator work center, under Common Tasks, choose Configure OAuth 2.0 Identity Provider.
○ Choose New OAuth 2.0 Provider.
○ In the Issuing Entity Name field, paste the entry that you copied in step 1a. of the current task.
○ From the Primary Signing Certificate field, choose Browse to locate the file in .cer format that you
saved in step 1b. of the current task.
○ Select the E-Mail Address checkbox.
In this step, upload the destinations for each of the associated parameters.
Procedure
1. In the SAP HANA Cloud Platform Cockpit, open the customer account.
2. Upload the following destinations, along with the associated parameters.
1. SAPID
This destination is used for the SAP ID invitation flow scenario, and consists of the following
parameters.
Note
Replace any text denoted in bold with the information that pertains to your solution.
Name=sapid
Type=HTTP
URL=https://[your SCI account name].[account domain].ondemand.com
ProxyType=Internet
Authentication=ClientCertificateAuthentication
KeyStore Location=sapid.jks
KeyStore Password=[password specified when you created the certificate]
TrustAll=true
2. C4C
This destination is used for connecting to SAP Cloud for Customer during its invitation flow scenario,
and consists of the following parameters.
Note
Replace any text denoted in bold with the information that pertains to your solution.
Replace NNNNNN with the numbers that are associated with the URL of your SAP Cloud for
Customer tenant.
Name=C4C
Type=HTTP
URL=https://myNNNNNN.crm.ondemand.com
ProxyType=Internet
3. C4C Public
This destination is used for connecting to SAP Cloud for Customer during an anonymous scenario on a
public site, and consists of the following parameters.
Note
Replace any text denoted in bold with the information that pertains to your solution.
Replace NNNNNN with the numbers that are associated with the URL of your SAP Cloud for
Customer tenant.
Type=HTTP
authnContextClassRef=urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:ac:classes:PreviousSession
Authentication=BasicAuthentication
Name=C4C__public
ProxyType=Internet
URL=URL=https://myNNNNNN.crm.ondemand.com/sap/byd/odata/v1/pcmportal
nameIdFormat=urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.1:nameid-format:emailAddress
User=[Administrator User ID]
Password=[Administrator Password]
scope=UIWC:CC_HOME
4. c4c_pcmpublic
Note
Replace any text denoted in bold with the information that pertains to your solution.
Name=c4c_pcmpublic
Description=destination to public self-registration widget
URL=[URL of the customer account subscription to the pcmpublic Helium
application]
ProxyType=Internet
Type=HTTP
Authentication=NoAuthentication
Create online or offline payments for open, overdue invoices and review historical invoices and payments.
● View invoice and payment details online or offline for one or more customers.
● Create payments for open invoices and assign payments to pending invoices.
● Create payments using payment methods such as cash or check and capture signature of the payer
and/or recipient.
● Configure the following for your payment creation process:
○ Determine if signature capture is required and stored with the payment.
○ Define whether signature capture is mandatory.
○ Configure if partial payments are accepted.
● Integrate with SAP ERP using iflows.
The Collections workcenter has two tab screens namely the Payments and Invoices. Use A2X or A2A services to
replicate open invoices and payments in your external system. The Collections tab screen is also displayed
under VISITS. In the visits other KPIs are also displayed.
These include
● Total Amount Owed that is the total amount owed by the account from all open and paritally paid invoices.
● Amount Paid that represents the amount that was cleared during this visit.
● Amount Remaining that refers to the amount still remaining to be paid.
Note
The KPI calculation and the invoice list are cleared after the visit is Checked Out by the sales representative.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Industry
Solution Consumer Product Extended and select Payment and Invoice. These two work center tab screens
appear under the Collections work center.
Administrators can maintain the requisite configuration to replicate invoices from external systems.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Communication and Information Exchange Integration with External Applications and Solutions Integration
into Sales, Service and Marketing Processes Collections and review and select the following questions.
1. Do you want to receive invoice information from an external application or solution to your cloud solution?
2. Do you want to transfer payments information from your cloud solution to an external application or
solution?
Administrators can setup the communication scenario under Administrator General Settings Integration
Communication Arrangements .
Note
The A2A scenario is displayed in the list of communication arrangements only if it has been scoped in
the business configuration as described earlier in this topic.
Administrators can setup the communication scenario under Administrator General Settings Integration
Communication Arrangements .
Note
The A2A scenario is displayed in the list of communication arrangements only if it has been scoped in
the business configuration as described earlier in this topic.
Note
The invoices you replicate are read-only in the cloud solution. You can use standard A2X synchronous
services to replicate from SAP ERP system. Alternatively, you can also use A2A asynchronous services to
replicate the invoices from an external third party system.. You need to maintain the required business
configuration under scoping to be able to use A2A services.
Administrators can maintain the ID mapping sales organization IDs and business partners (such as account
and payer) in the system and map them to corresponding internal ID's in the cloud solution.
Administrators can configure the requisite access restrictions for payments and invoices tab screens in the
Collections work center.
Maintain access restrictions for payments and invoices in the Business Configurations.
● Restrict Payments and Invoices for read and write access at the Employee or Team leavel.
● Restrict Invoices for read and write access at the Sales Area level.
If the Collections scenario is scoped in your solution, then you will see the Collections work center. The
Collections tab also appears in the visit with the Payments and Invoices sections. If you have replicated invoices
for an account and sales area using A2X or A2A services, you will see that these appear in that customer's
visits as open invoices. Note that all invoices are read-only in the cloud solution.
You can initate a payment from the visit or from Collections Payments . Payment by cash and using
cheque are supported. When you create a payment, a corresponding payment object gets created and is
attached to the invoice. You can make mass payments by selecting more than one invoices or make partial
payments (provided you have not blocked partial payments in the scoping). If you have enabled mandatory
signature capture for the payer and the recipient, you need to capture the corresponding graphical signatures.
Note
In the current release, you can only make payments from the Collections tab screen under Visits.
Note
In mass payments, the invoices with earlier dates are paid first. Therefore, when you track the status of the
invoices after making a collective payment, you will see that some of the most recent invoices may be in
status Partially Paid.
Click on Finish and you will see that the invoice no longer appears in the list of pending invoices. A new payment
is created. Navigate to the payment to see the Invoice Payment Status as Paid.
If the A2A agent for payments are scoped, then a new action for Transfer is available in the Payment tab screen.
Select this action to transfer any finished or cancelled payments to external system. The action transfers to an
external system, payment details along with its related invoices.
Note
Payments that have been transferred or with status In Process cannot be modified.
Use the action Cancel to cancel a finished payment. The open invoice reappears in the list of invoices and the
status of the payment is changed to Canceled
Administrators can maintain the requisite configuration to replicate invoices from external systems.
Go to Business Configuration Implementation Projects Your Project Edit Project Scope Questions
Communication and Information Exchange Integration with External Applications and Solutions Integration
into Sales, Service and Marketing Processes Collections and review and select the following questions.
1. Do you want to receive invoice information from an external application or solution to your cloud solution?
2. Do you want to transfer payments information from your cloud solution to an external application or
solution?
Administrators can setup the communication scenario under Administrator General Settings Integration
Communication Arrangements .
Note
The A2A scenario is displayed in the list of communication arrangements only if it has been scoped in
the business configuration as described earlier in this topic.
Administrators can setup the communication scenario under Administrator General Settings Integration
Communication Arrangements .
The A2A scenario is displayed in the list of communication arrangements only if it has been scoped in
the business configuration as described earlier in this topic.
Note
The invoices you replicate are read-only in the cloud solution. You can use standard A2X synchronous
services to replicate from SAP ERP system. Alternatively, you can also use A2A asynchronous services to
replicate the invoices from an external third party system.. You need to maintain the required business
configuration under scoping to be able to use A2A services.
Use the analytics data sources for Payments and Invoices to gain insights into overall collections status.
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