Business Process Documentation with SAP Solution Manager 7.1 Recently, at a conference, I was asked by an attendee “What should I tell my employees when they ask why they should document business processes? They keep telling me that this is not important, requires a lot of manual effort, is costly to keep up-to-date, and nobody ever uses the documentation again anyway.” To answer this question, we need to step back a little bit, and not look only at the documentation itself. Because if we don’t look at the bigger picture, you might think that business process documentation (especially if it is seen like in the quote above) has very little worth in itself: there is no “measurable outcome” or “profit” from documenting business processes (and there are some important benefits I’ll talk about later). So, looking only at the documentation, and asking “what’s the benefit?” will not lead to a positive answer. However, if we step back and look at the bigger picture, we see its relevance and value within application lifecycle management (ALM). Business process documentation – represented in the ALM process “solution documentation” – is embedded as an integral part of the lifecycle management concept. It can be viewed as the foundation for ALM, and, like a foundation or groundwork of a house, its value consists in building a strong and reliable base for the house built on top. For ALM, this means having a strong, reliable, and up-to-date business process documentation in SAP Solution Manager will allow you to benefit from other ALM capabilities built on top of it: and these benefits are measurable and, in the end, will help you save time and money. Blend in gimp. Let’s take a closer look at some of the benefits you can reap from up-to-date solution documentation. This list is far from comprehensive, as it only points out some major ALM capabilities, but it is a good starting point. Solution Implementation – Documenting business processes and attaching other related objects (like transactions, custom code obejects, test cases or other documents) is the key element of implementing new solutions. This process documentation will then also be reused for directly configuring the documented processes during the implementation phase of a project. ![]()
![]() SAP Solution Manager can help you model and document. Business-process procedures, and training. Or template projects. The SAP KW component is. More Business Process Procedure Template Sap Training images. What is BPP (Business Process Procedure), It is created at the time of configuration and it helps other Consultants to know what has been configured in the system and. The main content of these templates is the standardized business processes you need to roll out, so the use of – and benefit from – coherent and well-structured business process documentation is self-explanatory. Business Process Monitoring – The business process monitoring functionality provides ways to closely monitor the performance of your most important (or “critical”) business processes, and, together with the new monitoring and alerting framework, you will be notified if there are any problems (or even proactively, if there are problems that could arise in the near future). Same as above, this is self-explanatory: If there are no business processes documented, there is nothing to monitor. Upgrade Management – During an upgrade, the business process documentation is being used to determine the impacts of the upgrade on the existing business processes and on test efforts after the upgrade. An up-to-date business process documentation helps estimating these efforts more easily and also helps keeping the test efforts low (by removing unused elements from the documentation). Custom Code Management – Business process documentation is being used to identify processes which make heavy use of modified or custom-developed objects. This is only a selection of ALM capabilities you are only able to use meaningful when you have up-to-date business process documentation in place.
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