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J.-Christoph Nolte, Chief Development Architect in Suite Architecture at SAP SE
May 15, 2019
The Future ofOrganisational Management (OM)
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Organisational Management – A definition
Organisational Management – A look ahead
Responsibility Management and Teams
Roadmap – Responsibility Management in the Cloud
Wrap-up: So what about the Future of Organisational Management?
Agenda
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• A technical framework
• Part of HCM
• A relevant part of a set of applications
• Campus Management
• and Funds Management, SCM, CRM, FIN, …
• Used for SAP Business Workflow
• A generic tool for everything or something
• “How I structure my work“
What is Organisational Management?
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• Also in S/4HANA
• Applications-specific
• A technical framework
• Part of HCM
• A relevant part of a set of applications
• Campus Management
• and Funds Management, SCM, CRM, FIN, …
• Used for SAP Business Workflow
• A generic tool for everything or something
• “How I structure my work“
What will change?
-> Unified Responsibility Management
+ On-premise Organisational Management will continue to be available
-> No generic services or UIs planned
-> Local solutions, as before
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How are responsibilities derived?
From organizational models
From responsibility rules (e. g. roles and authorization objects)
From agile team definitions
From existing application rule repositories (e. g. PFAC/BRF+)
From customer rule definitions (e. g. BAdIs)
Sophisticated AI/ML type services……
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…
?
What’s the architecture of Unified Responsibility Management?
Teams
Unified API
Application
Rules
Extensi-
bility*
Applic
ation
Rule
OData Service
Internal Consumption
External Consumption
Fro
mA
uth
orization/R
ole
Work
Function
1
Work
Function
2
Custo
mer
Rule
SAP Cloud
PlatformWorkflow
Situations
Application
…
ML*
….
Line
Org.** Future scope!
S/4HANA
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SituationsWorkflows Applications
How is Responsibility Management consumed today in S/4HANA?
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?
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Business context for
which the process looks
for unique responsible
members
Business Roles for which
the process looks for
unique responsible
members
Business Process Team
members
Is there more to teams?
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How are hierarchical responsibilities modelled?
Hierarchical
Team
Responsibility definitions get inherited
from parent to child teams
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SAP CP Responsibility Management
▪ Service to define and determine Work Teams (responsible members, responsibility definitions and Functions)
✓ define Master data /configuration apps to define Responsibility entities (Categories ,Functions etc)▪ Service to determine context based Responsibility rules
• Industry cloud• S4H extension• IOT
Application• & …
CP Runtime
CP Central Design time & runtime repository
ERM
WBS
SAP Cloud ApplicationsOn-premise
IT Landscape
Cloud Connector
REST / OData REST / OData
REST
What could Responsibility Management in the future look like?
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• Organisational Management (OM) will not go away, but it will be specific to solutions using it
• Workflow use cases around OM are covered by Unified Responsibility Management (URM)
• URM integrates with local solution, including (if required) with OM
• OM will continue to be available with On-premise solutions
What does the future of Organisational Management then look like?
Backup and more …
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What is Responsibility Management in S/4HANA?
A flexible framework to determine correct contacts for various contexts to address tasks and activities along the working structure
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Responsibility management features..
Enterprise
Search Models
1902
Change
Documents
1902-1905
GDPR
Compliant
1802-1809
Hierarchical
responsibilities
& Unified API
approach
1711 - 1805
Support of
SSCUIs &
Extensibility
1708
Reusable UI for
Responsibility
management
1905
Raise a situation
if responsible
agent is invalid
1905
Integrate with
Process route -
PLM
1705
Integrate with
Workflow
1708
Integrate with
Situations
1711
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Responsibility Management in S/4HANA – The Data Model
Team
Category
Category Name
Function Profile
Attributes
Function
Profile
Function 1
Function 2
Function 3
Team Type
Team Category
Functions
Attributes
(with/without exclusion of
Attributes and Functions)
Function 1
Function 2
Function 3
Attributes
Attribute 1
Attribute 2
Attribute 3
CustAttribute 99
Team Instance
Team Name
Description
Status
Team Type
Team category
Attribute 1 = Value 1 Value2
Attribute 2 = Value 3
Member 1 Function 1 Function 2
Member 2 Function 3SAP Delivered
SAP Delivered
m
1
n
1
m
m n
n m
filter
filter
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Use case as heard from Customers
Existing Customers have lots of authorizations and roles defined so far over the years. They would like to map a person’s work (function) to the role/authorization required to do that. In case it is not there, request or create one.
John responsible for Plant = 0001
Material= MG231P.Org = 500010
Process is Purchase Contract Approval
John is he Authorized for ???
Plant = 0001Material= MG231
P.Org = 500010
Process is Purchase Contract Approval
Through Responsibility management
Through PFCG/Roles/AuthChecks
What have we heard from customers?
Contact information:
J.-Christoph Nolte
Chief Development Architecture
Dietmar-Hopp-Allee 16, D-69190 Walldorf, Germany
Thank you.