SAP Business ByDesign – Release 1811

06.11.2018

At the end of October it was time again, a new release for Business ByDesign was uploaded into the test tenants. If there are no problems here, the release from 17.11 to 18.11 will be transferred to the production systems. Here you can see a short overview of the new features:

• Financial Management

  • Receivables Collection Management
  • Revenue Accounting Contracts (IFRS15 / ASC606)

   

• Customer Relationship Management

  • Approvals for service orders
  • Renumbering and reordering of items
  • Ship-To Party / Bill-To Party visible in Quick Activity Floorplan
  • Invoice volume report allows to drill down by service order and item
  • Product & Business Partner Taxability in Avalara/Vertex Integration US Taxation

   

• Project Management

  • Change Project Task Assignment of Time Confirmations

   

• Supply Chain Management

  • Customer Demand: Release of Partial Quantities
  • Production Order Release Only If Feasible
  • Creation of Product Count for Products with no Inventory

   

• Human Resources

  • Project Time Approvals
  • Time Accounts Balances Report
  • Payroll Reports Work Center View

   

• Built-In Analytics

  • Improved Monitoring with Personal Dashboards
  • New Casual User Pattern Based on Report Bookmarks
  • New Options for Key Users
  • Analytics Integration and Data Upload into Cloud Data Source

   

• Mobile

  • New App for iOS and Android

   

• Cross Topics

  • HTML5 will be the standard interface
  • New Help and Learning platform
  • Output Management
    • Multiple Output Channels
    • Flexible Sender E-Mail Adresses
    • Multiple E-Mail Recipients
  • Request a new test tenant with time overlap up to three weeks

A complete description including various highlight videos can be found under the following link: Business ByDesign Release Highlights 1811