Hello SAP Community,
This time I am going to talk about the mobile ready capabilities of the SAP S/4HANA system.
Preamble
During these particular times, we have been hearing a lot the following words: quarantines, lockdowns, Supply Chain challenges, consumer demand shocks, ...
And the question everyone is asking is: How can companies be prepared for this situation?.
The answer that comes to my mind is mobility. Doesn't matter where you are, in order to be prepared for what's coming next and be able to take a quick decision, you need to have information at the palm of your hand.
This topic is largely tackled in SAP S/4HANA by using SAP Fiori apps (web apps).
As you know, SAP Fiori apps are built using SAP Fiori paradigm which with the following
design principles
:
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Role-based
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Adaptive
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Simple
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Coherent
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Delightful
This means that due to the "Adaptive" principle, users are enabled to work with the SAP Fiori apps either from desktop and mobile devices.
But apart from the SAP Fiori apps available in the SAP S/4HANA systems, there is an offering of mobile apps you can download from your favorite app store.
This is the current list of mobile applications available for SAP S/4HANA environments:
Using "SAP Customer Guide" app you can retrieve the latest customer financial data anywhere and any time. This app connects to SAP S/4HANA and allows regional CFOs and sales managers to prepare for upcoming customer meetings and keep track of a customer right from their iPhone or iPad.
More info
SAP Shop Floor Manager mobile app helps "Production Supervisors" in the Manufacturing Plant to reach the production figures for the day, ensure smooth running production line and remove breakdowns and bottlenecks, have the right people at the right time at the right place and have all machines up and running and all material at work.
More info
Using SAP Asset Manager mobile app you can manage work orders, notifications, condition monitoring, material consumption, time management, and failure analysis. It supports the highly skilled workers who maintain enterprise assets to perform their job with complex information and business logic that is always available whether they are connected to the network or working in offline environments.
This particular app needs an add-on to be installed on the backend system.
More info
SAP Field Service Management provides industry-leading field service management capabilities in real-time, by bringing together the right data at the right moment to delight customers and drive business results at the most critical points of service.
More info
Introduction
In this article I am going to focus on how to configure one of the apps previously listed, against an SAP S/4HANA on-premise system. Particularly, I am going to show the step by step configuration of the "
SAP Customer Guide
" mobile app.