SAP® Business ByDesign® – What’s New 2102

SAP® Business ByDesign® 2102 is now available. To get an overview about the most important new functions of SAP® Business ByDesign® 2102, please read the following document: What’s new

You can find the new focus-topics in release 2102 within the following list:

Customer Relationship Management

- Insight-to-Action: Create target groups for customers from any report
  Marketing, Sales and Service employees are now able to directly create target groups from a report (Blog).
- Global Trade Item Number for KIT header product in Over the Counter Sales scenario
  Customer in the Over The Counter sales (OTC) scenario can now use a GTIN/UPC (Global Trade Item Number) for the kit header product as it needs to be charged for the overall kit and scan that UPC rather than the individual products (Blog).
- Partner libraries for CRM determined parties and Organizational Management
  dataPartners would need cloud studio reusable libraries for Territory Mapping functionality, which includes libraries to return parties determined in CRM document, libraries to read Organizational management related information (Blog).
In total customer improvement requests with more than 10 votes were delivered for the Customer Relationship Management area in 21.02.

For detailed information about What’s New in the Customer Relationship Management area, please click here.

Cross Topic & Mobile

- Microsoft Teams® for SAP Business ByDesign
  SAP Business ByDesign users are now enable to easily access features (e.g. opportunity or account list) of the SAP Business ByDesign system directly from Microsoft Teams (Blog).
- Intelligent Mobile Expense Scanning
  With the new release users are enabled to scan a receipt, which will be than converted as an expense within an expense report (Blog).
- End Session and Unlock Documents
  Key user can now view logged-on users with one or multiple sessions, and end such a session, if required (Blog).
In total customer improvement requests with 195 votes were delivered for the Cross Topics area in 21.02.

For detailed information about What’s New in the Cross Topics area, please click here.

Financial Management

- 1099-NEC Withholding Tax Return for Nonemployee Compensation
  The new Tax Report Type 1099-NEC is now available for reporting nonemployee compensation in US. Using this tax report type, it is possible to generate the 1099-NEC form as well as the 1099-NEC file. This income type was removed from 1099-MISC return.
- Lease Accounting Enhancements
  With the new release the lease accounting capabilities has been enhanced e.g. closed lease contracts can be reopened if the right of use asset is not yet retired (Blog).
- Web Service for Bank Statements
  The new capabilities enable partners and customers to mass upload bank statements by using the ManageBankStatementIn web service (Blog)
In total customer improvement requests with 82 votes were delivered for the Financial Management area in 21.02.

For detailed information about What’s New in the Financial Management area, please click here.

Human Resources

- Service Order Confirmations in the Employee Time Sheet
  When an employee performs a service confirmation on a service order, the hours consumed in the service confirmation automatically reflect in the employee’s timesheet (Blog).
- Partner enablement for the Resource Calendar
  A new Business Object Structure is available in the public solution model that can be used to integrate a partner add-on with the Employee Resource Calendar. (Blog).
In total customer improvement requests with 38 votes were delivered for the Human Resources area in 21.02.

For detailed information about What’s New in the Human Resources area, please click here.

Supplier Relationship Management

- Delivery date proposal in purchase orders
  Purchasers are now enabled to flexibly define the number of days which the delivery date proposal considers (Blog).
- Intelligent Supplier Invoice Scanning Enhancements
  With this release the supplier invoice scanning capability has been enhanced to further reduce manual effort and increase flexibility (Blog).
In total customer improvement requests with 120 votes were delivered for the Supplier Relationship Management area in 21.02.

For detailed information about What’s New in the Supplier Relationship Management area, please click here.

Supply Chain Management

- Change Quantities of Started Production Orders
  It is now possible to adjust production schedules, e.g. because of a changed demand or supply situation or to reflect resource overload or unavailability situations (Blog).
In total customer improvement requests with 40 votes were delivered for the Supply Chain Management area in 21.02.

For detailed information about What’s New in the Supply Chain Management area, please click here.

Localization

India
TCS tax code determination
TCS tax codes can be auto determined and thus manual effort of selecting tax codes for each line item in the sales documents can be avoided (Video).
Israel
Form 6111
Customers can now generate output DAT file that will have amount for each 6111 codes and other details as per the prescribed format by authority (Video).Unified Reporting Enhancement with new filters
Customers can now reduce the size of the BKMVDATA.txt file based on the new filters introduced (Video).

VAT Postponement
Without Changing Tax due date in the posted supplier invoice, customers are now able to know the tax liability as well as postpone the tax line items using Test Run functionality (Video).
Italy
CU file and form return
Customers can create a single file return on annual basis during file reporting (Video).
South Korea
Tax Responsible fields on Customer & Supplier Data Sources
It is now possible to create reports to show the tax information fields for a South Korean supplier or customer by using the data sources ‘Supplier Details’ or ‘Account Details’ (Video).
Spain
Form 347
Customers can now generate a new Tax return run text file as per the prescribed format by Tax agency (Video).

SEPA Direct Debit Deposit for Bill of Exchange
With this release SEPA Direct Debit payment file can also be used for Bill of Exchange payment initiation (Video).

SII Legal WSDL and Date Changes
Customers could continue with SII Return and reporting with the latest WSDL schema changes and validation checks in place (Video).
United Kingdom
Brexit
Post Brexit GB is officially out of EU with an exception of Northern Ireland Protocol. SAP Business ByDesign is compliant as per Brexit laws (Video).