All Articles on Business Process Management
Enabling eMail Notifications in SAP Netweaver BPM CE 7.1 Ehp1
This article explains how to enable email notifications in Business Process Management.22 Sep 2009
How to Integrate & Use Process Route from SAP Records Management in Your Application
The workflow path (process route) is an application independent workflow tool that supports ad hoc definition and changes of processes by end users (dynamically insert, change and delete process steps with activities and agents).This document explains the process of integrating & using process route in your application.20 Sep 2009
SAP Customer Success Story - Actega DS: Achieving Shorter Lead Times in the Chemical Industry
Read how the qualified SAP Business All-in-One partner solution IBM Express Solution for Chemicals has helped this specialty chemical manufacturer harmonize and standardize its internal business processes. ACTEGA DS now benefits from efficient end-to-end processes and integrated data, as well as a faster supply chain.01 Sep 2009
In this end-to-end guide you will be learning about how decision logic, modeled using BRM, can be integrated with the process logic modeled using BPM. It makes use of investment approval process use case scenario, where a requestor makes a investment request which based on certain business policies and constraints, is either accepted or rejected17 Aug 2009
Shift Related Confirmation: a Breakthrough in Manufacturing
This article explains the functionality of shift related confirmation in production execution process which is a part of the SAP's enhancement package number 329 Jul 2009
Substitution Based on UWL Task
This document covers the substitution of workitems based on SAP Business Workflow tasks.20 Jul 2009
Change Management of Rules using SAP NetWeaver Business Rules Manager 7.2
This article is an end-to-end guide meant to help you in using the Rules Manager (a web based business user interface to help business analyst manage, review and change rules) to model and manage set of simple rules.15 Jul 2009
Versatile SAP Alert Management for Sales Force
Today, there are challenging ERP business scenarios in a complex world. Most of the industries now-a-days associate ERP with SAP. The reason being that SAP ensures and integrates the end-to-end business processes for its Client(s) without hurdles. As a part of ERP ECC 6.0 + Enhancement Package 2, Alert Management plays a vital role in all modules regardless of functionality.01 Jul 2009
This article (reprinted with permission from BPTrends) provides a quick overview of the kinds of problems that business process practitioners confront. A process redesign team ignores any one of these problem areas at its peril. Incomplete redesigns come back to haunt the team that thought they could solve a specific problem while ignoring other key problems.30 Jun 2009
Automating Supplemental Price Quotes in F&A Pricing
This document speaks about making F&A pricing flexible to accomodate & to Automate SAP system for supplemental Price quotes which are published seasonally by oil exchanges.30 Jun 2009
Debugging a Background Task in SAP Business Workflow
The article demonstrates how to debug a background task in SAP Business Workflow.24 Jun 2009
Customers and Business Processes
Some theorists would like to separate customers from processes, imagining that processes are operations and that customers are outside the scope of process redesign. As this article (reprinted with permission from BPTrends) states, this is a dangerous idea that can seriously undermine the value of process improvement efforts. It is especially inappropriate in organizations that focus on providing services.16 Jun 2009
BPM and Web Dynpro for Java Integration – Guidelines
This document describes how to embed Web Dynpro UIs into SAP NetWeaver BPM processes. It also gives an introduction of SAP NetWeaver BPM including BPMN and of Web Dynpro for Java. In addition, the document provides recommendations and best practices for the integration of WD UIs in processes.01 Jun 2009
Workflow Pattern Coverage in SAP NetWeaver BPM 7.11
This article provides a reference for workflow patterns, supported in NetWeaver BPM (code-named "Galaxy"), as of release 7.11. We do not only walk you through the most important patterns and show their analogies in Galaxy's Process Composer design time but also provide examples for modeling scenarios that incorporate more advanced patterns using BPMN.28 May 2009
Porter, Enterprise Resource Planning, and Business Process Management Software
For years, enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems have been defying Porter's dictums on strategy. Business process management software (BPMS) seems likely to remedy that in the coming decade. This article, reprinted with permission from BPTrends, looks at the relationship between competitive advantage, standard ERP processes, and BPMS.26 May 2009
SAP Enterprise Modeling by IDS Scheer - Enterprise Services Repository Integration
The new integration of SAP Enterprise Modeling by IDS Scheer and ES Repository provides a model and process-centric approach to the implementation of service-enabled business applications from SAP supported through the creation of a conceptual business blueprint for SOA. This leads to a comprehensive overview of the business process landscape, starting from the top-level approach of conceptual business process modeling down to needed services stored in Enterprise Services Repository.19 May 2009
Understanding Boundary Events of SAP NetWeaver BPM
This article describes how to use boundary events to handle exceptions that may arise during the execution of activities / sub processes in a process modeled with SAP NetWeaver BPM.15 May 2009
In March 2009, two Dartmouth business school professors published an article in the Harvard Business Review entitled, "When Should a Process Be Art, Not Science?" The piece raised some interesting points, which this article (reprinted with permission from BPTrends) examines.12 May 2009
In this document, I will be explaining the Data supplier code which will read the existing Extended Memory usage parameters from the CCMS Monitoring tree and calculate averages based on the parameters and then display these averages under a new System wide Context created for the extended memory monitor.11 May 2009
Modeling Your First Process with SAP NetWeaver Business Process Management
This tutorial describes how to model and execute an end-to-end business process using SAP NetWeaver Business Process Management. The tutorial contains also information about how to monitor the business process, as well as a problem analysis section.06 May 2009