All Articles on Business Process Modeling
This article is about absence quotas. Absence quotas are used to manage an employee's time off. Various quota types (such as vacation or sick time) are set up to allow the employee a particular number of hours or days off.13 Aug 2009
Demo on Building Workflow Using Custom Business Object, Events and Methods
The article describes the procedure to create a workflow with custom business object, having custom methods and custom events.07 Aug 2009
Substitution Based on UWL Task
This document covers the substitution of workitems based on SAP Business Workflow tasks.20 Jul 2009
Workflow: Cross System and Cross Client
The article describes the concept and approach for cross system and cross client workflows.15 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
Debugging a Background Task in SAP Business Workflow
The article demonstrates how to debug a background task in SAP Business Workflow.24 Jun 2009
ARC Brief Implementable Best Practices Speed Chemical Industry SAP ERP Deployments
In this report, Greg Gorbach, VP for Collaborative Manufacturing and Architecture at ARC Advisory Group, describes SAP Best Practices for Chemicals as "an excellent starting point for SAP ERP implementations". The report emphasizes "'Live in Five' (months) is not just a slogan, and 'Best Practices' are real, proven, industry-specific business processes, supported by trained implementation partners".10 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
Determine Setup ID in APO by Characteristic Values
Learn how to change the setup id of APO activities with object dependencies based on characteristic values. The setup id is used to control PP/DS sequence optimization of activities in APO planned or production orders.29 May 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
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
Dealing with Guided Procedures URL Instantiation from Visual Composer iViews
This article explains a way of letting know VC iViews in runtime the URL of the server in which the GP Process has to be instantiated, so the Visual Composer iView will be able to dynamically create an URL for instantiating the GP Process.14 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
Triggering a BPM Process from SAP Standard Business Process
When a standard SAP transaction gets executed in the ERP or CRM system and creates an instance of a certain type of business object, for example, sales order in SAP (BUS2032) or quotation in CRM (BUS2000115), a BPM process needs to be triggered on the SAP CE.27 Apr 2009
This document explains how Rules can be evaluated in a Gateway.17 Apr 2009
Building A Composite Business Process From Scratch With SAP NetWeaver - BPM using WebService RFC
This document tells you how to create a custom Web service into Composite Application Framework using RFC and use the Web service create a BPM process project.13 Apr 2009
Building A Composite Business Process From Scratch With SAP NetWeaver - BPM using WebService
This document tells you how to create a custom Web service into Composite Application Framework using DB2 table fetch data from database and use the Web service create a BPM process project. In DB2 there are two tables Employee Details and Manager Details where employee and manager details are stored. The custom Web service fetch data from DB2 tables.13 Apr 2009
6 Sure Signs You've Hampered Your Business Processes
BPM technology has evolved considerably. Imagine one common, intuitive platform available to executives, business managers, analysts, application architects, and developers. Customers using the tools describe them as revolutionary. SAP Senior Vice President Wolfgang Hilpert is at the helm of this BPM breakthrough. In this interview, Hilpert introduces customers to the vision upon which SAP's BPM platform is based, and advises readers on how to get started. This article was published in the Apr/May/Jun 2009 issue of SAP Insider and appears here with permission of the publisher, WIS, www.WISpubs.com.01 Apr 2009
Value of Business Process Management
As a part of a Business Process Transformation study, BPM experts examine core business processes in organizations by identifying cost and value drivers and performing a quantitative and qualitative assessment of these drivers. The findings will be provided in a detailed report to the organizations.31 Mar 2009
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