LEVERAGING ON SAP INDUSTRY PROCESS FRAMEWORK (Automobile) (Issue II)
SAP Industry specific framework has series of tailored solutions that are industry specific that can be leveraged for efficient ERP and scalable processes.
Fafure David
12/25/20243 min read
The SAP Industry Process Framework is the SAP’s structured solutions and methodologies designed to meet the specific operational and business requirements of various industries. These frameworks align with industry best practices, regulatory standards, and unique business models, enabling companies to leverage SAP's enterprise resource planning systems for efficient and scalable processes.
Automotive industry is a major discrete industry that has some levels of complexities, and no two customers have the same business processes. The heterogenous landscape and multiple suppliers further complicate the E2E business processes.
For example, the business process for creation of a vehicle varies based on the region. In European markets the vehicles are highly configurable, and the vehicle is known only after a buyer requests a quotation. However, in the Asian region the vehicles are not configurable and can exist even before the pre-sales process is triggered on the vehicle.
SAP Industry Process Framework is a Cloud-based process orchestration platform enabling customers to orchestrate the business process.
Industry Process Framework helps customers and partners establish, enhance, and automate industry-specific best practices such as vehicle and complaint management through efficient process orchestration and reliable status management to expand the business value across the enterprise.
Today, original equipment manufacturers, sales companies, and fleet operators need to orchestrate processes differently across markets, channels, and products. However, with different solutions and technologies involved, the orchestration of processes can be cumbersome, time-consuming, and manual. Now, SAP customers can readily orchestrate processes and integrate them into their core applications quickly.
Solution Overview:
SAP Industry Process Framework is a process orchestration and status management framework, used for orchestrating industry specific business processes.
SAP Industry Process framework allows SAP to deliver standard and out-of-the-box processes to customers, allows customers to enhance SAP delivered processes or create their own processes, and enables partners to compliment SAP standard processes or build new processes from scratch.
Key Features
Prepackaged process orchestration scenarios and built-in integration features.
Modular and open process orchestration based on a configurable microservice platform.
Logging and tracing across multiple applications (SAP and third party).
Advanced process automation beyond standard packaged APIs.
Benefits
Increased revenue from new business models by integrating and extending processes.
Accelerated integration by delivering predefined orchestration scenarios.
Increased flexibility to adapt to changing business conditions and customer demands.
Improved data quality by connecting data from multiple applications.
Highlights
Some of the highlights of the SAP Industry Process Framework solution include,
1. Configuring complex business processes with simple steps using a single application
2. The Manage Configuration application enables user to create and manage the various configuration entities required to configure and run a business process end-to-end.
3. Execution of process based on pre-conditions and criteria:
Preconditions in Industry Process Framework are conditional checks that can be implemented while executing an action.
For example,
To confirm a purchase order, it must be first be created.
Highly configurable action templates
Track the process execution and errors using business log.
Deliver out-of-the-box content to customers and enable customers and partners to compliment SAP portfolio.
APIs to enable integration with business applications,
The following APIs are exposed to enable integration with business applications:
Execute process in Industry process framework
Get available process
Fetch process results
Application business references
The SAP Industry Process framework helps SAP, Partners, Customers to orchestrate business processes in a fast and efficient way. Industry Process Framework can be used to orchestrate processes in S/4HANA or in any external systems provided the backend services are exposed using ODATA/REST/SOAP services.
