I want to see the % of Sales Orders whose cycle time (Order to Cash) deviated by more than 10% of ‘acceptable’ cycle time. Where can I see it?
1) Write a simple ABAP report using information from VA05 and FBL5N. Any developer can do this for under 50$ and 1 day.
2) Develop a model for the same in SAP SAC. This will cost money. Software license and consultant fees that can be to be order of 15000$. Unless this is the only report you want, you should not bother about it
3) Find an Accelerator in SAP Signavio that gives you such a process performance metric for free. You get Signavio as part of RISE with HANA. Its free if you know how to use Signavio. So some training costs there.
4) Use order to cash Fiori Apps to show you such point KPIs. This can be done in under 2 days if they really know which Fiori app to use. No separate license fees needed. In built in SAP S/4HANA.
5) Something similar as 2) above using SAP Datasphere. Separate license fees may apply.
6) Define info-providers in SAP BW/4HANA. If you already have it, this is a one day job. If you do not know how to write routines, you can create multiple-info providers and write one formula in each transformation.
7) Write an adhoc query with SQVI in SAP. You do not need a developer. If the user knows the tables and info structures well.
Yes, so many tools for the same thing.
That’s why SAP is super flexible!
and super confusing for some.
What is the point?
1) If all you need is some descriptive metric. Process or Data, you do not need advanced analytical software with machine learning tools. There are many ways of doing it in BAU for next to free.
2) Have a strategy around ‘doing’ Analytics. And a clear action item for end users. What they need to do fix what’s bad.
3) If you are disciplined wrt process and data, you probably do not need any of these tools.
It all depends on what they sold and what they bought and why and when.
