Sales Targets for Incoming Orders (Manager): This is the basis report which has the projected net sales key figure which combines sales orders and weighted opportunities.In order to adapt the report views and selections for your needs and to make your changes available for all users you need to do the changes in the “Business Analytics” work center (and not from the normal user work centers). Of course you can use also any other report as the basis. The KPI is based on three reports which you can find in the “Managing my area” work center for sales and marketing managers. Setup of the source reports for the “Projected Sales” KPI Here you find more if you want to learn detail about other tablet based scenarios and apps like project cockpit or manager approvals.
If you do not have access to a 1811 SAP Business ByDesign reference system in which you find the “Projected Sales” KPI as sample content you can find below what needs to be done to set this up. In the demo below you see how you can bring all the perspectives above into a single KPI using your tablet: With the embedded analytics of SAP Business ByDesign this is easily possible. The Dashboard Setup Tool can be only accessed by BPO Dashboards administrators, but not by BPO Dashboards end users (see also chapter 9.1 Authorizations for Administrators).One of the rather complicated challenges for sales managers is to track sales performance by combining the perspectives of The Dashboard Setup Tool is a Web Dynpro Application which is used to configure the BPO Dashboards.
The end user has the possibility to switch between several dashboards (for which he authorized to access). Top 1.2.2 End User Interface of BPO DashboardsĪ Dashboard provides the end user an overview of a certain business area or a business process at a glance on a single screen. The following two SAP Solution Manager applications can provide data for Business Process Operation Dashboards:įurthermore customer specific data sources (such as for example SAP BW InfoCubes, non-SAP BW InfoCubes, SAP tables, non-SAP databases) can be developed and used by Business Process Operation Dashboards. The core strength of BPO Dashboards is to display KPIs based on information from different data sources. All information needed by the end user is provided at a glance on a single screen: a Dashboard.ġ.2.1 What data can be displayed in BPO Dashboards? This information can be retrieved from various SAP and non-SAP data sources and is displayed in panels. 1.2 What are Business Process Operation Dashboards?īPO Dashboards provide a graphical display for application specific and technical key figures in order to give the end user an overview of the most important information for a certain business topic, area or process. For this purpose, Business Process Operation Dashboards were introduced in order to provide these end users with an easy-to-use UI (user interface). This user group only has restricted access to this data, and is usually not intended to work interactively with the data (for example to identify root causes or solve problems). There might be interested parties in your company or organization (such as for example IT managers or business process owners) who only want to see the status of the most interesting business process related KPIs (key performance indicators) “at a glance”, based on different applications providing this data.