The Enterprise Management Layer (EML) is a upgraded version of SAP Model Company combining all the essential SAP Best Practices, considered as a Global Template for SAP S/4HANA implementations (or) transformations for the customers located in various countries.

The EML as template offers pre-configured end-to-end business processes in all the SAP Application areas. The major focus of EML is on the complex accounting and reporting requirements based on the country (local government) level requirements, this helps to meet the global/local accounting principles.

Additionally, EML helps to bring all the customers who are having heavy customizations in their ECC & other business applications, will bring back to standard to make sure with the sustainable solution with limited maintainability.

In April 2020, SAP enhanced SAP S/4HANA Cloud, extended edition by delivering business content and updated services as part of the subscription. SAP bundles into the technical offering of software capabilities the ability to immediately consume a pre-defined scope of pre-activated SAP Best Practices business processes virtually “out-of-the-box”.

With the offering of a pre-configured business template usable by customers and partners as a foundation to jumpstart their implementation project, SAP significantly contributes to the key cloud principles:

• Reduce Time-to-Value
  
• Reduce Total Cost of Ownership by reducing cost for implementation
  
• Contribute to the speed to leverage New Innovation

The Enterprise Management Layer for SAP S/4HANA Cloud, extended edition (EML) allows customers to execute business processes based on SAP Best Practices. Where the standard SAP Best Practices typically focus on national companies running operations within one country only, the EML focuses on international customers that run subsidiaries within multiple countries around the globe.

Business Applications and Process Standardization

The appliance “Enterprise Management Layer as available in S/4HANA Cloud, extended edition” consist out of 2 virtual machines.

1. S/4HANA with Required DB Application
   
2. Adobe Document Services (ADS)

The “Enterprise Management Layer, as available in S/4HANA Cloud” solution can be delivered via Cloud Appliance Library any of the Cloud Accounts.

The Enterprise Management Layer is a global template which can be tailored to each customer’s requirements in 2 simple stages:

1. Initial build: Each customer specifies the initial scope and certain parameters for the build of their system such as the countries in scope, but also the customer’s group currency and fiscal year variant. For each country, around 160 standard scope items(Approx) will be available. In addition, scope options which might require additional software licenses can be selected for functionality.
   
2. Customer project: Fit-to-Standard workshops are recommended to maximize re-use of SAP delivered ready-to-run business processes while carefully assessing where a customer’s business requires tailoring or extending the solution.

SAP Model Company Vs Best Practices Vs EML

An SAP Model Company is planned & designed for only one country. This will enable us to create a example company code structure which will help us to get the business idea for the best use of SAP Products & Processes.

SAP Best Practices for SAP S/4HANA Cloud provides ready-to-use business process content for core business processes in R2R, S2P, P2P, OTC etc. Typically, SAP Best Practices are more Industry oriented standard processes. SAP Best Practices are prepared more towards the Industry Solutions developed by SAP as part of ECC Infrastructure.

By combining the above two experiences from Model Company and Best Practices, SAP converted and combined all together and evaluated the Enterprise Management Layer.

EML is the solution template which provides the complete value chain as per the multiple industry standards across multiple countries. Technically, EML will help to design the clean core standards (Low Code/No Code) across the various process chains. This will help to keep the system clean, and clear to keep in automated support models, ultimately reduce huge cost for enhancements, maintenance and post live support.

Speed, Content, Quality & Flexibility

Today’s digital transformation is driving rapid change across all industries, and its effects are profound. We are witnessing a paradigm shift with the commoditization of cloud computing and how its openness, flexibility, and scalability is driving digitalization globally. With billions of connected devices and the copious amount of data they generate, we see an ever-increasing demand to store and process distributed data in real-time.

Deliver the Quality Content with Flexible Options with in planned Speed – Activation of the Best SAP Practices (in the form of EML Process) for 43 countries.

Once the Technical setup up of the SAP S/4HANA system as per the Administration Guide provided, the complete clean core solution is available in 25+ languages, creating clients, enabling Fiori apps, creating users, activating business functions, etc., will be the piece of walk to run the system with Basic and standard system landscape.

As the EML template exposed with SAP Landscape, complete quality content will be available and where the business process discussions sessions will help for alignment. Taylor the country coverage and the functional scope of your customer-specific enterprise management layer for optimal fit. Use the template as a jump start for your SAP S/4HANA implementation and deploy it throughout your system landscape, including in your Development, Quality and Production systems.

Adaption of EML for S/4 Transformation

SAP Signavio, the Product to speak the EML with the Business, that will help to Initiate, design, analyze and improve the Business

Below are the various kinds of modules separated in Signavio, which will help to design the Business process at various steps. Below process image helps us to understand the details and importance of EML enabled SAP Signavio as part of Solution design and development.

Analyze & Monitor

SAP Signavio Process Insights – helps customers in getting an overview of the overall performance using End to End process flows, Process performance indicators (PPI), Innovation Recommendations & Correction Recommendations (Best Practice). This will help Customer can identify which business areas or processes needs to be prioritized for improvements.

SAP Signavio Process Intelligence – process data from both SAP and non-SAP systems, SAP Signavio process Intelligence with the help of its powerful process mining capabilities can identify want needs to be improved based on the raw data. SAP Signavio process intelligence helps by providing visibility into the real process execution which provides insights into the previously unknown process and experience related inefficiencies. This helps Customer to Identify Process/Experience related inefficiencies & identify What improvements are required.

Design & Simulate

SAP Signavio Process Manager – help the customer get an inside-Out view of the business processes, helps the customer to design (make improvements/Changes to existing process) and analyze the processes, the solution also provides the customer the flexibility to compare and simulate the end-to-end flow with the changes, to see what the impacts are and to see how the new process works based on real scenarios before implementing the changes.

SAP Signavio Journey Modeler – helps the customer to improve the customer experience by providing the tools which allows to design appealing customer Journeys (How the final user experience the operations -Look and feel), Once designed the customer can connect these customer journeys to the business processes & systems.

Rollout & Improve

Once the design is complete the next step is to roll out the solution to the organization, SAP Signavio Process Governance provides the customer with the ability to manage and govern the rollout of the solution (Process and customer Experience). SAP Signavio Process governance provides the customer with the ability to adapt solution quickly and effectively.

On top of all the above functions SAP Process Automation provides the capability to reduce the manual and repetitive tasks with the help of iRPA (intelligent Robotic Process Automation), Workflow & Low code-No Code functions.

Conclusion

With the changing world with complex processes involved, Business need the full and transparent insights. It helps the organizations to adapt fast, and know-how about the upgraded systems / applications / processes in the business models. So, SAP Signavio offers business process management that literally every business needs, coupled with industry-next practices and process mining.

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Now that you have the basics, let’s follow the steps below:

1 – Go to the IAM Information System Fiori App

2 – Click on “Business Role – Restriction”, add “Restricted” in the Access Restriction field, and add “Functional Area” in the Restriction field (it needs to be written as is; typing it all in lowercase will not work). Click “Go”.

Next, click on the “Download Items” button to download a spreadsheet containing all business roles with a restricted functional area and no value. This format allows for easy manipulation.

3 – Download your spreadsheet. (Note: I am using Windows.)

4 – Please take a look at the spreadsheet file.

5 – I recommend editing the spreadsheet for ease of reading and filtering information. Please convert the text into columns and then apply the filters.

6 – Filter the spreadsheet using fields “Access Categories” and “Restriction Types” – I first selected “Read” as Access Category and “General” as Restriction Type.

Copy the Business Role ID so you can paste them into the “Maintain Business Roles – Fiori App”. This will enable you to apply the restrictions to this combination: “Read” = Access Category & “General” = Restriction Type.

7 – Now, go to the “Maintain Business Roles – Fiori App” and select “Business Role ID”. Change the function to “equal to” and then paste the values you have copied. Please ensure that you set “equal to” as the default value before pasting. If you fail to do this, you risk adding other Business Roles that are not intended to be changed.

8 – Select all Business Roles, then click on “Mass Change”

9 – In the “Mass Change” window, you need to select “Restrictions” as the Area, “Read, Value Help” as the Access Category, and “Change General Restriction Values” as the Restriction Change. Keep in mind that this is the exact combination you filtered in the spreadsheet.

10 – Click “Next Step”. Then select “Functional Area” as the General Restriction Values and click on the pencil icon to edit the restriction value.

11- Select “Unrestricted Access”

Important Note – As a strategy for risk mitigation, we recommend setting all values to unrestricted access prior to the 2402 Upgrade to avoid disruption to your business users’ authorizations. After the 2402 upgrade, you will then have ample time to apply the functional area restrictions according to your business needs.

12 – Click ‘Review’, then ‘Submit’.

You now will see the “Unrestricted Access” applied to all the selected Business Roles.

You will need to run this process for as many combinations as you have between the Access Category and Restriction Type. In the previous example, we considered the combination where “Read” is the Access Category and “General” is the Restriction Type. Another example would be the combination of “Read” as the Access Category and “Enterprise Project” as the Restriction Type, and so on.

However, there is a minor alteration in the procedure for the last example where the Restriction Type is configured at the Enterprise Project Level. Therefore, you need to select “Change Restriction Values” in the mass maintenance window. Please refer to the screens below for a visual guide:

To filter the spreadsheet based on the last example combination, set “Read” as the Access Category and “Enterprise Project” as the Restriction Type.

Copy business roles to the “Maintain Business Roles” app as described above.

Select the Mass Change Wizard. However, as described above, instead of selecting “Change General Restriction Values,” you should select “Change Restriction Values.” This change will impact the “Enterprise Project,” not the General Restriction.

Follow the same steps as described above in steps 10 to 12.

After completing the steps go to your next combination.

While the step-by-step guide looks lengthy due to all steps that need to be done, I expect that after your first run the initial combination you can complete this activity really fast.

I recommend to take advantage of this great feature that will allow you to provide more control in your authorizations moving forward.

After you’ve completed the steps, proceed to your next combination. While the step-by-step guide may seem lengthy due to all the tasks that need to be accomplished, I anticipate that after your initial run-through, you’ll be able to complete this activity quite quickly. I recommend taking advantage of the Functional Area, as it will give you greater control over your authorizations moving forward.

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