HANA Value Addition to SRM Functionally

Hi Prachi,

Nila has given in her blog http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-57278

all the details about SRM on HANA and what all features are delivered by now. Right now it is mostly in area of POWL for SC, PO, RFX etc and Sourcing Cockpit.

Please have a look into her blog.

There is no change in the document handling right now so you may not feel any effect that side.

Best regards,

Rohit

Hi All,

We have come across many discussions and topics emphasizing performance and speed related things as a major benefit provided by SAP HANA Database. This was also highlighted by many of you at the begining of the thread.

We have not come across any major change/impact SAP HANA provides to SRM functionally.

Please let us know if any one has explored this in detail and found any functional changes/benefits which only SAP HANA provides to SRM as compared to other databases.

Regards,

Prachi

Hi Prachi ,

I am eagerly waiting for the experts to reply on this thread.

BR

Gautam

Hi Prachi,

With SAP enhancement package 3 for SAP SRM 7.0, SAP is enabling the existing functions of SAP SRM for SAP HANA to utilize the in-memory technology and enable better performing business applications.

SAP SRM on SAP HANA is part of the SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA offering. It is available as of SRM 7.0 EHP 3.

It is the base for all future optimization processes and performance improvements along with functional enhancements.

Benefits:

-> Improved performance in the creation and display of objects such as RFx and Purchase Order

-> Real-time operational reporting and monitoring for better insight into business operations

-> Up to 50% decrease in database size because SAP HANA does not require database indices

-> Re-vamped Shopping Cart Personalized Object Worklist (POWL) powered by SAP HANA for tremendous improvement of response time in SP03 with other optimizations of POWL and Sourcing Cockpit planned for future releases

-> Delivery of customer-driven enhancements such as central point for substitution rule maintenance, handling mandatory fields for free text shopping, and workload redistribution in Sourcing Cockpit application.

Please check the beneth SAP notes 1825774, 1818517 and links

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-57288

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-57278

Best Regards,

Anil

Thanks Anil and Rohan for the useful links and comments. I understand HANA will have more benefits in terms of performance, database size etc. Although personally I have not experienced very huge performance difference between non HANA and HANA systems.

However I would like to understand more about the benefits HANA will provide to Business functionally as a end user in real time scenarios/cases. For eg: While creating a new shopping cart , Creating and Distributing a Contract , Publishing a RFX etc.

And also the benefits it will have on Materials Management. For eg: While creating a PR,PO or GR or posting an Invoice etc.

Hi Anil - Thanks for the link. The screen looks to be the SAP Fiori Launchpad and tiles related to it.

Are we trying to say that the only functional advantage of using SAP HANA for ECC is provided by SAP Fiori.

From the above links and comments, I understand that we need to upgrade to SRM 7.0 EHP 3 SP4 to utlise the POWL benefits(For SC,RFX,Contracts etc) provided by HANA for SRM. What kind of improvements can we expect here.

For eg: As a end user, if i enter SC/RFX or Contract number in POWL will it provide a faster search result.

Is that the only benefit we can observe or there can be some additional fields/tabs etc which can be used during functional cycles(eg: Shopping Cart creation, Approval, Contract creation etc)

Thanks rohan!

To upgrade to SRM 7.0 EHP 3 SP4(From SRM 7.0 EHP 3 SP2), do we have any limitations or pre-requisites for the associated ECC system.

Thanks & Regards,

Prachi

Hi Anil ,

Yes we have SRM 7.0 EHP3 SP2 installed currently with HANA database. But we do not have any HANA related set up maintained in the SRM systems. They are just a copy of our previous non HANA systems. So, currently they appear to be working just like our previous systems(without HANA) atleast from the end user perspective. We have also not come across any issue as such.

What we are trying to do now is understand the functional benefits of HANA and are trying to set up the config/related settings on the SRM systems to utilise HANA to the fullest.

Hi Anil,

We have not activated the Business Function yet. We will be activating it. Thanks!

Regards,

Prachi

Thanks all for your responses so far on HANA Value Addition to SRM.

Similarly, is any one aware or worked on HANA Value additions in MM Scnearios. Would really aprreciate some info on what and how HANA impacts functionally on MM scenarios/cycles(PR--PO--GR--IV etc).

Regards,

Prachi