Configuring with SAP Central Business Configuration

Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:
• Get an introduction to SAP Central Business Configuration

• Review the system landscapes and setup activities

• Identify characteristics of the implementation project experience

• Activate scope, countries, and define the organizational structure

• Define configuration values for the business processes

1.1 Introduction to SAP Central Business Configuration

1.1.1 Introduction to SAP Central Business Configuration

SAP Central Business Configuration is a tool that will make it possible to configure business processes
spanning different SAP cloud solutions from one central place. Currently, SAP Central Business
Configuration supports the system provisioning and configuration of SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public
edition since January 2021. The future vision is for SAP Central Business Configuration to support
implementation of all solutions in SAP’s Intelligent Enterprise to enable end-to-end provisioning and
configuration of solutions such as SAP SuccessFactors, SAP Ariba, and others.

1.1.2 Components of SAP Central Business Configuration

SAP Central Business Configuration aims to increase business process flexibility, reduce time to value
and total cost of ownership, and support roll-out of business processes in smaller iterative steps.
SAP Central Business Configuration consists of the components below; select each to learn more.

1.1.3 Configuration Process Overview

The guided workflow process steps include:

1. Scope: Select the scope items (business processes) and countries in which to activate them,
then assign systems as the deployment targets.

2. Organizational Structure: Specify primary finance settings such as group currency and fiscal
year variant, set up the organizational structure, and deploy the settings.
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 3. Product-Specific Configuration: Carry out configuration activities to define business processes
and release transports to the target systems. The configuration activities visible are based on
the active scope.
1.1.4 Maintaining SAP S/4HANA Cloud after Go-Live
SAP Central Business Configuration is used to continuously maintain SAP S/4HANA Cloud after go-live.
For example, if a new business process is released, a customer will start at the beginning of the
workflow to first select the scope to activate, make any changes or additions to the organizational
structure (if necessary), complete the relevant configuration activities, and finally maintain any
necessary production system settings. The workflow ensures all required steps are completed for new
scope to be successfully activated.

1.1.5 Important Dates & Milestones

Customers who implemented SAP S/4HANA Cloud prior to January 2021 still use the Manage Your
Solution and Configure Your Solution Fiori apps in their SAP S/4HANA Cloud system to maintain
configuration values for different business processes. These customers will be contacted by SAP
individually to schedule their conversion to SAP Central Business Configuration. Conversion is
executed by SAP and will not affect the customer’s existing configuration. After the switch, all future
configuration changes, such as activating new business processes or countries will take place in SAP
Central Business Configuration.
Customers who implemented SAP S/4HANA Cloud after January 2021 received an SAP Central
Business Configuration system along with their Quality and Production systems. These customers have
a 2-system landscape (2SL), referring to the Quality and Production systems.
In September 2022, the ability to have a third system landscape with development capabilities became
available. The development system is called the SAP S/4HANA Cloud ABAP Environment. Customers
who implemented SAP S/4HANA Cloud after September 2022 received an SAP Central Business
Configuration system along with their Development, Test (formerly Quality), and Production systems.
These customers have a 3-system landscape (3SL).

1.1.6 Old Configuration Method vs. New Configuration Method

Prior to SAP Central Business Configuration, the Manage Your Solution and Configure Your Solution
apps in the SAP S/4HANA Cloud Fiori launchpad were used to complete configuration activities.

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Customers that implemented SAP S/4HANA Cloud prior to January 2021 will continue to use this
method to maintain their systems until their systems are converted by SAP. Until all customers are
converted to SAP Central Business Configuration, the Manage Your Solution app will not be removed
from the launchpad.
Select each box below to view where the functionality has moved.

1.1.7 Embedded User Assistance

User assistance is accessed through the question mark icon in the top right corner of the SAP Central
Business Configuration system. You will find:

• In-app help: On-screen "hot spots" describing elements of the user interface with links to
detailed information and tutorial videos.
• SAP Help Portal links: Application help with interactive graphics, concepts, task descriptions
and tutorial videos.

Additional Resources:
• SAP Central Business Configuration in the SAP Help Portal
• SAP Central Business Configuration in the SAP Community
• SAP Central Business Configuration free training on openSAP
• SAP Central Business Configuration Learning Journey (SAP Learning Hub subscription
required)
1.1.8 Try it out
Access the SAP Central Business Configuration In-App Help.

E X E R C I S E Start Exercise

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1.2 System Landscapes

1.2.1 SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition Landscape Overview

SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition is the system where your enterprise business data lives. SAP
Central Business Configuration is a separate system that lives in SAP Business Technology Platform
where you provision your systems, activate the business scope, and complete configuration-related
activities. Both systems are integrated with the customer's SAP Cloud Identity environment, which
includes the Identity Authentication Service (IAS) and Identity Provisioning Service (IPS).

1.2.2 SAP Central Business Configuration Release Upgrades

Because SAP Central Business Configuration an independent product, it's release schedule is different
from SAP S/4HANA Cloud and other SAP Cloud solutions. The current focus is on each SAP Central
Business Configuration release providing enhancements to the configuration capabilities for SAP
S/4HANA Cloud. In the future, additional SAP Cloud solutions will be included.

Note
Find SAP Central Business Configuration release and product information in the SAP Help Portal.

1.2.3 SAP Central Business Configuration and SAP S/4HANA Cloud

In SAP Central Business Configuration, a project workspace contains the business content and
activities that need to be completed to deploy content to an SAP S/4HANA Cloud tenant. One
workspace is connected to one tenant of the SAP S/4HANA Cloud Starter and Development systems.
In total, four workspaces will be created to connect to the customizing and development tenants of
the Starter system and customizing and development tenants of the Development system.
For the workspaces connected to the Starter system tenants, the project workspace type is Evaluation.
For the workspaces connected to the Development system tenants, the project workspace type
is Implementation.

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1.2.4 Transporting Configurations in SAP S/4HANA Cloud
After you select the scope and define the organizational structure in SAP Central Business
Configuration, the content is automatically deployed to the development system tenants and
activated. After content is activated, you complete product-specific configuration activities, such as
defining expenses or work items and groups in SAP Central Business Configuration. After completing
a configuration activity, you are prompted to assign the change to a customizing request. You can
assign the changes to a new request or an existing one. These customizing requests can be further
edited or released to the Test system with the Export Customizing Transports SAP Fiori app, which
lives in the customizing tenant of the SAP S/4HANA Cloud Development system.
Additional business configuration done in the customizing tenant of the Development system, such as
creating a custom workflow or teams and responsibilities are also recorded as customizing requests.
The Export Customizing Transports SAP Fiori app is used to release these changes to the Test system
too.
Key user extensions built with the SAP Fiori extensibility apps in the customizing tenant of the
Development system must be added to a software collection and released in the Export Software
Collection SAP Fiori app and to make them available for import in the Test system.
Changes in the development tenant (client 080) are recorded on workbench requests. To make a
development available for import in the Test System, you release the workbench request with
the Transport Organizer view in ABAP Development Tools.
The Import Collection SAP Fiori app is used in the Test and Production systems to import customizing
requests, software collections, and development requests. The Test and Production systems only have
one tenant (client 100).

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1.2.5 Release Upgrades

1.2.6 Software Delivery

A software upgrade starts in the Test System, meaning the Development and Production systems are
on the previous release (release n) after the test system has been upgraded (release n+1). Customers
are responsible for completing regression tests, which refers to testing existing processes in the
upgraded system, with a focus on any customized processes. During this time, you can also release
customizing and development transports and import them into the Test System. For key user
extensibility, you can’t import a software collection into the Test System, but you can directly forward
them to the Production system. After the Development and Production systems are upgraded to the
latest release, you may not be able to key user extensibility transports from the previous release.

1.2.7 Content Delivery

After the software in the development system and production system have been upgraded, SAP makes
the new business process reference content available in SAP Central Business Configuration and
customer workspaces are upgraded to the latest version. The new content is deployed to the
corresponding tenants of the development system, which upgrades the business process content in
the development system. The new reference content is recorded in a transport request, which is
released and exported automatically. When this transport is imported into the test system, customers
can test the updated business processes. The content is automatically forwarded from the test system
and the import into the production system is triggered.

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 Note
Customers need to ensure the new business process content for a specific software release reaches
the production system as quickly as possible to ensure all systems are on the same release. Features
delivered in new software versions can have a content dependency, which means the features are
only usable if a certain content version is available in your systems. If a new feature has a content
dependency, it will be indicated in the What’s New documentation. If the business content is not
upgraded before the next semi-annual software release, the functionality, operability, and security of
your software installation may be impacted. Releasing transports is a manual step by default, but you
can set up automation so you don’t have to decide when each individual transport request is imported
or forwarded. Learn how to automate transports in the SAP Help Portal.

1.3 Initial System Access for SAP Central Business Configuration

1.3.1 Provision Systems via SAP for Me

The IT Contact is a role assigned to a customer to grant administrator access to the SAP Cloud Identity
systems and support applications in SAP for Me. Only one person can be assigned as the IT Contact.
Since this user is heavily involved in system activities and will receive system provisioning notifications,
it’s important the right person was assigned. If the assignment needs to be changed, create a case in
SAP for Me with the following information:

• Subject: Request update to the Contact Person IT

• Description: Please change the IT Contact to <NAME>, <EMAIL ADDRESS>

• Component: XX-S4C-OPR-SRV
The IT Contact is responsible for triggering provisioning of the following systems (in the order listed)
in SAP for Me > Systems & Provisioning dashboard:
1. SAP Cloud ALM

2. SAP Central Business Configuration

3. SAP S/4HANA Cloud Starter System

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 4. SAP S/4HANA Cloud Development System

5. SAP S/4HANA Cloud Test System

6. SAP S/4HANA Cloud Production System

Note
You only have to trigger provisioning of the Starter System and Development System customizing
tenants. After the customizing tenant is successfully provisioned, the development tenant will
automatically be triggered.

1.3.2 Provisioning Email Notifications

The IT Contact will receive provisioning email notifications from each system:

• SAP Cloud Identity - Identity Authentication Service (follow the link in this email to activate
your account first)

• SAP Cloud ALM

• SAP Central Business Configuration (also includes a link to the connected Identity Provisioning
Service)

• SAP S/4HANA Cloud Starter system (customizing and development tenants)

• SAP S/4HANA Cloud Development system (customizing and development tenants)

• SAP S/4HANA Cloud Test system

• SAP S/4HANA Cloud Production system
After the SAP Cloud ALM and SAP Central Business Configuration emails are received, the IT Contact
should set up the integration connecting the two. This makes it easier to navigate directly to SAP
Central Business Configuration when a project team member is working on a relevant task in SAP
Cloud ALM.

Note

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Learn how to set up in the integration in the SAP Help Portal.

1.3.3 Try it out

Start the provisioning of your SAP Central Business Configuration, SAP S/4HANA Cloud, and SAP Cloud
ALM tenants.

E X E R C I S E Start Exercise

1.3.4 Change the Subject Name Identifier from E-Mail to Login Name for SAP Central Business
Configuration
After activating the Identity Authentication Service (IAS) account, the IT Contact navigates
to Applications and select the SAP Central Business Configuration app. By default, the Subject Name
Identifier field is E-Mail, meaning users would log into the system with their e-mail and a password.
This needs to be changed to Login Name.

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1.3.5 Enter the Home URL of the SAP Central Business Configuration System
The IT Contact needs to set a Home URL for their SAP Central Business Configuration system. By
default, the Home URL is empty, however if the field is not maintained, you cannot send activation
emails to users imported in IAS. Refer to the SAP Central Business Configuration provisioning email to
find the correct URL to enter in the field.

1.3.6 Run a job to copy permission roles from SAP Central Business Configuration to the Identity
Authentication Service
Next, the IT Contact access the Identity Provisioning Service (IPS) from the link provided in the SAP
Central Business Configuration (CBC) provisioning email. Here, they select Source System and choose

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the CBC system from the list. The IT Contact runs a job to copy the permission roles (user groups) from
CBC to the IAS so users can be created and assigned the roles.

1.3.7 Import users to SAP Central Business Configuration

In the IAS system, the IT Contact will mass-import all project team members that require access to
CBC for their job tasks. You have to create your own template to import users in IAS.

Note
How to Import Users in Identity Authentication

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1.3.8 Create the CSV User Template - Example
By importing new users to Identity Authentication with a CSV file, you create user profiles without
passwords. As a result, the users receive e-mails with instructions on how to activate their accounts.
After the users set their passwords, they can log on to the application for which they were imported.
The IT Contact can use Microsoft Excel to create a new spreadsheet, then Save-As in Comma
Separated Value (.csv) format. You can both create users and assign permission groups in the same
file.
Only a few people should have the Project Lead/Manager role, because it grants permission to
complete critical activities, like creating a new project in SAP Central Business Configuration. Multiple
roles can also be assigned, as long as they are separated by a comma.
Other consultants on the implementation team, like the line of business experts should be assigned
the Key User role.
The customer IT Contact can also assign permission to themselves within this same file. The
recommended role is the Display User to provide read-only access. Additional permissions can always
be granted in the future.

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Note
See all roles that can be assigned in SAP Central Business Configuration and their authorized task
activities.

1.3.9 Import users and send activation emails

After importing the user file, you have the option to send activation emails to all users.

1.3.10 Run a job to replicate users and their assigned permissions to SAP Central Business
Configuration
Immediately following the user import, the IT Contact should go back to Identity Provisioning and run
a job for the Identity Authentication system to replicate the new users and their assigned permissions
to SAP Central Business Configuration.

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1.3.11 Email notifications sent to project team members
Last, email notifications will be sent to project team members. The project team member assigned
the Project Lead / Manager role in SAP Central Business Configuration can now log in, create project
workspaces, add the relevant project team members to the "Team" and complete the guided
workflow steps to activate business content in the SAP S/4HANA Cloud Starter System tenants (both
tenants).

1.3.12 Try it out

Set up and enable users for SAP Central Business Configuration using the Identity Authentication
Service and Identity Provisioning Service.

E X E R C I S E Start Exercise

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1.4 Project Experience

1.4.1 Project Experience Overview

SAP Central Business Configuration is designed to provide guidance for your implementation project
by controlling the sequence of activities that are completed. In the Project Experience, you can
manage your team members, complete activities to set up and configure your systems, and view the
project status. Activities are grouped into phases, and each phase ends with a milestone.
Milestones serve the following functions:

• Trigger the change of project phases

• Lock project activities of project phases that are currently not active
• Trigger and control processes in the background to simplify the user experience
The Project Status lets you know the current state of your project and can give an indication of what
activities are occurring in the backend. Project Statuses can be:

• Active: the project is available or in use and project activities can be executed.

• Closed: the project is terminated, usually after the Go Live milestone has been set. It is still
possible to initiate change in this status.

• Decommissioned: this status is used for the starter project when it is no longer necessary and
can be decommissioned.
• Setup: the project is being initially set up, upgraded, or there are operations being performed
by the SAP Support team.

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1.4.2 Try it out
Navigate the Project Experience and interact with the user interface in SAP Central Business
Configuration

E X E R C I S E Start Exercise

1.4.3 One-time Message

On the initial login to SAP Central Business Configuration, each user will be presented with a one-time
popup window, requesting users to click 'proceed' in order to acknowledge that the user has read and
understood the provided information and hyperlinked privacy statement. Without clicking 'proceed',
access to SAP Central Business Configuration will not be possible. Please refer to the popup message
and the hyperlinked privacy statement for details.

Note
In order to click 'proceed', no certification is required by the user.

1.4.4 Project Phases & Switching Projects

A user with permission can easily switch between projects and create additional projects. They can
also move to an earlier phase by using the Initiate Change functionality. This allows you to unlock
activities for an earlier phase and then sequentially move forward through the required activities.

Note
See all roles that can be assigned in SAP Central Business Configuration and their authorized task
activities.

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For example, after a customer goes live with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, a new business process may be
released in an upgrade they want to activate. The customer would use the Initiate Change
functionality in SAP Central Business Configuration to move back to the Scope phase to activate the
new scope item, then continue through the Organizational Structure phase (some scope items may
require additional organizational entities), the Product-Specific Configuration phase to complete any
necessary configuration for the scope item, and finally, the Production System Settings phase.

1.4.5 Try it out

Perform evaluation project activities and create the implementation project.

E X E R C I S E Start Exercise

1.4.6 Teams
The Teams tab provides an overview of project team members and their specific project roles. Some
activities, like scoping, can only be processed by one user at a time. This ensures the data is consistent.
Other activities, such as defining the organizational structure and configuration of business processes
allow multiple users to work at the same time.

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1.4.7 Deployment Targets
The Deployment Targets tab is where you select the tenant to which your SAP Central Business
Configuration workspace is connected. You will create an individual workspace for each tenant in the
Starter and Development systems. The assigned deployment target automatically sets up the
corresponding technical business options in scope for the project. In total, you will have four
workspaces:

Workspace Project Type Entitlement Role SAP S/4HANA Cloud System

Workspace 1 Evaluation Project Starter Development (080) Starter System

Workspace 2 Evaluation Project Starter Customizing (100) Starter System

Workspace 3 Implementation Project Development (080) Development System

Workspace 4 Implementation Project Customizing (100) Development System

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1.4.8 Change Logs
The Change Logs tab provides detailed information on the changes performed in Project Experience.
For audit purposes, it's important to have tracking and logging history in place that captures changes
in project activities with the time, name, fields changed, and area.

1.5 Scope and Organizational Structure Activities

1.5.1 Select Countries/Regions

In SAP Central Business Configuration, you start scoping in the Project Experience area with the Define
Scope project activity. You begin scoping by providing basic information about your company, such as
the countries/regions and industry you operate in. The tool will propose relevant bundles and
scenarios with predefined content. You can then further adjust the business scenarios in your solution.
Built-in rules ensure that your selected content is logical and consistent from a technical and business
point of view.
With SAP Central Business Configuration, customers are able to scope:

• Countries in which the chosen business processes will run

Note

When defining your initial scope or using the Initiate Change functionality to define additional
scope, we strongly recommend not to scope more than five countries or regions at a time.

• Predefined scenario bundles

• Additional non-standard scenarios

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1.5.2 Configuration Localization Toolkit
The new Configuration Localization Toolkit (CLT) enables you to activate countries that are not
covered by SAP Best Practices. You can create a localized country in your project by selecting a source
and target country. When you deploy the content to the SAP S/4HANA Cloud system, the new country
will be activated based on the configuration and setup available in the source country.
Check SAP Note 3107866 to find the business process and countries released for use in CLT.

Note
It is not possible to change the source/target country combination after you confirm your selections.

1.5.3 Select Bundles/Scenarios

You first select a bundle that includes many scenarios (scope items) grouped into a package. Additional
scenarios can be added after selecting a bundle. License-dependent and non-standard scenarios show
a "lock" icon because they need to be requested. Within a bundle or scenario, you can choose which
country/region to activate the scenario in. The documentation of each scenario provides a link to SAP
Best Practices Explorer for additional information.

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1.5.4 Select a Group Ledger Scenario
You must choose a group ledger scenario when defining the initial scope. The two choices are:

• Accounting and Financial Close - Group Ledger IFRS (International Financial Reporting
Standards)
• Group Ledger US GAAP (United States Generally Accepted Accounting Principles)

1.5.5 Review Scoping Selection

My Selected Scope provides an overview of all business scenarios (scope items) you have chosen. You
have the ability to filter scenarios by country/region.

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1.5.6 Request License-Dependent or Non-Standard Scenarios
You must request license-dependent scenarios from the SAP Service Center by creating a case in SAP
for Me. Selecting the Open button in this activity brings you to SAP Best Practices Explorer to find the
relevant app IDs and scope item information. Since this activity isn't relevant for the Starter System
tenants, you can manually set the status to Completed. You will set up integrations with the
Production System later in the Realize phase of the implementation.

Note
Find information on requesting SAP S/4HANA Cloud license-dependent or non-standard scenarios
in SAP Help Portal.

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1.5.7 Try it out
Add countries/regions, bundles, and scenarios to your scope. Request license-dependent and non-
standard scenarios via ticket.

E X E R C I S E Start Exercise

1.5.8 Assign Deployment Target

This activity requires you to assign a deployment target for your system. The deployment target is
created and maintained in the backend by SAP, but in the Project Experience, a consultant or customer
still needs to assign the target. The assigned deployment target automatically sets up the
corresponding technical business options in scope for the project.

Note
Once a deployment target is assigned, it cannot be decoupled from the assigned system.

1.5.9 Try it out

Assign a deployment target to your project.

E X E R C I S E Start Exercise

1.5.10 Confirm Scoping is Completed Milestone

Relevant configuration activities are identified based on the scoping selection.

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1.5.11 Try it out
Confirm that you've finished your scoping by completing the milestone.

E X E R C I S E Start Exercise

1.5.12 Specify Primary Finance Settings

Next, you define the fiscal year variant and group currency. The fiscal year variant defines the number
of posting periods in a fiscal year and how many special periods are needed. The group currency is
used as the global currency and allows amounts to be compared in a single currency.

Note
The fiscal year variant and group currency are applied to the entire system and cannot be changed
after confirmation.

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1.5.13 Try it out
Define the fiscal year variant and group currency for your project.

E X E R C I S E Start Exercise

1.5.14 Set Up Organizational Structure

The Organizational Structure app allows you to easily create and adapt your company's organizational
structure (org structure). The selected scope defines which organizational entities are required to run
the underlying processes. The system also runs consistency checks to ensure all organizational
hierarchies contain the relevant entities (for example, every plant requires at least one storage
location if logistics is in-scope), and that all required relationships are defined (for example, every
distribution chain requires at least one plant to be assigned).

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The following types of relationships exist between the units of an organizational structure:

• Tree relation: Country-specific parent-child relationship (1:n). For example, plant to legal
entity.
• Additional relation: Relation of an organizational unit from a country-specific tree to another
organizational unit of the same tree or to a global organizational unit. Additional relationships
have an n:n cardinality, meaning each of the organizational units for which an additional
relationship is possible may have an additional relationship with one or several organizational
units.
1.5.15 Local Entity
Local entities are assigned to defined countries, and are the highest level of the organizational
structure. Company is the root node and may have one legal entity as a child. Under legal entities, you
can add these organizational units:

• Sales Organization for Sales & Distribution

• Plant for site logistics
1.5.16 Global Entity
Global entities can be assigned to enterprise structures in one or more countries. For example, a
Shipping Point can be assigned to several Plants which are in more than one country. You can create
the following types of global entities:

• Distribution Channel

• Division

• Purchasing Organization

• Sales Office

• Shipping Point

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 • Shipping Point for Raw Materials
• Standard Shipping Point
1.5.17 Organizational Structure App Display Views
The Organizational Structure app allows you to easily create and adapt your company's organizational
structure (org structure) with several different views:

• Graphic view: Graphical, scope-dependent, and guided creation of organizational units

• Table view: All org units are listed in a table

• Simplified mode: The buttons that guide you through the creation of new org units are hidden
in this mode to gain a better overview of your org structure

Note
Non-confirmed entities are in the "staging" area, where they can be easily changed or deleted. Make
sure you confirm only the units you want to deploy to the back-end system. Once confirmed, the entity
cannot be deleted!

1.5.18 Confirm Organizational Entities & Complete Milestone

When you are finished maintaining the organizational structure, select the Confirm button to confirm
the entities, then complete the activity.

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1.5.19 Try it out
Create organizational units and assignments between units, then confirm the organizational structure
of your company.

E X E R C I S E Start Exercise

Confirm the milestone to complete the first phase of your project and display information about the
progress of the milestone confirmation.

E X E R C I S E Start Exercise

1.6 Product-Specific Configuration Activities

1.6.1 Initiate Change to an Earlier Phase (if necessary)

If you need to change or add something done in a previous phase, you can select the Initiate
Change button in the upper right corner of SAP Central Business Configuration. You will then be
prompted to choose the information you wish to change, for example, activating an additional country
or business scenario (scope item).

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1.6.2 Try it out
Initiate a change to enhance your scope, organizational structure, or configuration settings.

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1.6.3 Configuration Activities

The configuration activities in SAP Central Business Configuration are designed to support customers
in adapting the preconfigured SAP Best Practices content to their requirements. The available
configuration activities are based on the active scope and country selections. Configuration activities
may vary by country, because not all business scenarios (scope items) are available in all countries.
Configuration activities can be mandatory, recommended, or optional.
Configuration Activity Types:

• Mandatory: Must be configured. For example, organizational structure.

• Recommended: Default content exists that a customer can use, but many will need to change
the standard content or add their own content. For example, Chart of Accounts or Pricing.
• Optional: Default content exists and most customers don't need to change the standard
information. For example, Delivery Block Reasons.

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Configure a business process in a 3-system landscape by adapting configuration settings, releasing
transport tasks, and executing a transport request.

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1.6.5 Activities Completed in Other Systems

Several activities during implementation are listed in SAP Central Business Configuration, but not
actually completed within the configuration tool, such as data migration, business process testing, and
integration setup. In these cases, the activity in SAP Central Business Configuration links to the most
applicable area or information to complete the task.
For example, the Integration Setup activity in SAP Central Business Configuration links to
the Integration Setup deliverable and corresponding tasks and accelerators in the SAP Activate
Roadmap Viewer. The Business Process Test activity in SAP Central Business Configuration links
directly to the Test Your Processes app in the SAP S/4HANA Cloud Quality or Test System.

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