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FSM Cloud Connector component will be released soon.

FSM Cloud Connector release PACG 200/S4PACG 200 SP2 aligns with SAP FSM release 2108

New features

Category

Feature description

Service order/Activities

  • Default FSM Connector linkage type between the operation and activity is one to one – one operation one activity. However, under certain business-related circumstances it can be more suitable to link several activities with single operation in the service order. From now on such feature will be available based on the new configuration option. This also covers planning and rearranging reserved materials among activities linked to single operation

  • The COR_CLOUD_AssgPlan UDF is crucial for proper functioning of activities and assignments. Because it is “just an UDF”, it was treated like other UDFs which means it had to be assigned to company (or companies) and sent to FSM (for instance manually using sending report). With this release we automated sending of this particular UDF to FSM so users don’t need to care about anymore. It is a relatively small enhancement but thanks to it situation where it was forgotten resulting in problems with activities’ automatic release from SAP can be easily avoided

  • It is possible to set user status in the service order based on Origin value set in FSM service call. This was working fine when using unnumbered users’ status. However this was a limitation for customers who often use numbered status (defining certain dependencies between them). With this release this functionality got extended from now on FSM Connector can deal properly with both statuses' types

  • The update of an activity is sent to FSM when it is recognized in the backend system that the objects has changed. Till now the determination of the change was done based on the certain standard properties. With this release we introduced a new BADi that lets users add own logic to this determination process

Reserved materials

‘Book component’ option in service order settings of FSM Connector, if set, causes addition of new reservation for material in case of so called ‘unplanned consumption’.  The new reservation was also created if there was already one for a given material. Due to customers’ request this has changed. Now, in case of unplanned consumption FSM Connector first checks if there is already a reservation for a material and creates it there is none.

Materials

Additional way of determining if a material is batch-managed - this new feature has a significant impact on the determination of batchable/non-batchable materials but specially the second ones. Default determination was following: check general material data, check plant material data, and check valuation of material. So even if material was set as non-batchable but valuation was found it was sent send as batchable. Now new configuration option was introduced. If it is enabled, then valuation is not checked and only material’s settings are considered

Expenses

Until now when posting expenses using cost centre the latter one was determined based on either work centre or person (technician) or simply the fixed value stored in the customizing was used. With new release a new option was introduced - it will be also possible to use cost centre determined based on the activity type

Performance

  • The FSM Connector will be sending list of supported objects to FSM - relying on it, the FSM will be able to suppress sending of objects to the Connector which cannot be interpreted correctly

  • In order to lower the load of the outbound queues and speed up entire communication process we introduced additional options giving more flexibility in setting up system queues

    • Split traffic between inbound and outbound queues. Till now only outbound queue was used for handling traffic in both directions (despite its name). Now it will be possible to use inbound queue for inbound traffic and outbound queue for outbound.

    • In addition to the point above it will be also possible to enable additional queue only for handling confirmations

    • Last but not least it will possible to define own queues using newly created BADi and split the traffic among in a way that fits the requirements the best

  • The default number of messages that can be processed within single LUW was increased and in addition can be controlled with configuration option

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