Enhancement and new features available in AFS 6.0 in reference to AFS 5.0?

Question

Hi Experts,
Please can you explain what are the Enhancement and new features available in AFS 6.0 in reference to AFS 5.0

Answer 1

Hi Mithun,
Following are the details you needed.
Enhancement and new features available in AFS 6.0 wrt AFS 5.0
AFS Interface
AFS GTS Master Data Integration - IS-AFS-INT-GTS (New)
As of SAP AFS 6.0, you can integrate the SAP Global Trade Services 7.1 (SAP GTS 7.1) master data to the AFS data.
AFS Retail Integration (Change)
As of SAP AFS 6.0, the integration of Apparel and Footwear Solution (AFS) with Retail has been
Enhanced by the following functions:
u2022     One SAP Retail Logical system is mapped to multiple Customers in SAP AFS system, which ensures that each Customer can be mapped to a different purchase organization.
u2022     You can maintain the retail merchandise category in the AFS material master for each retail logical system.
u2022     The variant numbers created in the retail for the article (material in AFS) have the number with the category and grid combination. A new BADI method is used to allow the user to change the variant numbering as required.
u2022     The material type of the generic article created is the same as the AFS material. A new BADI method is used to set the material type of the article as required.
Quality Management (IS-AFS-QM)
Enabling QM for Goods Receipt (GR) Process for AFS (New)
As of SAP AFS 6.0, you can activate the inspection type at material level and control the inspection lot creation at stock keeping unit (SKU) level during the goods receipt process.
Additionally, during posting of quality inspection stocks, you can directly post stock of one SKU to unrestricted stock of another SKU.
Basic Data (IS-AFS-BD)
Commodity Codes at the SKU Level (New)
As of SAP AFS 6.0, you can maintain commodity codes at the SKU level in the material master. A new relevancy Global Trade Services (GTS) is allotted to the characteristics attached to the grid and categories. If this new relevancy is set then the commodity codes can be assigned at the SKU level. You can also assign commodity codes of different countries other than the country in which the plant is located.
The AFS material master IDoc and BAPI have been enhanced to handle commodity codes at the SKU level.
Material Master Enhancements (New)
As of SAP AFS 6.0, the following enhancements have been made in the material master:
u2022     You can maintain commodity codes at the stock keeping unit (SKU) level.
u2022     You can maintain the retail data merchandise category and characteristic profile at the material master level. This is used to create article in retail.
u2022     You can maintain quality management (QM) inspection type at SKU level.
u2022     You can enable Seasons for inventory management (IM).
Materials Management (IS-AFS-MM)
Seasonality Roundoff - Inventory Management-(New)
As of SAP AFS 6.0, season functionality is extended to Inventory Management (IM). This enables you to gain an overview of material movements during each season. You can maintain stocks for different seasons separately. To enable this functionality, you have to activate the Season Active in IM indicator for a material in the material master. This indicator can be set only for materials created in AFS 6.0. If the season is maintained for an SKU in the material master, you can obtain season information for the SKUs in batches, in material movement documents and in stock tables.
Also, as of AFS 6.0, you cannot set the Season Fixed indicator for new materials. However, for old materials (materials created in AFS 5.0 with Season Fixed indicator) the behavior remains the same.
Stock Selection Available in Transaction MIGO (New)
As of SAP AFS 6.0, the goods movement transaction MIGO has been enhanced with Stock Selection for AFS materials. Goods movement here implies only goods issued/transfer postings without document reference.
Consumption of PIRs by TPO, MTO and PTO (New)
As of SAP AFS 6.0, the Consume PIR Customizing indicator at sales and distribution (SD) item category level enables special orders like TPO (third-party order), MTO (make-to order) and PTO (purchase-to order) to consume normal planned independent requirements (PIRs).
IS-AFS-MM-PUR Purchasing
Purchasing BAPIs (Change)
The interface of the purchase order (PO) BAPIs mentioned below have been enhanced with optional parameters to handle the AFS data.
Purchase order BAPIs
u2022      AFSPurchaseOrder.GetDetail1 (BAPI_PO_GETDETAIL1)
u2022     AFSPurchaseOrder.Change (BAPI_PO_CHANGE)
u2022     AFSPurchaseOrder.CreateFromData1 (BAPI_PO_CREATE1)
Purchase Requisition BAPIs
u2022     PurchaseRequisition.CreateFromData (BAPI_REQUISITION_CREATE)
u2022     PurchaseRequisition.Change (BAPI_REQUISITION_CHANGE)
u2022     PurchaseRequisition.Delete (BAPI_REQUISITION_DELETE)
Contract BAPIs
u2022     PurchasingContract.Change (BAPI_CONTRACT_CHANGE)
u2022     PurchasingContract.Create (BAPI_CONTRACT_CREATE)
u2022     PurchasingContract.GetDetail (BAPI_CONTRACT_GETDETAIL)
Production planning and control IS-AFS- PP
  Manufacturing (IS-AFS-PP-MAN)
BAPI for Bill of Material (BOM) Maintenance (New)
As of SAP AFS 6.0, you use this BAPI (AFSMaterialBOM.AFSMatBomMaintain) to maintain a material BOM. You can also use this BAPI for the following functionalities:
u2022     Creating a standard or AFS BOM
u2022     Changing a standard or AFS BOM
u2022     Updating a quantity distribution profile for AFS BOM components
u2022     Maintaining SKU deviation quantities or zero quantities (if relevant) for AFS BOM components
u2022     Maintaining categories (if relevant) for AFS BOM components
Transaction for Grouping PO using Combined Order Number (New)
BAPIs for AFS Planned Orders - Create, Change and Get Details (Change)
BAPI for Production Orders - Create, Change and Get Details (Change)
Production Planning (IS-AFS-PP-PPL)
Consumption of PIRs by TPO, MTO and PTO (New)
As of SAP AFS 6.0, the Consume PIR Customizing indicator at sales and distribution (SD) item category level enables special orders like TPO (third-party order), MTO (make-to order) and PTO (purchase-to order) to consume normal planned independent requirements (PIRs).
Sales and Distribution (IS-AFS-SD)
BADI for Contract Selection (New)
As of SAP AFS 6.0, you can use this BADI to filter contracts for display when a sales order is created without giving reference to the contract, and when there are open contracts for the material. This functionality is also available for the sales order created by IDocs.
BAPI for AFS Material Availability (New)
you can use this BAPI method MaterialAFS.AFSAvailabilityCheck (/AFS/BAPI_MAT_AVAILABILITY) to determine the available quantity for an AFS material in a certain plant according to ATP (available-to-promise) logic.
Consumption of PIRs by TPO, MTO and PTO (New)
As of SAP AFS 6.0, the Consume PIR Customizing indicator at sales and distribution (SD) item category level enables special orders like TPO (third-party order), MTO (make-to order) and PTO(purchase-to order) to consume normal planned independent requirements (PIRs).
Display of Allocated Quantities (New)
As of SAP AFS 6.0, you can find the allocated quantity information of the contract in the Contract Reference Overview screen.
BAdIs in Mass Document Change MDC (New)
The following NEW Business Add-Ins (BAdIs) are provided:
u2022     BAdI for adding custom selection fields in MDC (/AFS/MDC_SELECT_CUSTOM_FIELDS) -You use this BAdI to implement your business process-specific logic in selecting data in mass Document Change transaction (/AFS/MDC).
u2022     BAdI for adding custom change fields in MDC (/AFS/MDC_CHANGE_CUSTOM_FIELDS) -You use this BAdI for implementing your business process-specific logic in changing custom fields data in transaction /AFS/MDC.
u2022     BAdI for adding custom fields to the Adjust Update tab in MDC (/AFS/MDC_ADJ_UPD_CUSTOM_FIELDS) you use this BAdI to implement custom processes that are specific to your business scenario.
Condition Table Display (Change)
As of SAP AFS 6.0, in transaction J3A9 it is possible to display condition tables for value-added service(VAS) and multi-store order (MSO) condition types beyond the existing limit of 19 condition tables. The Conditions Info display in transactions J3A4 and J3AN can be viewed in an ALV list.
AFS Sales and Distribution (SD) IDOCS
As of SAP AFS 6.0, the function modules J_4A_IDOC_INPUT_ORDERS and J_4A_IDOC_INPUT_ORDCHG are not supported. The standard function module IDOC_INPUT_ORDERS are used instead J_4A_IDOC_INPUT_ORDERS and standard function module IDOC_INPUT_ORDCHG are used instead of J_4A_IDOC_INPUT_ORDCHG. There is no change in the IDOC type /AFS/ORDERS05 which is presently used to create/change sales orders. Accordingly, you must use inbound process code ORDE for message type ORDERS and inbound process code ORDC for message type ORDCHG.
Supporting the Change of Single Characteristic (New)
As of SAP AFS 6.0, you can use transaction /AFS/MDC, to select sales documents by specifying a single characteristic name and value range in the same ways as you select sales documents by specifying grid value.
Partial Quantity Reductions in Sales Order (New)
As of SAP AFS 6.0, you can find the quantity changes done for a schedule line from the sales order screen itself without navigating to the change logs. This is possible only when you reduce the quantity of a schedule line.
Allocation Run (IS-AFS-ARUN)
Seasonality Roundoff - Allocation Run (New)
As of SAP AFS 6.0, season functionality is available in the allocation run (ARun) to ensure the season information is considered while creating assignments, and to cause deallocation as per the settings in the deallocation rule on change in season information in the future receipts, sales order or while performing goods receipt (GR). This functionality is available only with online ARun.
BAPI for Individual Allocation and/or Deallocation
As of SAP AFS 6.0, you can use the BAPI /AFS/BAPI_INDIVIDUAL_ARUN to handle allocation/deallocation of specified sales order quantities for single or multiple orders. This enables you to make:
u2022     New allocations
u2022     Allocations from a particular storage location/batch number
u2022     Allocations for a quantity less than equal to the requirement quantity
u2022     Deallocations for a quantity less than equal to the requirement quantity
u2022     A total deallocation
Hope it helps.
Regards,
Anirban Roy