Sales Forum Mandate - Business Process Topics

Hello All,
I would like to inform you of the mandate of this forum. We are looking to build a knowledge base on business process oriented questions as they relate to sales. So the questions posed should somehow relate to a business issue and should not be a purely technical issue.
For example, please do not post threads about implementation issues, customizing, BAPIs, etc. These types of questions will be better answered in CRM General and Framework forum.
You can ask questions here about how new and old functionality in CRM supports the business processes you have at your company.
Thank-you for respecting the mandate of the forum.
Regards,
Tim
Edited by: Timothy Faught on Dec 8, 2008 10:52 PM

Hi Kimmo,
I wouldn't use process steps to refine processes. This is incompatible to SAP implementation content coming from BPR (Business Process Repository). But a good idea would be to copy the main business process e.g. "Sales order processing" into two new processes on the same level, e.g. "Sales order processing by manual input" (variation1) or "Sales order processing by incoming interface" (variation2). Then you can use the Compare Button on the variations to see if any changes have been on the main business process and copy them to the variations. This minimizes the effort to keep track of changes after creating the variations. When you run transaction SA_PROJECT_UPGRADE on that project these changes even get flagged. Mostly this function is used to upgrade against BPR or a template project but it works also for copies inside a project e.g. to model variations.
Regards
Andreas

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