3292314 - SAP Business ByDesign 2211 Hotfix Collection 3 Information

Following is the list of fixes* delivered with the Hotfix collection 3 performed in 2211 release of SAP Business ByDesign.

The Hotfix collection is planned to be deployed to tenants during the respective planned maintenance window on/after the 21^st of January 2023. Please check the planned maintenance downtime window of your tenant from the Service Control Center.

SAP Business ByDesign 2211

Cross - Area Topic

UI Client

• The issues with the file name seen when previewing a purchase order PDF have now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000022054. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)
• The issue with the SAP Download Center link has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000023150. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)
• While creating an expense report in the SAP Business ByDesign mobile application, due to an issue the first line item was not shown or left blank if the total number of expense items crossed 15 for a report. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000022502)
• When opening the e-mail template for Purchase Order Reminder Letter, an error message was shown that the document was not found. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000019678. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)
• In the Download Center, the text was not visible while using the High-Contrast Black theme. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000020638)

Action Pad

• The Collaboration Window Download ID has now been updated, to facilitate the downloading of the latest Collaboration Window zip file. (Hotfix ID: 1000020416. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

Output Management

• A new version of the Adobe LiveCycle Designer is now available in the SAP Download Center. (Hotfix ID: 1000022353)
• On the release of production order, attachments are now included in the output, based on the business configuration settings. (Hotfix ID: 1000019745. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

Countries

• For Chile, the "Telephone Attributes" in the country settings have been changed- the "Digit to be Deleted for Calls from Abroad" is changed from "0" to "Initial". This means no "0" is removed when formatting the telephone number for international calls. For existing telephone numbers, this has no immediate impact, unless the telephone number is changed. (Hotfix ID: 1000019584)

Data Privacy: Read Access Logging

• The fix provided prevents system issues occurring during the preparation of Downloadable Read Access log. (Hotfix ID: 4500019930)

 

Customer Relationship Management

Customer Invoicing

• With this fix, the Cancellation invoice now goes through the legal approval process only if the Official Invoice ID is filled and the status is "Approved". If not, approval is not required for the invoice. Previously, only the Official Invoice ID of the original document was used to determine if the Cancellation document goes through the legal approval process or not. (Hotfix ID: 1000023092)

Sales Order

• With the fix provided, you can now create a blank sales order by passing only the account, without any application error. (Hotfix ID: 1000018909)

 

Financial Management

Set of Books

• The business residence was incorrectly derived in Stock transfer orders when the site ID did not match the business residence directly. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000019657)

Payment Processing

• The filter parameter for Payment Run now functions correctly without any issues. (Hotfix ID: 1000017959)

Financial Accounting

• While completing the payment for a supplier invoice where a project task and a sales order were assigned to an item, the system was throwing an error. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000022482)
• The fix provided solves the issue with decimal quantities in supplier invoice items, with different GL accounts for the same clearing set which was leading to wrong calculation. (Hotfix ID: 1000022930)

Payment Management

• The PaymentReceivingBusinessTransactionDocumentReference ID and UUID fields have now been Read-released. (Hotfix ID: 1000020764)
• With the fix provided, the bank statement loading performance has now been improved. (Hotfix ID: 1000019239)
• Some of the SAP delivered bank statement formats of type MT940 did not consider the optional funds code at the transaction level correctly. This issue has been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000022301)
• Outgoing bank transfers can now be canceled without the error "submit for cancellation not possible, action is disabled" and the correct status is set. (Hotfix ID: 4500017057)

Tax Management & Declaration

• The fix provided includes the following changes corresponding to the German Monthly VAT forms for the year 2023.
  • The form pages have been modified as per the publication of the Federal Ministry of Finance.
  • Boxes 87, 90 have been introduced newly.
  • The file-based output is also incorporated with these two boxes. (Hotfix ID: 1000017855)
• With SAP Business ByDesign's 2302 release, for Israel, the Shaam Interface will have Bookkeeping certification details. The fix provided includes the changes for the same. (Hotfix ID: 1000020306)

Expense Management & Reporting

• New per diem rates relevant for the year 2023 have been updated. The same will be considered for the expense reports in 2023 and the subsequent years. (Hotfix ID: 1000020785)
• The statutory rates for Denmark per diem rates - Mileage, Lodging, and Meals are now updated for 2023. (Hotfix ID: 1000020533)
• The fix provided includes the following legal changes for Germany & US, applicable from January 1, 2023.
  • The Meal & Lodging per diems for foreign trips in Germany have been updated including deductions for meals (values for payments in kind for meals/non-monetary remuneration for breakfast/lunch/dinner).
  • The Standard mileage rates for Expense reports in the U.S, for the use of a car (also vans, pick-ups & panel trucks) will be 65.5 cents per mile driven for business use, up by 3 cents from the mid-year increase, setting the rate for the second half of 2022. (Hotfix ID: 1000019198. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

 

Project Management

Project Processing

• In the Project Stock Order, it is now possible to create consumption with iStock information even if the product does not allow iStock. (Hotfix ID: 1000021046)

 

Human Capital Management

Travel & Expense Management

• The fix provided includes the new per diem rates for Lodging and Meals for Sweden, for the year 2023. (Hotfix ID: 1000018116. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

Master Data Replication

• During replication of employees from SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central to SAP Business ByDesign, there were certain cases where the employee replication failed as the payment method was already available. The fix provided ensures the correct handling of the payment method so that employee replication is not affected. (Hotfix ID: 1000020315. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

Employee Time Recording

• You can now view the remaining leave balance in the Leave Request UI even when using a time type with an underscore. (Hotfix ID: 1000020418)

Work Agreement

• The field Administrative Category in BO HCF_WORKAGREENT,Node:ADDITIONAL_CLAUSES have now been Public Write-Access released. (Hotfix ID: 1000022444)

Time & Labour Management

• With the SuccessFactors Employee Central integration with SAP Business ByDesign, employees were found with concurrent employment along with overlapping compensation/additional clauses data when queried, which cannot be stored in SAP Business ByDesign. This incompatible data caused the automatic daily query job to fail & create replication files for other employees as well. With this fix, such employees with concurrent employment and inconsistent data have been identified and marked with an "Irrelevant" status. A warning message is also shown in the Application log of the SuccessFactors Employee Central Query Run. (Hotfix ID: 1000022074)
• The fix provided includes the following:
  • National Holiday 2, which falls on December 3, 2022, is marked as a not guaranteed holiday for the year 2022. (This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)
  • In Unified Reporting -> Duplicate records of Outbound Deliveries in D110 records have been handled in BKMVDATA file. (Hotfix ID: 1000023180)
• When a service confirmation was done on service orders and the duration entered was in the form of years/months/weeks, the required communication from service orders to the time sheet failed, resulting in missing service confirmation for employees. With the fix provided, the communications now take place without any issues, and service confirmations are displayed correctly on the employee time sheet. (Hotfix ID: 1000019209. This fix has already been delivered as a patch.)

 

Supply Chain Management

Outbound Delivery

• For products having a serial number profile "Mandatory on Transfer to/from Customers", when a duplicate serial number was mistakenly entered in 3PL Outbound Delivery and then corrected, registered products were created for both serial numbers. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000022431)

Analytics

• Reconciliation for Inventory was showing an error even though the documents are aligned- "Accounting and logistic inventories differ: Material "Business residence "". The issue causing this error has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000020515)

Site Logistics Task

• The fix provided includes the error message handling for a finished warehouse task via the standard web service. (Hotfix ID: 1000019815)

Production Confirmation

• For production orders, the deviation quantities were calculated in the planned UoM of a purchase order. The UoM being assigned was that of the UoM entered during confirmation instead of the planned UoM. This resulted in quantities being saved with the wrong UoM. This issue has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000022160)

Production Bill of Operations

• Write- access is now provided to the field TransitionTime in Production Bill of Operation: Path - Element->Operation->OperationChangeState->InterOperationLagDuration. (Hotfix ID: 1000022451)

Production Order Creation Run

• The Production Order Creation Run wasn't taking the exclusion of production groups into account. Production orders were created for Products having production groups to be excluded as per the selection parameter of the creation run. With this fix, the Production Order Creation Run with the exclusion of production groups now works as expected. (Hotfix ID:1000018709)

Identified Logistic Unit

• When 2 different form templates having 2 different LUs were maintained for labels, and the 2 different labels were printed together, the incorrect form templates were selected. Although on the Labels screen, the different form templates were displayed, in the print queue the templates chosen were incorrect (the same template was chosen for both, instead of the 2 different templates). The fix provided ensures that the correct templates are chosen while printing. (Hotfix ID: 1000019349)

 

Supplier Relationship Management

Purchase Requests and Orders

• Creating a scanned invoice using ML was resulting in an error that the account assignment details were missing for the TO-Stock Item. The issue causing this error has now been fixed. (Hotfix ID: 1000021484)

Official Document Numbering

• With this fix, the ERS prefix field for Supplier is no longer blanked out after any changes are made to the Purchasing data of the Supplier, using web services. (Hotfix ID: 1000023530)

Supplier Invoicing

• When a landed cost allocation document was created for an unposted supplier invoice item, no notifications were sent to financial accounting when the supplier invoice was posted, and the allocation document was released directly from the Landed Cost Invoice Item UI. This issue has been fixed and notifications are now sent correctly to financial accounting. (Hotfix ID: 1000018238)
• With the fix provided, an error message is now shown when multiple supplier invoice documents are selected for withdrawal from approval, as the system accepts only one selection at a time. (Hotfix ID: 1000020933)

 

*Disclaimer: Note that this list may not include all of the hotfixes that are a part of this collection (e.g., operational, internal, technical fixes may not be listed).

KBA 2938382 - SAP Business ByDesign Hotfix Collection Information

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