From the course: Asset Accounting: Acquisitions in SAP S/4HANA

Introduction to SAP Fiori - SAP ERP Tutorial

From the course: Asset Accounting: Acquisitions in SAP S/4HANA

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Introduction to SAP Fiori

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- This lesson gives a brief overview to SAP Fiori. The new user interface. If you fuse the classic GUI menu in SAP, you'll know that like in the slide it can be quite complicated to find a specific transaction in the standard menus. Especially for fixed assets. Where you have to drill down about nine levels just to find the different permutations of the standard asset balances report. With Fiori, you can put the most relevant apps on your homepage. So with one click, you can be in the transaction. You can use Fiori on a desktop, laptop, tablet. And many of the apps can also be used on the smartphone. Fiori is more intuitive than the GUI and just simply easier to use. As soon as you look into the SAP Fiori launchpad, you'll see transactions shown as tiles or apps similar to your computer desktop or smartphone that you just click on once to enter the transaction. Depending on the transaction, especially in accounts payable and receivable. You can already see a lot of information without even opening the app. You can also save different variants inside the app or save the whole app variant as a separate tile. In the example in the slide, I've saved a separate tile using the display asset master work list. But restricted it to asset class 2000 to save time when I want to look only at that asset class. The launchpad is really user friendly and allows you to drag and drop apps into the order that you want. You can choose to show the apps by role. You can have a homepage with just the most frequently used apps. Or you can also create your own groups of apps. You can set many default so you don't need to manually enter them each time you post a document. And you have clever search functions where you can search for everything from one place. In finance generally, there's really a one-to-one relationship between the GUI transaction and the Fiori app. However in asset accounting, there is still a number of apps which have not yet been enhanced. And they still take you to the GUI transaction or be it in the Fiori environment. For example, creating and editing master data uses GUI transactions such as, AS01 and AS02. The fields are the same and the main difference apart from the color is the top menu. In Fiori you often have some buttons at the bottom. However, there are many additional tools in Fiori to help you manage the assets which have no GUI equivalent, such as the asset overview and the display asset master work list. Fiori is mandatory with SAP S/4HANA cloud. But from premise versions of S/4HANA, you can choose to use either the Fiori or the classic GUI menus. Or, for example ordinary users might use only Fiori. But the key is, is in project team, I still access the GUI for more specialized transactions and customizing. You can run depreciation reports in both for GUI and Fiori. But the new Fiori apps are easier to manage generally. And in addition to the basic list, you can show the depreciation in charts, drill down into the detail of one asset, filter, sort, group and add a lot more columns than you can in the GUI.

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