Alerts and Approvals in SAP Business One
Alerts and Approvals in SAP Business One Training
To help everything in your business run as smooth as possible, wouldn’t it be great if you get get alerted to important documents, or restrict deals from being made without proper approval automatically? If you use SAP Business One, then you are in luck! SAP offers a series of Alerts and Approvals to can be set to make your life easier.
Read on below to get an overview of our Alerts and Approvals in SAP Business One Training, or watch the recorded Webinar OnDemand now!
Agenda
- Alerts vs. Approvals
- Alerts Overview
- Alerts Business Cases
- Customizing Alerts through Queries
- Approval Process Overview
- Approval Process Business Cases
- Customzing Approval Process through Queries
- Documentation
Alerts vs. Approvals
Alerts and Approvals tend to go hand-in-hand because they have many similarities, but to help you get a better idea of these 2 features, our Consultants go over the similarities as well as the differences between them.
The similarities are that both alerts and approvals will provide a notification in SAP when a certain action occurs. And both can send these notifications internally, or to an outside party via email.
As for the differences, they can be explained by this quick little comparison:
ALERTS
- Service needed
- Provide a notification
- Does NOT block document from adding
- Can be triggered to send an email
- Can be scheduled with a defined frequency
APPROVALS
- No Service Needed
- Provide a notification
- Blocks document from adding to system until approved
- Can be triggered to send an email
- Can NOT be scheduled
Alerts Overview
To start with Alerts, you will need to do a quick set-up. This is a one-time thing that you can do yourself, or that your SAP Partner can do for you. The setup can be found checking your Services > SAP Business One Messaging Service as well as by ensuring your SAP Business One Service Messenger > Job Service Mailer is up and running.
ALERTS Business Cases
0:17:04
If you jump to the time above in the the Training video, you will be able to see our Consultants give in-SAP examples showing step by step how to set up a few different types of useful alerts!
Customizing Alerts Through Queries
- Outside of the OOTB options, we can use queries to customize alerts
- You can create an alert out of ANY of your existing queries
ALERTS - Added Functionality by Release
Below we’ve laid out a handy functionality guide based on the different SAP Business version releases:
Approval Process Overview
Moving from alerts to approvals, the training continues with a quick overview of the Approvals process in SAP Business One.
Approval Templates
Approval Stages
Approvals Process Business Cases
0:31:40
Starting from the time above, our consultants cover different Business Cases for Approvals Processes in SAP Business One.
Customizing Approvals through Queries
- Need to use active form syntax
- How to test the approval?
Approval Reporting
APPROVAL STATUS REPORT
APPROVAL DECISION REPORT
APPROVALS - Added Functionality by Release
Like with the Alerts Functionality, below we have a quick overview of the functionality by release for Approvals as well:
Documentation:
Our experts here at Pioneer B1 have gathered a few useful link for you to use as a resource for Alerts and Approvals in SAP Business One:
- SAP Documentation
- YouTube
- Tips and Tricks LinkedIn Page
- Pioneer B1
- Google!
Q&A - Question & Answers for Alerts and Approvals
During the original live training session we had a lot of great questions from our participants! We were able to answer most of them then and there, but some of those questions required more time to prepare an answer!
Our consultants jumped right on it, and now you can find the answer to their questions here:
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