RHB:Innovation Roadmap

This innovation project is using our brand new HR Hub, P2P Hub and FI Hub. For RhB we are developing the new Pool Order Management functionality, consisting of the brand new purchase order pool manager app and extensions to the approval agent.

HR Hub

This is the first customre using the new HR Hub.

Pool ordering process

• Purchase order pool management - all purchase orders made by staff members need to be put into a pool order (standard functionality of purchase order pools)
• Non-standard functionality upon release
  1. A pool-order-release-job shall be created
  2. This job immediately creates a info-purchase-order (standard functionality done by approval agent)
  3. This pool-order-release-job shall be sent to SAP for 3rd party system approval (P2P Plugin to be developed)
  4. Once SAP has returned an approval for the info (through another P2P-Plugin) the plugin (1) marks the pool-order-release-job ias approved and (2) provides the partial approval mark to all purchase orders.
  5. With this done the "small" purchase orders in the pool have received their last partial approval and the approval agent marks them as fully approved. (Standard functionality by approval agent)
  6. As the order is placed, the network connector will now:
     1. transmit the "small" pos to the b-op network partners.
     2. create expected deliveries/shipments for non b-op network partners.

Mathias has found out, that purchase orders created through the ui are not subject to approval agent functionality but are automatically approved. This is technical debt as process flow governance shall NEVER be part of UI components. This flaw must be resolved in order to make the processes work as expected.

FI-Hub extensions

We have defined 5 cases of business processes

Pool orders

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