Architecture of Process Performance Monitoring in S/4HANA

In the first blog post about Process Performance Monitoring in S/4HANA we introduced the performance monitoring for sell-from-stock processen in the S/4HANA Cloud Edition 1506. This post discusses the architecture and concepts used.

The following diagram illustrates the components used und the content delivered:

For the recording of the process exection in the S/4HANA system Process Observer is used. Therefore the following content was created:

1. Process configuration:

The relevant steps and performance KPIs are defined and added as a process definition to process observer. See:

2. Application events:

BAdIs are implemented to events about the sell from stock execution.

The recorded process information is stored in the process log of Process Observer.

We define an analytics layer on the of the process log using Open CDS views.

For the UI visualization we use:

3. Consumption view:

A join combining application data with process KPI data. It provides attribues for drilldown and filtering. The consimption view is exposed as ODATA service.

4. SAP Smart Business:

In SAP Smart Business we define KPIs, evaluations and drilldows. Finally the Smart Business evaluations are made available as tiles in the Fiori Launchpad.

Now the process is ready to be monitored.