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SAP User Experience & Apps

Enhance your system’s user experience and functionality with Absoft’s suite of SAP apps.

After a successful implementation, customers naturally desire to fully leverage their SAP S/4HANA and ECC investments. To meet these needs, we have developed nine solutions within the SAP Fiori framework that can make a tangible difference in many critical business functions.

Our apps are available on desktop, tablet, or mobile and are configured to run on the latest SAP platforms. By integrating them into your system, your organisation can enhance its core business processes and workflows.

SAP User Experience and Apps

What Apps Do We Offer?

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Shop Floor App
Analytics
Vendor Invoice Portal App
Payroll Monitoring & Processing App
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Logistics Workbench App
Integrated Fleet Management System
Stores Apps
Approvals App
Shopping Apps

How We Do It

Our team’s suite of apps results from a synergistic collaboration with numerous companies, combining diverse expertise and a plethora of resources. These partnerships have facilitated the integration of varied technologies and market insights, fostering innovation and expanding our user base through a shared commitment to excellence in app development.

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Frequently Asked Questions

SAP Fiori is a user experience (UX) for SAP software and applications. It provides a set of applications that are used in regular business functions like work approvals, financial apps, calculation apps, and various self-service apps. SAP Fiori provides all business roles in real time and offers business roles on easy to use functions, simply with unmatched responsiveness on desktop, mobile, and tablet. Apps based on Fiori have become the new standard interface for SAP customers running S/4HANA ERP systems and are still available for customers running ECC.

SAP GUI – Graphical User Interface – is part and parcel of the presentation layer of most SAP systems in productive use today. SAP GUI has become synonymous with the rather unattractive screens associated with older versions of SAP ERP solutions. The SAP GUI interface is being replaced in the latest versions of the SAP ERP by Fiori apps which are user friendly and certainly more attuned to prevailing mobile phone and tablet-based user experiences.

Fiori apps replace the primary user interface method SAP GUI.

SAPUI5 is the technology that Fiori web applications are based on and allows them to act as the front end to SAP. They use simple language, collect more accurate data, and can be made available offline. They allow the end user to transact in a simpler fashion which enables the user to become more efficient in their day to day duties.

Mobility refers to an app’s ability to be deployed on desktop, mobile, and tablet. Offline allows these apps to function without internet access. An SAP ERP mobile app is underpinned by intelligence that is primarily based in the app’s back-end system and relies on web connectivity to drive its behaviours and navigation. Offline apps can capture data and then sync it to the app’s back-end when you get back in internet range.

Improving UX is not just about making the user interface look better. It is also about reducing the operational costs and enabling users to work more efficiently. Simplifying the complicated is the mantra for good UX.

An app/product is deployable immediately, but generic and not customised to suit your individual business needs. An app accelerator is a framework design where 80% of the app has been pre-designed and built. Absoft have numerous App Accelerators available that work with you to design and tailor the app to reflect your processes. This enables an accelerated delivery timeframe, without compromising on quality or compatibility of the app with your business.

SAP Fiori Apps significantly enhance UX across a multitude of industry sectors. However, there remain “White Space” areas which are industry and process specific, where a customised solution is required, but not resellable at a suitable scale for SAP development and investment. This is where Absoft’s Bespoke Apps come in. 

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Shop Floor App

Absoft’s eponymous shop floor app is aimed at production supervisors and shop floor operators. The app maximises work centre usage, provides easy-to-understand and timely instructions to operators and technicians, and stops the wasteful mass printing of production orders. It also automates material consumption, including the flow of goods and materials around the plant, and dynamically creates deliveries when goods become available from production.

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Find out more about using the app with our video demo. Here we guide you through SAP Shop Floor, from tracking production to allocating tasks ➡

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The work release process to the factory is taking considerably less time and has been handled digitally. Prior to SAP there were eight paper documents produced per machine and roughly 20 pieces of paper produced per batch. This was time consuming to produce and took a lot of time to manage if there were changes or errors. SAP has reduced this process to about an hour and a half a week and changes are automatically distributed to the factory.

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Analytics

Absoft’s analytics app enables organisations to create their own analytics suite. Often deployed in conjunction with one or more apps, the analytics app allows users to present data in their preferred layout and select critical dimensions and metrics.

The resulting analytics can be drilled down further to reveal important details. Options to export data to Excel for additional processing also exist.

The dashboard can also be personalised to the user to ensure that the data they need is easily accessible.

Vendor Invoice Portal App

The Absoft Vendor Invoice Portal helps suppliers register invoices in our customers’ SAP systems to prevent entering time and resource data twice. It also leverages contractual rates held in SAP, ensuring compliance and managing spending.

Vendors can also check the status of their invoices in the system—from registration to approval and finally to payment. This gives vendors peace of mind and saves our customers from dealing with invoice queries and vendor expediting.

Payroll Monitoring & Processing App

Absoft’s payroll monitoring app supports your organisation in managing, administrating and disseminating your payrolls.

The Payroll Manager uses the app to monitor the status of the multiple payrolls operating in the organisation. A monitor window shows the stage of the payroll and the number of outstanding error/warning messages. The manager can drill down into any of the payrolls to get further details on the types of outstanding error/warning messages.

The app supports the payroll administrator in resolving payroll issues. Using a proprietary Absoft data engine to simulate payroll results, the payroll administrator has early visibility of issues well in advance of running payroll itself. The app highlights issues and offers context-sensitive solutions to help the administrator resolve the issues there and then.

The app’s ability to provide this preview allows for paycheques to roll out smoothly, alleviating stress for payroll managers and administrators alike.

The app also provides tailored visibility of payroll status and reporting to finance managers – and external third parties if required – saving your payroll department time by removing the burden of dealing with data requests from internal departments and external customers.

Logistics Workbench App

Our Logistics Workbench automates the pick, pack, ship, and receive process. It supports users in packing items from pallet to shipment and automates the production of customs documentation, manifests, and consignment notes. The workbench also supports ad-hoc delivery and shipment creation.

Replacing tens of individual SAP transactions and screens, the Logistics Workbench is a one-stop shop and an intuitive, powerful processing engine for logistics clerks, supervisors and stores.

The screens are specifically designed to minimise the number of screens and clicks required of the user. They present processes in the form of easy-to-understand icons, making it a great tool for remote sites or sites with high staff turnover.

Integrated Fleet Management System

Absoft’s Integrated Fleet Management System (IFMS) is a comprehensive solution designed to streamline orders and deliveries. It facilitates efficient stock and store management, purchasing, and record-keeping while also identifying and recording areas of Technical Non-Compliance (TNCs). The system offers robust Purchase Order tracking, depot planning, and fleet management capabilities.

Users can manage and maintain plants and set parameters for each, such as purchasing groups, storage locations, and the status of orders coming in and out of each depot. This degree of visibility ensures that tailored maintenance plans can be written for the business.

Managers can monitor the status of units and sets, set detailed notifications for work orders, and view technician or worker reports. The system also enables the attachment of additional information, such as photos, to work orders making the progress of operation easy to see.

IFMS has mobile and tablet editions, making it easy to manage routes, stock, schedules, plants, and depots on the go.

Stores Apps

Absoft’s stores apps transform the transactions typically performed by Stores into a unified set of intuitive desktop, tablet, or mobile workbenches.

The Goods Receiving app provides Goods Inwards with lists of deliveries due and helps them process receipts and quickly identify any compliance issues. Our Picking app drives store picking schedules and dynamically posts picking and goods issue events.

Our Stock Card app is the midfield utility player of our app suite, covering counting, moving, and stock-level monitoring processes. All these activities are represented in easy-to-use, intuitive workbench form.

Proposing tailored worklists to the user, including delivery due lists, pick lists, and physical count lists, using straightforward, easy-to-understand screens helps your organisation drive and optimise store processes.

Working with our analytics app, your store supervisors will be provided with easy-to-consume live analytics, including stock value, stock turn, dead stock, ABCS stock analysis, and more. They can tailor dimensions, key figures, and presentation methods to suit your needs.

Approvals App

Absoft’s approval app supports the review and approval (or rejection) of shopping carts, purchase orders, and vendor invoices. The app provides your managers with a one-stop shop for all approvals with a common look and feel to the review and approval process.

The managers are also offered live views of the budget position of the cost centres involved in the approval to help them make informed decisions.

Our approvals app is delivered with a model delegation of authority set-up but also utilises SAP standard integration to allow us to tap into your organisational-specific approval framework set-up.

The approvals app has been specifically tailored to be mobile device friendly, ensuring that your travelling management team has the facility to review and approve on the move.

Shopping Apps

Our shopping app offers decentralised controlled shopping to users throughout your organisation. Dynamically proposing external or internal catalogue sources and approved vendors to the shopper the Absoft shopping app offers the end-user simple to navigate, jargon free shopping experience whilst maximising the benefit from the work your contracts and procurement departments have put into strategic sourcing.

The app is available in two versions. The Lite version supports indirect procurement including “shop with limits” options, whilst the Pro version supports direct materials shopping. The Pro version automatically recognises stock versus externally purchased items and will generate stock reservations or shopping carts as appropriate.

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