There are not much documents in the internet world regarding Vistex. In this post, the author has tried to give an overview of the Vistex Contract (with examples from Pharma Contracts Management System) and the bird’s eye view to the common terminologies, screens, transactions and technical objects (user exits, BADIs etc). Hope this post would act as a launch pad to all interested consultants who would like to take deep dive into Vistex Contract.
Below are the contents of the attached document:
i) Vistex Introduction
ii) Benefits of Vistex Solution
iii) Industry Challenges
iv) Benefits of Vistex Solution
v) Integrated Contract Life-Cycle Management
vi) Contract Development and Administration
vii) Contract Types
viii) Contract Screen General Tab
ix) Contract Screen Customer Tab
ix) Contract Screen Products Tab
x) Group Purchase Organization (GPO) & Buying Group
xi) Group Membership
xii) Membership/Block Maintenance Screen
xiii) Buying Group assignment to Contract
xiv) Sample Process Flow
xv) Sample Exception Processing Flow
xvi) Contract Activation
xvii) Contract Best Price Logic
xviii) Contract Data Upload
xix) Manual File Upload
xx) File Upload
xxi) Inbound Contract Create/Update (EDI 845)
xxii) Common T-Codes, Tables & BADI
A Chargeback is an amount claimed by a distributor from a manufacturer or vendor for the difference between their initial acquisition price and the actual agreed upon price for products/services sold to a specific end customer or partner.
There are not much documents in the internet world regarding Vistex. In this post, the author has tried to give an overview of the Vistex Chargeback and the bird’s eye view to the common terminologies, screens, transactions and technical objects (user exits, BADIs etc). Hope this post would act as a launch pad to all interested consultants who would like to take deep dive into Vistex.
Below are the contents of the attached document:
i) Definition of Chargeback
ii) Benefits of the Chargeback Application
iii) Chargeback Process
iv) Chargeback Lifecycle
v) Source Documents of Chargeback
vi) Chargeback creation based on Partner Roles with proper agreements
vii) Chargeback creation based on Partner role w/o agreement
viii) Why Partner Roles are important to create Chargeback Document
ix) Chargeback Creation Transaction codes
x) Chargeback Display or Change TCodes
xi) Chargeback Accounting Document Display
xii) Document flow for the accounting document of Chargeback
xiii) Common T-codes/User Exits/BADIs in Chargeback
xiv) High Level Overview from Contract to Chargeback Business Process for a Pharma wholesale business process
xv) Chargeback functions : CB Creation, Document flow and Reconciliation
Couple of our readers suggested that we post something which would be easy reference for Vistex Technical who are beginners. Hope this post would help all Vistex Technical who are starting their first project in Vistex.
A. Common Modules in Vistex
1. Customer Rebate
2. Chargeback
3. Contract
4. CLM
In this presentation , I have covered WM-PP interface. The presentation gives an overview of the concept as well as the process flow with and without the interface.It also talks about the master data and the various parameters that play a key role in the WM-PP processes
Quick sap co configuration Internal OrderCapgemini
Internal order is a virtual place for collecting/pooling the costs of a particular activity/task. i.e. it is a method to collect those costs and business transactions related to the task/activity. It is a means of tracking costs of a specific job, service, or task. Periodically the costs which are pooled in an internal order can be settled to an asset or to a cost center or to a GL Account or to an order. Thus, while recording you need not analyze the costs. Just record and pool the costs in internal order. After that (generally at the end of the month) these costs are analyzed and settled for relevant elements (like asset or cost center etc).
This method of recording and settling the costs helps in analyzing the costs of cost center wise, profit center wise or cost element-wise. This level of monitoring can be very detailed but allows management the ability to review Internal Order activity for better-decision making purposes.
A Chargeback is an amount claimed by a distributor from a manufacturer or vendor for the difference between their initial acquisition price and the actual agreed upon price for products/services sold to a specific end customer or partner.
There are not much documents in the internet world regarding Vistex. In this post, the author has tried to give an overview of the Vistex Chargeback and the bird’s eye view to the common terminologies, screens, transactions and technical objects (user exits, BADIs etc). Hope this post would act as a launch pad to all interested consultants who would like to take deep dive into Vistex.
Below are the contents of the attached document:
i) Definition of Chargeback
ii) Benefits of the Chargeback Application
iii) Chargeback Process
iv) Chargeback Lifecycle
v) Source Documents of Chargeback
vi) Chargeback creation based on Partner Roles with proper agreements
vii) Chargeback creation based on Partner role w/o agreement
viii) Why Partner Roles are important to create Chargeback Document
ix) Chargeback Creation Transaction codes
x) Chargeback Display or Change TCodes
xi) Chargeback Accounting Document Display
xii) Document flow for the accounting document of Chargeback
xiii) Common T-codes/User Exits/BADIs in Chargeback
xiv) High Level Overview from Contract to Chargeback Business Process for a Pharma wholesale business process
xv) Chargeback functions : CB Creation, Document flow and Reconciliation
Couple of our readers suggested that we post something which would be easy reference for Vistex Technical who are beginners. Hope this post would help all Vistex Technical who are starting their first project in Vistex.
A. Common Modules in Vistex
1. Customer Rebate
2. Chargeback
3. Contract
4. CLM
In this presentation , I have covered WM-PP interface. The presentation gives an overview of the concept as well as the process flow with and without the interface.It also talks about the master data and the various parameters that play a key role in the WM-PP processes
Quick sap co configuration Internal OrderCapgemini
Internal order is a virtual place for collecting/pooling the costs of a particular activity/task. i.e. it is a method to collect those costs and business transactions related to the task/activity. It is a means of tracking costs of a specific job, service, or task. Periodically the costs which are pooled in an internal order can be settled to an asset or to a cost center or to a GL Account or to an order. Thus, while recording you need not analyze the costs. Just record and pool the costs in internal order. After that (generally at the end of the month) these costs are analyzed and settled for relevant elements (like asset or cost center etc).
This method of recording and settling the costs helps in analyzing the costs of cost center wise, profit center wise or cost element-wise. This level of monitoring can be very detailed but allows management the ability to review Internal Order activity for better-decision making purposes.
AUC is Asset under construction where some assets are in construction phase and cost needs to
capture through internal order for the time being. Once asset is fully completed then cost would
be transferred to another cost object (E.g. Cost center, Order etc...) and settle with final asset.
E.g. XYZ Company constructing building for their office. While construction many expenses are
attached to it. Till the time it is created we cannot charge it in building account hence we need to
create AUC account where cost will be stored.
Assets under construction (AUC) are a special form of tangible assets. They are usually displayed
as a separate balance sheet item and therefore require a separate account determination and their
own asset classes. During the construction phase of an asset, all actual postings are assigned to the
AUC. Once the asset is completed, a transfer is made to the final fixed asset
When good receipt (GR) and invoice receipt (IR) is performed, an accounting document gets generated. Movement of material leads to the automatic generation of accounting document and this is referred as MM FI integration.
as per my experinece i have prepared this docuemnt for future referenec and also this document will help to leart GST impact in SAP SD and S4 HANA
Kindly comment your feedback and suggistions
SAP Sales Order Processing With Customer ReservationsVijay Pisipaty
SAP Customer Resrvation
Customer Reservations
ATP with Customer Reservations
This Solution overcomes a core functionality GAP in Sales Order Processing in SAP ECC 6.0 and above, wherein there DOES NOT exist an ability to exclusively Allocate / Reserve Inventory for specific customers in anticipation of Sales Orders.
This Solution has the following features:
For Regular Stock Items:
- Provides ability to designate Material / Products as Customer Specific Product Reservation relevant
- Provides ability to create “Customer Specific” Product Reservation at Material or Material-Batch level
- “Customer Specific” Reservation visible in Stock / Reqts. List
Customer Specific Reservation, though a demand element, DOES NOT IMPACT Planning (MRP/MPS)
- Sales Order Confirmation restricted to the limit of Open Customer Specific Product Reservation quantity
- “Customer Specific” Reservation decremented with Sales Order Confirmations
- Option to control Backorder Processing too, to check for “Customer Specific” Reservation
- NO SOURCE CODE MODIFICATIONS OF ANY KIND
Account-based COPA is also called a hybrid of general ledger and costing-based COPA. In Account based COPA, you can get a report that is reconciled and consistent with financial accounting. Sales, markeitng and product management details can be obtained from it.
Product Datasheet
https://www.intelligentcontract.com/en-us -
Intelligent Contract software's that offer free versions without a credit card.
The free versions of this contract management software provides many features like: -
Contract Alerts, Upload documentation, search content, Manage renewals, Import Data, Fields and Layout Customization To-Do Management and more.
Aavenir.com mastering it contracts management tips to optimize it vendor mana...Aavenir
IT contracts management creates reliable processes and it comes in many forms. Learn more about IT contracts key terms & conditions, And also know why IT & legal should collaborate to manage IT contracts better
AUC is Asset under construction where some assets are in construction phase and cost needs to
capture through internal order for the time being. Once asset is fully completed then cost would
be transferred to another cost object (E.g. Cost center, Order etc...) and settle with final asset.
E.g. XYZ Company constructing building for their office. While construction many expenses are
attached to it. Till the time it is created we cannot charge it in building account hence we need to
create AUC account where cost will be stored.
Assets under construction (AUC) are a special form of tangible assets. They are usually displayed
as a separate balance sheet item and therefore require a separate account determination and their
own asset classes. During the construction phase of an asset, all actual postings are assigned to the
AUC. Once the asset is completed, a transfer is made to the final fixed asset
When good receipt (GR) and invoice receipt (IR) is performed, an accounting document gets generated. Movement of material leads to the automatic generation of accounting document and this is referred as MM FI integration.
as per my experinece i have prepared this docuemnt for future referenec and also this document will help to leart GST impact in SAP SD and S4 HANA
Kindly comment your feedback and suggistions
SAP Sales Order Processing With Customer ReservationsVijay Pisipaty
SAP Customer Resrvation
Customer Reservations
ATP with Customer Reservations
This Solution overcomes a core functionality GAP in Sales Order Processing in SAP ECC 6.0 and above, wherein there DOES NOT exist an ability to exclusively Allocate / Reserve Inventory for specific customers in anticipation of Sales Orders.
This Solution has the following features:
For Regular Stock Items:
- Provides ability to designate Material / Products as Customer Specific Product Reservation relevant
- Provides ability to create “Customer Specific” Product Reservation at Material or Material-Batch level
- “Customer Specific” Reservation visible in Stock / Reqts. List
Customer Specific Reservation, though a demand element, DOES NOT IMPACT Planning (MRP/MPS)
- Sales Order Confirmation restricted to the limit of Open Customer Specific Product Reservation quantity
- “Customer Specific” Reservation decremented with Sales Order Confirmations
- Option to control Backorder Processing too, to check for “Customer Specific” Reservation
- NO SOURCE CODE MODIFICATIONS OF ANY KIND
Account-based COPA is also called a hybrid of general ledger and costing-based COPA. In Account based COPA, you can get a report that is reconciled and consistent with financial accounting. Sales, markeitng and product management details can be obtained from it.
Product Datasheet
https://www.intelligentcontract.com/en-us -
Intelligent Contract software's that offer free versions without a credit card.
The free versions of this contract management software provides many features like: -
Contract Alerts, Upload documentation, search content, Manage renewals, Import Data, Fields and Layout Customization To-Do Management and more.
Aavenir.com mastering it contracts management tips to optimize it vendor mana...Aavenir
IT contracts management creates reliable processes and it comes in many forms. Learn more about IT contracts key terms & conditions, And also know why IT & legal should collaborate to manage IT contracts better
Sales Contract Subscription and Recurring Invoice in odooAxis Technolabs
Sales Contract Subscription and Recurring Invoice in odoo, Sales Contract Subscription in odoo and Recurring Invoice in odoo, Subscription management in odoo, Subscription Management in odoo, this module enables the functionality while Create products for warranty or maintenance or subscription, Sales contract or Subscription manage based on product Sales order line and that will create sales contract for customer automatically on confirmation of sales order in odoo. That is also allow you to create recurring invoice from contract based on period configured on contract. This module also support in future if you sell some more services on same contract then you can select contract on quote/sales order and it will include that line on contract.
App download now :
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#Odoo #odoo16 #odoo15 #odoo13 #odoo14 #odoo12 #odooappstore #ContractSubscriptioninodoo #Subscriptionmanagementinodoo #RecurringInvoiceinodoo #SalesContractSubscriptioninodoo #contractmanagementinodoo #odooenterprise #odoodeveloper #odoodevelopment #odooimplementation #odoomigration #axistechnolabs #odoodevelopmentcompany #odoocommunity
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My Business in the Cloud Presentation Ian Saunders Asite 09/09/2014Tracey Saunders
Get your Business in the cloud for less than you think. With unlimited users, storage, projects and support for one monthly fee!
To find out why top Architectural, Engineering and Construction firms are choosing Asite as their Project Portfolio Management Provider, Corporate Collaboration Its Adoddle.
Dynamic 365 for Financials formerly known as project Madeira shed light on the financial part of an organization. This solution is introduced in the newly developed Dynamic 365 family for the small to mid-sized organization.
Accounting System Compliance for Non-AccountantsRobert E Jones
Govology
Presented by Left Brain Professionals Inc.
Many business owners admit accounting is about as foreign to them as any non-English language. Some
have learned enough to survive a rudimentary conversation, while others have delegated responsibility to
someone else. That someone else may not be properly trained in accounting or well-versed in the nuances
of government contract accounting.
In government contracting, accounting is as important as the contract itself. In fact, the contract type
dictates certain accounting requirements including invoice formats and status reports. If you’re performing
work on a cost-reimbursable contract (any cost-type or time-and-material contract), you must have an
approved accounting system.
Obtaining an approved accounting system means understanding the 14 items addressed in the SF 1408
Preaward Survey of Prospective Contractor Accounting System. The survey addresses segregation of costs,
job costing, and timekeeping, among other topics. We walk through the SF 1408 providing practical guidance
and insight into each requirement. You don’t have to be an accountant to understand this, but you need to
understand this to be successful in government contracting.
Want to learn how to publish and distribute your Lightning Components? Join us to learn the steps for packaging Lighting Components and the process to list them on the Lightning Exchange for Components. In this session, we will discuss tips for packaging Components and best practices for managing versioning.
webbased contract management system with build in e-sign engine. SaaS and licence model. Close legal binding contracts over the internet. A recent browser is all you need to start managing your contracts. More info at http://www.DocStation.be
DocStation is a webbased contract management system with build in e-sign engine. contract compliance, contract management, contract generation, standardisation and contract execution. Check the website http://www.docstation.be Starts at 200 euro / month for unlimited users and 100 MB webspace
How Distributors Increase Income with Automated Rebates and ChargebacksSAP Solution Extensions
For more information around SAP Incentive Administration by Vistex please visit http://www54.sap.com/lob/sales/software/incentive-administration/index.html
and for SAP Paybacks and Chargebacks by Vistex please visit http://www54.sap.com/lob/sales/software/paybacks-chargebacks/index.html
Find out how smart retailers are recouping monies due through chargebacks, rebates, and other incentive programs – with auditors – using solution extensions from SAP. The SAP Incentive Administration and SAP Paybacks and Chargebacks applications help automate and streamline the complex processes involved.
Five ways to develop a successful outsourcing contractWGroup
WGroup perspective paper on how to develop a successful outsourcing contratct--A few key aspects of an outsourcing contract typically drive its projected savings and return on investment (ROI). You must carefully consider all of these areas to avoid mixed financial results on your outsourcing project. Strategizing the following five areas can help you develop a successful outsourcing contract. The 5 key ways are contract components, unit pricing, resource volume, dead bands, and renegotiation bands.
Flow Chart to get Free access to SAP HANA Cloud PlatformSAPYard
Finally you are somewhat clear as to what you want to do in HANA. Now a greater hurdle. Neither your employee organization nor your current project client has HANA database. So, how would you explore the tremendous power and innovation of HANA? Is it end of the road? Was your acquaintance with HANA only till here?
Do not worry, there is always a way around. You just need to have the zeal to learn and find out the alternatives.
“When a person really desires something, the whole universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.” :)
– Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
The easiest option (and a better one, if you can afford) is to enroll in the authorized SAP Classroom/Online HANA training session. Consider it as an investment for your future.
But, if you do not want to shell out some $$$ right now or you want to have some bare minimum knowledge in HANA and then you plan to take proper formal training, you have another free alternative.
Remember, in the concluding lines of previous post, I mentioned that we can get access to HANA database using SAP HANA Cloud Platform. There is nothing called a “free lunch” in this world, but SAP HANA Cloud Platform is an exception. Yes, it is absolutely free!!! Thanks to SAP.
HANA the “Hot cake” of the market. I have been hearing about HANA since the beginning of this decade or even earlier. Initially I thought it was just a new database, so why the fuss? My crooked mind used to say: may be SAP does not want to share the market revenue with any other database provider (competitors); therefore they came up with their own database. Pat SAP for Smart Business Acumen. :)
Later I had a notion that HANA is only for BI/BW folks, so being an ABAPer – why should I care? Everyone used to talk about analysis and modelling. So, I used to think, let the BI/BW modelers worry about HANA.
Then the rumour started in market; ABAP and ABAPer are going to be extinct in near future. I used to wonder, if ABAPer are going to die, then who in this whole universe would support those tons and tons of ABAP code written in the history of SAP Implementations? What will happen to all those time, effort and money spent in those large and small scales SAP Implementations? What a waste of rumour!!
The bgRFC allows applications to record data that is received later by a called application. When the data is received, we must ensure that the data was transferred to the receiver either once only in any order (transactional) or once only in the order of creation (queued).
What is bgRFC?
bgRFC Configaration
bgRFC Programming
bgRFC Debugging
bgRFC Monitoring
For almost a decade I (and I am sure, all ABAPers) have been happily using the loop holes in SAP security to access the forbidden transactions, with no malicious intension though, only for speedy analysis and ethical debugging.
But today I am wondering, is it really a loop hole or has SAP provided these small windows to the developers knowingly?
SAP Security Guys!! Hope you are reading this.
As a hardcore ABAP developer, I was curious to know, how is an ABAPer affected by this upgrade 7.4. After exploring the system and going through the sap release documents, I have tried to jot down the changes which ABAPers like me would be interested in.
And NEW and VALUE Operators are the first features in EhP7 which the ABAPer would be using regularly.
Offshore development model in 10 steps sap yardSAPYard
Recently while discussing with one of my onsite client, I
came to know that clients here are not completely aware
of how offshore functions. They believe that after they
give the business requirement, their responsibilities are
over. In short, offshore model is a Black Box to them.
They are only interested in the final deliverables and not
in how offshore get the things done.
The difference between a normal programmer and a good programmer is, the latter keeps his/her basics right. Good programmers are distinguished by the quality of their deliverables. They provide enough documentation in their object so that the future practitioners supporting their product do not curse them. One of my Team Lead once told me, “your code should not only meet the functionalities, it should also be asthetically pleasing if someone happens to peep into it"
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
3. The sheer complexity of managing and administering life sciences
contracts makes it prone to revenue leakage.
Business processes are typically managed by stand alone systems
resulting in issues of data integrity.
The large volume of transactions, especially with managed care
organizations overwhelms stand alone and departmental systems.
Establishing a full audit trail from initiation to payment to support
accounting and compliance efforts is an absolute necessity and no
longer a luxury.
Industry Challenges
http://www.sapyard.com/
4. Introduce efficiencies in management and administration of complex
contracts and settlements.
Reduce erroneous payouts.
Ensure full compliance with regulation and periodic audits.
Automate claims and payouts reducing administrative costs.
Improve your profitability and competitive advantage.
Benefits of Vistex Solution
http://www.sapyard.com/
6. Using rule-based concepts in conjunction with standard pricing techniques,
Vistex software simplifies the process for developing and managing
contracts.
The solution enables rules to be defined to filter member eligibility on
contracts, along with supported pricing programs and performance rebate
types.
Standard contract templates are available to make contract development
efficient, fast, and easy. And you can manage all types of rebates – from
simple market share or growth measurements to elaborate, matrix-style
conditions – as well as handle fixed or tiered pricing.
You can also capture data for contract analysis, provide enterprise pricing
capabilities, and communicate in various formats, including a standardized
link to electronic data interchange (EDI) transactions for outbound bid-
award notifications.
Contract Development and
Administration
http://www.sapyard.com/
7. • Tier Contract: Pharma industries or customer segments may have a
common set of terms and conditions that are applicable to all contracts
that are created for customers in those industries or segments. A Tier
contract that contains this common set of terms and conditions. This
creates a contract that has GPO linked to it with all terms and condition.
• Individual Contract: Individual Contract means the contract which is
done between Customer and the manufacture/supplier of the product, no
other party in involved in the same.
• Base Contract: Base Contract is the one which is associated to set of
customer who is member of a buying group where as Tier contract is
attached with buying groups organization. All other features of Base
Contract is same as Tier Contract.
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11. Group Purchase Organization is logical body which bring group of
customer together and involved the negotiation with vendors.
This way small customer can get benefited of negotiated price.
GPO do change membership fee from customers to avail the
benefit.
Group Purchase Organization (GPO)
Buying Group is logical grouping of Related Materials/Group of
Customers which can be assign to a Contract. Buying Group is a
subset of GPO.
Buying Group
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12. With the group membership feature of the Vistex software, you can manage
the complex business relationships between contract organizations and
affiliated clients and plans.
The application maintains an exact copy of your customer’s membership list
and automatically matches it to your customer database according to
external cross-references.
Data collected from your customers’ files, third-party data providers, or EDI
transactions are loaded through applications that are integrated with
customer master data.
Because you establish filters, policies, and participation rules to control
contract participation, the software can automatically determine contract or
member eligibility, updating contracts without manual intervention.
Group Membership
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15. Sample Process FlowSTART
SAP receives Supplier Notifications from Vendors
in the form of EDI 845 IDOC
SAP validates the received
data by applying various
matching logic and Business
rule. Is matching record
found?
Supplier notification is created/ updated upon
successfully processing of the IDOC
Business or Contract analyst will analyze the data
and associate the Supplier Notification with
Base/Individual/Tier Contract
Record captured as
Exception
No
YES
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16. Once the Supplier Notification Information is updated, a batch job
is scheduled to run, which will update all associated contracts
(Base, Tier and Individual) with member and product information
SAP validates the received
data by applying various
business rules. Is data good to
process?
All associated contracts is updated with product and member
information received from the supplier
END
Record captured as
Exception
No
YES
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17. Sample Exception Processing Flow
Get the list of records captured as Exception
Business or Contract analyst will analyze the data
Business is fine with
the exception and want
to process the data ?
Process the data manually by clicking the Process Button and System
will update all the contracts accorondingly
Delete or ignore the data
by marking it Processed
START
END
Yes
No
System will process the Exception automatically in case Same Contract,
Same Product with Same Exception occurs next time.
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18. Contract Activation
Contract Activation is standard Vistex process which will move all the
active records on a particular date from staging tables to active
tables.
History and Future records will not be moved.
Contract should be marked as Priced to move to active area.
Contract should be Released to move to active area.
Batch job is scheduled to run the activation at required frequency.
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19. Contract Best Price Logic
We can have multiple Group / Individual / Tier Contract in contracts
master data for a given Customer and Material combination on a given
pricing date.
Customer should always be charged with the best/lowest available
price among all the available contracts.
Logic to determine the best possible price to the customer is called
the BEST PRICE LOGIC.
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20. Check Contract with all the buying group associated for the customer
Exclude Contract based on various blocks
Check the customer validity dates in Tier and Individual Contract
Check the Material with validity dates exist in the contracts selected
in above steps
Eliminate contracts where customers are excluded as well as
products do not have valid contract price and or sell price
Contract Best Price Logic
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21. Apply contract sequences and use exit flag till contract price found
In case we do not find any Exit flag then consider all contracts that
are captured so far
Contract have both contract price & sell price available, then sell
price will be used.
Marks ups/downs are applied to contract price i.e Vendor,
Dropship, Contract Override etc
Select best contract price (Lowest Price) among various contracts
Contract Best Price Logic
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22. There are 3 different ways to upload contract information to SAP
Vistex system, which are as follows:
Manual Upload via Tcode /IRM/PCMS
File Upload
Inbound Contract Update (EDI 845) Upload
Contract Data Upload
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23. The SAP Vistex system have the capability to Create/Edit/Delete the
contract manually.
Transaction code (/IRM/PCMS) to trigger contract creation.
Once the transaction code is entered a selection screen appears. User
needs to select the create button (F5), and then select the type of the
contract and provide all other details
Manual File Upload
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24. The SAP Vistex system have the capability to upload the Excel or text
files provided by External or Internal Parties.
Custom Transaction code can be used.
Separate Batch jobs can be scheduled to upload external and internal
party files.
Every file has a specific format in which it can be created and uploaded
File Upload
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25. Majority of the Supplier Notifications (EDI 845) received from the
manufactures are through EDI. There are several steps in Vistex to identify
these supplier notifications and create/change these notifications.
Supplier notification is/are created/updated upon successfully processing of
the IDOC.
Business or Contract analyst will analyze the data and associate the Supplier
Notification with Base/Individual/Tier Contract.
Inbound Contract Create/Update (EDI 845)
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26. T-Codes
/irm/pcms – To Add/Edit/Display Contract
/irm/pcsgmblk – To Add/Edi/Display Membership and Block
/irm/pcactv – To Activate a contract
/irm/pcmdactv – To activate a membership and Block
Tables
/irm/pcshdr – Header Table
/irm/pcscus – Detail Table for customer information in contract
/irm/pcsprd – Detail Table for product information in contract
/irm/pcsbgp – Header Table for Membership
/irm/pcsbgc – Detail Table for Membership
/irm/pcsblk – Detail Table for Blocks
BADI
/IRM/BADI_PC_ALL
Common T-Codes, Tables & BADI
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