Process Management

This page offers an overview of all Process management capabilities in SAP Cloud ALM. The section “Best Practices” gives guidance on how these functionalities should be used as part of a project and lists important blogs and videos on this topic.

Process management in SAP Cloud ALM helps you manage your process scope of your project. It offers rich business content coming from SAP Best Practices including Process Diagrams, Test Cases, Process Assets, and CIAS workflows

Customer can select Processes as part of their Project Scope from SAP Content, and adjust SAP Processes or Model their own business processes in SAP Cloud ALM.

Process diagrams can be used during Fit-To-Standard workshops to visualize the process flow and identify gaps that needs to be closed during the project.

For basic “How-To” instructions on how to use the tool, you should refer to the in-app help within SAP Cloud ALM or visit -> Help Portal (link)

Functions & Features

Manage Scopes

Help Portal Link - Manage Scopes

Manage Scopes	In the Manage Scopes app you can define your scopes and perform high level scoping
Functions	Features	Features Description
	Create Scope manually	Create a new Scope
	Create Scope from Excel	Create a scope from Excel Template or DDA provided Excel Output
	Solution Scenario Scoping	Perform high level scoping and select relevant Solution Scenarios

Process Hierarchy

Function	Feature	Feature Description
	Create Process Hierarchy Manually	Define a custom Process Hierarchy

Processes

Help Portal Link - Processes

Processes	In the Processes app, you can edit the scope of your solution processes, create a process hierarchy, and create requirements and notes.
Functions	Features	Features Description
Process List and Details	Edit Solution Process Scope	For detailed scoping add or remove Solution Processes from a Scope
Process List and Details	Assign Solution Processes to Process Hierarchy	Assign Solution Processes to Process Hierarchy nodes
Process List and Details	Review Solution Processes	Review rich solution process content such as Accelerators, CIAS, Value Flow Diagrams, BPMN Diagrams
Process List and Details	Copy Diagram	Copy best practice diagrams into custom solution processes in order to adjust them
Process List and Details	Trigger CIAS Workflows	Find and trigger CIAS workflows
Process List and Details	Create Requirements, User Stories, Notes, and Tasks	Create assignments for document adjustments to be made to the process
Process List and Details	Set Solution Process Status	Maintain the status of the process to indicate the process lifecycle state

Process Authoring

Help Portal Link - Process Authoring

Process Authoring	In the Authoring App you can create and manage custom solution processes
Functions	Features	Features Description
Custom Solution Processes List and Editor	Create Custom Solution Processes	Create your own Custom Solution Processes
Custom Solution Processes List and Editor	Publish Custom Solution Processes	Publish custom solution processes to add them to your project scope
Custom Solution Processes List and Editor	Define Custom Process Localization	Define the localization of the process to document country specifics
Custom Solution Processes List and Editor	Edit Accelerators	Add, maintain and localize accelerators
Custom Solution Processes List and Editor	Model Value Flow Diagrams	Model Value Flow Diagrams can be created,edited here BPMN Modeling capabilities allow to create the most known elements within a diagram. Process Activities can be re-used. All other elements only represent modeling objects, they cannot be re-used
Custom Solution Processes List and Editor	Create Custom Solution Process Flow Diagrams	Create additional Process Flow Diagrams
Custom Solution Processes List and Editor	Model Custom Solution Process Flow Diagrams / BPMN	Model process flow using BPMN diagram language

Links to Videos	Release Date
Conduct Fit-to-Standard Workshops with SAP Cloud ALM	Link to Media Center for Application Lifecycle Management - SAP Cloud ALM Implementation
Perform your Fit-to-Standard Workshops (6:15 mins)	July 13, 2021
ALM SUMMIT Recording: Efficient fit-to-Standard with SAP Cloud ALM process management and how it interacts with SAP Signavio (42:01 mins)	March 3, 2023