Version 10.0 of SAP BusinessObjects GRC solutions has a new user interface (UI) that is configurable and that allows you to select the information that is important to the specific user. This new UI is part of the new visualization features introduced with version 10.0. It is targeted at business users, utilizing the Enterprise Portal or the SAP NetWeaver Business Client. The look and feel of the UI are similar to the Web interfaces.

The prior releases of SAP BusinessObjects Global Trade Services (8.0 and lower) had an ABAP GUI. In version 10.0 of SAP BusinessObjects Global Trade Services, however, this new UI has been introduced specifically to the SAP BusinessObjects Global Trade Services sanctioned party list (SPL) screening function.

In addition to visualization, version 10.0 of SAP BusinessObjects GRC solutions also offers the following common features and functions that are introduced across applications:

• Technical platform: Unifies SAP BusinessObjects Risk Management, SAP BusinessObjects Access Control, and SAP BusinessObjects Process Control within a common ABAP platform along with version 10.0 of SAP BusinessObjects Global Trade Services
• Configurable user interface (UI): A customizable display component through configuration
• Reporting: Use of business object for reporting and analytics
• Content life-cycle management: Supporting version control, packaging, import and export of content, and updates

Accessing the New User Interface

There are two methods for accessing the new UI of version 10.0 of SAP BusinessObjects Global Trade Services. You can reach the new UI:

• Through the SAP NetWeaver Business Client view (GUI) from the SAP NetWeaver Business Client installed on your PC
• Through the SAP NetWeaver Business Client view from a link saved in Windows Explorer

These are different links based on the transactions. You can find the link by using transaction NWBC in SAP BusinessObjects Global Trade Services.

Figure 1 displays the SAP Easy Access Screen/view, where you can use the SAP transactions within the command window. When you log on to the SAP BusinessObjects Global Trade Services system, it brings up the SAP Easy Access screen. As shown in Figure 1, you enter the transaction code NWBC within the command window. After you have entered the transaction code, the screen shown in Figure 2 appears. The link in the top of Figure 2 can be used for direct access. Figure 2 displays the individual transaction accessed with SAP NetWeaver Business Client installed on your PC. 

Figure 1

SAP BusinessObjects Global Trade Services Easy Access GUI transaction window

Figure 2

Link to SAP NetWeaver Business Client SAP BusinessObjects Global Trade Services-specific transactions

The screen shown in Figure 3 displays the SAP NetWeaver Business Client view of an SAP BusinessObjects Global Trade Services transaction or report, with the SPL screening overview. As you can see, this screen is organized with different tabs or folders, with Reports for Global Trade Services displayed and with two other selection folders, Sanctioned Party List Screening and Sanctioned Party List Screening: Master Data. This view provides the user with a work area with one window and three selection folders, organized by different functions and transactions within them.

Figure 3

The SAP NetWeaver Business Client UI

SPL Screening Configuration

Version 10.0 of SAP BusinessObjects Global Trade Services allows you to configure the new UI and also work with the traditional ABAP GUI to help you migrate from an old version to the newer version. I’ll show you how to configure version 10.0 of SAP BusinessObjects Global Trade Services SPL screening specific to the new UI that needs to be set up. Figure 4 displays the SAP BusinessObjects Global Trade Services SPL screening configurations.

Figure 4

Version 10.0 of SAP BusinessObjects Global Trade Services SPL configuration

Access the Configure Technical Controls for Web Dynpro Applications configuration step; use transaction code SPRO and follow IMG menu path SAP Customizing Implementation Guide > Global Trade Services > Compliance Management > Sanctioned Party List Screening. The new UI configuration is enabled through the Configure Technical Controls for Web Dynpro Applications option.

Set Up Web Dynpro

You can enable the Web Dynpro setup configuration only when you have the SAP NetWeaver Business Client installed. So, as part of the prerequisite, when you are installing version 10.0 of SAP BusinessObjects Global Trade Services, you need to install the SAP NetWeaver Business Client in addition to the SAP NetWeaver 7.0 enhancement pack. You can access the Web Dynpro configuration by clicking the execute button to the left of Configure Technical Controls for Web Dynpro Applications under transaction SPRO (Figure 4). This action brings you to the screen in Figure 5.

Define the technical parameters that you need to control the SPL screening in Web Dynpro applications in one central function. You can select Display Detailed Results of Last Screening from two options: Data Formatting for Results Display and number range for the case and logical system group. You see two options for Data Formatting for Results Display; the other option available is the summary. In terms of the number range, this information is meant for capturing the screening results and assigning an internal number for the display results. The logical system group is defined based on the feeder system that is connected to when data needs to be sent for screening. Following the installation, you do the setup to enable the SAP NetWeaver Business Client. These technical parameters include the entries for data formatting and offline SPL screening.

Figure 5

The configuration setup for the SPL screening with Web Dynpro

Access SAP BusinessObjects Global Trade Services

You can access SAP BusinessObjects GRC solutions in three ways. In this specific example, access SAP BusinessObjects Global Trade Services by:

1. Logging on to SAP GUI 6.40 onward
2. Accessing SAP NetWeaver Business Client 3.0+ (see the example in Figure 6)
3. Accessing SAP NetWeaver Portal

Figure 6

User menu with applications built using SAP NetWeaver Business Client

The key architectural components are SAP SLL (Legal and Logistics) 900, SAP AP 700, SAP NetWeaver 7.02, and Java stack for Adobe Document Services. These three components are part of the general installation of version 10.0 of SAP BusinessObjects Global Trade Services. I’ll review the new UI with the SAP NetWeaver Business Client.

When you click the Overview field, the icon under the Sanctioned Party List Screening folder, the screen shown in Figure 7 appears.

Figure 7

The SAP SPL Service Overview screen

In Figure 7, the UI looks different from the SAP BusinessObjects Global Trade Services traditional cockpit. As in Figure 3, the screen in Figure 7 is a display of certain functions grouped together called work centers. The different functions are shown within the SPL Service Overview tab, and key functions are displayed with links. When you click the Simulate SPL screening link, the screen shown in Figure 8 appears.

Figure 8

Simulate SPL screening with different options

You can execute the report shown in Figure 8 with saved values. Having saved values within your variant helps you generate this report quickly. This report provides you with more selection options with a configurable view. The searches within the selection field are available within the drop-down menu (Figure 8). The report is an example of a transaction that provides you with one window with the selection of data at the top section and the results of your selection — the SPL screening of the parameter selected — displayed at the bottom. This type of format makes reviewing and analyzing the results against your preselected data easier.

While working in the Simulate SPL Screening report, you can also open another transaction with a different window tab, or they can be grouped as folders, as we saw previously in Figure 3. This provides the user with a Web-like UI with tabs. Users can toggle between windows for access to the different reports. These windows are also organized by work center for the information or business user’s ease of use.

You might need to change the selection data and the output of a report based on your requirement. This option allows you to define a new query, and it allows you to personalize your query and reports. In Figure 7, I take the example of the blocked business partner, where you can create a query for the report. Click Blocked business partners to bring up the screen shown in Figure 9.

Figure 9

Business Partner Monitoring screen

The blocked business partner report brings up the option of creating a new query or personalizing it. When you click Define New Query, it brings up the screen shown in Figure 10.

Figure 10

Define a new query in Business Partner Monitoring

Now you select the criteria in the Select Object Type and Select Existing Query as Template options from the drop-down menu; let’s say in this case it is Monitor Business Partners (Figure 10). Click the Next button and the screen in Figure 11 appears.

Figure 11

Key selected criteria in Business Partner Monitoring

Figure 11 displays the key selection criteria. Execute the report by clicking the Next button to go to the finish step. Executing the final step displays the blocked business partner report (Figure 12).

Figure 12

A blocked business report with only the fields that are of interest to the business user displayed

The report shown in Figure 12 displays the output of the saved query (Figure 11). Within this report you can personalize the view and create custom-specific views. To demonstrate the SPL screening results of the business partner, I use an example of another report that helps explain some functional analysis of the SPL screening results, the ad hoc SPL screening report.

You can run the ad hoc screening while you are in the SPL Service Overview screen, as seen in Figure 7 under the Simulate SPL screening section. When you click Run ad hoc sanctioned party list screening, the screen shown in Figure 13 appears. To run the ad hoc SPL screening, you enter the Name (e.g., Dawood) and other address details and click the Check button. This brings up the screen shown in Figure 14 as output.

Figure 13

The Ad Hoc SPL Screening input screen

Figure 14

Ad Hoc SPL screening of the name results (first half of the screen results)

Figure 15 provides the names for which the SAP BusinessObjects Global Trade Services SPL screening found a match.

Figure 15

The Ad Hoc SPL screen results details (second half of SPL search results screen)

The screening results provide the display of the names that are matched with the SPL content you have maintained within the system with the names and addresses. The same report exists with the earlier version of SAP BusinessObjects Global Trade Services; now you run a quick comparison with the same data and compare the view of the outputs. The screen in Figure 16 is modified to display the SPL entry matches and the addresses. Now run the same screening with the traditional SPL Simulate transaction with the SAP BusinessObjects Global Trade Services GUI. The screen in Figure 16 provides the Simulate General Address Check screening entry, where you need to enter the Legal Regulation (SPLUS), Name (Dawood), and Country (US).

Figure 16

Simulate the SAP BusinessObjects Global Trade Services GUI SP

Figure 17 is the traditional SAP GUI display with the SPL entry. It shows the hit details on the bottom of the screen. This information is more background information for further research and is not needed for the initial review; the detail information has now been eliminated and simplified.

Figure 17

Simulate SPL screening results

Deployment Options

In terms of the deployment options, you have the option to deploy SAP NetWeaver Portal, SAP NetWeaver Business Client, or SAP NetWeaver Browser, which resembles a Web link (also called NWBC lite). The underlying architecture of version 10.0 of SAP BusinessObjects Global Trade Services has been supplemented with a new User Interface Object (UIO) layer that enables the new SPL UI. You can also use the UIO as a basis for customer project-specific UI extension and development of a new UI, using any front-end technology.

Rajen Iyer

Rajen Iyer is the cofounder and CTO at Krypt, Inc. Rajen has written several in-depth, best practice articles, white papers, patents, and best-selling books on SAP Logistics and SAP Global Trade Services, including Effective SAP SD and Implementing SAP BusinessObjects Global Trade Services. He is also an invited speaker at industry conferences.

You may contact the author at Rajen@kryptinc.com.

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Kavitha Sridhar

Kavitha Sridhar is a part of the SAP BusinessObjects Global Trade Services practice at Krypt Inc. She is active in the areas of SOA Webservice, Web Dynpro development, and SAP BusinessObjects Global Trade Services. She has held a number of positions in software development, team management, system architecture, and technical communications in various high-tech companies. Kavitha holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering.

You may contact the author at Kavitha@kryptinc.com.

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