Business process projects are created from the lobby of SAP Build, as shown in this figure.
You can automate the workflows or automations easily via drag and drop. As shown in the next figure, you can create a process or an automation artifact directly from the lobby after providing the project name and description.
You can create process, form, automation, decision, process visibility, and action artifacts, as well as many other components such as document templates, data types, and automation launchers to start your automation.
The business process project can have one of the following as its only artifact: a process artifact, a decision artifact, an automation artifact, or a process visibility artifact. After successful creation of the business process project, a typical project looks like this.
Processes are flowchart-like blueprints that define the orchestration of tasks. A business process project can have a process artifact as the only artifact, as shown in the next figure. Typical scenarios include approving a capital expenditure, approving a purchase order, processing a bill payment, hiring an employee, requesting a replacement part, and many more.
Business rules automate the decision-making process. A business process project can have a decision artifact as the only artifact, as shown in the next two figures. Typical scenarios are creating business rules for shopping carts, promotion rules based on regions, business rules for assigning the equipment for employees, and so on.
Automation allows you to create bots to reduce operation costs and automate repetitive manual work. A business process project can have an automation artifact as the only artifact, as shown in the figure below. Typical scenarios include automating the mass update of asset master data records in the backend with the asset details available in a Microsoft Excel sheet, automating the process of extracting the data from the document, automating the process of collecting the template-based journal entry from the user’s mailbox and uploading them in the application, and many more.
Process visibility provides real-time insights into the process with heterogenous environments. It’s not mandatory to have the business process created in SAP Build Process Automation to get the insights of the process. Typical scenarios where a business process project can have process visibility as the only artifact is when creating the process visibility dashboard based on the business workflows in SAP S/4HANA and an employee onboarding process in SAP SuccessFactors that is triggered for a new hire.
Editor’s note: This post has been adapted from a section of the book SAP Build Process Automation: The Comprehensive Guide by Steven Jacobson, Chaitanya Priya Puvvada, Seshadri Sreenivas Ramanarayanan, Stephan Schluchter, and Archana Shukla. Steven is a product manager at SAP who has in-depth knowledge of and expertise with SAP Build Process Automation. Chaitanya is a senior product manager in the human capital management domain with SAP SuccessFactors. Seshadri is a senior product manager for SAP Build Process Automation at SAP. Schluchter is a product manager for SAP Build. Archana is a senior director of product management at SAP.
This post was originally published 7/2025.