SAP DM Release 2605

New: POD 2.0 – Complete Framework
App: Manage PODs 2.0

• Editor with drag and drop, splitter layouts, iFrame and HTML embedding for flexible POD design
• Extensive new actions: start and complete SFCs/processes, report quantities, merge, split, rename and serialize SFCs
• Component and batch management: record and remove consumption, maintain batch characteristics, create batches
• Time tracking fully integrated into the POD: clock-in/clock-out, actual time recording, production time, indirect time, resource usage
• Electronic Batch Record (EBR): Preconfigured POD template with signature workflow, evidence table and activity log for regulated industries; new IAM roles ER_Read/Manage/Review/Release
• Nonconformance management: display codes and groups, collect data, change status, view activity log
• Work instructions: table, viewer and header text directly in the POD; new API endpoint for retrieving assigned instructions

New: Configure Data Scanning
App: Configure Data Scanning

• Configure barcode parsing, assign parsed data to production processes and process scan results directly in the POD
• Role templates Production_Operator/Engineer/Supervisor/Manufacturing_Admin extended with scan authorizations

Changed: Automatic Final Confirmation
App: Manage Collaboration Links

• Confirmation status decision (PCNF/CNF) is delegated to ERP. This prevents inconsistencies caused by processing delays.
• Can be activated for all common confirmation policies (yield, scrap, goods issue/receipt, time tracking)

Announcement: API Deprecations (Retirement with Release 2705)

• Nonconformance V1, Resource V1/V2, Work Center V1/V2 → use the respective V3 successors
• Visual Inspection fully removed, including all apps, plugins, APIs and role templates

New: AI-Assisted Manufacturing Engineering
Apps: Design & Monitor Production Processes

• Generate scripts using natural language; AI suggests solutions for failed production processes
• POD 2.0 plugins can be called directly in cloud production processes
• Four new condition operators for event business rules in Manage Automatic Triggers (is not, is not empty, is not one of, does not contain)

Changed: Dispatching and Monitoring

• Enhanced troubleshooting for missing orders caused by inconsistent data
• Data Engineering deprecated; removal planned for a future release

Changed: Manage Problem-Solving Processes

• App: Manage Problem-Solving Processes: New filters by plant, material, supplier/customer
• Measure templates can be filtered by measure type when creating from template