Thanks to its personalization features, SAP Fiori allows users to adapt the interface to their individual needs, significantly increasing efficiency in completing everyday tasks. Whether for small, routine operations or complex strategic processes, SAP Fiori enhances productivity and improves user experience. Fiori applications guide users directly to key processes in the ERP system, saving valuable time and enabling seamless navigation.

Benefits: Intuitiveness, Personalization, Mobility, Productivity

The key advantages of SAP Fiori include:

1. Intuitiveness: Simplifies navigation by eliminating complex menus, ensuring that essential functions are easily accessible.
2. Personalization: Enables users to customize views and applications to their preferences, increasing comfort and efficiency.
3. Mobility: Responsive design ensures smooth operation on smartphones and tablets, supporting remote task execution.
4. High productivity: Focuses on key tasks, allowing users to complete them faster and more effectively.

Fiori Freestyle: What Is It, Who Needs It, and When to Use It?

SAP Fiori applications significantly improve the quality and comfort of working with ERP systems. However, unique user requirements or non-standard processes often demand more flexibility. This is where Fiori Freestyle comes into play.

Fiori Freestyle allows developers to design custom applications within the SAP Fiori ecosystem. This approach goes beyond the limitations of standard templates, providing solutions tailored to specific, complex, or unusual business needs. With Fiori Freestyle, developers can leverage creativity and innovation to deliver applications that improve user experience and streamline business processes.

Key Features of Fiori Freestyle:

Full control over the user interface (UI):

• Design unique layouts and views.
• Customize functionality for specific business requirements.

Powered by the SAPUI5 framework:

• Modern framework for responsive, 
• high-performance web applications.

Flexible business logic:

• o Full control over JavaScript and XML.
• o Implement complex business processes and interactions.

No template restrictions:

• Freedom to bring creative ideas to life.
• Customizable components beyond Fiori Elements.

Integration with non-standard components:

• Seamless use of external JavaScript libraries.
• Custom extensions for enhanced functionality.

We have already outlined the main features of Fiori Freestyle, and in the next step, let us examine the scenarios where this approach is particularly beneficial for building applications:

• Creating apps with specific UI/UX requirements, such as interactive dashboards or complex forms.
• Solutions that provide unique user experiences or align closely with a company’s branding.
• Apps requiring advanced interactions, like drag-and-drop or tailored data visualizations.

To summarize this stage of the discussion, it can be concluded that Fiori Freestyle is an excellent choice in cases where Fiori Elements templates do not meet client requirements or when custom solutions are needed in terms of user interface or integration with external tools and services. What about the management areas where applications built using this approach are applied? As in cases of other tools/ methods usage:

Finance and Accounting: SAP Fiori applications offer real-time access to key financial data in a clear, visual format. This capability is crucial for tasks such as financial flow analysis, budget monitoring, or generating financial reports. For accounting, Fiori simplifies processes like data entry, invoice posting, payment management, and monitoring contractor settlements, etc. 

Sales: Fiori supports sales teams throughout the entire process cycle—from order placement to fulfillment. With transparent access to order status, customer histories, and intuitive sales management tools, teams can make quicker decisions and improve customer relationships.

Logistics and Warehousing: Fiori applications transform warehouse management by providing tools for monitoring inventory levels, managing receipts and shipments, and optimizing stock processes. Mobile functionalities enable employees to update data anytime and anywhere.

This, of course, is not an exhaustive list of all possible scenarios. The number of scenarios is as vast as the number of management areas covered by an ERP system. From the perspective of both buyers and users of such solutions, cooperation with a proven and reliable partner who possesses the necessary experience in applying various tools and methodologies for building applications is crucial. KBJ has specialized in creating SAP Fiori-based solutions for many years, and our team consists of experts who combine deep technological knowledge with practical business experience. We begin every implementation with an analysis of the client's needs to design applications that precisely meet their requirements. We offer full support throughout the project implementation process:

• Requirements analysis: Identifying the key processes to be supported by Fiori applications.
• Interface design: Developing mockups aligned with the SAP Fiori philosophy.
• Application development: Building UI5-based applications and integrating them with SAP backend systems.
• Testing: Ensuring reliability and compliance with customer requirements.
• Post-implementation support: Ongoing technical assistance and further development.

We collaborate with large corporations and medium-sized enterprises across industries, including manufacturing, telecommunications, wholesale and retail, media, chemicals, and more. If you want to fully utilize SAP Fiori’s potential, especially with Fiori Freestyle — we invite you to contact us!