Nebraska Public Power District: mobile SAP Fiori timesheets that fixed data-entry pain
Replaced rigid ESS and SAP timesheet entry with a simplified, mobile-friendly SAP Fiori process.
Energy Provider Transforms Employee Experience with Mobile SAP Fiori Timesheets
Eliminating Pain Points in a Timesheet Data Entry Process
Timesheet data for the client’s employees had to be entered through either the ESS portal or SAP transactions. Both options were particularly complicated, cumbersome, and rigid, and neither was mobile-friendly. To fully understand the business problem, Mindset began by investigating end-user challenges and specific pain points. The team tested low-resolution prototypes with super users and designed high-resolution prototypes for cross-organizational feedback. The new system provided the client with a simplified and mobile-friendly timesheet data entry process.
Simplified
user experience
Improved
mobility
If we built this today
Concept · not delivered scopeField work that briefs itself.
This is a forward-looking concept, not the scope we delivered on this engagement. It is the build we would reach for now, grounded in SAP that ships today.
This was Fiori and analytics work for a Midwestern utility, where crews and planners need asset and work-order data to show up where they make decisions, not buried in a report nobody opens.
The Joule agent
Technician Briefing Agent
Reads open maintenance orders, asset history, and sensor or meter signals, then proposes a prioritized work plan and a ready-to-go briefing for each crew before they roll. A planner approves the day's sequence instead of building it by hand.
SAP S/4HANA Asset Management, SAP Field Service Management, SAP Fiori · PROPOSE · first-time fix rate and mean time to repair
The Fiori app
Create Maintenance Request / Order (Joule-embedded)
The standard S/4HANA maintenance apps with Joule sitting right in the launchpad, so a planner can ask for the next priority order or draft a notification in plain language. The analytics live next to the action instead of in a separate dashboard.
Embedded in the Fiori launchpad.
The data product
Asset and maintenance data product
A governed asset and work-order data product on SAP Business Data Cloud that joins maintenance history, asset master data, and operational signals into one trusted view. It grounds the agent in real meaning through the SAP Knowledge Graph rather than guesses.
Data product on SAP Business Data Cloud
Honest path: mine the current maintenance and dispatch process in SAP Signavio first, map the system landscape in SAP LeanIX, then let MIND accelerators carry the old Fiori and reporting work into the new agent-ready setup.
A look at the work
