SAP Basis

SAP Basis — The Air Traffic Control for SAP Landscapes

Like the air traffic control tower that efficiently and safely manages the air traffic into the airport, SAP Basis teams manage the diverse set of various SAP modules and the associated databases and operating systems so that large enterprises can run their day-to-day business on SAP reliably. Just as airplane travelers do not pay any thought to the air traffic control tower, business users are generally unaware of what happens behind the scenes to keep their processes running, their orders fulfilled, or their books closed.

However, the SAP Basis teams are a crucial factor in achieving business continuity, performance, security, and compliance. Hence, SAP Basis needs to be viewed as a strategic part of the business. Not doing so poses significant risks in terms of revenue and reputation loss.

SAP Basis — The Air Traffic Control for SAP Landscapes

The SAP product suite is expanding much more rapidly than in the past through both on-premise and cloud offerings. Patches and updates to meet changing country and industry regulatory requirements, and to tackle cybercrime are more frequent than before. Further, SAP is providing increasing amounts of customizations with respect to security, compliance, performance, and compatibility.

A well-staffed and well-trained SAP Basis team can manage this complexity and impact uptime, performance, security, and costs of operations positively. Their primary tasks, which are critical for business, include:

System availability — With 365x24x7 availability almost a requirement in most businesses, SAP Basis helps with monitoring by providing logs.
Disaster recovery — SAP Basis can run daily backups as well as help the company transition to back up in the case of a disaster.
System performance — To meet increasing customer expectations on performance, SAP Basis provides ways to tune the landscape to perform at peak efficiency. Administrators can also set up load balancing to scale up servers, which may be done in conjunction with cloud hyperscalers.
Running background jobs — SAP Basis helps in scheduling the resource-intensive background batch jobs during periods of low system usage and monitoring them for completion.

With the increasing frequency of updates and patches from SAP, the SAP Basis team also needs to plan for the right time to apply updates, ensure adequate infrastructure resources, manage transports with proper testing, and monitor the completion.

Vendors like managecore bring substantial strategic expertise in automating and finetuning the tasks through SAP Basis so that all operations goals are met. LRS Output Management enables management of output, print, and scanner systems.

Further, artificial intelligence can have a large impact on uptime. Hence, solutions in the form of AIOps enable a shift to more proactive maintenance that can predicts and prevent incidents. Watch this video by Avantra on how AIOps helps in SAP operations.

- SAP APO
How to Setup Demand Planning in SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization

Published: 21/May/2020

Reading time: 21 mins

SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization, demand planning allows a business to perform forecasting of their materials while considering all the factors that affect the demand. Demand planning is periodic and contains multi-step processes such as data gathering, statistical analysis, reviewing market intelligence reports, and performing adjustments against budgeted forecast to drive material requirements planning. SAP…
How Wage Type Valuation Bases Turn Payroll Numbers into Money

Published: 15/December/2003

Reading time: 16 mins

Within any payroll, there will always be payments input as numbers that then need to be converted into money. The method of achieving this in R/3 is known as the “wage type valuation base.” The author gives some background on valuation bases and shows how each works. He provides two examples of using valuation bases...…
Uncover New Insight into Your Customers with mySAP CRM Analytics

Published: 15/August/2006

Reading time: 27 mins

Find out how mySAP CRM Analytics, a group of tools offered with mySAP CRM 2005 and SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence to help you optimize your customer data. Learn about the mySAP CRM extraction mechanism and cross-application analysis tools you can use with your data. Then, explore the standard tool sets available, including customer analytics, product...…
- RISE with SAP
Cox Automotive Australia moves from SAP R/3 to SAP S/4HANA through RISE with SAP

Published: 22/August/2024

Reading time: 3 mins

Automotive services and technology company Cox Automotive has adopted RISE with SAP to upgrade its Australian business’s legacy SAP R/3 system directly to SAP S/4HANA. Headquartered in the US, Cox Automotive provides vehicle remarketing services and digital marketing and software for automotive dealers and consumers. Tony Grooby, Chief Information Officer of Cox Automotive Australia, shared…
- SAP Basis Administration
How to Configure Cash-Basis Accounting As a Parallel Ledger

Published: 10/January/2014

Reading time: 8 mins

Learn how to implement cash-basis accounting in the SAP General Ledger. Follow step-by-step instructions of end-to-end configuration of this functionality. Key Concept SAP introduced a separate ledger functionality called the cash ledger as part of the SAP General Ledger in SAP ERP Central Component (SAP ECC) enhancement pack 4. The cash ledger is composed of...…
What’s Happened to Your R/3 Functionality in mySAP ERP 2004?

Published: 15/February/2005

Reading time: 8 mins

The author describes the evolution of R/3 Release 4.6C to Enterprise (4.7) through mySAP ERP 2004, which is in Ramp-Up. Also included is a short description of the structure and role of SAP NetWeaver. Key Concept mySAP ERP 2004 is an extension of SAP’s R/3 product line. It includes the core product suites and a...…
- SAP S/4HANA
SAP Cloud ALM – The essential tool for any SAP Cloud implementation

Reading time: 3 mins

After over 20 years of experience with SAP, I’ve found SAP Cloud ALM to be an efficient, user-friendly tool for managing the entirety of SAP projects, providing integrated project management capabilities, real-time visibility, and cost-effective solutions that enhance collaboration and streamline SAP S/4HANA implementations.
Change Data Basis Functionality Simplifies Product Classification in SAP Global Trade Services 10.1

Published: 18/June/2014

Reading time: 18 mins

Learn how to set up a numbering scheme in SAP Global Trade Services 10.1 to facilitate the assignment of tariff and commodity codes for products sold by your organization. See how completing this process in version 10.1 is different from older versions of SAP Global Trade Services. Key Concept Product classification is the process of...…
- SAP Operating Systems
How to Prepare for a Comprehensive System Audit and Technical Review of SAP Access Control 10.0

Published: 28/October/2013

Reading time: 44 mins

Learn invaluable tricks and tips for overcoming top auditing issues specific to an SAP Access Control 10.0 system. Key Concept A system audit is an exercise performed to gain assurance that defined controls work as intended, thereby eliminating the likelihood of fraudulent or malicious activities in the enterprise system. It involves the verification of conformance...…
- SAP Cloud
IBM is RISE with SAP’s New Hyperscaler Option

Published: 10/July/2025

Reading time: 4 mins

SAP has launched RISE with SAP on IBM Power Virtual Server, enabling existing SAP S/4HANA customers to migrate to SAP Cloud ERP more efficiently while maintaining architectural consistency and reducing complexity, with additional resources and tools from IBM to support the transition.