SAP Configuration

What Is SAP Configuration?

Installing and configuring an SAP system, particularly an ERP system, can be a complex and time-consuming task. While SAP Basis teams manage the installation itself, SAP systems are standard software that has nothing in place that is developed specifically for your organization. This is where SAP Configuration becomes important to the process since every company has its own specific way of posting and creating purchase orders, sales orders, or any of their other day-to-day tasks.

What Is SAP Configuration?

Configuration is not coding, nor is it customization which involves changing standard features. It is a part of the implementation of a system that allows you to specify information like currency, language, organizational structure, function, and processes. SAP software is designed in such an open way to let you configure it the way your organization needs it to be set up. You can define how your company runs, since it’s your processes. While SAP introduced the concept of the SAP Model Company in 2019, which included preconfigured end-to-end processes, business content, and industry specific accelerators to streamline the implementation of SAP S/4HANA and SAP SuccessFactors, organizations still have the capability to configure an SAP system exactly how they want it to look.

Key Considerations for SAPinsiders

You can use tools like SAP Solution Manager to accelerate and manage the configuration of your SAP systems. Rather than having to use different transactions or configuration files to go in and make configuration changes to your SAP systems, a tool that SAP supplies in order to readily manage configurations across multiple systems is SAP Solution Manager. Managing a configuration from SAP Solution Manager allows you to control access to the configuration as well as document the process. It also allows you to preserve configuration states, support testing, and manage delivery of configuration to different systems around the organization.
The SAP Model Company can help accelerate your configuration when it comes to the move to SAP S/4HANA. While organizations have always had the ability to configure their SAP systems so that they support the way their individual organization works, there has always been a debate between those who prefer fit to standard, using a standard out-of-the-box solution with as few changes as possible, to a fit-to-requirement model which involves a highly customized solution that very much fits the specific needs of a given organization. Leveraging the SAP Model Company provides a pre-configured reference example of a fit-to-standard implementation that can both streamline and accelerate an SAP S/4HANA deployment, while making SAP configuration considerably easier.

- SAP APO
Configure Capable-to-Promise for Both External and Internal Demands

Published: 15/February/2016

Reading time: 26 mins

Learn how to configure Capable-to-Promise in SAP Global Available-to-Promise (GATP) in a manufacturing environment for both external as well as internal demands. Understand the various configuration aspects of both GATP and Production Planning (PP) /Detailed Scheduling (DS). Key Concept Production can be directly triggered through a Capable-to-Promise check within the SAP Global Available-to-Promise (GATP) module...…
- SAP Customer Data
Secrets to Successful Data Conversions

Published: 16/July/2010

Reading time: 23 mins

Converting data from a legacy system to an SAP system can be a daunting task. Follow experienced advice for planning and executing your data conversion strategy, from developing project scope to testing and monitoring the data conversion. Included with these tips are two downloads: a sample Microsoft Visio data dependency planning chart and a conversion...…
Best Practices for Implementing Domestic Partner Health Coverage

Published: 15/June/2003

Reading time: 17 mins

Beginning with Release 4.7, R/3 provides full support for configuration of domestic partner coverage on U.S. health plans. The author gives practical advice on applying the rules to actual situations, based on his several years of experience working with this type of coverage. Beginning with Release 4.7, R/3 provides full support for configuration of domestic...…
Currency Types: The Key to Reporting Parallel Valuations

Published: 15/April/2006

Reading time: 30 mins

Do you know what the different currency types are, where they are configured, and when to use them? Confusion abounds in this area, especially when dealing with parallel valuation.Use this roadmap to gain control of all of your conversions and valuations. Key Concept You are probably familiar with the currency codes in SAP (e.g., United...…
- 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.
- SAP Project Management
Collaboration Projects: An Overview of Business Process Flow, Configuration, and Integration

Published: 10/September/2010

Reading time: 20 mins

At first glance, Collaboration Projects (cProjects) appears to be complex. However, you’ll discover that it can be easy to configure and use. Find out how cProjects can help you manage your projects, and learn how the Workforce Management and middleware integration synchronizes front-end applications with back-end SAP ERP Central Component modules. Key Concept Collaboration Projects...…
Set Up SAP Closing Cockpit for Speedier and Better-Controlled Financial Closings in 5 Steps

Published: 15/February/2008

Reading time: 19 mins

See how to configure the newly updated SAP Closing Cockpit to assign individual tasks and hierarchies properly. Key Concept SAP recently redesigned its ERP-based SAP Closing Cockpit and plans to deliver it with an add-on option of a new task scheduling tool, Central Process Scheduler (CPS). SAP plans to make this generally available to customers...…
Learn the SAP NetWeaver Platform Layer Configuration for GRC Process Control 2.5

Published: 15/October/2008

Reading time: 22 mins

Discover the ways SAP GRC Process Control interacts with SAP NetWeaver to give you improved means of analysis and presentation formats, including printing, download, user interface, and graphics features. Key Concept SAP GRC Process Control 2.5 is a solution for internal controls management that enables members of audit and internal controls teams to gain better...…
Advanced Demand Planning with S&OP and SAP HANA

Published: 16/December/2014

Reading time: 20 mins

Learn how to meet the challenges of integrating SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization (APO) statistical forecasting with SAP Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) and SAP HANA. Key Concept SAP Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) is a solution powered by SAP HANA that supports an organization’s end-to-end sales and operations planning business process. In SAP S&OP,...…
- SAP Governance Risk and Compliance
Prevent Data Disaster in Your SAP HANA System Landscape With Effective Backup and Restore Strategies

Published: 01/October/2015

Reading time: 23 mins

Become acquainted with concepts, best practices, optimal settings, tools, and recommendations that are invaluable for SAP HANA database backup and restore operations. Key Concept An effective backup and restore strategy is vital to an organization because data and information are important assets of a business enterprise. Backup and restore activities ensure that an organization can...…