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?
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.
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.
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Get Your System Clean with Compliant User Provisioning
Audit-proof your daily user management with SAP GRC Access Control’s Compliant User Provisioning capability. Learn about its main features and see an example of how to set it up for requesting, approving, and providing access to your business target systems. Key Concept Auto-provisioning refers to the automatic creation or change of user IDs and their...…
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Take Full Advantage of SAP Business Workflow in SAP Access Control 10.0
SAP Access Control 10.0 uses the standard SAP Business Workflow for all approval processes in the application, including user access requests. This very robust workflow engine supports more flexible multitiered routing and approval matrices. At the same time, workflow configuration in version 10.0 is one of the areas that underwent significant change and therefore requires...…
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Leveraging Customer Attributes to Manage Work
D. Russell Sloan shows how to use customer attributes to add metadata to key project objects. This enables tracking and management of project work such as identifying teams that are responsible for or use transaction, configuration, and development objects. Key Concept The customer attributes feature requires a Solution Manager 7.0 Support Package 1 or higher...…
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Working with Lists in SAP HANA Cloud Integration
Volker Stiehl shows how to use SAP HANA Cloud Integration (SAP HCI) to model the handling of messages containing a list of entries. You apply the Splitter and the Gather steps in your integration flow to iterate over the individual items of the list, retrieve additional data for each line item, and collect the results...…
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SAP NetWeaver Process Integration 7.1: Plan For and Achieve Better Performance When Integrating Legacy Applications
Explore the fundamental performance improvements that have been made in SAP NetWeaver Process Integration 7.1. Learn how to make these changes part of your project when planning the performance of your integration scenario for a legacy application. Key Concept The Advanced Adapter Engine (AAE) represents a new architectural approach for message processing. This Java-only adapter...…
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Streamline A/R Processes with Substitution User Exits
Given the limited configuration opportunities to control financial postings, substitution user exits are an effective way to minimize manual journal entries and enhance reporting capabilities. Using two examples relating to manual cash applications in A/R, the author demonstrates how to optimize substitution user exits. Financial postings are generated from many sources within R/3. While limited...…
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Understanding the FMLA Workbench
The Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) Workbench assists employers in administering the complex guidelines for determining eligibility and absence management. Understand the components that make up the FMLA Workbench and how each section of the workbench functions. Key Concept The Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) Workbench is a tracking tool to assist in the administration...…
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Efficiently Handle Mergers and Acquisitions in SAP HR
Depending on the nature of a merger or acquisition (e.g., company or line of business level), the challenges differ. I’ll outline several common scenarios in the HR submodules and tell you how to prepare for them. Key Concept While planning for a merger or acquisition, you should create a deliverables document to manage the process...…
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How to Define and Configure Benefit Salary
Quite a few steps are required to configure benefit salary and they are spread throughout the IMG. If you take the time to identify all of the criteria that can affect benefit salary and implement configuration and customer enhancements to automate your rules, then you can have a system that accurately calculates insurance coverage amounts...…
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Enhance Benefits Plan Eligibility with a User Exit
The R/3 benefits module provides a variety of ways to configure eligibility for benefits plans. Macro-eligibility is determined by the first and second program groups, which prior to Release 4.5 were known as “benefit group” and “benefit status.” Micro-eligibility is controlled through eligibility rules. Common criteria such as age, zip code, and number of scheduled...…
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